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MININGfIffejOURNAL
J. KEN SON ODISU, Editor. ,
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FROSTBURG, MD. - MARCH 9, 1912 t
THE TRUE STATEMENT. ]
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In a discussion of an inscription
upon a soldiers’ memorial soon to be i
erected at Yale University President <
Taft expressed preference for the <
phrase—“ War Between the States,” ,
instead of “The Civil War.” ;
It is probable, however, that the •
latter will be selected by the com- :
mittee. •
The President’s preference is justi
fied by the fact that the war was not
waged between individuals, but be
tween States—sovereign States.
On both sides the sovereignty of the
individual had been merged in the
State, so that all question of union or :
disunion hinged upon which the State
selected—not the individual, nor in
dividuals.
It was, therefore, “The War Be
tween the States”—a fact, too, which
is fully established by the soldiers
who have almost unanimously for
given each other, while the States, in
too large a measure, still hold aloof.
Frostburgers Abroad.
The Cumberland News of Monday
reported William H. Towles, presi
dent, and James A. Norris, representa
tive of the Towles-Schofield Co., Inc.,
Washington, D. C., as in the city, ex
hibiting the company’s invention—
“A smokeless automatic flashlight
machine which promises to revolu
tionize photography. It is instantan
eous, turning night into day and com
pletely abolishes the smoke nuisance. ”
William H. and his brother—Clar
ence 0., and Fred. C. Schofield, all in
ventors of the machine, are natives of
Frostburg.
The two first are photographers; the
last an electrician—artists whose study
and labor in the perfection of this in
vention have won them a national
reputation.
A Note of Discouragement.
James Stakem, of Midland, is re
ported as having returned from An
napolis much discouraged over the
outlook for the bill which provides for
construction of State roads through
incorporated towns.
“The bill, as it reads,” he says,
“will not benefit any municipal corpor
ation in Allegany county.”
Perhaps the Senator and Delegates
can get it amended to meet the wishes
of town communities, although many
other people are getting uneasy over
the slow advance of important local
bills, some of which are not yet out of
committee.
Worth Your Attention.
That is a beautiful piano on exhi
bition in Jacob Haf er’s furniture store,
worth S4OO, and to be given away
Saturday -evening, August 31st—last
day of Home-Coming Week, to whom
soever at that last moment has the
largest number of votes predicated
upon purchases of goods at Mr.
Hafer’s store.
There are already over 100 candi
dates enrolled—the more the better for
each one, yet there is a limit to the
number.
This and other particulars can be
ascertained from Mr. Hafer.
And in the event you do not want
the piano yourself, you can enjoy the
genuine pleasure of helping a friend—
at the same time getting your
“money’s worth” for yourself.
Go to Mr. Hafer and find out all
about it.
A Tasteful Equipment.
The re-model of the First National
Bank building, the third story of
which has been Masonic territory
many years, furnished Mountain
Lodge, No. 99, A., F. and A. M., an
incentive for refurnishing its apart
ments—Blue-Lodge Assembly, Chap
ter Hall, and Ante-Room.
This was developed Wednesday in
the arrival of a car-load of elegant,
substantial “Mission” desks, settees,
chairs, etc., all of Masonic design,
and, as arranged in conjunction with
carpet and rug accompaniments and
other features of temple type—lamps,
curtains, etc., the King-Solomon
effect is a most pronounced renaissance
of the greatest of ancient edifices.
It is related, indeed, by those who
have “traveled in the east” that no
where in Maryland is there now a
more recherche point de reunion for
those whose loyalty to fraternity is
traced by the compass and domiciled
in the square.
Mountain Lodge, No. 99, is 58 years
old, has 131 members, and is officered
by eight of the most fluent types of
Free Masons in the county.
One step higher is Ohr Chapter, No.
26, Royal Arch, the penetralia of
deeper mysteries, with 58 members,
and then, O, then! there is the indis
pensable auxiliary—Mountain Chap
ter, No. 15, Order of the Eastern Star,
the organized refutation of Douglas
Jerrold’s slur that “a man and wife
cannot be one when one is a Free
Mason.”
The Oriental Twinklers number 65
mothers, wives, daughters and sisters
of the blue and red, and when it comes
to the aid which only such auxiliaries
can render the Frostburg feminine is
fully equal to the occasion.
All three of these types of Masonry
have access to the Blue-Lodge As
sembly, and all will enjoy the new
outfit.
A New and Profitable Field of
Promotion.
The prizes offered by the G. E.
Pearce Drug Company, as detailed in
their advertisement elsewhere printed,
should be of inspiring interest to
farmers and gardeners.
