The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-16

son are spending several days in
Washington, D. C.
Mr.. Fred Trickett is critically i'll
at his home near town, having con-
tracted pneumonia last Sunday even
ing.
A number of Rotarians and their
wives are planning to attend Ladies'
Night meeting at Elkins, W. Va, this
evening.
Mrs. Carl Stone, who spent a week
or more with relatives in Buckhannon,
West Va, returned to her home here
on Monday.
Mrs. A. M. Duckworth and son C. A.
Duckworth, Mrs. Howard Barnard and
son Paul Barnard, Bloomington, were
business visitors in Oakland today.
Announcement has been made that
the choir of West Virginia Wesleyan
College, Buckhannon, will appear in a
recital at the Methodist church in
Oakland on Friday evening, May l..
The Ladies' Aid of the Presbyter-
ian church will hold bake sale on
Saturday, April Is, in the F. A.
Smouse store. The patronage of the
public is solicited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Smouse and two
children, Ralph and Norma, spent
Easter Sunday with Mrs. Smouse's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Michael,
Norma remaining with her grand
parents for a week.
Members of the Beginners Glass Of
st. Marks Lutheran Sunday school
and their mothers were entertained
by the teacher of the class, Mrs. L.
Bush, in the Sunday school room of
the church Monday afternoon.
Mr.. Truman w. Casteel, chief judge
of the Orphans Court, suffered an
other slight stroke at his home north
of town on Tuesday evening. He was
said to be resting comfortably this
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry McComas, Jr.,
and their four children motored to
Phillipsburg, Pa, Saturday and re-
turned home Monday after spending
the interim in that city with Mrs. Nc
Comas' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
Johnston.
A meeting of the Parent Teachers
Association of the elementary school
will be held in the grammar school
building this evening. The association
is doing a splendid work and is plan
ming to improve and make attractive
the school property.
Mrs. E. I. West was in Cumberland
on Sunday where she visited Asa T.
Matthews and Mrs. Rose Hamill, both
of whom are patients in hospitals in
that city, Mr.. Matthews having been
under treatment in Cumberland for
the past two or three weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Smouse and son
and Mrs. Anna Smouse motored to
Holidays Cove, w. Va, Sunday where
Mrs. Anna Smouse remained to visit
with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. James E. Thompson. Others
of the party returned to Oakland Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Falkenstein re-
turned to their home yesterday even
ing from Myersville, where they had
spent several weeks with their son and
daughter and their families. They were
accompanied home by w. R. Falken-
stein, who returned to Myersville this
morning.
For thirty-two years past an in
valid and unable to move from his
chair, George Stahl, Oak street, ceie-
brated his seventy-third birthday on
Friday, the 10th inst. With all his af-
fiction, Mr.. Stahl has sunny dispo-
sition and happy smile for those who
call upon him.
Messrs. John II. Carter, Irwin R.
Rudy, Milburn w. Mann, Neil V. Lii
Ter, H. c. Riggs, George Hanst, Ar
thur Lawton, Herbert C. Leighton, and
Robert T. Hoffman attended Masonic
lodge meeting in Morgantown, w. Va,
last evening when the third degree
was exemplified.
George Little spent Tuesday in Key
ser, w. Va, where he was before a
medical examining board maintained
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company in the interest of their en-
ployes and those who have left the SER
vice after years of employment and
who are on a pension roll.
Rev. and Mrs. Samuel E. Wicker and
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Ashby came to Oakland
from Wilmington, Delaware, Friday
of last week. Mrs. Ashby will remain
at her home here during the summer.