The Frostburg spirit., September 18, 1913, Image 1

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The Leading §
Weekly Newspaper of Allegany §
County, Maryland §
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FORTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 33
Spirit Liters
Wanted, For Sale, For Rent,
Lost, Found, and Miscel
laneous Notices.
RATES —Five cents per line for
each insertion. No advertisement
accepted for less than 25 cents.
FOR RENT.
House Apartments and Rooms.
9-11. 9-25 Oun Beam,, Agent.
FOR RENT.
Three Rooms. Apply at No. 74 W.
Main St. 9-11. 9-18
FOR SALE.
A small Second-Hand Heating Stove
can be bought at a bargain at The
Spirit office. tf.
FOR SALE.
A good Metal Sign that can be re
lettered and used to good advantage
for almost any kind of business. Can
be bought for much less than cost.
Inquire at The Spirit office. tf.
FOR SALE.
A new 12-Gauge Double-Barrel
Hammerless Shotgun. A beauty, and
a gun with unexcelled shooting qual
ities. Can be bought for two-thirds its
value. Inquire at The Spirit office, tf.
FOR SALE.
A 12-Gauge Single-Barrel Stevens
Shotgun. A good shooter and a late
model, nearly new. Can be bought
very cheap. Inquire at The Spirit
office. tf.
FOR SALE.
A line new Stevens Ideal Rifle,
center-fire, 25-20 caliber. Can be
bought at a bargain. Inquire at The
Spirit office. tf.
WANTED.
Cash, Comforting, Cool Cash to
Come Quick.
Say, you people of Frostburg—a
whole lot of you who ought to be
showing yourselves more public-spirit
ed and alive to your own interests—
why don’t you get a hustle on and
“come through” with that support
you have promised in order to get a
local paper established here?
Hot air is good for nothing if not
backed up by patronage and cash.
Many have responded nobly by word
a d works, many others -t. words
and wind. alk is cheap, bt it " . j
with your coin av.d v - your •
“Williams,” and show the outside j
world that Frostburg can a-d will
support a newspaper of its own.
If you have subscribed and not
paid, “cash up,” as the owner of this
paper has paid out since coming to
this town, in buying his plant and
getting things in shape to publish
The Spirit, over $5,000 in cold cash.
Frostburgers have gotten the benefit
of nearly all of this, to say nothing
of another thousand or two that has
been paid out for labor and living
expenses since locating here, und
that, too, has gone into the pockets
of Frostburg people.
The publisher of The Spirit has
shown pluck as well as faith in this
town and its people, and has treated
them on the square. Now, what kind
of treatment are you going to give
old “Uncle Pete ?”
Now is the time to show your appre
ciation and “come across” with your
help, which is needed, needed badly
and needed now. Once there was a
baker who kneaded his dough with
gloves on. The editor of this paper
needs his “dongh” with his hat, ,coat,
vest, shirt, pants, shoes, socks and
underwear on, and if he doesn’t soon
get more of it, he will need it without
anything on.
Pay your subscriptions in advance
and save a quarter by so doing. Any
way, don’t expect the publisher to
carry your subscriptions along with
out pay, or to run his legs off for
amounts due him—in some cases long
past due—for job printing.
If you have promised patronage,
“deliver the goods,” and if you have
not promised any, “deliver the goods”
anyhow, just to show that there is no
frost In the people of Frostburg; also
to show that there is no moss on them,
either.
The editor and publisher of this
paper is in bad health, on the verge
of a nervous collapse from the work
and worry required to get this paper
started. Therefore, if you want this
town to have a newspaper, come along
with your support, and remember that
cash support is what is needed, not
punk piffle in the way of promises
made and not fulfilled. He who comes
with his support now is the real “can
dy kid,” the good fellow longed for.
I am for Frostburg, hully gee!
And want you all to be for me.
And then your praises shall be sung
With loud acclaim and lusty lung.
So bring your cash with willing feet
To friend and servant,“Uncle Pete.”
The Spirit already has about twice
as many bonafide subscribers as the
Mining Journal had, but it wants
more, many more, and also wants
more advertising and job printing.
We are fixed to handle more patron
age in all lines, and hope to see it
forthcoming from loyal Frostburgers
without delay.
If your business will not stand ad
vertising, you’d better advertise it for
sale. tf.
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT
SCENES NEAR FROSTBURG.
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The upper picture shows the National Pike about four .jjMafflFx-- In the lower right hand corner is West Union
miles west of Frostburg, Maryland. The circular in- Street in Frostburg, which is to be improved by
sert shows “the Long Stretch,” west of Frostburg. t * lc city. Public spirited citizens of Frostburg
while the lower left hand view shows where the '.fPUHHBBB ’ are •’Kiting to have this notable old highway
state stopped rebuilding. mit * n decent shape.
