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Mining tfS&St Journal.
J. BENSON ODER, Editor
FIRST TEA] I. TO. 45
FORTY
“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. Chow
President Secretary
“HELLO, BILL!”
Frostburg Lodge, Ho. 470
B. P. O. 5.
Meets every Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock
ELEKNOR BUILDING
Visiting Brothers Invited Rooms Always Open
H. C. EVANS & CO.
THE UP-TO-DATE
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable
GOOD TRAMS
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
FROSTBURG, 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 FEOSTBURG, MD.
RANKIN BROTHERS
TRANSFER
“We Deliver the Goods”
WATER STREET
A. P. HOEY
The Tonsoriai Artist
131 E. UNION ST.
-- - - •
first-class work guaranteed
GO TO
Vogtman’s Barber Shop
FOR YOUR
Hair Cuts, Shaves, Massage, Sham- .
pooing, Hair Singeing and Tonic ,
Rubs. He will do them right.
5 Chairs 5 Barbers
PALMER BROTHERS
Tonsoriai Parlor
A Specialty of Massage and Hair Cutting
159 East Union Street
B. J. PALMER, Manager
WILLIAM HARVEY
Civil and iining Engineer
COUNTY SURVEYOR
FROSTBURG MARYLAND
J. C. WILSON & SON
JPANCY ANI) STAPLE GROCERIES
Emits. Vegetables and Country
Produce
Fresh Fish and Oysters in Season
Fine Cigars and Tobacco
14-0 E. Union St. Erostburg, Md.
EDWARD DAVIS & GO.
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Country Produce, Queensware, etc.
Union Street
FROSTBURG, MD.
A. SITTZNAS
Fancy and Staple Groceries
9 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 $5.00 or
more. “See ns first.”
ITORGAN BROS., 72 Broadway
RIGHT BROTHERS
-q-5 BROADWAY
GROCERIES PROVISIONS
HAY AND FEED
MINERS’ SUPPLIES
PHONE
P. F. CARROLL
THB BOWERY GROCER
General Merchandise
Fancy Groceries, Country Produce
Corner Jioivery and Loo Streets
FROSTBURG, 7VYD.
W. H. ANGWIN
Staple and Fancy Groceries
30 East Loo Street
FROSTBURG, MD.
Phone 145-F
Telephone Orders Promptly De’ivered.
MRS. MARY JOHNS
Restaurant and Ice-Cream Parlor
68 E. UNION STREET
Ice-Cream sent out in all designs
Meals and Lunches at all hours
Partie®, Pa'ls and Lodges furnished
JOE McGRAW
Soft Drinks and Lunches
Cigars, Tobacco and
Confectionery
155 E. Union St. Frostburg, Md.
Phone 20-1 Room 1
BERNADETTE RAFFERTY
Leading Public Stenographer
Wittig Building
FROSTBURG MARYLAND
VV. G. HILLER
The Reliable Tailor
10 W. UNION ST.
Order your Suit for Summer now and
avoid the rush.
GEO. H. GUNTER
Clothing and Furnishings
For Men and Boys
Hotel Gladstone Building
!> W. Union St. Frostburg, Md.
A. CHAS. STEWART
“Home of Good Clothing”
Citizens Bank Building
KYLUS & GROSS
MODERN TAILORS
WILL FIT YOU
SBJ6 East Union Street
ALL MEN’S CLOTHING
MADE TO ORDER
AND
Guaranteed to Fit or No Sale!
Other work in Tailoring- done on same satis
factory conditions. Whether you come early
or late in the season we will try to please you.
GEORGE D. HAMILL, Sr.
Phone 20-1 Wittig Building
W. C. NOEL & CO.
Fire, Health and Accident Insurance
Bonds, Business Brokers
IS E. Union St. Frostburg, Md.
J. S. METZGER & SON
General Eire Insurance
1!) East Union Street
FROSTBURG, MARYLAND
Reliable Fire
Insurance Companies
REF RESENTED I$Y
ULYSSES HANNA
General Insurance
Bonding
Fire
Offices—Citizens National Bank and
Opposite Postoffice.
D. A. BENSON, Agent.
HOCKING & HOHING
Fire Insurance Agents
Frostburg, Md.
Before buying' Iyife 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 E. Union St.
