The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-23

ger, Spent yesterday morning III Jan
land on business.
Mrs. E. L. Teets, who has been in
Oakland with her son, Hugh Teets,
for several weeks, has gone to Balti-
more to visit a daughter.
Mrs. JoJseph Murphy slipped and
fell yesterday afternoon at her home,
Pennington street and in addition to
receiving painful bruises she suffered
a badly sprained wrist.
Mr.. Eugene Coffman, Of Davis,
president of the Coffman-Fisher Co.,
spent a day or two in Oakland this
week with the local manager of the
store here, Mr.. l. R. Rudy.
More than thirty couples were in
attendance at the invitation dance
given last night in the Manhattan
Hotel ballroom. Dancing was from
/ 500 until loo and music for the, oc-
casion was furnished by the Harmony
Boys Orchestra.
Mrs. Michael W. Pendergast, of
Hutton, was taken to the Allegany
Hospital, Cumberland, on last Thurs
day where she will remain as pa
tient for observation until the nature
of her ailment can be determined by
the medical staff of the institution.
A card party will be held this Fri
day at eight o'clock in the hall of
st. Peters school. Bridge and 300
players will use the hall; bingo play
ers will have separate. room. Fine
prizes as well as door prizes will be
given. There will be no refreshments.
Mr.. William Browning, who is prob
ably the oldest man in the county, be-
ing we'll up in the nineties, and a
grandson of Meshach Browning, pio-
neer of this part of Maryland, has
been and still is quite i'll at his home
on Water street. Mr.. Browning's i'll
health is due to advanced years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellery Plots and Mr..
and Mrs. Lew Hanst, of Pittsburgh,
motored to Oakland Saturday and re-
manned here until Sunday afternoon
visiting relatives and friends. Mrs.
Plots is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Glotfelty, formerly of Oakland.
Her husband is engaged as radio en-
gineer at Station KDKA, Pittsburgh.
w. L. Wilson has succeeded the
late Walter Dietrich as manager of
the Coffman-Fisher Co.'s stores here.
Mr.. Wilson was transferred here from
Tunnelton, where he had been man
i ager of another of the company's
twenty stores. He is a brother of
Harry and Robert Wilson, of Kitz-
miller. He plans to move his wife
and child here in the near future
Piedmont Herald. -.
DR.. Henry W. McComas, after hav-
ing spent about two weeks in Phoenix,
Arizona, on business, returned to his
home in Oakland yesterday morning.
DR.. McComas reports conditions in the
southwest rather discouraging on ac-
count of weather conditions and other
causes. For six months prior to Fri
day there had been no rainfall in por-
lions of Arizona with the result that
cotton crops were in danger of not
maturing and live stock, especially
on the large sheep ranges, were suf-
fering because of the lack of water
and pasture.
Within the next week or ten days
every automobile or truck owner in
the county will receive from the Of
flee of the County Commissioners Of
Garrett county a blank schedule pre-
pared by Supervisor of Assessments
E. R. Jones, which they will be re-
quested to fill out and return as soon
as possible after receipt and not later
than February Is, at which time the
Commissioners will assess the prop
erty thus scheduled at its proper
value. The schedule prepared by Mr..
Jones provides for full information
relative to the automobiles or trucks,
showing their make, capacity, year Of
manufacture and other necessary in
formation required to ascertain the
assessable value of the vehicles.