The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-18
LOCAL NEWS

month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford White, Terra
Alta, w. Va, were weekend guests Of
Mrs. Whites parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee R. Mason.
The Allegany-Garrett county medi-
cal association will have it's annual
meeting on Friday evening, January
&c, at Cumberland.
Gus Naylor, of Canton, o., returned
to his home on Wednesday after visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. C.
Naylor since Sunday.
Mrs. Benz. H. Sincell, who visited
her son, Morris Sincell, and family, at
Fairmont, West Va, a few days, has
returned to her home in Oakland.
The five public health nurses of the
county will go to Cumberland this
weekend to the laboratory there for
special instruction in pneumonia con-
troll.
Mrs. Robert Ruckert went to Balti-
more Sunday afternoon in company
with Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Briner, where
she joined Mr.. Ruckert, who has been
in the city about two weeks.
District Road Engineer Leo T. Dow
ney, of Cumberland, was in Oakland
Monday in connection with the ad-
ministration of affairs of the State
Roads Commission in Garrett county
DR.. and Mrs. D. M. Dixon have an
nounced the birth of a son at Uni
versity hospital, Baltimore, on Thurs
day, January II. DR.. Dixon is resi-
dent doctor in the hospital, and the son
of Mrs. Nina Dixon, of Mt. Lake Park.
Stuart F. Hamill returned to Oak
land Saturday evening from Baltimore
where he had visited his son Stuart
Hamill, Jr., and his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Briner, both Of
whom accompanied Mr.. Hamill to Oak
land, returning to Baltimore Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kley were in
Elkins, w. Va, over the weekend
where they were guests Of relatives.
Frank Kley, Jr., who recently suffered
a fracture of his ankle and came home
to recuperate from the injury, re-
turned to Elkins with his family and
will resume his studies in a school il
that town.
Harold M. Dawson, who was i'll all
of last week at his home in Oakland,
and his condition not improving, was
taken to University Hospital, Balti-
more last Sunday morning. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Dawson, who re-
mains in the city with her husband A
report from the hospital this morning
indicates that an operation to relieve
existing conditions may be necessary.
d. Cal Grim, head of the Grim Detec-
tive Agency in Cincinnati, and native
of Oakland, leaving here many years
ago, has been named general chair
man of campaign to raise $4,000 to
provide for the establishment of two
boys clubs in Cincinnati. Many prom
inent people of the city are solidly be-
hind this move, which will afford the
underprivileged the opportunities for
recreation and other constructive ac-
tivities who might otherwise become
delinquents.
F. E. Rathbun, County Superinter-
dent of Schools, Walter w. Dawson,
president of the Board of Education;
F. D. Bittle and Clyde r. Dahlgren,
principals of the Oakland High and
Elementary schools, respectively, and
Frank j. Getty, principal of Grants
vile High school, attended the Middle
Atlantic States Regional conference of
the Progressive Education Associa-
ton, held in Baltimore last weekend.
The group returned to their homes on
Saturday evening.
Pullets are at work trying to break
the record of seasoned laying hens,
and from the last report it looks as
though one pullet owned by Harold
Dewitt at Crellin, has done it. One of
his young Leghorn hens produced
giant egg weighing five ounces when
put on the scales at The Republican Of
flee. Dewitt declared the cracks in the
egg shell had allowed at least an
ounce of the fluid to escape, and per-
haps that is true. Anyway it was the
heaviest egg yet to be brought in for
Inspection.
Mrs. A. Totten Matthews enter
tanned with a stag dinner and cards
at her home on Second street last ev-
ening in honor of her husband. A full
course turkey dinner was served TO
twenty guests, followed by five tables
of five hundred. Guests included D.
Edward Offutt, w. A. Gender, Neil C..