Mining fMI Journal.
J. BENSON ODER, Editor
FORTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 44
“God, Our Country and Our Order”
WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 41
Patriotic Order Sons of America
MEETS EVERY MONDAY EVENING
IN WITTIG’S HALL
Visiting Members Always Welcome
John W. DeVore Jack S. Crow
President Secretary
“HELLO, BILL!”
Frostburg LodgE, 80. 470
B. P. 0. S.
Meets every Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock
ELEKNOH BUILDING
Visiting Brothers Invited Booms Always Open
H. G. EVANS & CO.
THE UP-TO-DATE
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable ;
GOOD TEAMS
Hauling of All Kinds Open Day and Night
Special Attention Given to Funerals and
Weddings. Phone 304 . ■
HUNTER & SON
FIRST-CLASS LIVERY
All kinds of FEED for sale
General Hauling a Specialty
Corner Mechanic and Water Street
FIIOSTBUILG, MD. .
MILTON W. RACE
Livery and Sales Stables
Horses for sale at all times at all prices and
guaranteed as represented
Mechanic and Maple Streets
C. & P. Telephone FROSTBURG, MD.
RANKIN BROTHERS
TRANSFER
“We Deliver the Goods”
WATER STREET
A. P. HOEY
The Tonsorial Artist
13 1 E. UNION ST.
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fibst-class work guaranteed
GO TO
Vogtman’s Barber Shop
FOR YOUlt
Hair Cuts, Shaves, Massage, Sham
pooing, Hair Singeing and Tonic
Rubs. He will do them right.
5 Chairs 5 Barbers
PALMER BROTHERS
Tonsorial Parlor
A Specialty of Massage and Hair Cutting
159 East Union Street
B. J. PALMER, Manager
WILLIAM HARVEY
Civil and Mining Engineer
COUNTY SURVEYOR
FROSTBURG MARYLAND
J. C. WILSON & SON
FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES
Fruits. Vegetables and Country
Produce
Fresh Pish and Oysters in Season
Fine Cigars and Tobacco
14!) E. Union St. Frostburg, Md.
EDWARD DAVIS & GO.
dealers in
Staple and Fancy Broceries
Country Produce, Queensware, etc.
Union Street
FROSTBURG, MD.
A. SPITZNAS
Fancy and Staple Groceries
!) BROADWAY
Just a few steps from Union Street,
but it will pay you to come.
GRIFFITH BROTHERS
dealers in
Groceries, Provisions, Flour
Feed, Etc.
Corner Union and Water Streets
FROSTBURG, MD.
“GOOD THINGS TO EAT”
C. F. BETZ
GROCER
FROSTBURG MARYLAND
THE CORNER GROCERY
Buy SLEEPY EYE FLOUR
And get a Set of Silver Spoons
Special Grocery offer on cash orders of $5.00 or
more. “See us first.”
riORQAN BROS., 72 Broadway
RIGHT BROTHERS
-215 BROHDWHY
GROCERIES PROVISIONS
HAY AND EEED
MINERS’ SUPPLIES
PHONE 2^47-2
P. F. CARROLL
THE BOWERY GROCER
Genera! Merchandise
Fancy Groceries, Country Produce
Corner Bowery anti Too Streets
FROSTBURG, T^LD.
W. H. ANGWIN
Staple and Fancy Groceries
10 East Loo Street
FROSTBURG, MD.
Phone 145-F
Telephone Orders Promptly Delivered.
MRS. MARY JOHNS
Restaurant and Ice-Cream Parlor
68 E. UNION STREET
Ice-Cream sent out in all designs
Meals and Lunches at all hours
Parties Da'ls and Lodges furnished
JOE McGRAW
Soft Drinks and Lunches
Cigars, Tobacco and
Confectionery
155 E. Union St. Frostbnrg, Md.
Phone 20-1 Room 1
BERNADETTE RAFFERTY
Leading Public Stenographer
Wittig Building
FROSTBURG MARYLAND
W. O. HILLER
The Reliable Tailor
10 W. UNION ST.
Order your Suit for Summer now and
avoid the rush.
GEO. H. GUNTER
Clothing and Furnishings
For Men and Boys
Hotel Gladstone Building
!) W. Union St. Frostburg, Md.
A. CHAS. STEWART
“Home of Good Clothing”
Citizens Bank Building
KYLUS & GROSS
MODERN TAILORS
WILL FIT YOU
East Union Street
ALL MEN’S CLOTHING
MADE TO ORDER
AND
Guaranteed to Fit or No Sale!
