The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-02-13

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tied at Happy Hills Farms, east of
Grantsville, on Tuesday evening.
Newton Coplin and Dan Honick mo-
tored to Pittsburgh this morning on
business for the Half-Price Stores.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Edward Offutt had
as their dinner guests on Saturday
evening Mr.. and Mrs. Neil c. Fraley
and Lawrence NJ. Fraley.
Miss Geraldine Kahl, Baltimore, ar
rived in Oakland last night, having
been summoned here on account of the
death of her grandfather, the late
H. w. Kahl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul McIntire LEFT
Oakland on Tuesday for points in
Florida, their objective being Miami,
where Mr.. McIntire's mother, Mrs. C.
N. McIntire, is now a tourist.
Paul McIntire, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul McIntire, was taken to Me
mortal Hospital, Cumberland, yester-
day evening. The child was stricken
with appendicitis earlier in the day.
Miss Margaret Rudy, student in
Western Maryland college, is at her
home here, recovering from an attack
of Influenza Her father, I. R. Rudy,
drove to Westminster last Thursday
and brought her home.
DR.. A. E. Nance moved his office
several days ago to his new building,
corner Third and Center streets. AL
though the entire building is in an
incomplete condition, his office rooms
are finished and has been receiving
patients there since the first of the
present MONTH
The Ever-ready Circle of the Luth-
eran Pastors Aid Society will meet
at the home of Mrs. George Fulk on
Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, and
the Dorcas Circle will meet at the
home Of Mrs. Karl F. Kahl on We'd
nesday evening, February 49, The
members are requested to bring their
banks.
Mrs. L. NJ. Fraley was summoned to
Cleveland, Ohio, the latter part of last
week by reason Of the extreme illness,
as the result Of a stroke of paralysis
suffered by her sister, Mrs. William
Reichert, who remains in a Cleveland
hospital. Mrs. Fraley will be met upon
her return to Oakland in Pittsburgh
today by Mr.. Fraley.
Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. A. Spencer
Harrison have announced the mar
riage of their daughter, Margaret
Frances, to Mr.. Richard Webb, which
occurred at Stockton, Calf, on Sat
urday, January IS. Mrs. Harrison was
formerly Miss Sue Shirer, a resident
of Oakland. She is a sister of Miss
Katherine Shirer, Alder street.
Mrs. Margaret McComas visited
her daughter in Hood college, Freder-
lex, over the weekend. She was ac-
companied to Hagerstown by Miss
Mary Louise Helbig, who visited her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Thayer. Her mother, Mrs.
A. w. Helbig, who had been visiting
in Hagerstown, returned to Oakland
with them.
An annual party for employees Of
the C. & P. Telephone Company of the
Western District of Maryland, was
held on Friday at Hagerstown and
was attended by the following en-
ployes Of the Oakland office: Miss
Mary Harsch, Mrs. Huldah Littman,
Misses Mary Louise Thayer, Martha
Mitchell, and Messrs. w. Russell Pan
cake and K. B. Ba1ncord.
Oliver M. Smouse spent Tuesday in
Cumberland, having accompanied his
sister, Mrs. Stanley Bond and her son
Stanley to that city where the latter
is a patient in Memorial Hospital. The
child had been extremely i'll for week
before being taken to the institution
where his ailment was stated to be
deep sinus infection. Mrs. Bond is
remaining in Cumberland with her
son.
County Superintendent of Schools
Franklin E. Rathbum, accompanied by
Mrs. Rathbun, went to Baltimore on
Tuesday where Mr.. Rathbun met with
other county uperintendents Of the
State and today he is meeting with
the Educational Committee of the
House of Delegates at Annapolis. Mrs.
Rathbun remained in Baltimore as a
guest of her son and daughter-in-law,
DR.. and Mrs. Howard Rathbun.
D. o. Decker, to whose bedside Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Decker were called last
week, died in hospital in Columbus,
Ohio, last Thursday morning. Funeral
services were conducted Saturday in
New Matamoras, Ohio, home of the
deceased. Mr.. and Mrs. Decker re-
turned to Oakland on Saturday night