The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1934-12-06
Additional Local Items

Mrs. w. NJ. Baker, of the Grants
vile community, was in Oakland as a
business visitor on Monday.
]. W. Parks, Eglon, was in Oakland
this morning and called at The Re
publican office on business.
Miss Mary Frances Yutzy has re-
turned to her home in Oakland after
a month spent in Pittsburgh.
Mrs. F. D. Bittle entertained with
three tables of bridge at her home on
Seventh street Tuesday evening.
The William-James Hotel announ-
ces its annual holiday dance on We'd
nesday night, December 26th.
Mrs. James Heitz, Clarksburg, W.
Va; Mrs. Fred. Koch and their
mother, Mrs. Wade limbaugh, were
visitors in Oakland yesterday.
The members of the Gilbert-Brown
Boys Band have started practicing
for their annual concert which will be
held on some date near the first of the
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Besse and chill
dren and Mrs. D. M. Dixon spent from
Thursday until Sunday with Mr..
Bosses father, Samuel Besse, at Co.
lumbus, Ohio.
Mr.. M. R. Hamill, one of the oldest
residents of Oakland, who has been i'll
for several weeks, is somewhat i'm
proved this morning, but remains in
precarious condition.
The Mothers Club of the fifth
grade, elementary local school, will
hold a benefit party in the Grammar
school building this Thursday even
ing. Admission will be 25 cents.
Mr. and Mrs. C. ]. Morrow, of jack
son Heights, N. Y, returned to their
home this morning following a week
spent with relatives in Garrett county
and other sections in this immediate
community.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Turney and
two daughters, Mrs. Alice Turney and
D. w. Walter spent yesterday in Nor
gantown and witnessed the trades dis
play and the opening of the holiday
season in that community.
Miss Esther Lewis, member of the
second year vocational home econom-
ic class at the local high school, was
awarded a box of assorted cheese
spreads by the National Cheese con-
test committee for her cheese menus
recently submitted.
Judge D. Lindley Sloan, of Cumber-
land, motored to Oakland Monday to
hold the December Term of Court. A
few civil cases on the docket and pro-
ceedings in Equity cases were taken
up and disposed of in a short session.
Mrs. Sloan accompanied Judge Sloan
to Oakland who spent the day visiting
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Bishoff spent
the Thanksgiving holiday period with
relatives at Myersville. They were &C
companied home on their return by
Mrs. Thomas E. Bishoff, who had been
visiting her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Cow, at Col
lege Park, for the past two or three
weeks. YEN iS
DR.. Peck, the health officer, has re-
ceived $16.26 from the offering at the
Union Thanksgiving Day service in
Oakland, and $3.50 from the Union
Thanksgiving Day service in Loeb
Lynn, and he and his associates wish
to thank the public for this contribu-
ton, which will be used carefully for
poor children in the county.
Earl Shartzer, who has been a pa
tient at Memorial Hospital, Cumber-
land, for two or three weeks, under
went a major abdominal operation at
the hospital Monday morning. Yester-
day he was resting comfortably, but
the result of the operation cannot be
determined for two or three days, is
the report from his bedside this morn
irnr