The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-02-01
LOCAL NEWS

this week with a severe cold.
Mrs. Hugh Echard and Mrs. Bruce
jenkins were visitors in Cumberland
on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Clarence
Sewers, Liberty Street, announce the
birth of daughter Sunday, January
%, at Memorial hospital, Cumber-
land.
Dinner guests of Robert T. Hoff
man last Friday evening at the home
of Mrs. ]. D. Darby were Wellington
E. Yutzy, George H. Hanst, and Rus
sell H. Brown.
Mrs. Harry Wolford and children,
Charlotte and Wallace, Miss Nadine
Hardesty and Fred Gates visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A Gates in Altamont
last Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Glotfelty and
daughter, Miss Gladys Aronhalt and
James Nordeck spent Sunday in Terra
Alta, W. Va, as guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Nordeck.
Lawrence M. Fraley was host
to members of the Owls club at his
home on Second street last Thursday.
Grover Stemple won high honors with
Neil c. Fraley, consolation and Paul
Naylor floating.
Mr.. George Williamson, Oakland,
accompanied by Miss Marion Broad
dus, of Manassas, Va, attended the
Presidents Birthday Ball Tuesday
evening at the Shoreham hotel in
Washington, D. C.
The Presidents Birthday Ball will
be held at the Manhattan hotel on Fri
day, February End. Music will be
furnished by the original Peck Mills
Orchestra. Proceeds will go toward
helping fight infantile paralysis.
Mrs. Merne w. Kloss, teacher of
special groups in the Oakland Ele-
mentary school, has been confined to
her home this week on account of
illness. Her sister, Mrs. w. w. Grant,
is conducting her classes during her
absence.
Each Tuesday during Lent the
ladies of the Lutheran church will
make doughnuts. Those desiring
doughnuts are urged to get in touch
with Mrs. George yelling or Miss
Elizabeth Leary by Monday or be-
fore each week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul B. Naylor enter
FAMED with turkey dinner at their
home last evening. Guests included
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Rathbun, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. A. Fqeegle, Mrs. Jennie Rich
ardson and Mrs. D. Edward Offutt.
Cards were the diversion.
Mrs. Pauline L. Rohrs, state mana
ger of the Woodmen Circle of Mary
land and D. c., was in Oakland this
week on business. The local Wood
men Circle donated $1.00 to the
"March of Dimes, and has adopted
needy family to assist with food
and clothing during the winter
months.
There will be a meeting OF the
bO (NitIr II oil on
Monday evening at o'clock, F. R.
Shaffer, post commander, announced.
He urged a large attendance of the
members. Milburn w. Mann, state
employment officer, will give an out
line of the service his department
renders to those seeking employment.
Representatives of farm groups
from Somerfeld, Pa; Grantsville, Ac-
cident, Selbysport, Friendsville, Oak
land Gormania, and Swanton, have
been invited to attend a regional con-
Il ference of Southern States Coopera-
tive at the Algonquin hotel, Cumber-
land, on Teusday evening, February
! 6, beginning at 7 o'clock with a
dinner.
Mrs. Odessa BishoAf, state presi-
dent and local secretary for the
Woodmen Circle, attended the State
Fraternal Congress in Baltimore last
week, at which 225 attended. Speak
ers were those of national recognition
i'm the organization. The national
fraternal congress will be held this
year in Baltimore, the last week in
August.
Herman &C. B." Lewis, Craig Mo-
tor Service employee, was called to his
home at Davis, W. Va, last Friday
afternoon on account of the critical
illness of his mother, Mrs. Pearl Mey-
er Lewis, whose death occurred that
evening shortly after he had arrived
there. She was the wife Of c. B.
Lewis and had resided in Davis for
the past fifty-two years.
Leroy E. Stewart, Oakland, who
expects to enter Gods Bible School in