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Mining StM Journal.
J. BENSON ODER, Editor,
VOL. XL XO. 35
STERNS
Are offering some very good values
in
Press Goods
I DURING MAY.
HOUSES AND LOTS FOR SALE!
Five-Room House Mill Street renting for $ 7.00; price $ 800
Six-Room House! Hill Street renting.for $10.00; price SI2OO
Six-Room House Braddock Street, .renting for $ 8.00; price SIOOO
Six-Room House Oak Street renting for $ 7.00; price $ 750
Five-Room House Green Street renting for $ 7.00; price $ 700
Six-Room House. McCulloh Street, .renting for $10.00; price SI2OO
Five-Room House McCulloh Street, .renting for $ 8.00; price $ 800
Five-Room House McCulloh Street, .renting for $ 8.00; price $ 850
Five-Room House .Grant Street. .... renting for $ 6.50; price $ 700
Ten-Room Double House. .McCulloh Street. . renting for $14.00; price SIOOO
Among- the above are many fine bargains at the prices named.
Por further information apply to —
LAWRENCE D. WILLISON j EXECUTORS .
CLAYTON PURNELL f
?! The Big Store at the Growing J!
!> End of Town calls especial atten- !•
J! tion this week to- ■■
ft Wall Paper, Mattings, Linoleums, Oilcloths %
R in all widths, Window Blinds, Porch x
;■ Screens, Wire Netting in a!i widths. '6
X All kinds of Garden Seeds and Tools. x
ft Yours for business, p
8 THE H. B. SHAFFER CO.
Any Little ROASTER,
That is a NICE Little Roaster,
Is the Right Little Roaster
FOR YOU!
For the Little Price of Ten cents!
Now on display in the
show window at
I THE i
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THE BIG BLUE BELL!
They are going rapidly.
This entire lot to be sold at the little price of—
-10 cents.
Stop and take a look at them, and you are sure
to buy one or more.
The ladies are “De-lighted” with them.
Earnestly yours for the Roaster business,
FROSTBURG, MD., SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1911
\ 1593 ESTABLISHED 1911
Dr. I. L. RITTER,
DEITIST,
19 Broadway, [J7] Frostburg, Md.
Dr. J. M. PORTER,
DENTIST
PEARCE BUILDING, Union street,
Frostburg, Md.
Sept 11 W. Md. ’Phone 38-2
A SEASONABLE LINE OF
poultry supplies
ALWAYS IN STOCK.
Buckeye Hot-Water and Essex-Model Hot-
Air INCUBATORS and BROODERS.
Prices on request.
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148 Ormand Street, FROSTBURG, MD.
ARTISTIC FRAMING
On Broadway. FROSTBURG, MD.
POTTED MD CUT
FLOWEPS
OF ALL KIUDS
From now until Decoration Day. Call
and leave your orders at once to in
sure timely delivery.
George If. filler,
32 Broadway, Frostburg, Md.
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JOHN CHAMBERS,
Justice of the Peace.
AND Collector of Claims of All Kinds,
Union St., [Jy 4] Frostburg, Md.
j QUICK LOANS!
j From $5.00 Up! j
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. J Mineral County, W. Ya., and \
* Bedford County, Pa., I
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I CALL, PHONE or WHITE! I
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That is Not Insured. P
If So, You Should Place a Policy
On It To-Day,
Or To-Morrow Before You Dine.
YOU should place the risk, too, with
standard companies, such as are availa
ble at the D. P.
Miller & Co.
Agency.
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J. B. Oder,
Representing D. P. MILLER & GO.,
Miking Journal Office, 82 East Union St.,
March 25] FROSTBURG, MD.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
/degofaTJOF
X AN ORIGINAL POEM. X
Out to the silent city of the dead—
£tv Hearts filled with sacred memories of the day, j|J|>
Y We wend our way with soft and quiet tread J.
And reverently there our offerings lay.
That line of veterans coming down the street
Are men who bravely fought in days gone by ;
Their muffled drums keep time with solemn beat
As they seek the spot wherein their comrades lie. *3
I I Down furrowed cheeks the tears unbidden flow,
As their unfurled flags they lay upon each grave;
They think of those now lying here below,
Who proudly died their country’s cause to save.
To each of us this is a hallowed spot,
Where lies, perhaps, the one we loved the best ;
For who among us is there who has not
Laid some of our beloved ones to rest ?
0
A loving daughter, or, perhaps, a son,
Who in other years this path with us had trod ;
Then dreaming not their work was so near done,
Yet now they sleep in peace beneath the sod. 0
We see a little mound which mutely tells
Of a mother’s and a father’s aching heart; /m3*
So short its sojourn here, and now it dwells
Within that home where none shall ever part.
Here lies a mother who was called away
Just when it seemed they needed her the most ;
And here a father’s grave; who, old and gray,
Had served his time and joined the Heavenly host. J*.
