The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-09-01
ROTARY CLUB HOLDS BIG
OUTING AT DEER PARK
Over $50 Club Members, Guests
Representing 3 States and
IA Clubs, Present

| More than $50 Rotarians and their
guests, representing IA towns and
cities in West Virginia, Maryland,
and Western Pennsylvania, attended
the annual tri-state Rotary outing at
Deer Park yesterday afternoon and
evening staged under the auspices of
the Terra Alta Rotary club.
Golf, swimming, tennis, and other
diversions of the resort occupied the
visitors during the afternoon, with
banquet followed by several hours of
dancing, featuring the evening part
of the outing.
F. Roy Yoke, of Morgantown, W.
Va, past governor of the oath (West
| Virginia) district of Rotary, presided
at the banquet. Responses were made
by Judge L. F. Everhart of Terra AL
ia who welcomed the Rotarians; Judge
Raymond Maxwell of Clarksburg,
William H. Kendrick of Weston, rep
resenting District Governor Hickman
of Hinton, w. Va, who was unable to
be present; Governor Ridgely Mel
vim of the "a Rotary district, of An
napolis. A solo by Donald Birch
dorf of the Terra Alta club and sew
eral numbers by the Terra Alta club
quartet composed of Karl Brown Don .
aid Birchdorf, William Miller, and L.
F. Everhart, were the musical fea-
lures of the banquet.
kingwood Has Largest Delegation
The silver cup presented by the
Terra Alta club to the club having
the largest delegation at the outing
went to the Kingwood, w. Va. club.
The cup given by the Deer Park ho-
tel management to the best golfer of
the day was won by Roy Loudin of
the Moundsville club. Other golf
prizes, all awarded by the Terra Alta
club, were distributed as follows:
Second best score, SIS brassie, to
Stanhope NJ. Scott of Terra Alta;
third prize, a driving iron, to F. Roy
Yoke, Morgantown; fourth, one dozen
golf balls, to R. E. Fraley of Terra
Alta; fifth, one-half dozen golf balls
to Bill Martin, of the Elkins club;
sixth, three golf balls, to DR.. W. A.
Welton, Terra Alta.
The silver cup given by the King
wood club for the winner of the SWIM
ming contest was won by Adair Daley
of Terra Alta.
The cup for the winner of the ten
mis- tournament, given by DR.. McCom-
as, of Oakland, was won by William
Weber, Oakland.
The silver cup given by DR.. A. Wei
ton, of Terra Alta, to the club having
the largest delegation of ladies pres
ent, was awarded the Kingwood club.
The weekly luncheon Of the Oakland
club, on account Of the presence of
Ridgeley P. Melvin, of Annapolis, who
is governor of the 34th distrist of Ro
tary International, was changed to the
noon hour yesterday instead of being
held on Friday evening.
Mr.. Melvin, in the course of an able
address, stated that his appearance in
Oakland marked the beginning Of his
visits to the clubs of the 34th district.
He made an impressives appeal for
faith in the principles and objects
of the organization and recounted
some of the impressions he received
at the great convention of Rotary In
ternational held at Ostend, Belgium,
in June.
Mr.. Melvin was accompanied to
Oakland by Mrs. Melvin. He is presi-
dent emeritis of the Maryland Press
Association and is at present a leader
at the Annapolis bar besides being a
member of the Anne Arundel county
Board of Education.