The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-16

afternoon.
Miss Adeline Sincell is visiting with
her brother, c. NJ. Sincell, in Fairmont,
West Va, for a week.
Mrs. G. Bates Chaires is entertain
ing friends with a dessert bridge at
her home this afternoon.
Mrs. Ruth Kercheval had as her
guests at her home on Alder street
Tuesday evening members of the Ritz
club.
Mrs. Howard White, Oak street, was
hostess at the monthly meeting of
members of the Dorcas Circle of the
Lutheran church.
Mrs. Richard Glotfelty was hostess
to members of her bridge club We'd
nesday evening at the home of Mrs.
R. Fike in Oakland.
Mrs. Eliza Arnold, of the Red House
community, is in Oakland visiting her
son-in-law and daughter Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Riley, at their home on Wilson
street.
Mrs. Felix Robinson entertained a
number of little friends of her daugn-
ter Heather Joyce, in honor of the
child's birthday anniversary yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. Ernest Gortner was returned
to Memorial Hospital in Cumberland
yesterday and may undergo a major
operation today for the relief of an
internal disorder.
Judge of the Orphans Court Frank
Calls, upon his official visit to Oak
land on Tuesday to attend the session
of court, was accompanied to town by
his son, Benjamin Calls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Giessman left
Oakland yesterday afternoon for Bal
timore to visit their daughter, Miss
Helen Giessman, who remains pa
tent in a hospital of that city and
whose condition shows little if any i'm
provement.
Members of St. Marks Circle of the
Lutheran Pastors Aid Society will
make and have for sale doughnuts
each week preceding Easter. Sales will
begin next Tuesday and orders may
be given or sent to Mrs. George Well
ing or Miss Elizabeth Leary.
]. w. Jackson, who has been absent
from his store in Oakland for some
time because of an illness, from which
he is now recovering, spent Tuesday
in Oakland looking after business af-
fairs. His store has been managed dur
ing his illness by his son Haigh Jack
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Sewers, Lib
erty street, announce the birth of twin
children, a son and daughter, at their
home on Tuesday morning, February
IA. The twins are numbers six and
seven in the Sewers household, four
of whom are under the age of twenty
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Rathbun enter
tanned with three tables of five hum
bred at their home on Fifth street
last Friday evening. Guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Neil C. Fraley, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Harmed, Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Offutt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover C. Stemple and
Mrs. Margaret McComas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Rightmire and
Miss Zaidee Browning, after three
weeks absence from Oakland which
they spent motoring through Southern
States, principally in Florida, returned
to Oakland last Thursday afternoon.
The party visited with Mr.. Rightmire's
son at Decatur, Ga, where he is the
illogical student in Presbyterian
church institution.
The Parent Teachers Association of
the Oakland elementary school will hold
a card party in the Oakland High
school auditorium on Thursday even
ing, February %, instead of in the
elementary school building as previ-
ously announced. This change is made
necessary on account of the condition
of the building while construction
work is in progress.
Mrs. E. K. Downer entertained with
a dessert bridge at her home on Sec
ond street yesterday afternoon. Hon
ors were won by Mrs. E. l. Baumgart-
ner, Mrs. R. T. Thayer and Mrs. D.
Edward Offutt. Other guests included
Mrs. F. E. Rathbun, Mrs. Neil Fraley,
Mrs. Donald R. Sincell, Mrs. E. Ray
Jones. Mrs. Emroy Bolden, Mrs. Ralph
Weber, Mrs. F. D. Bittle and Miss
Edith Bolden. ....
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