Other, work in Tailoring done on same satis
factory conditions. Whether you come early
or late in the season we will try to please you.
tiEOROe D. HAMILL, Sr.
Phone 20-1 Wittig Building
W. C. NOEL & CO.
Fire, Health and Accident Insurance
Bonds, Business Brokers
IS E. Union St. Frostburg, Md.
J. S. METZGER & SON
General Fire Insurance
1!) East Union Street
FROSTBURG, MARYLAND
Reliable Fire
Insurance Companies
REPRESENTED BY
ULYSSES HANNA
General Insurance
Bonding
Fire
Offices—Citizens National Bank and
Opposite Postoflice.
D. A. BENSON, Agent.
HOCKING & HOHING
Fire Insurance Agents
Frostburg, Md.
Before buying Life Insurance
consult
Arthur T. Johnson
Manager of
The Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
Room 7 Shea Building
JAS. D. WILLIAMS
THE OLD RELIABLE
Boot and Shoe Maker
East Union Street
Invites a call from all friends--
old and new
FIFTY YEARS IN BUSINESS
HENRY N. SCHNEIDER
Shoe and Hat Emporium
97 East Union Street
* M. & W. RODDA
Shoes Rubbers Slippers
* REPAIRING NEATLY
DONE
93 Bowery Street
GILBERT STUDIO
79*4 E. Union St.
1 Moderate-Price Photos
Post Cards F’ioture F" rarning
Picture Kinislning
13. *3. BETZ
Jeweler
and
Scientific Optician
FROSTBURG, MD.
FROSTBURG, MD., SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1912
OFFICE OR
State and County Tax Collector
* 7AT
HENRY J. BOETTNER’S STORE
If)7 East Union Street
FROSTBURG, MARYLAND
Turn Wm
FRESH AND SMOKED
MEATS
13 BROADWAY
HARTIG BROS.
ALL KINDS OF
Fresh and Smoked Meats
ON HAND DAILY
30 Broadway Frostburg, Md.
William Engle James Engle }
ENGLE MEAT MARKET
Dealers in
Live and Dressed Meats
Butter and Eggs Poultry in Season
66 E. Union St. 19 W. Union St.
CHAS. G. WATSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Pearce Building
Frostburg Maryland
CLAYTON PURNELL
Attorney at Law
Shea Building
FROSTBURG, MARYLAND
J. W. SHEA
THE OLDEST DRUGGIST IN FROSTBURG
Eastman Kodaks Huyler’s Candies
Paints Glass Wall-Paper
WALTER T. LAYMAN
28 W. Union St. Opp. Postoffice
FROSTBURG, MD.
Roofing and Spouting
.All kinds of Hand-Made Tinware
Stove Pipe and Elbows
Phone 25-4
Dr. G. Elwood Urnjacost
□Entist
C. & P. Phone
17 Yz West Union Street
FROSTBURG MARYLAND
1593 ESTKBLISH6D 1912
Dr. I. L. RITTER,
DENTIST,
19 Broadway, [J7] Frostburg, Md.
, Dr. J. C. Pfeiffer
THE DENTIST
k. 7 E. Union St. Frostburg, Md
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.7. Alex. M VIS BROS. JaS ®
s7VYOi<e House
Domestic and Key West Cigars
Egyptian and Turkish Cigarettes
Meerschaum and Briar Pipes
Post Cards Pure-Food Chocolates
Smokers’ Articles a Specialty
20 W. Union St. End of Street Car Line
J. JOHNSON & SON
Contractors and Builders
AGENCY FOR
CAREY ROOFING
WILLISON BROS.
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
Rough and Dressed Lumber
Sashes Doors Laths Shingles Slate
Rubber Rooting Wall Plaster Etc.
FROS'JL’IiUKG, MD.
JAMES SKEADOS
Manufacturer of and dealer In
Confectionery and Ice-Cream
Dealer in
Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Nuts, Etc.
FROSTBURG, MD.
G. DUD HOCKING
Notary Public
1 OFFICE
Fidelity Savings Bank
Model Lice Spray,
S Quart Can, 35 cents.
FOK SALK BY
T. L. POPP,
Dealer in Poultry Supplies,
FROSTBURG, MD.
