The Republican., 1942-06-18
LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. Hugh Echard entertained
members Of her bridge club at her
home on Monday evening.
Francis H. Cover has been ad-
mitted as a patient in the Veterans
Hospital at Perry Point, Md.
Chauncey NJ. Friend, of the Friends
Vile community, was business cal
Ter at The Republican office on Mon
day.
Miss Mary Townshend Naylor spent
several days last week as the guest
of Vivian Paugh at her home near
Oakland
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Stah and
infant Of Flushing, n. Y, are here for
visit with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stahl
and other relatives.
Mrs. Elmer Shawley, Mrs. Hettie
Doolittle and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Buckle. all Of the Bittinger commun-
ity were business visitors in Oak
land last Friday.
The Women's Society of Christian
Service of the Pleasant Valley Meth
odist church will have an all-day meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Paul Friend
ON Thursday, June 25.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Wareham and two chill
drcn, of Mt Vernon, Ohio, are visit
ing Mrs Wareham's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs A. D. Naylor, having arrived in
Oakland last Saturday evening.
Mrs. Weston Dodson and daughter
Miss Mary Louise Dodson, of Harris
burg, Pa, visited at the home Of Mrs.
Dodson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs H.
c. Sincell, Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Helen Thayer, who spent the
past month or more visiting in Iowa
with friends, returned to Oakland on
Saturday and is at the home Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew w.
Hebig.
Mrs. James Bowers, of Deer Park,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs Louis
Melnicoff, Morgantown, W. Va, hav-
ing returned with her daughter after
the latter had spent several days in
Deer Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin O. Fazenbaker
accompanied by their son Raymond,
and Dorothy and Russell Duckworth,
all Of the eastern section Of Garrett
county, near Westernport, visited in
Oakland on Monday.
Mrs. R. B. Purbaugh is in Pitts
burgh, Pa, having gone to that city
on Sunday, planning to remain
week with her sister, who is now re-
covering from a surgical operation
recently performed.
Mr. and Mrs Robert Ruckert, Of
Washington, d. c., came to Oakland
Monday evening for visit Of two
weeks with Ms. Ruckert's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Benz. H. Sncell and
other members Of the family.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Altstetter, Of
Clarion, Pa, have announced the birth
Of a daughter, born on June IS, at
Oil City Hospital, Oil City, Pa. Mrs
Altstetter is daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Stemple, Of Oakland.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Humberson
and daughter, of Detroit, Mich are
here with Mrs. Humbersons parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. V. Harvey, having
come to attend the funeral of the late
Mrs. Sarah Landon, mother of Mrs.
Harvey.
The Mount Bethel Sunday school
will have its annual picnic on July 4th
in Schmidt's Grove, one and one-half
miles east of Deer Park on the State
road. There will be a program in the
morning with music and speaking
throughout the day Refreshments and
sandwiches will be sold.
Miss Josie NJ. Iden and Miss Eva
Montgomery, teachers in the Crellin
school, left Oakland Friday for their
respective homes in Davis, West Va,
and Barton. Miss Grace Filler, of the
Red House school teaching staff, also
left here Friday for her home in
Frostburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Jennings, Wash
ington, D. c., are at Broad Oaks" ?"
Miss Daisy Harrisons home on the
Mountain Lake Park road, where they
have rented an apartment for the
summer They have termed their tenn
porary home "war emergency quar-
ters," and seem to be pleased with
Oakland and its people.
Journeying westward from their
home in st. Cloud Florida, DR.. and
Mrs. f. |. johnson broke the monot-
ony Of their trip by stopping in Oak
land last Thursday afternoon for a
visit until Saturday morning with Mr..
and Mrs Benz. H. Sincel, They had
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