The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-28
DEER PARK JOTTINGS,

we resume our scribbling and hope
to give You and your readers items
some of which are both joyful and
sad. The former is that springtime
has come, which is hailed with ioy,
and exceeding great JOY" after the
long, cold winter with its depressing
effects owing to smallpox in different
places, thus marriug social intercourse
with friends and neighbors
The latter has been fully realized in
our little town and made some sad
homes, and especially that OF the late
Joseph Lashorn. who died on last
Thursday at Ills a. m, after a lin
gering illness of oyer two months,
suffering untold agonies, but bearing
it all with Christian fortitude, and as
he neared the end gave every eyi
dence of being prepared for the jour
ney to the Better Land: and at his
funeral on Saturday last we noted
friends and relatives by the score
from Martinsburg, W. Va, Cumber-
land, Keyser, Piedmont, Bayard, Cor
man and Morgantown, and quite a
number of close friends of Oakland
and Mountain Lake Park We feel like
saying more about this hospitable
neighbor, loving husband and devo-
ted father, but as an obituary will
appear in YOUR and contemporaneous
papers this week and tribute by a
friend later, we simply say, peace to
his ashes"
Mrs. P. M. Stemple, of Morgantown
w. Va, is spending a few days with
her bereaYed sister, Mrs Lashorn,
and other relatives of this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Engle arrived
from their late western home some
ten days ago, and expect to make
their future home in our town, where
Mr.. Engle purchased some real estate
over year ago, and on Monday last
broke ground for the erection of a cot
tage, on Oak street. We welcome
them both back to their native heath.
We are just in receipt of the news
from McHenry that Miss Nora,
daughter of Mr. S. p. Specht, is quite
i'll at the home of her grandfather,
ex-county treasurer Mahlon Glotfelty,
where she had been visiting the past
few weeks. We hope for the speedy
recovery of this only child, bereft of a
mother only short year ago, and the
idol of good and loving father, our
worthy fellow-t
AS usual, our enterprising mana
ger of the Deer Park Hotel, has quite
force of painters and carpenters at
work on this popular hotel, making
it year by year more attractive. Col.
Burwell as Western man has the
push peculiar to the West.
We were called to visit our old friend,
Mr.. Richard N. Murphy, ST., of near
Glade Valley, to attend to some legal
business and found him quite feeble,
oio WIN Ills "iihooO olSAty years vi
age, have but little hope that this
hard working and truly honest man
can be spared to his sons and daugh-
tiers long, but we can say living or
dead, he is one of God noblemen, an
honest and upright citizen Garrett
county can feel proud of and will miss.
AS we glanced over our daily paper
this afternoon we were surprised to
see the announcement that the Hon
John X. Cowan is dead. Truly the
past year has carried many of our
prominent men to the tomb.
Mrs. Alderman, the aged mother of
Mrs. William Hennen, whose popular
husband is trusted engineer of the
b. & o, company, is critically ill at
her home on Main street. She is also
the grandmother of Prof. Chas. Hen,
men, of Keyser, w. Va.
Mr.. Philip Hess and Mr.. George
Marley are both erecting substantial
buildings on their respective lots or
Church and Main streets.
Col. George Truesdell was up few
days since looking after his vast in.
terests on the Heights" and other
possessions in and around this place
The Colonel is one of our most useful