The dollar won, for instance, for
“the first quart of Golden-Wax Beans, ’ ’
will be a dollar worth “pointing to
with pride.”
And so on all the way down to 50
cents for the largest of the most
homely of garden fruits—the plain,
unassuming pumpkin.
One hears, now and then, of “the
evils of competition,” but what possi
ble ill can grow out of rival efforts to
raise the best vegetables ?
None.
On the other hand, the worker who
wins gains for his intelligent labor a
prestige worth enjoying.
The aesthetic feature of soil-work
is also recognized in premiums offered
for the prettiest flowers. This ap
peals to the ladies, and the fair one
who wins $1 for the first 200-bunch of
sweet peas, July 12th, will be a heroine.
The Pearce Company are pioneers
in a movement whose sure climax
in “a soil so fertile that it has
only to be tickled with a hoe to laugh
with a harvest,” is revenue to the pro
ducer, high living to the consumer,
good health and long life to both.
Allegany Legislative Affairs.
State House, Annapolis, Md. ]
March 7, 1912 J
Special impetus was given the Nor- ,
mal School Appropriation Bill last
week when Delegate Metzger and At
torney David A. Robb, of Cumberland, ;
appeared before the State Board of
Education and tried to interest them
in the passage of the measure. Dele
gate Metzger, earlier in the day, had
notified the other members of the del
egates and the Mining Journal cor
respondent that he would visit the
State Board at three o’clock. It was
on Wednesday, the day the Footer
amendment was put in the “Ten-hour
Law for Workingwomen,” and the
House was in session until 2:50 o’clock.
When recess until 4:30 was announced
some of the delegation hurried to get
their lunch and others waited around
to wait for Mr. Metzger who had dis
appeared when the gavel fell. Dele
gate Wittig, one of the last to leave,
made the suggestion that all meet in
the House as soon as they could get
their lunch and accompany Mr. Metz
ger before the Board. Your corres
pondent didn’t go for lunch—he
worked and waited. By the time
Wittig and the other delegates re
turned, Mr. Metzger came in with the
announcement that he and Mr. Robb
had just come from seeing the State
Board of Education, where Mr. Robb
had made an excellent speech in be
half of the bill. When called to ac
count for not awaiting the press repre
sentative and the other members of
the delegation, Mr. Metzger disposed
of it by stating that he “had told
everybody to meet the Board at 3
o’clock and if they didn’t go it was no
fault of his.” But when Mr. Metzger
extended the invitation it was thought
that the House would take its usual
adjournment and not remain in ses
sion to within ten minutes of the time
for the appointment. So every mem
ber of the delegation who was anxious
to say a word for Mr. Metzger’s bill
will have to do so at some other time,
and your correspondent is prevented
from sending a complete report of
the hearing. So far as your corres
pondent is personally concerned, he
feels fully justified in saying that
under the peculiar circumstances, Mr.
Metzger should have given notice
again upon leaving for the Board
meeting—that is, if he really desired
a report of the hearing. But as Mr.
Metzger feels fully satisfied with it as
it occurred, and he being the author
and director of the bill, so long as he
is pleased all of the rest of us ought
to be. It is a fact, however, that
every other member of the delegation
panted to lend his presence to the
hearing and were keenly disappointed
at the outcome through what Mr.
Metzger chooses to term “a misunder
standing.” These little incidents,
trifling in themselves, do not help the
cause in which every man from Alle
gany county who is here feels the
deepest interest. The State Board,
so far as is known, gave no intimation
of what action, if any, they will take
concerning the bill.
Delegate Wittig Monday night in
troduced a bill “to provide safety for
patrons of moving picture theatres in
Allegany county, and to provide safe
guards against fire in Allegany
county!” The bill provides that every
theatre or other building in which a
moving picture machine is operated
shall have a safe exit for everv 150
persons allowed in said theatre or
other place of amusement, and that
no owner or proprietor of such theatre
or place of amusement shall sell or
allow to be sold more tickets to
patrons than the number of seats pro
vided in said theatre or place of
amusement, nor shall allow more per
sons to enter or remain in said theatre
or place of amusement than there are
seats provided, and that said moving
picture machines must be encased in
a fire-proof steel box and the same
approved by the Insurance Under
writers Association. The bill also
prohibits the placing of chairs or
other obstruction of any kind whatso
ever in the regular aisles of the said
theatre or place of amusement, and
the standing or remaining in or upon
said aisles of any person or persons,
at any time while a performance is
being given in said theatre or place
of amusement, and an aisle at least
three feet wide must be kept and
maintained in the middle of said
theatre or place of amusement. On
request of Delegate Wittig the Speak
er changed the reference of the bill
from the Judiciary Committee to the
Allegany county delegation.
