The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-02-28

ice IN Inc republican today that on
Monday, March 10th, an election for
the purpose of choosing a Mayor,
three members of the Town Council
and town Treasurer, will be held.
The polls will be open in the munich
pal building on Third street from 8
o'clock a. M, until 6 o'clock p. m.
The ninth Grange society to be or
ganized in Garrett county will be in
stituted at Grantsville on Saturday
evening by County Agent W. Clayton
Jester and officers of the MARYLAND
State Grange. The society to be or
gained at Grantsville will include al
most every progressive farmer of the
community, and their number in that
section is legion-all progressive to a
degree.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Bittner who
mOtored to Miami, Florida, early in
the fall, returned to Oakland Sunday
night. They drove in their car from
Miami to Keyser's Ridge, arriving at
that point at three o'clock Sunday af-
ternoon where they found the road
completely blocked by huge drifts of
snow. At this point they were COM
PEELED to turn back and retraced the
road to Cumberland, from which point
they completed their journey home by
rail.
Mark S. White, who has been con-
nected with the Public Health Ser
vice, and located at Kansas City, Mo-,
since the signing of the armistice,
prior to that as a lieutenant in the
army, has received a promotion and
has been transferred to Washington,
D. c., for which city he will leave
the west in a short time. Mr.. Whites
many friends in Oakland, his old home
town, will be pleased to learn of his
advance, which is well deserved
The Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland has recently received draft
fro mthe State Roads Commission for
a sum approximating $4,000, which
represents the amount borrowed from
the local banks for the purpose of i'm
proving Third and Oak streets and
which was secured by the guarantee
of a number of the residents of Oak
land. The receipt Of this money re-
leases the guarantors from further OBJ
legation in this respect.
Mr.. Cleaver A. Michael, of near
Westernport, who is one of the coun-
tvs most progressive farmers, came
up to Oakland on Tuesday where he
spent the day on business. Mr.. Mi
chael is authority for the statement
that at the present time there is more
snow down on the easter slope of the
mountain than there is in Oakland,
which is rather remarkable, because
as a general condition more snow is
in evidence here than at lower alti-
titudes.
Last Thursday Mrs. Lewis Walter
entertained the missionary society of
the Presbyterian church at her home
on Sixth street at which special pro-
gram was carried out. A paper on the
Education of japanese Women" was
read by Mrs. Henry A. Grubbs. An
election of officers of the society for
the coming year was also held which
resulted as follows: President, Mrs.
Henry A. Grubbs; vice-president, Mrs.
n. T. Offutt; treasurer, Mrs. James
D. Hamill; secretary, Mrs.Charles A.
Tower.
DR.. Henry w. McComas, who went
from Oakland about the first of the
year with his son and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry McComas, to Dr.,
Mayo's hospital in Minnesota, and la
ter the party going to Albuquerque,
N. NJ, where another of DR.. McComas'
daughters resides, returned to Oak
land Sunday afternoon. While absent
DR.. McComas visited many points of
interest, among them border town
in old Mexico where he had a narrow
escape from flying bullets in battle
between Federal and revolutionary
soldiers of the Southern Republic. He
states that the health of both his son
and daughter is improved.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company marks today February 28)
its ninety-seventh birthday anniver-
saly. Upon this date, in 1927, the
Charter was granted to the Company,
the First Railroad in America, by the
Maryland Legislature. Since then,
the Baltimore and Ohio Company has
far surpassed the fondest hopes of it's
| founders, numbered amongst whom
was the venerable and historic figure
of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, who
laid its cornerstone. Being the first
railroad in America, the history of
the Baltimore and Ohio is closely in
terwoven with the annals of the ma
ton down to the present time.
The National Highway and the Bal