The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-15
Local Neqvs

Miss Edith Bolden entertained with
three tables Of Bridge nj her home
last evening. aud will also entertain
sixteen guests this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Florance. Pur-
cellvillc, Va, are guests Of their SON
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilbur Close, for two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. James Nordeck were
in McConnellsburg, Pa. over the week
end visiting his brother and sister-in-
law. MIR. and Mrs. Eugene Nordeck.
Mrs Ira j. Bosley. Wellsboro, Pa,
spent several days here this week in
connection with business at the Oak
land bakery.
Mr. and Mrs Weston Dodson, Ar
lngtou. Va. spent the week end here
with the latter's sisters. Mrs. r. G..
McComas and Mrs. Margaret Ne
Comas.
J. Ankeny and Mrs II. II. Ankeny,
Pittsburgh, visited w. J. Sewers at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Hardesty, Pennington street, last Sat
urday.
A meeting of members of the Oak
land AmVets will be held tomorrow
evening at $ o'clock in the club rooms
to discuss the formation of baseball
team for the coming season.
Members of the Lutheran Brother
hood went to Mt. Lake Park on Sun
day evening and presented a large
letter Bible to the Kiser Nursing home
and also held short service.
Miss Peggy Riley. who had been
receptonist in the office of DR.. f. l..
Baumgartner. started work at the
Garrett National Bank on Wednesday.
Her position is being filled by Miss
Betty Hoover, Gormania.
J. f. Sewers, Davis, W. Va, who
had been critically i'll for the past
two months, is slowly improving Mr.
Sewers is a brother Of Mrs. Walter
Hardesty, W. J. Sewers and Mrs.
Minnie Cunningham, Oakland.
Mrs. Hugh Echard entertained mem
bcls Of her bridge club on Tuesday
Mrs. +. X. Jones was hostess to mem
bers of her bridge club last Saturday.
and Mrs. Thornton Deffinbaugh will
enter tain her club members this even
ing.
Mrs. Marshall Harvey, formerly en-
ployed as a nurse at the Garrett
County Memorial hospital, has ac-
copied a position as instructor Of
nurses in Memorial hospital, Cum
berland, and will assume her new
duties in the near future.
r. /. Winklepleck, with the agricul-
ture department Of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, was in the county yes
tcrday continuing his plans in CO.
operation with the County Extension
service, for project in raising cauli-
flower here this summer.
Miss Elaine B. jenkins, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin jenkins, Of
Swanton, has accepted a stenOgraphic
position on the staff Of the Cclanese
Corporation in Cumberland. Miss
Jenkins is a graduate Of Oakland
High School with the class of 1919,
and has been attending Californian
Business School, Cumberland, since
September 1850, taking the steno-
graphic course.
DR.. f. l. Baumgartner, Secretary
and Treasurer of the Maryland
Academy of General Practice, left
yesterday for San Francisco, Calf,
to attend the Annual Assembly Of the
American Academy of General Prac-
tice. Dr.. Baumgartner will lead a
panel discussion and will deliver an
address on post Graduate Activities
of Members" at the Conference of
State Officers, which is being held in
CONJUNCTION with the Scientific Assem-
bly,. He plans to return to Oakland on
March %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harland II. Hardesty
and Mrs. Sarah Ackman, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, were visiting the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Har
desty on Sunday. Sunday guests also
were DIN Hardesty and children
Sherry Lou and Vaughn, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lester burst and son Donald, Of
Springs, Pa. Recent visitors at the
Hardesty home were MIR. and Mrs.
Anthony Damiano, Davis, w. Va;
Mrs. Ray Show Of Confluence, Pa.
A reception and dinner at the Little
Tea House in Washington followed the
christening on Sunday Of Stephen
William Robinson. son of Mai and