The Garrett delegation Monday
night made a favorable report on the
school bill for that county, amending
it so that the schools of Garrett county
will be kept open for eight instead of
nine months, as was at first proposed,
and the bill was ordered engrossed for
third reading and final passage.
The “Ten-Hour Law for Working
women,” containing the canners’ and
Footers’ Dye Works amendments,
passed the House at Monday night’s
session and now goes to the Senate.
On the passage of the bill appropri
ating $35,000 for the putting in condi
tion of the Fifth Regiment Armory of
Baltimore for the holding of the Dem
ocratic National Convention, under a
suspension of the rules Monday night,
Delegates Wittig and Duckworth voted
against the appropriation, and Dele
gate Metzger for it, Messrs. Huster,
Greene and Herpich being absent.
Mr. Metzger, in explaining his vote,
said he was voting as a Republican,
as all eyes will be on Baltimore and
the State or Maryland.
Late Tuesday afternoon the Alle
gany County Road Bill was read third
time and passed by the House. It
now goes to the Senate.
Delegate Herpich Wednesday in
troduced a bill providing for placing
and maintaining flags and flag poles
on the public school houses in Alle
gany county.
Delegate Lawton’s bill, changing
the time of meeting of the County
Commissioners for Garrett county
from quarterly to monthly passed the
House and now goes to the Senate.
Mrs. W. W. Wittig, of Frostburg, is
spending some time with her husband,
Hon. W. W. Wittig, in Annapolis.
Miss Ida May Herpich, of Cumber
land, is visiting her father, Hon. C. J.
Herpich, in Annapolis.
Delegate Wagner’s Public School
Teachers’ Pension Bill for Washing
ton county passed the House Tuesday
afternoon.
Delegate Wittig had a hearing be
fore the House Ways and Means Com
mittee and Senate Finance Committee
jointly on Wednesday morning. Full
report in next letter.
Delegate Metzger has introduced a
bill to appropriate SSOO by the State
for the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth
Powers. Mrs. Powers’ late husband,
who was a guard at the House of
Correction, and, therefore, was a
State officer, contracted typhoid fever
during the outbreak of that disease
some months ago, and from which he
died on November 5, 1911, leaving his
widow and three minor children.
The State is asked in the bill to make
this appropriation for the relief of
Mrs. Powers and her children.
A bill of more than ordinary im- I
portance and significance is now in 1
the hands of the House Committee on t
labor, the passage of which would 1
work great harm and damage to the c
mining and all other industries of i
Allegany county and throughout the t
State in which young men and women, t
boys and girls are employed. The bill 1
is perhaps the shortest and least pre- 1
tentious of any of the hundreds of 1
measures thus far introduced, but it 1
is obviously dangerous and vicious in J
its provisions. It is House Bill No. s
41, and was introduced on January 23d \
and is known as the “Infant 8-hour 1
Bill.” Following is its text:
“A Bill, entitled ‘An Act to regulate 1
the number of hours that employers (
may permit or require infants to :
work.’ <
“Section 1. Be it enacted by the i
General Assembly of Maryland, That
no employer shall permit or require ;
any person, under the age of 21 years,
in his employ, or service, to work or :
remain on duty more than eight hours :
in any one day.
“Section 2. And be it further en
acted, That any employer, personal
or corporate, who shall violate the
provisions of this Act, shall be subject
to a fine of not more than one hundred
($100) dollars for each every offense.
“Section 3. And be it further en
acted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.”
There’s not much to it, but the
harm it will do, if enacted, will be in
calculable. It is only necessary to
recall that there are hundreds of
young men between the age of 16 and
21 years who are employed in and
about the coal mines, brick works,
and other places of employment, and
to further refer to the impracticability
of inaugurating an 8-hour day in the
coal mines, to emphasize the gross
injustice it will do. In many instances,
in the mines particularly, young men
18, 19 and 20 years of age, are fre
quently the mainstay of the family
and earn more money than the aged
father. It would be impossible to
adopt an 8-hour day for these em
ployees and continue under the old
system as to the others. Consequently,
the mining companies would find it
necessary to either discharge these
young men or curtail their earning
capacity by allowing them only eight
hours’ pay for eight hours’ work.
This law will also apply to the Lona
coning and Cumberland silk mills, the
Midland shirt factory, the depart
ment stores who employ girls and it
would affect every industry, office and
shop where young men and girls under
21 years old are employed. The bill,
perhaps because of its deceptive in
significance, at first glance, had not
attracted any attention until the Min
ing Journal correspondent chanced
upon its pernicious intent and mis
chevious purpose, since when it has
been brought to the attention of the
Allegany and Garrett county delega
tions, and they, in turn, will see that
every member is now “put wise” to
the existence of this palpably vicious
measure and line up an opposition
that will accomplish one of three
things: first, smother it in the com
mittee; second, kill it on the floor, or,
third, have Allegany and Garrett
counties exempted from its provisions.
