The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-09-03

va, spent a week here as a guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. J. William Butt.
Mrs. Helen Archer, of Chicago, ILL.,,
is visiting at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Little.
Harry Bowman, of Cumberland, is
spending two weeks in Mountain Lake
Park and Oakland with relatives.
w. H. Smouse, A. R. Martin and F.
A. Smouse are attending a livestock
sale at Bridgeport, West Va, near
Clarksburg, today.
Mrs. D. S. Graeff, Miss Bertha
Harm, of Hershey, Pa, and Mrs. ].
E. Senft, of Columbia, Pa, were
week end guests of their brother-in-
law and sister, Rev. and Mrs. C. A.
Shilke.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster D. Bittle and
family are visiting relatives in Fred
erick county this week. Miss Hilda
Bittle, who had been their guest for
several weeks, returned to Middle
town with them.
The County Board of Education is
holding a meeting today in the Office
of the county superintendent, F. E.
Rathbun. Several appointments of
teachers are to be made and other
business transacted.
The second donkey baseball game,
played last Thursday evening between
members of the Rotary club and Fire
ended in a scoreless tie.
The first game between these two
teams ended l to l.
On Sunday, September 6, at Pleas
ant Valley Methodist Episcopal church
there will be the church school at 10
a. M, Paul Friend, superintendent; at
II o'clock the pastor, Rev. G. Bleak
ly, will deliver a gospel message.
Mrs. w. Day Mullinix returned to
her home in Silver Spring, Nd, Sun
day, after having spent week or
two with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. V. Leighton, and other relatives
in Loeb Lynn Heights.
Mr.. G. J. Altstetter, who has been
stationed at the Green Ridge CCC
camp as an engineer, is to be trans
ferred to another camp at the Pretty
boy Dam, near Baltimore. Mr.. Alt
stetter spent the weekend here with
his family.
Mrs. A. F. Fenner, Columbus, Ohio,
director of the Light Brigade of the
Lutheran church, who is making
visit to Lutheran churches of this sec
ton, will be in st. Marks church this
evening at 1880, and will deliver an
address concerning missions.
Two rooms on the second floor of
the Garrett National building are be-
ing remodeled and reprinted, and,
when completed, will contain the law
offices of julius C. Renninger, Jr.,
who recently passed the State Bar
examination and who expects to prac-
tice here.
Miss Kate Bannatyne, public school
in the northern district of
the county, was here Monday and
Tuesday assisting in preparing liter
ature for the use of teachers when they
meet in Oakland next week prior to
the opening of the schools in the coun-
ty. Miss Bannatyne was being assisted
in her work by Mrs. Caroline w. Will
son, of Kitzmiller, who was recently
grade supervisor for the
southern district of the county.
Rev. Maness, pastor of the Corinth
Methodist Episcopal church, is inau-
gurating a plan whereby he hopes to
secure sufficient funds to discharge
a debt which has been resting on the
parsonage at Corinth for some years.
The plan is to sell shares of stock in
sums running from one cent to three
dollars, certificates for which will be
delivered to buyers upon payment of
amounts subscribed. There will be
four hundred shares disposed of by
Rev. Maness.
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Ham and
Julia Belle, of Frederick,
were dinner guests of Rev. and Mrs.
C. A. Shilke Tuesday enroute to their
home from Fairmont, W. Va, where
they had visited their son, Rev. Har-
old Ham. They were accompanied
by Audrey Bowen, native of India,
who is visiting a number of his
friends before sailing September 20,
for his native country where he is to
be an educational missionary for the
Lutheran church.
st. Peters School Will Reopen
On Tuesday, September s