The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-06-07


Mr.. Henry Hanst, of Kingwood, W.
Va, who spent a day or two in. Oak
land last week, returned to his home
Thursday afternoon.
Returning from a visit of a day or
two to Terra Alta, Mr.. w. X. Hum
berson, of Selbysport district, stop
ped in Oakland long enough on Sat
urday morning to pay The Republi-
can business visit.
Mr.. J. w. Mahaffey, who recently
came to Garrett county where he pur-
chased the farm of Mrs. Mollie King
in District No. 8, visited The Repub-
lican office on Monday in company
with Assemblyman Elliott C. Harvey.
Mr.. Lee B. Shaffer, formerly of the
Oakland Jewelry Company, who has
been located in Grafton, West Va,
for few months past, has moved to
Clarksburg from Grafton. Mr.. Shat
fer visited Oakland on business Sat
urday last. = y =
Miss Helen Little, of the Democrat
office, accompanied by her cousin,
Miss Gertrude Pfeiffer, of Chicago,
who is here on visit, spent Sunday
and Monday with relatives in Cum
berland. Miss Pfeiffer will return
to Chicago Friday morning.
A, B. Wilburn, who has been in the
mercantile business at Deep Greek
for the past two or three years, has
decided to quit this line of endeavor
and follow farming exclusively. He
advertises a marked down sale on all
his merchandise to begin at once.
Bids have been invited by the State
Roads Commission of West Virginia
for the rebuilding of the Northwest
ern Turnpike for a distance of POS
miles in Preston county. The begin
ming of the proposed improvement on
/ IlL4o IOSlNl 10 at Vic kDldIc llIlC OlSUI
miles south of Oakland.
| Work on the erection of the new
Lutheran parsonage in Oakland was
begun in earnest one day last week
| by Contractor D. E. Bolden and his
corps of carpenters. He expects to
have the structure under roof yet this
week. The bricklayers will begin
their work some time next week.
Guy limbaugh, proprietor of the
limbaugh restaurant, is making i'm
provements of marked nature to his
place Of business by charging the
ladies dining room, re.onstructing the
fronts of both the dining and lunch
rooms and placing new furniture and
equipment therein which will tend to
give better and more satisfactory ser
vice to the patrons of this well known
eating place.
The public schools throughout this
county will close for the scholastic
year tomorrow, thus rounding out a
nine-months' term of instruction to
the youth of the country While many
children are delighted with the pros
pect of a vacation others regret that
the term ends, especially those who
cannot, under the stress of circum-
stances, again enter school to com
plete their education.
Many people in Oakland are adding
vaule and beauty to their home prop
critics by painting and otherwise i'm
proving them substantially. The res
idence of the Misses Miller on Second
street, which was recently improved
both on the interior MIC exterior. is
now one of the handsomest homes in
town. Others who have or are i'm
proving their residences are Mr.. Floyd
Stahl, Mr.. William Casteel and Mrs.
Edward Smouse.
The Bowman Land Company, of !
Charleston, West Va, uses half |
page in this issue of The RepubE-
can to announce lot sale to be held |
at Hutton, this county, on Friday and |
Saturday, June 18th and June 10th,
when a large number of desirable |
building sites will be sold at public |
auction. AS an attraction the land |
company will have a balloonist pres
ent who will make an ascent each !
day. See advertisement for par
ticulars.
Rev. H. B. Carney, Of Bedford, Pa,
Q member of the Inner Mission Board,
and DR.. L. B. Wolf, secretary of the
Foreign Mission Board of the United !
Lutheran Church in America, were in
Oakland yesterday, going from here
to the Dawson farm, south of Oak
land, to attend meeting of the direc-
tors board of the body having in
charge the administration of the prop
ty which was recently given the de-
nomination to be used as a home for
aged preachers Of the Lutheran