The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-09
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

Mr. Lloyd L. Dewitt, of near
Friendsville, was a visitor in Oak
land on Monday.
Gilead Broadwater, of Grantsville,
was a visitor in Oakland on Saturday
with his son DR.. N. 1. Broadwater.
Edgar Rounds, accompanied by his
sons Orville and Gerald, of the COM
munity of Swanton, were here on
Monday.
DR.. Henry W. McComas is in Bal
timore this week attending to his Of
fetal duties as member of the Mary
land Conservation Commission.
Dr.. and Mrs. W. w. Grant motored
to Annapolis Sunday and on Monday
were accompanied home by their son,
William, who is a student at st. Johns
College in Annapolis.
Among those receiving academic
degrees from Duke university on
Monday, June 6, were Thomas V.
Baucom, Oakland, M. A; Thomas A.
Gender, Jr., Oakland, M. D.
Henry Yommer, Grantsville commu-
ritv. and B. C. Kesner, of the Jen-
nings community, were business Wis
itors in the county seat Monday morn
ing. when both also visited The Re-
publican office.
Ezra B. Hanger, of Terra Alta, w.
Va. remembered by many of the older
residents of the county as school
teacher connected with the system in
Garrett county, was a business visitor
in Oakland on Friday.
An additional clerk will be placed on
dutv at the Mountain Lake Park post
office beginning July 1 to take care
Of the increased business there during
the summer months, it was announced
bv the postmaster yesterday.
Sunday at Clarksburg, W. Va,
there was a meeting of statesmen OF
the Ben Franklin League of Retail
Stores, and the forces of the three
stores of the j. W. Jackson company,
sixteen in number, attended.
Mrs. Roy H. Hamill, of Huntington,
West Va, is here as a guest OF Mrs.
M R. Hamill. Mrs Hamill is attending
the commencement exercises OF Oak
land High school, her son Richard
Hamill. being member of the senior
class.
Mrs. Charles S. Harvey, Miami,
Fla. arrived in Oakland on Tuesday
and continued on to Hoyes where she
will spend the summer with her SON
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas w. Enlow. Mrs. Harvey was
q former resident of Swanton.
Mr.. and Mrs Gerald Doren and son
have moved to Oakland from Baltl-
more and are now occupying the res
idence on South Third street recently
vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Nc
ROBBIE. Mr.. Doren has secured posi-
ton as a druggist in the Gender
Pharmacy. He is a native of South
Dakota.
Another meeting of the executive
board of the Deep Greek Lake Assocl-
alton has been called for Saturday
evening at o'clock at the Lake cabin
of Delbert Davis. At a meeting last
Saturday evening at the William
James hotel, the board discussed the
possibility of obtaining state and fed,
eral cooperation along the lake.
Recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs. II
C. Hostetler were Mr.. William North
Miss Beatrice Fernsner and Miss Rutf
Hostetler, Washington, D. c., Mr.. anc
Mrs. Fred Golightly and daughter
jeanne, Davis, w. Va, Mr.. and Mrs
Curtis Hostetler and family, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Allen Hostetler and daughter
Lois, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kelly, Mr.
Ed Cooper and Mrs. Martha Hunt, al
Of Jamestown, Pa.
Thomas Newton Shaffer ant
Charles Henry Shaffer, Jr., sons Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Shaffer, Of
Washington, D. c., and former resi-
dents of Garrett county near Rec
House, were among those who were
graduated from the University O.
Maryland on Saturday, June 4. Th'
former received his B. S. degree IL
mechanical engineering, and the lat
ter received his B. S. degree in dairy
science.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Thayer Jr.
entertained with a box supper fol
lowed by Five Hundred at their nome