The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18

sister, Mrs. Oscar limbaugh, at Terra |
Alta, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Frazee were
at Washington, Pa, Saturday and !
Sunday last visiting relatives.
Messrs. T. r. Harvey and John T. /
Brady, of near Deer Park, were bus.
mess callers at The Republican office |
yesterday.
Mrs. Charles Harvey went to Bal
timore Tuesday to purchase merchan,
disc for her millinery establishment
in Oakland
Mrs. Lawrence X. Dixon, Mrs. Law
renee Fraley, Mrs. Walter Janoeki
and Mrs. Bernard Gender were shop
ping in Cumberland Monday.
Mrs,Zelma Ayres, of Wheeling, W.
Va, returned to her home Wednesday
after having spent several days here
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Butt.
Miss Della Wolfe returned to Wash
ington, D. c., Tuesday fater having
spent the summer in Oakland with
her mother, Mrs. Jane Wolfe.
Messrs. S. L. and F. B. Tillery, of
Knoxville, Tenn, returned to their
home this morning after having bC en-
guests for few days of Mr.. and Mrs
R. C. Tillery at their home in Oak
land
The Ladies' Aid Society of the NJ
E. church at Deer Park will conduct a
food sale in Brownings store on Tues
day afternoon, November 9Th, and IN
! the evening they will hold a festival
/ in Savedge's hall
Mr.. and Mrs C. F. Hammond were
in Meyersdale, Pa, last week to at
tend the funeral of their nephew, c.
H. Hartley, who died very suddenly
at DeLand, Florida.
Both Accident and. Grantsville have
a Ckautauqua course on this week
Tuesday, yesterday and today. The
people of these two communities ara
to be congratulated for their spirit in
thus affording high class entertain
ments for themselves and their Wis
itors.
Mr.. Andrew Oester, of Bittinger,
was summoned to Cumberland Tues
day morning to visit his son, Column
bus, who was operated upon at the
Western Maryland Hospital last
Thursday for appendicitis and whose
condition Tuesday was alarming. At
this time, however, the patient is i'm
proving.
Yesterday morning while gas was
being pumped into the tank of Blaine
Cheeseman's truck at the Delawder fill
ing station on Second street, fire from
the exhaust of the motor set the ma
chine on fire and for a few minutes
/ threatened its destruction. A fire eX-
tinguisher brought from he Dixon
store and the contents applied to the
flames which shot up into the air for
several feet soon put the fire out but
not before some damage to the driv-
er's cab had occurred.
NJ, Oyro,, II Troooy,
merchants of Oakland, recently pur-
chased the residence of Mr.. and Ms.
R. E. Sliger located on Second street
in Oakland and will take possession
on or about April 1st at which time
Mr.. Siger and family expect to move
elsewhere, the place not yet having
been determined. The people of Oak
land will regret to learn of the con-
templated departure of Mr. and Mrs.
Sliger and members of their family
who have been residents here for up
wards of twenty years.
Two additional telephone toll cir
cults are to be established between
Oakland and Terra Alta, it was an
nounced by Eugene Bowers, Manager
of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company. The additional cir
cults are necessary in order to care for
the steadily increasing toll traffic be-
tween these two points. The lines
should be ready for use by December
LIST, of this year, adding greatly to the
efficiency of the toll service, and elm
mating any delays on service between
Oakland and Terra Alta.
Representatives of the Oakland
Chamber of Commerce visited near
by West Virginia city a few days ago
and interested the officials of an auto
mobile chain manufacturing company
in Oakland as place to establishtheir
concern. The Oaklanders returned
filled with optimism, confident that
this factory will be established here.
While nothing definite can now be
said with reference to the matter The