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MININGjIfpJOTJRNAL.
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J}JENS ON ODEN, Editor. £
FROSTBURG, MD. - - JUNE 8, 1912 \
Pension Granted. I
Mrs. Fannie A. McKenzie, of this
place, has been granted a pension of
sl2 a month. She is the widow of ‘
Jacob P. McKenzie, of the Second
Maryland Regiment. .
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Business Movements.
George W. Morgan, lately holding a s
responsible position under the Con- t
solidation Coal Company, has resigned i
to take a similar office near Charleston,
W. Va.
Marriage License. (
Isaac Clifford Parker, of Romney, s
W. Va., and Ethel Grant, of Cresap
town. I
Daniel Stuart, of Accident, and !
Jennie Ethel Rose, of Westernport. :
Wanted—Furniture.
Highest cash price paid for Furni
ture, Pianos, Carpets, Bedding, Bric
a-Brac, etc. Entire or portion of
Household purchased. Write to J. 8.,
Westernport, Md. General delivery. **
Orphans’ Court.
At Fridays session last week—
The sale of real estate made and re
ported in the matter of the estate of
Conrad Hohing, deceased, was finaly
ratified and confirmed.
Brevities.
R. H. Eancaster, of Eckhart, asked
for news the other day, said “it is re
ported that a Parkersburg lady has
determined to give up all slang ex
cept fther and 7ther.”
Poets refer to the sun as rosy, red
and yellow, but a German astronomer
contends that it is blue. The Philoso
pher says, however, “det te Yerman
color wont go en Eckhart, bay yeminy,
for Yem Ratigan tank te sun bane re
flection of falter whose whiskers bane
pink.”
Brazil’s first law providing for the
improvement of the human race via
medical examination of parties to
marriage was enacted over twenty
years ago. On this side of the equator
people are just beginning to talk
about it.
Real Estate Transfers. .
The Real Estate and Building Com
pany of Cumberland to Mark E. Klos
terraan, property on the National
Pike.
John and Mary McGowan to James
and Jennie Dunn, property on Dan’s
Mountain, near Eonaconing, $lO and
other considerations.
It Relieves All Pain
In any part of the body. For 35 years
Dill’s Balm of Eife has been the
standard household remedy for the
swiftest and surest relief of all kinds
of pain. Especially valuable for
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pleurisy,
Kidney Troubles, Diphtheria, Sore
Throat, Croup, Coughs, Colds, Ea
Grippe, etc. 25 and 50 cents. *2
Keep the Cows in the Alleys.
The Mayor and Council of the Town
of Frostburg should adopt and en
force a regulation prohibiting driving
cows to and from pasture over any
part of any paved street.
After taxing property-owners twice
for such improvements—regular and
special, they should be protected from
the unsightly defacements and un
sanitary defilements that can be pre
vented.
People who will keep cows should
be required to use the alleys for driv
ing-
otherwise, gentlemen, to discrimi
nate thus against the people whom
you have specially taxed is but little
less than a crime!
Died.
In Allegany Wednesday, June 5,
1912, Miss Rebecca Musteller, aged 60
years. Two sisters are bereaved—
Miss Ruth Musteller and Mrs. John
Edwards, both of same place.
At the home of his uncle, ex-Mayor
George A. Kean, Cumberland, Wed
nesday, May 29, 1912, George Thomas
Kean, aged 5 years, son of Thomas
B. Kean, of that city, and grand-son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Decker, of this
place. His mother died at the time of
his birth. “He was a bright, hand
some little fellow,” says the Cumber
land American , “and a general favor
ite of all the residents of the neigh
borhood.”
New Lease of Life.
The people of Shawmut, Pa., lately
about to let their town go out of ex
istence, have reconsidered the matter
and will keep it going.
During the last two years 100 fami
lies moved away, owing to the fact
that the coal veins from which the
people gained a livelihood were worked
out and the mines abandoned.
But, “prospecting,” that has been
quietly going on several months, has
resulted in the discovery of new and
better veins of coal, a little deeper
than the old, but of such dimensions
and basins as not only to warrant the
opening of extensive mines, but such
as assure the steady employment of
villagers for at least 15 years.
