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FORTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 42
Spirit Liters
Wanted, For S?le, For Rent,
Lost, Found, and Miscel
laneous Notices.
RATES —Five cents per line for
each insertion. No advertisement
accepted for less than 25 cents.
WANTED.
Two good girls for hotel work.
Good wages. Write, to W. H. Farns
worth, .Tenners, Pa. 11-13tf.
FOR SAGE.
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 SAGE.
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 SAGE.
A fine new Stevens Ideal Rifle,
center-fire, 25-20 caliber. Can be
bought at a bargain. Inquire at The
Spirit office. tf. '
WANTED.
Your orders for Engraved Cards,
Wedding Stationery, Birth Announce
ments, Private Stationery, in fact
everything in the line of engraved
work. Call at The Spirit office and
see the finest line of engraved samples
ever shown in Allegany county, tf.
WANTED.
Want Advertisements for this col
umn, They bring you business and
supply your wants. tf.
WANTED.
Your orders for all kinds of Plain
and Fancy Printing. No order too
large and none too small. Send your
orders to The Spirit office. tf.
WANTED.
Your orders for Steel and Copper
Die Printing. Finest line of samples
to select from ever shown in Allegany
county, at The Spirit office. tf.
WANTED.
Your orders for Githographing,
Special Ruling, Embossing, Book
Binding, Steel and Copper Die Stamp-'
ing, Gummed Gabel Printing, etc.
Geave your orders at The Spirit office,
or ask for estimates. What we can’t
manufacture in this line we can
secure for you at as low a price as
you can get by ordering direct from
larger concerns. tf.
$ AS THE SPIRIT MOVETH }
GHOSTS AND GOATS.
Among the exact sciences it might
be well to classify the knack of read
ing intelligently and accurately the
“bargain” listings that we see these
days in the catlogues of mail order
houses and in the' advertisements of
certain big city department and chain
stores. It looks simple enough to
pick out a sure-enough bargain, but
by the time we have read the “ad,”
visited the store (or received a re
sponse to our mail order), and finally
put the goods away in the old bureau
drawer, we are apt to think deeply of
the adventure of Joe Dupree, the
French-Canadian who was impelled
by curiosity one night to drop in at a
meeting of a society of Spiritists.
At first Joe was inclined to be bor
ed. He had never heard any mys
terious night rappings and, in his ex
citable Gallic way, was anxious not
to. But at a certain point in the pro
ceedings he suddenly betrayed the
• liveliest interest in the chairman’s re
-marks.
“At the conclusion of the meeting,”
that functionary was saying in none
to clear a voice, “I shall be glad to
hear the report of any member of the
society who has been interrupted in
his slumbers by the ghost of any of
his family or neighbors.”
And from the back of the hall Joe
clamored to be heard.
“Am I to understand,” asked the
chairman, “that you have lately been
visited by a ghost?”
“A what?” queried Joe.
“A ghost—a spirit.”
“O!” exclaimed Joe, much abashed.
“I t’ink you say a goat.”
In much the same manner we “lose
our goat” to the versatile big-city ad
vertising man who informs us that
his store is selling bathrobes “at $1.35
instead of $5.35.” Who would have
the courage to resist an appeal of this
nature? And, while the salesman is
wrapping up the garment of luxury,
we ask him how long ago it was on
sale at $5.35. And (sometimes) with
commendable frankness the knight of
the counter explains that the robes
never- have actually sold at $5.35, but
that in the opinion of the department
buyer, they are well worth that figure.
The fact that this particular brand of
bath robe has never before command
ed a greater price than $1.25 or so
should not lead us to suppose that it
is not worth more, should it?
Of course it is simpler for the ad
vertising man to state that the robe is
selling “for $1.35 instead of $5.35”
than to go through the formality of
pointing out that the regular price of
$1.25 is altogether too low in his es
timation or to info'rm the public that
the store is offering the robe “f0r51.35
rather than accept a peck of peanuts
in exchange for it.”
And when the same “clever” ad
vertising man, with the same com-
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT
mendable obscurity of verbiage, in
forms us that we may procure- at his
store the famous “A. B. C. style”
shirt for $1.12, we can hardly be ex
pected to reason out in advance that
he has in mind the less famous “X.
Y. Z.” shirt, which in a general way
is constructed on the “style” of the
“A. B. C.” $2.00 shirt (in that it has a
tail and. a collar and buttons up the
front rather than sidewise), but which,
through a freak of the market, has
never in the world sold for more than
a dollar flat.
