The Republican., 1938-11-03
LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Fike, High
street, were visiting in Petersburg, W.
Va, on Sunday.
Mrs. Leo Lyon and son, Clarksburg,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
Smith on Tuesday.
Mrs. ]. w. Butt entertained a party
of friends at three tables of finch at
her home on Liberty street last Thurs
day evening.
Grace Phelan, worlds amateur
champion typist, is demonstrating her
typewriting skill this morning in the
Oakland High school.
z. L. Otto, son of c. ]. Otto, of the
New Germany community, visited The
Republican office on a business mis-
sion Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Turney, Mrs.
Elizabeth Turney, Mrs. Alice Turney
and Herbert Turney are spending to-
day in Uniontown, Pa.
Mrs. Julius B. Littman attended the
twenty-ffth anniversary luncheon of
the Westernport-Luke Civic club, at
Westernport, last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Clayton, after
spending the summer at their Noun
tain Lake Park home, left there on
Tuesday, going by motor, to Orlando,
Florida, for the winter months.
Mrs. S. E. Wicker, of Wilmington,
Delaware, after being here Saturday
and Sunday with her mother, Mrs. NJ
VI. Ashby, returned to Wilmington on
Sunday night.
Members of the Owls Club, a fun
making group Of the younger married
men of the community, will be enter
tanned this evening at the home Of NJ.
and Mrs. Cecil Smith.
George Warwick left Oakland yes
terday evening for Cleveland, Ohio,
having been summoned to that city
on account of the extreme illness of
his brother, Truman Warwick.
In observance of Health day on
Saturday the girl SCOUTS of troop No.
2 will visit the Oakland Coca Cola
plant. This is the final day in the cele
bration of Girl Scout Week through
out the nation.
Mrs. Ralph E. Weber and Mrs. F. D.
Bittle are spending several days this
week in Hagerstown and parts OF
Frederick and Washington counties,
having gone to Hagerstown to witness
the huge mummers' parade there.
The Parent Teachers Association of
the Oakland Elementary school will
hold benefit card party in thhe school
building next Thursday evening, No
vember 10, beginning at eight o'clock.
The patronage of the upblic is solic
tied.
Thomas Hughes, of Terra Alta, W.
Va, has purchased from the heirs OF
the late Harry Helbig, the bungalow
type of house located on Route 219,
lust north of the town limits, and now
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Gra-
ser.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Thompson, Hol-
liday's Cove, and the formers mother,
Mrs. William Thompson, Of Hamlln,
Pa, were here over the weekend as
guests of Mrs. James Thompson's
mother, Mrs. Anna Smouse, and other
relatives.
Charles E. Hoye, secretary of the
Laymen's League of st. Matthew's
Episcopal church in Oakland, will ad-
dress members of the league tomor-
row evening at 7:30 o'clock at the
church rectory on the subject OF his
summer travels in Europe.
Rev. and Mrs. Loyal T. Riley and
their little daughter, of Evansville,
Indiana, in which city Rev. Riley IS
pastor of a Lutheran church, returned
to their home on Wednesday after haV-
ing visited with relatives in the coun-
ty for week or more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Stemple re-
turned to Oakland Tuesday from a
brief visit with their daughter, Miss
Annabel, in Washington, D. Z. Ihe
Stemples were accompanied to the
city by Mr.. and Mrs. R. R. Gilbert, OF
Elkins, former residents of Oakland.
Mrs. Paul McIntire, patient IN the
Home and Infrmary hospital, Baltl-
more, is reported as being in good
physical condition following major
operation which she underwent one
day last week. Mr.. McIntire went to
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