The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-01-21

couples with cards last Saturday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Edward Offutt
were in Fairmont, w. Va, Tuesday on
business.
Mr.. L. G. Bittinger, of Grantsville,
spent Friday afternoon in Oakland CD
business.
Miss Helen Little spent the first
part of the week in Hagerstown and
Cumberland.
Mrs. Edward Leary, of Baltimore,
is spending few weeks with rela-
tives in Oakland.
Mrs. Berne Teter entertained her
bridge club at her home on Alder
street last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Watson, Fair
mont, w. Va, were guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. Edward Offutt on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Chambers
have moved from their apartment in
the Dixon building on Second street
to their residence in Mountain Lake
Park.
On account of the illness of Mrs.
Donald R. Sincell, the Nightingale
Choral club did not meet this week,
but will meet next Monday evening as
usual.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Thompson, of
Weirton, w. Va, spent several days
this week in Oakland visiting Mrs.
Thompson's mother, Mrs. Anna NJ.
Smouse.
Mr.. Guy w. Gregg, of Weston, w.
Va, is in Oakland today on business,
having motored to the home of his
parents near Deer Park yesterday
afternoon.
The Misses Miller entertained
large number of young people at their
home on Second street Saturday ev-
ening in honor of their nephew, Mr..
Thornton Deffinbaugh. Cards was the
diversion.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Presbyterian church will hold food
sale at F. A. Smouse's store on Satur-
day, January %, beginning at 2:30
o'clock. The patronage of the public
is solicited.
Farmers of Garrett county who in
years gone by burned their lime along
about the month of March, have their
kilns going now, which is another in
dication of the unseasonableness of
the weather.
Former County Treasurer Albert
L. Lee is confined to his home with
serious illness, having been taken
sick about ten days ago. The affairs
at his Office are being carried on,
however, by Mrs. Lee.
The w. C. T. u, which just recent
ly organized, will meet at the home
of Mrs. B. H. Sincell on Friday even
ing at 8 o'clock. Mrs. M. D. Stier,
chairman, will be in charge. All those
interested are urged to attend the
meeting.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles A. Shilke and
son Charles returned to Oakland yes
terday evening from Baltimore in
which city the boy was examined by
a specialist for heart trouble with
which he had been afflicted for up
wards of year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hervey Bittner, ac-
companied by Mrs. Thomas Compton
and youngest child, motored to Balti-
more where the Compton child was
examined by a specialist and treat
ment prescribed for growth on its
neck. The party returned to Oak
land Tuesday evening.
Each pupil of the public school sys-
tenn of the county who is transported
from their home to the school, has
been furnished in recent days with a
neat folder upon which is printed the
rules and regulations governing the
conduct. of the pupils and the duties
of the driver, with suggestions re-
speeding safety of those within the
bus and pedestrians along the high
way. Superintendent Rathbun is eX-
tremely anxious that these sugges-
tions and rules be obeyed thus lessen
ing the possibility of injury Detailing
the children while they are in the bus
or are enroute either to or from the
schools where they are pupils.