The announcement of the prospect
ive revival of work therefore won out,
and already some of the families that
have moved away are going back into
their old homes.
For 20 years or more it had been
prominent as a bituminous center, the
coal from its mines being of a charac
ter that gave it a premium value for
furnace and smith work. The lower
basin produces a grade of coal some
what harder than the ordinarj- run of
bituminous.
Know Paint.
There’s a paint-education in this ad
vertisement.
liny the job, not gallon. Buy by
the paint put-on; that’s the job.
The price of paint is so much a gal
lon; that can’t be helped, but amounts
to nothing.
The price of painting is so much a
day; that can’t be helped, but amounts
to nothing.
Put them together. How can you
do it? You’ve got to or lose perhaps
half of your money.
Devoe, 10 gallons enough for the
average job; an average paint, 15.
Now reckon your costs. Count labor
a day for a gallon. Devoe 10 days;
the other 15.
Devoe about SSO; the average paint
about S7O or $80; the dearer the labor
the bigger the difference, always that
way.
But that’s for the job. How long is
it going to last? One twice as long as
the other.
DEVOE
J. W. Shea, Agent. • sells it.
8.-B.
Sunny Jim’s Day of Grief
“Senator,” said Vice-President
Sherman to Senator Pomerene, of •
Ohio, taking him outside the chamber (
into the marble room, “I am in great •
trouble.”
“Why, what’s the matter?” asked •!
Mr. Pomerene, who is a democrat.
“My grandmother is very ill, and I !
would like you to take the chair and
preside over the Senate this afternoon
while I hurry to her bedside.”
Senator Pomerene took the chair, ,
and half an hour later “Sunny Jim” 1
Sherman was sitting in a box cheering
himself hoarse as the Nationals in the
second inning made three runs and
tied the score with Boston. —Washing-
ton Post.
Piedmont vs. Frostburg
The game here last Sunday was
“called” at the end of the 7th inning
on account of rain, the score then
standing a tie —7 to 7.
Piedmont had the better of the ar
gument up to the 7th, leading the
home team by 7 to 3. Just then
Michael Hoban was sent in to bat for
McDade and he responded with a
three-base wallop, starting a rally that
tied the score.
Midland Games
Midland has been doing some good
playing this season—6 games, win
ning 5, losing 1.
Decoration Day Eonaconing was de
feated by 5 to 3.
Saturday, Ist inst., Piedmont lost by
7 to 3, and—
Next day (Sunday) Eonaconing lost
again by 9 to 0.
On the other hand, Cumberland has
played 2 games, winning 1, losing 1;
Piedmont 5 games, winning 2, losing
2, tied 1; Eonaconing 2 games, losing
both, and Westernport 1, losing 1.
Speculation
This should be a good season, and
when Eonaconing gets going it will
cut considerable figure in the run
nings. Just now there is some dis
satisfaction among themselves, but
Tom Stakem expects to smoothe the
ruffles out soon. Grindle and Flynn,
now playing with Piedmont, will go
back to Eonaconing soon as Kelly and
Eaughlin reach home from school.
At this moment Kelly is captain and
first baseman of the St. Mary’s Col
lege team, Emmittsburg, and Eaugh
lin is in left field for same team, both
playing great ball.
Paddy Stakem pitched a great game
for Midland last Sunday. He shut the
Eonaconing team out; not only so,
but up to the 9th inning never allowed
a hit. In this number, with two men
down, Barracks Brown scratched out
the only hit the visiting team got.
Tribute to Base-Ball
Read what Elbert Hubbard printed
lately:
“Now that the robins are here and
the chirp of the blue-bird is heard in
the land, and the sun is coming out,
we look forward to the base-ball
season.
“Americans are great and good
sports, and at the base-ball ground we
all meet on American equality.
“Each fan is as good as any other
fan, even if not better.
“We jostle, we smile, we push, we
joke, we laugh.
“On the base-ball ground every
thing goes, troubles are forgotten,
cares kiboshed, prejudices laid aside.