Universities are outdoing one an
other these days, introducing new
courses and hitherto undreamed of
departments of learning. Why, then,
not a course for the “minute study
and microscopic dissection of the
catalog and-big-city- department-store
advertisement?” Perhaps such a
venture would save many a Joe Du
pree of a coming generation the “los
ing of his goat.”
KEENAN’S CASE.
Interesting Letter of James Keenan
Who Bears Testimoney that
the Darkest Hour is Often
the One Before a Brighter
Dawn.
James Keenan, Superintendent of
the Maryland Coal Company of Penn
sylvania, at St. Michael, Pa., has The
Spirit’s thanks for a letter of sym
pathy that is so inspiring and inter
esting that we take the liberty of giv
ing a portion of it to our readers, in
the hope that it may do as much good
to at least a few other people as it has
done to the editor, whose soul has
been tried during the last few weeks
as it was never tried before. Mr.
Keenan’s letter has inspired fresh
hope and fresh courage, and follow
ing are a few extracts from it:
St. Michaee, Pa., Nov. 13, 1913.
Mr. P. G. Givengood,
Frostburg, Md.
My Dear Mr. Givengood:—i have
learned through your son-in-law, Mr.
J. B. Algire, that you are now pass
ing through an experience that the
heads of all families are called upon,
at some time in their lives, to under
go.
"The writer, with his good wife, was
scorched by the same “fire” that is
now trying your mettle. All the man
hood that we know you ’possess mu S',
be used in supporting the weaker half
of the family head. You must look
even death in the face.
One of our dear little curly-haired
boys, at the age of four years, was
stricken with scarlet fever. At that
time I was laid up with rheumatism,
thought I was going to die, and was
bitterly bemoaning my fate. Our boy
died. My wife had to be both father
and mother to the remaining stricken
ones, two of whom were expected to
go at any moment. I was on my back
and was sure I could not get out of
bed. There was no one to help us, as
we were under gunshot quarantine.
One night I called my wife to get me
a glass of water. She did not re
spond. I called again, and much
louder. I thought it very unfair of
her to allow me to suffer for
want of a drink of water, and made
up my mind to show her that I could
get a drink for myself. By a super
human effort I crawled out of bed and
started for the kitchen, when to my
surprise and horror I found my dear
wife huddled up in a heap on the
floor. No effort of mine could bring
her to. A doctor must be had, but
who would go for him? I went to the
door, called for the guard who should
have been on duty, but could not get
him. The next thing I remember I
was pounding on the doctor’s door,
over one mile ‘from my home, and dis
covered that I was in my bare feet
and night gown. I felt cold and look
ed at the thermometer on the doctor’s
door, and discovered that it register
ed one degree below zero. Where
was the rheumatism? All gone, and
it has never been able to get me on
my back since. For the next three
weeks I did the work of a dozen per
sons, and when at last my wife and
children were restored to health, I
discovered, to my great surprise, that
I had gained six pounds and had
neither pain nor ache.
Since then physicians have told me
that what I did is possible for anyone
to do—that what ailed me more than
anything else was lack of exercise.
Gike yourself, my boyhood days had
been spent at hard labor. At the time
of which I write, six years had been
spent showing the other fellow how to
do it, and the change from brawn to
brain as a means of earning a liveli
hood, was alone responsible for my
condition.
I sincerely hope your child may be
spared to you, but should this not be
the case, remember you must bear the
greater part of the burden and breast
the storm with your family behind
you. Stare-fate in the face no matter
what comes.
Your Friend,
James Keenan.
You can’t send an absent friend a
more desirable present than a copy of
the handsomely illustrated Frost
burg Souvenir Book for sale at The
Spirit office, unless you make the
friend a present of a year’s subscrip
tion to The Spirit. Both are worth
several times their cost. tf.
FROSTBURG, MD., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1913
ADDING INJURY
TO MISFORTUNE.
A Warning to Liars Who Lie to
Injure Others—Groundless
Rumors Circulated for
Malicious Purposes.
CERTAIN MALICIOUS AND LYING REPORTS
BEING TRACED TO THEIR AUTHORS WHO
ARE LIABLE TO GET INTO #
SERIOUS TROUBLE.
If ever a man went from one town
to another to embark in business in a
clean, honorable way, without having
a string to him from any person or
persons with an ax to grind, or with
out being under any obligations to
any man, clique or clan for anything,
that man is P. G. Givengood, the
editor of this paper.
If any man was more unjustly dealt
with by a few degenerate skunks in
human form, or who was handicapped
more by misfortune of various sorts,
including great mental and physical
suffering to himself and sickness in
his family, than the same P. G. Giv
engood, we have not heard of the
case.
