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ining tHJSr Journal.
J. BENSON ODER, Editor
FORTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 4
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m Helps
Ibooster trips worth while
"
Ilf Actual Financial Benefit Cannot
Be Bhown, They Still Have a
Distinct Value.
There is a difference of opinion
among Burlington business men as to
the value of so-called booster trips.
.Close figuring has convinced a num
ber that these trips do not pay. That
Is, that there is not sufficient new
business developed to make up for the
jtlme and money expended.
And perhaps that may be true. But
there are always things which your
mathematical man is apt to overlook.
He is of the kind who counts the day
wasted that is spent at the fishing
club or on the golf grounds. The
booster trip has a value, and a much
greater one than is generally appre
ciated. It enables the members of the
booster party to get acquainted with
some of the actual or prospective cus
tomers. It may open the way for
future business. But what is much
more valuable and Important, it makes
the members of these parties better
acquainted with each other. And,
then, it is a day, or a week, ostensibly
devoted to business, but partly* de
voted to pleasure. It Is a change from
the eternal routine, and few of your
mathematical men realize how im
portant, how necessary, an occasional
change of this kind is, and how heavy
is the cost that those are called upon
'to pay who never indulge themselves
.with such a change of program.
Even where there are no direct
'demonstrable benefits, the booster
f trip is of great value, of real benefit,
to all who take part therein.—Burling
iton Hawkeye.
UPLIFT IN LOVE OF NATURE
Cultivation of Ornamental Trees and
Plants Marks Always a People
of Refinement.
It is an unquestioned fact, certified
by all observant travelers of broad ex
perience, that the cultivation of orna
mental trees and plants has an uplift
ing and ennobling influence on all man
kind. No matter in what quarter of
'the earth you are traveling, you will
Invariably meet with the best recep
tion at that domicile where the great
est love of nature is manifest, through
the cultivation or presence of plants
and flowers.
' Aside from the orchard sections, it
Is a rare occurrence, in any state, to
note In rural districts a farmyard
where any intelligent or orderly at
tempt has been made to beautify the
grounds, and In small towns decorated,
:tidy premises are equally rare. Door
-yards in the outskirts of cities are
often Just as unkempt. In places of
lawns, flowers, trees and shrubs we
find broken-down wagons, farm imple
ments and machinery about an un
painted house scarcely fit for a stable,
and not infrequently stock runs loose
.about the house.
This disagreeable phase of life Is
pictured merely to ask if good, cheer
ful, intelligent citizens of high stand
ard may be reared amid such sur
foundings. Can you expect culture
and refinement in young men and
women coming from such so-called
'homes? And the pathos of it all is
'that they are not to be held account
able for their uncouthness, for, given
a fair chance, most of them would de
velop into men and women of many
graces and accomplishments.—Ex
change.
Street Paving.
Macadam roads, long the standard
paving construction for highways,
have had their day; the automobile
has made it necessary to adapt pave
ments to a new traffic. Prof. Arthur
H. Blanchard of Columbia notes in
Engineering News that the yardage of
new bituminous pavements, construct
ed by “penetration” methods, in
creased in eight states from 25,200 in
1908 to 8,680,900 in 1911, and, of
bituminous concrete pavements, from
4,400 yards in 1908 to 608,100 in 1911.
,Of the surfaces for macadam pave
ments already laid, Professor Blanch
ard says:
“That more permanent forms of con
struction are favored by our state
commission is clearly shown by the
marked decrease in use of light oils
,for surface treatment of roads, and
the decided increase in the surface
treatment of roads with heavy asphalt
ed cements.”
Move for Clvio Beauty Is Old.
At Stockbridge, Mass., modem
neighborhood improvements were be
gun through the efforts of Mrs. Mary
G. Hopkins in 1853; she started the
Laurel Hill Village Improvement as
sociation and rescued the neglected
cemetery and church green from a
condition reflecting on the refinement
of the village which associates the
parnes of Jonathan Edwards, Nathan
iel Hawthorne, James Russell and oth
er# equally as distinguished.