God’s acre ! Surely it is named aright— gfo
The place where pain-racked bodies find a rest Jk
When the soul, released, takes its eternal flight '•t?
To dwell forever among the blest. KB3*
i And so upon this day, so deeply fraught
With memories of our loved ones, are we led *33*
To bestow upon each one a loving thought, /{3
And bring our floral tributes to the dead.
Sara Roberta G^yrry^^f|
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? I THIRTY YEARS AGO. | >
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Less sickness in town than known in I
a long time.
Rains after a long dry spell have re
freshed both the atmosphere and
vegetation greatly.
Rev. R. F. Bishop, of. the Baltimore
Conference, was sent temporarily to
serve the M. F. Church at Albion,
Neb.
On the National Pike, near Spruce
Hill bridge, is a twin tree—a great
curiosity in nature. From the ground
up to about four feet there are two
separate trees. Here they unite into
one tree for several feet; they again
divide and become two separate trees
to the tops.
Thomas Rowe presented the Jour
nal with a copy of “The Revised New
Testament —Authorized Version of
1881.”
The Journal paid an enjoyable
visit to Wellersburg, Pa.; was enter
tained at dinner by George H. De-
Haven, and was shown through a hotel
then called “The Naked Dog.”
The “Vale Summit” Base-Ball Club
of Pompey Smash defeated the Cum
berland “Atlantics” on the Fair
Grounds, near latter place, Monday,
May 30, 1881. Score 24 to 14. Time
of game 3 yi hours. John B. McCul
loh umpire. “Vale Summit” was
awarded two prizes—a handsome glass
bat and a unique pipe. Later a young
man from the Shaft and one from Mid
lothian entered an egg race against
two Cumberlanders and won.
Light-blue linen suits latest agony
in gents’ summer clothing.
The merry sherry cobbler and the
hilarious mint julep beginning to
assert their summer presence.
Frost avenue beginning to grow
busy. Saw and hatchet at work all
along the line, both sides.
A visitor visiting in Frostburg
visited Dan’s Rock. He armed him
self with two glasses —“one a spy.”
When he returned, however, he talked
so much more of what he saw through
‘ ‘the other glass” that many suspected
he didn’t look through “the spy” at all.
John Vogtman, of this place, work
ing in Eckhart slope, had his collar
bone broken in a collision between the
car and rib Tuesday, May 31, 1881.
The Other Side.
The Baltimore evening Sun makes
a special call upon Mayor Preston to
enforce the ordinance which provides
for removing snow from side-walks.
There is much complaint in the re
gions of self-government of non-en
forcement —complaint all the way be
tween the town ordinance and the
Sherman Anti-Monopoly Act, but isn’t
the kick overdone when, at—
-90 in the shade,
A demand is made
To enforce removal of snow
When the shade is below zero?
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During a thunder-storm in Allegany
TuesdajL May 31,1881, lightning struck
several trees, knocked over several
cows, and stunned William Hamilton
considerably.
Policeman Albright resigned.
Councilmen George H. Wittig and
James Taylor were delegated by Coun
cil to go before the County Commis
sioners to ask for road appropriation
to be expended under town adminis
tration.
Charles Sullivan’s expenses for a
fishing trip to the Potomac footed up
$1.74. No fish.
Thursday evening, June 2, 1881,
Miss Caroline V. Michael was married
to Mr. W. S. Burton by Rev. J. P.
Wilson.
James Little and William Atkinson,
of Lonaconing, visited friends in
Frostburg. “Politics declining in in
terest down our way,” they said, “but
business looking up.”
J. Semmes Devecmon was admitted
to the bar Monday, May 30, 1881, in
Baltimore.
Miss Helen Percy Sloan, of Lona
delivered the valedictory address at
State Normal School, Baltimore.
L. P. Woolfe, telegraph operator at
Hoffman, went on a visit to New York
and Boston.
Joseph Hartman, of this place, died
Wednesday, June 1, 1881, aged 68
years. Besides the widow two daugh
ters —Mrs. Fred. Gross and Mrs. Con
rad Nickel, and three sons—Conrad,
Daniel and William Hartman, were
bereaved.
Miss Mary E. Douglas, daughter of
Judge John Douglas, of Lonaconing,
died at Beacon, lowa, Saturday, May
28, 1881, aged 22 years.
Miss Cornelia Ellen Hoblitzell,
daughter of James J. Hoblitzell, died
at the family home, Meyersdale, Pa.,
Sunday, May 29, 1881.
A Frenchman came over and, stop
ping at a hotel, found nearly all the
guests wore military titles. An Irish
-1 man, however, told him—
i “Shure it’s nate to be captain or
colonel!
Divil a bit wud I want to be
higher;
But to rust as a private—l think’s
an infernel
: Predicament entoirely,” said
Patrick McGuire.