Many of our readers know of some
of the great obstacles we have had to
contend with, and many of them have
been coming to the rescue in numer
ous ways, showing themselves to be
people who not only believe in being
helpful to a fellow man who has been
suffering many misfortunes and sun
dry wrongs, but also showing that
they believe in fair play and justice
to a man who comes here, invests his
hard-earned money and tries to suc
ceed in an honorable business where
numerous others have failed.
Frostburg has. as many good and
kind-hearted people to the square rod
as any other town in America, but we
regret to say that it also has a few
yellow-spleened biped coyotes that are
so foul in principle that they stink
worse than rotten mackerel by moon
light—slimy, malicious hajf-human
vipers that lie in wait to sock a dead
ly fang into all honest effort at suc
cess of those whom they should try
to help rather than hinder.
It matters not to the half-human
snake in the grass, the assassin of all
honest effort we have been putting
forth to succeed, that we have been
hard up against it on account of ill
health, etc., since coming here. All
such things only add to the glee of
such vipers, and now, to add injury
to misfortune, and to do us the great
est harm possible, they are circulat
ing the story that The Frostburg
Spirit is about to fail.
Now, as all intelligent f people are
aware of, such stories are very det
rimental to any business man or firm
they are circulated against. It is al
so unlawful to circulate such damag
ing reports when there is absolutely
no ground for them. Just such re
ports as that have caused many a
business failure to institutions that
were on the soundest kind of a basis.
Therefore, those who invent or cir
culate such stories are doing so at
their own risk, and no man can af
ford to take a risk that is punishable
by a heavy penalty. Even if the law
provided no penalty for the punish
ment of malicious liars, it would be
poor policy and much poorer principle
to circulate stories intended to injure
a fellow man or his business. Chick
ens usually comehotne to roost, and
the fellow who goes about digging
holes for others to fall in, usually
falls into them himself.
In order to let our readers and the
public know how groundless the story
is that we are about to fail, we cite
them to the following facts:
We do not owe a cent on our news
paper plant.
We do not owe a bill that is due to
any wholesale house, and we have so
far discounted all our bills that were
large enough to make the discount for
cash worth taking advantage of.
We have been paying our employes
their wages, all along, promptly when
due, and have paid a good rate of
wages from the start.
Weffiave been paying cash all along
for family supplies, and have no ac
counts with any of the business peo
ple in Frostburg or elsewhere, except
about three places in town where firms
have a few small items charged
against us, while we have a few small
charges against them for printing.
Candidly, we don’t owe the tailor,
the grocer, the butcher, the baker nor
the candlestick-maker so much as a
penny, neither in Frostburg nor any
where else. Furthermore, we have
never asked a soul in Frostburg for
the loan of a dollar. We wonder if
the malicious curs who have invented
and circulated the failure story can
truthfully say as much for themselves.
We doubt it.
Now, in the face of these facts, and
they are facts that can be readily veri
fied, we fail to see that a business
failure is staring us in the face. If
you don’t believe our statements, go
around among the business men of
Frostburg, Salisbury, Meyersdale and
Windber, where we have bought
many, many dollars’ worth of mer
chandise during the last quarter of a
century, and find out if they will veri
fy our statement as to our dealings or
not. Call at our office and let us
show you the bills we have been cash
ing off before due in order to get the
discount for cash.
If you are not then satisfied that we
are not involved in debt, write to the
Dun and Bradstreet mercantile agen
cies and see what kind of a statement
they give you as to our financial
ability, willingness and promptness
in meeting our honest obligations.
Then if you are still not satisfied that
we are not in the jaws of failure,
liable to be gulped down any moment,
write to any of the - following named
wholesale paper and type firms: The
Ailing and Cory Company, The Chat
field & Woods Company and The
American Type Founders Company
of Pittsburg, Pa.; The Johnston
Paper Company and the Donaldson
Paper Company of Harrisburg, Pa.;
The J. W. Butler Paper Company, of
Chicago, 111.; Antietam Paper Com
pany, of Hagerstown, Md.; The R. P.
Andrews Paper Company, of Wash
ington, D. C.; the Western Newspaper
Union, of Pittsburg* and Baltimore.
We can give you many other refer
ences if you want them, but we think
we have given you a sufficiency. Write
to any of the people or firms we refer
you to, and if thre is a single, one of
them that will not take pleasure in
telling you that Pete Givengood’s
credit is gilt-edged, and that they
have always known his word to be as
good as any man’s bond in a business
transaction, then we will admit that
we are going to fail.