Allegany county has a member on
this committee, Mr. Greene, and he
will make every effort to keep this bill
from advancing a single step further
during this session. And even, if the
worst comes to the worst, and it should
pass the House, Senator Zihlman will
still stand between it and the Alle
gany county industries and young
men and girls to whom it would do
irreparable injury.
Senator Zihlman has introduced a
bill which will prevent the telephone
company, which now has a monopoly,
from making the maximum charge for
rental of telephones more than $1.50 a
month for residences, and more than
$2 a month for business places and
offices in Allegany county. While no
immediate increase in the existing
rates is anticipated, Senator Zihlman
is taking precautionary measures to
prevent any attempt that may be
made in this direction any time in the
future. By putting the subscriber on
a 3-or 4-party line at the $1.50 where
the service is very unsatisfactory, the
telephone company can have the ex
cuse of putting the subscriber on a
1-party or 2-party line for 50 or 75
cents a month more, and so various
excuses might be found to enable
them to increase the rates. While the
Public Service Commission can pre
vent any injustice being done at pres
ent, there is always a possibility that
the Public Service Commission may
some time, be legislated out of office,
or additional laws pa'ssed, or present
laws amended, governing the Com
mission which may enable charges to
be increased. Senator Zihlman’s bill
will act as a check against any effort
through any channel of increasing
rates in the future under a possibility
of a fine of not less than SSO, and as
much more as the court shall deter
mine, for each offense. This fore
thought on the Allegany Senator’s
part will be greatly appreciated, al
though it is believed by Senator Zihl
man that an effort will be made to de
feat the bill in the Senate or the
House.
Delegate Huster came to the front
as one of the orators of the House
last week when he spoke to the amend
ment of the 10-hour law for women in
the interest of Footer’s Dye Works, of
Cumberland. Mr. Huster spoke for
about fifteen minutes and his presen
tation of the case was so logical, so
conclusive and so eloquent and force
ful that there was not a hostile voice
raised in reply nor an opposition vote
cast when the poll was taken. Mem
bers from all over the chamber made
their way to his desk after adjourn
ment and congratulated him with
high compliment upon the elegance
and success of his first speech of the
ssssion. Chairman Huster is popular
and well liked by every member of the
lower House and he has the respect
and esteem of his own delegation to a
man.
Senator Speicher, of Garrett coun
ty, has introduced a bill in the Senate
chartering the Garrett County Rail- j
way and empowering it to construct j
and operate electric railways and to J
traverse certain sections in Allegany
and Garrett counties in Maryland, and
a portion of Pennsylvania. One of
the objective points is Frostburg and
the new line will in all probability
make connecting arrangements with
the Cumberland and Westernport
Electric Railway. The incorporators
named in the bill are Messrs. G. J.
Gnagey, Henry M. Speicher, W. Rav
enscroft, Francis J. Schaub and James
Fluegel. It will also run to Deer Park
and take in many of the towns and
villages in Garrett county. Senator
Speicher states that ample capital
with which to build and operate the i
road awaits the completion of the pre- j
liminary arrangements, incorporation, i
surveys and the necessary advance !
work. He states that the road will be
built and work will start early in the
spring.
Developments in State politics in
the Republican party have resulted
from the Woman’s Suffrage move- |
ment which went down to overwhelm
ing defeat last Thursday night in the
House of Delegates. Delegate W. T.
Warburton, of Cecil county, who is
the Republican floor leader in the
House, made the most brilliant speech
of the session in opposition to Wo
man’s Suffrage in Maryland. It was
the finest oratorical effort heard in
the State House for a long time and
the wish, sometime since expressed
by some of Mr. Warburton’s admirers,
that he might some day be heard in
the United States Senate, may be
fully realized. There is a decided
sentiment among the Republicans in
the General Assembly for Mr. War
burton to enter the lists for the United
States Senatorial toga in the event of
the Republicans controlling the next
General Assembly in joint ballot in
1914. Mr. Warburton is eminently
qualified for this position, and being
of mature age, ripe experience and
unusual qualifications, he would make
an admirable representative in the
Upper House of Congress from Mary
land. Mr. Warburton is a popular
gentleman, absolutely without demerit
either personally or politically, of the
highest integrity, and one who could
win success for any cause in which
he might become enthused and direct
ly interested. It will be well to watch
Mr. Warburton during the next two
years.