“To watch a game of base-ball is a
great relaxation of the nerves, and
one thing especially good about base
ball enjoyment is—ventilation is
always good!”
Coming Events
The Frostburg team will go to
Piedmont this (Saturday) afternoon to
play with the team of that town.
The EaSalle Institute team, of Cum
berland, will play the Beall High
School aggregation in the Park here
this (Saturday) afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The game will be incidental to the
Beall High School picnic.
Holds Highest Office.
Rev. G. E. Metger, of this place,
was elected President of Somerset
Classis, Reformed church, at the an
nual meeting, Glade Church, Berlin,
Pa., last week.
Axiomatic.
Most of us forget rather than for
give because it Is easier.—Puck.
Not Democratic.
It is related that a democratic
United States Senator of West Vir
ginia sent the latest edition of the
Patent Office Report to a constituent
and received acknowledgment about
as follows:
“Dear Senator—l got them speeches
o’ yourn, but I couldn’t read ’em
through. Caze why? Thar war too
much protection docterin’ into em.”
Applicable Here.
The Health Report of North Yakima,
Washington, for April, recites the
conditions under which children are
kept from and permitted to attend
school.
It has been the rule to permit none
from families wherein there is a case
of measles or chickenpox, whether or
not such children are protected by a
previous attack, to attend, but all shall
be allowed to return to school when
they can furnish satisfactory proof
that they have had and recovered
from the disease for which the houses
were placarded.
The report makes a good point in
the following paragraph :
“There is no finer dairy country than
that of the Yakima Valley, but it will
never receive the consideration to
which it is entitled, nor will the dairy
men as a class achieve the highest
possible measure of success until the
same study, the same care and atten
tion is given to the dairying that is
now given the fruit industry of the
valley.”
One reads much, and when the tree
doctors come around, no less is heard
of the vital importance of “spray
ing,” etc., but how much is ever said
of treatment for “unclean conditions
existing in and around the source of
milk production, such as dirty cows,
dirty, dusty barns, manure accumula
tions in or near the place of milking,
dirty utensils, unclean milkers, and
improper cooling, storing, etc., of the
milk? ”
The report concludes with two vital
paragraphs:
“The arrival of the fly season makes
it urgent that all garbage, manure and
other refuse which could serve as a
breeding place for flies should be kept
covered at all times. Property-covered
metalic garbage cans are not expens
ive and are efficient when kept covered.
Tight manure boxes of totigue-and
groove boards, with a fly-tight cover,
so made as to contain not over one
week’s accumulation, should be in
stalled wherever one or more horses
or cows are kept, and no droppings
should be allowed to remain and ac
. cumulate on the barn-floor or in the
; corral.
“Effective trapping done at this
time will also materially contribute
to reduce the number of flies.”
THE CHURCHES.
'At the Presbyterian Church, Rev.
J. N. Beall, D. D., to-morrow (Sun
day) 9)4 a. m., Sunday school and
Men’s Bible Class; 10)4 a. m., sermon
—“The Soul’s Craving for Rest;” 7)4
p. m., sermon—“ Patriotism in the
Public School.” Good music at all
services, and “everybody welcome.”
Rev. T. E. Richards, late pastor of
the Congregational church, this place,
attended the 61st meeting of the Con
gregational Church Association at
Monterey, Pa., this week, as a dele
gate from the Frostburg church.
At the First English Baptist Church
Rev. B. F. Bray, pastor, to-morrow
(Sunday) 9)4 a. m., Sunday school;
10)4 a. m., sermon —“God’s Method of
Honoring Man;” 7)4 p. m., baccalaure
ate sermon to Graduating Class of
Beall High School. Special music by
the choir.
At St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Rev.
F. H. Crissman, pastor, to-morrow
(Sunday) 10 a. m. Sunday school; 11 a.
m., sermon; 7)4 p. m., Sunday-School
Children’s Day service—offering for
benefit of the Orphans’ Home. Mon
day evening—Ladies’ Guild at home
of Mrs. Fred. Wehner. Wednesday,
7)4 p. m., prayer and praise.
