The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-12-15

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torney of Keyser, West Va, and DR..
Henry NJ. Warfeld, of the Western
Maryland College, he acted as Judge
in the Lowndes defamation contest
of the Allegany County High Schools.
With wool selling at an extremely
low price and the demand for such
product negligible during the past two
years, our advertising columns today
will bear good news to those who
have their 1920 and 1921 wool clip
still on hand when it is noticed that
Mr.. W. H. Smouse, of Oakland, is Of
fering to take the farmers wool at
20 cents per pound.
Mr.. Frank Byrd, of Cumberland, son
of Mr.. William Byrd, of Oakland, has
been transferred from the telegraph
service in Cumberland to the office at
Terra Alta, beginning his duties at
that place today. AS soon as Mr..
! Byrd can secure house he will move
his family to Oakland from Cumber-
land where he has been residing for
several years past.
The Sunday school of the White
church, which is located on the noun
tain east of Mountain Lake Park and
near the home of Mr.. S. G. Steyer.
will have Christmas tree and enter
tainment on Christmas eve, when a
special program suitable for the &C.
casion will b erendered by the men,
casion will be rendered by the mem
bers Of the school. The general pub
Nothing would, please her more
than five-pound box of high grade
chocolates or bon bons put up in
beautiful holiday box. Our line of
candies just in. Every box guaran-
teed to be absolutely fresh. We can
supply you in any size boxes in Huy-
ler's Johnston's Dolly Warden, Helm;
prices reasonable. w. A. GONDER,
Observation-Disclosures.
Antonio Ballard, who is employed
as trackman in Oakland, was op-
Grated upon for appendicitis at one
of the hospitals in Cumberland last
Saturday morning. The operation
was successful and the patient is do
ing exceptionally we'll. His brother.
Frank Ballard, track foreman here,
was in Cumberland with his brother
when he. was operated upon.
Mr.. and Mrs. David yelling, of
Washington, D. c., Mrs. N. l. Kemph-
fer, of Anderson, Ind, Mr.. Carter
yelling, of Keyser, West Va, and Mr..
Max yelling, Fort McHenry Hos
pital, Baltimore, spent several days
of last week at their home in Oakland,
having been called here on account of
the Illness of their father, Mr.. David
yelling, ST., who is now improving
slowly.
Misses Anna McComas and Rose
VanGike, both of whom are nurses at
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
arrived in Oakland Saturday morning
for the purpose of spending the holi-
day season as guests at the home of
Miss McComas. Miss VanGike, how
ever, returned to Baltimore Tuesday
going from that city to Rochester, n.
Y, yesterday morning to become su-
perintendent of nurses in hospital
of that city.
The Republican was in receipt on
Monday of copy of a book recently
issued, the author being Rev. D. A.
Friend, of Friendsville, the title of the
publication being "The Goodness of
God" The book is handsomely printed
on plate paper and contains much of
interest to Garrett countians, giving
as it does short histories of the early
settlers of the county as well as
number of poems written by Mr..
Friend.
One day this week Justice of the
Peace James D. Hamill issued a fox
certificate to Ellwood Cooper for the
scalp of a red fox which Cooper had
killed few days before on Halls
Hill, a few miles north of town and
which measured five feet from tip to
tip. The fox had led many me ry
chase during the past three years
always being successful in eluding
dogs and men until Mr.. Cooper sue
ceeded in capturing him.
Maryland has a woman deputy
sheriff in the person of Mrs. Bro
senne of Ellicott City, whose hus-
band, the Sheriff, appointed her as
his deputy. There have been women
deputies before, but here it is some
thing of novelty, and her appoint
ment caused quite sensation. When
asked how she expected to discharge
her duties she replied she wanted no
more consideration than would be
given man in her case and expected
to do her duty like one She said