The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-09

tied The Republican office on busl-
ness.
The Missionary Society of st.
Paul's M. E. church will meet at the.
home of Mrs. E. R. Jones this ev-
ening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Stewart went
to Westernport Saturday to visit rel
atives, returning to Oakland Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Fleming Southern, of Clarks-
burg, w. Va, is guest at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred. Peddicord on
/ Second street.
Mrs. Ernest Shirer will be hostess
to number of her friends at finch
party which she will give at her home
tomorrow evening.
Mrs. Grace Post, of Masontown, w.
Va, visited friends in Oakland and
her uncle, Mr.. M. C. Clayton, in Noun
tain Lake Park, on Sunday afternoon.
Jimmy Bell gave party to num-
Der of his little friends on Monday.
The guests enjoyed their afternoon
immensely. Dainty refreshments
were served.
Mrs. Oscar limbaugh, of Terra
Alta, West Va, spent Saturday and
Sunday at the home of the Misses
Leary where her sister, Miss Cleve-
land, was i'll.
Messrs. Joseph and Carlton Helbig,
who are engaged in lumber operations
at a point in West Virginia near
Romney, spent Saturday and Sunday
in Oakland with their father, Mr.. Jos.
P. Helbig, and other relatives.
Mrs. Samuel Nightingale will be
hostess this evening at the weekly
meeting of the Thursday night bridge
Club. Mrs. Herbert Leighton, Mt.
Lake Park, was hostess last Thursday
night.
The Oakland High School basketball
team won from Aurora High School
last night at MAYORS Hall by the
score of 43-l The Oakland Girls
team also won from the Aurora Girls
team, 14-13. A fair sized audience
witnessed the contests.
The Christian Endeavor of St.
Marks Lutheran church will conduct
food sale in F. A. Smouse's store
Saturday afternoon, beginning at 200
o'clock. Palatable home made pies,
cakes, candy, bread, crullers, potato
chips and other articles will be on
sale.
Mrs. Guy limbaugh was hostess
on Monday evening when the Young
! Women's Missionary Society of St.
Marks Lutheran church was enter
tanned at her home There were 2S
members of the organization present.
Refreshments were served following
the study period.
Mr.. George Loar and his sister Miss
Grace Loar, left Oakland this morning
for Orlando, Florida, where they eX-
pect to remain until early in the cont
ing spring. Mr.. Loar, who has been
in Baltimore hospital for several
weeks, has almost entirely recovered
his normal health and hopes that the
trip south will be beneficial.
The Republican had occasion to stop
for a few minutes at Grantsville on
Monday afternoon and called to see
George w. Diefenbach, who was up to
his eyes arranging his recently ac-
quired mercantile stock of goods pur-
chased at the Zeller store and which
he has consolidated with his former
stock in the Zeller building. George
and his helpers were busy arranging
stock for the auction to be held on
Saturday as advertised in today's Re-
publican.
Rev. A. D. Craig, pastor of st.
PauFs M. E. church of Oakland, who
was taken to a Fairmont hospital two
weeks ago for treatment, remains in
a very serious condition in the insti-
tuition, much to the regret of his host
of friends here and elsewhere. 1t has
been determined by the surgeons hav-
ing charge of his case that Rev. Craig
is suffering from septic poisoning
The patient is very weak and reports
from his bedside are to the effect that
he is very much discouraged.
With more than foot of snow COW
ering Washington, Baltimore and at
other points in Eastern Maryland on
last Wednesday, Garrett county hao
less than an inch. The Sunday pre-
ceding storm struck along the
Chesapeake Bay and piled snow in the
highways which at points measured
eight feet in the drifts that formed
and tied traffic so tight that it re.
quired thirteen hours for a truck tC
make the run from Baltimore to Bel