The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-12-13

Mrs. Lewis Walter and Mrs. George
Little spent last Friday in Cumber-
/ land.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Falkenstein, of
GAINESVILLE, are spending today in
Oakland on business.
Mrs. Oliver Smouse left Oakland
| Tuesday morning for Meversville.
Frederick county, her new home to
which place she was preceded about
week ago by Mr.. Smouse.
OFFICES FOR RENT-After Jan
uary Isl, 1924, office rooms now oc-
cupied by Charles B. Hawley & Co., in
The Republican building. Steam heat
and cOnveniences. Apply at The Re-
| publican office.
Paul Bernhard, for a year or more
in the employ of the Oakland Bakery,
now residing in Baltimore with his
family, landed in Germany a week OF
ten days ago to visit his parents.
Mrs. Pearl w. Grant is confined to
her home suffering with an attack of
grippe, and as a result she is COM
PEELED to postpone the sale of house
hold furnishings until Tuesday, De-
cember 18th.
Mr.. William B. Miller, of Cumber-
land, is in Oakland today on business,
having been called to Deer Park, his
former home, to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Miller's mother, the late Mrs.
Rose Shaffer.
By notice elsewhere in this paper
today the Board of County Commits
sioners give notice that they will be
in session on January It'll for the pur-
pose of appointing road supervisors
and constables for the year 1924.
Mrs. Anna Smouse became entan-
gled in some discarded telephone wire
lying along the pavement on Second
street last Friday night and received
number of painful bruiss IS when
she was thrown with some violence to
the walk.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Z. Hendrickson,
who sold their property on Oak street
several months ago and built new
home near the Hendrickson mill, are
now comfortably housed in it. The
dwelling is modern in every way and
is pleasing in appearance.
Mr.. Charles B. Hawley, of the firm
of Charles B. Hawley & Co., Wash
ington, D. c., and of the General Con-
struction Corporation which body is
now engaged in putting in the hydro
electric plant on Deep Creek in this
county, is spending today in Oakland.
Howard c. Brown, who died in a
hospital at Sandusky, Ohio, on last
Friday from injuries received in an
accident to a Government airplane
carrying mail between Cleveland and
Omaha, is survived by his widow, who
was Miss Martha Tibbetts. of Bloom
ington, this county.
Guests of S. A. Kendall home dur
ing Thanksgiving were Miss Matte
Kendall, Misses Minnie Rembold and
Miss Edna Baker, all of Homestead,
Mrs. John Baker, Of Crellin, Md,
Mrs. Grace Angus and children, of
Washington, D. c., Samuel and John
Wiley Kendall, all leaving on Sunday.
-Meyersdale Republican.
Next year, 1924, will be leap year.
In it will be 366 days, the extra day.
of course being included in February,
which will have 20 days There will
be so Fridays as usual and one of
them will fall on the 18th of a month.
Washington's Birthday will fall on
Friday; July 4th will be on Friday
and also Halloween.
The Meyersdale Republican said last
Thursday: "Mrs. ]. M. Gnagey left on
Tuesday for Dayton, o., to attend the
funeral of her sister-in-law, Mrs. VIII
liam Gnagey, who died Monday
morning and was buried on Wednes-
day afternoon. She was accompanied
from Pittsburgh by another sister-in-
law, Mrs. Clyde Broadwater.
Yesterday afternoon considerable
excitement was occasioned along Sec
ond street when smoke was discovered
pouring out of a window on the sec
ond floor of the limbaugh building.
Upon investigation it was found that
the smoke was occasioned from an
overheated stove upon which a pan
containing a piece of meat had been
allowed to catch fire in the absence of
the tenant of the apartment. No
damage resulted.
"The Charm School," a dramatic
comedy presented by the students Of
the State Normal School of Frost
burg at the Maryland Theatre in Oak