The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-05-18


Huntington, West Va.
LCST-On street, a gold Ever
sharp pencil. Finder please return to
Miss BERTHE Lawton.-Advertise
ment. 1t
Messrs. w. R. Browning, Thomas J..
Browning and Edward A. Shaffer,
all of Oakland, spent last week in
Baltimore as delegates to the conven-
ton opposing the Volstead law which
was held in that city on Friday last.
Go to Hendrickson's mill for a first
class roof paint.-Advertisem st
Mrs. Leo Lyon, of Clarksburg, who
spent two weeks or more visiting rel
atives in and near Oakland, returned
to her home in Clarksburg on Satur-
day last.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Civic Club will be held Tuesday
afternoon, May 23rd, at three o'clock
instead of on May Both, in the Civic
Club rooms.
BOOMERS WANTED - Apply at
sc Oak street; also garage for rent.
advertisement 8-tf.
500 Empire Cream Separator for SIS
A finer, simpler or more efficient
Cream Separator has never been
built; capacity, 400 lbs. per hour; 5
to 7 cows. A big bargain for a quick
buyer. c. S. Davis & Son, Oakland.
Advertisement 12-3t.
4 On Monday several automobile par
ties from Oakland motored to Nor
gantown to witness the University of
Maryland and West Virginia Univer-
sity baseball game played that after
noon, at which the Marylan1ers were
victorious in a score of 80.
AGENTS-Ladies or men; full or
part time, wanted in every town;
something new all the time; perma-
merit positions; repeated orders; large
commissions. For particulars write
CHESAPEAKE NOVELTY CO.,
Cambridge, Observation-Disclosures
ment II st.
Preparatory to the closing of the
schools of Garrett county for the
present scholastic year, the County
Board of Education announces in an
other column of The Republican today
dates for commencement exercises at
various points in the county.
Mr.. Reed Smouse and son, Mr..
Harry Smouse, of Fairmont, en- route
home from Baltimore where the latter
had been a patient in one of the city
hospitals for some time, stopped off
in Oakland Tuesday morning and
spent the day here with relatives.
We don't know what the style is in
Hagerstown, but trimming Adams
apples is a new one on us. The Hag
erstown Herald opines:" Being shaved
isn't unpleasant unless the barber dis
susses the state of his nerves while
trimming your Adams apple"
The opening dance for the season at
the Old Trails Inn, near Grantsville,
will be held Friday tomorrow even
ing, when music will be furnished by
Bray's Orchestra, of Frostburg. These
dances in the past have been liber-
ally patronized by the young people
of Oakland.
Last Friday an examination of APP
plicants for appointment as postmas-
ter at Friendsville was held in Oak
land at which three persons were ex-
amined by the officer in charge. This
is the second examination held from
which selection is to be made for
the position.
On Saturday, May 9th, the local
secretary of the Board of Civil Ser.
vice examiners, will conduct an exam
ination in Oakland when it is expect
ed that town letter carrier will be
appointed in the delivery service by
selection from the register established
as a result of this examination.
people who go joy-riding on Sun
day should take off their hats to ev-
cry church they pass. If it were not
for the churches, they would have no
Sunday in which to go autoing," said
Rev. c. S. Bergstresser in his sermon
in the Bethlehem Evangelical church
on Sunday, according to the Carroll
Record.
On Sunday next Rev. Charles c.
Kicker, of Huntingdon, Pa, will con-
duct the morning and evening SER
vices in st. Marks Lutheran church
in the absence of the pastor, Rev. D.
M. Funk, whose presence that day is
required elsewhere. Rev. Funk, how
ever, will be in Oakland the following
Sabbath to take up the regular work