The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-01-24

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ter, who spent several weeks with Bal
timore relatives and friends, returned
to Oakland Sunday evening.
Mr.. E. B. King, of Mountain Lake
Park, who is employed at Kingmont,
West Va, was business caller at The
Republican office on Monday.
Mr.. D. E. Offutt has purchased the
DR.. N. l. Broadwater residence on Sec
ond street. For the present DR.. Broad
water and family will continue to &C.
cupy the property.
Mrs. T. B. Geddings and children,
formerly of Washington, D. c., who
were here on a visit to Mrs. Geddings'
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George yelling,
left yesterday for their new home in
Newark, N. j.
The monthly meeting of the local
! Civic Club will be held at the resi-
dence of Miss Grace Jones next Tues
day, January 20, at 800 o'clock in the
afternoon. All members are urged to
be in attendance.
Mr.. J. D. Nutter, of Grafton, has
been transferred from the Grafton Of
fee Of the West Penn Company to
| the Oakland office where he will be in
charge of the appliance department
| of the corporation.
Mr. Baxter Shreve, of Toledo, O.,
was in Oakland Saturday en- route
home after having attended the fun
eral of his mother, Mrs. Eliza Shreve,
notice of whose death appears in The
! Republican today.
The February meeting Of st. Marks
Lutheran Brotherhood will be held on
Tuesday evening, February 5. Alva
Gortner, chairman of the program
committee, announces a fine program
with speaker and other things.
A venison supper will be served by
the women of St. Marks Lutheran
church Thursday evening of next
week, January 81. Everything that
goes with a good supper will be
served which will begin at $50 p. m.
The Republican has been rather
badly handicapped during the past
two weeks by reason of the illness of
three of the employees and illness in
the associate editors family. At this
time, however, the sick are all i'm
proved.
Among the seriously i'll of Oakland
and community are Mrs. Andrew Hell
big and Mrs. Catherine Frazee, the
latter having been taken sick with an
attack of influenza two or three weeks
ago. Mrs Helbig's illness dates from
last Monday.
Miss Catherine Turner, Messrs. A.
7. Shaw, A. L. Lawton, Leo Feath-
er and J. D. Nutter, of the West Mary
land Power Co.'S Oakland office, at
tended a meeting of executives of the
company which was held in Grafton,
West Va, last night.
The Parent Teachers Association
of the Oakland grammar school will
hold it's regular monthly meeting on
Thursday evening, January 80, with
Mr.. Walter W. Dawson. as chairman.
A very interesting program is prom
Used and all members are urged to at
tend.
The Board of County Commission
ers will hold it's regular monthly meet
ing at the board room in the court
house on Monday, February 4, as will
be noticed by referring to the adver-
Using columns of The Republican to-
day. The meeting will be held for the
purpose of hearing appeals on assess
ments and transacting general routine
business. All adjustments on assess
ments must be made at this meeting
to apply on the 1929 tax bills.
The recently elected members of
st. Marks Lutheran church council
met in the parsonage Monday evening
and organized with the following Of
fcers: H. C. Sincell, president; T. c.
Bittinger, secretary; Stanley Stahl,
treasurer. Miss Grace Falkenstein
was elected financial secretary by the
council. Appointments were made for
the year and routine matters were
discussed and disposed of.
County Commissioner George D.
Browning suffered an attack of inf1u-
enza one day early last week and on
Thursday pneumonia, affecting one of
his lungs developed. For several days
thereafter his condition was consid-
cred dangerous, but on Saturday an
improvement was shown since which
time he has slowly but steadily been
growing better, which will be good
news to his many friends throughout
the county.