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HIiNS ON ODER, Editor.
FROSTBURG, MD. - - JULY 13, 1912
RIVERS AND CANALS, BUT
NOT ROADS
The New York World speaks of the
republican platform as “apologetic in
tone and stand-pat in tendency.”
This means in one instance that so
far as the proposition of national help
for national road-building goes the
republican party, in the future, as in
the past, will do nothing.
The same paper enumerates twenty
two pledges made by the democratic
party for popular good—
“ One for comprehensive legislation
for improvement of the great rivers
and prevention of floods ;
“One for encouragement of the mer
chant marine, and—
“ One for the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine.”
All these are promotive of water
transportation—not a dry syllable any
where for even recognition of land
transportation as a factor of vital pub
lic importance.
As one of the anomalies of popular
government this is the chief.
On the cultivation and production of
the soil the whole fabric of commerce
and its regulation and protection by
government rest, yet “not a cent for
tribute” does government pay to make
easy and smooth the inland farmer’s
transit to market.
Much —very much is done for the
merchant, the non-taxpaying sailor,
marine and admiral, but absolutely
nothing for the tax-paying farmer !
The government even comes along
and builds for town-people a $40,000-
public building, but not a dollar does
it ever appropriate for a good road
leading thereto.
The Journal indulges these reflec
tions in no unpatriotic sense, but rath
er.in the way of inquiry.
For instance—
1, Why can government expend mo
ney on improvement of rivers and
building of canals, but not on roads ?
2, Why can government extrava
gantly subsidize the man who owns a
boat, but not at all the man who owns
a wagon ?
BRICK HIIiHWAYS.
The State of New York has issued
proposals for building 900 miles of
State Road.
Of this total of stretches in various
portions of the State the specifications
require that about 400 miles “must be
either brick, with concrete base, or
concrete, with bituminous top.”
In this connection it is stated in the
New York Times that “there has nev
er before been so much competition
between contractors —in some cases
as many as fifteen bidders for a single
road.”
And so the long-belated era of good
road building will now go on.
State after State will get into line,
and .not many years hence miles and
miles of all types of standard roads,
brick being the highest, will be enum
erated by thousands instead of mere
hundreds !
Meanwhile, what will the Georges
Creek region be doing in the way of
meeting a growing demand for road
brick, available from raw material
now mined and thrown away ?
AllegatiiaM for President.
An Atlantic City dispatch of the 9th
inst. conveyed the information that—
“ Finley C. Hendrickson, of Cumber
land, Md., was launched as a candi
date for the Presidential nomination
by the Maryland delegation, which
will appeal for his selection as the
party (Prohibition) standard-bearer on
a broad platform, especially urging
that there be more earnest appeal for
votes outside the churches and that
less of the energy of the party be ex
pended in howling for the church
vote.”
A strong committee of the Maryland
delegation was organized to promote
Mr. Hendrickson’s nomination.
This Week 157 Years Ago.
Last Tuesday, 9th inst., 157 years
ago, the battle of Fort DuQuesne was
fought, in which Gen. Edward Brad
dock, commander of the British and
Colonial army, was mortally wounded.
Four days later he died—July 13th,
157 years ago to-day (Saturday.)
It was a terrific, blood}' defeat of
1,373 troops by about 900 French and
Indians.
Of 86 officers 63 were killed and dis
abled, and of the troops only 459 es
caped unhurt.
George Washington, commanding
the Virginia and Maryland regiments,
covered the retreat skilfully and
bravely.
I. O. 0. F. Re-Uio.
The I. O. O. F. Re-Union at Pen
Mar, this State, Thursday, August
Bth, next, promises to be an event of
great interest to one of the oldest of
the fraternal orders.
A California Congressman will be
orator of the day, and Hon. John W.
Young, of Cumberland, will preside.
Of the latter the Waynesboro (Pa.)
Record says—
“ John W. Young, Cumberland, Md.,
a Past Grand Master and Representa
tive to the Sovereign Grand Lodge,
will be the presiding officer of the oc
casion. He is gifted with a strong
voice, has had much experience in
handling conventions and is counted
an ideal presiding officer.”
lti the Interest of the Sabbath.