•
Moderate-Price Photos
Post Cards Picture Framing
IPiotuire F" inisliiirg
Jeweler
and
Scientific Optician
FROSTBURG, MD.
FDOSTBURG-, MD., SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1912
OFFICE OP
State and County Tax Collector
HENRY j. BGETTNER’S STORE
11)7 .East Union Street
FROSTBURG, MARYLAND
flUGfl Jpm
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 En_le
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
W. H. DENEEN & CO.
Sanitary Plumbers
AND
Heating Engineers
FROSTBURG, MD.
C. & P. Telephone
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 Flbows
Phone 25-4
Dr. C. Elwood Hrrriacost
DEntigt
C. & P. Phone
West Union Street
FROSTBURG MARYLAND
1893 ESTKBLISHeD 1912
Dr. I. L. RITTER,
DEMTIST,
19 Broadway, [J7] Frostburg, Md.
Dr. J. C. Pfeiffer
THE DENTIST
7 E. Union St. Frostburg, Md
j.Aiex. DAVIS BROS. Jas S -
S7vyOKe HOUS6
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 Roofing Wall Plaster Etc.
FROSTBURG, MD.
JAMES SKEADOS
Manufacturer of and dealer in
Cotff ectioger arid Ice-Crea iri
Dealer in
Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Nuts, Etc.
FROSTBURG, MD.
G. DUD HOCKING
Notary Public
OFFICE
Fidelity Savings Bank
Model Lice Spray*
Quart Can, 35 cents.
FOR SALE BY
T. L. POPP,
Dealer in Poultry Supplies,
FROSTBURG, MD.
_
CAMPBELL’S
FINE MILLINERY
73 East Union Street
A New Line of—
For Ladies, Misses and
Children at
MRS. P. O’ROURKE’S
AN I NDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
1882 1912^
| THIRTY YEARS AGO. f
J The Items Below Were Current During Y
&£> Week Ending August 12, 1882.
A humorous account of a game be
tween “Eogsdons” and “Reckner’s”
clubs is given. James Wilson was
pitcher and Owen Dando catcher of
the “Logsdons” and John Bath and
Theop. Sperry same officers for the
other club. During the game “John
Hart knocked a high-ffy which Palmer
Sperry caught on his nose. The ball
then turned a double hand-spring and
socked Dave Smith in the ear. By
this time Hart had made third.
Dando then went to the scratch and
struck a fowl out in right-field. The
owner raised a fuss about his chicken,
but the boys settled the bill by hand
ing him 18 cents, four collar-buttons
and a nail.” Logsdons won—2B to 8.
With great difficulty Richard Williams
umpired the game.”
In 1864 Frostburg Dodge, No. 49, I.
O. O. F., purchased from the McCul
loh estate 11 acres of ground, and,
after naming the tract “Allegany
Cemetery,” laid it out into burial lots
for members and their families. In
1878'Thomas G. McCulloh and Wil
liam H. Evans purchased the ceme
tery, and in 1882 over 1,500 people had
been buried therein and 14 monuments
erected.
Of $9,300 insurance on D. W. Bus
sard’s property at Eckhart, destroyed
by fire, he received $7,400. The re
duction was due to diminished stock.
In Piedmont, W. Va., Sunday,
August 6, 1882, Miss Virginia Ross, of
Lonaconing, was married to Mr.
George W. Tramum, of West Va., by
Rev. J. H. M. Lemmon.
Tredegar Gardens, owned and pro
moted by William H. Evans, reported
as “flourishing.”
Malcolm Sinclair resigned the office
of superintendent of the New Central
Coal Company, and his brother—Dun
can Sinclair, was appointed to suc
ceed him.
Birthday Reception.
Miss Emma, daughter of Mr. and
Mi-s. Robert Cooper, Mt. Pleasant
street, entertained a number of her
little friends Monday evening in com
memorating the seventh anniversary
of her birth.
Games were indulged, concluding
with a service of dainty refreshments.
She was the recipient of many
pretty and useful presents.
The little lady is an interesting
granddaughter of Mark Twain Cooper,
of Shaft.
The New Railroad.
With Wednesday last the Western
Maryland Railroad ceased to be a
local line and became a through trunk
line, with Frostburg as one of its
principal stations.
With the connections it has made
with other g-reat lines, it is the short
est between the lakes and the sea
board, and the most direct between
several other important sections of the
conn-try.
