The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-07-08


Mr.. and Mrs. P. J. Rowan.
D. L. Bethel, of the Bittinger COM
munity visited The Republican office
Tuesday while in town transacting
business.
Mrs. D. Edward Offutt entertained
members Of St Marks Lutheran cir
Gle at her home on Second street ON
Wednesday afternoon.
Edwin G.. Lancer, now employed at
the General Electric plant in Balti-
more, spent the weekend here with
his wife and daughter.
Mrs. c. N. McIntire and members
of her family attended the funeral Of
relative. Mrs. Lura McEntire, in
Elkins, W. Va, yesterday.
Mrs. P. B. Henry, Of Fairmont, w.
Va, was weekend guest of her SON
in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs.
Felix G. Robinson, south Of town.
Mr.. and Mrs Ralph Thayor, of
Hagerstown, spent a day or two in
Oakland with relatives and friends,
returning to Hagerstown Monday.
Members Of the Everready Circle
of St. Marks Lutheran church will
meet with Mrs. Bert Welch at 500
o'clock Friday evening of this week.
Lieut.. Gg) and Mrs. John McIn-
tire, of Washington, D. c., announce
the birth of daughter in Columbia
Hospital, Washington, last Thursday
morning, July /,
! Dr. and Mrs. H. R. DuPuy, Mar
! tinsburg, w. Va, are vacationing ut
Mountain Lake Park Dr.. DuPuy was
formerly a county health officer in
T Garrett county.
( Ralph Plitts entertained few
friends at dinner at Fixes last eve
ming in honor of his half brother, Pfc.
Don King, and Pfc. Robert Root, who
are on fuIlough.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Donovon and two
daughters, Of Pittsburgh, Pa, spent
Monday and Tuesday as guests of
Mr. and Mrs Paul Tulney at their
homo on A ldpr street
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold G. Gortner
/ and Delbert Davis were in Salem, W.
! Va, on Sunday attending the funeral
Of Lee Davis, a relative, who died at
/ Salem on Thursday
At the organization Of the fresh
man class at the State Teachers col
/ lege at Frostburg, Harriet Glotfelty,
of Grantsville High school, was
named vice-president
Dr. and Mrs. Howard X Rathbun
and son, of Baltimore, have arrived in
/ Oakland to spend ten days with the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. E,
Rathbun, on Fifth street.
Mr.. and Mrs William D. Reese
have as their guests the formers sis
ter, Mrs. A. L. Allen, and son, Of
Washington Court House, Ohio, and
Mrs. Reese's sister, Mrs. J. E. Ran
dolph, and daughter, of Charleston,
West Va.
Mrs. Anna Smouse, leader of circle
three of the Women's Society of
Christian Service Of the Methodist
church, announced that the members
of the group would hold a rummage
sale in the McIntire building, in the
room adjacent to the Princess Shop,
on Saturday, July 10.
Mrs. D. Edward Offutt entertained
with a pink and blue" shower last
Thursday evening in honor of Mrs.
julius Renninger, il. -Four tables of
bridge were in play. Honors were won
by Mrs. Walter E. Dawson, with Mrs.
George Hanst second, Miss Mary
Louise Helbig third, and Miss Edith
Bolden, consolation.
Louis Nevin from the Associated
Press office in Baltimore, who, with
his wife, was spending his vacation
at the Harrington Manor State For
est, was called to Baltimore on Mon
day night, having received an assign
ment as foreign news correspondent
in London Mr.. Nevin, prior to his
Baltimore assignment, had been cor
respondent in Madrid, Spain, and
/ Paris, France. He was in Paris at the
time of the German invasion and had
to leave hurriedly just before the
Germans entered the city,
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