The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-04-05

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Renninger and |
their son Julius spent the Easter tide
with relatives in Morgantown, West |
Va.
Miss Jennie Miller, of Keyser, w. |
Va, was the guest over Easter of |
Miss Zaidee Browning at her home in
| Okland.
Mr.. Carleton limbaugh, son of DR..
and Mrs. M. C. limbaugh, was home |
for few days last and this week
from Swarthmore college.
Just when Oakland people thought !
winter had ended slight fall of snow
was experienced Friday afternoon. 1t
melted, however, as quickly as it fell. !
Mr.. Charles A. Bender, proprietor
of the old National Hotel, Grantsville,
one of the best known hostelries on
the National Road, spent Saturday
last in Oakland on business.
Miss BERTHE Cleveland, who spent
several weeks visiting relatives in
Keyser and at other points, returned
to her home in Oakland Sunday ev-
ening.
This bit of wisdom is from the pen
of the editor of the Centerville Rec
ord: GAS a rule, the fellow who calls
his wife the old woman is right about
it. That kind of a man makes a wo-
man old in few years"
Miss Hazel Englehart, of Accident,
who is teaching in one of the schools
near Baltimore, was in Oakland last
Friday en- route home to spend the
Easter vacation with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. L. Englehart.
Mr.. Fred. A. Thayer returned to
Oakland from Washington on last
Thursday where he and Mrs. Thayer
visited relatives for a week or more,
Mrs. Thayer delaying her return to
Oakland until the first part of the
present week.
Mrs. Luther Hawk, daughter of Mr..
Charles Newman, who has been resid-
ing in Philippi, West Va, for the past
two or three years, spent day or
two here last week. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hawk are moving to Reedsville from
Philippi this week.
Mr.. D. E. Offutt went to Fairmont,
West Va, on Friday morning and
from that point drove his Packard
car through to Oakland the same day
the machine having been overhauled
and repainted by mechanic in Fair
mont during the past winter.
Business in Oakland was practical
ly suspended from the noon hour I'M
til three o'clock on Good Friday dur
. ing which time services were con-
Quoted in both the Catholic and Epis-
copal churches at which large num-
bers of people were present.
Mr.. Lee Shaffer, of the Oakland
Jewelry Company, who spent the win
ter in Leesburg, Florida, returned to
Oakland Friday evening. Upon ar
rival here in a snow storm at that
time prevailing he concluded that he
had returned a little too soon.
Messrs. C. n. McIntire, of Oak
land; J. w. Kimmell, of Deer Park,
and c. S. MERCER, of Crellin, motored
to Waynesburg, Pa, last Saturday to
inspect some oil land in which they
/; are interested and upon which drill
ing operations may begin at an early
, day.
Saturday morning last Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald r. Sincell and George
Hanst were called to.Kingwood, West
Va, by a telephone message stating
that Mr.. Henry Hanst, father of Mrs
Sincell and of George Hanst, was
quite i'll as the result of an attack of
the heart.
Mr.. Harry Stahl, one of the propri-
= etors of the Quality restaurant, and
also rural mail route carrier out of
Oakland, went to Cumberland Sun
day morning for an operation for APP
pendicitis with which he has suffer-
ed a number of attacks in recent
months.
. The most remarkable fact connect
: ed with Utah's law against smoking
: in public places is that it is being en-
forced. But then that is the aim in
, view when laws are passed, although
it appears difficult for the authorities
in some states to get that idea thru
their heads. 1t is different in Utah,
however.
Miss Elizabeth P. Mitchell was
toastmistress at the Athletic Associ-
alton banquet at Hood College, Fred
erick, on March 27, at which Prof j.
w. King, of the United States Naval