The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-23

uef NeuleSudy evening.
Mrs. F. D. Bittle and two children
have been confined to their home this
week on account of illness.
In observance of Maryland Day, on
Saturday, March IS, the banks of Oak
land will be closed for business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Elias, Grants
vile, were guests of DR.. and Mrs. T.
E. Billiard in Oakland Saturday.
Miss Margaret Kahl returned to
Cumberland Tuesday after having Wis
tied at her home here a few days.
DeIbert Davis and E. Ray Jones
spent Tuesday and yesterday in Bal
timore and Annapolis on business.
Miss Lucille Browning, Washington,
D. c., is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Frank Browning, in Oakland.
Mrs Sara Belle Kimmell, who spent
the winter months in Leesburgh, Flor
ida, has returned to her home in Oak
land.
Mrs. Zella B. Shope, of Harneds-
vile, Pa, who was former resident
of Garrett county, spent yesterday in
Oakland
DR.. and Mrs. Cliff T. Berger are
now occupying their new home in the
Warwick Apartment house, corner AL
der and Seventh streets.
w. A. Johnson, NuWay Laundry
proprietor, left Oakland this morning
for New York City where he plans to
remain several days on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Crabbs and
Miss Anna Louise Sholl, of Hanover,
Pa, were guests of Mrs. Mary Freid-
niger and her daughter, Miss Dorothea
Freidinger, on Sunday.
Miss Helen Schlossnagle, teacher at
Swan Meadow school, has been quite
i'll during the week as the result of an
attack of influenza. Mrs. Marshall
Brown is teaching at Swan Meadow
during the illness of Miss Schlossna-
gle.
Mrs. W. B. Kelly, after returning
to her home in Oakland from Shady
side, Ohio, on Sunday, was recalled to
that place Tuesday on account of the
serious condition of her mother, Mrs.
Claude Huffman, who had suffered a
relapse.
Mrs. Frank A. Smouse returned to
Oakland Sunday from Battle Creek,
Mich, to which city she had accom-
panied Mr.. Smouse Two weeks prior
and who remains there receiving treat
ment at hospital. His conditions is
said to be improved.
Ogelvey Halsey and two sons, of
Pittsburgh, were visitors in Oak
land on Monday. Mr. Halsey was a
former resident of the Deep Greek
Lake section of the county and is well
remembered by many Oakland &C
quaintances as the "Girene" who won
the war;
Julius C. Renninger, Jr., returned to
Oakland last night from Washington
D. c., where he had been to attend the
funeral of a relative, the late William
L. Burkhart, whose death occurred on
Sunday. Mr.. Renninger's mother, Mrs
]. C. Renninger, who went to Washing
ton two weeks ago, remains in that
city with Mrs. Burkhart for an indefi-
mite period.
o. T. eraser has purchased plot
of ground fronting on Second street
from Mrs. Lewis Gortner and expects
to begin Immediately to erect two
story stone dwelling. The lot is situ-
ated between the Gortner home and
that of DR.. w. w. Grant. The dwelling
now occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. eraser
on Route 219 was purchased last fall
by Thomas Hughes, of Terra Alta, w
Va, from the Helbig estate, and plans
to occupy the property within short
time. ,-
Mrs. Anna F. Booming, for the past
eight months guest of her son anC
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolf
Booming, in Oakland, sailed Tuesday
from New York City on the Europa
for her home in Magdeberg, Germany
Mrs. Booming was accompanied tt
New York by her son and grand
daughter, Miss Isolde Booming. A few
days prior to Mrs. Boening's departure
party of women of the Lutheran
church and number of other friends
rendered her a shower at the Booming
home.
Mrs. Thomas E. Bishoff was elected
State President of the Woodmen Cir
o1o Of +ho State convention held in Ra1