CAMPBELL’S
FINE MILLINERY
g s 73 East Union Street
A New Line of—
HATS
For Ladies, Misses and
i Children at
MRS. P. O’ROURKE’S
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
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| My First, Home. |
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fa To the Mining Journal :
fa I’m asking a favor, and these are the reasons why—
fa Because I am sure you will grant it, and do it better than I.
fa So I send—for the invitation that Frostburg has sent to me
To come with the rest of her children, when the gathering home shall be—
Many thanks for the honor of it, and I might say the beauty, too ; jL
fa And Ido say, with truth, the welcome that colors it through and through. * 9
fa: Please say—if it were in my power, how glad I would be to come
fa To the beautiful Mountain City that was my earliest home. %
fa Though memory oifers no picture—not even the faintest haze,
(X For I left when my age was counted—not by its years, but its days.
Yet a heritage left to my keeping by those who have gone before
TON Has made it much as a memory—yes, and has made it more. J ?
fa So give it my thanks and my greetings, and these are the words you must say—
fa Here are the wishes for Frostburg from her child who is far away : %j/j
fa Oh, city, set on the mountains—up somewhere near to the sky,
fa Where the clouds clasp hands together at the tempest passing by ;
Si Where the sun’s awake so early and the day is loth to die ;
fa Oh, city, so strong and sturdy, working with main and might,
Unearthing the hidden treasures from the coffers black as night,
That the ages stored securely away from the eyes of light V*
fa Across from our own blue mountains, through the trackless ether high,
fa My thoughts, like birds home-going, to you for awhile shall fly, M
fa Though grieving they cannot sing you a song that shall never die.
fa It is sweet to be remembered in such a beautiful way ; Q
fa Oh, city, your thoughts are far ones—they reach to the distance gray, jf
‘JC Touching the hearts of your children with love that has come to stay.
May never a day be brighter, and never a sky more clear
Than that which shall bring your children to you from the everywhere,
With their hearts aglow with pleasure at the welcome waiting there ! J "
The days that come in the future—may they be bright as the now ! 5 f '
May peace be a crown of glory that strength shall put on your brow ! V
fa Pure hearts and clean hands are the victors that God with strength will endow.
fa These are the wishes I send you—would they were many and great ! W
They’re free as a mountain river that flows on early and late—
That neither tempest nor sunshine can ever change or abate !
© C. B. Trout.
I Front Royal, Virginia. .M? V
“Them’s My Sentiments.”
In Frostburg as I knew it some twenty years ago
Was a lot of real good fellers what I am glad to know.
They’s a awful lot o’ fellers what is cunnin’ as can be;
They’s a awful lot o’ fellers what I’m dyin’ for to see ;
They’s a awful lot o’ fellers what I expect to meet,
An’ buy ’em all a cigar—or maybe they will treat?
They’s a awful lot o’ fellers what’s somehow sore on me,
An’ if they thought I was a squirrel they’d chase me up a tree.
But, boys, I aint no squirrel, an’ I hope I ajjit no snake,
An’ I’m cornin’ home to mingle just for old-time sake.
But afore I go no further I’ll a few injunctions mete ,
For perusal by the fellers what I’ll meet upon the street :
All the fellers what could “lick” me I’ll advise—don’t try it now, ’
For I’m big an’ ambidextrous and dearly love a row. ' ,
Once I hit a feller what was cornin’ to New York,
An’ knock’d him back so fur he thought he agin had met Mr. Stork. j
When I was a little kid boys called me “giddy-gout!”
If they try to do it now I’ll “land upon their snout.”
They’s a lot o’ girls what didn’t seem to ’preciate me once ; :
Said I wore “high waders,” and talked just like a dunce.
An’ all agreed that as a beau I wasn’t worth my salt!— ,
Let none o’ them make “goo-goo eyes”—they’ve lost me by default.
But I’m coinin’ back to look ’em o’er and see the choice they’ve won,
An’ if he’d have been good enough when I was twenty-one.
Yes, girls and boys, I’m cornin’—wont you meet me at the train,
An’ bring along the Arion Band to play a welcome strain?
So as none of you might miss me, I’ll describe myself “a few,”
And then if I should “duck” you, ’twill be strictly “ up to you.”
Beginning at my head, I wear a hat, but not much hair—
(An’ ’tis an open question as to what else is in there.)
Around my neck a collar of undetermined hue ;
A neck-tie that is sometimes red, but very often blue.
Between my hat and collar I’ll wear a coat of tan,
Acquired—not by moonlight, but by the sea-shore plan.
