The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-09
GORTNER

come to cnufcn next sunday morn
ing and evening when services will be
conducted by the Brethren and w. C.
Dunson, of Hopemont.
The Union Sunday school contrib
uted 1928 for "Save the Children in
Europe"
Asa Murray is visiting at Red House
and Aurora.
A number of persons of this COM
munity attended the Forest Festi-
val at Elkins on Friday, among them
being Will WEIGH, Roy Lee and family,
Mrs. Anna Bittinger, Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard Swartzentruber, Mrs. Paul
Welch and son Billy, Walter Schloss-
nagle.
Miss Frieda Lichty was home from
Meyersdale, where she is employed,
over the weekend
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Swartzentruber
and daughter Miss Harriet, Misses
Fannie and Leah Beachy, of Aurora,
spent the week lend at Hartville, o.
The Misses Beachy remained there
while Mr.. and Mrs. Swartzentruber
and daughter went on to Goshen, Ind,
to visit the formers father, Lewis
Swartzentruber and family.
Nina and Glenn Flint were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Durr at Thomas,
on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George White, of I'm
derwood, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Swartzentruber and Mr.
and Mrs. Harold White.
Young folks of this community at
tending party honoring Miss Ruby
Fike last Thursday evening were John
and Helen Schlossnagle, Herbert, Sam,
Barbara and Cleda Friend and Delbert
Swartzentruber.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jenkins and
Mrs. George Jenkins, Jr., of Eel
louisville, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Welch.
A motor accident which may have
had serious consequences but fortu-
nately did not occurred Monday when
cars, driven by Roy Harvey and Will
liam Friend, came together. No one
was seriously injured.
Jerry and Mary Yoder, Norfolk,
Va; Miss Sarah Eichorn and Ernest
Maust, of Salisbury, Pa, were guests
on Tuesday of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Yoder.
Miss Lena Slabach and Mrs. Albert
Sisk spent Tuesday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Shaffer at Red House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Bittinger,
Baltimore, were home over the week
end.
Mrs. Mary Grove and George and
Blanche Grove spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Martin at Sunny
side.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Miller, Accident,
Misses Nellie mad Martha Schloss-
magic, of Baltimore, were guests on
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Schlossnagle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Gnegy, of Red
House; Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Slabach,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Gnegy and son Troy,
of Pleasant Valley; Miss Lena Slabach
and Sam Slabach, with Mr. and Mrs
Albert Sisk were in Bittinger on Sun
day visiting Mrs. Lydia Stark and
Mrs. Elizabeth Hetrick.
Mrs. Ed Hesse and son Richard Wis
tied Mr. and Mrs. E. o. Wonderly in
Pleasant Valley on Monday evening.
Mrs. Al Fike, of Eglon, visited her
father, Thomas Grove, on Thursday.
Mrs. Lewis Beachy has recovered
from an attack of quinsy.
Noah Lichty is able to be about
again following a severe siege of
sciatica rheumatism
Mrs. Mary Grove and son George
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Arnold
at Eglon on Monday.
Marshall Biser, who has been en-
ployed in dairy near Philadelphia,
Pa, has been at his home the past two
weeks recovering from injuries he re-
ceived in a motorcycle accident.
Mrs. All Fike, Eglon; Mr.. and Mrs.
Rufus Lipscomb, Leadmine, and Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Friend, of Silver Knob,
visited Ed Hesse and family on Sun
day.
Lloyd Alexander and family, Acct
dent, spent Sunday at Paul Welch's.
Miss Louella Snyder, who was en-
The stock of merchandise and real
estate at Gortner lately owned by W.
E. Spoerlein and sold by him to his
son Ernest is undergoing radical
changes. The merchandise is being
disposed of and when the sale is
over the store room will be remodeled
into poultry house. This community
which enjoyed the accommodations
Offended by a country store for so
years, will find it hard to become adj
justed. Mr.. and Mrs. Spoerlein have
moved into a cottage adjoining the
dwelling formerly owned by them.
Mrs. Ida Mae Larson, who was en-
ployed by the Spoerleins, has. re-
turned to Petersburg, West Va.
ployed at Mrs. Harold Whites, re-
turned to her home at Sunnyside on
Monday.