The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-07-23
GORTNER

Church services next Sunday morn
ing to be conducted by the Brethren.
Sessions of the vacation Bible school
were begun in the Union church here
on Monday morning with 100 pupils
in attendance. Laban Swartzentruber,
superintendent of the West Liberty
(Ohio) Orphans Home, is principal of
the school. Teachers are Misses Lena
Stoltzfus, Dorothy Detwiler, Marjorie
Yoder and Christina Smueker, of West
Liberty; Carrie Spory, Fannie Thomas
and Mabel Fash, of Jamestown, Pa;
Hazel Bennett, of Cumberland, and
Mary Lichty.
Paul WEIGH, w. E. Spoerlein and
Roy burst are operating trucks and
BUSES for the benefit of the pupils
from neighboring communities.
Miss Amelia Yoder returned home
one evening last week from a trip to
Lancaster and Hershey, Pa, to which
cities she had accompanied Miss Bar
bara Hershberger, Ray, Norman, Noah
and Sarah Yoder, of Grantsville.
Asa Kitzmiller took his son Edgel
to Cumberland Monday for a tonsil
operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Fike and DeEbert
Bolyard spent Sunday at Erwin, W.
Va. Mr.. Bolyard is employed by Noah
Lichty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Lape and Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Lape and family, of
Texas, arrived here Sunday evening
to be guests of Mrs. Ohio Friend, a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lape.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sisk, Misses
Dorothy Detwiler, Lena Slabach and
Lena Stoltzfus and Samuel Slabach
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Paugh at Bethlehem on Sunday.
Margaret Jane and Louise Gortner,
of Grantsville, are spending this week
with their aunt, Mrs. Anna Bittinger.
Simon Burkholder and family visited
Mrs. Burkholder's sister at Swallow
Falls on Sunday.
Misses Dora Louise Spoerlein and
Mabel Schlossnagle left on Tuesday
to visit their uncle, Randall Spoer-
lein, at New Windsor, Nd. They will
also visit at Middletown before return
ing home.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. C. WEIGH visited
friends in Fellowsville on Sunday.
Miss Lena Slabach and Sam Slabach
attended the funeral of a cousin, the
late Amos Rembold, who was killed
by car at his home in Keyser. The
funeral services were held at Gnegy
church on Tuesday.
The colored camp meeting at Peters,
burg, w. Va, this year will be held
July 26-August 2. This item will be of
interest to those of this community
who attended last year.
Leroy White and family were guests
on Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Swartzentruber
James Deem, Miss Twila Raines and
Melvin Raines, of Ohio; Roy Lee and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralpr Deem and
sons, Miss June Murphy and others
of the community spent Monday even
ing at Blacllwater Falls.
Mrs. Joseph Martin is spending sew
eral days at Altamont with her broth
err, Henry Schmidt and family.
Miss Mildred Deem and her father
are employed at the home of Hurley
Miller at Mason.
Junior Deem, Davis, visited rela-
tives here on Monday.
Mrs. Walter Wheeler, Baltimore;
Mrs. Charles Bosley, of Cumberland;
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur White and sons
Warren and Edward, of Baltimore,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Swartzentruber on Saturday.
Dale Pace, of Thomas, is attending
Bible school here and is the guest of
Gerald Biser.
Misses Hazel Bennett and Mabel
Fash left here Tuesday afternoon for
New York to see some missionary
friends sail for Africa. The girls have
secured Mrs. Wertz and Miss Theresa
Bennett, of Cumberland, to teach their
Bible classes during their absence
from the school.