I’ve a nose that’s situated in the middle of my face—
The style here in Bogota, and I think the proper place.
Some folks have disapproved it ;—to change it they have tried,
With a measure of success, too, for it now leans to one side.
Below my coat of tan I’ll wear a coat of woolen cloth,
Which wasn’t spun in woolen mills of Frostburg, I will troth !
Beneath this coat—suspenders, and thereby hangs a tale
Of other days in Frostburg when for a button I used a nail.
And, to conform with Maryland laws, I shall also wear pants,
Or pantaloons, or trousers—my prestige to enhance.
Upon my feet I shall wear shoes, or boots, or pumps, or gaiters,
Which shall be looking spic-and-span to meet the old town’s paters.
Beginning at the top again. I’ll have two sleepy eyes;
Also between my teeth a pipe, which most all girls despise.
Then, in my coat-lapel, somewhere beneath my double-chin,
I’ll wear a few forget-me-nots as I am ushered in
And meet a whole lot more of them during my short stay
In Frostburg; ’least that is my hope, and for it I shall pray.
For tho’ twenty years have come and gone and many sights I’ve seen
Since I have been in Frostburg—in my memory it’s still green.
And I long to seethe play-grounds and the play-mates of yore,
Upon which and with whom I’ve fought for fun or gore ;
And to settle many arguments which were not settled then,
And discuss many topics which I cannot do with pen.
There’s lots of other things I’d “pote” if I but had the skill ;
Yes, “them’s my sentiments” —I’ll close ’fore the tears begin to spill.
C. B. Ryan.
Bogota, N. J., July 22, 1912. j
Presence of Mind.
Watching her house burn down, th*
woman suddenly bethought her that
she had .written out a check and left
It lying on her desk. Fortunately she
could remember the number of it —
281. With rare presence of mind she
at once called up the bank. “Please
-stop payment on check numbered
281!” she directed, with the crisp brev
ity characteristic of those balanced
souls who know exactly what they
want. —Puck.
Practical Minded.
‘‘Am I required to exchange wedding
gifts in the department from which
they were purchased?” “Not aft an,*
said the floor-walker. “Thank you. I
would like to exchange a rose jar for
a frying pan.*—Washington Herald.
Her Preference.
Consistency, thou art a jewel, bat
the average woman would rather have
a diamond. —Washington Host.
1882 1912 T
\ THIRTY YEARS AGO. f
1 The Items Below Were Current During Y
y\ Week Ending August 5, 1882. C
l v. _
“In Maryland,” said the Luray (Va.)
Courier, “under a recent Act of the ]
Legislature, a barrel of corn must I
weigh 325 pounds. In Virginia its ]
weight depends upon the number of
shakes one gives the barrel.”
“Annie Laurie” wrote from Eck- j
hart of the destructive fire which j
broke out Wednesday night, August 2,
1882, in the cellar of D. W. Bussard’s
store, ending in the destruction of the i
building. A fire-proof safe saved Mr. ;
Bussard’s books and papers. Loss j
over $12,000; insurance $9,500.
Mrs. Peter Payne purchased a
young Jersey cow at Flintstone, pay
ing $l5O for her.
Mrs. A. M. Ward, Mrs. A. M. Cack
ley and Curtin M. Graham very ill.
Melons quoted in Baltimore at from
4 to 6 cents, sold in Frostburg at 15 to
18 cents.
The Frostburg Water Company
asked for proposals for furnishing
more water—by boring, drifting, or
otherwise.
During the suspension of work in
the mines Frank Spates, a young
driver in Allegany mine, made sev
eral fine pieces of chamber furniture.
A bureau was reported as “a unique
piece in design and finish.”
A night-blooming cereus in the
Tredegar Gardens, W. H. Evans, pro
prietor, attracted much attention.
Thomas L., an infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Matthews, aged 5
years, died in Meyersdale, Pa., Mon
day, July 31, 1882. A number of
Frostburg friends of the family at
tended the funeral two days later.
Thoburn Post, No. 21, G. A. R., and
Frostburg City Eodge, No. 88, K. of
P., paid tributes of respect to memory
of James Taylor. A. A. Rogers and
Thomas Hill signed for the Post;
James Hanson, Thomas Bath, D. J.
Williams and George M. Perdew for
the K. of P.
Be Ready for Opportunity.
