The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-28
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

Walter Kahl, Pittsburgh, spent Sum-
day and part of Monday with relatives
in Oakland.
Miss Grace Speicher, Accident, is
spending the weekend with friends in
YOnkers, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred. Brown, Cumber-
land, spent few days here recently
with relatives.
Mr.. ]. D. Alexander, of Fairmont,
spent an hour or two in Oakland last
Friday afternoon.
Miss Mary Speicher, of Oakland
spent Christmas with her mother, Mrs.
Allie Speicher, of Accident.
Miss Margaret Kahl, Cumberland,
is visiting relatives here, having ar
rived in Oakland Monday evening.
Misses Marion Leary and Elizabeth
Leary are visiting relatives and
friends in Hagerstown and Baltimore.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Shilke and
son were dinner guests of Mrs. Louis
Bush and daughter on Tuesday even
ing.
Miss Adeline Sincell entertained
about forty at Christmas party at
her home last evening. Dancing was
the diversion.
Miss Mary Jane Kahl spent Christ
mas Day here with her father, H. w.
Kahl, returning to Washington, D. c.,
Tuesday morning.
Jacob J. Lantz and J. w. Steyer,
both of the Gormania community,
were business callers at The Republi-
can office Saturday.
Rev. and Mrs. Denver C. Pickens,
of Wheeling, W. Va, were guests on
Monday evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. J. M. Falkenstein.
Prof. and Mrs. F. D. Bittle and chill
dren left Oakland this morning for
Myersville, Md, where they will spend
the weekend with relatives.
A daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. New
ton Reams, Swallow Falls, was taken
to Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, on
Sunday where she was operated upon
for appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. N. McIntire and
their daughter, Mrs. Harold Dawson,
returned to Oakland Saturday from
Washington, D. c., where they had
spent day or two.
Messrs. Harry G. Shaffer and ]. AL
bert Shaffer, and Mrs. Frances K.
Cunningham, all of Washington, D. c.,
spent from Friday until Monday here
visiting Mrs. Louis Bush and daugh-
ter.
Mrs. Kathryn Tibbetts and son Rob-
ert, Baltimore, spent Christmas Day
here with Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Town
shend, Mrs. Tibbetts returning to Bal
timore Monday evening, her son re-
naming for the week.
Fifteen members of Mrs. George D.
Sprague's sewing class of st. Mat
thew's Episcopal church met at her
home on last Tuesday for instruction,
following which Christmas carols were
sung and refreshments served.
St. Marks Lutheran church will
hold it's congregational social next
Wednesday evening at 1880 o'clock.
Reports from presidents and treasur-
ers of all church organizations will be
heard. A program is being arranged
Mr.. and Mrs. William D. Whitehill
and family, of Salem, Ohio, are spend
ing the Christmas holidays with rela-
tives and friends in the county and in
Oakland. Their son, Robert was taken
suddenly i'll on Tuesday with an attack
of appendicitis and at the Memorial
HospitalA Cumberland, he was operat-
ed upon yesterday immediately follow
ing his arrival at that institution.
Misses Mabel Speicher, Bridge
water, Va, and Miss Hazel Speicher,
University of Maryland student, are
spending the holidays at the home of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry NJ.
Speicher, at Accident. Midshipmen C..
w. Stirling and J. B. Moreland, Naval
Academy, Annapolis, and Norman
Johnson, Pasadena, California, are
also guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Speicher.
Looking Backward" will be the
worship theme for the morning service
on the last Sunday of the year at the
Garrett Memorial church. On the first
Sunday of the new year the pastors
message will be Looking Forward, y
and on the second Sunday, when the
Sacrament of the Lords Supper will
be celebrated, the worship theme&wiii
ba UT oolinn Inward In HT ook iY1ce