The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-05
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SEASON AT MOUNTAIN LAKEpAnK
ABOUT Cioscd-Tie Sunday School Assembly
ana Normal sei,ool-Siat Has been (
'A'''omrlished-.The improvements (.
lg Promised for So1t Yenr.
Correspondence efht fntaiipencr.

~N''rFV""utt " INC midtipfhcer. I. MlT5lflg
MOUNTAIN LAKE PAn4, Mn, September
+.-Ihe summer season for mountain top
visitors Is abont over. Tho crop, on tho
whole, has not been largc. Three reasons
lor this may he assigned First, hard times
ana threatened panica; second, MI over.
How Of politics; third, unusually cool
weather. There are about seventy cot.
u'ses IN this beautiful park, md perhaps
.hree'lourlhs Of them were occupied dur.
ing the greater portion OF the summer.
There are yet II few families lsft upon the
grounds; the first Of September, being the
beginning Of schools, took the most Of the
Htentcrs" away y = ..,,,, ! =, -
i presume, all things considered, this
mny be regarded NJ pretty good year jor
Mountain Lake Park. An average Of
about four hundred !!persous, have been
here from July ! 10 Septemberr 1, Which Il
not m oy any means n smnll turn out for Il
PRESIDENTIAL year. During the Temper
ance Convention i'll July, the crowd nun.
bcrcd about one thousand day who canIo
upon the grounds, 7. id 7 -
t SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY. !. = X Z
The Sunday School Assembly which
eaoseu August 20, offered q. very entertain
lne programme indeed, II was in every
respect superior affair. Season tickets
20 the a'tditorttin were s. ind my ono Z.
81 INC several different lectures was worth
that amount. The Assembly Is patterned
after Chautauqua, md IS list rs es. GOOD nd
lar us 1t goes. The only difference Is, it is 1
moi n<thDptyn Ca It,.e A..
qua lecturers delivered addresses at this
pace. Inc programme, running through
Two weeks, Is too long to recite here. Suf:
nee II TO say that it covered about twenty :
ifst'class lectures. OH living topics of in
tcrest to 'all. never talked to single Il
visitor who did not seem delighted over
the entertainment. s f.Ilng|aoI557 7S'f.i' 1 3
-, NORMAL scIfooL.
a normal school for. the study Of tho
Bible ran through The Assembly, covering
one lessona day on Bible study and Sun:
day School work. It's precisely the sumo
course eas that given nt Chautauaua; ana
the graduates receive the Chautauqua d.
plonia. The course OF study is quite COM
pictc, ana the examination was severe.
Gut OF class Of twenty-five or thirty,
only five passed the necessary or required;
Examination. Among the graduates is
9eorgc W. Atkinson, OF your city, who
ior two years past has .bccI,- the Superin-
tendent Of the Park Sunday School, which
Is always largely attended. Va
MORE WHEELING PEOPLE WANTED.
laye often wondered why moro
Wheeling people do not avail themselves
Of the advantages offered for intellectual
improvement at this place. The distance
is not great, the railroad fare is light and
hotel accommodations are plentiful and Z
cheap. hope next year a goodly'crowd
from your thrifty and driving Nail City &
will spend several weeks ut this beautiful
retreat. 1t will abundantly pay them, T
assure you. s'il5ts, q, y =,
Miss Jennie Smith, the noted railroad
evangelist, is conducting 4 ten days camp
meeting on these grounds She. Is a. great, :.
success ut meetings Of this R1Nu, ana large
results are therefore expected. Miss Jcn-
ME lives here, and has recently erected n, !,
beautiful permanent residence, She Il al
great benefit to the Park in many ways.
Capt. J. Melvin Richards is now here, and 4
is chorister for the meeting As the bows
say, he gets in his worka9;sfyerYSS effect.
Miss Anna Conner, daughter OF Mr.. G.. s
W. Conner, OF Wheeling, has. mnde quite
reputation liere.this summer, both as q yo-
calist and as Il performer on the organ ).
She is, beyond doubt, highly gifted in K
music, and deserves all the, praise she has
received and even more ,i.4 2f5 ;;4;l "
The Park Association, Mt its recent mect-jl
ing Of the stockholders, decided to spend
Sslo,00O in improvements ofIthe grounds
for next season.! Among the promised i'm y.
proponents is new auditorium and ten :,
or fifteen two.siory cottages to be used for
lodgc.rs: The outlook for next ycaris very
promising. si9i al. .jS 49,; si5; Z. 4
Z .t. ALL AnnIlr a 1NEnn1,S6,t 4 " AZ 4