The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-02-22
LOCAL NEWS

Joe Rice, Baltimore, was here over
the week-endw it'll his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Rice.
Miss Grace Filler, teacher at Red
House school, visited in Washington,
D. c., Saturday and Sunday.
Henry NJ. Speicher and Earl Haenft,.
ling, of Accident, were in Oakland IS
business visitors Monday morning.
Mrs. Joseph Wolfe and daughter,
Miss Lucille Wolfe, and Miss Florence
Browning spent the weekend in Wash
ington, D. C.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Smouse are
now occupying their new home on Sec
ond street, having moved from the
Warwick apartments on Tuesday.
Cornelius Gisriel, Baltimore, was
here for visit with Mrs. Gisriel and
little son over the past weekend, re-
turning to Baltimore Sunday evening
Mrs. Pearl Aronhalt's group of the
Harmed Bible class will have food
sale on Saturday, March %, at Stur-
giss' Pharmacy, beginning at ter
o'clock.
In the dining hall of St. Paul's Meth
odist church, Oakland, Mrs. Ernest
Liller's group of the Sunday school
served hundred turkey dinners last
evening.
F. E. Rathbun, county superintend-
ent of schools, returned to his Office
on Tuesday after having been confined
to his home on account of influenza for
a week or more.
Public sale of the personal es-
tate and perhaps the farm of the late
John Sines will occur at the farm at
Sines on Saturday, March 16, notice
of which will be found on another page
of The Republican today.
The Parent-Teachers' meeting of
the Oakland Elementary school, which
was to have been held this evening,
has been scheduled for Thursday,
February 20, due to the high school
play, which is to be presented this
evening in the high school auditorium.
Miss Grace Filler was hostess at the
Teachers Bridge club meeting on
Monday evening when Miss Filler en-
tertained with a Washington dessert
bridge Prizes were awarded Mrs. Vera
Mussard, Miss Ethel Mccullough, Mrs
Leona Hart and Miss Lucille Mitchell.
Banking institutions are observing
today, Washington's birthday ami
versary, and are not open for business.
The postoffice is also observing holt
day hours. The general delivery win
dow was open this morning for an houc
but there were no mail deliveries in
the city. Schools throughout the coun-
ty are conducting programs appro-
priate to the occasion.
Members of the Ladies' Guild of st.
Matthew's Episcopal church will con-
duct the society's weekly food sale next
Saturday afternoon in the basement
room of the Oakland Hardware and
Furniture Company on Alder street.
Bread, pies, cakes and candy will be
among the articles on sale. Mrs. R. w.
Sheckells and Mrs. A. w. Thrasher
will be in charge of the sale this week.
DR.. Robert H. Riley, director of the
State Department of Health, and Will
liam ]. French, health officer of Anne
Arundel county, will meet with men,
hers of the Garrett County Coordinat-
ing Council, in the county health office,
Court House, on Friday afternoon at
400 o'clock, to discuss the organiza-
ton and its possibilities.
Fred. W. Refs, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. W. Refs, Deer Park, who has been
employed in Baltimore number of
years, has been advised that he was
successful in passing three of the five
subjects necessary to become a cert
fed public. accountant. The examina-
ton on these subjects was taken last
November. Mr.. Refs is graduate OF
Oakland High school, class of 1922.
Kenneth Kelly Karney, who was
here for upwards of a year with the
West Maryland Power Company as a
lineman, later being transferred to
Morgantown in the same capacity, sui
fered stroke of paralysis last Fri
day while mounting an electric light
pole in that city. Seeing his predica-
ment other members of the crew low
cred him to the ground and he was
taken to hospital where he remains.
Reprints of the annual report for the
year 1889, the annual levy and budget
for the year 1910 and comments and
Explanations on the annual report for
the year 1889 and comparison with the
1889 and 1910 budgets, all under one
cover, making pamphlet of % pages