Reading Clerk Humphrey D. Wolfe,
of the House, was honored by the
members Thursday when an order
was passed endorsing him for the
post of reading clerk in the Democrat
ic National Convention. Republicans
as well as Democrats spoke on the
order, complimenting Mr. Wolfe and
speaking of his efficiency and pleasing
personality. Republican Floor Lead
er Warburton, after paying a glowing
tribute to Clerk Wolfe, said that he
desired to “vote in favor of the order
although he did not intend to vote for
the candidate who will be nominated
at that convention.” Following Mr.
Warburton, Delegate Metzger,of Alle
gany county, spoke on the Wolfe or
der and concluding by saying that
while he would not go as far as Mr.
Warburton he nevertheless wanted to
go on record as being in favor of Mr.
Wolfe as reading clerk of the Nation
al Convention. “At which,” said the
Baltimore Evening Sun that day, “the
Democrats laughed, the Republicans
gasped, while Walter Wittig made
memoranda in his note book.” Mr.
Metzger’s remarks left the inference
that he would not go as far as Mr.
Warburton, who had said he would
not vote for the presidential nominee
of the Democratic National Conven
tion.
Senator Zihlman introduced his
Prison Labor Bill in the Senate last
Thursday. He also introduced his
Pawnbrokers Bill for Allegany county
at the same session.
Because the Senate would not con
cur in the House message to adjourn
until Monday night, the House held a
session at a few minutes after mid
night Thursday after holding a night
session and then adjourned until Mon
day night. This was done in order to
permit many of the members to visit
the Springfield Asylum at Sykesville
Friday morning.
The Governor on Thursday sent to
the Senate the names of R. K. Sny
der, of Barton, to be Justice of the
Peace, and John E. Metzger, Joseph
White, Gerard Everstine and Boyd A.
Reinhart, Notaries Public in Cumber
land. The appointments were re
ferred to the Committee on Executive
Nominations.
Senator Zihlman Saturday night
spoke before the District Council,
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, of Baltimore, and later was
the guest at a dinner given in his hon
or by the clerks in the Internal Rev
enue, Baltimore, at the Hotel Kernan.
Senator Zihlman is very conspicuous
ly in the Congressional lime-light and
it is quite probable that he willl be
come a candidate for the Sixth District
nomination.
In the Senate Friday morning last
Senator Zihlman’s bill to refund mon
ey erroneously paid by the Western
Maryland Railroad Company as taxes,
passed to its third reading.
Profs. Olin R. Rice, of Beall High
School, Frostburg; Arthur F. Smith,
of Central High School, Lonaconing,
and G. W. Craig, of Barton High
School, were in Annapolis Thursday
en route to Baltimore to attend a
meeting of the Maryland High School
Teachers’ Association.
County Commissioners Merrbach
and Parker,'accompanied by Attorney
to the Board Walter C. Capper, were
at the State House Friday morning
looking after the bill changing the
time for the collection and payment
of county taxes in Allegany county.
Miss Louise Zihlman, who has been
the,guest of her brother and sister-in
law, Senator and Mrs. Zihlman, has
returned to her home in Cumberland.
J. J. Robinson.
A Valuable Letter.
One prominent citizen commended
the “Jockey Hollow” letter last week
in warm terms. He believes it should
be studiously considered by every
well-wisher of Frostburg.
“The writer,” said he, “undoubtedly
knew what he was discussing, and
every point made was an overpower
ing argument in favor of sheep-raising
and woolen manufacture as home in
dustries.”
The contributor of the letter really
left nothing unsaid in favor of these
industries as probably the very best
development that can be made of the
environing idle lands.
To mining—whether of coal or fire
clay, there is eventually a limit, but
the growth and fabrication of wool are
a perennial supply of a perennial
need.
Duck Pius.
Standing of teams in Majestic Duck
Pin League of Frostburg to-day :
Team Captain Won Lost Per Cent.
No. 1, Cooper.... 5 4 555
No. 4, Wittig 5 4 555
No. 2, Jeffries... 4 5 444
j No. 3, Hitchins. . 4 5 444
Wednesday evening No. 3 defeated
{ No. 2 in two of three games, and
j Thursday evening No. 1 dropped two
of three to No. 4.
The contests next week will be be
tween No. 1 and No. 2 Wednesday
evening, and between No. 3 and No. 4
Thursday evening.
The Campaign is On.
The Cumberland primary Tuesday,
under the “commission form” of elec
tion, resulted in the nomination of F.
Brooke Whitingand George G. Young
for Mayor; Dr. T. W. Koon and
Messrs. Roderic Clary, J. S. Schriver,
Frank Lee Carl, John L. Heintz,
J Joseph Hirsch, H. L. Smith and W.
