The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-10-02

with relatives near town.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Crane and Mrs. Bernice
Crane, Of Kingwood, are guests of
relatives in Oakland this week.
Mrs. George Pfeiffer and daughter,
Miss Violet, of Cumberland are visit
ind relatives and friends in Oakland.
Mrs. Frank Byrd and little daugh-
ter Lois, of Cumberland, are guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Byrd on Water
street.
Miss Josephine Jamison, of Fair
mont, w. Va, is the guest of Miss
Helen Mason at her home on Liberty
street.
Mr.. Isaac P. Martin, of Kingwood,
was business visitor to Oakland yes
terday where he also attended the Gar
rett County Fair.
Mrs. John o. Bullock, Of Parkers-
burg, West Va, is here as the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Naylor at their
home on Fourth street.
Mrs. w. A. Schaeffer and Mrs. Della
Rider, of Kingwood, are here on a
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Shart-
zer and other relatives.
Mr.. Harvey Morris, of Parkersburg,
W. Va, representative in that city of
the international line of harvesting
machinery, is attending the Garrett
County Fair in Oakland this week,
where he is demonstrating the ma
chinery manufactured by his company.
Mr.. William R. Offutt, of Oakland,
who has been named by the Demo-
cratic Committee of the county as
the nomine of that party for the office
of States Attorney, uses the columns
of the Republican to further his can
didacy and to give the matter pub
licity.
On Sunday last Mr.. and Mrs. Car
roll A. Elliott entertained at dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B. Linger and
Mr.. James Elliott, of Terra Alta, the
latter having recently returned from
overseas, where he served for several
months in signal service outfit, and
Mr.. and Mrs. BENZ. H. Sincell.
Mr.. R. S. Jamison has recently pur-
chased from the executors of the late
Motley B. Browning, the property &C.
cupied by him during his lifetime
in Oakland and has moved into it. Mr.
Jamison until recently resided on his
farm adjoining Oakland which he sold
early in the spring to Mr.. Lewis Lit
man. The Browning property is To-
Gated on East Green street and is a
splendid piece of realty
Rev. w. NJ. Shultz, who attended the
sessions of the West Virginia Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church which met in Morgantown last
week, returned to Oakland Monday
morning, having been reassigned to
the Oakland charge for another year,
much to the qualification of his many
friends in and out of his own congre-
cation. So far as can be learned few
changes in the pastorates in the Oak
land district were made.
DR.. ]. Gilbert Selby, of Chillicothe,
Ohio, has been appointed medical ex-
aminer. Cumberland division, Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, with head
quarters in Cumberland, succeeding
DR.. j. H. Hodges, who has been
transferred to another part of the
system. DR.. Selby is a brother of
DR.. B. F. Selby. of Oakland, and was
for year or more engaged in the
practice of his profession at Eglon be-
fore entering the railroad service.
Mr.. Cornelius n. Friend, of near
Friendsville, accompanied by his son
Foster, who was recently shot from
ambush while cutting corn in a field
on his fathers farm and who received
treatment in a Cumberland hospital
for the wounds thus inflicted, visited
Oakland yesterday where they atten-
ded the Fair. Young Friend has al
most fully recovered from his wounds
and says he is feeling extremely well
considering the severity of his hurts.
His alleged assistant, a young man
named Sisler, has been released from
the Jail here on bond for his appear
ance at the December term of the
Circuit Court.
In the advertising columns of The
Republican today the Northern Nat
ural Gas Company, which corporation
supplies its output to Oakland and
other towns in Garrett county. pub
fishes the official proposed increase in
rates which are to become effective
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