All this for freight as well as pas
senger traffic.
Coal Supply in the South.
It is estimated that the original sup
ply of coal in the south underlying
87,606 square miles of its territory was
53,438,000,000 tons.
People Advised to “Coal-Up” Early.
The Great Northern and other north
western and western railroads have
sent out warnings to coal-dealers and
consumers advising them to lay in
supplies at as early a date as possible,
as an extraordinary movement of
agricultural crops is indicated, and
cars for the movement of coal will be
scarce and train movement slow as a
necessity of getting the crops to the
lake and other terminals for further
shipment.
Keep Out The Flies!
Those who are waging war on the
flies—a most useful and important
war—speak of the fly as the fly that
“will not wipe his feet.” It is a good
rough phrase to attract attention, but,
unfortunately, the flj r does wipe his
feet. He wipes his feet on the food
that you eat, on the faces and on the
lips of your sleeping children. He is
a frequenter of offal; the female fly
laj's her eggs in the manure-piles.
The flies in millions settle on the
refuse, the sewage that washes all
along the beach along the water’s
edge in great cities.
All the germs, all imaginable horri
ble microbes fasten themselves to the
spongy feet of the fly, and the fly
I brings the germs into the house and
there wipes them off his feet. And
that does more to spread typhoid than
any other cause.
How often have you seen the fly
standing on a lump of sugar in the
sugarbowl, industriously shuffling his
! front feet! He is wiping off the
! disease germs, rubbing them on the
j sugar that j'ou are going to eat.
If you have doors or windows with
out screens, in the city or in the coun
try, put the fly-screens in now, and
keep the flies out!
The fly is the great spreader of dis
ease, one of the greatest enemies of
humanity, and one of the most dan
gerous.
Many people put in their fly-screens
early in the spring, or, if they neglect
it then, they let the neglect continue,
waiting for the next spring.
As a matter of fact, the fly-screens
that keep out the dangerous insects,
and the disease germs that these in
sects wipe from their feet on your
food, are most important now, in the
j early year.
Fortunately, the disease germs
themselves do not fly. They could
pass through the screen as easily as
through an open doorway. They
reach your children only when larger
insects bring them and spread them.
Keep out the bigger insects, the
flies, the mosquitoes, and you keep
out the invisible, deadly enemies.
Rev. J. T. McCall, of Westminister,
this State, was the guest several days
of Rev. V. F. Schmitt.
James S. Tennant and family re
moved to New Mexico.
Uriah Jones returned from a pro
tracted visit to Fake Erie, Ashtabula
and other points in Ohio and Michigan.
George G. Townsend, of Eckhart,
and Thomas G. Dillon, of Frostburg,
became the battery for a Mt. Savage
team of base-ball.
Gershon Anthony, inspector of
weights and measures, entered upon
the duties of his office—a new one in
the county.
Henry Hergott began the erection
of a new store-house in Mt. Savage.
A night-blooming cereus at Thomas
Humberston’s residence, and one at
R. W. Mason’s residence same night,
reported.
Willie, 6-year old son of Joseph Tim
mons, Borden Mine, was bitten by a
snake supposed to be a copper-head,
Monday, August 7th.
Georges Creek and Cumberland
railroad engineers reported as survey
ing a narrow-guage line to Dan’s Rock
from Vale Summit, and it was an
nounced that Nathan Eoar, county
commissioner, would soon build a
hotel near the Rock.
John Gerlach, J. P. Smith and
Eewis Coleman—all miners, reported
as having done some fine work in car
pentry.
The salary of Charles H. Walker,
postmaster of Frostburg, was in
creased from $l,lOO to $1,500.
Rebecca Williams, colored, received
a pension of $8 a month and arrears
of $2,635. Her husband, Benjamin
Williams; lost a leg in the battle of
Sugar-Loaf mountain, North Carolina.
Baptist Sunday-School Movement.
The third regular quarterly meeting
will be held on Monday evening,
August sth, 1912, in the First Baptist
Church, Cumberland, at 8 o’clock,
when the following program will be
rendered:
Hymn Association
Scripture Reading President
Prayer Rev. L. George
Hymn Association
Selection. ..Epworth League Quartet
Talk—“ The Sunday School—
Its Object ; Its Work ; Its History
—Past and Present,” etc
—Rev. William Tinker
Discussion—“ How To Get Sunday-
School Pupils to Attend Church ?”
