The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-01-01

Mr.. Harry W. Porter, Of Grant
Town, West Va, spent last Saturday
and Sunday at his home in Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Stenple, Of
Cumberland, are in Oakland visiting
at the home of the formers mother,
Mrs. Mary Stemple.
If you want the biggest turnout
and at the same time have your feed
ground the finest, bring me a trial
grist. W. E. Crane, Mt. Lake Park
Observation-Disclosures.
Hay, straw, buckwheat and other
Garrett county grown grain is being
shipped from Oakland in carload lots
almost daily. On Monday a car of
buckwheat, another of hay and one of
straw left the local freight station for
eastern points.
Among the well known Maryland
citizens arriving yesterday for a six
weeks sojourn in Tampa, are Rev
and Mrs. T. D. Richards, of Mountain
Lake Park. DR.. and Mrs. Richards
were visitors to Tampa last season.
Tampa Daily Times.
For Sale-An upright Fischer pi-
ano, in good condition; bargain. APP
ply at Sturgiss' Pharmacy-Adver-
tisement 41-tf.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. McQuay, of
Newport News, Va, arrived in Oak
land on Wednesday evening last to
visit Dir. and Mrs. B. T. Selby. Mr..
McQuay returned to Newport Sunday
evening, while Mrs. McQuay will ex-
tend her visit here indefinitely.
Mrs. Leah F. Sincell, who has been
in Oakland for several months past,
left here Tuesday afternoon for Key
ser, W. Va, where she will visit her
sons for a few days before going on
to Cumberland and other Allegany
county points to visit other of her
children.
Wanted-Girls over 10 years old to
enter training at Allegheny Heights
Hospital, Davis, W. Va, and also the
Elkins City Hoapital, Elkins, West Va.
Write Superintendent of Nurses, Allie
gheny Heights Hospital, Davis, West
Va.-Advertisement 43-3t
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Maffett re-
turned to their home in Clarksburg,
West Va, Friday evening, accompa-
MED by the latter's mother, Mrs. L.
c. Shaffer, and the formers sister,
Miss Bernadine Maffett, after having
spent portion of the holiday season
in Oakland with relatives.
Mr.. Michael Boyle, who has been
at Akron, Ohio, for the past year
where in the summer he was engaged
in playing ball with the city team, and
this winter is at work in one of the
rubber factories of that town, came to
his home in Oakland on last Wednes-
day to spend the holiday season with
his father, Mr.. Michael Boyle, Sr.
Hopwood Kildow, of the Aviation
section of the Army, arrived home on
Christmas morning from Quantico,
Va, where he has been stationed since
reenlisting in the service, and after
remaining here few days visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Kill
dow, left for San Francisco, CAL, to
which point he has been transferred.
Messrs. Brydon and Pattison, prom
inent coal operators of Bloomington,
this county, have acquired possession
of the property comprising the Pekin
mine in Allegany county, near Iona
coming, and are improving the same.
New mines are being opened by the
owners, tunnels are being driven to
reach the buried coal, the dump re-
paired, new railroad sidetracks laid
and other improvements are now well
on toward completion and as re-
suit of the enterprise of these two
energetic Garrett countians Pekin is
expecting great boom and a conse-
quent shortage of housing facilities.
The pupils of the Grantsville public
school remembered their former and
highly respected teacher, Prof. A. W
Dewitt, on Christmas day by sending
to him at his home in Frostburg, 6
very beautiful bouquet of flowers. Mr.
Dewitt has been teaching the Friends
vile high school during the past sew
eral months, but has become too il
to finish the term and has been or
dered to his home by his physician
for the present. Much sympathy here
where he also taught, as well as a
Friendsville and Grantsville, is fell
for the former pedagogue, both by thu
patrons and pupils and by all whC