The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-07-01


Sarah Lee Mccoy, westernport, is
visiting at the home of her cousin,
Donna Jane Littman.
Charles R. yelling, Jr., of Cumber-
land, spent the first part of this week
in Oakland visiting relatives.
Mrs. E. H. Smouse is visiting rela-
tives in Wellsburg and Holidays Cove,
West Va, having gone there last Sun
day.
Orville Lantz, of the Aurora COM
munity, while in Oakland on Tuesday
called at The Republican office on
business.
Miss Margaret Kahl returned to
Cumberland yesterday after having
spent several days here at her home
north of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Nordeck have
moved to Kingwood, W. Va, where the
former will continue in the employ of
F. H. Field in the Half-Price store in
that town.
A card and bingo party will be
held in st. Peters church hall, Oak
land, on Thursday, July 8, for the
benefit of the church. The patronage of
the public is solicited.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Lancer and their
daughter were weekend visitors in
Annapolis to which city they were
summoned on account of the illness of
Mrs. Lanzer's brother.
Mrs. George H. Falkenstein returned
to Oakland on Monday from Fairmont,
West Va, in which city she had been
for ten days or more with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Denver C. Pickens.
The weekly rehearsal of the Garrett
County unit of the Mountain Choir
Festival will be held this week on Fri
day evening at the usual hour, in the
Lutheran church, instead of on Thurs
day evening.
Howard Smouse, Wellsburg, W. Va,
is here for visit with relatives. He
was accompanied to Oakland from
Holidays Cove, w. Va, by Edward
Smouse, who had spent a week there
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hazlett and
daughter, Miss Kathryn Hazlett, and
James Cummings, all of Wheeling, w.
Va, arrived here yesterday and are
occupying the Hazlett summer home
on Crook Crest.
DR.. E. I. Middaugh, dean of the De-
partment of English at Mercersburg
Academy, Mercersburg, Pa, was in
Oakland on Tuesday in the interest
of securing prospective students for the
school to be enrolled in the fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Homer Waner and
two children, of Elkins, W. Va, mo-
tored to Oakland on Sunday where
Mrs. Waner and children are remain
ing for a visit of several days with
her mother, Mrs. Sallie Wooddell.
Four Pontiac automobiles were sold
this week at the Shahan Garage in
Oakland, one Of them being a wedding
present from A. R. Martin to his
daughter, Mrs. A. Keefer Bucking-
ham, who was recently married.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul limbaugh and
daughter, of Sines, accompanied by
Mrs. Erwin Nine and daughter Fran
ces, of Oakland, motored to Grant
Town, W. Va, Sunday where they
spent the day with Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Nine and children.
Mrs. Emma Bowman, Accident, and
her daughter, Mrs. Frank Davis, of
Frostburg, were visitors in Oakland
yesterday. Mrs. Davis and her three
children, Mary, Betty and Franklin,
are spending few weeks with Mrs.
Bowman at her home.
Michael j. Lindsey, chief supervisor
of the State Tax Commission, was in
Oakland on Tuesday comforting with
the County Commissioners and a num-
Der of the local assessors in regard to
the reassessment of property now be-
ing conducted in the county.
Miss Rebecca Browning has success
fully completed her four months pro-
baton period in Jefferson Hospital,
Philadelphia, and is now enrolled as
a regular student nurse. Miss Brown
ing is a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cheston H. Browning, Alder street.
Mrs. Edward Leary and son Joe and
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Schwessinger and
daughter Dorothy, all of Baltimore,
were in Oakland from Friday until
Sunday, where they were guests of
Misses Marion and Elizabeth Leary
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Townshend.
They were accompanied home by Miss