The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-03-23
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

State Senator McComas spent the
weekend in Oakland, returning to
Annapolis on Sunday.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Paugh, of
Cleveland, Ohio, are spending this
week in Oakland and at Terra Alta
with relatives and friends.
In Cumberland on Monday a mar
riage license was issued to Reginald
Franklin Livingood, of Grantsville,
and Clara Irene Fisher, of Litzenburg,
Pa.
John w. Herman and family, who
recently returned to Oakland from a
few months sojourn in Florida, have
moved into the Edward Wallace prop
erty adjoining Oakland.
Mrs. Perry H. Broadwater and son
Claude and Mr. Lawrence Brenneman,
all of the Bittinger section, spent
Monday in Oakland as witnesses in a
matter before the grand jury.
Members of the American Legion
Auxiliary are invited to meet at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Neil C. Fraley
on Fourth street next Tuesday even
ing, March %, at 500 o'clock.
Robert T. Hoffman and Joseph NJ.
Gender attended a meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers
held at Hagerstown last Saturday,
Both Mr.. Gender and Mr.. Hoffman are
employed in the Oakland office as
carriers.
An effort is being made at Mountain
Lake Park to organize troop of Boy
Scouts, at which place there are a
dozen or more eligibles. Wiley w.
yelling is interesting himself in the
movement and he is receiving some en-
couragement.
DR.. and Mrs. Robert H. Riley, of
Baltimore, motored to Oakland last
Saturday afternoon and after an hour
or two here motored to Cumberland
where DR.. Riley, as the State Health
Department head, met with the health
officials of Allegany county.
Miss Ercelle Giles, teacher Of the
Chestnut Grove school, near Bloom
ington, was called to her home in
Chatham, Va, recently, on account of
the death of her father, the late j. T.
Giles. Miss Giles has returned to the
county and is again teaching Her
pupils.
Mr.. A. William Murphy, member of
the Maryland General Assembly from
Dorchester county, was a guest of
Assemblyman Ohio S. Fike, of Gar
rett county, last weekend when Mr.
Fike drove to his home to remain a
day or two. On Saturday Mr.. Fike
and his guest came to Oakland where
they spent the day.
During the past few days the Board
of County Commissioners was in re-
ceipt of advices from the State Roads
Commission that on April list or i'm
mediately thereafter that body would
take over the county roads and the
work of repair and maintenance of
the roads now under the direction Of
the commissioners. With this informa-
ton at hand the board on Tuesday
sent out notices to the various super
visors, appointed during the month OF
January, not to proceed with any
work on the roads except that which
is absolutely necessary to keep the
thoroughfares open and safe for
travel.
From Radio Station "WEAF, New
York, at $50 Sunday evening, Miss
Bess Goodykoontz, Assistant U. s.
Commissioner of Education, and DR..
Lewis A. Wilson, Assistant State
Commissioner of Education in New
York, will speak on "The Practical
Value of Home Economics In the
School Curriculum" On March ~, at
~ o'clock noon, from Station WCAO,
Baltimore, Miss venia Keller, State
Demonstration Agent, University OF
Maryland, will speak on Home Eco
onmics as an aid to rural homemakers.
Both of these programs are being
held under the auspices of the Mary
land Home Economics Association.