Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-07-24
EAGLES MERE.

Dufy IloFtIl, HTOuSIlt bctWSSh wv
and three hundred people who were
fortunate i'm pleasant day after q
threatening morning.
On Saturday the excursion under
the auspices of the Picture Rocks
Epworth League were unfortunate
in the weather but quite number
came nevertheless. 1t is very re-
gretable that no proper provision is
made for the comfort of these eXcur
sionists in case of rain either in Ea.
giles Mere or on the railroad.
p. c. Dodge and family of Wash
ington are in the Repplier Cottage
for the season. They are always
welcome visitors.
Mrs. j. r. Edgar of WilkesBarre
has rented the Rowley Cottage on
the Avenue and has arranged to fur
nish rooms for select number. She
has called the cottage by the attract
i've name of "Mountain Villa"
The beautifully clear, cool water
from the Water Company's deep
wells captivates everybody and
keeps the plumber busy making
connections. 1t is fortunate that
Mr.. Trappe is located here with so
an outfit that few hours
accomplishes all that is desired.
Ralph G. Phillips, the hustling
photographer from Bloomsbury, is
on hand with his wife and family.
Having purchased the Krips Photo
graph Gallery property he has built
a little birds nest of a cottage on it
and set up house keeping.
Mr.. Horace MacFarland, the Art
Printer, of Harrisburg was noticed
heading for the steamer going
to Chautauqua. His illustrated
lectures on Eagles Mere are the most
events on the program.
Mr.. Thos. Fernly and family are
at the Eagles Mere. The season
would be blank without them.
1t requires two cOnveyances to
carry the comers to Crestmont every
day now.
1t is generally believed that the
former Lily Pond will be converted
into a beautiful frontispiece for the
Mere and home for the fish to the
number of several thousand-prob-
ably.
Rev. w. l.. Davidson, ID. ID. of
officiated at Chautau-
qua on Sunday morning and Mt the
Nesper service in the evening.
Rev. DR.. Frank M. Bristol, fa-
NOUS Methodist minister of Wash
ington, ID. ID. is at the Lakeside.
Oliver Odell, the newsman fur
nishes Watermelons and news
paper for thirty cents. New York
cannot beat that much.
The Burchard Ice Cream Rooms
have put i'm water connections and
may grind out their cream by water
power.
The foundations for the Stand
Pipe are complete and are a fine
piece of work of which Engineer
Chase and Mason Collins are quite
proud.
At the last meeting of the Post
Office Club a report was brought in
that the Street Commissioner had
been drowned on Lakewood Drive.
1t was proposed to send out res
cue party Immediately but most OF
the members thought that if the re.
port was true he was certainly dead,
and it could do no good, and that q
better way was to follow the lead OF
the Clubs august contemporary, the
Business Mems League, and pass q
series of resolutions to the memory
of the departed and of sympathy
with his family. Some one suggested
that something ought to be done sc
as to guard against such contingen
cies in the future and urged reso
luton calling on the Council to fence
off the Drive until dry weather.
Mr.. Johnson stated to the Clul
that desiring to take ride on the
railroad he had gone to the station
to ascertain about the train bu
could find no time table except thOs'
of the steamboat, the Presbyterian