The Frostburg Ministerial Associa
tion met Monday, Bth inst., and organ
ized for current, year as follows :
President—Rev. F. H. Crissman.
Secretary and Treasurer—Rev. Eu
gen Henzel.
The following resolution was unan
imously adopted :
“That it be the sense of this Associ
ation that we most heartily approve
of the bill introduced by Representa
tive James R. Mann May 16, 1911, and
known as H. R. 9,433, and that we
urge most earnestly the passage of
the same, and that a letter to this
effect be sent to the Hon. John Walter
Smith, U.-S. Senator from Maryland.”
The intent of the bill is to stop the |
distribution of mail on the Lord’s Day. I
Too Much To Do.
One prominent citizen believes that
the Mayor and Council will fail
in one important duty if they neglect
proper attention to restoration of “the
old grave-yard on the hill” to decent
appearances.
“Many who are ‘coming home,’”
he says, “have near and dear interests
up there, and if the old enclosure is
seen in its present condition they will
think their ‘old-home town’ sadly lack
ing in pride of appearances and re
spect for the memory of its pioneer
ancestry.”
But it really looks like there are too
many things to do within one year for
almost any town that wants all its for
mer residents to convene within its
limits for a week.
To do all that should have been
done here the exemplars of modern
history should have put off the Frost
burg “centennial” at least one more
year.
Give the Road a Big Reception.
Thursday, August Ist, is fixed as
the day for the formal opening of the
Western Maryland Extension.
A decorated train carrying company
officials will start from Pittsburg or
Cumberland on a schedule providing
for stoppages at important stations of
sufficient time to enable the people to
“extend the glad hand.”
When the hour for Frostburg is
known, therefore, the Mayor and
Council, some speaker representing
“the voice of the people,” and the
populace of Frostburg, should as
semble at the station and give in-com
ers a rousing reception!
For the occasion the three cornet
bands should unite and give the vis
itors a resonant greeting in a medley
of “The Star-Spangled Banner,”
“Maryland, My Maryland,” “Amer
ica,” and, possibly, “Dixie,” a sym
phony, rendered by 80 stalwart musi
cians, which would make “the welkin
ring” with welcome!
Over two weeks remain for prepara
tion for this event, and the Jouknat.
believes Frostburg can and should ex
tend a demonstration of welcome
commensurate with the unquestion
ably great benefit the new line will
confer upon town and people.
Town Council.
Much business transacted at the
special session Monday evening.
One item of the C. and P. Telephone
difference was settled —that under the
law the town cannot enjoy any tele
phone service free. Rather, it cannot
accept reciprocal concessions.
The appeal of Dr. J. Marshall Price
from increase of his assessment was
allowed by reducing amount Yo his
rating.
An Ordinance proposed for improv
ing portions of nine streets—for re
pairing ditches, curbing, etc., was
read and adopted.
Some discussion of the abuse of cow
privileges result in the conclusion that
the penalties should be raised—to a
higher pitch than the late assessment.
Seems funny that the right of a man
and his cow, or cows, to live in town
is cheaper than that of the man who
may be too poor to own a cow.
Bid of Louis Stanton for provision
of sewer-pipe was accepted.
All bids for furnishing and laying
of water-supply pipe on east side of
Great Savage rejected.
Brady Brothers’ bid of $1,147.50 for
erecting concrete wall on Lapp’s Hill
accepted.
The Sovereign Cow.
People living between Cow Squares
on Broadway are glad to learn that
Council is beginning to sit up, look
around, and take notice of, not only
the cow’s liberty as a resident, but
her sovereignty as a queen.
Stroke of Lightning.
The storm which came over the
mountains Friday afternoon of last
week stopped long enough at Charles
W. Frost’s farm, on the National Pike,
9 miles west of town, to let slip a bolt
which well-nigh wiped out the barn.
Jabez Warn, Oscar Broadwater and
Mr. Frost were stunned by the sudden
shock.
Ocean-To-Ocean Highway.
