The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
NUMBER 10.
Mountain Lake Park.

tor for the 7th district
John Johns and family have return
I ed to the Park, after spending the
winter in Ohio.
E. E. Williams, of Clarksburg, has
purchased fine lot on the corner of
street and Oakland avenue and
will erect on it brick house.
Mrs. S. L. Townshend and A. D.
Naylor, of Oakland, will erect an
eight-room cottage on E street, near
Oakland avenue. Work will com
mence in few days.
The school trustees of the Park
have secured the services of Prof. J.
). Gnegy as principal of our public
school. We are delighted in securing
this gentleman.
Manager Rudisill preached at Deer
Park last Sunday
The new county road between the
Park and Deer Park is being thor
oughly worked by J. /. Echard. 1t
is one of the most delightful drives in
this vicinity.
Briar Bend Seminary closed last
week, as also did Miss Clarke's select
school.
Only two weeks more and the sea-
son of 1900 will open. We expect a
number of families here next week.
One thousand Christian Endeavor
people will be here the last week of
July.
The first public service held in the
new auditorium will be the opening
sermon, Sabbath, June 3. Doubtless
large crowd will attend this service
and not only enjoy good sermon
but the new edifice as well. There
will be appropriate singing. A spe-
cial invitation to be present is ex-
tended to our Garrett county people.
Come and enjoy profitable time.
A lady in Cleveland is circulating
500 copies of our 4 page announce
ment of the Summer schools; Wash
ington city party 200 copies.
A large excursion with special rates
is forming in indianapolis to come to
the Park early in July. Manager
Rudisill has sent several thousand
pages of printed matter to that city.
Mountain Lake Park is going to have
the greatest success this summer of
its history.
Feltys large two-story building is
being rooted.
List of visitors the past week: JOS
eph Forward, Terra Alta, w. Va;
Miss Sarah Harris, Franklin, Va;
Miss Maggie Spriggs, of Cumberland;
Rev. Wesley Davis, Williamsburg, Pa;
John w. Ruhl and wife, Clarksburg,
w. Va; Mrs. A. Hanell, Washington,
ID. c.; Joseph Rembold, Horse Shoe
Run, West Va; Eugene Teats and
wife, GAINESVILLE, w. Va; Rev. Mock,
Baltimore; Prof. Gnegy; Mr.. Jacobs,
of near Frostburg; Rev. J. D. Mckee,
Pittsburg, Pa; S. E. Allen, ESQ, Bal
timore; E. E. Williams and wife,
Clarksburg, w. Va; Rev. N. Bum
gardner and wife, Palatine, w. Va;
j. G. King, Washington, d. c., the
the new proprietor of Hotel bennett;
Rev. j. H. Enlow, Rowlesburg. w.
Va; ID. G. Feather, Grafton, W. Va;
Hon. Il. E. Davis, Grafton, W. Va.
Mrs. 0. O. Deems of Clarksburg,
w. Va, has rented the cottage on the
corner of Washington avenue and
street
1t is reported that Joseph Forward
has rented Hotel Columbia.
The new ticket Office at the entrance
to the auditorium grounds is complet-
ed. 1t is an attractive building, diff
fering in architecture from any other
building in the Park. 1t is 42 x32
feet, has ticket office in the south
end and reception hall in the north
end. The entrance to the grounds is
between these two rooms. The
grounds are being enclosed The car
penters will be through with their
work in few days and then will be
completed one of the best auditori-
ums in this country 1t is marvellous
in its construction and surprise to
everybody who sees it. Photographs
will be taken and cuts made of the
building so as to give the general pub
lie an idea of Garrett county's mag
nicfient auditorium. 1t is worth
travelling many miles to see, as hun
dreds will testify. The grounds about
the auditorium will be sowed in grass;
the trees have been trimmed up and
everything done to make the place
pleasant and attractive.
Cartwright, at Mountain Lake
Park, Md, is selling the best roofing
known to house builders, which is
absolutly fire and water proof. The
body of said roofing is made of wool
and asphalt, throuhgly covered with
cement and fine gravel; very easily
! put on and can be used over old