Hint to Other Papers.
; An English medical paper says the
> prettiest girls are the stupidest. Well,
> (insert name of your town) has some
. of the brightest girls in the country. —
- Ellicott City (Md.) Times.
Another Convention Coming.
1 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
t of last week the State Aerie of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles was in
session in Annapolis. Edgar N.
Michael, of this place, was elected
Financial Secretary, and Frostburg
was chosen for next annual meeting.
Will Electricity Do This?
The Mayor and Councilmeri are
very justly exercised over the in
creased cost of pumping' water over
Great Savage.
Three thousand dollars a is a
big price to pay for projecting the
town’s water less than a mile to a
point where gravity does the rest.
And the question is abroad—will it
not be in the line of economy to pay less
than half that sum in interest on a
sum wherewith to bore a tunnel and
make it gravity from reservoir to res
ervoir?
That is, if the tunnel can be bored
for $25,000, will it not be better to pay
SI,OOO more interest on additional
bonds than to continue paying $3,000
for pumping, and so on?
The Journat. has indicated the
startling proposition before, which, if
feasible, is better than steam pump
ing or tunnel gravity —electric pump
ing?
Why cannot the system be made auto- j
mafic by utilizing the gravity on this ;
side to generate electricity for pumping
on the other?
This question is not original with
the Journal, but it believes it is one
which should be proposed to compe
tent electrical authorities as an easy
means to an important end.
Eess electric power than it takes to
move a loaded car from Clarysville to
Frostburg will propel the necessary
pipe-full of water from the farther to
the nearer reservoir.
Investigate this, gentlemen!
Badly Hurt.
James O. Cleveland, once a resident
of Frostburg, fell from a scaffold in
Oakland a few weeks ago and was
very seriously hurt. He is in a Sana- j
torium at that place and recovering j
slowly. He is a brother-in-law, of
Conrad Gantt, Water street.
Real Estate Transfers.
Gouis Chabot to Paul Chabot, Gona- I
coning road, $l5O.
J. W. S. Cochrane, trustee, to
Charles G. Watson, McCulloh street,
Frostburg, S7OO.
D. J. Gewis and J. G. Miller, trus
tees, to J. F. Rennie, Railroad street, j
Gonaconing, S7BO.
J. W. S. Cochrane to C. G. Watson, j
High street, $1,275.
James Nooten to Joseph Thompson,
Barton, S3OO.
Daisy Harrison to Van Berry, West
Piedmont, $750.
William C. Morgan to Gertrude and
Edith Adams, Carlos, S9O.
Robert Martin to John Carroll,
Westernport, $1,200.
Daisy Harrison to Henry Wolfe,
West Piedmont, S4OO.
H. P. Whitworth, trustee, to James
P. Brady, Westernport, $930.
Better Get Busy.
George Diffenbach, of Grantsville,
recently came down the Pike in his
automobile, turned off to Pocahontas,
picked up Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Gowry
and gave them their first excursion in
a horseless carriage. They came on
through Frostburg' at dizzy speed,
whirled to Cumberland and back
again to Pocahontas—all in a few
hour's. And now Mr. Gowry says if
the projectors of that electric road
from Frostburg, via Pocahontas, to
Meyersdale, don’t get busy soon, he
will buy a whizz-wagon. The Jour
nal prints this item as a hint to the
electric-road to hurry. With a light
ning route, including a Belt Gine,
open to Pocahontas, Frostburg will
be a nucleus that neither Western
Maryland automobiles nor Pennsyl
vania electric-cars can miss.
Journalistic Reminiscence.
The editor of the Journat, heard
“the newspaper bee” buzz as early as
the year 1866.
During that cycle he wrote to
Thomas M. Almond, Guray, Va., an
inquiry concerning that place as a
site for a newspaper.
Mr. Almond had known his corres
pondent from boyhood; knew of the
little reputation he had already won
as a newspaper contributor, that he
was a practical printer, and Mr. A.
was really a friend of “the young
man who wanted to know.”
But there had never been a news
paper in Guray; Mr. Almond was not
sure, and then —it might be another
instance of “the prophet * with
out honor * in his own country.”
So he replied discouragingly.
About a year later the Page Courier
was established bj r - if the editor be
not mistaken, Broaddus & Berrey.
And since 1867 it has run along with
out break except that Mr. Broaddus
stepped out some years ago, and last
week Mr. Berrey, tired of the exacting
weekly task, said he would like to
retire.
William C. Gauek, of the Page
News, a great news-gatherer, took Mr.
Berrey at his word and moved the
Courier into his own office —a merger.
All of the 44 years, however, the
Courier has been one of the best
county papers in Virginia, and its
files are a record monumental of Mr.
Berrey’s devotion to the welfare of
his home town, county and State.
