The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21


days this week at Huntington, West
Va, on business.
Miss Frances Meisenbach, Denver,
Colorado, arrived here Saturday for
visit Of two months with relatives.
Mrs. J. G. Robinson returned home
Wednesday after having visited her
daughters and their families in New
York and Pennsylvania.
Judge Jake Fisher, on the bench at
Webster Springs, West Va, adjourned
his court Wednesday afternoon and
came to Deep Greek Lake to be with
Mrs. Fisher, who had suffered an at
tack Of illness.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Hanst and
two sons left Oakland last Friday
morning for points in Pennsylvania
and New York State where they will
visit with relatives and friends for
ten days or more.
The first frost appearing in this
community this fall was observed on
Monday morning, which, however, was
light and no material damage resulted.
The mercury registered little above
forty at six o'clock.
Mrs. George A. Walls and grandson,
Malcolm McDaniels, who have been in
Oakland for a short time with friends,
are leaving today for Clarksburg for
brief visit before returning to their
home at Orlando, Florida.
Dr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gender,
who spent week in Oakland with DR..
Gonder's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 7. A.
Gender, returned to Boston, Mass,
on Sunday. DR.. Gender is an inferno in
the Child's Hospital at Cambridge
Hospital.
Mrs. J. O. Lantz, of Shepherdstown,
West Va, was visitor with her sis
ter, Mrs. Lewis Bush, from Friday
until Sunday afternoon when she &C
companied her nephew and niece, Mr..
and Mrs H. S. Whetsell, to Kingwood
for visit with them.
Mrs Cliff P. Berger and Mrs.
Donald Sincell, left Oakland Tuesday
morning for Waterford, Va, to WISH
with Mrs. Berger's mother. The party
will spend a day in Washington before
returning to Oakland tomorrow even
ing.
Miss Loretta Joy Ashby, of Crellin,
formerly employed in the office of the
Stanley Coal Company at Crellin, has
entered the University of Maryland
at College Park as a student. Misses
Estelle and Mary Catherine Treacy
recently honored Miss Ashby with d
farewell dinner at Anderson's, Back
bone Mountain.
The closing of the WPA library
project necessitates the change Of
hours during which the Garrett Coun-
ty Public Library in Oakland will be
open. During the school months the
library will be open from II to 5 on
Wednesday afternoons, but will not
be open in the evening. The usual
hours from to 5 and of 7 to will be
observed on Saturdays.
DR.. w. S. Patterson and family are
leaving Oakland Friday for Mounds
vile, West Va, where DIR. Patterson
has become pastor of the First Metho-
dist church, his initial sermon as the
minister there being preached last
Sunday morning. Rev. NJ. w. Sprague,
recently appointed pastor of st. PauPs
church in Oakland, was here last Sun
day and conducted the service in his
new charge.
Robert E. Ross, aged more than 92
years, one of the two surviving sol
diers of the Federal forces living in
Somerset county, died at his home at
Addison, Pa, on Tuesday. Mr.. Ross
was a distant relative Of Fred A.
Thayer, of Oakland, who, with Freder-
lex A. Thayer and Mrs. Thayer mo-
tored to Addison Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Ross funeral will occur at Adj
olson tomorrow afternoon.
The Business and Professional
Women of Garrett county, an associa-
ton formed late last winter, held its
first meeting after summer vacation
period on Monday night. A strictly
business session was conducted and
plans were made to increase the
membership. An invitation for a
joint meeting with the Cumberland
chapter of Business and Professional
Women was accepted for September
26 in Cumberland.
Mr.. U. G. Palmer, Verona, Pa, was
in Oakland and at Mountain Lake
Park Thursday and Friday of last