The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-08-14
GORTNER

Mr.. and Mrs. Lapp, Miss Rebecca
Lapp, and Mrs. Katie Biler, Lam
caster, Pa, called on Mrs. Albert
Sisk for short time on Tuesday
morning.
Come to church on Sunday. Services
to be conducted by the Brethren in the
morning and the United Brethren in
the evening.
The Brethren Ladies' Aid will meet
next Thursday at the home of Mrs.
w. E. Spoerlein.
Mrs. Ernest Spoerlein has returned
home from Dinwiddie, Va, where she
had been for some weeks with rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Swartzentru-
Der, Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Swartzen-
truber and son Richard attended the
reunion of the Lichty family near
Meyersdale on Sunday.
Miss Nellie Fulk returned home
on Sunday from Grantsville where she
had spent several weeks with her
aunt, Mrs. Alonzo Hardesty.
Ralph Lichty had tonsil operation
at Eglon on Thursday.
Gerald Miller and Henry Swartzen-
truber were home from Camp Grottos,
Va, over the weekend.
Yost Sunny and members of his
family, Meyersdale, were guests of
Henry Swartzentruber on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Swartzentruber
entertained with a picnic dinner in
honor of Gerald Miller on Sunday with
the following as guests Mrs. Edward
'Fakeman and son Philip, Baltimore:
Miss Helen Schlossnagle, Glenn Hoff-
man and Robert Martin, Oakland;
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Spoerlein, Darrell
and Marylyn Gnegy, Ray Livengood,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Gnegy and son
Troy, Ross and Mary Lichty and Mr..
and Mrs. W. E. Spoerlein.
Mrs. Howard Johnson's fifty-sev-
enth birthday anniversary was cele-
brated at her home here on Sunday
with a basket dinner. She was the re-
cipient of many gifts, among them
a beautiful birthday cake, gaily dec
Grated. Her children and grandchil-
dren were all present as we'll as other
relatives and many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Schlossnagle
and children and Miss Ruth Swiers re-
Gently visited Mr.. and Mrs. Guy San
ders in Fairmont.
Mrs. Harriet Beckman is critically
i'll at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
John Fulmer.
Elwood Beckman took number of
his neighbors to Terra Alta on Monday
near which place they spent the day
picking blackberries.
Mrs. Anna Bittinger visited Mrs.
D. j. Swartzentruber on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Newton, of
Akron, O., visited at C. w. Slabach's
Friday and Saturday.
Clarence Fulk and family, Miss Lena
Slabach, Mrs. Jennie Sanders, Mr. and
Mrs. Elwood Beckman, Sam Slabach,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sisk and Mr.. and
Mrs. Noah Slabach and their four
grandchildren attended the picnic din
ner at Lynndale Sunday, honoring
Rev. and Mrs. Critics.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Yoder, of Mey-
ersdale, visited relatives here on last
Sunday.
Mrs. Wilmer Yoder, Norfolk, Va,
recently underwent an operation in
a hospital. Mrs. Yoder was the for
mer Miss Carrie Wiles, of Gortner.
Mrs. Webster Slabach, of Cumber-
land, visited her children here before
leaving for visit with her home folks
in New York.
Charles H. Shaffer, of the United
States Patent Office, Washington, D.
c., is enjoying a vacation at his old
home at Mason.
George Grove and John Wilson, of
this community, were among those at
Camp Galilee on Sunday.
Mrs. Della Branton, of Pennsylva-
MIA, is the guest of Mrs. Anna Bittin-
ger this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul WEIGH attended
a picnic at New Germany on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Gnegy, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Beeghley, Mrs. Eta Kelley
and son, of Terra Alta, visited Mr..
and Mrs. Will WEIGH on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Wotring and Mrs.
Workings parents, of East Liverpool,
Ohio, were weekend guests at Walter