The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-09-22
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

DSTHdEu rIelLSJ OdhldIlU Udh6T,
walked to German, counting each step
he took. 1t required 16,411 steps to
cover the distance, he stated upon his
return to Oakland.
Accounts of the weddings of Mr..
and Mrs. H. C. Sincell and Mr.. and
Mrs. A. D. Naylor were recorded in
The Republican. The former were
married in Wheeling, w. Va, and the
latter in St. Paul's NJ. E. church, in
Oakland.
Ex-Sheriff Casteel returned from
New York with H. A. Davis, colored
barber, as his prisoner. Davis was
charged with assault with intent to
kill, the crime having been committed
here year prior to his arrest.
Postmaster F. A. Thayer was on
an inspection tour of all the postof-
fees located in Garrett county.
There were 81 civil suits listed in
the Circuit Court proceedings; five
criminal trials and six criminal ap-
pearances.
Work on new hotel at Mountain
Lake Park-the Mt. Lake Hotel-was
going forward. Other buildings there
were in process of construction and an
eight-foot board walk was being put
down from Center street and Arbutus
n,,;1,a 70 4bo yo;1yooJ cfo&;oo
The new state lake at Deep Creek
narrows was to be closed September
16. The back water is expected to
extend mile above the dam. The
Matching house will be built about
25 40 feet.
Numerous pheasants have been on
the Oakland markets already this
year.
About $50 guests are lingering at
Deer Park hotel, an increase over last
week.
Charles Newman has sold his inter-
est in the Terra Alta Oracle and re-
turned to Oakland to begin work in
The Republican office.
The Swanton Republican organized
with A. F. George, president; James
R. Glass, vice-president; Joseph
Friend, secretary; and John McRobie,
treasurer.
While hunting in this county James
H. Brooks, McKeesport, Pa, stumbled
upon cave containing counterfeit
er's outfit and spurious coin. One
piece bore the date of 1927. The out
fit is supposed to have been the prop
erty of the famous counterfeiter, Rob-
ert Glover, who figured in the country
a number of years ago.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Harrison Brown, so year-old mail
carrier, of Cove, was shot and killed
at a point between Confluence and
Addison and the mail pouches in his
possession containing $575 in cash
and other registered mail, were looted
and carried away.
Hoblitzell and Price begun the re-
surfacing of a three-mile section of
the National Highway east of Grants
vile.
The County Treasurer advertised
sixty different pieces of property in
various districts of the county at pub
lie sale for the non-payment of taxes
in arrear.
Oakland high school opened with an
enrolment of IS pupils. The grammar
school with 273 pupils also opened.
Prof. C. E. Bender, Misses May Ar
mold, Elizabeth Leary, Helen Barnes,
Gertrude Shelton and Daisy Hanna
and H. A. Loraditch were instructors
in the high school, with Prof. R. R.
Sanner, Misses Zaidee Browning, o.
i've Dewitt, Beulah Loughridge, Orlie
V. Durham, Josephine Browning and
Jennie Miller, instructors in the gram
mar schools.
Of the $500 national banks of the
U. S., 1900 occupy the position of be-
ing on the roll of honor, and the Gar
rett National of Oakland was listed
among the 1900.
Howard Leeds Cole, Jackson, Mich,
came to Deer Park from his home by
motor cycle, for visit here.
The store of E. E. Kesner, postofice
building, Mt. Lake Park, was again
entered by thieves and number of
things stolen.
Congressman D. J. Lewis failed to
appear in Oakland after being adver-
tised to come and make an address.
Marriage licenses were issued to
Zenas Mellott and Della May Beeghly,
Swallow Falls; Harry Hinebaugh, of
Oakland, and Bessie M. Collins, Crel-
lin; Albert Shaffer, Oakland, and
Mary Dumire, Shaffer, w. Va.