The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-09-29


Mrs. Paul Naylor entertained mem
bers Of her bridge club at her home
last Friday. Nine honora were won
! by Mrs. F. A. Thayer.
Mrs. Thomas Bowman returned to
! Clermont, Fla, on Wednesday after
spending several weeks here with Mr..
and Mrs. +. r. Jones and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Thayer, Jr.,
and son Frederick were in Clarks-
| burg, Md, last weekend visiting
Mrs. T. E. Briggs, who has been i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Shreve, Sylvania,
Ohio, who were visiting relatives in
the Golmania section for two weeks,
were business callers in Oakland on
Saturday.
John Veader, instructor in Oakland
High school, who underwent on oper-
alton for the removal of his appendix
in a Morgantown hospital, has re-
sumed his duties.
! Willis V. Smith, scout executive,
Cumberland, and Earl S. Black, field
scout executive, Petersburg, were in
Oakland yesterday in connection with
scouting business.
Member Of the Tri-Mu Sunday
J School class of the Methodist church
are meeting this evening at o'clock
at the home of Mrs. Clifford A. Phil
4 lips, Mt Lake road
Miss Mary Louise Helbig was in
Hagerstown on Wednesday attending
a meeting honoring U. S. Senator
Herbert r. O'ConOr, at the AleXand
ria hotel there.
Mrs. L. X. Young, Of near Harris
burg. Pa; Mrs. G. Thomas Shields,
Linthicum Heights; and Mrs. Ray
mond Mccullough, Friendsville, We're
visiting friends in Oakland last week
Mrs. f. E. Rathbun, who came to
Oakland Sunday from Baltimore, re-
turned to that city on Wednesday to
remain with her husband, who is a
patient in Johns Hopkins hospital.
The latter is improving.
Truman c. Bittinger left Oakland
on Tuesday for Richmond, Va, where
he attended meeting of the Board
Of Directors of Southern States
Marketing cooperative, held in that
| city on Wednesday.
Mrs. Ruhl Talbot and son, Fair
mont, W. Va, spent Monday here as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Coplin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Wissinger, Of
near Johnstown, Pa, were guests Of
I Mr.. and Mrs. Coplin on Saturday.
Everett Dewitt, son of Mr.. and
I Mrs Arthur Dewitt, of Mt. Lake
Park, was taken to Memorial hospital,
! Cumberland, on Monday for an
emergency appendix operation. He
was taken to Cumberland in the
Bolden ambulance.
/ Robert Durr has returned to Wash
ington, D. c., where he will resume
! his studies at Georgetown Law school
after spending a weeks vacation
with his mother, Mrs. Margaret
Brennan. Miss Doris Wilmoth, who
has Eeen vacationing at Rehoboth
Beach, Del, visited Mrs. Brennan
before returning to her home at Bel
/ ington, W. Va.
Mrs. Carl Everly entertained with
a stork shower on Monday evening at
] her home on Third street, for Mrs. j.
William Owens, Jr. Thirty guests
were present. A blue, white and pink
umbrella, made by Mrs. John Veader,
! had the gifts attached to streamers
, fastened to the umbrella. Mrs. Floyd
| Wensel, Mrs. John Veader and Mrs.
! Doris Groves assisted Mrs. Everly il
! serving lunch.
Harry NJ. Hartman, Jr., forest
; supervisor at Swallow Falls State
! Forest, was named vice-president OF
! the states first forestry chapter of
! the Maryland Classified Employees
! Association at a recent meeting. Will
liam A. Parr, district forester, Cum
berland, was named president. Elmer
| Upole, senior forest supervisor for
this county, was named as delegate
! to the state convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Dawson re-
turned to Oakland on Sunday. Mr..
! Dawson completed two weeks of Ma
val reserve training duty with the Nor
folk group of the Atlantic Reserve
fleet He holds a reserve commission
of Lieutenant Commander. During
World War II he served with the
Fifth Naval District Intelligence Of
flee at Norfolk and with the Am
/ phibious forces in the Pacific. During
the latter he took part in four oper-
ations against the enemy. Mrs. Daw-
son had visited relatives in Washing
ton during his absence.