The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-02-08
LOCAL NEWS

principal, was a business visitor in
Oakland last Saturday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Hammond
returned to Oakland Sunday evening
from brief visit with friends and rel
atives in Newburg, West Va.
Delbert Davis, cashier of the First
National Bank, returned to Oakland on
Tuesday night after having spent the
day in Baltimore on business.
o. NJ. Smouse spent Saturday night
here with his family, returning to
Weirton Sunday afternoon. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Smouse to the
West Virginia town.
Mrs. B. Frank Selby returned to her
home in Oakland Wednesday from
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, in
which institution she had been a sur
gical patient for two or three weeks.
On Friday evenings during Lent a
Service of Evening Prayer with brief
address will commence at 1880 o'clock
in st. Matthew's Episcopal church. A
Bible study group will begin at 500
o'clock. The subject will be "The Cos
pei of st. Mark"
1t has been announced that mem
orial stone with beautiful bronze tab
let will be erected in St. Peters GEM
etery in memory of the late John Car
roll, of Crellin, who was a member
of the congregation of st. Peters
Catholic church and a benefactor of
the Parish.
Among the Garrett countians who
visited Oakland on Monday, and hav-
ing business with the County Com
missioners relative to roads in their
Immediate vicinities were John j. Ma
gruder and his son Glen, and P. F.
Michael and son Edwin, all Of the
Barton community.
Fred. Brown and Mrs. John Smyth.
of Cumberland, came to Oakland on
Saturday where they visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Ault, Mrs.
Smyth returning Sunday evening. Mr..
Brown remained here until until Tues
day afternoon when he returned to his
home in Cumberland.
& The United States Civil Service
commission has announced open COM
petitive examinations for the positions
of radio Inspector, $4,000 year, in
the Federal Communications Commits
sion, and assistant radio inspector,
3$2,000 a year. Further information
may be obtained from M. c. Crane at
the Oakland postotfice.
Every Saturday afternoon in Lent
the ladies of st. Matthew's Episcopal
church guild are holding food sale In
the basement store of the Oakland
Hardware and Furniture Company,
corner Third and Alder streets. Pies,
bread and cakes will be specialties.
Mrs. George Dawson and Mrs. Oscar
Hall are in charge this week.
Ernest Ray Jones returned to his
home in Oakland Sunday evening from
Columbus, Ohio, where he had spent q
week with his father, w. C. Jones, and
his sisters. The elder Mr.. Jones has
been an invalid for several months OF
since having suffered a stroke of pa
ralysis. His condition, now, according
to his son, is no worse than it has been
for some time.
Mr.. J. Bill Yutzy who has been liv-
ing in Baltimore with his father Guy
o. Yutzy for the past year or more
has resigned as a junior accountant
with the Rustless Iron and Steel COM
pany, to accept a new position as
auditor in the Chevrolet Division OF
the General Motors Corporation. Fol
the present he will be stationed in the
Baltimore district.
Walter w. Dawson visited Harold
w. Dawson, his brother, in Washing
ton, D. c., Saturday evening and Sun
day, returning to Oakland Sunday
night. Going to Washington Mr.. Daw-
son was accompanied by his sister-in-
law, Mrs. Harold Dawson, who is re-
manning in the city with her husband
whose condition is now reported as
being improved and an early return
to Oakland is anticipated.
Laural Whipkey, Maurice Treacy
and Miss Estelle Treacy, West Vir-
ginia University students, who were
at their homes for several days be.
tween semesters, returned to Nor.
gantown Wednesday. Joseph Johnson
Frametown, West Va, also student
at the university, who had been visit
ing his sisters, Mrs. Ross Decker anc
Mrs. George Hanst, since Saturday
also returned to Morgantown on Wed
nesday.
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