The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-25
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

TeSuILs
DR.. w. w. Davis, representing the
Lords Day Alliance of Maryland,
spent a few hours in Oakland Satur-
day afternoon.
Jefferson Ralston and Harry West
were at Morgantown and other West
Virginia points on business Thursday
of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Bond, of Key
ser, spent the weekend in Oakland
with relatives, returning to Keyser
Sunday evening.
Walter Kahl returned to Pittsburgh
this afternoon after having spent sew
eral days here recuperating from an
illness of a month.
Mr.. Jack Enlow and his son-in-law,
Mr.. Groves, of Cumberland, spent
Friday afternoon and evening in Oak
land with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Harold Dawson and Mrs. Don
aid R. Sincell accompanied Carl Nc
Intire to Cumberland Saturday morn
ing where the day was spent with
friends.
Alfred Hack, student at Western
Maryland College, accompanied his
classmate, Howard Rathbun, to Oak
land Friday evening who spent the
weekend here with Mr.. and Mrs. F.
E. Rathbun.
County Superintendent Franklin E.
Rathbun went to Washington, ID. g.,
Sunday where he is meeting with the
County Superintendent Division OF
the National Education Society this
week.
The showing of the picture The Big
Parade, at the Maryland Theatre, last
Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
was we'll patronized both nights and
a small sum was realized by the local
post of the American Legion, which
sponsored it's reproduction here.
Following the receipt of message
announcing the sudden death Of the
late j. F. Reinhardt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Reinhardt, who were visit
ing relatives in Binghampton, N. y,
drove from that city to Oakland ar
irving here Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hazlett and
their son Robert, of Wheeling, were
in Oakland a short time Saturday ev-
eneing, being en- route to Chambers
burg, Pa, where they spent Sunday
and Monday with Miss Virginia Haz-
lett, a student in a school at that
place.
Judge and Mrs. D. Lindley Sloan
and son James, accompanied by Judge
Sloan's brother, Mr.. James Sloan, of
Los Angeles, Cal, who is in Allegany
county for a visit with relatives,
spent a part of Sunday here, return
ing to Cumberland Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Harold H. Harmed was host to
the Owls Club at the residence OF
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph r..
Harmed, on Second street, last Thurs
day evening. A full attendance of the
membership of the organization was
present and the evening was an owl
ish one.
The banks of Oakland as we'll as the
local postoffice, in observance OF
Washington's birthday, were closed all
day on Monday. Otherwise the day
passed as usual in Oakland except
in the schools where a Washington
program with songs and readings by
the students were featured.
District Forester A. L. Sines, Of
Oakland, accompanied by Forest
Guard Cecil Ramsey, of near town,
went to Baltimore Sunday morning
where they are attending a meeting
of the State forest officials this week.
They expect to return to Oakland at
the conclusion of the conference on
Friday.
Numerous requests have come to
The Republican since last Thursday
asking for copies Of the Washington
song, "Father of the Country We
Love-" composed by George M. Co.
han, and printed in last weeks issue.
A limited number of the copies of this
song may be had upon application to
this Office.
"Why the Potomac River is in the
State of Maryland" is intelligently
discussed in this issue of The Repub-
lican in an article written by Prof.
J. C. Sanders, superintendent of the
Keyser wv. Va.) schools and origin
ally printed in the Piedmont Herald,
from which publication it is taken
by this paper.
Former County Treasurer Albert l..