The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-10-09

jules, Ol DeeF fdrk, visited oakland
yesterday
Miss BERTHE Turney, who underwent
slight surgical operation which in
volved her tonsils, is able to be out
Of her room.
Miss Edna Marshall, grade. super
visor of Garrett county, visited the
Grantsville public school officially one
day last week.
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The Hon. Maurice Francis Egan and
Mrs. Egan left Mountain Lake Park
Sunday for New York to attend the
festivities incident to the visit to that
city Of. the Belgian king and his con-
sort and other members of the royal
family.
Mrs. Ophelia A. Trippett accompa-
MED by her daughter, Mrs. B. L. Slack
and little son. of Ardmore, Oklahoma,
who s-ent some days in Oakland with
Mrs. Trippett's sister, Mrs. S. T..
Jones, left yesterday morning for
their home in the southwest.
DR.. and Mrs. w. W. Grant left Oak
land Sunday morning in their automo-
bile for trip through Pennsylvania
and New York, which will carry them
on to Niagara Falls and from that
city they will go on over into Canada
for brief visit, expecting to return
to Oakland within the next two weeks.
Miss Lois Fraley. daughter of Mr..
G. A. Fraley expects to leave Oakland
tomorrow for Philadelphia, Pa, to
enter school. Mr.. Fraley is now en-
gagged in having his household goods
packed for storage until his new res
idence, now under course of construc-
ton at the head of Second street, is
completed.
Mr.. Henry D. Strawser, of near
Deer Park, but who has been engaged
for some months past as head sawyer
for Fair Bros, mill operators near
Shaw, West Va, where the firm has
a considerable tract of timberland,
was in Oakland during the Fair last
week and called at The Republican of
fee.
Several residents of Oakland are
suffering with attacks of tonsilitis in
an aggravated form, the latest vic
tim being Mr.. Joseph E. Harmed of the
Oakland Pharmacy, who was COM
PEELED to take to his bed yesterday.
Miss Marie Little, of The Republican
force, has also been i'll. as a result of
an attack of the same disease.
Saturday night last the dump bot
tom of coal scow dropped at a point
just above the Washington spring
crossing west of town and coal was
scattered along the tracks for a dis
lance of several hundred feet. The
tralnmen discovered the accident and
stopped the train before any material
harm was done to the rest of the cars
composing the train, which was east
bound and going at lively speed.
Mr.. William NJ Junkins. of near
Swanton, was in Oakland on Monday
and while in the city called at The
Republican Office and stated that on
Saturday preceding he had sold his
farm located in the North Glade sec
ton of the county to Mr.. John B.
Harmon, of near Bittinger, who will
take possession about November LIST.
Mr.. Junkins is yet undecided where
he will locate but will not leave the
county
Mr.. Michael Nathan, of Grants
vile, who is well known to many Oak
land people, underwent an operation
at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, about
two weeks ago, and is improving rap
idly from the effects of the disease
which made the operation necessary.
He expects to return to his home at
Grantsville at an early date. Mr.. Ma
than has been in i'll health for several
months past and was a patient at the
Western Maryland Hospital in Cum
berland earlier in the summer.
Mr.. Charles Fulk, a progressive
farmer of District No 8, and inciden-
tally coal miner at the Freeport
mines when not engaged in tilling
his productive acres, was in Oakland
yesterday and brought with him
specimen of his potato crop. They
were of the New Yorker and Van Blu