The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-04-16
MT. LAKE PARK

Coming back from a visit to the
local postoffice Mr.. j. A. Enlow and
Mr.. Wiley yelling were in a reminis-
cent mood this morning. Mr.. Enlow
recalled that just 40 years ago he cut
the timbers with which the first board
walk was laid across the glade from
the present bowling alley site to the
Little Youghiogheny River, and haul
ed them in from the then nearby for
est, and both recalled mailing down the
plank. At that time the ground on
which the Park is situated was COW
cred with scrub oak and larger growth
of timber and the lots on which the
house stands in which the writer re-
sides was cleared at that time, the
father of Mr.. yelling doing the first
cutting. Up until that time herds of
cows were driven out from Oakland
and other points to Craze and roam at
will over the Park area.
We have on our desk some very in
teresting notes made by Mr.. Enlow
in regard to the roads leading into
the Park at that time, as we'll as
other interesting items, which we hope
to have published soon. We are sure
conditions existed half century ago,
as seen by Lying eyewitness, will
be read with pleasure by many OF our
older as we'll as younger residents.
1t is noted that much hitherto waste
| land is being cleared of brush and I'M
dergrowth in the nearby community
of the Park. On the Jack Stevenson
farm the entire bottom acreage has
been grubbed out and burned. Just
at the west end of Loeb Lynn tract
of about forty acres, purchased by
Mr.. H. M. Weeks from Mrs. John
Shaffer in recent months, is being
cleared. All this makes for vast i'm
! provement.
It's not often that a town has
saw mill located within the corporate
limits, but such has been the case
with Loeb Lynn Heights. On the A.
L. Calls lots the mill of I. L. Beckman
has just completed cutting in the
neighborhood of thirty thousand feet
of lumber from timber hewn down in
the immediate vicinity of the town.
The special meetings at the United
Brethren church, with Rev. lessee in
charge, are still in progress and will
continue all of this week, in the ev-
enings, at least.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson L. Camden
have returned to the Park after hav-
ing spent some weeks in the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. McClelland Clayton,
after spending the winter in Fair
mont, have returned to their cottage
Mr.. D. M. Lower will leave here on
Sunday for Baltimore where he will
attend the Grand Lodge I. O.. o. F.
of Maryland, which opens in that city
on Monday. Mr.. Lower goes as the
representative of Oak Lodge, No. 8, of
Loeb Lynn.
Word has just been received here
of the death of Miss Thomas, sister
of Mrs. G. w. Baldwin, which occurred
in Baltimore recently. Miss Thomas
was a summer resident of the Park
| for a great number of years
Mrs. r. L. Hamill's siXty-eighth an
niversary was observed on Friday ev-
ening, April 10, when surprise party
was rendered her at her home. Re-
freshments were served at suitable
hour. There were more than sixty
persons present and the evening was
most delightfully."- spent.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Nelson and
Mrs. Frank Murphy, of Fairmont, &C
cOmpdnleu Dy MIS-. BESSIE AoHH, VIII
is a guest of friends there, motored
to the Park one day last week.
Mr.. F. R. Utterback has installed
new low-wave radio at his home IN
the Park through which we had the
pleasure of listening to delightful mu-
sic and other programs from London
and Rome, which he secured direct
without having the same relayed thru
low-wave stations in Pittsburgh or
elsewhere.
Mr.. Taylor, of Virginia, is the guest
of his sister, Mrs. Timothy J. Moon.
Mrs. E. L. Winchell was at her
cottage here for few days the past
week.
Capt. James A. Hayden's condition
is quite serious. He has been con-
fined to his bed for many months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Friend have
moved to Deer Park.
Mrs. R. L. Cunningham and son
Lawrence M, motored here from Fair
mont on Sunday.
Bobbie Utterback, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. R. Utterback, is ill at the
home of his parents in the Park.
Billy Burch, who spent a part of
the winter in Washington, D. c., with