The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-03-28
LOCAL NEWS

Norman Davis, small son of Mr..
and Mrs. Delbert Davis, is i'll of in
fluenza.
Mrs. Willard Elliott has returned to
Oakland from Paden City, W. Va,
where she visited relatives for several
days.
Mrs. Sarah Belle Kimmell has re-
turned to Oakland, having spent three
months in Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Warwick and
daughter, Miss Bernadine Warwick,
were visitors in Piedmont, West Va,
on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Bittle and chill
dren were weekend visitors of rela-
tives in Middletown and other points
in Frederick county.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Martin, Wash
ington, D. c., visited at the home OF
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Lynn over the weekend.
Miss Mary Louise Helbig enter
tanned members of her bridge club
and few extra guests at her home
on Tuesday evening. Four tables
were in play.
Austin A. Lamar, principal of Sandy
Spring high school, Montgomery coun-
ty, and formerly principal at Acct
dent, spent Tuesday in this county
visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph T. Thayer, of
Hagerstown, were guests of Mrs.
Thayer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Helbig, and other relatives here over
the Easter period.
Misses Margaret Rudy, Jane Fraley
and Ruth Fields, students at Westerr
Maryland College, Westminster, are
at the homes of their respective par
ents for brief spring vacation.
Miss Alkaline Stuck, student in the
Pittsburgh School of Art, Pittsburgh,
Pa, has returned to her classes after
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard P. Stuck, for several days.
Mrs. Lyle Wilson and daughter Mar
jorie Sue, of Keyser, West Va, re-
turned to their home Monday evening
after spending Easter with the for
mer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
A. Fleegle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w. McComa5
and children returned to their home
here on Monday from Phillipsburg,
Pa, where they had visited Mrs. Nc
Comas' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. S.
Johnston, over the Easter period.
Mrs. George Hanst entertained with
a dessert bridge at her home Monday
afternoon. Five tables were in play
Honors were won by Mrs. Robert
Ruckert, Mrs. Haig Jackson and Mrs.
J. P. McWilliams. Mrs. Hanst's guest
over the weekend, Mrs. Henry Tarr-
ing, Cumberland, received the guest
prize.
With the mercury lowering at zero
and slightly above here during the
past week, Oakland wasn't the coolest
spot in the country, for on Monday
morning at Kane, Pa, the thermome-
ter showed 10 below zero, with SINH
lar conditions prevailing in many
other areas of Pennsylvania and West
Virginia.
Humbird Offutt, Washington, D. c.,
was here over the Easter vacation per-
iod with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W,
R. Offutt. On Sunday Mrs. Ofutt,
Humbird Offutt and Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Johnson motored to Romney, w.
Va. where they joined in the celebra-
ton Of the birthday anniversary of
Mrs. Offutt's daughter, Mrs. j. V,
Burton.
Rev. and Mrs. w. B. Orndorff are
in Frostburg today attending the
regular Quarterly meeting of the
Western District Women's Mission
airy Union. Mrs. Orndorff will go
from this meeting to Baltimore where
she will attend the fifth State wide
Sunday School Convention, which will
be held at the Eutaw Place Baptist
church, March 20 and 80.
Medical men of the county will have
a luncheon meeting at the William
James hotel on Friday at 12:45
o'clock. Mr.. H. o. Kendall, supervis-
ing physiotherapist for the State de-
partment of health, Baltimore, will
be the speaker. He will be in the
county on that day to visit several
patients under the supervision Of Miss
Grace Jones, physiotherapist for the
county.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gender, Jr.,
Of Baltimore, spent Easter here with
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas A. Gender at their home on
Alder street. DR.. Gender has a fellow
ship in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Mr..