The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-03-11
Rounds Out Seventy
Years OF Business

Continued From Page One)
hotel mornings and afternoons.
This orchestra was composed Of
members Of the Naval Academy
Band. Joseph Murphy was care
taker at the hotel for many years.
There were other private board
| ing houses which were operated by
their owners, among them being
George L. Bosley, Miss Lou Thayel
and the old Davis House on Oak
street. These stopping places were
quite popular and well patronized
by people who came not to remain
Il day on two but throughout the
summer season.
| want to again pay tribute to
Mrs. Leah f. Sincell who died
some years ago as noble, Chris
tian character. When ! first came
to Oakland / boarded at her home.
| have never seen a mother more
devoted to her children than she.
| have often wondered at her pa
tience. She lived to see all Of her
children grow to manhood and
womanhood and how proud she was
Of them all.
As | remember when | came to
Oakland some OF the business men
OF the town and vicinity We're John
NJ. Davis, S. L. Townshend, d. +.
Offutt, W. P. Tottcn, James r.
Bishop, Owen Hart and Son. VI. L.
Scott, ID. II. Loar and John Shalt-
ger. all merchants; G.. A. Shirer,
tinsmith; Col. A. G. Sturgiss and
Daniel Chisholm. druggists; John
Yellowly and others in various
trades. Capt. James \. Hayden
was editor Of The Republican and
Rev. c. b. Ludwig was editor of
Tho Mountain Democrat. Physi-
clans were DR.. J. Lee McComas,
DR.. b. T. Keller and Dr.. L. II.
Bartlett. DR.. McComas, ON the 90
night and day, had James Truly
as his colored coachman who drove
the doctor behind a fine team of
bays and generally two coach dogs
were between their heels.
AT Mountain Lake Park P. T.
ing business. c. NJ. Rathbun oper-
ated a large planning mill which
supplied most Of the mill work
LOT TINS section.
No other person, in business
seventy years ago, is still in bust
ness today. There are other firms
in Oakland more than seventy
years old but those who established
them have passed on. Shirer's tin
shop IS more than seventy years
old
Seventy years ago Mrs. Charles
Shaffer, who owned a farm near
Oakland. maintained a milk route
in Oakland. She drove a black mare,
with a white face, hitched to a COW
cred wagon with a large milk can
on the floor in front of her. Driv-
ing from door to door, she would
ring the bell and if you wanted
milk YOU would go to the wagon
with your container. Then she
would draw from the spigot in the
can your required amount and pro-
coed to the next customer. Some
! changes have been made in the
milk business since that day.
Here are a few prices l received
for work when | came to Oakland:
! For shoeng a horse. with new
shoes, all toed up complete and
put on, for 80 cents. We put a set
Of new steel tires on four buggy
wheels, drilled 10 holes in the same
and put that number of bolts in
to hold the tires on all for Sc, and
other work in proportion. AT that
time we did not work on the s.
hour system but were at work in
the morning before daylight and
| in many cases would work until
! late at night.
On more than one occasion T.
w. Casteel would call me at my
home before daylight to come to
the shop to shoe his horses. often
wondered if he ever went to bed
often thought | was the early
bird, but he had one on me.
was not in the blacksmith bust
ness long until bought the lot
where am now located from Henry
Weber. 1t had a two-story building
on it. then placed some machinery
in that building and started to