At St. John’s Episcopal Church,
Rev. F. M. C. Bedell, rector, to-mor
row (Ist Sunday after Trinity) 7)4 a.
m., Holy Communion; 9% a. m., Sun
day school; 10)4 a. m., morning prayer
and sermon; 7)4 p. m., evening prayer
and sermon. Tuesday (St. Barnabas)
10 a. m., Holy Communion. Friday,
7)4 p. m., litany.
At Salem Reformed Church, Rev.
G. E. Metger, pastor, to-morrow (Sun
day) 9)4 a. m., Sunday school; 10)4 a.
m. and 7)4 p. m., sermons. Tuesday
evening—Helping Hand Society at
home of Mrs. Otto Hohing. Wednes
day evening—mid-week service. Fri
day evening—C. E. and choir meeting.
At the Congregational Church to
morrow (Sunday) 10)4 a. m., sermon
by Mrs. J. B. Richards; 2 p. m., Sun
day school; 7)4 p. m., Children’s Day
exercises. Monday, 7)4 p. m., Jr. C.
E. Tuesday, 7)4 p. m., band rehearsal.
Wednerday, 7)4 p. m., prayer.
David Thomas will conduct the
Faith Mission service this (Saturday)
evening, and to-morrow (Sunday)
afternoon, at 3 o’clock, service will be
held at Midlothian. At 7)4 o’clock to
morrow evening Richard Hawkins
will preach.
Most People Can't Set Them.
“We would willingly have others
perfect and yet we amend not our own
faults.” —Thomas a Kempis.
Immense Sum Spent by Tourists.
The actual money invested in hotels
In Switzerland is $160,000,000. The
payment of the interest on this sum,
the maintenance of the properties and
a profit on the enormous business
Which employs many thousands of
people., is practically all paid by tour
ists who come to Switzerland in pur
suit of health, recreation and pleasure.
School Trustees.
At a recent meeting the County
School Commissioners made appoint
ments of Trustees of Public Schools,
in part as follows:
District No. 7.
Cresaptown —B. A. Mattingly,
George J. McKenzie, M. G. Vanmeter.
Frost—Robert Wilson, Frank M.
Hutson.
Rawlings—Welch Miller, J. H.
Dyche, William R. McFarlane.
Dayton—C. W. Ravenscroft, David
Clark, J. W. Inskeep.
Pinto —W. N. Neff, George Rawlings.
Metcalf—Otis Metcalf.
District No. 8.
Westernport —M. W. Patrick, Hor
ace P. Whitworth, William Paul.
Franklin—E. J- Roberts, M. P.
: Gannon.
McCoole —Ira Matlick, William Hart
sock, George W. Robison.
District No. 9.
Barton—Michael Naughton, George
W. Williams, Floyd Eininger.
Meese—John W. Meese, Leonard
Moore, William Gallagher.
Duckworth —Jefferson Miller, James
McDonald.
Moscow—William H. Malcolm, J. A.
Hyde, Patrick 7,. Green.
District No. -10.
’ Central-Frank Hill, Dr. J. O. Bul
: lock, James Holmes.
Detmold—John Glenn, sr., William
Marshall, John T. Cosgrove.
; Koontz —James Whitman, David
; Frye, James Wier.
i Beechwood—William C. Green,
James Matthews, Joseph Wood.
District No. 12.
Hill—Alexander Neal, James E.
Crump, William Hanna.
\ Grahamton—Eugene Layman, David
Greening, Clarence Cook.
District No. 13.
Mt. Savage—Rev. George C. Shaw,
: John Neder, James J. Gardner.
: Barrelville —P. F. Monahan, Joseph
• Ritzer.
Dutch Hollow—C harles Mallin,
l Thomas Machin, George P. Rice,
i Morantown —Lewis Beal, Addison
: Smith, M. S. Black.
District No. 15.
’ Jackson—Cyrus Wiland, Henry R.
Anderson.
Rockville—John Abbott.
Herron —J. R. Andersqn.
Charlestown—James H. Miller,
( Henry W. Connor, Burnham Bennett.