As a reader of the Courier nearly
j4O years, the editor thereof will
| miss it as an interesting reflex of cur
rent Page life and personnel.
HENRY P. COOK, Manager.
WHOLE HO. 2,063
“Rural Ruthers.”
A Frostburg fisherman, jollied about
his greatest out-door weakness, con
fesses all by handing in the following
poem, which, he says, “was published
for me by the Boston (Mass.) Herald
when I was for a short time a native
of Massachusetts.” A long-time pa
tron of the Journal, the great paper
gratifies his whim, though it will not
give him up, not even for a moment, as
a native of Maryland:
Yes, sir, that’s me—
I’d ruther go
An’ fish all day
Than see a show.
I’d ruther hear
My line go “spat”
Than wear a crown
Fur my ol’ hat.
I’d ruther eat
Fish ev’ryday
Than pizened food
The foreign way.
I’d ruther hev
A pick’rel sweet,
An’ not a bomb
Fall at my feet.
I’d ruther hold
My rod an’ reel
Than turn an’ twist
An auto-wheel.
I’d ruther fish
All day, by gum,
Than rule a throne—
That’s fishin’ some.
School Trustees.
The School Commissioners have ap
pointed trustees for the year 1911-12,
in part as follows :
District No. 6.
Winchester Bridge—Julius Graben
stein, Charles F. Trescher, B. Wigger.
District No. 7.
Cresaptown— B. A. Mattingly, G. J.
McKenzie, M. G. VanMetre.
Rawlings—Welch Miller, James H.
Dyche, William R. MacFarlane.
Dayton—C. W. Ravenscroft; David
Clark, J. W. Inskeep.
Pinto—W. H. Neff, George Rawlings
District No. 8.
Westernport—Fuller Barnard, M. A.
Patrick. Horace P. Whitworth. Col
ored—Charles Washington, George W.
Kent, William Taylor.
Franklin—E. J. Roberts, Michael F.
Gannon.
Guke —Robert Woodward, Walter J.
Cox, Thomas Rowan.
McCoole —IraMatlick, William Hart
sock, George W. Robinson.
District No. 9.
Barton—Michael Naughton, George
W. Williams, Floyd Gininger.
Meese—John W. Meese, Geonard J.
Moore, William Gallagher.
Duckworth—Jefferson Miller, James
McDonald.
Moscow—William H. Malcolm, J.
A. Hyde, Patrick Z. Green.
District No. 10.
Central—Richard T. Spier, Dr. J. O.
Bullock, James R. Anderson.
Detmold —John Glenn, sr., William
Marshall, John T. Cosgrove.
Koontz —James Whitman, David V.
Fry, James Weir.
Beechwood—William C. M. Green,
James Matthews, Joseph Todd.
District No. 11.
Borden —Henry Spitznas, John M.
Johns, James Atkinson, jr.
Allegany—George E. Eisel, James
Shea, George Miller.
District No. 12.
Bowery—Alex. Neal, George Mayer,
George Eisel, jr.
Grahamton—John N. Dayman, Da
vid Greening, Max Anderson.
District No. 13.
Mount Savage—Charles Goetz, F.
E. Ewald, John Neder.
Barrelville —P. F. Monahan, Joseph
Ritzer.
Dutch Hollow —Charles F. Mallin,
Thomas Machin, George P. Rice.
Morantown —Gewis Beal, Addison
Smith, M. S. Black.
District No. 15.
Jackson —Patrick Barry, Dr. Henry
Hodgson, Charles Bowden.
Rockville —John Abbott, Hugh M.
Stewart.
Charlestown —James H. Miller, H.
W. Conner.
District No. 17.
Vale Summit —William H. Gong, J.
H. Scott, Henry Cain.
Goartown —Thomas Cain, Jacob K.
Goar, John W. Blubaugh.
Hoffmaa—Henry Seifarth, Michael
Gavin, Adam Scott, jr.
District No. 18.
Midland - Philip McMahon, James
Close, James F. Carroll.
Ocean—Daniel Williams, P. F. Cav
anaugh, Peter Bush.
Miller Mines —James G. Davis, J. G.
Robertson, John S. Coleman.
District No. 19.
Borden Shaft—Henry Wilson, M. T.
Cooper, John Bryson.
Carlos—William Grimes, Michael
Cunningham, George G. Dayman.
Midlothian—JohnO. Winter, Joseph
August Whitfield, Robert Duncan.
Gord —William Truly, Geonard Daw
son, Jenkins Daniels.
District No. 24.
Porter Settlement —Clever Bennett,
M. M. H. Porter, Vincent Engle.
District No. 25.
Pekin —James P. Brehany, Daniel
Martin, Robert Moffatt.
District No. 27.
Gilmore —Edward F. Creegan, Wil
liam J. Jenkins.
District No. 28.
Beall High School —G. G. Town-
I send, Conrad Gantt, F. C. Beall.