Remarkable!
A local preacher who was address
ing the public meeting of a Sunday
school anniversary made an eloquent
appeal to the risible faculties of his
audience by declaring: “I’m glad to
be here, because this meeting has to
do with boys and girls. I do not for
get I was a boy an' 1 g’-’ m ;
once I”
Miss Sunbonnet
By'Susanne Glenn
(Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
A neat, white picket fence stretched
between the two gardens.
The gardens were as equal in ex
cellence as two gardens very well can
be; perhaps the garden of the little
white cottage may have contained a
few more flowers than the garden of
the big white house. But even that
was a question.
Jeannette Perry sat in her tiny
grape arbor thinking hard. She was
thinking about James Harper. How
could anyone, knowing the circum
stances, sit in the Perry garden and
not think of James Harper?
“Good morning, Miss Sunbonnet,” he
had said on the very first morning she
ventured into the garden, as he en
deavored to get a glimpse at the face
under the faded pink folds.
When the girl lifted her head, the
man gave a start of astonishment at
the steady, questioning brown eyes
and serious, sweet lips.
“I —I beg your pardon,” he stam
mered. “I thought you were a child.”
“I am glad you are neighborly,” she
answered simply, “since our gardens
adjoin. Perhaps you will not mind
showing me how to do things? I nev
er made a garden before.”
“If only you will let me,” he cried
eagerly.
So it came about that James Harper
worked in the Perry garden as much
as he did In his own, and every plant,
every flower spoke loudly of his pres
ence.
Jeannette was very happy in her
Eden. While she dug in the soft earth
on her side of the trim picket fence,
her heart seemed to grow unaccount
ably mellow and receptive. As she
planted the seeds and tended the
young plants at James’ direction,
other invisible seeds were sown that
mg
“I’m Glad You Are Neighborly."
produced roses in her cheeks and mu
sic in her voice.
“You are a great gardener, Miss
Sunbonnet,” James often observed,
“and you seem to grow with it. I am
getting jealous; you are beating me-”
“It is because I love everything so—
they cannot help growing for me!”
“You are a little girl, after all,” he
said, smiling indulgently.
And still Jeannette did not under
stand, did not comprehend what it all
meant, until Lucile Emerson came to
the big white house.
Lucile was tall and studiously
graceful. She wore wonderful, cling
ing gowns, and arranged her hair
in a manner not conducive the the
wearing of sunbonnets. She monopo
lized James, she rode his horse, she
demanded his attention, and she called
him “Jimmie” with the utmost free
dom.
So Jeannette sat in her little arbor
and thought her poor, unhappy
thoughts, and fought for strength to
go on with her ordinary, colorless liv
ing.
Two persons occupied the larger ar
bor in the garden of the big white
house. After a comfortable fashion
they sometimes had when together,
each was interested in a bit of read
ing.
After a time the girl closed the
book in her lap and looked at her un
conscious companion.
“Jimmie,” she said presently, ‘Tve
made a discovery about you, and I
hope you are not going to deny it!”
Harper’s smile was an amused one.
He always found this girl’s unexpect
edness entertaining.
“So?”
“You are interested in this young
person next door, and I want you to
tell me about her.”
The “young person next door”
clasped her hands over her thumping
heart, dreading to hear his answer,
and yet not daring to disclose herself.
“She is a very nice young person,
Lucile,” said James calmly.
“Nice? I should hardly think that
the word, Jimmie. I-—I do not know
just the word to describe her, but it
certainly is not ‘nice’!”
“It is a little difficult, Lucile, and I
do not know that there is any occa
sion for you to worry your pretty head
about it"
FROSTJBURG, MD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1912
"Sugar-coated, like all your sar
casm! Well, there just is occasion,
my boy, where you are concerned.
Tell me, how came you to be such
friends—and do you really care?”
