The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-02-17
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK

Mrs. Hickman, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. E. Landon, and other relatives.
Miss Elizabeth Beckman, who has
been i'll for some time, is still very
poorly.
Mr.. Hugh Echard, son of Mr. and
Mrs. j. L. Echard, has been i'll for
a week or more
Herbert Wilderson, little son of Mr..
Frank Wilderson, has been quite sick
for several days at the home of his
grandmother, Mrs. J. E. Chance.
Gay Hayden, of the Baltimore and
Ohio paint crew, is spending a few
days in the Park with his parents,
Capt. and Mrs. James A. Hayden.
Mr.. George z. Dawson, who has
been living in Oakland for the past
two or three years, has purchased the
Elliott property here and will occupy
the same with his family in a few
months.
Mr.. M. M. Schrock, the local real
estate man, has rented the cottage of
Rev. H. E. Friend on D street to a
family from Baltimore. Rev. Friend
and his daughter will occupy the
small cottage at Faith Home during
the summer months.
Mrs. c. S. May is remodeling the
Cartwright store building and will fit
it up to be used as residence.
Mrs. Bessie Willett has been quite
sick for the past few days.
Mrs. q. T. Schell has been housed
up with the grip for the past few
days, but is able to be about again.
DR.. Wright, the superintendent of
the Park, came up here from his home
in Homecoming Tuesday afternoon and
returned to Homecoming last night
Mr.. H. c. Fowler is still sick, but
is able to be up and about his home.
The Mountain Lake Park Associa-
ton is planning to build an up-to-date
swimming pool at the lake. Here's
hoping it will be ready for use this
summer.
The Ladies Aid Society of the NJ.
+. church gave a valentine social at
the home of Mrs. c. V. Harvey Mon
day night. Quite large number were
present and were royalty entertained.
Rev. j. S. Robinson gave very in
teresting talk at the NJ. E. church Sun
day night on Lincoln and Washington.
Preaching in the NJ. E. church next
Sunday both morning and evening bv
the pastor. Come; you will be given
heart welcome and you will enjoy
Rev. Robinson's sermons.
1t is a regrettable fact that the
Mountain Lake Park Association is
cutting down great many of the
shade trees in the Park which are be-
ing manufactured into lumber, mine
ties and mine props. 1t required a
hundred years or more for nature to
produce one of these monarchs of the
forest, and now when they have at
tanned that perfection which makes of
them one of the attractions of the
Park to have man, with the notion
that he can improve upon nature
come along with an axe and in a few
minutes destroy the work of the Gre
ator, we wonder, as our memory goes
back to the good old days of the Park
what the Armstrong;, the Corners,
the Stones, the Herrings, the Sawyers,
DR.. McClain, DR.. Talson, Rev. John
NJ. Davis, DR.. w. L. Davidson and
many more pioneers of Mountain Lake
Park would think and say if they could
return and see the ruthless de-
structlon of these beautiful oaks to be
made into cheap lumber. 1t is a
work that will be regretted by the
generation present and those yet to
come If we are any prophet. The
shade trees along the boardwalk have
been trimmed, too. All the lower
branches have been cut off until some
OF the trees look like the tails of lions
sticking up into the air. Shame, oh
shame. that these beautiful NAPLES
should be so mutilated and ruined. We
wonder what the absent members of
the Park Civic Club will say when
they return next summer and see
them in their abbreviated form.
In addition to this mutilation which
has been carried on ruthlessly and in
a degree wrecklessly, with no eye to
beauty or the eternal fitness of things,
many trees on the sidewalks in front
of a good many homes have been
marked to be cut down, but the An
nual Committee will see that these
markers are removed and the trees