The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-02-20

Delbert DAVIS, cashier OF the FIRST
National Bank, was in Baltimore on
business this week.
Members of the Owls club are be-
ing entertained this evening at the
home of c. Milton Sincell.
Elvin Imam, former Oakland resi-
dent, and now a member of the State
Forestry Service, was a business Wis
tor here last week.
Members Of the Oakland Girl Scout
troop have planned a tea for their
mothers at the scout hall on Friday
afternoon at 4 o'clock
Women's Society general meeting
will be held next Thursday at 2:30 at
st. PauIs Methodist church. All wo-
men of the church are requested to at
tend.
Sunday, March 2, is "Methodist Day
Of Compassion" when the unfortunate
victims of war will be remembered.
The church as a whole desires to raise
"a Million for Mercy"
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Hathaway,
Kirk Cosner, Mr.. and Mrs. Max Oren-
dorf and Robert Gimmell were among
those attending a banquet at the
Moose Hall, Terra Alta, w. Va, on
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Elizabeth Williams and daugh-
tiers, Misses Kathryn and Jean Will
liams, Ashland, KY, stopped off here
short time on Sunday with the for
mer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Townshend, enroute to Washington,
D. C.
Miss Jane Kahl, Washington; Miss
Margaret Kahl and Miss Mary Wilson,
of Cumberland, left here yesterday
morning for their respective cities of
employment latter having been at
the Kahl home near town for several
days.
Members of St. Marks Circle of St..
Marks Lutheran church will make
doughnuts each Tuesday, beginning
Tuesday, February Is, and continuing
until Easter. Orders may be given to
Miss Elizabeth Leary, Mrs. George
yelling or Mrs. j. G. Robinson.
August Hanft, of the Stone House
Farm, near GrantsviIle, is spending
this morning in Oakland on business.
Tuesday Mr. Hanft, with his family,
will leave the Grantsville community
for Hartford county, Md, where he
will be in charge of a stock farm.
Harry NJ. Robinson visited his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. V. Robinson, of
Mount Jackson, Va, over the week
end, and was also called to Wood
stock, Va, to undergo his physical
examination in connection with his
years compulsory military training.
Paul limbaugh went to Cumber-
land on Tuesday, returning to his
home at the power house on Wednes-
day, accompanied by Mrs. limbaugh
and daughter Betty Lou, the latter of
whom had undergone an appendix OPP
GRAFTON in Memorial hospital the week
before.
Mr.. and Mrs John Michael and son
John Michael, Jr., motored to Fair
mont, W. Va, on Sunday to visit Mr..
and Mrs. Michael's son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Smouse.
Mr., Smouse recently secured a posi-
ton with the Imperial Ice Cream
company in that city.
Lewis R. Jones, chairman of the
finance committee of the Deep Greek
District, Boy Scouts of America, stated
that in connection with the finance
drive here beginning ON February 81,
DR.. Thomas Bess, Keyser, would de-
liver a Scout message over radio sta
tion WTBO on Thursday, February
27, from GAS to 700 o'clock.
Among those from out-of-town here
to attend the funeral services for the
late H. W. Kahl were Mrs. Mary A.
Gies, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gies and
Mrs, ALIVE Morton, Frostburg; Mr..
and Mrs. George Kieffner, Mrs. Henry
Kieffner, Mrs. Robert Morton, Miss
Hilda Schade and Mrs. Fred Brown,
Cumberland; Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace
Kahl and Mrs. Julius Spitzler, Union
town, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. George Georg,
Lewis Kahl and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Spoerlein, Accident, and Mr.. John
Barr, of Fairmont, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hervey Bittner left
here Saturday night for indianapolis,
Ind, to visit Mrs. Bittner's brother,
Donald Junkins, who is a member of
the 201st Infantry now located at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis.
The young soldier has been quite i'll
of pneumonia and complications for
more than week prior to Mr., and
Mrs. Bittner's visit, they having been
called to Indianapolis in response to a
message from Rev. w. P. Cline, chap
lain of the regiment.