J M. Eichelberger for Councilmen.
The total vote cast for Mayor was
! 3,394, neither of the nominees polling
a majority.
Presuming the same vote was cast
j for Councilmen, it is notable that Dr.
Koon, with 1,694 votes polled 4 votes
less than a majority. For him and
Roderic Clary, both incumbents, the
J latter with 1,154 votes, the outlook is
j favorable to final success at the polls.
Coal Trade.
The demand for coal is large and
strenuous and in several mines of the
region both day and night-work is
necessary to keep pace with the orders.
8.-B.
The Cumberland Base-Ball mag
nates, instead of going to Sunday
school, will meet to-morrow afternoon,
at 2 o’clock, and adopt the following
paper:
Whereas, As them fellers up the
creek are “easy,” therefore, be it—
Resolved , That we won’t go for to
have no base-ball league next season.
Several speakers will declare that a
league is very risky. “Suppose,” one
will say, “we had been tied up in a
league last season, how could we ever
have saved anything that we lost to
Piedmont? Hey?”
Married.
At the parsonage of Mt. Zion Welsh
Baptist Church Sunday evening,
March 3, 1912, by Rev. E- George,
Miss Emma Elizabeth McKenzie to
Mr. James Edward Bancaster, both of
this place.
At the parsonage of Mt. Zion Welsh
Baptist Church Monday evening,
March 4, 1912, by Rev. C. George,
Miss Eva Stewart to Mr. Edward
Emmet Cordial, both of Eckhart. An
Eckhart correspondent writes of Mr.
Cordial as “one of our best young
men. He is employed by the Pied
mont and Georges Creek Coal Com
pany as motorman and brakeman and
enjoys the company’s confidence.
The bride, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Stewart, of this place, is
a very popular young lady, highly es
teemed by a large circle of friends.
After next Monday they will take up
house-keeping in the good old way at
No. 97 Main street, Eckhart.”
Eckhart News.
Messrs. Russell Barnard, Thomas
Eckhart, jr., and Raymond Often, all
of Eckhart, ill in that place with
typhoid fever, are improving.
Francis Scally, whom the Journal
last week reported as badly burned by
an explosion of powder, is in a serious
condition at the home of his parents
—Mr. and Mrs. John Scally, Eckhart.
Master Glen Herman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Herman, sick sev
eral weeks, underwent a successful
surgical operation Friday of last week
at the family home. Dr. Wilson, of
Eckhart, and Dr. Bininger, of Frost
burg, did the work, and Glen is doing
so nicely that he will soon be able to
resume his duties as a messenger boy
at Bannatyne’s store.
Just a few words to the Frostburg
Home-Coming Committees —
We are inviting all of our former
good citizens to come in August to
help us help you to celebrate and
make this demonstration the very best
our region has ever had!
Boost! Boom! Bang!
Rooms Wanted.
Refined couple want to rent four or five rooms,
furnished or unfurnished, with bath room. Loca
tion near car line preferred. Reasonable rental
will be paid and property well taken care of. In
replying state means of heating and lighting, also
price. Address—
“ROOMS,”
Care of Mining Journal, Frostburg, Md.
A NEWS STAND XiPPXXPXNA
NEWSPAPERS of the day. An OFFICE
SUPPLY DEPARTMENT fully stocked with
New and Labor-Saving Inventions. All the new
things in the “Social Stationery” line—one side
of our Store filled with Miscellaneous Books,
Games, Post-Cards, etc.
JOHN A. FULTON & CO.,
Baltimore and Liberty Streets,
CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND.
Muir j No. 6745 Equity
Muir ( * n t^le Circuit Court for Allegany County
TRUSTEE’S SALE
ValuableßealEstate
BORDEN SHAFT, MD.
Pursuant to a decree of the Circuit Court of
Allegany County, in equity, passed the 12th day
of September, 1911, in the case of James S. Muir
et al. vs. Porter S. Muir et al., No. 6745 equity, the
undersigned trustee will, at 11 o’clock a. m. on—
SATURDAY, MARCH 23,1912,
In front of the Gladstone Hotel. Frostburg, Md.,
offer at public sale all the right, title, interest and
estate of the parties to said cause of, in and to
the following described real estate, to wit:
First: All that lot or parcel of ground situated
at Borden Shaft, known as Lot No. 31, of Percy’s
Addition to Borden Shaft, and improved by a
Large, Two-Story Frame Dwelling
And other necessary outbuildings. Said lot being
60 feet wide and 120 feet deep, and being the same
lot that was conveyed to John Miller and Elizabeth
Miller by David Sloan and others by deed dated
the 10th day of May, 1897, and recorded in Liber
No. 84, Folio 214, one of the land records of
Allegany County.
