The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-08-31
LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank hley were
weekend visitors in Washington, D..
C.
Miss Ruth MacMurray returned to
her home Tuesday after having spent
several days in Baltimore and Ocean
City.
M and Mrs. Palmer Nichols, of
Niddlebourne, West Va, were guests
on Wednesday of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w.
Butt.
A benefit card party is being con-
Quoted this evening in st. Peters Hail.
Oak street. A purse containing $25 will
be given away.
Mrs. Robert Wong entertained with
a dessert bridge at her apartment on
Second street Monday afternoon. Two
tables were in play.
Mrs. Lawrence NJ. Fraley enter
tanned members of her club and few
other friends at bridge at her home
last Friday evening.
Miss Irene Daugherty, Trafford, Pa,
who had been a guest of Mrs. E. I.
Baumgartner for two weeks, returned
to her home on Monday.
Mrs. James Hart was hostess to
members of the Ritz club and a few
other friends at her home on South
Third street, yesterday evening.
Mrs. ]. William Butt and two daugh-
ters, Misses Alice and Mary Emily
Butt spent several days recently with
relatives and friends in Clarksburg, W.
Va.
Mrs. James Martin, Baltimore, who
is visiting with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Abraham Lawton, Liberty street,
is entertaining a number of friends at
bridge this evening.
Mrs. Charles R. yelling, Jr., and
two daughters, of Cumberland, are
here for a visit of a week or more
with relatives and friends in Oakland
and Mt. Lake Park, having arrived
yesterday.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Hos
teller, near Oakland, last week were
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Markley and
family, Johnstown, Pa, and M. and
Mrs. Perry C. Burkholder and daugh-
ter Dorcas, of Charlotte, N. C.
Lawrence S. Carson, sanitary in
spector for the State Department OF
Health, who has been in the county
for two or three months on special
duty, with Mrs. Carson, are leaving
Oakland today for Baltimore. The
county health department staff gave a
luncheon in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carson at Table Rock Inn on Tuesday.
Lester White, Misses Gertrude
White and Susie Moon, of Mountain
Lake Park, and Galen Harvey and
Miss Roberta Harvey, Kitzmiller,
spent the weekend in Washington and
College Park. Returning to their
homes through Baltimore the men,
bers of the party visited Boyd Moon,
who remains a patient in the U. S.
Marine hospital in that city.
Mrs. C. G. Gould came to Oakland or
Tuesday from her home in New Haven,
Conn.,, to visit with relatives, going on
to Fairmont,W Va, yesterday evening
to remain few days with her brother
in-law and sister, Rev. and Mrs. Den
yer C. Pickens. Mrs. Gould will return
to Oakland Monday and leave for st.
Petersburg, Florida, on Tuesday Mrs.
G. H. Falkenstein accompanied her
daughter to Fairmont.
Mrs. J. NJ. Stanton, Miss Sara Stan
ton, Joseph Stanton and children and
Robert Stanton were in Morgantown
Sunday where Robert Stanton made
his third solo fight test in an airplane
Stanton and George Stuck then went
to Clarksburg, West Va, on Wednes-
day for another test. The latter eX-
poets to take his first solo fight on
Sunday. Stanton took his first two solo
flights in Cumberland following an in
tensive training period.
Workmen have been engaged for
several days past in making repairs
at the Baltimore and Ohio depot in
Oakland, the walks surrounding the
structure either being rebuilt or re-
paired. East of the station the worn
out wooden platform has been torn
away and is being replaced by filling
in with cinder, which in time may be
paved with brick or other substantial
substance. A portion Of the station
yard is also being filled in with cinder.
Sessions of the annual West Vlr-
ginia Synod of the United Lutheran
Church in America, which convened al
Jackson's Mill, West Va, on Sunday
avari,or o,Jad of noon today COngTe-