The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-06-15

| DR.. and Mrs. Dana L. Farnsworth,
of Boston, Mass, were overnight
guests of friends here enroute to their
former home in West Virginia.
Benjamin Field, of the Half-Price
Store, is in Baltimore and New York
this week purchasing new merchandise
for the firm with which he is con-
nected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin S. Smith and
children will leave Oakland tomor-
row for Portland, Indiana, where they
will visit Mr.. Smiths parents two or
three weeks before returning to their
| home.
Children's Day will be observed in
st. Marks Lutheran church on Sun
day morning at 10:45 o'clock. A pro-
gram has been arranged which will be
rendered by the children of the Sun
day school.
Rev. John L. Wolfe, district su-
perintendent of the NJ E. church, will
be present at the third quarterly con-
ference of the Oakland charge to be
held in st. PauPs church on Friday
evening at eight o'clock.
Mrs. o. P. Jones, of Kitzmiller, will
be at the home of Mrs. B. H. Sincell
in Oakland on Friday afternoon, June
16, at three o'clock, to speak on W.
C. T. U. work. All those interested
are requested to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Sharps and their
son Frederick motored to Baltimore
Tuesday where the son is receiving
treatment from DR.. Bennett, of the
University staff, for infantile paraly-
sis with which he has been afflicted
for some time.
Sunday evening at 7:45 o'clock in
the Lutheran church will be held a
union meeting of Sunday school teach
ers, assistants and others. Rev. F. F.
Leonard, of Baltimore, American BIZ
BILE Society and Maryland Bible So
ciety worker, will speak.
Mr.. and Mrs. John French and Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert O'Hare, of Bis
marck, N. Dakota, were guests Mon
day night at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. M. Falkenstein. The party
was en- route to Boston to attend the
Rotary International convention.
E. H. limbaugh returned to Ohio
Sunday evening, having been sum-
moned to his home here by the illness
of his son, who had been a patient in
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, and
who was brought to Oakland Sunday
afternoon from the institution some
what improved.
Lillian Miller and Carlton Sembow-
f err, sophomore students in the local
high school, were presented with
copies of "Wild Flowers of the Allie
! ghenies," by Mr.. Joseph E. Harmed,
the author, for having the best her.
bariums at the commencement exer-
cises of the high school last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert White and
Mrs. Harry Rasche, of Uniontown,
Pa, spent the weekend in Oakland
with friends. Mr.. White recently re-
turned to his home at Uniontown
from St. Petersburg, Florida, where
he had spent the winter for the bene-
fit of his health
Rev. and Mrs. Alvah K. Jones, Red
House, had as recent guests Mrs.
Katherine Meyers, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
lace Berkebile and daughter Jane, of
Hooversville, Pa; William and Clifton
Wane, of Akron, Ohio, and Mr.. and
Mrs. David K. Jones and daughter
Laura, of Kalamazoo, Mich.
DR.. George E. Clarke, until re-
Gently public health officer in this
county, after having spent several
weeks in Canada where he and Mrs.
Clarke were guests of friends, re-
turned to the county one day last
week and is a guest at the Casselman
Hotel there for short time.
Three trees on the farm of DR.. M.
C. Hinebaugh, northwest of Oakland,
were struck by lightning and COM
pletely demolished last Friday even
ing during an electrical storm. Strung
from one tree to another was wire
clothesline, which was a sure conduci
tor of the electricity and which was
the cause of the destruction of the:
trees. f.. ~.
Mr.. Joseph E. Harmed accompanied
a number of scientists and botanists
on an exploring expedition to the
GAINESVILLE community on last Friday
afternoon where the fora of the area
! was studied in it's natural habitat.