Messrs. Andrew Ramsay, State Road
Commissioner, and W. E. G. Hitchins,
County Road Director, went up the
Pike Tuesday evening and met the
Los Angeles (Cal.) “ocean-to-ocean”
party.
They arrived here about o’clock
—in Cumberland less than an hour
later.
In Cumberland they talked very
freely of their mission as pioneers of
“The Ocean-To-Ocean Highway Asso
ciation,” promoting a macadam boul
evard from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Their names are Col. Del M. Potter,
of Clifton, Ariz., National Organizer
of the Association; Judge J. M. Lowe,
of Kansas City, Mo., President of the
National-Trail Road Association ; Bert
C. Smith, Automobile Editor of the
Los Angeles Times, and John Zak,
Driver and Mechanician of the “ Times
Special,” the automobile in which the
party is traveling.
•They have organizations already in
towns and cities aggregating over
300,000 promoters, and the probabili
ties favor the success of the great
enterprise.
New Railroad News.
A heavy fall in Sand Patch tunnel,
B. and O. R., Tuesday evening, com
pelled the company to send its trains
over the Western Maryland extension.
One train of 51 “empties” went
through Wednesday morning, and reg
ular passenger trains go by “on time,”
or nearly so —all exciting no little in
terest among the people living along
the new line.
The popular expectation has been
that the Western Maryland people
themselves would open the road for
operation next Monday, 15th inst., but
nothing to that effect has so far trans
pired.
Later —Since the foregoing para
graphs were placed in, type it has
been learned that a 30-day arrange
ment has been made for the B. & O.
run.
A telegraph office has been estab
lished in the station, Carl Spitznas, of
this place, operator, this for railroad
service.
All trains stop here.
Annual Re-Union.
The 13 Councils of the county Junior
Order United American Mechanics
will meet here in their 13th Annual
Re-Union next Saturday, 20th inst.
At 10 a. m. a mammoth parade will
precede entry lo the Park and Pavilion.
The usual amusements will be in
dulged, and the extra feature will be
a tournament contest for chivalric
honors b}' ambitious beaus on trained
steeds.
New Feature.
The First National Bank, with char
acteristic enterprise, has erected a
handsome iron lamp-post, equipped for
holding two arc-lights. Standing in
j front, it is a great improvement upon
I the wooden relic whose place it takes, i
This Is Important.
Persons wishing to entertain Visi
tors during Home-Coming Week
should let the Public Comfort and
Safety Committee know immediately
the number of guests they will be able
to accommodate; also the prices. See
or ’phone at once W. H. DeNEEN,
Secretary.
Battle With Snakes.
Matthew Skidmore, of Midlothian,
fishing in the Potomac, near Rawl
ings, last Saturday, started through a
swamp to a place where he thought he
could get more bites.
On the way he stepped spang into
the middle tier of a colony of yard
long snakes.
With a short pole he thrashed the
settlement until those of its prominent
citizens whom he didn’t kill or cripple 1
got away.
Nearly 60 dead and over 30 wounded
were left on the field of battle.
He was pardonably afraid to explore
the swamp further.
Election of Officers.
At a meeting of the stockholders of ■
the Frostburg Brewing Company, held ,
Monday, officers for current year were ,
elected as follows :
President—Karl E. Schlossstein, of
this place.
Vice-President—Olin Frankie, of *
Irwin, Pa.
Secretary —John P,. Miller, of West- i
ernport.
Treasurer —William R. Gunter, of
this place.
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Social.
A large number of Frostburg’s
young people attended a dance at
Reynolds Monday evening.
Another Bronze Tablet.
The Journat, told last week of the
bronze tablet erected by Great Cross
ings Chapter, Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution, Somerfield, Pa., to
mark and commemorate the ford on
the Youghiogheny river where Brad
dock’s army crossed in 1755, and still
“a river-break” in the continuity of
the old Braddock road.
The ladies propose now to distin
guish “Little Crossings” in a similar
way—the site of the stone bridge over
the Casselman river, one mile east of
Grantsville.
The stone bridge, built in 1818, is
one of the few monuments extant to
the enterprise of highway promoters
nearly a century ago. It has been re
newed lately—so much so that it is
more durable than when first built,
thanks to the State of Maryland !
