The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-30
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST


finger merchant, was here on business
yesterday.
Attorney Fred. A. Thayer was in
Cumberland Tuesday attending to pro-
/ fessional business. .t...
Messrs. Charles Reckard and T. C.
,Bittinger visited the automobile, show
in Pittsburgh. on Friday. .a.,,,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Heitz, Clarks-
burg West Va, are here for visit to
Mr.. and Mrs, Wade H., Hinebaugh.
Mr., James S. Lakin and Mrs. ]. C.
Petit, Terra Alta, w. Va, were din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. D. Edward
Offutt, on Sunday. t@5 sf II
q Mr.. L. S.. Hartley, agricultural
agent for the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, spent yesterday in Oakland
with County Agent Carter. 2''.s22a
Messrs. Kirk Cosner and Walter
Newman spent last Thursday and
Friday in Pittsburgh, Pa, attending
the automobile show in that city.
Miss Maragret Kochenderfer, Oak
land High School teacher, spent the
weekend in Piedmont, w. Va, Wis
iting her sister, Miss Martha Koch
enderfer.
The mercury Tuesday afternoon at
three o'clock stood at 35 degrees F.
Yesterday morning the thermometer
registered II degrees F., drop of "a
degrees in about fifteen hours.
A public card party will be held
at Castle Hall, Oakland, on Tuesday
evening, February 18, under the aus
pices of the Pythian Sisters. The
patronage of the public is solicited.
Rev. FIR. James E. Council, of the
Immaculate Conception church in
Washington, D. c., has been trans
ferred to the Holy Comforter church
of that city, to take effect on Febru-
airy /. Rev. Connell was pastor of
st. Peters Catholic church, Oakland,
for a number of years.
Mr.. J. A. Conover, dairy specialist
of the University of Maryland extern
sion service, was in Oakland Tuesday,
and in company John H. Carter, coun-
ty agent, visited a number Of dairy
men and inspected the calves of the
various All calf club members.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan Hinebaugh
returned to Baltimore Sunday after
having spent the latter part of last
week in Oakland with relatives and
friends. They were accompanied to
the city by Mrs. Hinebaugh's parents,
DR.. and Mrs. Archibald Moore, who
will remain there a short time.
Mrs. Henry W. McComas was re-
called to the bedside of her son Harry
McComas, patient in Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore, last Thursday ev-
ening by a message announcing that
he had contracted pneumonia. Later
news indicated that while pneumonia
had developed in the patient he was
not alarmingly i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. V. Leighton, of the
Park, accompanied by the latter's sis
ter, MIS-. o. E. Hager of Uniontown,
and Miss Grace Falkenstein, their
niece, of Oakland, left here yesterday
morning by motor for St. Peters
burg and other points in Florida, ex-
pecting TO be absent for about three
weeks.
d. Renic Thayer, sales manager OF
the Minnich Electric Service, Keyser,
w. Va, has won the Thor Interna-
tional Tournament and Prize contest,
conducted by that company. The prize
is a silver loving cup and is awarded
to the salesman selling the greatest
number of machines manufactured by
the company. Mr.. Thayer is a son of
Mr.. and Mrs, George Thayer, OF Oak
land. al
The regular monthly meeting OF
the Board of. County Commissioners
of Garrett county will be held at the
Q board office in the Court House on
Monday, February 8, for the purpose
Of hearing and determining appeals
on assessments. This meeting is an
important one and should be attended
by every property owner who feels
- that his Or her assessment on real OF
personal property should be changed
During these late days in January
a number of the sugar producers IN
the northern and southern sections OF
the county are engaged in preparing
for the first run of maple water from
their trees. To do this the recepta-
cles for the sap are being scalded out
and the camps prepared for the recep-
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