Second: Also will sell all the lot known as lot
No. 30, adjoining the above described lot, and the
same being 60 feet wide and 120 feet deep.
TERMS OF SALE.
One-third cash on day of sale, one-third in
three months, and the remaining one-third in six
months,or all cash at the option of the purchaser;
deferred payments to draw interest.
CHARLES G. WATSON,
Trustee.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
At a regular meeting of Allegany Tribe, No. 67,
Improved Order of Red Men, held Monday eve
ning, March 4, 1912, the following preamble and
resolutions, submitted by Brothers John F.
Thomas, P. S., Griffith Hughes, P. S., and
Lancelot Richardson, P. S., Special Committee,
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, It has pleased the Great Spirit in His
wise providence to remove from our midst our
late Brother Past Sachem—
GEORGE H. BENNETT;
and —
Whereas, It is but just that a fitting recognition
of his many virtues should be had; therefore, be it
Resolved, That while we bow in humble submis
sion to the will of the Great Spirit, we do not the
less mourn for our Brother who has been taken
from us.'
Resolved, That in the death of Past Sachem
George H. Bennett, this Tribe laments the loss
of a Brother who was highly esteemed by the
■ | members of this Order—an adtive member of this
j society whose endeavors were exerted for its
welfare and prosperity, and a citizen whose
honest and upright life was a standard of emula
-1 tion for his fellows.
Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathy of this
Tribe be extended to the family in their sad
; affliction.
Resolved, That the Charter of this Tribe be
draped in mourning for thirty days and that the
Brothers wear the usual badge of mourning for
j the same period as a mark of respedt.
J Resolved, That these resolutions be entered in
full upon the records of this Tribe, and that a
copy, suitably printed and framed, be presented
to the family of the deceased,
j Edward Thomas, Sachem.
Griffith Hughes, Chief of Records.
Brevities.
If there were a Western Maryland
Shepherds’ Association, with a consti
tution, by-laws and enthusiasm like
those of the Poultry promoters, there
would be “something doing hereabout
sure enough.”
Making Progress.
In the “Thirty Years Ago Today”
column it will be observed that a pro
gressive Baltimorean was pluming
himself on having a coal cart from
which coal could be 'emptied into a
cellar without being dumped on the
pavement. —Baltimore News.
February Weather.
R. A. Walter, co-operative observer,
made report this week to the Govern
ment Weather Bureau for February,
his observations having been made at
the Consolidation Coal Company’s
town office:
TEMPERATURE
Maximum 55° 19th
Minimum -7° 11th
Mean 25.6°
PRECIPITATION
Total rain 2.64 inches
Total snow-fall (unmelted) 2
READY FOR ALL ORDERS.
Operations at BORDEN MINE completed and
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.
gelling at [7osf
Reznor Gas-Heating Stoves
6. M. MAYbR b CO.
SI East Union Street.
Let Os Make You
Preliminary
Drawings
for that building you
are thinking of put
, ting up. They cost
you nothing unless
you build
GEORGE F. SANSBURY
, ARCHITECT
Rooms 9-10 Citizens National Bank Bldg.
CUMBERLAND, MD.
ROADJSOTICE.
To Whom it May Concern :
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Road
Directors of Allegany county have been petitioned
’ to close the following roads:
Road at the Coal Tipple on the National Pike,
about 3 miles east of Frostburg, and extending to
* “Piney Mountain” or “Porter’s Settlement”, and
2. About one mile of the “Old National Pike”,
leaving the “Six-Mile House” and extending to a
point east of Allegany Grove.
The petition for these closings is based upon the
} allegation that there is not sufficient public use
for the said roads to justify the expense of main
i taining them in condition as county highways.
; CLINTON UHL,
President.
TOWN REGISTRATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
' all male persons residing within the
corporate limits of the Town of Frost
' burg, Allegany County, Maryland,
that the Officers of Registration—
Joshua Davis and Charles Wilson, will
sit in the
Council Cliattiber, Town Hall,
For the purpose of registering all male
residents, not already registered, who
I are legally entitled to registration and
I who may desire to exercise the Right
of Suffrage at the next ensuing Cor
porate Election, as follows:
Monday, March 18, 1912
f From 12 o’clock M., to 9 o’clock P. M.
Tuesday, March 19, 1912
r From 12 o’clock M., to 9 o’clock P. M.
Monday, March 25, 1912
From 12 o’clock M., to 9 o’clock, P. M.
1 Persons entitled to the Suffrage
, neglecting to register will thereby
1 forfeit the right to vote at the next
J corporate election.