“We are friends because our gar
dens adjoin, and because country
people have away of getting ac
quainted over the garden fence. And
of course I like her, because, as I told
you, she is a nice little girl.”
“But that is not the point. Do you
care enough to forget that she is in
no possible way suited to you?”
“One cannot forget what one never
knew, dear child.”
“But, Jimmie, you are such a schol
ar, so learned that you discomfort
even me. I can discover nothing in
which she is really posted.”
“You know very little about her,
Lucile. I have never known of her
reading anything I was not interested
in, at least.”
“And she is quiet and dependent,
and afraid of things, where you have
always admired a fearless woman. I
dare say she never rode a horse in
all her life.”
“I believe she is a bit nervous about
horses,” he admitted with his indul
gent smile.
“Oh, I see there is not use in talk
ing. Facts, however glaring, have no
effect upon a man in love.”
“So that is what all this means?
You think I am in love with Miss Per
ry? I thought you more discriminat
ing, dear second-cousin Lucile! I
merely like her very much, because,
I repeat, she is a very nice girl!”
i “I think you expressed it better this
morning when you called her Miss
Sunbonnet.”
“Still, remember there is something
under the bonnet,” advised James,
walking away with provoking good
humor.
Jeannette In her arbor, sat in mo
tionless misery.
“It is all true,” she whispered; “he
admires a woman who is capable and
bright and fearless, and I am a plain,
stupid little thing afraid of my own
shadow. Lucile loves him —and he
loves her only he doesn’t understand
it yet, any more than I did until she
came and set fire to my very heart-”
Until long after darkness had set
tled, she sat motionless with her
thoughts.
“Now when it 1# too late I have
overcome one of my deficiencies,” she
thought bitterly as she sat fearlessly
in the breathless night.
Across the sky streaked Jagged
gleams of lightning. Thunder crashed
nearer and nearer. Then rain dashed
into the frail shelter. But she smiled
contemptuously, defiantly.
"Whatever makes my little Miss
Sunbonnet so pale?” inquired Harper
next morning as he crossed into the
neighboring garden.
"I am not pale," denied Jeannette,
flushing uncomfortably. “And I wish
you would call me by my name; that
other sounds too foolish, really!”
James wondered vaguely. But be
fore he could investigate this new
turn of affairs, Lucile called from the
porch that she was ready for her ride.
“You’d better look out for Jet this
morning,” he cautioned as she mount
ed the uneasy black horse. "She is
nervous as a witch.”
“You must know I am utterly un
afraid of a horse,” answered the girl
loud enough for Jeannette to hear. “A
few miles of this fine, open road will
quiet her, never fear.”
Jeannette shivered as Jet pranced
out of the gate.
“I could never ride like that,” she
said aloud. Then she saw James’ ad
miring glance toward the graceful girl
on the flying horse, and hastened to
the back of her garden.
An hour later Jeannette was work
ing with the roses at the front gate.
A clatter of hoofs told her of the
rider’s return. But why was Lucile
clinging so desperately to Jet’s neck,
her white face half concealed by her
loosened hair and the horse’s flying
mane?
Jet was plunging wildly, uncon
trollably. The moment she compre
hended, Jeannette flashed through the
gate.
“Nothing must happen to Lucile,”
she sobbed frantically. “He loves her;
he loves her!”
Wildly she waved her bonnet before
the oncoming horse. As Jet slack
ened and half turned, Jeannette
clutched the loosened bridle. The
horse swung round and stopped, evi
dently weary from her run. Lucile
slipped limply to the grass, unhurt.
"Jeannette, Jeannette,” cried Har
per, rushing to her and loosening the
bridle from her fingers.
At sight of her white cheeks he
took her suddenly In his arms.
"You are sure you are not hurt?”
he cried sharply. “Oh, Jeannette,
what made you do it? You might
have been killed!”
“I wanted to save Lucile,” she whiß
pered.
