The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-20
LOCAL NEWS


her home here for several days.
Walter Kahl, Pittsburgh, was here
Saturday night and Sunday where he
visited with his father and sister.
Members of the Ladies' Guild of St.
Matthew's Episcopal church met last
Thursday afternoon at the church rec
tory on Sixth street.
Lewis Klotz, of GrantsvilIe. was in
the county seat Monday on business
when he visited for a brief time at
The Republican office
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Glotfelty Of
Oakland, were at Parsons on Sunday
where they spent the day with Mr..
and Mrs. George Nordeck.
Miss Helen Hart has gone to Roam
oke, Va, to visit her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Ag-
nelly, for several weeks.
Mrs. Thomas Cain, Morgantown, w.
Va, was here last week where she
visited her mother, Mrs. John FAN
erty, and other relatives.
Announcement has been made by
the State Farm Insurance Company
of Bloomington, Illinois. of the selec-
tion of Lester Bittinger, of Oakland,
as local representative.
Roy Green and his sister, Miss Mar
garet Green, of Kansas City, Mo-,
spent several days last week in Oak
land renewing friendships of thirty
years, at which time their father OPP
Grated bottling works on the prop
erty now owned by D. Edward Offutt
on Second street extended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Martin, of Terra
Alta, former residents of the Gortner
community, were in Oakland Tuesday
endeavoring to locate a small farm
upon which to live. Mr.. Martin has
been in Akron, Ohio, during the past
few months while other members of
his family remained at Terra Alta.
Mrs. Charles F. White was hostess
at a meeting of the members of the
Missionary Society of st. Paul's Meth
odist church at her home on Liberty
street Monday evening. In addition to
members of the Methodist organiza-
ton several others allied with similar
organizations of other denominations
were present.
Mothers of students of the Home
Economic classes of Oakland High
school will be guests of honor at a
banquet to be served next Tuesday
evening in the High school auditorium.
There are 116 students in the classes.
Miss Mildred Barton, home demon
stration agent, will be the principal
speaker at the banquet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert White and
daughter, of Cleveland, Ohio, drove
to Oakland last Friday where they Wis
tied with Mr.. and Mrs. Whites par
ents and other near relatives, re-
turning to Cleveland on Sunday, ac-
companied by Mrs. John Hart, the
mother of Mrs. White, who will re-
main with them for some time.
James Darby, Stanley Stahl, Jr.,
Isolde Booming, Eleanor Sincell and
Edward Smouse, of the Oakland High
school newspaper staff, were in Cum
berland on Saturday attending
journalism conference at the Fort
Hill High school, Hopwood Wooddell,
of Oakland, was one of those repre-
senting the Frostburg State Teachers
College.
Mrs. Henry Earring, Jr., and son
left Oakland Sunday morning for
Washington, D. c., and there boarded
a train for Daytona Beach, Florida,
where they will visit Mrs. Earrings
mother, Mrs. Jennie V. Conrad, for a
month or six weeks. They were accom-
panied to Washington by Mr.. Earring,
who returned to his headquarters at
Cumberland Sunday evening.
The American Nautical Academy,
National Training School for Mer-
chant Marine officers, Washington, D.
c., has announced that boys and young
men between II and 81 will be per-
mitted to secure practical ship expert
ence on board a training ship June l
to October. The only required expense
is for meals at 40 cents per day. Ac-
commodations are limited and those
interested are urged to write at once.
Friends in Oakland have been ad-
vised of the very serious illness of
Mrs. A. A. Richards, summer resident
of Mountain Lake Park, at her winter
home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Recently
Mrs. Richards suffered heart attack