In regard to the first cover you scanned, as addressed to Mrs. J. A. Meeks, c/o Loch Lynn Heights Hotel, Mountain Park, MD, here's a great quote:
"If you want to sin … … go to Loch Lynn!"And here's what the hotel looked like back in it's day:
A bit out of context perhaps, but the above quote was taken from this brief history of the hotel:
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In the summer of 1895, the famous Loch Lynn Hotel opened for summer guests. The decorum of the hotel and the area around it was completely different than that of Mountain Lake Park, just across the railroad tracks. Basically, it seemed to flaunt all the semi-religious restrictions associated with the Park.
It boasted a gambling casino, bars, dancing, and a host of other recreation attractions. So completely different was it from the hotels and summer homes in Mountain Lake Park, that the saying soon developed, "If you want to sin … … go to Loch Lynn!"
The large Loch Lynn Hotel burned down one September evening in 1915. The swimming pool building existed until 1986, when it was torn down for the lumber.
It also looks as if the cover was written by Mr. J. A. (Jacob Arthur) Meeks to his wife, who was on vacation at the resort. Here's a picture of Mr. Meeks of the Boyce River & Machine Works of Muncie, Indiana:
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Jacob Arthur Meeks grew up at Muncie and at the age of seventeen, in 1873, was graduated from the high school there. He then became employed as a clerk in the grocery store of Maddy, Burt & Kirby and was thus connected for four years, meanwhile taking time off to take a commercial course in Miami College at Dayton, Ohio. He then went to Toledo and became employed there as a bookkeeper, but in 1880 returned to Muncie and became employed as bookkeeper in the office of James Boyce, who then still was operating his bagging factory here, and in that same year he bought an eighth interest in that concern, which in 1885 was sold to the Warren-Jones & Gratz Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Following this sale Mr. Meeks bought a half interest in the Boyce handle factory and has ever since been engaged in the manufacture of handles, thus now being at the head of what probably is the oldest continuing industrial enterprise in Muncie. This mill was destroyed by fire in April 1893, but was at once rebuilt and much enlarged. Two years later, in 1895, Mr. Meeks secured control of the handle, rivet and machinery department of this factory and has since continued the business, also operating there on East Washington Street a well-equipped general lumber mill. In 1919, Mr. Meeks took into this business as his partner, his son, Erle G. Meeks, and the business has since then been operated under the firm style of J. A. Meeks & Son and has developed an up-to-date and thriving industry. Though still connected with this firm, Erle G. Meeks is now living at Connersville, where he is the Secretary and Treasurer of the P.H.&E.M. Root Company, manufacturers of rotary blowers. He married Esther Johnston and has one child, a daughter, Sylvia. It was in 1879 that J. A. Meeks was united in marriage to Lydia J. Gray, daughter of J. M. Gray and wife, of Anderson, Indiana, and the latter of who was a member of the pioneer Shoemaker family of this region. Erle G. Meeks is their only child.
Posted 05/31/2012 06:58 am