James Harper looked at her with
eyes through which his heart spoke.
Color returned to her pale cheeks,
and at sight of it he stooped and
kissed her tenderly, reverently.
“Precious little Miss Sunbonnet,” he
whispered.
Her Address, Please.
Maud—l’ve Just heard of a case
where a man married a girl on his
deathbed so she could have his mil
lions when so he was gone. Could you
love a girl like that?
Jack —That’s just the Kind of a girl
I could love. What’s her address?
Tired of It.
Ancient Whale —I hate to be seem
ing to put on airs, but when one has
swallowed a live man, held interior
communication with him for three
days and then—
Ancient Shark —Now stop always
throwing up Jonah to us, will you?”
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
1882 1912
| THIRTY YEARS AGO. f
j The Items Below Were Current During f
Week Ending October 28, 1882. i£
A Consolidation Coal Company team,
laden with oats, ran over the bank
above the C. and P. R. station Mon
day, October 23d. The alertness of
the driver, however —Henry Gerken,
prevented a serious result.
The circulating library sometime
ago presented to the Y. M. C. A., of
this place, was by Mrs. M. M. Towns
end, of Eckhart, removed from D. G.
Percy’s drug store to the Association’s
rooms.
David Morgan raised a stalk of cab
bage with 14 distinct heads; Walter
Edwards gave the Journal an arm
full of celery over a yard in length—
his own culture, and Peter Kelley pro
duced a beet weighing 13K pounds
and measuring 34 inches in circum
ference.
A C. and P. R. train ran into a herd
of R. M. Wilderman’s cattle near
New Hope, killing three and maiming
one. Several cars derailed and
wrecked.
A son of Samuel H. Vaughan, of
Ocean, attempted to get on a G. C.
and C. R. train at that place, fell be
tween the cars and a number ran over
the lower part of one leg, crushing it
horribly.
Improvements going forward in the
Percj T cemetery with the purpose of
restoring the grounds to their afore
time beauty. William B. Baird in
charge of the work.
At the annual meeting of the Hamp
shire and Baltimore Coal Company,
held in New York Saturday, October
19th, a resolution authorizing sale of
the property to pay off the company’s
bonded indebtedness was adopted.
Miss Jennie Flint having declined
the office of First Assistant of Public
School No. 1, Miss Adeline Brown, of
the Bowery school, consented to fill
the vacancy until officially supplied.
She taught several days, when John
L. Kelly, of Midland, whose school
was suspended on account of an epi
demic of diphtheria, succeeded her.
Miss Ida Keller filled Miss Brown’s
place at Bowery.
Prof. L. H. Gehman, late principal
of Public School No. 1, left for Gil
man, lowa, Tuesday, October 24, 1882.
An entertainment in Paul’s Opera
House Monday evening, October 23d,
under auspices of St. John’s Episco
pal Church, drew an immense audi
ence. Twenty-four “Fairies,” of the
surpassingly beautiful tableau of
“Fairyland,” are still living, nearly
all in Frostburg. A charade follow
ing, however, was declared the lead
ing event of the evening. In this three
Frostburg ladies and Messrs. H. D.
Robbins and R. G. Colborn figured.
“It was a great evening.”
Circuit Court.
The grand jury adjourned Monday,
making report, in brief as follows:
Constables of South Cumberland
somewhat derelict in duty in the mat
ter of suppressing illegal resorts.
Police protection in some part of the
city inadequate.
Magistrates too free in selection of
grand-jury witnesses, occasioning loss
of time and unnecessary expense.
Jury heard 196 witnesses and re
turned 80 indictments.
The State Mine Inspector reported
the Bowery Coal Company as the one
corporation not obeying the law—hav
ing only one entry in a mine using
furnace ventilation.
The provision of law requiring the
president of each corporation in the
county to make return of the stock
holders of said corporation to the
County Commissioners annually
should be complied with immediately.
