The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-07-25
Mr.. Thomas Haigh, of near Cranes
Vile, is here today on business.

vile, is here today on business.
Mrs. Sam Nightingale will enter
tain the Thursday Night bridge club
at her home this evening.
C.. F. Schroeder and family, Graf
ton, visited at the home of Mr.. F. A.
Thayer on Sunday.
Mrs. E. w. Helbig will have as her
guests this evening number of her
friends. Five Hundred will be the d.
version.
Miss Julia Lawton has returned to
her home here after having spent
week on a motor trip with Keyser rel
atives in the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia.
Messrs. Reeves Blandford and Ed
win Hamill left Oakland last night for
! New York City where they expect to
remain several days visiting relatives
and friends.
There will be no services in the Gar
rett Memorial Presbyterian church,
Oakland, on Sunday, on account of the
United Presbyterian conference now
in session at Mountain Lake Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wickersham,
Miss Katherine Wickersham and Miss
Louise johnson, of Bakersfield, Cal;
Miss Lucille Jamison and Mrs. Ber-
nard Burkey, of Cumberland, spent
Tuesday and yesterday in Oakland as
guests of Miss Zaidee Browning.
Mrs. Ernest Townshend, who spent
the past month at Hamlet, N. c., re-
turned to her home here Saturday, be-
ing accompanied by her daughter,
Mrs. Milton Williams and Margaret
Williams, a granddaughter, who will
make their home with Mr.. and Mrs.
Townshend.
St. Marks Lutheran Sunday school
and church will hold their annual pic
mic Friday, July &c, at Cherry Run.
Trucks will leave the church at 1920
a. m. and all not having transporta
ton are asked to be there promptly.
A picnic dinner will be enjoyed at
IL o'clock. Games and contests for
prizes will be held in the afternoon.
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Beulah Margaret
Green, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
w. Green, to Mr.. Harry Milton Saw
age, Deer Park, at Cumberland, on
July 5, Rev. C. R. Strausburg per-
forming the wedding ceremony. Mr.
and Mrs. Savage will be at home in
New Kensington, Pa, after August /.
The Republican is being visited
today by about twenty-five girls and
their counselors, from Camp Mime
toska. The girls evinced considerable
interest in the operation of the presses
and linotype machines and other de-
vices in the printing plant. Prior to
their visit to the plant they were
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. H. Sincell.
Swallow Falls is again popular
place with tourists and campers. A
Boy Scout troop from Pittsburgh re-
turned this year for two weeks
stay, and there are also camping
parties from New York, Baltimore
and Washington. This is one of the
most beautiful places in Western
Maryland where the natural beauty
of the early forests remain untouched.
Misses Charlotte and Mary Bolgi-
ano started their dancing school for
children at the parochial school audi
forum, Oakland, on Tuesday and will
instruct in character, toe, Dennishawn
and social dancing on Monday and
Thursday mornings of each week dur
ing the summer. They are being as
sisted by Miss Mary Virginia Wilson.
At the close of the season the Misses
Bolgiano are planning for an exhibit
ton for the benefit of the Oakland
Free Public Library fund.
A forty-hour devotion period in st.
Peters Catholic church closed Monday
evening having begun Sunday morn
ing when solemn high mass was Gel
ebrated, the Very Rev. j. j. Brady
preaching the sermon. Music was fur
nished at this service by a group OF
Holy Cross students who are camping
on Deep Creek Lake. Father Brady
also preached at the Sunday evening
service. Other priests who took part
in the series of services included Revs.
James Tenvin, Cumberland; Revs. j..
L. Mathews, J. Bremen, James E..
Cornell and Father Fayle, of Thomas.
Former President of West Vir-