The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-09-03
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

community, was a business caller at
The Republican office on Monday.
]. William Butt spent Sunday and
Monday in Clarksburg, w. Va, with
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Beere, of Bal
timore, are visiting the latter's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Rice.
Harland L. Jones has been confined
to his home this week on account of
illness, but is improved at this time.
Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Shilke, accom-
panied by Mrs. B. H. Sincell, motored
to Pittsburgh and return yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Morning, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, is here for visit with her aunt,
Mrs. John Menhorn, and other rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Bittle and chill
dren have returned to Oakland from a
visit of a few days with relatives in
Frederick county.
Miss Thomasene Little, of Morgan
town, w. Va, is spending this week
in Oakland visiting her aunt, Mrs.
Robert Helbig, and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Little and
family, of Morgantown, w. Va, spent
several days of the past week visit
ing relatives in and near Oakland.
Mrs. A. R. Raft, of Hagerstown,
Nd, returned to her home on Monday
after visit of several weeks with
her sister, Mrs. NJ. R. Hamill, Liberty
street.
Mrs. Robert o. Miller and little
daughter, of Chicago, ILL.,, who spent
the summer here with Mrs. Miller's
father, James Wilson, have returned
to their home.
Rev. and Mrs. E. Roy Hauser and
daughters returned to their home in
Clearfeld, Pa, today after having
spent a month vacationing at Noun
tain Lake Park.
Joseph Hinebaugh has taken over
the ownership of the B. & W. Garage
on Green street, formerly operated
by Howard White, who has moved to
the Mattingly cottage on Route PIG,
north of Oakland.
Members of the Butterfly club en-
tertained with a dinner Monday night
in honor of Mrs. Byron Besse, club
member, who has gone to. Philadelphia
to reside. The dinner was served at
the home of Mrs. Harry White, Oak
street.
Howard Rathbun, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. E. Rathbun, left Oakland on
Monday to do some medical work in
a department of Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, Baltimore, prior to resuming
his studies in the medical school there
late in September.
Announcements have been received
here of the marriage of Miss Louise
Hamill, of Huntington, West Va,
daughter of the late Roy Hamill and
Mrs. Fife Hamill, formerly of Oak
land, to Mr.. John Keith Farrar, OF
Huntington. The ceremony was per-
formed August Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Besse and two
sons, who have resided in their home
on Second street for the past several
years, moved this week to Philadel-
phia, Pa, where they will take up their
abode permanently. Their house will
be occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
C. Riggs, who are vacating the Whit
taker property, located adjoining.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Sweitzer and
sons Donald Sweitzer and Carl SWEET
ger, of Swanton, Mrs. Eliza Paugh and
Lester Paugh, Altamont, recently re-
turned from a ten-day trip to Plnewa,
Manitoba, Canada, where they visited
Mrs. Grace Strawser, sister to Mrs.
Sweitzer and Mrs. Paugh. The dis
lance travelled was over $500 miles.
DR.. Harriet B. Jones, of Wheeling,
West Va, arrived in Oakland Sunday
afternoon to remain indefinitely with
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Scott T. Jones,
and nephew and niece, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harland L. Jones, at their home on
Second street. DR.. Jones is just re-
covering from a serious illness with
which she was i'll several weeks.
Mrs. Ernest Townshend was hos
tess at dinner at her home on Water
street Friday, the honor guest being
Mrs. M. R. Hamill, whose seventy
eighth anniversary occurred that day.
Guests were the honoree, Mrs. A. r.
Raft, of Hagerstown; Mrs. T. c. Hine-
baugh, Miss Marion Leary and Miss