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The above engravings tell their own story, and it is a strong argument in favor of good roads. The Spirit is under obligations for the use of the cut to that staunch and
active advocate of good roads, W. B. Gladstone Hitchins, who obtained it from The Motor, a high-class magazine which devotes much space to the good roads cause. The
pictures shown will interest all readers of The Spirit who are familiar with the scenes along the old National Pike.
From Washington State.
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM
HOWARD H. KEIM, FORMERLY
OF SALISBURY, PENNA.
Encourages New Paper and Wants
Editor to Compile Book of Poems
••Entertains Marylanders—Pays
a High Compliment to Deceased
Garrett County Citizen—Victim
of Floods and Surprises.
Ridgefield, Wash., Aug. 8, 1913.
Mr. P. L. Eivengood,
Frostburg, Md.
My Dear Friend:—
I read with extreme pleasure your
poem in the Republican of recent date.
1 also note your moving to Frostburg
and living opposite our mutual friend
Henry Fresh. The father of this
Henry was better known to me.
Jacob Fresh was one of nature’s no
blemen. My kind regards to Henry
Fresh, if he still remembers me.
The other day I entertained at my
home Hon. Jas. Wilson, of Rawlings,
Allegany Co., Md. His son, A. King
Wilson, Esq., 631 Chamber of Com
merce, Portland, Ore., and his grand
son, “Jim” Wilson, now of state of
Washington. It was refreshing to
hear the news from that old County
where I taught my first schools and
had many a good friend.
Enclosed I hand you a check for
$2.00 to apply on my subscription to
your new paper—The Frostburg Spirit.
I not only wish you success, but I
know you will have it. Whem you
get ready to issue a collection of your
poems, I will be subscriber No. 1.
A week ago to-day I passed my 53
“milepost,” and a happy day it was.
I was busy hoeing in the kale till call
ed to dinner. I was greatly surprised
to find a tableful of my neighbors who
had come in to wish me well and sur
prise me. They soon went away, and
I took my hoe to the field again, and
at night was very tired. After eating
a bowl of cornbread and cream —not
milk—l went to bed before eight.
After I had a real good nap, my near
neighbor, E. H. Olsen, a Dane, rapped
on my bed room door and asked me to
get up and go with him to a school
board meeting. I declined, he laugh
ed, and then the truth dawned upon
me—the house was again full—they
all came. They had a big freezer of
ipe cream, home-made candy, cakes
etc. We had a big time —the greatest
surprise ever given me.
Wife and I attended the Annual
Meeting at Winona Lake, Ind., in
FROSTBURG, MD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1913
June. We were gone justthree weeks.
We hurried home on account of the
high water of the Columbia river,
where we are living. The rise was 24
feet above normal, and .cevered the
entire island on v which we live. It
cost us all our crops and many hun
dred dollars beside. We moved our 60
cows and about 20 horses to a farm
the boys rented on the hills. They
moved out June sth and got back home
July 17th. We had our crops to put
in again as soon as the land got dry
enough, and just got through planting.
If the season is belated, we will raise
cow feed enoug,h.
We are all well and able to work
and have a lot of it to do. All join in
love to you and yours.
Very Sincerely Yours,
H. H. Keim.
Noted Educator to Speak in Frost
burg, next Suuday.
Dr. Wm. Anthony Granville, Presi
dent of Pennsylvania College, at Get
tysburg, formerly a member of the
' faculty of Yale College, will make
two addresses in this county next Sun
day. He will speak at St. Paul’s
, English Euthern Church, this city, at
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DR. WM. A. GRANVILLE.
i 10:45 o’clock a. m., and at Cumberland,
r in the German Lutheran Church, in
E the evening. A special musical pro
> gram will be rendered at the service
t in which Dr. Anthony will participate
here, and the noted educator will be
1 entertained by Rev. F. H. Crisstnan
i and family wl ile in Frostburg.
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J BY P. L. LIVBNGOOD.
This poem was written last January while the author was in
Chicago recovering from a surgical operation, at a time when
he was exceedingly lonesome for home, the friends of his youth
and the dear old haunts where he played when a child.
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• My mind goes back on a tuneful tide
• To the rythmic, rippling rills
• That swiftly through meads and forests glide
• ’Mongst Maryland’s stately hills.
0 Back, back to the scenes of my childhood
• Sweet memories fondly run,
J And again I roam through the wildwood,
• Where shadows exclude the sun.
Again I hear the brooklet’s sweet song,
• Hardby a flowery lea,
And watch the waters gliding along
• En route to the sounding sea.