—By One Member of Each School
The ensuing business session will
comprise reading minutes of previous
meeting, reports of committees, unfin
ished business, new business, remarks
for good of organization and benedic
tion.
The Committee advises the Journal
that “the public is cordially invited to
attend this meeting, and we especially
urge all members of the Baptist Sun
day Schools in Allegany County to at
tend, if possible, as much depends on
your’ interest in this movement. If
you are interested in the unsaved in
this county, State and country, then
demonstrate the fact by doing your
part in building up the Sunday
| Schools. Don’t forget the date—
August sth, 1912, 8 p. m.”
A Lofty Job.
L. F. Fansler, steeple-jack, of
Roanoke, Va., has been engaged this
jmee'k placing bands around the top of
the Big Savage Fire-Brick stack and
a sign carrying'the company’s name.
Wouldn’t seem to be so much of an
achievement but it is a solo trick
played 140 feet high.
Mr. Fansler’s comrade, Mr. Ray
burn, is still recovering from the fall
from the Presbyterian Church roof in
Cumberland several weeks ago.
Stay On the Farm.
No matter, young man, how much
the town, with its activities, social at
tractions and'amusements may lure
you—if you are on the farm, stay there
for the nine following reasons:
“It is the safest real estate invest
ment.
“It is the best place to avoid doctor
bills.
“There is no place like it for bring
-1 ing up a family.
“It affords the greatest opportunity
to cultivate the bump of optimism.
“It is the foundation of all national
prosperity.
“It produces the eatables and wear
ables for the nation’s people.
“It affords the best chance to live
in peace with God and man, than
which nothing better can be desired.
; “It is easier to leave the farm than
■ it is to go back to it after you are once
’ in the city working as carpenter,
• bricklayer, car-man, book-keeper or
clerk, to meet your financial obliga
■ tions.
“It gives a man room to build his
' own home. In town another is likely
to build the home for you—and in the
; end own it.”
Solved or Unsolved?
: A postal-card picture of Asbury
: Park, N. J., showing about 100 people
, in the water below the fishing-pier,
about 500 on the pier, and 400 on
s shore, was received this week in
, scribed—
“ Puzzle. Find me. C. B. Ryan.”
r Over which the following colloquj'
: occurred:
Journal —That’s him near the up
; right fishing-pole.
1 Sherlock Holmes Gunter —No; that
5 one away out a quarter of a mile be
j yond the end of the pier looks more
r like him.
Journal—O, that’s only a speck on
; the card!
> A. H. G. —No, sir; that’s C. B. Ryan,
or it’s an Old Jersey muskeeter!
To My Grand-Daughter,
Anna Curtin —One Year Old To-Day.
Sweet babe, one cycle in life’s journey
To-day has passed for you—
To join those countless years of ages
past
Men call Eternity!
Thy native charms our hearts have
won
In that short year, baby ;
In manner sweet and loveliness
Few may compare with thee.
Th}- laughing eyes, of mildest blue ;
Thy raven locks so rare ;
Thy dimpled cheeks and rosy lips
Make up a picture fair.
Those graceful lines play’ng round
thy mouth ;
Thy shapely, dimpled chin ;
Together do they all combine
Admiration true to win.
I fain would press you to my heart,
(Child of my child art thou !)
But fate decrees I must forego
That sweetest pleasure now.
But fate may not these thoughts
suppress—
That fondly flow to the.e ;
And within my heart the hope is
strong
Of a re-united family.
And often as this day we bless
Returns, sweet child, for you,
With love increasing—while I’m here
I’ll sing your praises true !
M. A. Chambers.
Warrington, Fla., July 26, 1912.
Policy and Purpose of the Asso
ciated Boards of Trade of
Maryland.
Maryland’s Splendid Chances
No other State equals Maryland in
natural resources. Few, if any, com
pare with her. Sea and soil, field and
forest, mine and quarry, yield food
and otlur necessities of vast variety
and finest quality. The great bay and
the ocean help make the climate near
ly ideal for pleasure and for labor of
all kinds. Water-courses furnish both
power and avenues of communication.
