The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-02-11

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Mrs. F. D. Bittle entertained a num-
Der of friends at cards at her home
last Saturday evening.
Mr.. Kenneth Stahl, Frostburg, was
weekend guest of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Floyd Stahl, South Third
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Thayer enter
tanned with bridge last Saturday ev-
ening at their home on Route PIG, ad-
jacent to Oakland.
County Commissioner Blaine Cess
man is confined to his bed as the re-
suit of an attack of illness which he
suffered in recent days.
Charles R. yelling is slowly recov-
ering from an illness which has con-
fined him to his home on Oak street
for the past three weeks.
o. W. Gilpin, of Cumberland, en-
gineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, spent several hours in Oakland
Saturday on business mission.
The Dorcas Circle of St. Marks
Pastors Aid Society, will meet this
evening Thursday at the home of
Miss Floss Shaffer, Pennington street.
Approximately two hundred per-
sons were served at the Brotherhood
turkey supper last Thursday evening
in the basement of the Lutheran
church.
The February meeting of the Luth-
eran Brotherhood will be held next
Tuesday evening at 1880 in the Sun
day school room. A Lenten program
has been worked out.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Sprague,
Purcellville, Va, former Oakland res
idents where Mr.. Sprague was mana
ger of the local creamery, were visit
ing friends here over the weekend.
Laura Susan Butt will lead St.
Marks Luther League Sunday even
ing at $3.50 o'clock. Prof. M. A. Roselle,
teacher of physical education in the
local high school, will be the speaker.
Miss Ethelrae yelling, who has
been student nurse in Mercy Hospi-
tai, Baltimore, for the past several
months, returned to her home here
yesterday.
St. Valentines Day will be observed
next Monday, February IA, particu-
larly among the young people, when a
of greetings will be distrib-
uted. Some will be sentimental; some
will not.
Rev. C. A. Shilke will preach the
first sermon of special Lenten series
Sunday morning at 10:45 in the Luth-
eran church, the subject being "The
Man on the Cross; do you know Him ?"
In the evening at 1880 he will speak
on "Questions Jesus answered: Who
art Thou?"
Eli Petersheim, Millersburg, O.; Mr..
and Mrs. Moses Petersheim, near
Wilmot, O., and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Wiles, of near New Bedford, Ohio,
were called here by the death of the
formers father, Jonas C. Petersheim,
whose funeral was conducted Mon
day afternoon at Gortner.
Robert Lawton has returned from
St. Louis, Mo-, to which city he went
last week to take a short course in
shoe fitting. The trip was made by au-
tomobile and was made difficult by
flood conditions along the Ohio River.
1t required more than five hours for
the conveyance to get through the
city of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Karl F. Kahl entertained at
bridge at her home on Tuesday after
noon, the guests being Mrs. F. D. Bit
tie, Mrs. George H. Hanst, Mrs. STAN
ley Stahl, Mrs. Herbert C. Leighton,
Mrs. Frederick Thayer, Mrs. Julius
Littman, Mrs. Erwin Smith, Mrs. D.
r. Sincell, Mrs. Harold Dawson, Mrs.
Cecil Smith, Mrs. w. H. Teets and
Mrs. Nelson Krause. Mrs. Teets was
the prize for high score and
Mrs. Cecil Smith the consolation prize.