The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-09-29
GORTNER

There will be church services next
Sunday morning and evening.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Welch,
on Sunday, son.
Mrs. Elwood Beckman spent last
week with Mrs. Ruhl, at Mountain
Lake Park.
Clara Liller and Betty Swartzen-
truber were guests on Sunday even
of Laura Alice Friend.
Harold White and Lee Beckman
have returned from a visit to Wash
ington, D. c.
Gerald Miller, Junior Lohr and Geo.
Lohr were in Webster Springs, West
Va, several days last week.
P. F. Breuninger and Darwin Ma
theny were visitors at the Joseph
Martin home on Sunday.
Misses Edith and Hazel Lee, Oak
land, spent Saturday and Sunday here
with their parents.
The Union Sewing Circle meets in
October at Mrs. Will Friends.
Misses Mary Martin and Hazel Lee
from Oakland, spent Wednesday ev-
ening here with Mrs. Albert Sisk.
On Sunday Jacob Swartzentruber
and family, Misses Mary Lichty and
Evelyn Friend planned to see the
largest white oak tree in the United
States, which is located in Mingo
county, West Va. The tree is nine feet
in diameter and 22O feet high. A man
from the redwood timber region in
California came to direct the cutting
of this king Of the forest which will be
preserved in a museum. However,
when the Swartzentruber party was
informed of the distance to Mingo
county they switched their objective
and visited the Elk Water National
Forest and Tygart Valley Homestead
instead.
Members of the Dodge family spent
Sunday with Willie Dodge in Nor
gantown. Kathlee and Leona Dodge
accompanied a number of University
students to Cooper's Rock, another of
West Virginia's beauty spots.
Mrs. Anna Bittinger, in company
with her brother, Harvey Gortner, is
homeward bound from their trip to
California. Mrs. Bittinger writes they
have been in sixteen states in fifteen
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Altman had as
their guests at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Swartzentruber at a
demonstration luncheon on Wednesday
evening Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph WEIGH,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sanders, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Spoerlein, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elwood Schlossnagle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Swartzentruber and son.
Members of the Spoerlein family at
tended the baccalaureate sermon for
the graduating class of the Nurses
school at Cumberland on Sunday ev-
ening. of which Dora Louise Spoerlein
was a member.
Mrs. Hattie Wamsley, of Keyser:
spent last week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Noah Slabach.
Mrs. Simon Swartzentruber is
i'll at this time.
Guy Sanders and his family spent
the weekend here with relatives.
Miss Lena Slabach and Sam Sla-
bach, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sisk re-
Gently visited Mrs. Harriet Beckman,
who is an invalid at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John Fulmer.
Miss Eleanor Friend was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Beeghley on
Sunday.
In honor Of Melvin and Jerry Yoder,
of Norfolk, Va, the following young
people spent Friday evening at Mr..
and Mrs. D. j. Swartzentruber's: Lucy
and Frieda Lichty, Matte Davis,
Amanda and Sarah Beachy, Irwin Yo-
der. Allen Petersheim, Paul Beachy,
Freeman Lichty, Claude, Fred. and
Lewis Swartzentruber. The visitors
left on Saturday for Grantsville, ac-
companied by Irwin Yoder and Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Yoder.
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