The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-23
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

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was here professionally on Saturday
of last week.
Mr.. Joseph E. Harmed returned to
Oakland Tuesday morning from
Washington where he had spent Mon
day on business. ~
Mr.. A. C. Stanton, cashier of the
First National Bank at Grantsville
was visitor to the county seat on
Saturday afternoon.
Rev. A. w. Code, pastor of Zion
Lutheran church, Accident, was in
Oakland on Friday when he paid The
Republican a business visit.
Mrs. D.. E. Offutt went to Baltimore
on Tuesday of last week and is pa
tient in DR.. Legge's hospital where
she is receiving treatment.
Misses Edna Kraft and Martha En-
gle, of the Oakland High School fac
ulty, spent the weekend with rela-
tives and friends in Cumberland.
tyir. w. L. Stephenson, of Lima, O.,
re armed to his home in that city on
Sunday after having visited Mr.. and
Mrs. H. v. Leighton and his family
at Loeb Lynn for a few days.
Mr.. Stuart F. Hamill, member of
the Almshouse Commission recently
appointed by Governor Richie, went
to Baltimore yesterday morning in
which city the commission is holding
a meeting today.
Mr.. U. G. Palmer, of Verona, Pa,
forme Fly Superintendent of Education
in Garrett county, who spent several
days in Oakland last week, left Sat
urday for Cumberland and points in
the eastern part of Maryland.
Mr.. w. H. Edgar, who specializes
in pure milk and cream, Strawberries
and vegetables in season, finding a
ready market among the Mountain
Lake Park residents for his products
was a business caller at The Repub-
lican office yesterday.
During the past two or three days
many of the children, and some grown
up folks, have enjoyed the coasting
afforded by the light fall of snow dur
ing the first days Of the present
week. The grown-ups who partook OF
the exhilarating pastime complain
bitterly of aching joints, but the chill
dren are wholly happy and content
The second annual banquet of the
clerks and carriers of the Oakland
Postoffice was held at the Frantz no.
tel last Saturday night. Turkey was
the chief dish on the menu. Those
present included Fred Peddicord
Joseph Stanton, Frank Lyon, Robert
Hoffman, Joseph M. Gender, Pau
Turney, William E. Eggers, Wade H
Mason and Fred Peddicord, Jr.
Mr.. Jesse ]. Ashby of Oakland, ac-
companied Messrs. Charles U. and
Harry Edwards, Grantsville, and Geo
Simpson, of Brett, West Va, on an
automobile trip to La Feria, Texas
the party having left here Monday
morning. They will be gone for sew
eral weeks. Messrs. Edwards have
a bearing citrus fruit grove in La
Feria, it having been purchased sew
eral years ago and upon which Mr.
Harry Edwards and his family resided
for a year.
Every member as well as every
friend of the Oakland Civic Club will
want to attend the monthly meeting
to be held on January % at 800 p
M, at the home of Mrs. George D.
Sprague. World peace will be the
theme to be discussed by Mr.. E. Ray
Jones, while Mrs. C. A. Shilke will
stress the Universal Church and peace
movement. If you have not. been at
tending these meetings regularly
start now. There is always. a wide
awake program.
Martha Ann Dixon, youngest child
of Mr.. and Mrs Lawrence K. Dixon
of Oakland, who recently suffered an
attack of pneumonia, was taken to
Cumberland last Friday by, her par
ents and operated upon Saturday
morning at the Memorial Hospital fol
empyema, which complication some
times follows pneumonia con
ditions. At last reports the little
patient is doing nicely and will be
brought to her home here in week
or two. Mrs. Dixon is in Cumberland
with her little daughter and will re-
main there until the child is brought
home.
A recent issue of the Baltimore Sur
contained photograph of Miss Grace
Davis and an interview with Miss
Davis, who is now in this country
for a visit to her parents, having re-
Gently returned from Foochow, China