County Treasurer complimented
upon the efficiency with which he has
filled his office, and one fact given as
worthy of special mention —“ for the
first time in many years the count}"
has no outstanding notes and on
September 30 had a balance of over
$73,000 in bank.”
Some suggestions made of sanitary
improvement of jail.
The city hall, two school-houses and
station-house—all in Cumberland,
should be re-modeled to extent of
changing doors so they will open out
wardly. One school-house has a fire
escape stairway, but no door opening
to it.
A committee of the jury made a re
port of conditions at Sylvan Retreat
and complimented the management.
A similar committee investigated
the County Home and commended the
management in favorable terms.
The Shortest and the Longest.
The Government is installing the
shortest Belt Line in the country in
the tunnel between the Senate office
building and the Capitol, Washington,
Herbert Wade, aged 19 years, died
of typhoid fever, Wednesday, October
■ 25, 1882.
Miss Lydia, aged 19 years, died
Wednesday, October 25, and Garfield,
aged 3 years, died Thursday, October
26th, both of diphtheria, children of
Mr. Truman Kemp, of Borden.
In St. Michael's Church Tuesday
morning, October 24, 1882, Miss Agnes
McKenzie, of Cresaptown, was mar
ried to Mr. Peter Morris, of this place,
by Rev. V. F. Schmitt.
At residence of James W. Wilson,
Rawlings Station, Tuesday, October
24th, 1882, Miss Emma M. King was
married to Mr. Joseph R. Frost, both
of Ellerslie, by Rev. Frank G. Porter.
In Barton Tuesday, October 17, 1882,
Miss Emma Spencer, of that place,
was married to Mr. William Bell, of
Keyser, W. Va.
In Zion Episcopal Church, Charles
town, West Va., Miss Florence Vane
Glenn was married to Mr. Olin Beall,
both of that place, by Rev. P. H.
Meade, Tuesday, October 24, 1882.
William Reese, cutting timber at
New Hope mine, found in the end of a
tie a petrified piece of wood resemb
ling a beef-tongue. “Hair lines of
solid oak ran over it in devious ways,
reminding one of tangled grass,” and
so on.
Between Johnsons and Pocahontas
George Caton found a stone shaped
like a watch. He broke it and found
a dozen iron screws lying around in
side promiscuously. The stone was
■ later secured by John A. Stenger for
preservation as a relic.
The arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Olin
Beall on the day of their marriage
furnished occasion for a grand recep
tion at the residence of Captain and
: Mrs. Nelson Beall. A house-full of
splendid guests lent glamor to the
scene, and “at a reasonable hour,
after rounds of gliding waltz and
bustling cotillion, measured by the
gay music of Hocking’s orchestra, the
assemblage was called to a feast —the
i product of an elegant lady’s affluent
and luxurious fancy, rivaling in tempt
ing attractiveness the fabulous ban
quets of the Orient, ordered by stately
epicures of caterers inspired by tropi
cal imagination.”
At Barton Saturday, October 21,
1882, Alexander Tennant died, aged
84 years. He was one of the pioneer
Free Masons of the county—a mem
ber of Mountain Lodge and Tjder over
20 years. All the lodges of the coun
ty were represented at the funeral
here on the 23d.
The Grant Coal Company in full
operation at its mine south of Clar3 Ts
ville. Frederick Mitchell, a skillful
miner, was foreman.
D. C. It is a monorail system, 700
feet long.
The rolling stock consists of one
car, designed to carry twelve Senators
and thirty-six pages.
Which goes to. show that Belt Lines
are becoming more fashionable.
The longest electric railroad line
west of the Mississippi river—Port
land to Hugo, Oregon, 121 miles, not
only carries passengers and freight,
but last Wednesday inaugurated a
Pullman Sleeping-Car system—the
first in all America to do this.
This road runs through a stretch of
country for the most part not as popu
lous as that between Frostburg and
Uniontown, but evidently it pays!
