The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-19
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

was here on business last Saturday.
Attorney Paul L. Kitchens, of Cum
berland, was here on professional bus
mess last Saturday.
Rev. E. E. Campbell, of the Bittin-
ger Lutheran pastorate, was in Oak
.land Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. S, J. Miller, of Grantsville, was
a business caller at The Republican
office on Tuesday morning.
Mr.. W. R. Offutt attended the fun
eral of the late Hugh McMullen in
Cumberland Monday morning.
Mrs. Benz. H. Sincell returned home
Sunday evening from a weeks visit
to relatives and friends in Fairmont,
Clarksburg, Buckhannon, Elkins and
Weston, W. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius C. Renninger
and Miss Alma Scherr, who spent 4
week or more with Washington rela-
tives and friends, returned to Oakland
Friday afternoon.
Mr.. George w. Loar and Miss Grace
Loar, who spent several weeks in Or
lando and other Florida towns, re-
turned to Oakland on Friday after
noon last, both improved in health.
Misses Grace and Mary Falkenstein
and Mrs. Karl Kahl returned to their
home in Oakland Sunday afternoon
from Myersville, Md, where they had
been for a week visiting relatives and
friends.
Mr.. Charles A. Bender, of Grants
vile, was in Oakland Tuesday where
he purchased at the O'Donnell nurser-
les upwards of fifty pine trees which
he will set out on his property in his
native town.
Mr. Leyden White, of st. Louis,
Mo-, visited his aunt, Mrs. James D.
Hamill in Oakland, for several days
recently. Mr.. White was en- route to
his home from Porto Rico where he
had spent the past three months.
DR.. and Mrs. F. M. Dean, returning
points, where they they had spent the
winter, stopped for few days this
week at the home of Mrs. Deans sis
ter, Mrs. John Stevenson, near Noun
tain Lake Park.
Rev. and Mrs. w. L. Phillips, of
Breezewood, Pa, returned to their
home Saturday after having spent
N several days in Oakland and the COM
y munity and conducting the sale OF
the property of the late Edward E.
Sollars, the father of Mrs. Phillips.
Rev. and Mrs. w. E. Waybright, Of
Red House, accompanied by Rev. c. A.
Shilke, of Oakland, motored to Get
tysburg, Pa, Monday where they are
spending the week attending con-
ference and lecture course at the The
illogical Seminary of the Lutheran
church. They will return to Oakland
either Friday or Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Stanton returned
to their home in Oakland Monday ev-
ening from Grafton where they had
been to attend the funeral of the late
John H. S. Barlow, cousin of Mrs.
Stanton, whose death occurred Fri
day of last week. Mr.. Barlow was at
one time associated with the late John
T. McGraw at Grafton as an attorney
and was also postmaster in that town
uned the Wilson administration.
Mrs. Ethyl A. Bittinger, of Craw-
ford Avenue, Connellsville, Pa, who
underwent a very serious operation in
the Connellsville State Hospital re-
Gently, has returned to her home. Mrs.
Bittinger, while still quite weak, has
fully recovered from an ailment which
had afflicted her for many years. 1t
was not until her return home that
she learned of the death of her aged
father, the late W. B. Hutson, whose
passing occurred while she was a
patient in the hospital.
A delegation representing the resi-
dents and taxpayers of Friendsville,
was before the Board of County Com
missioners in Oakland on Monday re-
questing that in the budget asked for
by the Board of Education that sum
of money sufficient to erect badly
needed school building in Friendsville
be included in the levy made this week
by the Commissioners. The Friends
vile delegation was composed OF Asa
Rush, N. R. Selby, ]. w. Mccullough,
Fred. Fox and Norval Speelman.
Mr.. J. H. Wilson, recently OF Steu-
benville, Ohio, has recently associ-
ated himself as field representative
of the Altamont Springs corporation
whose plant is located near Deer Park
= and where during the past year a
high grade of carbonted ginger ale,