The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-12-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Stanton Friend and
Mrs. Pearl Falkner, of Selbysport,
were in Oakland yesterday.
Mrs. D. NJ. Dixon entertained the
members of the Thimble Club at her
home on Monday afternoon.
Richard Stemple slipped on the icy
pavement on Sunday night and tore
some ligaments in his foot and is able
to get about only by the use of cane.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. zimmerman, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, are spending the win
ter months in Florida. Mr.. and Mrs.
zimmerman are former residents of
Crellin.
Irwin and Thomas Custer, of North
Glade, spent Tuesday in Oakland on
business connected with the estate of
their recently deceased father, the
late Richard Custer.
The local postoffice will remain open
all day Saturday in order to accommo-
date the public during the Christmas
season, it was announced this morning.
Usually the office is open only one-half
day on Saturday.
Messrs A. B. Cole, R. B. Clark,
and Claude Fields, emoute from Day
ton, Ohio, to Elkton, Va, and Char
lotte, N. c., spent Saturday night at
the home of the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Earl Fields, near town.
Loree F. McRobie, Philadelphia, an
instructor in an ammunition school for
the United States Marines, is visit
ing his mother, Mrs j. H. McRobie, for
several days, having arrived Sunday.
Mr.. McRobe has completed an enlist
ment of twelve years in the Marine
Corps and plans to re-enlist after jan
uary LIST,
Miss Helen limbaugh has accepted
a position with the West Maryland
Power Company and will assume her
duties Immediately after the first of
the year. She will occupy the position
of bookkeeper, now held by Mrs. Her
man Meyer, who recently announced
her marriage, and who plans to make
her home in Davis, West Va. Mrs.
Meyer will remain here for several
weeks to assist Miss limbaugh in be-
coming acquainted with her new du-
ties in the office.
Mrs. Catherine Shank, wife of Rus
sell Shank, Swanton, who has been in
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, for
two or three weeks, will undergo the
amputation of her left leg this morn
ing. A clot in the blood stream cut off
circulation, making the operation
necessary in order to preserve her
life, according to jefferson Ralston,
her brother, of Oakland, who was no
tofied yesterday of his sisters serious
condition. Mrs. Shank was bitten by
a spider last summer, which is said to
have started her illness.
Yesterday marked the twenty-first
birthday anniversary of triplets, sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve E. Ashby, of
Crellin. A photograph of the young
men was sent to an engraving concern
early in the week in the hope that
reproduction would appear in The Re
publican today, but up to the hour of
going to press the engraving had not
arrived. The triplets are Burton BaX-
ter, Lee Liggett and George Glenn. Lee
Liggett is the only one of the three
that is married.
The Christmas vacation at the State
Teachers College, Frostburg, will be-
gin on Friday, December 20, and
college will not reopen until Monday,
January 6. Garrett county students
who will return to their homes for
the holiday season are: Frieda Har-
man, Accident; Evelyn Hutson and
John Hutson, Kitzmiller; Helen Bar
nard, Bloomington; Margaret Blocher
and Ruth Keefe, Grantsville; Ethel
Mccullough, Friendsville; Helen CHS
holm, Gormania, W. Va; Ruth Ham
i'll and Frances Filsinger, Deer Park;
and Helen Schlossnagel, Oakland.