The Republican., 1925-12-17

| WI anu MIS-. a. u. Mayor and
daughter Miss Mary Drake Naylor.
motored to Columbus, Ohio, Friday
morning where they spent the week
end visiting Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Ware
ham, returning to Oakland Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. Leo Eggers and little son re-
turned to their home nClearfield. Pa.
this morning, being accompanied by
Mr.. John II. Sanders, who will spend
the winter in Clearfeld with his two
daughters, Mrs. Eggers and Mrs. f.
Roy Hauser.
Mr.. Edgar Helbig, who has been
in Baltimore several weeks, where he
has been holding a good position, has
been transferred to the Washington
office of his firm. After remaining in
Oakland a few days longer visiting
his parents, he will go to Washington
to take his new position.
The basketball season will be inau-
gurated in Oakland on next Monday
evening at the Grand Theatre, which
has recently been rehabilitated as a
basketball hall, when the opening
game will be played by the local team
their opponents being the Altoona
Collegians. Collins will referee the
game which is a guarantee in itself
that it will be we'll worth seeing.
Oakland will have quite a number Of
new players, the personnel being as
follows; Bolden. Rice, Carrico, Par
sons, Shaf'er, Pollock and McComas.
Messrs. Morgan and Loraw, of the
White Front Store, Oakland, attend
ed the bi-monthly meeting Of the
employees Of the various White Front
Stores, held at Terra Alta on Monday
evening. After the business Of the
evening had been transacted, a de-
lightful oyster supper was served at
Fichtner's restaurant. The closing
hours of the evening were spent in
playing pool and other games in the
company's club room. 1t was rec
ord-breaking turnout, there being
every employe present from the vari-
Gus stores in Garrett county, Md, and
Preston county, West Va.
William Lauer, who recently en-
listed in the Marine Corps and was
stationed at Paris Island where he
qualified in a contest as a sharp
shooter among the members Of his
| outfit a few weeks ago, has been
transferred with his company to St
/ Thomas, Haiti sailing for that port
from Norfolk, Va, yesterday after
noon, according to a telephone mes
sage received in Oakland Tuesday ev-
ening by his father, Mr.. Henry Lauer
AS a soldier the young man is making
good is the report that comes to his
friends in Oakland.
Tuesday night and yesterday the
streets and sidewalks in town as well
as the hard surfaced roads leading
from Oakland We're a glare of ice,
making traffic, vehicular and other
wise, exceedingly difficult as well as
dangerous. At the corner of Second
and Oak streets two cars had front
wheels torn off when they skidded
into the curb at that point, while on
the State road leading to Accident
number Of minor mishaps to cars
were reported, which resulted, how
ever, in nothing more than delays in
reaching their destinations. Last
night about ten o'clock the weather
moderated slightly and this morning
the ice had practically all disap-
peared.
The funeral of the late Mrs. John
A. Sewers, whose death occurred on
Wednesday morning of last week at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Walter Hardesty. in Oakland, took
place Sunday afternoon from st.
PauPs NJ. f. church, Dr. Archibald
Moore officiating. The funeral of the
deceased was largely attended.