The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-10-15

MiSS NeH d. 1urley Will leave mex
week with her niece, Mrs. Sidney
Somerville, of Grafton, w. Va, and
will spend the winter in that city.
Members of the Oakland Volunteer
Fire department were in Piedmont or
Monday evening where they attended
the Tri-Towns Fire Company's fair
which opened last Thursday evening
Members of Mr.. Harned's Bible
class of st. Paul's Methodist Episco-
pal Sunday school were entertained at
the residence of Mr.. Harmed on Tues
day evening. Quite a number were
: in attendance. Delicious refresh
ments were served.
Mr.. Joseph E. Harmed attended the
annual meeting of the Maryland
Pharmaceutical Society held in Cum
berland on Monday. Mr.. Harmed was
accompanied to Cumberland by Mrs.
Harmed and their daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Harold Harmed.
Mr.. Arthur Lawton, who has been
| in the employ of the Mount
Airy Canning Company at Mount
Airy for the past several months, re-
turned to his home in Oakland last
Saturday where he expects to remain
during the winter.
A reunion of the New Windsor M.
c. I. and Blue Ridge College students
will be held on October 25 at New
Windsor, Md. The program arranged
for the day will begin at 2.30 o'clock
IN the afternoon. All graduates are
invited to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Forman and
Mrs. Forman's mother, Mrs. Lush, of
Haverstraw, New York, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Yelling, of Cumberland,
spent last Thursday in Oakland and
at Mountain Lake Park, where they
visited relatives and friends.
st. Johns Lutheran church, Red
House, will serve chicken and waffle
supper in the Sunday school room of
the church on Friday, October %,
from 500 p. m. to 900 p. m. The
price per plate will be 35 cents, with
home made ice cream extra. All are
most cordially invited to be present.
Among those from out-of-town who
were present at the meeting of the
executive committee of the Garrett
County Council of Religious Educa-
ton held on Monday night in the
Lutheran church, were Mr.. Harry Will
son, of Kitzmiller, Rev. A. B. Harper
and Miss Peck, of Accident, and Mr..
Marshal Lohr, of Keyser's Ridge.
William Helbig, son of Mr.. and
Mrs, Andrew Helbig, and Percy
Lawton, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Abra-
ham Lawton, who have spent the
past few years in the service of the
United States Marine corps, have re-
turned home, their enlistment having
expired recently. Helbig, who had
been stationed in Nicaragua, returned
home by way of San Francisco, max
ing the journey from there to Oak
land in an automobile, while Lawton
returned from Quantico, Va, where
| he had been stationed.
Apples and other fruits as we'll as
all kinds of garden vegetables, with
the possible exception of potatoes,
were never so plentiful in this section
as they have been during the season
just closing. A farmer near town ad-
vertises apples in the orchard at ten
cents per bushel, and they are fine ap-
Piles, too, while the owners of the
Col. Woods farm west of Oakland, re-
Gently sent word to town that if the
Red Cross would interest the residents
of Oakland in canning or drying corn,
the organization could have all it
could proftably use free of charge.
The offer was accepted and large
quantity of the corn was brought in
and prepared for winter use. The
Woods farm is controlled by a group
of Greek Catholic priests with Rev.
Father M. Yuhas.