The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-05-12
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

Sunday at Pocahontas, Pa, with the
formers mother.
Mr.. Alton Jackson, of Rowlesburg,
. West Va, was in Oakland Monday
morning on business.
Mr.. Josephus Howell, of near Swan
ton, was business caller at The Re-
publican Office on Saturday.
Jonas Broadwater and Mrs. Jesse
Broadwater, both of Bond, this coun-
ty, spent Monday in Oakland on bus
mess.
Mr.. Charles Sprague, of Kitzmiller,
with a new repertoire of Scotch jokes,
was in Oakland Tuesday visiting his
policy holders. !; -:
81, Mrs. James Kenney and two chill
dren; Of Westernport, are here for "a
visit with Mrs. Kenney's mother, Mrs.
Nellie Maffett. ....:. .,
Miss Margaret Kahl, of Cumber-
land, spent a few days recently, at
the home of her father, Mr.. H. W.
Kahl, near town.
Mr.. N. M. O'Brien, of Wiley Ford,
West Va, near Cumberland, was here
Monday looking for a farm upon
which to locate this year.
Carter Forman, formerly of Oak
land, returned to his home at Keyser,
West Va, on Sunday evening after
spending the day here with friends.
Mrs. George H. Hanst, State Girls
Club leader of West Virginia, spent
the weekend in Oakland, leaving here
Monday morning for Lewisburg, West
Va.
B. o. Aiken, J. D. Anderson and
Miss Elizabeth Parrish, of the Acct
dent High School faculty, were in
Oakland Saturday, going from here to
Morgantown, West Va, where they
spent the afternoon.
Members of the Oakland Volunteer
Fire Department will attend divine
worship at the Oakland Presbyterian
church on Sunday morning. An APP
propriate service is being arranged
by the pastor, Rev. Walter B. Brock.
DIR. and Mrs. N. l. Broadwater mo-
tored to Winchester, Va, on Sunday
and were accompanied home by their
daughter Miss Betty Broadwater, who
had been visiting friends there for
several days and attending the Apple
Blossom Festival.
A session of the Red House Luth-
eran Sunday school will be held next
Sunday afternoon at 1880 o'clock and
following this worship will be con-
Quoted at 2:30 by the Rev. Charles A.
Shilke, pastor of St. Marks Luth-
eran church of Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Sincell, accom-
panied by Mrs. Benz. H. Sincell, went
to Washington, D. c., on Sunday in
which city Mr.. Sincell attended the
District Conference of Rotary Inter-
national, while the other members OF
the party visited relatives and friends
in Baltimore and Washington.
Lewis C. Jones, attorney for the
defense, won his case last Thursday
before Judges Edwin Michael, Carroll
Casteel and Cecil Right, in the mock
trial at the high school as a part of
the celebration of Boys Week. Jones
was defending Lloyd Bowers in the
moot trial, who was charged with
STEALING chickens" Arthur Lawton,
Jr., was the prosecuting attorney.
More than a hundred persons were
in attendance at the annual card party
and dance last Friday evening in the
high school, the affair being sponsored
by the Athletic Association Of the
school. Six tables of cards were in
play and approximately forty couples
danced to the music furnished by Don
Lohr and his orchestra. The proceeds
will 90 toward the expenses Of the
high school athletic teams for spring
sports.
Messrs. Paul Walker and James
Coddington, of the University of
Maryland Experiment Station, left
Oakland on Sunday after being here
three days making a study of the
comparison between the sales price
of farms and the value placed upon
the same properties by the assessors.
This work is being done in every coun-
ty in Maryland by Experiment Sta
ton employees at the urgent request
of the State Grange.
Twenty three members of the Jun
Tor Drum and Bugle Corps, Byron
ABesse, director, and Byron Besse, Jr.,
y drum major, participated in the fes-
tivities of the Apple Blossom Festi-
val at Winchester, Va, where the