And the reason given for the new
venture is—“to become fully able to
compete with the Harriman system of
steam railroads now also engaged in
developing the Willamette Valley.”
Where is the direct competition be
tween Frostburg and Uniontown?
Professional.
Albert Crowe, musician, has gone
to Harrisburg, Pa., to become one of
a corps of musical artists of that city.
Question in Law.
When a court decides that a hus
band, sentenced to pay alimony, must
pay it whether he has the money or
not, should not the wife be judicially
regarded as having received it,
whether she gets the money or not?
An answer to this question, accom
panied by sl, will entitle the referee
to a year’s reading of the Jotjrnai,.
Big Vegetables.
Prof. William H. Gatehouse, prin
cipal of Midland Public School,
brought in a beet Tuesday weighing 9
pounds and 7 ounces, and measuring
28 inches in circumference. It was
grown by his mother —Mrs. Thomas
Gatehouse, in her garden, on Loo
street, and is on exhibition in the front
window of Edward Davis & Company’s
grocery, West Union street.
Some Notable Achievements of
the Roosevelt Administration.
i
1 — Dolliver-Hepburn Railroad Act.
2 Extension of Forest Reserve.
’ 3—National Irrigation Act.
reservation of water-power sites.
5 Employers’ Liability Act.
6 Safety Appliance Act.
' 7—Regulation of railroad employees’
’ hours of labor.
’ B—Establishment of Department of
Commerce and Labor,
t 9 —Pure Food and Drugs Act.
1 1 meat inspection.
- 11—Navy doubled in tonnage and
f greatly increased in efficiency.
, 12—Battleship fleet sent around the
1 world.
13—State militia brought into co
-5 ordination with army.
1 14—Canal Zone acquired and work of
1 excavation pushed with increased
energy.
? 15—Development of civil self-govern
r ment in insular possessions.
16 — Second intervention in Cuba; Cuba
restored to the Cubans.
17— Finances of Santo Domingo
straightened out.
j 18—Alaska Boundary dispute settled,
f 19—Reorganization of the consular
2 service.
, 20 —Settlement of the coal strike of
1 1902.
Advertisement by order of Jc
' A Characteristic Appreciation By
“An Old-Homer.”
To The Paper That Is Truly Great:
j While it is true that “Procrastina
tion is the Thief of Time” and that
“Hell is Paved With Good Intentions,”
it is also true that “It is a Long Worm
’ That Has No Turning.”
Since our return home from the “Old
f
Home” it has been my intention every
day to sit right down and endeavor to
acknowledge, through the columns of
j the Mining Journal, our appreciation
of the hospitable, kindly treatment we
received in Frostburg, and to make
1 at least a faint endeavor to tell the
- good people of the finest little metrop
-1 olis in the world just what a great,
big, happy, loving success the Frost
- burg Centennial and Old-Home Week
3 was.
But it can’t be done.
; At least, I can’t do it.
3 I only know that in all my life I
never had such a pleasant vacation.
5 I know that those of my family who
were with me never had so good a
> time, nor met so many loveable peo
. pie in all their lives as while they
t were in Frostburg for two bright, de
lightful weeks.
L My associate—Prof. Robert Roese,
2 who is a citizen of the world and a
thorough cosmopolite, says there is
f only one language that has a word
_ adequately descriptive of Frostburg
; and its people.
That language is the German, and
j the word is gemuethlich.
2 Prof. Roese has had his picture tak
f en drinking health, happiness and
! prosperity to Frostburg and its envi
rons, and to all who dwell within and
. thereabout, and the picture is sent
herewith.
Prof. Roese requests that those who
read this, or see the picture, and do
not know what gemuethlich means,
j should ask Mr. Herman V. Hesse;
Prof. George Vogtman, Director of
the Arion Band, and Mr. L- J. Ort, of
Midland.
They know.
Prof. Roese hopes to be able to come
t
with us to Frostburg next September
r and enjoy an informal “old-home
T week.”