In the noble work of marking these
historic localities the Chapter ladies
should enjoy all possible encourage
ment and aid.
Meanwhile, what is Frostburg doing
toward honoring the “Braddock Mile
stone” and making it a memorial
more distinctively significant of the
Braddock era than any river-crossing
can reflect ?
Different Forms of Carbon.
The coal we burn in the 'stove, the
diamonds a few folks are rich enough
to wear, and the so-called lead-pencils
are nearly related.
Lead-pencils have no lead in them,
the writing substance being g'raphite,
which, like coal and diamonds, is
carbon.
Coal and graphite are far more use
ful than diamonds, but the latter are
hard to find, and that is why so many
people will pay a great deal of money
for them.
A Good Suggestion.
In Cumberland there is a Council
order extant to owners of telegraph, y
telephone and other wired poles, to <
paint them, and the same order should <
go out here, although some poles are ,
almost too ugly to paint.
Improvements. |
The Emerick property on Broad- j
way, occupied by the J. M. Streett •
Company’s bakery and George H. j
Miller grocery, got a nice touch-up of !
yellow paint this week. The brick 1
building also, occupied by Hartig | 1
Brothers, butchers, is brighter—with J
a coat of red. •
i
The Wehner store-room, next to the *
McElfish photographic studio, is under j
re-model for a grocery store —to be <
occupied by. Meyer Gersou, who will '
remove his stock and business from j J
Grantsville to this place. ,
The Hitchins Brothers Company has J
made preparations for laying a modern <
concrete side-walk in front of the big j
Union street store.
At numerous places in town the
trend toward substantial improvement
is cheering.
To Daa’s Rock.
A party of over 30 young people
were guests last Sunday at Dan’s Rock
of Miss Bessie Brown, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Brown. Two
large teams carried the party and both
dinner and supper were served at the
Rock.
Coming Events.
On the church lawn, in Allegan} 7 ,
the ladies of the M. E. Church, that
place, will hold an ice-cream festival
next Friday evening, 16th inst., for
the benefit of the Church.
Two valuable i;eal-estate properties
will be offered at public sale in front
of Hotel Gladstone next Monday, 15th
inst., 10 a. m. and 11 a. m., respectively.
Read advertisements in Journai, and,
if in need of a home, go and bid.
After the game of the Piedmont
team with Frostburg (colored) Monday,
15th inst., the two teams will unite in
an all-night dance in Stern’s hall.
An ice-cream social at the German (
Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church, ■
East Union street, is announced for
Thursday evening, August Ist, for
benefit of the Church. i
“For Benefit of the Home-Coming [
Fund” the Frostburg Choral Society,
directed by Prof. Richard Harris, will
present a dramatic cantata in the
Frostburg Opera House Wednesday
evening, August 28th—during Home-
Coming Week. The title is —“The
Heroes of ’76,” a thrillingly patriotic
sketch.
Division No. 7, Ancient Order of
Hibernians, has announced a select
dance in Terpsichorean Hall, Frost
burg Opera House, next Tuesday
evening, 16th inst.
Frederick Douglass Lodge, No. 2,
Knights of Pythias, of this place, will
occupy the Junior Order Park Tues
day, 30th inst., for the annual picnic.
A base-ball team from Meyersdale, j
Pa., will play the forenoon game, and
a Cumberland team the afternoon— i
both with “The United and Infuriated ;
Lair of Afro-American Brownsville j
Tigers.”
A dance will be held in the Junior
Order Park Pavilion next Friday even
. ing, 19th inst., under auspices of town
Free-Masons. Dr. J. C. Pfeiffer, Con
rad Hohing, Frank G. Metzger, Israel
Sapiro and William Howatt comprise
! the executive committee.
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In the intestines of mummies of
3,000 to 4,000 B. C. have been found
vegetable fibers, grain, bones and
scales of fishes, and bones and teeth
of rodents. Several Nile fishes were
identified. One woman had eaten 20
different kinds of fish just before her
death and a child had taken a dose of '
mice, an old remedy for children’s dis
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