The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13

Miss nellie Offutt entertained with
bridge dinner Saturday evening at
her home.
Miss Helen Offutt entertained with
bridge luncheon at her home on
Second street Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. John Helbig arrived in Oak
land yesterday afternoon to spend
few days with his father, Mr.. Joseph
Helbig.
Gerald Biggs has returned home
from school and is spending his va
cation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Albert Biggs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Salem Broadwater
and son Robert, Deer Park, spent
Sunday at Loeb Lynn visiting Mrs.
G. w. Sterling.
Mr.. Gilmor Hamill, student at
Princeton university, is home to
spend the summer vacation with his
mother and grandfather.
Mrs. C. Milton Sincell gave a party
last Saturday afternoon in honor of
her daughters seventh birthday. A
number of games featured the enter
tainment.
Messrs. Eugene Ambrose and How
ard Gray, Clarksburg, w. Va, spent
a few hours in Oakland on business
yesterday when they called at The
Republican office.
Members of the Oakland Volunteer
Fire department and the Gilbert
Brown Boys band are attending the
| State Firemen's convention, in Iona
coming today. Both organizations will
take part in the parade this after
noon.
Joseph Sollars won point for his
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letic meet on last Friday at Baltimore
when he placed fourth in the high
jump in the junior unlimited class.
Other contestants from Oakland High
and Grammar schools failed to place
The Tri-Mu Sunday school class of
st. Pauls Methodist church will hold
a luncheon at the offices of the Cum
berland and Allegheny Gas Company
on Saturday, June Is, beginning at
II o'clock. The price will be so
cents per plate and everybody is cor
daily invited to attend.
Among those who have returned
from various schools to their homes
for the summer vacation include
Misses Evelyn Bosley, Virginia Ham
ill, Margaret Leighton, Hasaleah
Yutzy; Messrs. Edwin Hamill, Carl
McIntire, Thurl Tower, James Lee,
Mitchell Franklin and Kenneth Stahl.
Daniel Houck, Logan Weber, Junior
Dixon and Lewis Jones will leave to-
day for five weeks trip, when they
will visit Baltimore, Washington,
Philadelphia, New York and number
of the New England cities and states,
crossing into Canada for brief stay.
The trip is planned and carried out by
trained boy leaders and will be edu
cational as we'll as interesting.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry B. Wright and
Mr.. and Mrs. Woolly, Preston, Md,
spent Tuesday evening in Oakland,
where Mr.. Wright, Grand Lecturer of
the Grand Lodge of Masons of Mary
land, attended the regular communi-
cation of Oakland Lodge, No. 1872, A,
F. and A. M, and gave brief ad-
dress. The party left Oakland for
Winchester, Va, yesterday morning.
Mrs. Paul Hinebaugh was stricken
with appendicitis at her home at the
power house of the Penn Public Ser
vice Company, north of Oakland yes
terday and was brought to the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. |. M.
Nine, Oakland, last night. Mrs. Hine-
baugh will be taken to the Western
Maryland Hospital at Cumberland to-
day where she will under an oper-
alton.
During a recent electrical storm
which passed over portions of Garrett
county, lightning struck the barn OF
Dorsey Moreland, in the Ryan's Glade
section and burned it to the. ground.
At the time Mr.. Moreland and his son
were in the barn and were slightly
stunned by the bolt but recovered sui
ficiently to get outside before the
structure collapsed. The same day a
COW, belonging to S. D. Beachy, near
Gortner, was struck by lightning and
was killed.
Mrs. Julius C. Renninger and Miss
Alma Scherr returned to Oakland on
Friday last from Mercersburg, Pa,
where they had gone few days prior
to witness the graduation from Mer-
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