The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-01-11

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her home this evening.
Robert Barber, Baltimore, was re-
cent guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Butt
at their home on Liberty street.
The Oakland Fire Department re-
ceived this morning an unsolicited do
nation of $500 from the Half-Price
Store.
The Everready Circle of st. Marks
Lutheran church will meet on Friday
evening at the home of Mrs. James
Fazzalari.
Former Mayor Grover C. Stemple
entertained members of the Owls
Club at his home on Alder street last
Thursday evening.
Clarence Leighton returned yester-
day from Memorial hospital, Cumber-
land, where he had gone on Tuesday
for an examination.
Mrs. Frederick Thayer, Jr., enter
tanned with a bridge luncheon at her
home on Wednesday. Two tables were
in play throughout the afternoon.
Virgil 7. Steyer, Erwin Steyer, w.
L. Hansford and Ray Goodwin, all
of the Steyer community, were bust
ness visitors in Oakland on Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Townshend Naylor
are entertaining a number of their
friends at two Five Hundred parties,
one this evening and one on Monday
evening.
! Ralph Sebold injured one of the
fingers on his right hand last Thurs
day at Teets garage where he is en-
ployed, when it was caught in cog
of battery charger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Bittinger enter
tanned retiring and hold-over members
of the Church Council of St. Marks
Lutheran church at their home north
est of town last evening.
Haig Jackson has returned to his
home in Oakland from Athens, N. Y,
to which point he accompanied his
father, j. w. Jackson, who was sum-
moned there by the death Of brother,
| David r. jackson.
There will be benefit church supper
and organ recital on Thursday even
ing, February l, in the social room Of
st. Marks Lutheran church, beginning
at $50 o'clock, under the auspices of
the Brotherhood. The patronage of
the public is solicited.
Miss Isolde Booming, Mountain Lake
Park, is recovering satisfactorily fol
lowing an appendicitis operation per-
formed on January 2 at Memorial
Hospital, Cumberland. A number of
her friends in Oakland visited Miss
Booming on Sunday evening
David Walter returned to his home
in Oakland Sunday night from a visit
of two weeks with his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
Archer, and other relatives in Chicago,
Illinois. He also visited in Waterloo,
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The Mountain Lake Park school
parent-teachers association will meet
on Thursday evening, Jan. 18, in the
school building, at 1880 o'clock. F. E.
Rathbun will speak on the educational
system of Maryland Children of the
school will furnish entertainment.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Butt and son
Edgar and ]. W. Butt and daughter
Mary Emily, motored to Elkins, W.
Va, on Sunday to visit George c. Butt,
former Oakland resident, who is sur
gical patient in a hospital there. Mr..
Butt underwent an operation yester
day. He is the father of Samuel Butt
and brother of J. w. Butt.
Miss Mildred L. Fike, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ohio S. Fike, of Avil-
ton, mas gone to Washington where
she has taken position as typist with
the Bureau of the Census, an appoint
ment made under the Civil Service
Commission. Miss Fike is a CONNER
cial graduate of Beall High school, at
Frostburg, class of 1884. Upon grad
uation from high school she received
the G. E. Pearce medal for the highest
scholastic average in the senior year
During the past five years Miss Fike
was employed as secretary to the
principal of Beall High school.
Last Saturday morning shortly be-
fore six o'clock, and during one of the
coolest mornings Of the winter, truck
driver, conveying four Buick automo-
biles from the Buick factory at Flint,
Michigan, stopped his conveyance in
front of restaurant in Oakland and
requested some medicine to relieve an
| o+4ooIv Of ipdiracfIon His renuect