The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-02-11
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

1
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Riggs were visi-
tors in Morgantown, on Sunday.
Mr.. Edwin Horchler, of Cumberland
was a guest of julius C. Renninger, Jr.,
on Sunday.
William R. Browning spent several
days this week in Baltimore where he
visited friends.
James Wilson, GrantsvilIe, spent a
few hours in Oakland on business last
Friday afternoon.
Max Nordeck, student at Frostburg
State Teachers College, spent the
weekend at his home in Oakland.
Miss Bertha Sauerwald was hostess
to members of her bridge club at her
home on Oak street Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benny Burch, of Wash
ington, D. c., accompanied by Miss
Lillian Goodwin, were guests of Roger
N troney on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Townshend Naylor
announce the birth of a daughter at
Memorial hospital, Cumberland, on
Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Harland L. Jones left Oakland
on Tuesday evening for Chambersburg,
Pa, to visit her sister, Mrs. w. o.
Zacharias, for several days.
Howard Naylor and Walter E. Daw-
son, students in West Virginia Wes-
leyan college, Buckhannon, spent the
weekend at their homes here.
A reading and book exchange group
under the auspices of the Educational
department of the Oakland Civic club,
will meet next Tuesday, February 16,
at the home of Mrs. Harold Harmed.
Anyone interested is invited to attend.
Mrs. Harold H. Harmed will return
Friday from Frostburg and Cumber-
land where she has been on business
for two days. AS deputy lecturer, she
paid an official visit to the Frostburg
Eastern Star chapter on Wednesday
evening.
Members of the Everready Circle
of the Pastors Aid Society of ST..
Marks Lutheran church will meet to-
morrow friday evening at the home
of Mrs. James Bell instead of at the
residence of Mrs. Blaine Giessman,
on account of illness in the Giessman
home.
The Ladies' Guild of St. Matthew's
Episcopal church will conduct series
Of food sales each Friday afternoon
during Lent, in Condos Pharmacy,
from to 5 o'clock. They will specialize
in homemade bread, rolls, nut bread,
coffee cake, doughnuts, cinnamon buns
and cookies.
Members of the Oakland Girl Scout
troop under Mrs. Nelson Krause,
captain, held dance at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hanst last Fri
day evening. About twenty couples
attended. Chaperones included Mr..
and Mrs. Krause, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald R. Sincell.
Members of Mountain Chapter, No.
Is, Order of the Eastern Star, Frost
burg, honored Mrs. Harold H. Harmed
at reception held yesterday evening
at the Masonic Temple in Frostburg.
Mrs. Harmed is deputy grand lecturer
of the Grand Chapter of Maryland.
The program presented included a
military dance, violin solo, piano solo,
and a speciality dance. Refreshments
were served by members of the or
ganizaJion.
On February 23rd the ladies of the
Blessed Virgin Sodality will hold a
card and bingo party in the Parish
Hall. The proceeds will be used to de-
fray the expense of reconditioning the
brick work on the school building. New
card tables and chairs have been pur-
chased for the occasion. Those in
charge are Mrs. Lucy Browning, Mrs.
Rose sFrazee, Mrs. A. Lawton, Mrs. A.
G. Hesen, Miss Elizabeth Faherty and
Miss Zaidee Browning.
Mr.. Howard Severe, who is attached
to CCC Potomac Camp in this county,
was the guest speaker at st. PauPs
Methodist Episcopal church last Sum
day night. Mr.. Severe is a lay preacher,
having served as assistant pastor of a
circuit on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land, and later as supply preacher of a
Southern Methodist church in Wash
ington, D. C. He was employed by the
State Roads Commission before his
present employment with the Depart
ment of Forestry.
Mrs. Harold H. Harmed entertained
at her home last Friday evening with