The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-01-19
DEER PARK JOTTINGS.

church, preached Friday, Saturday
and Sunday in his church, to appre-
ciative audiences at all these services.
His communion service on Sabbath.
conflicting with both our young min
listers of the Baptist and NJ. L.
churches, they both gracefully gave
way and discontinued their services
out of respect to the senior minister
OF this God-tearing trio. They are
three of the most sincere Christian
workers that have ever graced our
town, working in harmony for the
betterment of Humanity along the un-
denOminational line
Mr. w. W. Hennen, the efficient
engineer of the b. & O.. railroad, To-
Gated with his cultured family at this
place, we are truly sorry to state is
quite indisposed at his coy cottage
on Main street with a severe cold and
all indications OF the grip, but with
the care of one of the best compan-
ions Il man can have in this life, we
feel sure H. will soon be able to re
sumo his duties at the throttle
Rev. Percy w. Metheny, of the NJ
b. church, is holding series of cot
tage meetings at different chri stan
homes, preparatory to a revival ser
vice in his church, commencing on
the 22d inst. He is receiving the ac-
tive aid of all The members of the diff
ferent church organizations. His sub
ject for Sabbath night next will be
Church Unity aud Christian Fellow
ship This young divine has won
the hearts of this people in his but
recent advent in our midst, and we
feel assured with his gentle bearing
and non-sectarian bias his ministry
will be crowned with success for the
Masters cause.
1t was the pleasure of the writer,
in company with Rev. w. H. Faust,
to visit the home of our friend, the
venerable Judge A. j. Wilson, of Will
son Station, on the b. & O. railroad,
on Monday last, the former to attend
to some official business for the Judge
the latter to pay his respects to this
grand man, now in his Goth year, with
all his mental faculties as bright,
seemingly, as they were forty or more
wears ago, when we, as a boy, first
met and made his acquaintance. AS
the years have fitted into the past,
and as from year to year we have met,
we have learned to love and venerate
this lust and honest man. At this
advanced age, he can write his name
Just as legible as no ever did and
without the use of glasses We can
only occount for this mental vigor
from the fact that intoxicants never
passed his lips, and that he never in
dulged iu the use tobacco in any way.
1t was also pleasure, at this palatial
home, to meet his cultured niece,
Mrs. Stella Feeley. of Parsons, West
Va, and also Miss Florence Dewitt,
the efficient teacher of the Wilson
school. The winning smiles of this
fair damsel soon won the heart of our
travelling companion At this 10
o'clock p. m, Jan. 18th. as we hear
the jingle of his sleigh bells we fully
realize the young Rev. and Prof. Bert
Browning are just returning from the
home of Judge Wilson where the
fair Miss Florence makes her home
ha
Again, Mr.. Editor, we can't refrain
from mentioning another visit of to-
day Q6th) to that noted farm of Col
George Treusdell in company with an
old friend from my native district No.
s, Mr.. Marcellus Wolf, who is visiting
his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Snyder, of this place. Having
on this occasion some official bust
ness requiring a witness, we called on
this old friend of thirty wears ago, to
accompany us, and in our meander-
ings we called at the home of our
friend, Mr.. l.. T. Friend, and his hos
pitable wife, both Friends by name
anu AdluTe, dlC dlIeE d SuuDCuOuS
dinner at his beautiful home, and bv
the kind courtesy of two of his noble
boys we were driven to the famous
"Altamont Springs Sheep Farm, -
calling on the genial manager and
the two gallant Highland Shepherds,
Messrs. w. H. Chadderton, Hugh Cal
derwood and VIM. Crawford, by the
'pone that we would be there for the
special benefit of this friend. After
inspecting the vast products of the
mammoth farm with it's 1000 acres of
farming and grazing land, we shown
through the FIVE barns with all their
modern improvements, and all the
machinery of every known variety
to irun a first class farm, then the
root cellars with their one hundred
tons of turnips, cabbage by the hun
drens of tons, and with feeding to the
$40 head of sheep one ton of each
day, they will have after April the
let nar load IF oaoh x,a r;af,, 10 coll