The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-04-20


al business yesterday.
Mr.. Charles H. Bill, of Grantsville
spent few hours in Oakland on bus
mess Tuesday morning.
Rev. Walter B. Brock, pastor of the
local Presbyterian church, will begin {
series of sermons on Getting the
most out of life" next Sunday morn
ing.
Messrs David Pope and Herbert X
Pope, of the Johnson section of this
county, were in Oakland on business
| Tuesday.
John w. Herman and family, who
have been residing in Oakland anc
nearby during the past two or three
years, are returning to their farm
! near Swanton today.
Rev. and Mrs. Samuel E. Wicker, of
Wilmington, Delaware, are spending
this week with Mrs. Wicker's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Ashby, at thei1
home on Third street.
Mitchell Franklin, student at the
Maryland University, College Park
returned to his school Monday after
having been here with his aunts, the
Misses Mitchell, few days.
Members of the Auxiliary of the
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department
will hold a benefit finch party at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. C. Milton Sim
cell on Tuesday evening, April 25, be-
ginning at eight o'clock.
Messrs. Grant Hershberger and
Charles Wolfe, both of Blooming
ton, spent a few hours in Oakland
Tuesday morning, they having come
here in the interest of the unem-
ployed of their community.
Miss Pauline Hauser, who is in
training in the Lutheran Deaconess
Motherhouse, Baltimore, after spend
ing week here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. w. A. Hauser, returned to
Baltimore Monday morning.
Messrs. Walter w. Dawson, Jesse
j. Ashby, Neil Liller, F. E. Rathbun
Cecil Smith, Paul Mitchell, w. w.
Grant and Ernest Shirer, members of
the local Masonic lodge, were in Cum
berland last Thursday evening where
they attended meeting of the Shrine
at the Masonic Temple.
Mrs. Clara Creutzburg, who spent
the winter at the Misses Miller board
ing house in Oakland, left for Balti-
more Saturday evening and after Wis
iting with relatives in that city a few
weeks she will go on to Bluefield, W.
Va, where she expects to spend the
summer with a niece.
Miss Alverta Dillon, of the local
high school, spent Easter in Washing
ton, and Miss Humphreys was at her
home in Berlin, Nd, over the same
period, both of whom returned to Oak
land Monday and resumed their
classes with the re-opening of school
Tuesday morning.
Mr.. John Michael, manager of the
Piedmont Grocery Company in Oak
land, was taken to Baltimore Monday
morning for treatment at hospital
in that city. He was accompanied by
his son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Smouse, and Henry
Smouse. During his illness the af-
fairs of the Grocery Company are in
charge of Mr.. Bert WEIGH.
James Lee, son of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
L. Lee, of Oakland, was operated upon
for appendicitis in a Washington Cd
c. hospital on Saturday following an
acute attack of illness. He is now re.
covering. Mrs. Lee spent Sunday al
the bedside of her son, returning to
Oakland Monday morning. The young
man has been in the employ of trac-
ton company in Washington for the
past several months.
Robert Sprague, the sixteen-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Sprague, of Kitzmiller, and the val
edictorian of his class in the Kitzmil-
Ter High School, was stricken with an
attack. of appendicitis early Monday
morning and was taken Immediately
to the Potomac Valley Hospital, in
Keyser, where he was successfully
operated upon. 1t is said that his con-
dition is satisfactory.
DR.. Nat. T. Frame, Extension Direc-
tor, University of West Virginia at
Morgantown; 1. B. Boggs, State Boys
Club leader, Miss Gertrude Humph-
ries, State Girls Club leader, and five
students of the University All Club
attended the conference at Mountain
Lake. Park on Sunday afternoon at
which DR.. E. L. Kirkpatrick, sociol-
ogiSt, University Of Wisconsin, dis