The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-04-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon burst, of Red
House, announced the birth of a son
on Monday, April /.
Miss Ada V. Leighton, of near
Hoyes, is visiting relatives here for a
few days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hardesty
visited Mrs. Almeda Wilhelm, in Terra
Alta, W. Va, on Sunday evening.
Mrs. Paul McIntire returned last
Friday from Baltimore and Washing
ton, where she had been visiting for
several days.
Mrs. Frank Kley entertained men,
bers of the Ritz club at her home on
Second street last evening. Two tables
of bridge were in play.
DR.. and Mrs. Cliff P. Berger enter
tanned with four tables of bridge at
their home in the Hamill apartments,
Second street, last Friday evening.
The Oakland Elementary school is
planning to present an operetta,
"Mulligan's Magic, in the near
future. The date will be announced
later.
Members of the Eastern Star enter
tanned their husbands and friends
following their regular meeting last
Tuesday evening. Cards were the
diversion.
Mrs. Grover C. Stemple entertained
with three tables of bridge last Thurs
day evening in honor of Miss Ethel
Miller, who will leave shortly for
Baltimore.
Mrs. Harry Field. who had been a
patient in Memorial hospital, Cum
berland, for seven weeks, was brought
to her home here Sunday much i'm
proved in health.
Mr.. D. w. Walter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Wrightmeir and Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Hardesty attended the funeral
of Earl Anderson in Rowlesburg on
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Emma Setter, mother of Mrs.
A. c. Warwick, returned from Memoir
ial Hospital, Cumberland, last Satur-
day, where she had been a patient for
several weeks. Mrs. Setter is slowly
improving.
Mrs. C. F. Hammond and Mrs. Carl
Stone entertained with dinner party,
followed by cards, at the home of Mrs.
Hammond, last evening. There were
| four tables of Five Hundred and three
tables of Finch.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mazer and
infant daughter, Nancy Lou, of Sand
Patch, Pa, spent the weekend with
friends and relatives at Oakland and
Crellin. Mrs. Mazer was the former
Marguerite Forman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Stemple and
son were in Cumberland last Friday
where Mr.. Stemple attended a school
of instruction, on washing machine
for which his father, G. C. Stemple,
has secured the agency.
Mrs. George yelling entertained
members of st. Marks Circle of the
Pastors aid society of the Lutheran
church to turkey dinner at her home
on Wednesday. Fourteen were pres
ent. Mrs. yelling is president Of the
group.
Mr.. and Mrs. Post ]. Wright, Balti-
more, announce the birth of daugh-
ter on February %, at hospital i'll
| Baltimore. This is their second child
and daughter. Mrs. Wright was the
former Miss Grace Barkman, of near
Oakland.
Mrs. Frederick Thayer, Jr., was
hostess at luncheon yesterday in
honor of Miss Rebecca Thayer, who
| is home for a few days. Three tables
of bridge were in play. Miss Thayer,
teacher in Wooster college, Wooster,
| Ohio, will return to her duties this
weekend.
G. T. Umbarger, field supervisor for
the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
office, will be at the office of County
Agent Carter, Court House, on Thurs
day, April II, and Thursday, April
%, from 900 A. M. to 400 P, NJ, for
the purpose of taking emergency crop
| and feed loan applications.
! Harry L. Porter has resigned his
| position, which he has held for the
past two or more years, as supervisor
of the Farm Security Administration,
and has returned to his farm home
near Oakland Mr.. Porter's headquar-
tiers while in the employ of the Gov
eminent was at Grantsville.
At both the J. w. Jackson store and
the F. A. Smouse store improvements
are being made this week, while at
the w. A. Gender store Improvements
have been completed. In the Smouse