The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-07-25

! son, of SWanton, spent several hours
in Oakland on business Wednesday af-
| ternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Stup returned to
Oakland yesterday from Southern
Maryland points where they had been
| fishing several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Rathbun and son
Howard are vacationing in the White
Mountains of New England, having
left Oakland for points in that region
early Monday morning.
Miss Mary Flaherty, of Crellin, who
has been an invalid for several months,
was taken to Allegany Hospital, in
Cumberland, on Friday where she is
receiving medical treatment.
Misses Helen Peck and Martha Jane
Baird left Oakland on Tuesday for
Camp Riamo, near Pennington, Pa,
where they will remain for two weeks
in the girl scout camp there.
Harry c. Edwards, of Grantsville,
was in Oakland last Monday evening,
having accompanied Gideon J. Gnagey
to the countyseat where he participant
ed in the organization of the newly
formed Welfare Board for the county.
Mrs. H. c. Riggs motored to St.
Mary's, W. Va, on Saturday, return
ing with Mr.. Riggs mother, Mrs. E.
w. Riggs, who will spend two weeks
Or more in Oakland. Mr.. and Mrs.
j. A. Schauwecker, of st. Mary's, were
also guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Riggs
over the weekend.
L. O. Friend, Kitzmiller, and John
F. Burgess, of Cumberland, the lat
ter vice-president of the Maryland
State and District of Columbia FEEDER
alton of Labor, left Cumberland this
morning for Washington, D. c., to
attend the executive board meeting
OF the federation.
Howard P. Stuck has resigned his
position as clerk collector of the May
or and Town Council of Oakland. The
Council, in an advertisement appear
ing in The Republican today, is asking
for applications to fill the vacancy,
which is now temporarily filled by
Mrs. Hugh Teets.
Mrs. J. NJ. Crane, Long Beach, Cali
fornia, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
George A. Walls, motored to Oakland
from Kingwood, West Va, Tuesday
where they spent the evening with
friends. Mrs. Crane recently arrived
at Kingwood where she is transacting
some business matters.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Helbig, Mrs.
Lawrence Cummings and Miss Kenne-
dy, all of Richmond, Va, motored to
Oakland where they spent Saturday
with Mr.. Helbig's mother, Mrs. Harry
Helbig, all returning to Richmond on
Sunday excepting Mrs. Helbig, who
remains here a short time.
Margaret Rudy, Lois Sincell, Mamie
Treacy, Eleanor Sincell, Betsy Weber,
Bernice Sines, Nell Boadwater, Cath
crime Butt and Miriam O'Donnell re-
turned to their homes in Oakland last
Saturday from the girl scout camp
at Camp Riamo, near Pennington,
Pa, where they had spent two weeks.
Mrs. Philip Bowman and son Leroy,
of the Accident community, visited
in Oakland on Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Bowman reported that two rattle
snakes, each having eight rattles,
were recently killed on her farm.
This specias of snakes are not numer-
Gus in that section of the county.
Mrs. C. E. Goodwin and family, of
Moundsville, w. Va, visited Misses
Lottie and Grace Loar and Mr.. and
Mrs. S. H. Jackson this week. They at
tended memorial services for Rev.
Goodwin at Mountain Lake Park on
Monday evening. Rev. Goodwin died
recently at Clarksburg, w. Va, of a
heart attack.
Mrs. J. NJ. Stanton has returned to
her home in Oakland after an absence
Of several weeks, much of which time
she spent with her brother, Charles
E. Barlow, in Oklahoma City, Okla
homa, who was an invalid for sew
eral months and whose death resulted
from a cancerous infection on Mon
day, July Is, at St. Anthony's Hospi-
tai in Oklahoma City. He was unmar-
ried and was aged 49 years. He is sur
vived by two sisters, Mrs. Stanton and
Mrs. NJ. E. Dolan, of Handy, Texas,
and by two brothers, John Barlow,
Fort Worth, Texas, and Fred. Barlow,
of Okmulgee, Okla. Mrs Stanton also
visited her relatives in Texas before
returning to her home here, having
arrived in Oakland Monday evening.
Enroute home Mrs. Stanton stopped
for day or two at st. Mary's of the
Woods Indiana where her dauph+er