The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-08-13


ton, West Va, are visiting their
father, Mr.. Charles ]. Newman, near
Oakland, for a week or ten days.
This evening at the Mountain Lake
Park M. E. church a chicken dinner,
beginning at five o'clock, will be
served by the women's organization of
the church. Oakland people are ex-
tended a special invitation to patron
.ize the dinner.
There will be an all-day gospel
service at the Church of God on Man
adler Ridge, Sunday, August 16. Bap-
tismal service in the afternoon and
the Lords Supper in the evening.
Special music and speakers are ex-
pected. All are invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold H. Harmed left
this morning by bus for Cleveland,
Ohio, where they will remain few
days attending a flower show and
visit nearby points of interest before
returning to Oakland. They will be
absent ten days or more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Choice Keister,
Jr., and DR.. Charles Mason, Of New
York City, and Miss Ruth Snyder, of
Toledo, Ohio, who had been visiting
Mrs. Keister's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Wilson, of the Park, returned
to their home on Monday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Williams left Oak
land Saturday for Hamlet, N. c., to
visit her children, who were taken i'll
with whooping cough shortly after
they reached that point, about two
weeks ago, when they accompanied
their grandmother, Mrs. Williams, to
her home there.
Prof. and Mrs. A. A. Lamar, of
Sandy Spring, Nd, were in Oakland
yesterday renewing acquaintanceships
which they had formed while Prof.
Lamar was principal of the Accident
High School two years ago. He is
now connected with the high school
at Sandy Spring. The couple are en-
Toying a weeks visit with friends in
Accident.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph D. Ashby, of
Washington, D. c., were guests over
the weekend of Mr.. and Mrs. S. D..
Whipkey at their home on Oak street.
The couple were here to attend the
Ashby family reunion which was held
at Crellin on Saturday and at which
very large number of the family
and it's connections were present to
enjoy the day and meet their relatives
and friends.
At the service in St. Johns Luth-
eran church, Red House, Sunday ev-
ening at 7:45 o'clock, Rev. E. Roy
Hauser will deliver the fourth SER
mon in the series on Marriage and
the Home" The theme will be "The
mother in the home" Tuesday even
ing, 7:45, "The child in the home" and
Thursday evening, 7:45, "The daugh-
ter in the home" or Choosing a life
companion" The public is invited to
all of these services.
Mrs. Bernard Gender and two sons
and Frederick Peddicord, who left
Oakland several weeks ago by motor
for "a, tour of the west, returned on
Saturday evening, the distance COW
cred during the trip being well up to
five thousand miles. The objective
point was Butte, Montana, where Mrs.
Gonder's relatives reside. The party
also visited the Yellowstone National
Park during their trip.
The Republican had as two of its
visitors on Monday Mrs. F. E. Baker,
of Mountain Lake Park, and her house
guest, DR.. Lydia Chen, of Foo Chow
China. DIR. Chen has, been practicing
medicine in her native land for six
teen years. She was taught in mis-
sion school by Miss Julia Bonafield, a
West Virginia woman who is well
known in this section for her work as
missionary in Chinese fields for
more than forty years, during which
time she has made two or three visits
to her family connections in Preston
county and friends in Oakland and Mt
Lake Park. DR.. Chen will remain in
| the United States for year and then
return to China to continue her work
as native medical missionary among
, her people. The visitor was much in
terested in the mechanical devices in
The Republican Office, especially the
Linotype machine, the first she had
ever seen in operation.