The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-23
LOCAL NEWS

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Mrs. John Ault is visiting with her
daughters in Cumberland.
A. C. Winters and daughter Miss
Hilda Winters visited relatives in
Cumberland last Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Hinebaugh
quietly observed their fifty-third
wedding anniversary last Saturday,
October IS.
Erwin O. and Raymond Fazenbaker,
of the Westernport community, were
Oakland business visitors Saturday
of last week.
Mrs Edith Schlossnaggle and her
daughter, Miss Helen Schlossnagle,
visited in Cumberland Saturday and
spent Sunday with relatives in Acct
dent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Smith returned
from a vacation trip to Washington
last Thursday evening, after having
visited with relatives in the Capital
City.
Mrs. Paul Turney returned to Oak
land Tuesday from Baltimore where
she had been receiving treatment in
Johns Hopkins Hospital for several
days.
Mr.. and Mrs c. L. Briner, Jr., and
Mrs Gladys Hamill, motored to Fort
Belvoir, Va, on Sunday to visit the
latter's son, Stuart F. Hamill, Jr.,
who is stationed there
The Pastors Aid Society of Fern
dale Baptist church will have Hal
loween social on October 80, begin
ming at 600 o'clock, at the home of
Mrs. Harry McRobie, on Route PIG.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Day Mullinix and
son, of Silver Spring, visited at the
home of Mrs. .Mullinix's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. V. Leighton, in Loeb
Lynn Heights Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Newton Coplin returned to
Oakland Sunday after visit of a
week with relatives in Windber, Pa.
Mr. Coplin spent portion Of Sunday
at Windber, accompanying his wife
home.
Visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary
Lewis over the weekend was her son,
Robert Lewis, of the United States
Navy and Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Lewis
and members of their family from
Freeport, West Va.
Twenty-Five members of the Oak
land Fire Department attended wor-
ship services in a body last Sunday
morning at St. Marks Lutheran
church. DR.. A. B. Learner, pastor,
delivered the sermon.
Miss Grace F'alkenstein and Mrs.
Karl Kahl are spending this week at
Myersville, Md, where they are Wis
iting with their brother and sister-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Falken-
stein, and family.
John Darby who is flying in
structor in Gainesville, Fla, has re-
ceived orders to report to Tulsa,
Oklahoma, on November Is, as he
had been accepted as Flying Cadet
in the Army Air Corps.
Snyder Neville is exhibiting some
large potatoes which he raised on a
small plot of ground in back of his
home on Third street. They are the
Mason variety and each one weighed
around pound. He sprayed frequent
ly with bluestone and lime mixture.
William Bittinger, former resident
of this county, now of Akron, o., in
company with John Miller, also of
Akron visited at Mr. Bittinger's for
mer home in the county a few days
last week, motoring to Oakland Sat
urday where they spent portion of
the day.
Mr. and Mrs. Cramer Gibson, of
Kingwood, w. Va, have announced
the birth of daughter in a Clarks-
burg hospital one day last week. Mrs.
Gibson was formerly Miss Mary Lee
Coffindaffer, who has spent her sum-
mers at Mt Lake Park for a number
of years with her mother.
Mr.. Keith Jamison and two daugh-
tiers, Betty and Judy, Mrs. James
Jones and Mrs. James Mallow, of
Middlebourne, w. Va, were guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Butt
on Saturday. They also had as guests
on Sunday, William Bennett and
family, of Salem, W. Va.
George B. Shields, who gave up his
position as deputy game warden sew
eral months ago when he was drafted
into the army, has returned to Oak
land and has resumed his position
Mr. Shields was one of those who was
honorably discharged from the serv-
ice because of recent ruling of the
war department releasing draftees rs