The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-04-17

Mr. A. T. Baker, of Verona, Pa,
visited relatives. here and in Hutton,
over the weekend.
Mrs. Harry Stemple was hostess to
members of her bridge club on Mon
day evening at her home.
Miss Elizabeth Stemple, Parsons,
W. Va, was here with her mother,
Mrs. Mary Stemple, over Easter.
Mrs. Lindsay Gender entertained
members of her bridge club at her
home on Alder street last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Holiday, Will
liam Wiley and Miss Kate Beachy, of
Grantsville, were business visitors in
Oakland today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Spoerlein
were guests of Mrs. Spoerlein's rela-
tives in Dinwiddie, Va, over the
Easter weekend.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs S. Town
shend Naylor over the weekend were
Miss Anna Shaw and Miss Evelyn
Fiege, of Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Field, who had
spent the past several weeks at
Miami Beach, Fla, returned to their
home in Oakland last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Bittle and two
children have returned from Fred
erick county where they spent the
Easter vacation with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weston Dodson and
daughter, of Harrisburg, Pa, were
weekend guests of Mrs. Dodson's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Sincell
Mrs. Elinor Hoye went to Wash
ington, D. c., last Friday where she
is visiting her sons and other rela-
tives and friends for a week or more.
Miss Alverta Dillon, of Washing
ton, D. c., former instructor in Oak
land High school, spent several days
in the county, with relatives and
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew C. Gender, of
Annapolis, were Easter guests of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Gender, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Blaine
Giessman.
Miss Ada Murphy, an employee of
the c.. and P. Telephone company, has
secured a leave of absence, due to i'll
ness. Mrs. Russell Pancake is filling
the vacancy at the switchboard during
her absence.
The eighteen-months old daughter
of Shirley Baker, East Oakland, was
i'll Monday night as result Of swal-
lowing a quantity of kerosene. There
We're no serious er-effects, accord
ing to the attending physician.
The Women's Society for Christian
| Service of the Methodist church is
meeting in the church this afternoon.
The executive council of the group
met at the home of Mrs. Ray Jones on
Monday afternoon for business ses-
sion.
The majority of the members of
the postoffice force held dutch
dinner Tuesday evening at Ander-
sons, on route so. Those present
were Joseph NJ. Gender, Robert Hoff-
man, Wade Mason, William Egger,
Merrill Crane, Paul Turney, George
Porter, Joseph Stanton and James
CAVITY.
Hopwood Wooddell, member of the
intelligence department of the U. S,
Army Air Corps, returned to his base
at Boiling Field, near Washington, d
c., after visiting his mother, Mrs
Sallie Wooddell and other relatives, for
a few days.
Richard Gender, of Elizabeth City
N c., who is on the staff of a daily
newspaper there, returned to that
city on Monday after spending a week
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas A. Gender. He will be in
Quoted into the army of the United
States within the next few weeks.
Charles Moon, Keyser, w. Va, and
Mrs. Oscar Liller, of Hopemont
w. Va, were Easter guests of their
mother, Mrs. George Moon, of neal
town. Willard Moon, a draftee, sta
toned at Fortress Monroe, Va, in
the coast artillery, was home for
Easter Willard is one of six who are
training with machine guns which
shoot shells weighing about three
pounds each. He left in the group on
March 20.
Among the students who spent the
Easter vacation at their homes here
were Lawrence Wensel and Erwin
Smith, Jr., of Strayers Business col
lege, Baltimore; Mary Virginia Bolden
Arthur Naylor, Jr., Edward Smouse
Mary Lyle Glotfelty and Loretta
Ashby, University of Maryland; Flea
nor Sincell, Fairmont State Teachers