The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-08-05
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.

Mr. Earle V. Enlow, Of Elkins, w.
Va, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James A.
Enlow, is here visiting his parents.
The coming of Homer Rodeheaver
to the Park last week brought ire
mendous crowd from all sections of
the county and from the adjoining
counties Of Pennsylvania and West
Virginia, which latter state is the
native commonwealth of the man who
is so well known as the co-worker
with Billy Sunday. The crowd that
greeted Mr. Rodeheaver and his COM
pany reminded one of the balmy days
of the Park when such lights as the
Miller and other celebrated platform
men faced capacity houses. At the
Rodeheaver meeting on the night of
his engagement it was estimated that
not less than fifteen hundred people
were present. The entertainment was
excellent and Mr.. Rodeheaver and his
company will appear at the Park
again next year.
The Summer School of Missions is
the center of attraction this week. An
excellent program is being carried out
with DR.. Smith, Bishop Mcdowell,
Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Siler and Miss Nc
Combs as the principal speakers. On
account of the cool weather which has
prevailed during the week, many of
the gatherings were held indoors, with
Thoburn Inn as the principal meeting
place.
This year has seen many of the old
time residents of the Park back with
us, notably the Johns family consist
ing OF the mother, now past eighty,
several of the sons with their wives
and children and one daughter with
her husband. Joseph Johns motored
through to the Park from his home in
Kansas, while other members of the
family came by rail
Another of the Parks former resi-
dents, who spent several days here
during the past week, was Mrs. NJ. E.
Howe, of Morgantown, who will soon
return to her home. Mrs. Howe had
been on visit to her daughter at
Newport News, Va, and stopped off
in the Park for a brief visit to old
friends and acquaintance. She was
one of the house party entertained by
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Crane. Other
of the party were Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Hartley and Mrs. George Crane, of
Fairmont.
The many friends of Mr.. W. C. Dun
nington, proprietor of the Mountain
Lake Hotel, have been pleased in re-
cent days to see him moving about
the verandas of the hotel after hard
siege following a surgical operation
which he recently underwent.
The program for the month of Au-
gust will be issued today. In it will
be found many attractions. Chief of
these will be the political days. That
of the Republican will be on Satur-
day, thel4th inst, upon which day at
two o'clock in the afternoon the first
Presidential campaign gun in Garrett
county will be fired by DR.. John Yves
ley Hill, of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
who will be sent to this meeting by
the Republican National Committee.
If it had been possible Senator Hard
ing, the candidate of the Republican
party for the Presidency would be at
the meeting and address the crowd
that is sure to be present.
Democratic Day at the Park will be
on Friday, the goth inst. At the time
tins is being put in type the speaker
mas not been announced by the Ma
tional Committee of that party.
During the month there will also be
sermons and lectures delivered by
Bishops William F. Anderson and j.
W. Hamilton, two of the brainy men of
the Methodist church.
1t has been many years since the
Park enjoyed the prosperity that is
now apparent. Property has enhanced
IN value and nearly every day real
estate both improved and unimproved,
is being bought and sold.