The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-01-03

8 Miss Mary Falkenstein entertained
3 about fifteen of her young friends at
3 her home adjoining Oakland Tuesday
B evening.
e Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Dawson enter
9 tanned at their home on Pennington
3 street Tuesday evening. Cards was
2 the diversion.
3 Mr.. and Mrs. Carleton McComas en-
! tertained number of their friends
! at dance Monday evening. The af
fair was pleasing.
Mrs. Gordon McCrobie is a patient
! in one of the hospitals in Cumber
; land where she recently underwent a
surgical operation.
Mrs. John Smyth and daughter Ele-
; nor, of Pittsburgh, arrived here one
day last week and are guests of Mr..
: and Mrs. John Ault.
Mrs. William H. Conterie and her
! mother, Mrs. Alex. Bittinger, both of
I Morgantown, West Va, are visiting
Z relatives in Oakland.
Mr.. William F. Cecil and Mr. J. Will
! mer Cecil, of Leonardtown, Md, are
: guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Thomas
; Duke at their home in Oakland.
Mrs. G. j. Lawson, of Morgantown,
! West Va, spent a few days in Oak
; land last week with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank B. Casteel.
Mr. Lawrence X. Dixon, of the D.
! NJ. Dixon & Son store, went to New
York Saturday night where he will
: spend this week purchasing goods for
; the local store.
Rev. and Mrs. S. E. Wicker, of Will
! mington, Del, who were here for
week visiting Mrs. Wicker's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Ashby, returned
to their home Tuesday.
Mrs. Sara R. Getty, of Grantsville,
J accompanied by Miss Vida Getty,
: County Health Nurse, visited Oakland
: last Friday where they were guests
3 of friends.
: Delegates McIntire of Oakland, and
3 Markley, of Crellin, went to Annap-
g oils Monday afternoon and were pres
Q ent yesterday at the organization Of
) the Legislature of 1924.
8 Mr.. Loyal Riley, ministerial stu
8 dent at Gettysburg Theological Semi
2 nary, returned to his school yester-
3 day morning after having spent a
g week with Garrett county relatives
3 and friends.
3 Miss Rebecca Thayer, professor OF
: English at Wooster College, Wooster,
/ Ohio, who spent the holiday season in
Oakland with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred. A. Thayer, returned to her
school yesterday.
<. The Empire Theatre in Oakland has
been leased for a period of time by
some local people and will be re-op-
If ened to the public on Saturday ev-
r ening of this week with a picture
program of merit.
If Mr.. Owen T. Treacy, one of the
n progressive merchants of Oakland, is
having his store room on Second and
Oak streets wired for electricity, thus
t. replacing the gas light formerly used
e. for Illuminating purposes.
The committee having charge of the
Is Knights of Columbus bazaar, which
Il was conducted in the K. of C. rooms
several nights recently, has requested
y, The Republican to extend the hearty
N thanks of the organization to the gen
10 eral public for the patronage accorded
thus making it social as we'll as a
financial success.
y Sheriff Guy Yutzy took ]. w. Taw-
o ney, recently convicted of embezzle-
ment at the Circuit Court Of this
county, to the House of Correction
Of at an early hour Tuesday morning.
Y Tawney will serve for the period of
at one year in the institution. Payne
Culp, convicted at the term also, was
: taken down some days prior to the
departure of Sheriff Yutzy with Taw-
- ney, and will serve nine months.
As attorney for the mortgagee, Mr.
&C Fred. A. Thayer advertises in The
w Republican today the sale at public
~ auction a 218-acre farm located in
the Ryan's Glade section of Garrett
county. The farm has upon it a new
ed dwelling, barn and all modern con-
le veniences. The property will be sold
on in front of the First National Banl,
building in Oakland on Friday, Janu-
airy 25th, at II o'clock a. m.
tn The Offutt store in Oakland was
ed closed Monday and Tuesday of this