’ He thinks that the presence of that
splendid old musical organization, the
German Arion Band, together with
' such lovers and demonstrators of “The
Heavenly Muse” as Prof. Olin Roulade
Rice, Prof. George Nightengale Beall,
Treasurer Glee Dud. Hocking, and
- Mr. Nick Tuneful Hocking—to men
, tion just a few, should be a fine nucle
) us for a continuous development of
r musical talent in Frostburg that
s should culminate annually in an Au
, tumn Musical Festival.
2 Prof. Roese affirms that the Arion
t Band is the best class of its kind he
3 has ever heard, .and its director and
instrumentalists are to be congratu
HENRY F. COOK, Manager
WHOLE NUMBER 2,141
21— The government upheld in North
ern Securities decision.
22 Conviction of post-office grafters
and public-land thieves.
23 Directed investigation of the
Sugar Trust customs frauds, and
the resultant prosecutions.
24 Suits begun against Standard Oil
and Tobacco companies and other
corporations for violation of the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
25 Corporations forbidden to con
tribute to political campaign funds.
26 Keeping the door of China open
to American commerce.
27 Bringing about the settlement of
the Russo-Japanese War by the
Treaty of Portsmouth.
28— Avoiding the pitfalls created by
Pacific Coast prejudice against
Japanese immigration.
29 Negotiating twenty-four treaties
of general arbitration.
30 — Reduction of the interest-bearing
debt by more than $90,000,000.
31 — Inauguration of movement for
conservation of natural resources.
32 Inauguration of the annual con
ference oi Governors of States.
33 — Inauguration of movement for im
provement of conditions of country
life.
oseph R. Baldwin, Treasurer.
lated upon the excellence of their
accomplishments.
He says also that the people of
Frostburg can well afford to sustain
and promote the Band’s excellence,
as every number of its extended repor
toire is a classic, tuneful advertise
ment of the town.
Indeed, with the talent, both musical
and vocal, that Frostburg has, Prof.
Roese thinks it a pity that the people
of Frostburg do not invest more—.
much more, in the development, ex
pansion and promotion of musical ex
cellence.
The attention of the Civic Club and
other public-spirited organizations and
citizens of the town should be called
to this metropolitan flaw in the other
wise flawless metropolis of Frostburg.
We have marked with profound
pleasure the improvements Frostburg
contemplates and has underway—from
the Miners Hospital, via new Post-
Office, to Hotel-Gladstone Park, inclu
sive, and we hope to be with you next
year to see these and other embellish
ments completed, or well underway.
With best wishes to the Great Paper
and all others of our many good
friends in the best, brightest and most
public-spirited little city in the world,
Sincerely yours,
Roy L. McCardeei,.
New Auxiliary Orgaaizatioa.
Sixteen members—total of member
ship, organized last Sunday the Eck
hart Choral Club of Coal Valley Coun
cil, No. 75, Jr. O. U. A. M., electing
officers as follows:
Director —Edwin Elias.
President—Oliver W. Simons.
Recording Secretary—J. M. Carter.
Financial Secretary—Thomas Por
ter.
Treasurer —Henry Stark.
Librarian —Charles Stark.
Excitement in School.
A correspondent of the Keyser (W.
Va.) Tribune relates the following
thrill:
“Gee, whiz! if that aint Cam Arbo
gast I’ll eat the greaser!” exclaimed
Miss Minnie Swift, our beautiful up
to-date school teacher, as she saw an
automobile pass down the road last
week.
“He only waved his hand and left
Minnie looking after him with a long
ing eye and fluttering heart.”
A Brave Miae-Owaer.
Kingdon Gould, eldest son of George
J. Gould and president of several coal
companies, has gone to work in one
of his mines in Southern Illinois to
dig, shovel and load coal.
He expects to continue this voca
tion some time, as he wishes to be
come thoroughly familiar with the
conditions under which miners work.