The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-14

relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Schell and son
Hal Schell, visited relatives in Akron
Ohio, over the past weekend.
William w. Fike, of the Gormania
community, was a business caller at
The Republican office on Tuesday.
Miss Bertha Helbig returned to
Oakland Monday after having visited
in Cumberland and Keyser for a week.
Miss Mary Lousie Helbig has been
appointed motion picture inspector
for Garrett county by Governor
O'Conor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Pancake arc
vacationing at the old home of the
former at Romney, West Va. They will
visit in other towns prior to their re-
turn to Oakland.
The residence of Mrs. R. L. Kerchc-
val, Alder street, is undergoing ex-
tensive repair and improvements and
IS being arranged as a double apart
ment to be rented by Mrs. Kercheval.
Frank A. Smouse, merchant in Oak
land, has a number of men engaged in
making excavations on a lot on Sec
ond street extended whereon he will
have a modern dwelling erected imme-
diately.
Members of the Mothers Club will
meet at eight o'clock next Wednesday
evening with Mrs. Samuel Cole at Mt
Lake Park at which all members of the
organization are requested to be in
attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. B. Kelley left Oak
land today for two weeks vacation
through the Eastern States. They
plan, among other places, to visit the
New York Worlds Fair. Hayward
1sner will have charge of the local A.
and ?. store until Mr. Kelley's return
to Oakland.
Carroll Casteel and Miss EVELYN
Jefferson, of fredericksburg, spent the
weekend in Oakland, the guests of the
formers mother, Mrs. Margaret E
Casteel. They were accompanied home
by Misses Louise and Norma Casteel
who are spending the week in Hur-
lock.-Dorchester News.
Mrs. George A. Walls and grand
son, Malcolm McDaniels, of Orlando
Florida, who have been visiting
friends in Oakland, plan to leave here
tomorrow morning for Rochester, New
York, to visit relatives short time
They will return to Oakland prior tc
going on to their Southern home.
Members of the McVeigh Holy
Cross club honored Mrs. John Fahertly
with a handkerchief shower and fare
well party last Friday evening at the
home of her sister, Mrs. C. D. Bosley
Mrs. Faherty has gone to Morgantown
to spend the winter with her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
T. Cain.
Workmen have been engaged tbs
past two or three days putting in q
new crossing at the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad intersection with Sec
ond street. The crossing will be of
amesite and wood and will be quite
an improvement, as the old crossing
had become rough and past the stage
of repair.
Miss Georgia Leighton, Salt Lake
City, Utah, but at present in Washing
ton, D. c., accompanied Mr.. and Mrs
w. Day Mullinix, Silver Spring, Md,
to Loeb Lynn on Saturday, where she
visited her uncle, H. V. Leighton, and
family; also her aunt, Mrs. ]. VI
Falkenstein, and family, in Oakland
The party returned Sunday afternoon
Lewis Walter sustained a painful in
Jury to his left hand Tuesday morning
at the NuWay Laundry when it be-
came caught in a piece of machinery
which he was operating in the plant.
Pieces of flesh were torn from the
palm of his hand and from his fingers
and arm as the member was drawn
into machine when a ring on his finger
was caught on an obstruction Fortu
nately no bones were broken.
DR.. H. r. DuPuy, county health o.
ficer, AID two of the health nurses,
will go to Baltimore on Friday, Sep
TENDER %, to attend a meeting for in
struction in the control of pneumonia,
a disease which ranks high in mortal
ity in the nation. Various treatments
and the use Of new drugs are to be dis
cussed. An aggressive campaign
against the disease is to be waged by
health authorities this winter.