District No. 17.
: Vale Summit—William H. Long,
: Henry Cain, James H. Scott.
Loartown —Thomas Cain, Jacob
: Eoar, John W. Blubaugh.
: Hoffman—Henry Seifarth, Michael
Lavin, Adam Scott, jr.
District No. 18.
* Midland—Robert Russell, William
\ Montgomery, J. H. Robertson.
Ocean —Daniel Williams, P. E.
1 Cavanaugh, Claude Robertson.
Miller Mines —Joseph Robinson.
) District No. 19.
, Borden Shaft—Henry Wilson, M.
I T. Cooper, John Bryson.
: Carlos—William Fairgrieve, John
Brimlow, George E. Layman.
1 Midlothian—John O. Winter, Joseph
A. Whitfield, Robert Duncan.
> Lord —William Truly, Leonard Daw
-1 son, Jenkin Daniel.
1 District No. 24.
f Eckhart—John Bannatyne, J. J.
Carter, W. E. Hilton.
District No. 25.
Pekin—William Donaldson, Abra
, ham King, Robert Tennant.
District No. 27.
Gilmore—Edward F. Creegan, Wil
’ liam J. Jenkins, Frank Gwynn.
District No. 28.
: Beall High School—G. G. Town
send, F. C. Beall, W. E. G. Hitchins.
5 In Westernport Charles Washing
; ton, G. W. Kent and William Kent
are appointed lor the colored school.
Not the Young Way.
Rev. Lewis Beeman Brown, well
remembered here, has gone into the
“land records” of Baltimore, and
found that a “lane,” named “Maid
en’s Choice,” first belonged to Thomas
Cole, and was by him conveyed to
Mrs. Charles Gorsuch in 1679, or 233
years ago.
Whatever the dispute over the
“lane” may have been, it seems a
shame that anybody should look into
“land records” to settle it.
Not As He Used To Do.
The devil was piqued such saintship
to behold,
And longed to tempt him like good
Job of old;
But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not mak
ing poor Alexander Pope.
Couldu’t Please Him.
It is reported , that somebody sug
gested recently to David Cronin, once
a newspaper man in Frostburg, that a
new Pennsylvania town should be
named Brickwood.
David objected on the ground that
there is nothing about the town to
make the name appropriate. In his
own words—
“ There isn’t a brick in the town!”
“Nor,” said the friend, “is there
a cultivated rock in Rockwood!”
David shuffled at this, but his friend
kept on: “Tell you what we’ll do,
Dave; you live in Confluence; suppose
we call this Influence! What say
you?”
“Well, there isn’t a darned bit of
that in it, either!” responded Dave,
hopelessly.
The town is still nameless.
Re-Appoiatmeut.
Wednesday evening John Chambers
received notice of re-appointment as
Justice of the. Peace.
Thursday morning he went to Cum
berland, qualified, and at 10 o’clock
resumed business where he left off a
month before.
The town has four judges now.
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• ON IRONING DAYS •
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A Strenuous Picnic.
I The Beall High School authorities
: and pupils have laid out a varied pro
l gram for the picnic beginning at noon
- to-day (Saturday) in Junior Order
i Park and booked to close at midnight,
i Races, pie-eating, climbing, catch-
S ing the lubricated pig, and other trials
of skill and strength will be projected.
; And then the eating—which doesn’t
. hurt young people, pies, cakes, ice
> cream, and so on, will last all day.
The proceeds will be appropriated
to improving the grounds, as laid off
by an engineer—an enterprise de
serving substantial encouragement by
’ everybody, whether they go to the .
picnic or not.
But everybody is urged to go.
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Imposing Landscape from
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A NEW LINE OF
Curtains
JUST RUCUIVUD
All kinds and varieties of materials for
Curtains and Draperies
A BIG LOT OF
SUMMER DRESS GOODS
Trimmings, Etc.
FANGY GOODS
Stamped Goods a specialty. Just now everything new in
“Punch Work” designs. We carry all the materials
for this work, including the needles
THE H. B. SHAFFER COMPANY
Big Store at Growing Pnd of Town
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