The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-08-08

Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Albright and
Mrs. Lille Reckard, of the GAINESVILLE
community, We're in Oakland yester-
day on business.
Miss Dorothy Fridinger has re-
turned to Oakland after having at
tended summer school at the Univer-
sity of Maryland.
Mrs. Maude Ashby, of Fairmont, is
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse j. Ashby, Jr., and family in
Oakland this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Riggs were
in Morgantown, W. Va, on Sunday
and were accompanied home by Mrs.
Riggs mother, Mrs. Grace Williams.
Mr., and Mrs. Frederick Thayer, Jr.,
have returned to their home after
having spent several days in New
York City, Wilton, Conn, and other
nearby points.
The Women's Missionary Society of
st. Marks Lutheran church will hold
its monthly meeting at the home of
Mrs. j. M. Falkenstein this evening
at 1880 o'clock.
Mrs. John A. Delawder, Washing
ton, D. c., is visiting with relatives in
the McHenry community and also Mrs.
Emma Specht, at her home on Second
street, Oakland.
Mr. George d. White celebrated his
91st birthday anniversary at his home
on Monday, August 5. Notwithstand-
ing his advanced years Mr.. White is
still quite active in mind and body
Prof. F. D. Bittle, principal of Oak
land High school, has returned to his
home here after having completed a
summer courses of studies at the Uni
versity of Maryland, College Park
Mrs. L. W. Stephenson is at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
v. Leighton, in Loeb Lynn, to spend a
vacation of a few weeks from her
studies at the University of Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Edwards, son
Jimmy and granddaughter Donna
Ray, Grantsville, were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Jesse j. Ashby, Jr., and fam
lily, Pennington street, Wednesday af-
ternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank C. Schuster and
daughter Doris, of Bayonne, N. j.,
are guests of Mrs Schuster's brother
and sister-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. Minor
Sprague, at the Methodist parsonage
Oak street.
Miss Virginia Herring, in training
for nurse, at Washington, d. c., is
spending her vacation with her par
ents, near Accident. She was a guest
! last week of her sister, Miss Mildred
Herring, Oakland.
Miss Julia Lawton and Mr.. Abra
ham Lawton returned to Oakland OF
Tuesday from Glen Moore, Pa, where
they had been for several days oc
casioned by the illness and death Of
their sister, Mrs. Winfield N. Shaffer
Mrs. josephine Armstrong, who ha!
been at the home of her relative, Mrs
7. C. limbaugh, near town, for sew
eral months, is now patient IL
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, hav
ing been admitted to the institution OF
Tuesday.
Miss Crystal Elliott and Miss Alver
to Dillon, instructors in Oakland Hig!
school, returned to Oakland Monda!
night from a two-weeks' Caribbean
cruise and several days stay in New
> York City. On the cruise they stopped
at Santiago, Cuba; Kingston, Jamaica
and Ceiba, Honduras.
Mrs. Marguerite Beckwith and sol
Robert, of Rochester, New York, an
Mrs. Charles Barber, of Perry, N. Y
!, mother of Mrs. Beckwith, have bee
visiting a few days at the home of MI
and Mrs. Frank Rathbun on Fift
, street. Mrs. Beckwith is the mothe
, of Mrs. Howard X. Rathbun, of Balti
more City Hospital.
t The wedding of Clayton Henry Wal
t tiers, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, an
+ Arlena Frances Cosner, of Bismarl
West Va, was solemnized at Back
bone Mountain Inn on Route 80, eas
l. of Red House, on Monday Afternoon
: August 5. Rev. w. H. Cosner, Coz
n mania, West Va, performed the cere
/ mony in the presence of quite mum
: Der Of persons Of the community.
Il Walter w. Dawson and Robert
/, Hoffman, and possibly other member
n of the local Masonic lodge will al
tend the fifth annual pilgrimage {
Master Masons to the Marylan
: Masonic home at Bonnie Blink, nes
k Baltimore, on Sunday, August lit
d Garrett county members will join wit
l. those from Allegany county, and tt
n ooooe;o,, will ha known as A llepan'