The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-10-13
LOCAL NEWS :.
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Sunday. t'..f ,....
James A. Reed, of near SwantOn,
visited The Republican office on, bus
mess Friday morning, .":'.'' 49,:
Mrs. Mary Stanton is in:Jasper, In
diana, where she is visiting her daugh-
ter, Bernadine, now Sister of a Cath
Ollie order.
The Everready Circle of st. Marks
Pastors Aid Society will meet Friday
evening, October IA, at the home Of
Mrs. Stanley Stahl, Oak street.
Mrs. Karl Kahl was hostess Tues
day evening to members of the. Young
Women's Missionary Society of the
Lutheran church.
Misses Elizabeth, May and Frances
Howard, Baltimore, have returned to
the city after having spent several
weeks at their summer home in Oak
land. &C.,. ,..... p.
Miss Thekla Fundenberg and Miss
Charlotte Johnston have returned to
Oakland from Charleroi. Pa, where
they had spent a week as guests Of
Rev. and Mrs. A. j. Torrey. -.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Schlossnagle, of
near Oakland, explored the Massanut-
ten Caverns, near Harrisonburg, Va,
while on a motor trip through the
Shenandoah Valley Of Virginia last
week.
Miss Emma D. Freeman, of Clarks-
burg, West Va, has been The guest of
Miss Daisy Harrison at Broad Oaks
for the past week. Miss Harrison will
close her home next week for the
winter. &....
DR.. A. B. Learner, pastor of St.
Marks Lutheran church, spent sew
eral days last week in Baltimore where
he attended sessions Of the General
Synod of the United Lutheran Church
in America.
Members of the Catholic Boy Scout
troop will be hosts at card and bingo
party at St. Peters Hall, Oakland, on
Tuesday evening, October Is, begin
ming at $50 o'clock. Admission will be
rs cents. A number of prizes will be
awarded.
DR.. Robert Learner, United States
Navy, now stationed at Philadelphia
since being transferred from the
West Coast, motored to Oakland on
Saturday and returning to Philadel-
phia Monday was accompanied by Mrs.
Learner and two children, who had
been here several weeks with DR.. A.
B. Learner at the Lutheran parsonage.
Mrs. Edwin Lancer and Miss Helen
Offutt entertained with two tables Of
bridge at the Mountain Lake Hotel
on Monday evening. Guests included
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Smouse, Mrs. Emroy Bolden, Mrs. G..
Bates Chaires, Mrs. Lawrence Fraley,
Mrs. Margaret McComas and Miss
Edith Bolden. Mrs. Thayer won high
honors.
Earl Fitzwater, son of Mr. and Mrs.
VIM. E. Fitzwater, Swanton, was
recently elected treasurer of the Ami
NAL and Dairy Industries Club of the
University of Maryland. The youth is
a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho
social fraternity, the Student, Grange
and the Future Farmers of America.
He is a senior in the College of Agri-
culture. u ra...
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced, COMPETE
tive examinations for positions of a
teacher in an Indian community, and
an agricultural extension agent. The
former is for Indian field service, in
Guiding Alaska. Further information
may be obtained from NJ. G. Crane at
the Oakland postoffice.,, - ~.
Yesterday, Wednesday, October II,
was observed as a legal holiday by
banking institutions throughout the
State and a few other business places,
it being known and observed as, Go
lumbus Day" The majority of places,
however, were open for business as
usual. The parochial school recessed
for the day, but the public schools
were open for study.
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Announcement was made Monday
of the death of Mrs. Ophelia Trippett,
which occurred at Tucsoa;' Arizona, on
Saturday. Mrs. Trippett was a sister
of the late Mrs. Scott T. Jones and is
well remembered by many Oakland
residents. Three weeks prior to her
demise Mrs. Trippett suffered fall
which resulted in the fracture of her
hip. She was aged "a years.
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