The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-05-14
AURORA-EGLON

At $50 o'clock Sunday evening
May 10, at quiet ceremony in the
Lutheran parsonage at Red House
the Rev. A. X. Jones, pastor, read the
VOWS uniting in marriage Mrs. Kath
crime Myrtle Howell, As, of Aurora
widow of the late Rev. Loring M
Howell, former pastor of the Aurora
Methodist church, and Reuben Elder
Smith, 81, B. & O. Railway operator
and agent at Petroleum, West Va. The
couple will make their home in Petro,
| leum.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Harsh an.
nounce the birth of son, Earl Calvin
on Wednesday, May 6, at their home
in the Accident community. This is
their first child. The mother was tbs
former Miss Bernice Sell, daughter of
Mrs. Grace Sell and the late Ray Sell
of near Eglon.
Sergeant John Arnett, who is sta
toned at Albuquerque, New Mexico
spent the weekend with relatives at
Aurora.
Word has been received here that
Mrs. Fike, wife of the Rev. Earle
Fike, is a patient in a Stanton, Va.
hospital. Rev. Fike was formerly OF
Eglon and a former instructor in the
Aurora High school,
Mrs. Harvey Wolfe is quite ill at
her home near Red House. Mrs. Wolfe
was the former Miss Nellie Wotring
of near Brookside.
Lawrence Arts, of near EglOn, went
on Monday to Potomac Park, Md.
where he has employment.
Recent out-of-town visitors at the
home of Mrs. Eva Davis at Aurora
were Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Hickey, of
Cumberland; Mrs. E. V. Anderson
Miss Fannie Anderson and Hal Ander-
son, of Terra Alta.
Miss Nettie Cole, who is at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Hathaway
at Oakland, spent the weekend with
her sister, MIS-. Wilmer Harsh, il
Eglon.
Mrs. Homer Fikc operated the Egg
lon telephone exchange on Wednes-
day while Mrs. Gertrude Snyder, the
regular operator, assisted her daugh-
ter-in-law with the spring planting
/ DR.. and Mrs. Harry Werner, of Ak
ron, Ohio, were guests on Sunday
at the home of the Doctors Miller, in
Eglon.
/ Quintcr Slaughbaugh, of near Egg
Ion, and teacher in the Accident
school, received his call for service in
the armed forces and will leave King
wood on Friday for camp near
Stanton, Va. His wife, the former
Miss Eileen Forman, of Aurora, has
secured employment near the camp
and will go also on that day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Evans, of Penn.
/ sylvania, came on Friday to the home
of Mr.. Evans parents near Horse Shoe
Run. On Sunday they visited at Mrs
Evans home at Douglass and while
there their automobile caught fire ano
was destroyed. They returned to their
home in Pennsylvania by bus.
Mrs. John Shillingburg, who was a
surgical patient in the Wenzel Hos
pital at Meyersadale, Pa, returned
on Tuesday to her home near Brook.
side.
Weekend guests at the home OF
Rev. and Mrs. Ezra Fike, Eglon, were
Rev. and Mrs. Joe Miller, Earle, Jr
and Betty Lou Fikc, all of Broadway
! Va; Virginia Lois Fikc, of Bridgewa-
ter, Va; Mrs. Olive Huffman I'D two
children, Of Richmond, Va, who had
been at the home for two weeks, and
Dr. and Mrs. jerome Arnett and in,
/ FAINT. of Cleveland, Ohio. DR.. Arnctt
returned on Sunday to Cleveland
where he will have few weeks yet OF
inferno work in hospital. Mrs. Arnett
and child remained at Eglon where she
will plant garden preparatory tc
their locating there in the month OF
July.
Mrs. Myrtle Shillingburg. who has
been a patient in state hospita
since November, returned on Sunday
to the Nome of her father, Isaac Wot-
ing, Aurora.
Mrs. Catherine Kookcn. of Hyatts.
vile, spent the weekend with hcl
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Aher.
nathy, of Aurora, W. Va.
Visitors at the home of Mr.. anC
Mrs. Arthur Alternately on Mothers
Day were Mr.. and Mrs. J. Kirk Cos.
ner and family Of Oakland; Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Shaffer and family, Of
Pierce, W. Va; Mr.. and Mrs. Otis
Sell, of Pierce, W. Va; A. r. Taylor
of Fairmont, and Mrs. Catherine
Kooken, of HysttSvillc. Mrs. Rocker
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