The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-03-21
LOCAL NEWS

teacher in Scottdale, Pa, was week
end visitor in Oakland.
Miss Helen Hostetler, of near town,
recently visited her sister, Mrs. Fred
Golightly, at Davis, West Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard I. Gender and
Mr.. and Mrs. Lindsay Gender spent
Wednesday in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mrs. James Hart, Mrs. Russell H.
Brown. Miss Crystal Elliott and Miss
Edith Bolden were Cumberland Wis
itors last Saturday.
Miss Mabel Umstot, of Keyser, w.
Va. was a visitor with her brother
Clarence Umstot, and her sister, Mrs.
Melvin Kight, and their families over
the weekend.
Mrs. Julius c. Renninger and son
Julius Renninger returned to Oakland
last Friday from Charleston, West
Va, where they had visited the for
mer's brother, Edward Scherr, for a
few days.
Mrs. Alice Stevens, of Washington,
D. c., who was here for visit with her
brother-in-dlaw and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. C. Sincell, was recalled to
Washington Sunday by reason of the
death of a relative.
Mrs. D. Edward Offutt returned on
Tuesday after visit of week or
more at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lionel Conner, of Washington, D. C.
While there Mrs. Offutt and Mrs. Con-
ner also visited the latter's mother,
Mrs. William Cox, in Fredericksburg,
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fanklin Rathbun, of
Gainesville, Florida, announced the
arrival of son, Franklin Florian, Jr.,
on March Is at Gainesville hospital.
Mrs. Rathbun is the former Miss Dor
othy Taylor, of Gainesville. Mr.. Rath-
bun is son of Mr.. and Mrs. C. J.
Rathbun, formerly of Mountain Lake
Park.
Singleton T. Naylor and his mother
in-law, Mrs. Eva Mitchell, left Oakland
on Tuesday for Sebring, Florida, in
which city they plan to remain three
weeks with the formers parents, Mr.,
and Mrs. A. D. Naylor. Mr.. and Mrs.
Naylor, who have been in Sebring for
several weeks, will accompany them
back to Oakland.
Relatives and friends have been in
formed of the death of Mrs. Pearl
Rely, formerly the wife of the late
John A. Grant, which occurred Tues
day morning, March 10. Mrs. Rely
been i'll about five years. She left Oak
land about fifteen years ago. Funeral
services are being conducted at
Charles-Town, West Va, this after
noon, March 81, at 200 o'clock.
Miss Grace Jones has on exhibit in
her home on Second street this week
miniature furniture, modelled to scale,
Of old-time communities in Pennsylva-
MIA. One group is of German origin,
while another shows the style of the
Moravians. The models are the prop
erty of Huntingdon High school, of
Scottdale, Pa, and they were obtained
through the Pennsylvania WPA head
quarters. The models were made by
WPA workmen. They will be kept in
Oakland until Sunday.
The semi-annual orthopedic clinic
will be held Wednesday and Thursday,
April 10 and II, in the county health
office with DR.. George o. Eaton, of
Baltimore, in charge, assisted by the
county health staff. Miss Catherine
Leamy, nutritionist of the State De-
partment of Health, will also be in the
county the week of April to work
with the county nurses. The monthly
chest clinic, which is usually held the
second Wednesday of the month, will
be held on Wednesday morning, April
18th. -.....s
Several merchants and others en-
gagged in lines of business in Oakland
are planning to attend an employers
forum which will be held by the So
cial Security Board in the City Hall,
Cumberland, on Tuesday, March &c,
at 1000 o'clock. G. R. Parker, Wash
ington, D, c., regional director, will
preside. In the morning old-age and
survivors insurance will be discussed.
In the afternoon there will be an open
forum on unemployment compensa-
ton
A double christening took place on
Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr..
and Mrs Richard Glotfelty, near Oak
land, when their daughter, Barbara
Lu, and the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Nordeck, Jeri Lu Raye, of
Parsons, West Va, were baptised by
the Rev. A. B. Learner, pastor of ST.
Marks Lutheran church. Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Nordeck were godparents for