The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-02-15
Local Nepvs

Miss nellie Shaffer is spending sew
eral days in Wheeling, w. Va.
Herbert Pope and Forrest Michael
of the Grantsville section. were bust
ness callers in Oakland ON Monday
Mrs. W W. Grant is able to be out
again after having been confined tC
her home fer ten days or more ON ac-
count Of illness.
Miss Lillian Helbig, r. ~, Balti-
more, is spending this week with hen
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Teets.
Next Thursday, February %,
Washngton's Birthday, being a legal
holiday, the banks of Oakland will
not be open for business on that day.
Robert L. IIanst, New York City,
was a guest of his brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Donald II. Sin
cell, and other relatives over the
weekend.
The Women's Foreign Missionary
society of the Nazarene church will
meet on Monday. February 10, at :
o'clock p. m, at the church on 18th
street. Mrs. Nelma Adams will be in
charge of the devotionals.
The Mary Martha Circle of the
Lutheran church will hold short
meeting in the pastors study follow
ing the regular church service next
Wednesday evening, February 21.
Members are asked to bring their
banks.
Several men of the Aurora and Red
House Lutheran churches plan to at
tend the regular meeting of St. Mark 5
Lutheran brotherhood next Tuesday
evening in the church assembly room
H. d. Swartzentruber will be the
speaker
Mrs. Earl S. Lee left yesterday for
Springfield, O.. where she will attend
a workshop session of student secre-
taries of the Women's Missionary So
ciety of the Lutheran church. being
held at Wittenberg college on Thurs
day and Friday.
Overcoming Temptations" is the
theme for the third Lenten service
next Wednesday at ST. Marks Luth-
eran Church at 7:45 The series IS
"Climbing The Lenten Stairs The
services are for the community for
Lent Observance.
J. NJ. Falkcnstein and Miss Grace
Falkenstein returned to Oakland on
Sunday afternoon after two weeks
motor trip to the south which took
them as far as St. Petersburg, Fla.
They accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Falkenstein, of Myersville, Md
Mr.. and Mrs. David Walter, Jr.,
and family returned to their home in
Pittsburgh, Pa, Tuesday, after visit
ing for several days with the formers
father, d. w. Walter, and other mem
bers Of the family. They also visited
Mrs. Walters parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry limbaugh, Center street.
Word was received by relatives that
Lloyd burst, son Of the late David
burst, Of Oakland, had died on Tues
day afternoon at i o'clock in Wheel
ing, w. Va. Funeral services will be
held on Friday from a funeral home
in Wheeling. Mr.. burst was brother
of the late Earl burst, who resided on
Oak street in Oakland
Hervey Russell Smouse, son of Mrs.
VERNE Smouse, Third street; and Ed
ward V. Stephenson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Glenn 7. Randol, Mt. Lake Park,
are members of the Octet at MERGERS
burg academy, it has been officially
announced. The former also is sched-
uled to participate in the play, Arsenic
and Old Lace, to be presented Febru-
airy Is at the academy.
Mrs. Lester Yutzy, who was a
patient at the Oakland hospital for
several days, was taken to the Uni
versity Of Maryland hospital in Balti-
more on Sunday in the Bolden ambu-
lance, where she remains a patient.
Accompanying her to Baltimore were
her husband, also DR.. and Mrs. E. l..
Baumgartner, the latter couple re-
turning to Oakland Sunday night.
Charles Edward Bender, at one
time principal of Oakland High
school, died at Columbiana, Ohio, on
Wednesday, February 7, it was
learned here this week. Mr.. Bender
had been i'll since the first of last
May and had been hospitaliZed since
November g. The Knights of Pythas
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