The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-12-04
LOCAL NEWS

noon.
Miss Helen Schlossnagle spent the
weekend in Harrisburg, Pa, with
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laural Whipkey, OF
Fayette City, Pa, were weekend
visitors at their home here.
The Spring Glade school recently
awarded a turkey in prize contest 10
Arthur Naylor, of Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cheston H. Browning,
Jr., and Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver NJ. Smouse
visited friends in Weirton, West Va.
on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Bethel and son
Freeman, of the Bittinger community,
visited Oakland on a business mission
last Friday.
Miss Helen Hostetler has returned
to her home near town after having
visited at Johnstown, Pa, for the
past two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Denzil Bowyer have
moved from the Shirer apartment on
Alder street to a bungalow just COM
pleted by Lowell LOOMS on his prop
erty fronting Route 219, north of Oak
land.
Miss Ethel A. Miller, former Wei
fare Board executive secretary in Oak
land for two or three years, has re.
turned to her home in Baltimore fol
lowing a visit with DR.. and Mrs. B. f.
Selby.
Mrs. D. NJ. Dixon left Oakland on
Sunday evening for Toledo, Ohio. She
plans to spend the winter in that city
and with her sons and daughters in
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Hos
teller at their home near town over
the weekend were Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Kaufman, Mr.. and Mrs. Orval Boyer
and Leroy Boyer, all of Johnstown,
Penna.
Miss Icie Schoch, Alexandria, Va,
fell and broke her left arm last Sun
day, November %, when she accident
ally pitched down a flight of steps.
She is daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth
Schoch, of Crellin.
Donald M. Browning, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cheston H. Browning, Alder ST..
was given an athletic award at Mer
cersburg Academy for his ability in
soccer, according to a recent an
nouncement made at the school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Hathaway are
now occupying the home recently built
by Mr.. and Mrs Ralph Weber, south
Of town. The couple moved to the new
location the past week from the ]. P
Treacy dwelling, corner Third and
Crook streets.
Miss Margaret Kahl, nurse at the
Celanese Corporations works in Cum
berland, underwent major operation
at Memorial Hospital on Monday
morning. Her condition is said to be
satisfactory by hospital attaches.
Mrs. Samuel E. Wicker, Whining
ton, Delaware after spending a few
days in Oakland, returned to her home
Saturday evening, accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Sarah Ashby, who will
spend the winter in Wilmington with
Rev. and Mrs. Wicker.
DR.. B. Frank Selby returned to his
home in Oakland on Monday from
Memorial Hospital, in Cumberland,
where he received treatment for nasal
hemorrhages which he suffered on
last Friday. He plans to return to his
office within a few days.
Members of the Baptist Women's
Missionary Society of Mountain Lake
Park and Ferndale met with the Deep
Creek Lake Society last Thursday er-
ening for a joint mission study. Mrs.
Lola Orndorff was the teacher, using
the book Following His Train"
Circle No. A, WSCS Of the Metho.
dist church will meet next Wednes-
day afternoon, December 10, at 2:30
o'clock at the home of Mrs. F. A.
Thayer, Jr with Mrs. Thayer and
Mrs. Harold M. Dawson as joint host
esses. There will be an exchange OF
gifts.
Mrs. L. M. Fraley and Mrs. Frank
Kley jointly entertained large num-
Der of friends with a dessert bridge at
the home of Mrs. Fraley on Second
street last Friday evening. Ten tables
were in play. Honors were won by Mrs.
f. l. Baumgartner with Mrs. Harry
White, second; Mrs. Russell Brown
third; Miss Edith Bolden, fourth;
Mrs. Neil C. Fraley, fifth and Mrs
Edward C. Lawrence, consolation.