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Mining fSslft Journal.
J. BENSON ODER, Editor.
FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 11.
TOYS!
STERN’S.
fl V A STERLING BANK.
ffie Fidelity of prostburg.
“THE RELIABLE FIDELITY.’’
We do a General Banking Business.
3 °!o Interest Paid on Savings Accounts.
Assets $275,000.
D. F. McMullen, Pres. G. Dud Hocking, Treas.
*S-_ We Solicit Your Business.
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.
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FROSTBURG, MD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1911.
Finds Poetic Construction Hard Work.
As Oi sot forninst the sthove, oucht, schmokin’ me dudeen,
Faix the mush widin me sthrove to assert its half-baked sphleen.
(Be the mush, ye’ll understand ’tis me sintimint Oi mane,)
Sure it fought to bate the band, but Oim tellin’ ye —’twas in vain.
Sthill, it made an honest effort to soar beyant sublime,
But Oi can’t commind the iffort, for it railly wuz a chrime.
With the illegance an’ grandjoor of Sara’s lines forninst it,
It tries to write just like her, but the powers wuz aginst it.
It stharted out wid “Oh” Oh, what ? sez Oi ;
“Oh, Sphring! schwate Sphring !” it said, an’ thin a sigh
Iv winthry winds widout cut short the dope,
An’ closer to the sthove moved Oi, fast losin’ hope.
Agin —“Oh, the beautiful laves on trees in park Oi see” —
Oi looked—they were deadern Maryland demochracy !
Thin it stharted out like Mary C., but abandoned the project,
Because ’twasn’t familiar wid so worthy a subject.
So, sez Oi to mushy, Oi sez—begone wid yez now—
Ye’ve as much sintimint in yez as Mrs. Dailey’s cow.
(An’ thot same cow’s foine sintimint, ouch ! broke up me pretty schmile
- Be swishin’ its dirty fly-brush across me fair profile.
Sthill, somehow Oi loiked owld “Daisy”—sure, thot wuz her vinerable name.
Divil a bit iv her crame but wuz butter, an’ all iv her milk wuz crame.)
An’ thot wuz a knock-out fer mushy, an’ it’s odds thot he’ll nivver wake up,
Fer Oim sure I could nivver write gushy—at least not “with a make-up.”
Now Oi’ll pray ye’ll not misoversthand me to say thot me friends write mush ;
Fer their foine sintimints intoxicates me ; if they keep it up Oi’ll be a lush ;
Fer Oi drink ivery line they utter, and to grasp their full meaning pretend,
But, boys, Oi kin write nonsense betther—whin me rhitoric’s not on the defend.
C. B. Ryan.
1881 1911
f THIRTY YEARS AGO. j
1 The Items Below Were Current During T
jr\ Week Ending December 17, 1881. A
The Georges Creek Coal and Iron
Company petitioned the County Com
missioners for refund of about $40,000
taxes overpaid between 1869 and 1879.
“Napper Tandy,” of Hoffman Hol
low, wrote a letter entitled “From Eck
hari. to Chicago.” At Newark, Ohio, he
met P. T. O’Conor and William Hewitt,
former residents of Allegany county.
He missed seeing Andrew Roy at
Columbus, but he found out that
“Ohio seems to run the United States,
. and that ex-Marylanders are large
stockholders in the business of run
ning Ohio.”
A heavy fall of snow Sunday after
noon, December 10th.
* It wasreported that a Sunday-school
1 teacher asked a pupil—“ Little man,
1 can you tell me where the wicked
1 finally go?” The latter replied—
-1 “Yes, sir ; pap says they practise law
1 a spell and then go \o the Legisla
-1 ture.”
1 Resolutions of respect for the mem
|
ory of Rev. Edward M. Davies were
signed by Robert Tennant, jr., P. G.,
J. W. J. Englar, P. G., and M. H.
Rowe, committee of Odd Fellows,
and published by J. W. Fallon, secre
tary.
The World’s Evangelical Alliance
announced first week in January, 1882,
as a Week of Prayer.
County Commissioner Henry Hergot,
of Mt. Savage, sent the Journal a
dressed goose.
Master Willie Wright, son of John
B. Wright, sent the Journal some
papers from Ada, Ohio, where he was
the guest of relatives.
The Cumberland Times wondered
“if Mary didn’t feel a little sheepish
when the lamb went to school with
her?” The Journal replied—“lf the
lamb were a Cumberland editor, of
course she did.” Then the Journal
asked—“By the way, where will Mar} r
go when she leaves school ? In other
words, where, eventually, will Mary
land ? Looked like Cumberland.”
