The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-11-09

mont, West Va.
Mrs. Carlton Bowser underwent an
operation at Memorial hospital, Cum
berland, last Thursday.
Fred. Richter, farmer and business
man at Accident, was in the county
seat as a business visitor Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick A. Thayer
entertained with three tables of Five
Hundred at their home last Friday
evening.
c. E. Shillingburg, of the Steyer
community, visited Oakland Friday on
business and called at The Republi-
can office.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex. G. Hesen and
Mrs. E. J. Pendergast were visiting
Mrs. R. F. Yeager in Baltimore over
the weekend.
Mrs R. H. Hamill, Huntington, w.
Va, and Mrs. John r. Farrar, Mid
dletown, Ohio, were guests last week
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Loraditch.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Holswade, Spen-
Ger, West Va, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs, Haig Jackson at their home in
Oakland for several days recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Glotfelty and
son, Lester Glotfelty, and Miss Jessie
Butler, all of the McHenry community,
spent Friday in Oakland on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Haulenbeek, Of
McKeesport, Pa, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Ruckert, Of Cumberland, spent
Saturday to Monday with relatives in
Oakland.
Members of the Ever Ready circle
of St. Marks Lutheran church will
meet at the home of Mrs. George
Yutzy, Liberty street, Friday evening,
November TO- at 1880 o'clock.
Charles Fulk, of the Underwood
community, underwent a surgical op~
Grafton at Memorial Hospital in Cum
berland yesterday morning. He re-
turned to his home last night.
Saturday being Armistice Day and a
legal holiday, the postoffice and banks
will observe the day. The postotfice
windows will be open from 1880 to
$50 a. m. There will be no deliveries
by carriers.
Mrs. A. Keifer Buckingham, of Bal
timore, is here visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Martin. Mr.. Martin
met with an accident at Terra Alta on
Friday when his right arm was frac-
tured at the elbow.
Judson Loar, who underwent a ma
ior operation at Union Memorial Hos
pital in Baltimore about ten days ago,
is recuperating and hopes to be able
to return to his home in Oakland
within a short time.
David Walter, Baltimore and Ohio
Railway telegrapher, Of Oakland, has
been nominated for the office Of local
chairman of the Order Of Railway
Telegraphers and is making an active
campaign for election. l
County Commissioner Paul M.
Friend has returned to his home south
of Oakland, from Memorial Hospital,
Cumberland, where he had been for
two weeks as a surgical patient, hav-
ing undergone two major operations.
His condition is said to be quite sat
isfactory and he is convalescing rap
idly.
Stanley Smith, Deer Park, employed
at the Teets Garage in Oakland,
brought to town with him yesterday
morning a wild cat which had been
killed at the Baltimore & Ohio bridge
near Altamont on the Deer Park-Kitz-
miller road when it was struck by
an automobile driven by his father,
Ramsey Smith, on Tuesday night. The
cat weighed about fifteen pounds.
John F. Copeman, Kingwood, West
Va, former Sheriff of Preston county,
now engaged as a stockman and far
mer, who is well known by many Gar
rett countians, was saved from pos
sible death by his shepherd dog yes
terday when the animal drove off a
maddened bull which had attacked Mr.
Copeman as he was doing his chores
in the barn on his farm. Mr.. Copeman
was attacked from the rear by the
bull and thrown to the earth. He
saved himself by rolling from side to
side as the bull repeatedly attacked
him until the dog came to his help.