The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-04-04
LOCAL NEWS
assAsss.s.ssss OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

bllSlnFSS NlSllOIS VII N1OuudKs
Assemblyman Nelson Brenneman,
of McHenry, was business visitor in
Oakland Saturday afternoon.
Clarence Cecil Russell, of the Barton
community, visited Oakland on bust
ness Monday, when he called at The
Republican office.
Miss Julia Walter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bush Hardesty, Harry Hardesty and
family, all of Deer Park, were bust
ness visitors in Oakland last Satuy-
day.
J. NJ. Jarboe entertained members
of the Owls Club at his home on AL.
der street last Thursday evening, at
which quite number of Owls were
present.
County Agent John H. Carter, after
being confined to his home at the Park
for several days on account of an at
tack of influenza, returned to his
duties on Monday.
DR.. A. B. Learner, pastor of st.
Marks Lutheran church, is spending
this week in Brooklyn, N. Y, with
his son, DR.. Robert Learner, U. s..
Navv and family.
Mrs. W. B. Burruss, after spending
much of the winter with friends in
Eastern Maryland and Virginia, re-
turned to her home near Oakland on
Sunday afternoon.
James Aronhtlt who spent the
winter with his daughter in Cumber.
land, returned to his home at Bay
ard one day this week, where he plans
to remain during the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Krause and
family were in Meyersdale, Pa, IN
Sunday where they visited with Mr..
Krause's mother, and who returned
to Oakland with them Sunday even
ing. .......... .....
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hanst enter
tanned twenty guests at dinner on
Monday evening, following which the
entire group attended the showing of
"Gone With the Wind" at the Mary
land Theatre.
The annual card and bingo party
will be conducted Tuesday, April 8,
in st. Peters Parochial school, for
the benefit of the school. Playing will
begin at $3.50 o'clock. There will be
prizes and a cafeteria.
John Edward Baird is employed in
the Glover Farm Store as clerk,
having taken the place made vacant
by the resignation of Percy Lawton,
who has gone to Eglon, West Va,
where he will manage a farm during
the summer.
Mrs. Robert Ruckert has established
her home in Washington, D. c., hay
ing gone to that city yesterday, ac-
companied by Mrs. BENZ. H.. Sincell,
Mrs. Cliff T. Berger and Mrs. Donald
R. Sincell, who plan to return to Oak
land tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl F. Kahl went to
Cumberland Saturday and upon their
return to Oakland they were accom-
panied by H. w. Kahl, who had been
a patient at Memorial Hospital TO.
three weeks. Miss Margaret Kahl,
Cumberland, also accompanied the
party, returning to Cumberland on
Monday.
Following a ten-day motor trip to
points in Florida, Mr.. and Mrs. H.. ".
Leighton returned to their home in
Loeb Lynn Heights on Saturday. The
couple was accompanied home by Miss
Blanche Gale and their two grandchil-
dren, Barbara and Edward Stephen
son, who had visited with their mother,
Mrs. L. w. Stephenson, in Silver
Spring.
The United States Civil Service
Con, ~, icc;oY hoo onno,,noad On onop
competitive examination to secure
student nurses for employment at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital, Federal in
stltution for treatment of mental dis
orders, with the Department of the
Interior, Washington. Further infor-
nation may be obtained from M. c.
Crane, at the Oakland postoffice.
The recently organized st. Mar
garet's Guild of st. Matthew's Parish,
Oakland, is planning to hold benefit
card party in the church Parish house
on Thursday evening April Is. At the
last meeting of the members it was
decided they should call the Guild
after Queen Margaret, saint of Scot
land, who lived in the. 18th century
and was known for her charity and
pious faith.
Last Tuesday evening the staff of
the Garrett County Welfare Board
entertained in honor of the Executive
Secretary, Miss Ethel A. Miller, vino
will leave soon to take position in