Short oa Dogs.
“In the Cumberland mountains of
East Tennessee,” says Hon. Robert
Taylor, “a good coon-dog is consid
ered a valuable asset. A visitor once
asked a neighbor (Bill Lowmoon by
’ name) how many dogs he had.”
“I haint got but five,” answered
Bill, dejectedly. “Looks lak I never
kin git a start on dogs ag’in !”
Elk’s Memorial Service.
The order of exercises announced
for the Elks Memorial Service in
Frostburg Opera House last Sunday
evening was fully, smoothly and ap
propriately rendered.
Dr. W. O. McLane presided, and
Messrs. O. R. Rice, John L- Ort, W.
H. DeNeen, J. W. Shea, N. T. Hock
ing and E. J. Decker took leading
parts in the ceremonial proceedings.
Other much appreciated features
were the violin solo by Miss Marie
Ehm ; “Grace Be Unto You” by Misses
Ernestine V. Wittig and Elsie R.
Dando, N. T. Hocking and Dr. J. C.
Pfeiffer, quartette, and the orchestra
renditions, Prof. George N. Beall lead
ing.
The salient number —the address
by Byron W. King, Ph. D., of Pitts
burg, Pa., was a fine effort—indeed,
many believe it to be the best with
which the local lodge of Elks has
been favored.
The presence of about 75 members
| on the stage gave that portion of the
j auditorium an unusually interesting
aspect.
A large audience witnessed the cere
monies and heard the music and ad
■ dress with manifest pleasure.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
Tuesday, December 13, 1881, Clara
Belle, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
I George A. Wingert, died, in the 2d
year of her age.
Same day an infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John H. Carter, of Eckhart,
in the 3d year of her age.
Friday mornipg, December 16, 1881,
Mrs. Charlotte Davies, aged 47 years,
died. She was the widow of the late
Rev. Edward M. Davies, who died less
than a month before. She was strick
en with paralysis and died four hours
later.
Rev. D. M. George was installed
pastor of the Welsh Congregational
Church Sunday, December 11, 1881,
with elaborate all-day ceremony.
David Thomas secured a position in
the company shops at Mt. Savage and
removed to that place.
C. M. Taylor was appointed agent
in Frostburg for sale of Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad tickets.
The outgoing Board of County Com
missioners, A. E. Hitchins, president,
left to the incoming Board an unex
pended balance of SB,OO0 —“something
unusual,” it was stated.
Improvements by Walter B. Spill,
C. F. Nickel, MichaelPryle and Messrs.
C. H. Wade & Co., were reported.
James Dolan narrowly escaped seri
ous injury in New Hope mine Satur
day, December 10th ; same was true of
Joseph Graham, in “Old ’Cony” mine,
Monday, 12th, and Alexander Nichols
was seriously hurt same day by a fall
of coal in “Big Vein” mine. Tues
day, 13th, Lewis Race was hurt in
Allegany mine.
The new Board of County Commis
sioners organized Thursday, Decem
ber 15th, electing A. M. L. Bush, of
Cumberland, president; L. T. DeWitt,
of Frostburg, clerk, and B. A. Rich
mond, of Cumberland, attorney.
The Cumberland Times nominated
John W. Garrett for United States
Senator.
Appreciated Help.
J. J. Robinson, journalist and
literateur , of Cumberland, helped the
Journal immensely with some excel
lent articles of local nature this week.
Mr. Robinson writes strong and per
suasive editorials, careful and reliable
reports of current events and, alto
gether, is a newspaper-man with so
few real faults as to deserve a place
in the superlative class.
Fraternal Visitation.
Dan F. Billmyer, Grand Chief, and
Harry T. Brown, Past Chief, both of
Baltimore, made an official visit to
Potomac Castle, No. 17, Knights of the
Golden Eagle, stopping cn route to
confer with prominent members of the
Order in Cumberland and Frostburg.
Under Mr. Billmyer’s careful admin
istration the Castles have taken on
new life and the prospects for a com
mendable gain in membership are
propitious. Visiting members always
find a fraternal and hospitable wel
come in the local Castle.
Local Reporter.