Railroad facilities are of the best, and
the already fine system of public roads
is being extended and improved. The
energy and skill of man have made
great use of the material and oppor
tunities furnished by nature. Mary
land is a great State in civic develop
ment, in agriculture, in commerce and
in manufactures; a delightful State
in climate, in scenery and in social
development. Man’s efforts to take
advantage of what Maryland offers
always open up new possibilities.
Maryland is indeed a State within
whose bounds exist boundless oppor
tunities.
Activity of Competitors
And yet, many other States, with
less to work on, have done relatively
more than we. Some have done ac
tually more. Many sections, with
fewer attractions for men and money,
and these attractions inferior to ours,
are more widely and more favorably
known than Maryland, her resources
and her opportunities.
Less favored by nature and more
prodded by competition, they have
realized more fully than we the neces
sity of active co-ooperation and
modern publicity. By having the
good sense to use them, they have
largely offset and in some cases en
tirely overcome the natural advant
ages of competing sections.
How to Hold Our Own
Bj t practicing the same degree of
co-operation and using similar pub
licity-methods, Marjdand can main
tain the natural advantage she pos
sesses in superior natural resources.
Without such practices we disregard
our opportunity and proportionately
throw away our advantage.
To keep abreast of the times, each
city, town and section of Maryland
must use the same general methods
that have been profitably employed
elsewhere. To get the fullest measure
of results, they must act together
through some central agency. That
central agency, in turn, must work at
all times to promote the interests of
each city, town and section. Each
has its own particular needs, and the
lines of action on which they should
specialize are not alwa3 r s the same.
All have a great deal in common,
however, and the promotion of either
the commerce or the good repute of
any reflects helpfully on its neighbors.
11l Maryland’s exceptional diversity
there is a unity of interest equally ex
ceptional.
These observations show why Mary
land needs some such organization as
the Associated Boards of Trade of
Maryland, and show also what our
policy must be in order to carrj r out
our purpose of business building
throughout Maryland by business
building in every section.
The Local Organization
The rallying-point of sensible men
in any community is the local com
mercial organization. Such organi
zations are too often handicapped
by lack of funds and by lack
of desire in individuals to work to
gether for the common good. Not
enough persons realize fully enough
that it pays to pull together. A part
of the work of the Associated Boards
of Trade of Maryland will be to help
existing commercial organizations to
increase their membership; strengthen
their finances and bring more indi
viduals into the work of the organi
zations. This all makes for increased
efficiency and increased local pros
perity.
Scholastic.
Miss Isabelle M. Brown, of the
faculty of the South-Eastern State
Normal School, Durant, Oklahoma, is
spending her vacation at the family
home in Woodland. The young lady
’ is a daughter of Mrs. Margaret Brown
1 and graduated several years ago from
- the Frostburg State Normal School.
1 She was a pupil of Prof. E. D. Mur
' daugh then, and is now one of his
assistants.
Journalistic.
P. L. Livengood', lately editor of the
Windber (Pa.) Era , has joined his
t brother —W. S. Livengood, in the edi
torial and business conduct of the
: Meyersdale (Pa.) Republican. Both
gentlemen are stalwarts in the uews
i paper world, and while the Republican
has been a model weekly, it is not too
, much to expect that the alliance will
much enhance its force and influence.
HENRY F. COOK, Manager
WHOLE NUMBER 2,130
Jewel Presentation.
At a meeting of Mountain Castle,
No. 16, Knights of the Golden Eagle,
Tuesday evening, 30th inst., in Wit-
I tig’s Hall, a most delightful surprise
was sprung upon Past Grand Chief
George H. Wittig.
Mr. Wittig, a charter member of the
Castle, has served as Keeper of Ex
chequer all the time—24 years.
Recently the representatives of
Mountain Castle succeeded in having
the Grand Castle confer the Past
Grand Chief’s degree upon Mr. Wittig
as a mark of the honor and esteem in
which he is held by his local “/raters."
Since then this event has been
planned, and only a few days ago the
members succeeded in securing the
jewel—all unknown to Mr. Wittig.
Past Chief Henry P. Cook was des
ignated to make the presentation, and
at the appointed time addressed the
Castle, later presenting Mr. Wittig
with the jewel.
