The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-09-16
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST


in and near Uniontown, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright Thayer spent
Sunday in Cumberland as guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Rightmyer.
W. ]. White, accompanied by his
nephew, Murray White, both of near
Gormania, were business visitors in
Oakland Saturday. g..
Miss Ida Martin, after a visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Martin, south of Oakland, returned to
Baltimore on Sunday.
Richard Hamill, of Huntington, w.
Va, has returned to Oakland to re-
enter the local high school as a stu
dent during the present term,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Townshend Naylor
entertained about thirty guests at a
corn roast at their cottage on Deep
Creek Lake last Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Naylor and
sons, Allen and Howard, motored to
Buckhannon, w. Va, on Sunday where
the latter re-entered school there for
the ensuing term.
Milton Miller, treasurer of the Mu-
tual Telephone Company, Grantsville,
was business visitor in Oakland on
Friday afternoon when he called at
The Republican office.
Banks of Oakland were closed on
Monday in observance of Old Defend
ers' Day. The day, September ~, fell
on Sunday this year, and consequently
was observed on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Parsons, of Bea-
yer, Pa; John Hooking and Miss Lulu
Hooking, of Meyersdale, Pa, spent
few hours in Oakland with Mr.. and
Mrs. W. A. Sturgiss on Monday. The
party was enroute to Winchester, Va,
for weeks vacation.
j. w. Jackson, of the local ]. w.
Jackson & Co. store, is spending much
of his time at Romney, West Va, this
week, where he is opening a branch
store to handle the same lines of
goods as those carried in the Oakland
and Homecoming stores.
Mrs. George Hill and two sons, of
Tioga, West Va, are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Hanst this week. Mrs.
Hill, formerly Miss Jane Seabright, of
Wheeling, West Va, conducted camp
for the Oakland Girl Scouts at Deep
Creek Lake several years ago.
Walter E. Dawson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter w. Dawson, who recently
returned home from a summer course
at Buckhannon, w. Va, left here on
Monday for a short visit with friends
in Moundsville. Later this week he will
motor to Pittsburgh where he will en-
ter school and take a courses in
commercial advertising.
Judge George Stewart Brown and
family have left their summer home,
"Wee Log" at Altamont until next
summer and have returned to Brook
Ign, New York. Judge Browns prop
erty, consisting of 235 acres on Back
bone mountain, has recently been es-
tablished as State game refuge by
E. Lee LeCompte, State game warden,
and Richard Browning, district war;
den.
Misses Jean and Midi Hauser,
daughters of Rev. and Mrs. E. Roy
Hauser, of Clearield, Pa, after spend
ing a few days in the county with rel
atives, returned to their home on
Friday. Rev. and Mrs. Hauser had to
forego their annual visit to Garrett
county this year because of business
requiring Rev. Hauser's presence, as
president of the Lutheran Synod of
Pennsylvania.
C. E. Sharps has received a Seth
Thomas clock from ]. j. Schumann,
Jr., president of the General Motors
Acceptance Corporation, in apprecia-
ton of cordial relationship with
that concern since 1927. Nh. Sharps
is the third oldest dealer in the Union
town district comprising $50 dealers
in Chevrolet automobiles. There were
seven clocks presented among the $50
dealers in this territory.
Teachers of Garrett county will
again this year, as in former years,
have an opportunity to get college in
struction without the expense of going
to college. Western Maryland College
is continuing it's extension work with
Robert T. Kerlin as instructor. 1t is
offering the teachers of the county a
choice of subjects and centers at its
organization meeting this afternoon
at five o'clock in the elementary school
building in Oakland.