The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-04-26

Mrs. William limbaugh and Miss
Gertrude Aronhalt were visitors in
Cumberland last Thursday
Miss Susy Smith entertained men,
bers of her bridge club at her home
on Alder street, Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Howard Naylor visited Miss
Ruth Ann Polling, in Fairmont, w. Va,
over the weekend.
Mrs. Karl F. Kahl is visiting Rev.
and Mrs Denver c. Pickens in Park
ersburg, W. Va, a few days this week
Mr.. and Mrs Jacob Jones and Paul
Weimcr, of Gormania, w. Va, were
in Oakland on Wednesday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Brenneman
and Mrs. Hettie Doolittle, Bittinger,
were business visitors in Oakland on
Tuesday.
Lieut., DldIlc LC"CltLti anu ldilllN ,
of Omaha, Nebraska, spent Thursday
visiting at the Ray Browning home
near Oakland.
Mrs. Willard Elliott returned to
Oakland on Monday after visiting
members Of her family at Paden City,
w. Va, for several days
Steve Wainer entertained number
of boys and girls at his home on
Green street last Sunday afternoon,
in honor Of his birthday anniversary,
Mrs Edwin S. True, of Oak Park,
Ill, who was visiting Mrs. Nina
Sharpe and Mrs Merton NJ. Smith,
Alder street, left on Tuesday to re-
turn to her home.
Members of the Oakland Girls All
club had a travel party last Wednes-
day evening, beginning at the home
of Miss Jane Reckard and concluding
at the home of Miss Nava Ann Helbig.
At the regular meeting Of the Order
of Eastern Star next Tuesday evening,
at o'clock, all members are arrang-
ing to bring a packaged gift to be
turned in to "the country store after
which they will be sold.
Mr.. and Mrs Wilbur E. Altstetter,
Baltimore, announce the birth of a
daughter Monday, April %. Mrs. Alt
stetter was a former resident of Cum
berland, while the Altstctter family
were former residents of Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Green, Swan
ton, were among those who attended
the dinner and meeting held by the
Young Republican club of Allegany
county at the Shrine Country club,
near Cumberland, on Tuesday evening.
Rev Elwood Hauser, who has been
pastor of Lutheran church in Bed
ford, Pa, for the past two or three
years, is leaving there Friday to enter
the u. S. Navy service as a chaplain.
lie is a former resident of Oakland.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs Miles Poin-
dexter, on Thursday, April 10, a son,
Miles III. Mrs. PondeXter was the
former Miss Ellen Jane Grimes, of
Mt Lake Park, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bushrod Grimes, now Of Rich
mond, Va,
Mr.. and Mrs. David Walter, Jr., and
daughter, Beverly Ann, of Pittsburgh,
Pa. came to Oakland Saturday, where
they visited the formers father, Dave
W. Walter, and other members of the
family, until Tuesday afternoon when
they returned to Pittsburgh
Mrs. Kenneth Graves, Misses Will
ma, Florence and Maxine Dixon, Of
Baltimore, spent Sunday with their
mother, Mrs. Asa V. Dixon, and family
near town. Mrs. Graves also visited
at the home of George Little and
family.
William r. Browning and William
WEIGH, of Oakland, were among the
many who attended the annual West
Virginia Hereford Breeders Associ-
alton show and sale held last Thurs
day at Jackson's Mill, w. Va. There
were % bulls and 40 junior heiferS
sold, all animals from accredited
herds. Bidding was spirited Forty
heifers averaged $377 per head, %
bulls brought average of 1857 per
head. The top female went at $1175,0C
while the top bull, senior yearling
brought $4,000. Messrs. Browning
and WEIGH were accompanied to Jack.
sons MIL bu the farmers y.1fs