The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-16
LOCAL NEWS
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Tuesday.
Charles A. Steyer, of the Deer Park
community, was business caller IN
Oakland yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard C. Riggs were
visiting in Baltimore and Washing
ton Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mrs. Virgil Kelley has been sum-
moned to her home in Shadyside, O..
due to the illness of her mother.
Miss Jean Gender visited in Wash
ington Saturday and Sunday, return
ing to Oakland Monday morning.
Mrs. j. NJ. Bright, Jr., Keyser, W.
Va, is a guest Of her aunt, Miss Ber-
tina Wolfe, on Oak street, for several
days.
Miss Mary Louise Helbig was hos
tess to members of her bridge club at
her home on South Third street Mon
day evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles A. Shilke, of
near Somerset, Pa, were guests Mon
day and Tuesday of Mrs. Louis Bush
and her daughter, Miss Ora Bush.
On Thursday, March 16, the Indian
patrol of the Girl Scout troop, No. 2,
will entertain the other patrols with a
program at the Girl Scout hall. Other
patrols will serve refreshments.
Members of st. Peters Parish are
serving benefit roast pork supper in
st. Peters Hall, Oakland, this even
ing, from five until seven o'clock. The
patronage of the public is solicited.
Mrs. Asa T. Matthews returned to
her home in Oakland Tuesday from
Cumberland, where she had under
gone an operation in Memorial Hos
pital.
C. D. Mcintyre, of Shallmar; VIII
liam Zinkan, of the Accident commun-
ity; Leslie Rodeheaver and B. F. Saw
age, Friendsville,w among business
callers at The Republican office last
Saturday.
Members of the Ladies' Guild of st.
Matthew's Episcopal church are spon-
soring a Lenten food sale on Friday
afternoon, March II, from two until
five o'clock, in the Gender Pharmacy,
Second street.
Henry Tarring, Jr., WPA resident
engineer for Garrett and Allegany
counties, returned to Cumberland on
Monday morning after having been
here supervising some work Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Frances Keller, of Grantsville,
accompanied Captain and Mrs. Macon
G. Williams, of Cumberland, and their
guest, Mrs. Taylor, of Charlotte, S.
c., to Oakland, last Thursday, where
they spent the day with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Horchler, of the
Grantsville community, visited Oak
land on Tuesday. Mr.. Horchler is one
of the leading maple syrup and sugar
producers of the county, having quite
a large acreage in his sugar orchard.
Richard Gender, student at Duke
University, Durham, N. c., is here
spending several days with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Con-
der. A brief recess between quarter
terms of study permitted the visit of
the student to his home.
Among those who attended the con-
vention of the women's auxiliary of
the Woodmen of the World from this
section of Garrett county held in the
city of Baltimore Monday and Tues
day We're Mrs. Spencer Graham, of
Crellin; Mrs. Thomas E. Bishoff, Of
Oakland; Mrs. E. E. Sollars and Miss
Thrasher, of Deer Park.
Frank A. Smouse, who went to Bat
tie Creek, Mich, recently for treat
ment, submitted to an operation there
when his tonsils and adenoids were re-
moved. Reports received here yester-
day are to the effect that his condition
is somewhat improved. Mrs. Smouse,
who accompanied him to Battle Creek,
is remaining there a few days longer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Zeigler and
their son Robert, the parents being
missionaries of the Church of the
Brethren in India, are now on board
vessel homeward bound and expect to
land in New York City about April D.
They will remain with their mother,
Mrs. Jonas Bittinger, near Eglon, dur
ing a portion of the coming summer.
Mrs. Bittinger has a daughter, who IS
also missionary, stationed in Africa.
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