The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-11-20
LOCAL NEWS

Ralph /. mayer and son 1h0maS, OF
Hagerstown, were weekend visitors
with relatives in Oakland.
Mrs. Harry McRobie and Mrs. Cal
vim Cuppett visited friends in Cum
berland last Friday and Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs Porter Dewitt an
nounce the birth of a daughter at
their home on High street on Tues
day morning, November IS.
Mrs. j. Milton Fike, of the Friends
vile community, and her son, Glenn
c. Fike, of Baltimore, were in Oakland
Monday as business visitors.
Mrs. Elmer Haulenbeek, Jr., of Nc
Keesport, Pa, is spending this week
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Benz. H. Sincell, in Oakland.
Mrs. Vernie Smouse visited her
cousins, Mrs. Clyde Roseberry, in
Uniontown, Pa, and Mrs. NJ. E.
Frazee, in Connellsville, Pa, over the
weekend.
Mrs. Clayton Kitzmiller, of Loeb
Lynn Heights, was called to Elk Gar
den, West Va, on Saturday evening
on account of the sudden death of her
hrother-in-law, the late John Kitz-
miller
The Women's Society of Christian
Service of the Pleasant Valley COM
munity will meet at the home of Mrs.
Raymond Goodwin on Tuesday, Novem-
Der 25, at 10 o'clock. New members
and visitors are also invited
Mrs. Minor Sprague and two chill
dren, Barbara and Richard left
Wednesday night for Cincinnati, O.,
for visit with her brother, and
other relatives. Rev. Sprague will
join her Thursday evening
Lois Murray, eight-year-old daugh-
ter of Mrs. James R. Murray, who was
a patient in Memorial Hospital, Cum
berland, for several days because Of a
serious infection, has been brought to
her home here and is now much i'm
proved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Speicher an
family expect to move the last Of the
week to Accident, where Mr.. Speicher
has been transferred in tire work Of
the State Roads Commission. They
have resided in Oakland for the past
three years.
Members of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce are sponsoring Thanks
giving dance for Friday evening, No
vember 81, at the Manhattan Hotel,
from 900 to 100 o'clock. Raj phi Ben
der and his orchestra, of Frostburg,
are furnishing the music.
Rev. Felix Robinson returnd to his
home in Oakland on Tuesday after sew
eral days visit with relatives in Balt-
more. Rev. and Mrs Robinson and
members of their family are now in
Fairmont, West Va, to be guests of
relatives during the Thanksgiving
season.
About sixty members from the Mt.
Lake Park, Ferndale and Deep
Creek Baptist Sunday schools at
tended the Western District Baptist
Sunday School Association meeting
at Eckhart on Monday evening All
ten churches of the District were
represented, Deep Creek having the
largest number of thirty-four.
DR.. and Mrs. H. R. DuPuy, Martins
burg, West Va, were in Oakland last
Saturday evening visiting with friends
while enroute to Charleston, West Va,
for a meeting Of state health officials.
DR.. DuPuy was formerly ascounty
health officer here but accepted a posi-
ton as health officer in Berkeley
county, West Va, last September.
Miss Rosaiie McCarty, of Oakland
Calf, is a guest at the William james
Hotel for few days Miss McCarty IS
the granddaughter of Col. Isaac
McCarty, who founded Oakland and
owned the greater portion of the land
composing the town site at the time
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
butt through this section of the coun-
try. Col. McCarty's farm and home
was what is now the property owned
by T. c. Bittinger, short distance
south of town where he established the
first meeting house in the community
and from which sprung other
churches. He was a Methodist and
was responsible for the establishment
of the first church to be erected in
the town. Miss McCarty visited here
about two years ago. the first time in
more than fifty years. Monday eve
ming Mr.. and Mrs. E. Ray Jones enter
tanned the visitor at dinner at their
home on Second street. Other guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph E. Harmed.