Prof. Richard F. Chaney, this place,
has been engaged by the Journal to
do reportorial work, and any courtesy
shown or assistance given him in this
capacity will be appreciated by the
management. Mr. Chaney will also
receive subscriptions and other busi
ness or work of the office. Help him
to help us continue to make the Jour
nal the greatest index of the town’s
popularity and thrift extant. And
now is the time to subscribe!
i|Unique Trip Is J
i! Plan of Governors j
;; Chief Executives of North- Will Travel 4,000 Miles In |
\\ western States Will Special Train and Show i
V> Visit East. Products. X
STARTING from St. Paul on
Nov. 27 In a special train, the
governors of at least ten ol
the western states will make a
4,000 mile trip, stopping at twenty-two
cities between Chicago and New York.
The object of the trip is to give an
opportunity to 12,000,000 people to
know more of the northwest.
This special train is the first of its
kind ever run and is the first time any
advertising event as large as this has
even been attempted.
The governors will have nothing to
sell. They will have something to say,
but there is noth
' ing of a eomrner
clal tinge to this
Ipl' . flash of governors
JlllllpSSjk. to the Atlantic
m ; seaboard and
iWwk ; back. The gover
nors will carry
> their cardcases
v and will extend to
AmmSfe the people of the
llllf east the good
l|B|||l|i wishes of the peo
-11 pie beyond the
Mississippi river.
There have in the
past been many
governor eber- visitors of one sort
HART. ~ .
or another from
the east to the west, but never before
has there been an organized method
of returning these visits. The gover
nors will extend their thanks for these
visits and meanwhile tell a little about
the country from which they come.
Seven of the ten or twelve governors
who are to take the trip are from the
states which compose the Northwest
Development league, and the land
show of that league, which will be held
at St. Paul Dec. 12-23, will be one of
the main talking points of the gover
nors. The special train will return to
St. Paul for a conference of the gov
ernors several days after the land
show opens.
This train will also carry four ex
hibit cars, each state to have half a
car showing what can be raised in
each commonwealth. Through these
cars the school ,-
children and gen- iif
cities visited will g |
pass and look at
the exhibits. The
explain some of
This in itself governor caret.
will be a great education to the school
children of the cities. Many of them
have never seen the present governor
of their own state. To have a dozen
governors from as many states take
their time to explain the exhibits will
make the lesson one which will al
ways abide with them. As a geogra
phy lesson it has every advanced
means of teaching far surpassed.
The cities to be visited and the dates
are: Chicago, Nov. 28; Indianapolis,
Nov. 29; Louisville, Nov. 30; Cincin
nati, Dec. 1; Dayton and Columbus,
Dec. 2; Pittsburgh, Dec. 4; Harris
burg. Dec. 5; Baltimore, Dec. 6; Wash
ington, Dec. 8; New York city, Dec.
9; Albany, Dee. 11; Utica and Syra
a a
“HORSELESS AGE” A MYTH.
Twice as Many Horses Now In United
States as There Were In 1900.
With the introduction auto
mobile, the taxicab and the motor
truck a great deal was said and writ
ten about the impending doom of the
horse and the approaching “horseless
cordance with
r®, the natural law
H governing the
P'' J survival of the
fe®© fittest it looked
mtu 1 Mil as the fi° rse
flit I 1 "Ho had almost out
—.. SL■ ° — lived its useful
ness and soon would be practically
extinct; but, according to the Harness
World, there are today more than
twice as many horses in the United
States as there were in 1900, the very
year that the motor driven vehicle be
gan to demonstrate its independence
of the horse.
According to the latest statistics,
{here are more than 32,000,000 horses,
one horse to every three individuals
in the United States. Their total val
uation in round figures is $3,000,000,-
000. In 1900 there were 14,000,000
horses in this country, with a total
valuation of $625,000,000.
It is interesting to note that the
horse makes and maintains the mar
ket for nearly all the oat crop, worth
$334,000,000; most of the hay crop,
worth $743,000,000, and a large part of
the corn crop, worth $1,337,000,000. If
we also consider the horse equipments
it will be readily understood that the
horse creates business interests rank
ing with the railroads and agriculture
and other colossal affairs of ttoe coun
try.
cuse, Dec. 12; Rochester, Dec. 13; Buf
falo, Dec. 14; Cleveland, Dec. 15; To
ledo and Detroit, Dec. 10; Grand Rap
ids and Kalamazoo. Dec. 18. and St
Paul, Dec. 19.
No traveling will be done on Sun
days, although Thanksgiving will be
spent on the road. The party is sched
uled to eat the national bird at In
dianapolis, the first stop east of Chi
cago. Nearly all the runs will be by
night.
