The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-05-28
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. G. Hesen and
family visited friends in Kingwood,
w. Va, on Sunday.
Mrs. Karl F. Kahl entertained with
three tables of bridge at her home
last evening.
Mr.. C. F. Kolb, Of the Accident
community, was a business caller at
The Republican Office on Saturday.
Miss Nell Compton returned to
Cumberland on Monday after having
spent ten days or more here with rel
atives and friends.
Mrs. C. E. Alkire and daughter Vir-
ginia May, of Davis, West Va, spent
several days here as guests of Mrs.
Arthur Naylor.
William j. Wright, accompanied by
C. H. Bill, both of Grantsville, motored
to Oakland on Friday where they
remained several hours transacting
business.
Howard Naylor, student at West
Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhan-
non, West Va, spent Tuesday evening
and Wednesday here with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Naylor.
Fred. Pritts, Westernport, Mrs.
Alice Warwick and Frederick Rounds,
of New Germany community, were in
Oakland yesterday on business when
they called at The Republican office.
Mrs. Ralph Weber will leave Oak
land on Friday for Bridgewater, Va,
and upon her return will be accom-
panied by her son Bond Weber, who
is a student at Bridgewater College.
Misses Dorothy Edwards and Mar
tina Hampstead, Messrs. Robert 7.
Hoffman and Percy Lawton motored to
New Market, Va, last Sunday and
visited the Endless Caverns, near that
city.
Lewis Jones, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. R. Jones, of Oakland, is one of the
graduates of West Virginia Wesleyan
College at Buckhannon. The commence
ment will be on Wednesday, June
third.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Guth and daugh-
ter Marie, Miss Mollie Pendergast and
Martin Pendergast, all of Grafton, w.
Va, were guests on Sunday Of Mrs.
Edward J. Pendergast at her home on
Alder street.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the local
Presbyterian church will conduct q
bake sale on Saturday afternoon, June
6, in the store of F. A. Smouse on
Second street. The patronage Of the
public is solicited.
Joseph F. Lewis, of GAINESVILLE COM
munity, accompanied by his daughter,
Mrs. Henry Eary, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Troy Wiley, also of the GAINESVILLE
section, were visitors in Oakland on
Friday afternoon.
At the Pleasant Valley Methodist
Episcopal church on Sunday there
will be church school at ten o'clock III
charge of Paul Friend, superinten-
dent, and the worship service at IL
o'clock with sermon by Rev. Gregory
Bleakly, pastor.
Miss Jewell Simpson, Assistant
State Superintendent of Education in
Maryland, accompanied by Mrs. AL
bert C. Cook, wife of Superintendent
Cook, were in Garrett county several
DAYS this week on a visitation to the
various high schools of the county.
Irwin Custer, of the Swanton COM
munity, and Thomas S. Custer, of
Accident, were here last Thursday on
business connected with the settle
ment of the estate of their father, the
late Richard Custer, whose death &C.
Cured several months ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl G. Degen and
family, Fairnont, W. Va, former
residents of Oakland, spent Sunday
here with friends. Mrs. Degen is re-
operating from fall down the steps
of her home recently in which she
sustained a broken shoulder.
Logan Weber, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Weber, of near town, holds the
distinction of being one of the few
honor students graduating from the
Maryland University at College Park
this year. He majored in floral cul-
ture, greenhouse management and in
landscape gardening.
o. T. eraser motored to Buckhan-
non, W. Va, on Saturday evening, re-
turning Sunday with Mrs. eraser, who
had spent several months there car