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

home in Oakland Monday after hav-
ing spent a week in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. Harold H. Harmed was hostess
at bridge party on Monday when
she had as her guests twelve of her
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs: James Broderick and
daughter, Miss Thresa, of Morgan
town, West Va, spent Tuesday here
with friends.
Mrs Paul B. Naylor will have as
her guests tomorrow evening a num-
Der of her friends. Fitch will be the
diversion.
Mr.. Lewis Bush, who has been ex-
tremely i'll for the past seven or eight
weeks, is now improved and able to
be out of his room.
Mrs. F. E. Rathbun is hostess to the
members of the Ladies' Aid Society
of st. Pauls NJ E. church at her
home this afternoon.
Mr.. Orville Lantz, of Aurora, w.
! Va, was in Oakland on business Tues
day, when he called at The Republican
office.
Former Senator j. W. Mccullough,
Mr.. George B. Mccullough, DR.. A. J.
Mason and Mr.. Cornelius N. Friend,
all of Friendsville, were in Oakland
on business before the County Com
missioners yesterday.
Mrs. Hubert Burdette and son, of
Mount Airy, Md, returned to that
place yesterday morning after having
spent ten days or more in Oakland
visiting Mrs. Burdette's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph E. Harmed.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rasche, former
residents Of Oakland, are spending the
month of February at st. Petersburg
and other Florida points in company
with Mr. and Mrs. Carl White, of IN
iontown, Pa.
Mrs. Anna Kemp, who has been in
Oakland for some time with her
daughter, Mrs. F. E. Rathbun, left on
Sunday for Cincinnati, Ohio, where
she will visit another daughter, Mrs.
Ebert Bonner.
A bus having as its passengers
members of the basketball team of
Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, W.
Va, passed through Oakland yester-
day morning en- route to Fairmont,
where they expect to meet the Fair
mont Normal basketball players.
Mr.. George w. Loar, who was in
Baltimore hospital several weeks
receiving treatment, returned to Oak
land last Friday and on Monday went
to Grafton to look after business af-
fairs in that city. Miss Lottie Loar
his sister, who went to Baltimore pre-
viously to his return here, accom-
| panied him to Oakland.
Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Waybright, of
Red House, where the former is pas
tor of the Lutheran church, passed
through Oakland early Monday morn
ing en- route, to Gettysburg, Pa, and
points in Maryland, where they will
visit relatives and friends during the
week, expecting to return to Red
House Saturday.
A surprise party was rendered Mrs.
R. E. Frazee on Tuesday evening at
the Browning House, the occasion be-
ing Mrs. Frazee's birthday anniver-
sary There were 16 ladies present
and the diversion of the evening was
Five Hundred. Delightful refresh
ments were served, and many beauti-
full gifts were received by the honored
guest.
The Oakland Senior All Room I'M
provement Club conducted it's first
achievement day program on Satur-
day, January %, in the office of the
home demonstration agent in the Gar
rett county Court House. The girls of
the club had on display an unusually
fine collection of problems for their
years project. A short program of
songs and a reading, "Compensa-
tion," by Edgar Guest, was rendered
by Mildred Stemple. Short talks on
color, pictures and what the project
has done for the members, were also
made. Tea was served by the girls.