The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
LOCAL NEWS

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Ray Custer, of near Swanton, was
an Oakland visitor Friday.
George w. Loar was a business
visitor in Grafton on last Saturday.
W. S. Upole, Altamont community,
visited Oakland on business last Fri
day.
Clarence C. Sharpless, of Kitzmiller,
was a business caller at The Republi-
can office on Saturday.
Stewart Stahl, Jennings, and J. B.
Emory, Bittinger, We're business Wis
itors in Oakland on Wednesday.
Mr. Roy Lee is engaged in cutting
props on the property Of Mrs. w. B.
Burruss, Hemlock Hollow, near town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Nine, of Phila-
delphia, are visiting Mrs. Mines par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. V. Schaeffer, in
Mountain Lake Park.
Mrs. John Ault returned to her home
here from Cumberland last Friday
after having visited her daughters in
that city for several weeks.
Miss Margaret Kahl, Cumberland,
was here for a few days recently with
her father, H. w. Kahl, returning to
Cumberland Tuesday morning.
Miss Gladys AronhaIt, Washington,
D. c., spent a few days recently in
Oakland where she visited her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel B. Aron-
halt.
A benefit card and bingo party will
be held in the Mountain Lake Park
school building on Friday evening,
February 7, beginning at 1880 o'clock.
Card tickets will be 25 cents.
Rev. Minor Sprague, pastor of st.
Paul's Methodist church, accompanied
by Mrs. Sprague, left Oakland yester-
day by motor for Birmingham, Ala
bama, for stay of two weeks or
longer.
Charles Moon and daughter, Key
ser, w. Va, were visiting Mr.. Moons
mother, Mrs. George Moon, on Sun
day Mrs. Moon has been quite i'll fol-
more than three weeks as a result of
an attack Of influenza.
The Mothers Club will meet at
the home of Mrs. Stanley S. Stahl on
Tuesday evening, January %, at eight
o'clock. Mrs. Stahl and Mrs. f. D. Bit
tie will be the hostesses. Dir. DuPuy
will be the speaker at the meeting.
Six local attorneys, Neil C. Fraley
Julius C. Renninger, w. R. Offutt,
Walter w. Dawson, E. R. Jones and
Lewis R. Jones, attended the annual
banquet of the Allegany County Bar
Association held in Cumberland on
Saturday.
Rev. Garrett Evans, pastor of the
Mountain Lake Park Methodist
church, was the guest speaker at the
weekly luncheon meeting of the local
Rotary Club last Friday evening. Rev
Evans address centered about the
defense program of the nation anC
was quite interesting and instructive
Stanley S. Stalh, who has been asso
ciated with the Bowman Auto Sup
ply Company of Cleveland, Ohio, fol
the past two years, has resigned thai
position and is now associated with
the Ralph Plitts Garage in Oakland
Mr.. Stahl has had previous experience
in the garage business, having beer
in the employ of another Oakland
concern for some years.
Milburn Mann, Jr., Is, son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. W. Mann, has beer
awarded a candid type camera as one
of the prizes offered in contest fol
photographs offered through a Cum
berland store recently. Last summer
while at the Worlds Fair the youth
took a picture of giraffe in Frank
Bucks Jungleland and his entry OF
the picture in the contest brought the
award to him last week.
William Ellis, aged about 25 years
said to be from Morgantown, West
Va, was admitted to Memorial Hos
pital, Cumberland, on Tuesday after
he was picked up at Keyser's Ridge
in Garrett county, suffering from az
epileptic fit and a severe cold. Ellis
was taken to the hospital by State
Trooper Carl G. Storm, who is located
in the Grantsville community.
Among those from Oakland WHIT
attended the Inauguration in Wash
ington, D. c., Monday were DR.. anc
Mrs. E. l. Baumgartner Mr.. and Mrs
Paul Turney, Mr.. and Mrs. james
Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. William Nc
Robbie, Miss Rita Lawton, Albert Wal
ter and Wendell Turney Mr.. anC
Mrs. Pollock and Mr.. and Mrs. TurneS
also visited Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Tar