In presenting the jewel Mr. Cook
spoke in part as follows :
“Noble Chief and Brother Sir Knights
“ Were I capable of expressing in
commensurate language the beautiful
and touching sentiments embodied in
the act which I have been appointed
to perform, then, indeed, would both
feelings and expressions harmonize.
“As it is, however, I can but faintly
convey and weakly portray the spirit
which prompts this action, causing
our hearts and hands to unite in a
tangible token of love and appreciation
for one whose ‘Fidelity, Valor and
Honor’ have placed him in the fore
front of our Order as an exemplary
man, citizen and brother.
“The art of giving is the most an
cient of which we have any historical
record.
“Gifts, like many other deeds, sym
bolize peculiar traits of character not
always accompanied by beneficial or
agreeable results.
“God gave Adam Eden and domin
ion over every living thing, thus
placing man next in importance to
Himself and honors superior to all
other created things.
“Not satisfied with the extraordinary
recognition already conferred upon
Adam, God further supplements it b}'
giving Eve to be a helpmeet and
sharer of his joys—there were no sor
rows in those days.
“Then Eve gave Adam an apple
and the rest of the story is familiar to
all.
“So, we see, all through life that
different gifts have different results—
good when tendered in a proper spirit
for helpful purpose and glorious end ;
bad when given in contravention of
Divine laws and customs.
“The true value of a gift can be
estimated only by that which enters
into it.
“The gift of precious stones and
metals, in comparison with other gifts,
may sink into insignificance and per
ish with the giving.
“But who can measure the value of
a friend, a smile, a brotherly hand
clasp, the love, honor, respect and
esteem of his fellow-man ?
“The doll to a poor child, the flower
to the invalid, the kiss to mother,
obedience to father, the lover’s em
brace, the fraternal hand-clasp—all
these are unpurchaseable and of infi
nitely more value than dollars and
cents.
“The gift which I am about to be
stow is of comparatively little intrin
sic value, but it embodies a recogni
tion of ‘faithful and continued service,’
the love, respect and esteem of its do
nors and, above all, the symbols of
our own Noble Order.
“Brother Wittig, you will receive
this little token as an outward express
ion of the heartfelt gratitude of this
united body for your long, honorable
and faithful service in behalf of all
the brethren of this organization
wherever they may be.
“It also typifies the fact that you
have reached the highest pinnacle of
honor within the gift of the members
of the Grand Castle, and carries with
it the best wishes of those here assem
bled that you may be permitted,
through the grace of God, to remain
long amongst us to cheer, counsel and
advise, and, at last, when the death
angel shall summon us—that we may
meet around that throne where ‘the
cross which upon earth has so often
been hidden by the darkness of crime
and wrong, shall stand out in bold re
lief, without a shadow, without a
cloud, radiant in brilliancy and bright
in the splendor of its golden rays.’ ”
Mr. Wittig’s surprise was complete,
the touching tribute and his response
having a marked effect upon those
assembled.
Among the officials present were
Grand Chief J. C. Mullan, of Western
port ; Past Grand Chief Peter Gam
mert and Grand High Priest Elmer S.
Kight, of this place.
After felicitating Mr. Wittig refresh
ments were served, thus ending what
all present declared the most enjoya
ble meeting ever held by them.
The Lapp’s Hill Wall.
East Saturday evening the electric
road track was removed to its perma
nent position on Gapp’s Hill —a few
inches farther from the northern em
bankment, preparatory to the con
struction of the retaining wall on that
side.
The wall will be 800 feet in length;
18 inches through at base, tapering to
about 10 inches at top, and will range
in height from about 12 inches at ends
to feet at the middle.
It will be of concrete throughout,
17S cubic yards, and Joseph Brady,
contractor, expects to have it com
pleted not later than the 15th inst.
2,256.
Concluding the list with last week’s
, issue of the Jotjrnai,, it is ascertained
that invitations have been sent to
2,256 former residents of Frostburg.
This large number does not include
many former residents who live with
in the county—people who are re
. garded as “at home,” or so close that
a general invitation to them to come
will bring them.
It seems almost incredible that so
many people have lived here within,
say two generations, in addition to
■ our own remaining thousands, but
. now residing in different sections of
■ the country.
The Home-Coming, therefore, will
i not only bring former residents back
■ to see home people, but very many
• j who live abroad will meet each other
i | who, otherwise, might never have en
l j joyed that pleasure.
It will be a great time!