The Republican., 1946-05-16

w. l.. Otto, SWanton, was in Oak
land Saturday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Russell Pancake,
Cumberland, visited friends in Oak
land on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Brenneman
and son, of near Accident, were in
Oakland Tuesday on business.
Mrs. Walter Holler and son Dale,
returned to Oakland Tuesday from
weeks visit with relatives in Union
town, Pa.
Thomas Sweeney, who is visiting at
the home of Mrs. 0. T. Treacy, enter
tanned few of his friends at cards
last Thursday evening.
Misses Mary Louise and Nell Hell
big and Mrs. Helen Thayer are spend
ing this week in Cumberland, Hag-
erstown and Washington.
Lieut., Commander Walter E. Daw-
son, Washington, D. Ca, spent the
weekend here with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter W. Dawson.
Mr. and Mrs. John Sweeney, Miss
Cora Frantz, Mrs. Nell Shaffer and
daughter Betty were Cumberland
shoppers last Friday
Miss Margaret Keller, of Union
town, Pa, visited Miss Julia Ann Ar
onhalt at her home on Pennington
street one day last week
DR.. and Mrs. Thomas Bess, Keyser,
W, Va, and George Harris, of Wash
ington, were breakfast guests of Dr.
and Mrs. E. l. Baumgartner last Fri
day.
Julius c. Renninger, Washington,
D. c., was in Oakland last weekend,
at which time his mothers home on
Second street was sold at private sale
to c. c. "Dick" Helbig.
Mrs William E. Naylor, Mrs. Lewis
R. Jones, Mrs Melvin Kight and Ar
thur LaWton attended a meeting of
the Order of Easter Star in Cumber-
land last Friday evening. They were
accompanied to Cumberland by Lewis
! R. Jones who visited W. Russell Pan
cake.
Miss Grace Jones will be in Balti-
more the week of May goth attend
ing lectures at the Children's Hos
/ pital school, University of Maryland
! hospital, Herman and Johns Hopkins
hospitals, in connection with the pub
lie health work for services for Grip
pied children.
Mrs. Mary Snyder, of Brookside,
4 W. Va, sister of King Fike, of Dal-
+ hart, Texas, continues to improve at
her brothers home in Dalhart from
an operation performed on her feet
by a Fort Worth specialist in recent
weeks. According to an item in the
Dalhart Texan, it will be necessary
for Mrs. Snyder to remain off her
+ feet for seven weeks.
Mrs. Eta Sanders was hostess at
a surprise birthday party in honor
of her sister, Miss DeSsle Rodeheaver
ct their home on Third street Mon
day evenig. Guests were Mrs. L. L.
Schooley, Mrs. Belle Nine and Miss
Hilda Winters, Mountain Lake Park;
Mrs. Emma Speicht, Mrs. Della Moo
nav, Mrs. Russell Beckman, Mrs.
Paul Mitchell, Mrs. Karl F. Kahl,
Miss Coral McRobie and Miss Grace
Falkenstein, of Oakland.
Members of the Garrett County
Council Of Homemakers clubs. includ-
ing presidents of the individuals or
Ganizations, met last Friday with Mrs.
Robert 7. Hoffman in the office of the
home demonstration agent. Plans
were made for attending the rural
Women's short course at the Univer-
sity of Maryland, June II to %, and
lother business matters were given at
! tention
Rev Minor Sprague, former pastor
Of St Paul's Methodist church in Oak
land, following a breakdown in his
| health, went to Tucson. Arizona. and
Is improving, but expects to remain
IN that area throughout the summer
months, according to a letter received
at The Republican office yesterday
He had been away from Oakland and
in his new field at Lewisburg, West
Va, but a short time when illness
compelled him to resign as pastor of
the Methodist church there. Mrs.
Sprague and children are at the for
mer's home in Poland, Ohio, for the
summer.