• Again I hear the song of the pines
0 As the zephyrs murmur low;
• Again I view the mountain peak lines
0 In the mellow twilight glow.
• Methinks I hear the whippoorwill’s notes
While the mellow moonbeams fall,
• And I hear a chorus from many throats
As the night birds loudly call.
0 And I scent the perfume in the air
• Of a balmy night in June,
0 That is coaxed from sweet wild flowers rare,
• By smiles from the silv’ry moon.
And thus do the dear old scenes renew,
• As the years go gliding by,
And in mem’ry oft thtfse scenes I view
• While a tear bedims the eye.
• For the dear old days return no more,
0 Though the scenes remain for aye,
• And I view them as in days of yore,
0 In my dreams by night and day.
• Oh, it matters not where I may roam,
0 In the North, East, South or West,
• The scenes of my dear old childhood home,
In Maryland, seem the best.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE.
A Few Words to Those Who Had Been Receiving
The Frostburg Mining Journal
Free of Charge.
Notice is hereby given by the pub
lisher of this paper that he has pur
chased the qntire subscription list of
the late Frostburg Mining Journal,
and last week this paper, as the Jour
nal’s successor, was mailed not only
to all who had been receiving the
Mining Journal, but also to several
hundred new subscribers that have
been secured and added to the list
since the Journal suspended publica
tion.
The editor of The Spirit is . aware
that some of the persons whose names
appear on the old Mining Journal list
had been receiving that paper free of
charge, but does not know just who
the complimentary subscribers were.
This being the case, and feeling that
there is no good reason for any of
them to expect the Journal’s succes
sor to be sent to them free of charge
also, the publisher of this paper here
by gives notice that if former compli
mentary subscribers continue to lift
this publication from the postoffice or
receive it from the mail carriers, that
they will be expected to pay for it at
the regular subscription rates. The
Spirit will not be sent free to any per
son on account of profession or posi
tion, except to advertisers, to enable
them to keep track of their advertis
ing, and to a few relatives and other
friends to whom the editor feels un
der obligations or desires to make a
little present. This paper can also be
obtained free of charge by any worthy
person who may desire it and is too
poor to pay for it. All others are ex
pected to pay for it if they care to re
ceive it.
This is the principle that most news
papers are run on, these days, and
the complimentary nuisance, which in
past years has been greatly overdone,
is rapidly becoming a thing of the
past. Therefore, dear reader, if you
have heretofore been one of the com
plimentary subscribers referred to,
and are not now public-spirited enough
to become a paying subscriber ' this
paper, which has beeq ' -.ed at
great expense and rtow n,.eds all the
cash patronage it can get, and is ab
solutely unable to carry any dead
weight, the sooner you let .us know it
the better it will suit us.
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WHOLE NUMBER 2,170
Those who still owe money on Jour
nal subscription are kindly requested
to square their old accounts without
'needless delay. Quite a number who
could have squared up long ago, are
still making us wait, which is not
right, and not the way they would have
others deal with them. All who are
in arrears on their subscriptions to the
Journal have been notified several
times of the amounts they owe, with
request to notify the publisher of any
errors that might appear in the state
ments rendered. No notice of any er
rors having been received, it it taken
for granted that the statements ren
dered were all correct, and it is time
that the accounts be settled, as they
are all for small amounts, but in the
aggregate amount to quite a large
sum, which means a hardship to the
publisher so long as they are not paid.
Glencoe Hotel Man Takes Hand In
Piano Contest Here.
Geo. G. DeUozier, the genial and
popular propriator of Hotel Glencoe,
at Glencoe, Pa., was a business caller
at The Spirit office, last Saturday,
when he left an order for a Hotel
register. Mr. DeLozier is also a sub
scriber to this paper, being among
the first to hand the editor a cash sub
scription. He is a good hotel man
and a prince of good fellows. He
came over here on Saturday more par
ticularly to boost a relative of his,
Miss Nelson, of Uonaconing, who was
the lucky contestant for the fine piano
given away by the Jr. O. U. A. M.
Uniform Rank, at their picnic here
last Saturday. Mr. DeUozier spent
Saturday night with his Tonaconing
relatives, returning home from that
town on Sunday.
A Frostburger Sees Strange Bird.
A Frostburger who went to Pitts
burg, last week, to take in the sights
of that great city, writes to The Spirit
as follows:
“I am having a fine time here tak
ing in the many interesting things to
be seen in this great city. I visited
the Highland Park Zoo yesterday.
The birds interested me the most.
. There is a bird in the zoo called a
Pelican, whose mouth can hold more
than his belican; he can hold in his
; beak enough food for a week, but I
don’t see how in the helican.”