If the citizens of the cities visited
by the special train should hire a hall
and invite the governors to a public
reception or give
tthem an oppor
tunity to make a
speech the invi
tation will be ac
cepted. The gov
ernors want the
cities in which
know all possi
ble about the
states from
which they
come and will
GOVERNOR JOHNSON. 011 job
early and late,
explaining things to any one who
wants to ask a question.
The fact that a dozen governors are
traveling in a series of one night
stands, as it were, to New York to
show that city what is raised on the
other side of the continent will be
enough to attract attention everywhere
along the line.
Arrangements have been made for a
reception to be given by President
Taft for the chief executives of the
northwest when they get to his town
Dec. 8.
It would impugn the dignity of the
governors to refer to them as the
“greatest aggregation of vote getters
in the history of the continent” and
imagine that the barns of all the
neighborhood about the towns in which
they stop will be plastered with their
names. The special train will, how
ever, have an ad- ___
vance agent. He
comes from Oma
ha. His name is I .3
F. W. Harwood,
and he has had , WvP§|§|M
plenty of training 1
in advertising
secretary of the '' JP
Commercial club
of Boise, Ida. governor west.
Former Governor
Brady of Idaho has conceived the idea
of this train.
The train is run under the auspices
of the Northwest Development league,
which is banded together for the devel
opment of the states of Minnesota.
North and South Dakota. Montana,
Idaho. Oregon and Washington.
Among the governors to be in the
party and the states they represent
are:
A. O. Eberhart, Minnesota; John
Burke, North Dakota; R. S. Vessey,
South Dakota, E. L. Norris, Montana;
Oswald West; Oregon: J. H. Hawley,
Idaho: M. E. Hay, Washington; H. W.
Johnson. California; J. M. Carey. Wy
oming.
E S
BREAD FROM SAWDUST.
Berlin Bakery Is Turning Out 20,000
Loaves Daily.
Sawdust may not appeal to the pal
ate as a digestible or appetizing sub
stitute for flour in the making of
bread, but all the same there is a
large bakery in Berlin turning out
20,000 loaves of sawdust bread daily.
The sawdust is first subjected to a
process of fermentation and various
chemical manip
ulations. Final
ly it is mixed
with one-third
Y~ !)ar t of rye flour,
\ SAWDUST, / formed into
\ l - y loaves and baked
v —is in ovens like any
*— - other bread.
Although this new “pain de bois,”
as the French call it, is meant for
consumption by horses only, claim is
made by the manufacturers that in
case of famine it would furnish a nu
tritious and highly satisfactory food
for human beings.
Sawdust bread may not taste so bad
as it sounds. In various parts of the
world bread is obtained from trees.
For example, in the Molucca islands
the starchy pith of the sago palm fur
nishes a white, floury meal, which is
made into flat, oblong loaves and bak
ed in curious little ovens divided into
small oblong cells just big enough to
receive the loaves.
In Lapland the inner bark of pine
trees, well ground and mixed with
oat flour, is made into cakes, which
are cooked in a pan over the fire.
Along the Columbia river bread is
made from a kind of moss that grows
on a species of fir trees.
...
HENRY F. COOK, Manager.
WHOLE NUMBER 2,096.
READY FOR ALL ORDERS.
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| Operations at BORDEN MINE completed and
i am now ready to supply—
! Orders for Good Rough Coal
| For all purposes, and in any amount, at reason
, able prices.
JOHN H. KEMP, East Union Street.
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; 1893 ESTABLISHED 1911
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DENTIST,
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PASSENGER TIME TABLE NO. 8
In effect 2:00 a. m. Sunday, July 30,1911.
All Passenger Trains Daily.
127 325 123 STATIONS 122 124 126
11 00 330 830 Cumberland 740 11 55 750
11 23 353 853 Mt.. Savage 715 11 30 725
11 45 415 915 FROSTBURG 655 11 10 705
11 56 426 926 C. Junction 645 11 00 655
12 02 432 932 Midland 640 10 55 650
12 12 442 942 Lonaconing 030 10 45 640
12 20 450 950 Barton 621 10 36 631
12 30 500 10 00 Piedmont ,6 10 10 25 620
a.m. p.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m.
Accommodation Train leaves Piedmont daily
at 1:30 p. m., arriving at Frostburg at 2:15 p. m.
Returning leaves Frostburg at 3:00 p. m., ar
riving at Piedmont at 3:45 p. m.
J. T. ROBERTSON,
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