The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-19
Mt. Lake Park.


his cottage put in order for the sum-
mer last week.
The road machine has been going
over a number of the streets and
drives. By the first of June the streets
will be in excellent shapefor driving.
Our Oakland friends can now drive
direct from their city via Baltimore
avenue to the lake.
E. E. Williams, of Clarksburg, called
at the Park ON the 9th. He expects
to return in a few days and burn a
kiln of brick and, with his family,
spend the summer here and possibly
the winter.
Next Sabbath DR.. Ward will preach
in the large room on the second floor
of Assembly Hall. 1t will be his last
sermon at the Park for this confer
ence year, unless an exchange can be
made some time during the season.
S. H. Shaw is drilling a we'll on the
Altoona cottage lot.
Many new and novel features will
this year be added to our Venetian
night, which is our annual fete occa-
sion. 1t was happy, original idea,
and now some of our assemblies are
trying to appropriate the unique
name. 1t should have been copy
righted. The Mountain Chautauqua
sets the pace for many assemblies.
Mrs. Harry Clayton is having a
kitchen put to her cottage.
Two weeks more and the electric
lights will be turned on; all trains
will stop at our station; our absent
friends will be returning to their sum
mer homes. Even now a number of
people are occupying cottages.
Daniel Smith shot a loon on the
lake last week, which measured 80 in
ches from tip of one wing to the tip
of the other, and weighed over six
pounds. 1t had been on the lake
three days, trout fishing.
Let every body in the vicinity of
the Park attend the services at Assem-
bly, Hall, Sabbath, June 9Th, at 1890
a. m, to hear Rev. Warden preach.
There will be an experience meeting"
at $50 a. Ill. After preaching the sac
rament of the Lords supper will be
administered. Everybody is invited
to attend these services.
John Johns is putting porches on
the north and south side of his house.
A good improvement to his comforta-
BILE home.
Bolden & Brown, the Oakland fur
niture men, are already delivery goods
in the Park and vicinity. They are
hustling for the trade of the twin
towns.
Let your neighbors know that the
camp meeting commences on Satur-
day morning, July I'd. Invite them
to attend the meetings. Let all who
live in the neighborhood of the Park
do everything in their power to make
the meeting a success.
VIM. Hooking has sold his property,
corner F and Cedar streets, to his
brother, DR.. G. H. Hooking, of Balti-
more.
Harry Grant and family took pos
session of a cottage on X street, adj
joining G. E. Mays residence, on the
9th inst.
r. G. Richardson will open his fur
niture store on June list, with nice
line of goods suitable for the summer
outing.
Mr.. Harrison and family ARE at
home" in Romney cottage.
Eugene Teats, of GAINESVILLE, visited
his sister, Mrs. Whetsell, last week.
Jere Moon, one of our carpenters
and for long time an employee of
the planning mill, is now working in
the Elkins planning mill.
Supt. Sheats, wife and daughter, of
Grafton, spent last Thursday fixing
things up'' in and about their cottage.
tits now Fish Commissioner George.
1t sounds well. And a first-class COM
missioner ne Is.
Mrs. George w. Brown is in Mas
den cottage, putting things in shape
for the summer. Masden cottage is
success in the hands of Mrs. Brown.
She will also occupy milford cottage.
On the 10th inst. Messrs. Yoder, Ian
don and McCabe reached the Park to
arrange for the water works. They
drove at once to Crystal spring and
located the pump house, a neat one
story building, 20 2S feet. The well
will be eleven feet deep and thirty
feet in diameter, and walled with
brick. The stand pipe will be on the
northwest corner of n street and
Pittsburgh avenue. The pipe will be
laid from the stand pipe along Pitts
burg avenue to Deer Park drive, then
along Deer Park drive, to Arbutus
Glade Drive; from Pittsburg avenue
along street to Philadelphia avenue;
from these points the pipes will be
extended through the Park.
Braddock Relic.
Postmaster Davis gave Mr.. w. +.
Noel an interesting relic Of former
days. On March eth, 1886, Mr.. Davis
found a grape shot on the old Brad
dock road which undoubtedly had
baaD ,,cad duripor C,anarol Rra n dook'S