The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-02-13
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

HemDeIS VI IHe TeHSuln cIuD at her
home last Friday evening.
Mrs. Carrie ]. Dewitt, of near Deer
Park, in company with some neighbors,
visited Oakland on Saturday.
C. ]. Yoder and son William Yoder,
of near Grantsville, spent few hours
in Oakland on business Tuesday after
noon. r;
Miss Helen May is in Cumberland
this week staying with her brother,
Dewey May, who remains critically ill
in hospital there.
John Felty and son Lucien Felty, of
Rowlesburg, West Va, were here on
Saturday attending the funeral of the
late Mrs. Asa T. Matthews.
Charles E. Hoye, who has been in
Washington, D. c., for the past two
or three weeks, is expected to return
to Oakland the latter part of this
week.
Mrs. John T. Logsdon, Miss Annie
White, Farmer Watson, Howard
Stuck and Albert Frazee, all of New
burg, West Va, were guests of Miss
Kildow at her home on Mason street.
Mrs. J. L. Logsdon and a party of
friends from Newburg, West Va, were
guests on Sunday afternoon and ev-
ening of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F.
Hammond at their home on Second
street.
Harry l.. Miller, who recently pur-
chased residence property on Second
street in which extensive alterations
and repairs are just now completed,
will occupy with his sister, Mrs. Kate
German, of Cooksville, Ohio, who ar
rived here on Monday from her recent
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Bittner and
relative from Ohio, who had expected
to leave Oakland on Sunday of last
week for Miami, Florida, did not get
away until the following Friday morn
ing. A note from Mr.. Bittner received
Monday stated that he was then in
South Carolina and had fought snow
drifts from the time he left Oakland
until he reached Scotsboro, N. c.
Many people visited Oakland on Sat-
urday to do their shopping and thus re-
stock their larders, which in a num-
Der of instances were quite depleted
of some necessities. Saturday was the
first day they were enabled to reach
the highway, which had been kept open
by State trucks and snow plows, by
those living on side roads and withal
some were compelled to shovel their
way through from their homes to
points on the state road in order to
reach town.
Joseph Rembold, aged resident of
the Eglon community, who will cele-
;brate his ninety-first birthday on the
18th instant, accompanied by Willard
Feather, also of Eglon, paid Oakland
a business visit last Saturday and in
cidentally stopped at The Republican
office when Mr.. Rembold stated that
he had been a subscriber for The Re-
publican for more than fifty years.
Notwithstanding his advanced years
Mr.. Rembold is in possession of all his
faculties and is remarkably agile.
Notwithstanding the extremely cold
weather which has prevailed in this
community for several weeks past,
work on the interior of St. Paul's M.
E. church is being carried on. The plas-
tering of the several rooms on the
lower floor has been completed and it
is expected to begin the work of
flooring that section Of the structure
this week. A portion of the plastering
work in the auditorium is also COM
pleted, especially that part which will
house the pipe organ to be placed in
position this week. The church is ex-
pected to be completed by the end
of March when services in all depart
ments of the congregation will be
resumed in the new house of worship.
During the building operations the
3 Sunday school session and worship SER
vices have been held in the local high
school building.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Bell entertained
a large number of young people last
Friday evening at their home on
Liberty street in honor of the thir-
teenth birthday of their son James,
Jr. Those present included Miss Rosa
lie Click, Mrs. C. A. Shilke, Miss Mil
bred Smith, and the following: Jane
Gender, Eleanor Byrne Sincell, Mar
garet Williams, Barbara Meisenbaugh,
Roseanna White, Anice Haney, Leona
Dodge, .Leona Menke, Azolda Booming,
Frances Nine, Pauline Vansickle, Eve
Iyn Fike, Beryl Ramsey, Nancy Boil
don Mary Ann Dewitt, Mae Drum