The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-12-22

-'Ai' SAilN -'Al AANAl lieRIl NOISldAilS1 VI
the SwantOn community, spent yester-
day morning in Oakland shopping.
, Miss Margaret X. Burtis, home
demonstration agent, left Tuesday
for New York where she will spend
Christmas with her sister, Mrs Rice
Members of St. Paul's Epworth
League will sing Christmas carols on
Christmas Eve. All interested are
to meet at the church at $3.50 o'clock.
Mr.. J. A. Conover, dairy specialist,
University of Maryland, who has
been visiting among the dairymen of
the county, has returned to College
Park.
Mrs. D. Edward Offutt returned to
her home in Oakland from Charleroi,
| Pa, where she had been the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Spencer Mon
day and Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Falkenstein, who
spent several weeks at Myersville
with their son and daughter, returned
to Oakland Tuesday, accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted limbaugh, who
visited at Myersville few days.
With the mercury hugging the zero
mark in Oakland Monday morning, it
stood many degrees above that in
other parts of the county. In Grants
vile it read 20 or more above; in the
Ryan's Glade section 26 above was
noted, while at Kitzmiller the reading
was 20 or more above zero. Thus it is
likely that Oakland was the coolest
spot in Garrett county that morning.
The Light Brigade of St. Marks
Lutheran church of Oakland held a
Christmas social at the home of Mrs.
Foster Bittle on Tuesday afternoon.
Forty children were present and each
brought something for Christmas
boxes which are to be given out to
families not likely to have much
Christmas cheer. Thirty-two children
of the community will be presented
with boxes made up from the gifts
thus donated. Refreshments were
I served by Mrs. Bittle at the conclu-
! sion Of the party.
In recent years it has been CUSTOM
airy for members of the Woodmen of
the World lodge at Loeb Lynn Heights
| to have a banquet during the holiday
season at which ever ydelicacy was
served. This year, however, appre-
ciating conditions as they exist, the
/ banquet will be quite a tame affair,
the membership at a recent meeting
/ placing the banquet in the discard and
voted unanimously to eXpend the
banquet money for relief work, hence
the men of the lodge assisted by their
wives will be engaged tomorrow in
/ packing baskets of groceries and other
necessities and distributing them to
the needy of the community, which is
most commendable thing to do.
Among the students who have re-
turned to spend the Christmas holt
days with their home folk are Carroll
Casteel, Washington college, Chester
town; Lewis Jones, West Virginia
/ Wesleyan, Buckhannon; Logan Weber,
University of Maryland; Mary Lynn
McIntire, University of Maryland;
Betty Broadwater and Adeline Stuck,
Hood college, Frederick; Marian
Brock, Mary Baldwin, seminary,
Staunton, Va; Lindsay Gender, Char
lott Hall academy; Thomas Gender,
lotte Hall Academy; Thomas Con
der, Jr., West Virginia University;
Mitchell Franklin, University of
Maryland; Howard Rathbun, Western
Maryland college; Evelyn Bosley,
Drexel Institute, Philadelphia; Mar
shall Brown, Fairmont State Teachers
college; Humbird Offutt, Fork Union
Military academy, Va.
Garrett countians, or at least some
of them have heard of the Chinook"
winds, which at times sweep over the
! Rockies, melting the snow as though
the blast from furnace had been
turned upon it. This condition existed
to some degree in Oakland yesterday
morning when at seven O'Clock the
mercury showed a few degrees above
zero. In ten minutes thereafter, the
warm wind from the south having
started, the thermometer registered
sixteen above and in less than an hour
from that time it stood at above 80
degrees and still rising. 1t is said
thai in the Rockies when the Chi
nook" wind starts snow and ice packs
break up with startling reverbera-
tons, at times almost deafening. The
Wednesday morning wind may not
have been genuinely Chinook, but
it was certainly closely related, for
! the result was the same.