The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-02-24
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

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business Tuesday morning.
The Scout Troop committee of Oak
land Troop No. l will meet this
evening in the Masonic clubroom.
Mrs. J. D. Darby and Miss Grace
Jones spent last Thursday and Friday
in Cumberland.
Mrs. Oscar limbaugh, Terra Alta,
West Va, visited her sister, Miss Ber-
tie Cleveland, in Oakland, on Satur-
day and Sunday.
Arthur Townshend, Jr., of Phila-
delphia, Pa, was a weekend guest
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Townshend, on Alder street.
Mrs. Harold H. Harmed and daugh-
ter, Louise, returned home Monday
from a visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Davis at Plainfeld, New Jersey.
Miss Nell Nethken and Miss Mary
Speicher returned to Oakland Sunday
evening from a few days visit with
friends and reltives in Baltimore.
James R. VanCleve, father of the
late Mrs. C. Milton Sincell, is here for
a visit with his son-in-law, having
come to Oakland Saturday evening.
Rev. George NJ. Kunkle, pastor of
the Accident Lutheran pastorate, was
in Oakland on Monday attending a
meeting of the Mountain Top Minis
ters' Association.
Members of the Ladies' Aid Society
of the U. B. church, Loeb Lynn, will
conduct a bake sale in Harvey &
Ream's store on Saturday, February
26, beginning at ten o'clock.
Among a number of business callers
at The Republican office on Monday
were Messrs. Herbert Pope and Am
brose Fazenbaker, Of near Frostburg,
but residents of Garrett county.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Newman mo-
tored to Parkersburg Saturday where
they visited Mr.. Newman's mother,
Mrs. Grace Newman, until Sunday af-
ternoon, when they returned to Oak
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Hardesty and
son left Oakland Saturday for visit
in st. Petersburg, Florida, and other
points in that State, planning to be
absent from Oakland for about three
weeks.
Delegations of citizens and taXpay-
ers from Swanton, Bittinger and the
Grantsville communities besieged the
County Commissioners at their meet
ing on Monday asking for road re-
pairs in their several sections.
Linn Grant, II years old, son of DR..
and Mrs. W. w. Grant, was hurriedly
taken to Memorial Hospital, Cumber-
land, yesterday morning following a
sudden attack of illness and yesterday
afternoon was operated upon for APP
pendicitis. His condition this morning
is said to be satisfactory.
Mrs. John o. Thayer, following a
visit of some time with her son-in-law
and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. D. M.
Funk, at Newport, Kentucky, returned
to her home in Oakland on Saturday.
Mrs. Thayer has almost entirely re-
covered from an injury which she suf-
fered some time ago when she fell and
broke her arm.
Paul Turney, of the local postotfice
force, and Abraham Lawton, of Oak
land. motored to Baltimore Saturday
afternoon, returning here Sunday ev-
ening. accompanied by Mrs. Turney
and two children and Mrs. Abraham
Lawton, who had spent a week in Bal
timore with Mr.. and Mrs. James b.
Martin and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. j. Altstetter, OF
Cumberland, spent Sunday in Oakland
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Townshend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Altstetter were accom-
panied to Oakland by Mr. and Mrs,
Singleton Townshend, the former now
recovering from an illness Of some du-
ration, who returned with the party
to Cumberland Sunday evening.
Hopwood Kildow, U. S. Marines,
who has served in that branch OF the
armed forces for more than twenty
wears, came to his home in Oakland
from the West Coast for brief visit
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Kildow, leaving on Sunday nigh
for Quantico, Va, from which base h
will be assigned for service in anothe
part of the world.