The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-07

keyser, West Va, spent Monday in
Oakland with relatives.
Mrs Elizabeth Baumgartner left
Oakland Tuesday evening for Balti-
more to remain some time visiting.
with friends.
Miss Louise Casteel, Cumberland. is
here for week with her mother. Mrs.
Margaret Casteel, Fifth street, hav-
ing arrived on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley Harvey. OF
Sand Flat, announce the birth of a
daughter at their home on Sunday
morning, September 3.
Miss Edith Smith returned to Tow
son Tuesday evening after spending q
few days here with her parents, Nj.
and Mrs. E. S. Smith.
Mrs. Alice Turney, Mrs. ]. A. Tur
ney, Paul Turney and Wendell Turney
spent the weekend in New Philadel-
phia and Cleveland, Ohio.
Carroll Casteel, editor of the Dor
chester News, published at Hurlock.
Nd, visited his mother, Mrs. Margaret
Casteel, in Oakland, Sunday and Mon
day.
James Helbig, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Helbig, Jr., left Oakland Mon
day for Parkersburg, West Va, to
enter business school there as STU
dent.
Misses Mildred Fulmer and Corla
Mae Upole were guests of Misses Nina
and Mary Friend at the home of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Friend,
recently.
Mrs. Alvin Slabach and granddaugh-
ter, Joan Kennedy, returned to their
home in Clarksburg, West Va, Mon
day following a visit of two weeks with
Miss Bertha Wolfe.
Next Tuesday, September II, is old
Defenders Day in Maryland and al
legal holiday, hence the banks and
other public institutions in the State
will not be open for business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hamill, of near
Sand Flat, announce the birth of
daughter on Labor Day, September 4,
at their home. Mrs. Hamill was form
erly Miss Effie Glotfelty, of McHenry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Wilburn and fam
lily, Oakland, Calf, are visiting rela-
tives and friends in this county. Mr..
and Mrs. Wilburn are natives of Gar /
rett and left the county thirty years
ago.
Mrs. William Turney and two
daughters returned home Friday night
from Chicago, where they had been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. William Archer
and other relatives for two weeks or
more.
Members of the Baptist Ladies' Aid
of the Ferndale Baptist church will
serve chicken supper on Thursday,
September IA, at the home of George
W. Wilt, on Route PIG, one mile north
CT Oakland.
There will be a meeting of the Gar
rett County Sportsmen's Association
on Monday evening, September II, at
1880 o'clock for the purpose of electing
officers and an executive committee
for the ensuing year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mervin Kauten and Mr..
and Mrs. William NJ Friend, of Wash
ington, D. c., visited their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Friend, Pleasant
Valley, over the weekend, returning
to Washington on Monday.
Misses Thelma Ringer, Margaret
Rowan and Lucille Wolfe entertained
at the home of Miss Wolfe with a fare
well party in honor of Miss Mary
Frances Rowan on Friday evening.
There were sixteen guests present.
Mr. Charles Best, of Gainesville, a
junior student of Virginia Theological
Seminary, Alexandria, Va, who was
here this summer to assist Rev. David
C. Trimble in the work of the Episco-
pal Parish, returned to his home on
Tuesday and will shortly resume his
studies for the ministry. He hopes to
return to Oakland next summer.
Acting Postmaster Irwin r. Rudy re-
,eived his commission as postmaster Of
The local office last Saturday morning
from President Roosevelt, hence he is
no longer acting postmaster, but post
master in fact. Since taking charge OF
the office Mr.. Rudy has made every
andeavor to be accommodating as an
official and as a result he is earning
the good will of the patrons of the
office.
Frank R. Long, Kensington, Mont