The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-20
LOCAL NEWS


Mr. and Mrs. John Speicher, Terra
Alta. visited friends and relatives near
oakland on Sunday afternoon.
Former County Commissioner V.
T Stever of Steyer, was here Tues
dqv attending to some business mat
ters.
Mr.. and Mrs Ralph T. Thayer and
son Tommy, Hagerstown, were week
cnd visitors with relatives in Oak
land
Lawrence NJ. Fraley will leave Sun
dav for Philadelphia, Pa, where he
will attend the Republican National
convention as one of Maryland's six
teen official delegates.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard KEEPER have
returned from their honeymoon trip
through the central south and will go
TO housekeeping in the Joseph Hine-
baugh apartments in a few days.
Mrs Mary Fridinger and daughter,
Miss Dorothy Fridinger, have gone
10 Baltimore where Miss Fridinger
will study during the summer. She is
one of the faculty of Oakland high
school
The Garrett Ensemble, composed of
Young people of Oakland and nearby
communities, will conduct food sale !
in Sturgiss' Pharmacy on Saturday, |
June D. The patronage of the public |
is solicited.
Dr.. and Mrs. E. l. Baumgartner
have returned from New York City |
where the former attended meeting
of b. and 0. physicians and also the
sessions of the American Medical
Association.
The Eveready Circle of st. Marks
Pastors Aid Society, is conducting a
strawberry festival on the church lawn |
Saturday evening, June %, begin
ming at $50 o'clock. The patronage of
the public is solicited.
At the meeting of the Pythian Sis
ters to be held Monday evening,
covered dish supper will be served, |
following the business session of the
organization, at which all members
are requested to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Lewis, Pitts
burgh, who are vacationing in Friends
vile, visited The Republican office on
Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis |
were accompanied to Oakland by Mrs. |
Benz. W. Frantz, of Friendsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward M. Weeks
have planned to arrive in Oakland to-
morrow from Washington, D. c., to
remain during the summer at their
home on Crook Crest. Mrs Weeks is |
the former Miss Thellla Fundenberg.
Mrs. S. Townshend Naylor, who had
been a surgical patient in Memorial
Hospital, Cumberland, for two weeks
or more was brought to her home on
Alder street last Thursday where she
i2 now recuperating and regaining het
health.
Thoburn Shipley, of the East End
Service station, was taken suddenly i'll
last Thursday and was sent to a hos
pital in Cumberland the same day
where he underwent a major opera
ton. His condition is said to be I'M
proved.
Lavan Blamble, who was seriously
injured several weeks ago when he
came in contact with a high tension
electric line and fell distance Of
nearly twenty feet, has been dis
charged from the Kercheval Hospital
at kingWood and returned to his home
here last Friday.
Mrs, NJ. NJ Ashby, who spent the
past several months at Wilmington,
Delaware, with her son-in-law and
daughter Rev. and Mrs. Samuel E.
Wicker, has returned to her home in
Oakland, being accompanied here by
Rev. and Mrs. Wicker one day the
latter part of last week.
Frank Reeves, geologist, and owner
of Youghiogheny Forest, south of
Oakland on Route so, has notified his
family that he expects to return to
the States early in the month of July.
Mr.. Reeves has been in Capetown,
South Africa, for a year or more in
the employ of an oil company.
Rev. and Mrs w. S. Patterson and
children, Moundsville, West Va, are
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
5. II. Jackson, Oak street, for few
days. Their son, Joseph, who was
struck by an automobile several
months ago suffering a broken hip, is
improving rapidly now
Miss Mary Louise Helbig, Miss
Coral McRobe and Mrs. Helen Conant
motored to Washington, d. c., last