The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-01-01

III OdhldIlu Oh BUSINESS last saturday.
Mrs. J. j Rembold Eglon, W. Va,
was business visitor in Oakland on
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Reaford Purbaugh
and son spent Christmas day in Som
erset, Pa.
Mrs. Paul McTntre entertained
members of the Ritz club at her home
on Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Samuel Butt and Mr.. John For
man, Of Baltimore, spent Christmas
day with their home folk in and near
| Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sanders, of
Mt. Lake Park, announce the birth of
son, Joseph Lester, on Saturday
evening, December 81.
Jimmy Helbig returned to Welch,
w. Va, on Sunday after spending a
few days with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph E. Helbig.
Miss Alverta Dillon, instructor in
the schools at Washington, D. c.,
was a guest of Miss Crystal Elliott
a day or two this week.
Miss Rebecca Thayer, of Wooster,
! o., will return to that city on Sunday
after spending the holidays here with
her father, Mr. F. A. Thayer.
Members of the Butterfly club and
! their husbands were entertained on
Tuesday evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lowell Loomis, State road
Harold Cover, son of Mr.. and Mrs
! Chance Cover, was home for two
days, returning to Baltimore where
he is employed in the Sears Roebuck
store there.
James J. Jordan was a holiday
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Shobe
and family on Second street, return
ing to Camp Holabird, Baltimore, on
Sunday evening.
Holiday visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Sembower, near town, were
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Duston, Wash
ington, D. c., Mr.. and Mrs. Garland
Stansbury and twins, of Silver
Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest Vogt returned
to their home at Martinsburg, w.
Va, after being guests of the latter's
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. Kenneth Wilmington, over
Christmas.
Among those home from the army
for short vacations were Emerson
Fike and Herbert Turney, Aberdeen
Proving Grounds; William K Glot-
felty, Fort Dix, N. J.; James Jordan,
Camp Holabird, Baltimore.
Rev. and Mrs E. R. Thayer, of
/ Hillsboro, Va, Rev and Mrs. William
! B.JOrndorff and daughters, of Frost
burg, were Christmas day dinner
guests of Misses Irene and Mae
Thayer, at Deep Greek Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Michael and son,
John Michael, Jr., visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Smouse in Fairmont, W.
Va, on Sunday Ralph Smouse, Jr.,
accompanied them to Oakland to re-
main here for several days with his
grandparents.
Lieut.. j. Haig Jackson, who has
been patient in the hospital at Fort
knox, KY, suffering from an attack
of pneumonia, is reported improved.
His mother, Mrs. John W. Jackson,
Homecoming, had been called to the
camp on the day before Christmas.
Misses Josephine and Beatrice Hau-
ser, Washington, D. c., and Miss
Maxine Hauser, Kingwood w. Va,
spent Christmas with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Hauser. The
three girls left Saturday for Wash
ington, also accompanied by another
sister, Evelyn Hauser, and all expect
to remain there indefinitely.
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Bittle enter
tanned with four tables of Five Hun
dred at their home last Friday night.
Guests included Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hoffman,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Townshend Naylor,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell LOOMS, Mr.. and
Mrs. Delbert Davis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold NJ. Dawson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Julius B. Littman.
John Darby, Gainesville, Fla, was
a Christmas day visitor of his moth
er, Mrs. J. d. Darby, at the north
edge of town. Darby is a flying in
structor there and was able to remain
in Oakland only a brief time. Return
ing with him was Guy William Hine-
baugh, who continued to New Or
leans, La, to witness a football game
in that city on New Years day.
c. f. Batten, employe of the Inter
national Harvester Company, has
been transferred to the branch office
in Parkersburg, W. Va, and assumed