( By order of Mayor and Councilmen,
5 J. S. METZGER,
, Clerk.
February 21, 1912.
\ HAVE YOU A HOUSE
- That is Not Insured P
1 •
1 If So, You Should Place a Policy
, On It To-Day,
Or To-Morrow Before You Dine.
‘ ~VrOU should place the risk, too, with
2 JL standard companies, such as are availa
ble at the D. P.
Miller & Co.
) . Agency.
totes good bmil a
•’ hre occurs, but
then it is you
want a pledge
. • . of indemnity
. for loss worth
its f ace in gold.
' Apply* once.
J. B. Oder,
’ Representing D. P. MILLER & CO.,
Mining Journal Office, 82 East Union St.,
i March 25] 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.
GIRLS WANTED.
GIRLS WANTED—IB years and over. Good
wages. Regular employment.
FOOTER’S DYE WORKS,
Cumberland, Md,
Rooms for Rent.
OFFICE-ROOMS for Rent in Eleanor Building.
Apply to—
OTTO HOHING,
Otto Hohing & Sons’ Store.
1893 ESTHBLISH6D 1912
Dr. I. L. RITTER,
DENTIST,
19 Broadway, [J7] Frostburg, Md.
Dr. J. M. PORTER,
DENTIST
PEARCE BUILDING, Union street,
Frostburg, Md.
Sept 11 W. Md. ’Phone 38-2
Model Lice Spray,
Quart Can, 35 cents.
FOR SALE) BY
T. L. POPP,
Dealer in Poultry Supplies,
FROSTBURG, MD.
AUTISTIC FRAMING
On Broadway, FROSTBURG, MD.
EXPERT
TUfUJtG
SAVES AND IMPROVES
THE PIANO.
Drop Me a Postal and I’ll Call.
Expert Work Guaranteed.
JAMES H. BOND,
36 Stoyer Street,
FROSTBURG, MARYLAND.
If You Are Building
A HOME, or BUSINESS HOUSE, you
should have it—
PAINTED
And have the work done by or under the
direction of a Capable and Experienced
PAINTER. Until then your property
will not be completely finished.
In this line and style of duty I am ready
to serve you. H. A. MARTIN,
W. Md. ’Phone 115-3] Frostburg, Md.
L,et Us Dry-Steam
Clean and Press Your
Coat, Pants and
Vest!
We do not drive the dirt into the lining of
( the goods, but force it from the inside out.
\ This process is strictly sanitary. It removes
all dirt, raises the nap, renders the garment
sterilized like new and not shrink a thread.
Radies * Coats, Jtickets, Skirts, Etc., re
’ ceive special attention .
Shall we call for your next package?
FROSTBURG STEAM LAUNDRY,
A. S. BURTON, Proprietor.
[ U No Us|
:: “Tell It To The Neighbors” 3:
33 THAT 33
o c.R. DeLAUTER <;
j; rr\ akes a SPECIALTY of ;;
: o / 1 1 Weaving Carpets, \\
■ 31 And will Pay Freight on All 33
JI Goods One Way. 3 3
| MEYERSDALE, PA. J
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
■ FARM FOR SALE.
A Great Opportunity for Anyone
r Desiring a First-Class, Well Im
proved Farm, near Cumberland
on Hard Rock Road.
Lies six miles east of Cumberland on the Balti
l more turnpike now a State road and under con
- strudtion. This farm contains ioo acres of well
improved limestone gravel land; has thereon a
seven-room frame house, nearly new, with cellar;
’ one bank barn built four years, wagon shed, corn
crib with granary separate from barn, and other
* outbuildings, soft spring water piped in yard.
I This land is very desirable for trucking; 70 acres
t is in a good state of cultivation; balance in timber;
j fruit of all kinds, particularly apples, 75 old trees;
> 100 young trees just beginning to bear, 80 peach
' trees 3 years old, thrifty; 45 plum trees; pears,
grapes, cherries and currants. Price $4,000.
1 For further particulars call on or address—
D. P. MILLER & CO.,
INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE,
NO. I N. LIBERTY STREET,
, CUMBERLAND, MD.
[QUICK LOANS j
j From $5.00 Up! j
t Anywhere in Allegany County, Md., \
t Mineral County, W. Ya., and t
t Bedford County, Pa., J
1 To owners of Furniture and other i
♦ Chattels and to Salaried Em- I
f ployees, without security. ?
t Can be repaid in weekly or I
. monthly payments to suit your I
f income. t
l Prompt, Courteous and Conti- |
t dential Treatment. t
| People’s Loan Co., j
f Room 31, Third Floor, A
1 Third National Bank Bniding, 1
; CUMBERLAND, MD. t
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