The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-02-17
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

a guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Fike.
David Martin, of Willard, Ohio, Wis
tied Oakland relatives and friends for
several days this week.
Miss Nell Nethken and Miss Mary
Speicher motored to Baltimore this
morning to remain a few days with
friends.
Mrs. Paul Frazee, of Holsopple, Pa,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
R. Harry West, and other relatives
here for a week or more.
Miss Mary Louise Helbig was hos
tess at her home on Tuesday evening,
her guests being members of her
bridge club and few other friends.
Ronald McIntire and family return
ed home Sunday afternoon from
Washington where they had been Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. C. N. McIntire.
The fifth number of the current vol
ume Of The Acorn, Oakland Highs
monthly publication, was placed in
circulation on Tuesday by the spon-
sors of the paper.
Mrs. Grace M. Sprague, a former
Oakland resident, who has been resid-
ing at Lyons, Col, moved last week
to Prcelleville, Va, where she will
live with her son, Howard Sprague.
Mrs. Anna Smouse is visiting at the
homes of her son, Oliver Smouse, at
Wellsburg, and daughter, Mrs. James
Thompson, at Holidays Cove, West
Va, having gone there one day last
week.
Robert E. Browning, Oakland, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cheston H. Browning,
was chosen a member of the Class Day
committee of the senior class at Mer-
cersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa,
this week.
C. N. McIntire was painfully hurt
Monday evening when the second
finger of his left hand became caught
in a garage door at his Washington
home and severely crushed, resulting
in four fractures of the bones of that
member.
Planning to be absent for a month,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Teets and their son
Creigh Teets, who were accompanied
by Robert T. Hoffman, left Oakland
yesterday morning for points in Flor
ida, expecting to visit all of the i'm
portant points in that State before
their return.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Turney and chill
dren and Mrs. Abraham Lawton mo-
tored to Baltimore on Saturday. Mr..
Turney returned to Oakland Monday.
Mrs. Lawton and Mrs. Turney are re-
manning in the city for week visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. James Martin.
The NcVeigh Holy Cross club will
hold a card and bingo party in st.
Peters SHOOT hall, Oak street, on
Tuesday evening, February %, for the
benefit of the church. There will be
prizes and a cafeteria. Admission will
be 25 cents. The public is invited.
Rev. George F. Packard returned
Tuesday from Irvington, N. j., where
he officiated at the wedding of his
brother, Champlain Smith Packard,
on Saturday. Enroute to his home
he attended a meeting of the clergy
of the Episcopal church in Baltimore
on Monday.
Messrs. Charles Reckard and Roy
O. Winters went to Charleston, w.
Va. ,one day recently and on Tuesday
brought the household furnishings of
the Rev. Dr. A. B. Learner, recently
elected pastor of St. Marks Lutheran
church, who will occupy the parson-
age upon MS dIIlNd4 mere ills "SSh'
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert c. Leighton
entertained with dinner followed by
five hundred at their home on Oak
street, on the evening of st. Valen-
tines Day, Monday, February IA.
Seven tables were in play and high
honors were won by Mr.. and Mrs.
julius Littman and Mrs. Carl Stone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Stahl won the
consolation award
Merritt Wilson, ST., Elkins, West
Va, former Garrett county resident,
sustained loss Of at least $4,000 by
fire which destroyed the third floor
and roof of his residence, Pine Crest,
fifty-year old estate. The house was
built about the year 1890 by K. Z.
Kerens, former ambassador to Aus
tria, at cost Of approximately $780,
900, and which was purchased by Mr.
Wilson a number of years ago.