“There is scope for chance every
where; let your hook be always hang
ing ready. In the eddies where you
least expect It, there will he a fish.” —
Ovid.
Unkind.
‘‘Bllggins thinks he is keeping his
light under a bushel.* “Perhaps he
| is wise,” replied Miss Cayenne; “his
light is probably so small that it
would go out if he let a draft get to
it”
Putting It the Wrong Way.
“Many a speaker is lauded as ‘hav
ing a fine command of language,’ of
whom it might better be said, that ‘his
language has a command of him.’ He
has the same ‘command of language’
that a rider has of a horse that is
! running away with him.” —Whately,
i 1
HENRY F. COOK, Manager
WHOLE NUMBER 2,129
CURSORY, AS IT WERE.
. —i Jjjl
C aliMull
The Owl —What do you think of Mr.
Robin's new home?
The Sparrow—lt looks very nice,
but I've only taken a bird’s-eye view
ft. it.
Mount Pleasant.
“In various sections of our beloved
city,” says the Baltimore Sun, “we
see new and beautiful blue and white
signs, reading: ‘Hospital Zone—Un
necessary Noises Prohibited.’ ”
“Noises,” necessary and “unneces
sary,” are hard to avoid in a city.
Which is a commanding reason why,
in the selection of ground for a hos
pital site, that all nuisances should be
provided against far as possible in
advance.
Take the McEuckie site, for in
stance—a building standing upon the
crest will be exempt from “proximi
ties” on all sides! And the nearest
| neighboring edifices will be over 100
feet, and all nearly that distance
below ),wspital level!
Add to this three stories of height
and the third-story patient will be 130
feet above noise-level!
If he is able to sit upon the roof, he
will be nearly 150 feet above, with one
of the most expansive, comprehensive,
varied and beautiful landscapes with
in “earth’s remotest bound” in full
view! It is an array of mountain,
hill, vale, forest, field and town —just
now endowed with all the verdured
wealth of June!
It is worth the while of any humani
j tarian to go to the spot, climb the
little pile of rock in the centre of the
lot and look at a miniature picture of
Paradise!
Every director add Councilman
should do this ere he again casts his
j vote.
Meanwhile, contemplate all that the
names of hospital and site imply —
Miners Hospital on Mount Pleasant!
Sheriff J. W. Shuck appointed E. T.
DeWitt, of this place, and John Cuth
bertson, of Eonaconing, Special
Deputies.
Rev. C. S. M. Stewart, four years
rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church,
resigned to become rector of a church
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The little town of Borden was de
scribed as having a population of
about 150—all industrious, sober and
good. The town had four streets.
Houses mostly built after old English
style, with large eaves and cozy'
porches. Fine landscape all round.
Astronomers prophesied meteors for
evenings of August 9th, 10th and 11th,
believed to be remnants of the second
comet of 1862 which later exploded.
A Cumberland girl told her beau
that she had set her foot right down
on his going to lodge. He glanced at
her shoe, sighed, and at once wrote to
the General Chancellor to take back
the pass-word.
A Midland dog went every day to
the train to get the Cumberland News,
thrown off by the mail-man for the
master. One day, however, the dog
returned without the paper, and his
master wondered why. It turned out
that the mail-man made a mistake and
threw off a copy of the Cumberland
Mail.
Captain and Mrs. Nelson Beall went
to White Sulphur Springs, Va., to stay
several weeks.
John Chambers returned from a
visit to several places along the canal.
Ross Hoblitzell, of Wheeling, W.
Va., accompanied the remains of his
brother-in-law—Charles Cowan, to this
place.
J. E. J. Buckey was elected prin
cipal of Public School No. 1; E. J.
Ort of Sand Spring; A. W. DeWitt of
Grahamton, and 1 Dennis A. Boyle of
Pekin.
Convenient Shoe Horns.
A problem which has agitated the
feminine mind for some time has been
successfully solved at last. Away in
which women may reach their feet un
aided, even though corseted, comes to
relieve those who are overburdened
with obesity. How is this feat accom
plished? It’s simple if one possesses
one of the new shoe horns which have
a three-foot wooden handle attached
to the horn. This novelty is imported,
and though the price may seem high,
the relief purchased with one of these
toilet accessories is certainly worth,
the price.
Bs Comprehensive.
“Talk to the point, and stop when
you have reached it. Be compre
hensive in all you say or write. To
fill a volume about nothing is a credit
to nobody.”—John Neal.