Moreover, we have a little money in
two Frostburg banks. Not much, of
course, but a little, and we also have
several hundred dollars on our books
that constitutes an asset as good as
old wheat in the mill. The Citizens’
National Bank and The First Nation
al Bank of Frostburg will testify that
none of our checks have ever gone to
protest, and also that we have never
overdrawn our accounts. And any
other bank that we have ever done
business with will testify to the same
thing, and among them are such fi
nancial institutions as The First Na
tional Bank of Salisbury, Pa., First
National Bank of Grantsville, Md.,
Citizens National Bank of Meyers
dale, Pa., First National Bank of
Johnstown, Pa., Windber Trust Com
pany, of Windber, Pa., the Gynu
Haven State Bank at Gynn Haven,
Fla., and the Exchange Bank of
Carleton, Neb.
But we are going to fail, right
away, quick, if not sooner, for 10, a
few yellow-livered liars here in Frost
burg are passing the word around.
We are also passing something around,
but they don’t know what. We are
passing something around that is li
able to get the lying lobsters into a
very tight place if they do not at once
let up on their malicious persecution
and knocking. If they do not want
such a showing up and bawling out
before the public that will “freeze
their blood, cause their eyes to start
from their sockets and their locks to
stand on end like the quills of the
fretful porcupine,” they should take
heed and govern themselves accord
ingly, at once. We are tracing this
malicious rumor of our alleged im
pending failure dangerously near to
its source, and if we decide to go after
the duncelike donkeys who have start
ed and put the rumor afloat, we will
print their pedigrees and their prin
ciples in their true colors, and all
colors, tints and shades will be re
quired to do the job justice, except
white. We will give them something
that will make them feel like a cellu
loid cat being chased straight into
hades by an asbestos dog. Yea, we’ll
make them feel like guilty souls chas
ed by the goblins of gehenna over
burning hills of damnation.
Yes, friends, we’re getting our
Dutch up, and we have a cause to.
But we deny th?.t we’re going to fail.
We don’t know how to fail; we have
never learned how that trick is done,
and we feel on this occasion like ut
tering the unprintable word that was
uttered by the brave French soldier
who was asked to surrender on the
battlefield of Waterloo.
We’ll admit, however, that we have
thus far failed to give Frostburg what
we call a good newspaper. But that
has been due to circumstances over
which we had no control, such as
sickness, insufficient help, etc. We
need more printers, but so far have
been unable to get them, though try
ing hard to do so for some time. To
make matters worse, one of our old
employes quit his job last Saturday,
and the resignation of another one
has been handed to us to go into ef
fect Dec. Bth. Whether false rumors
have had anything to do with their
resignation, we cannot say. We have
had no row or ruction whatever with
the employes who have tendered their
resignation, but they seem to think
that they can do better by embarking
in business for themselves, in Cum
berland, and of course we blame no
man for doing what he thinks is best
for him. Our relations have been
friendly all along, and when they
leave Frostburg, we shall wish them
all the success merited by honest ef
fort and fair means to achieve
success.
We hope to get other help soon, but
if we cannot get it by the time
the second employe quits, it will be
hard for us to get out a paper of any
kind. However, we ask our patrons
to bear with us and bring in their
work in plenty of time, and if we
can’t do it, we will have it done else
where for them until we can get the
help we need. We will also get out a
paper of some kind, under any and
all circumstances, even if it is not
bigger than a card. But the
needed help will be procured sooner
or later, and when we once get things
in proper shape to give Frostburg a
good paper, we will add a few months
gratis to each subscriber’s account to
make up for past deficiencies.
We have a fine plant and any quan
tity of type and other material, and all
good, up-to-date material, too. All
we need is the necessary help to
operate the plant and a suitable place
to operate it in. The latter is in sight
and can be had ere long, when we
will once more move to another build
ing. We also hope to secure suffi
cient help ere long, and if any of our
readers know of a good printer out of
a job or seeking a change, we trust
they will apprise us of the fact. We
will pay all that any printer can de
monstrate that he is worth to us, but
do not want boozers or cigarette
fiends at any price. We are deter
mined to build up a strong" newspaper
in Frostburg or die in the attempt,
and we ask all public-spirited people
to give us their support and co-opera
tion, and right now is when we need
it the most. We are doing all that
any one could do under the circum
stances. '
The New Western Maryland Train
Schedule.
Business men and residents of Con
nellsville, Meyersdale, Frostburg and
other points on the new Connellsville
extension of the Western Maryland
Railway Company, have been accord
ed additional passenger train service
under the new fall schedule of the
company which went into effect on
Supday, November 16th. Under the
new schedule, a train is operated
daily, except Sunday, between Cum
berland and Connellsville, thus giving
the people at these and intermediate
points, three trains daily. This new
local train is due at Frostburg, going
west, at 8:10 A. M., and going east at
5:23 P. M.
In providing this new service, the
officials of the Western Maryland are
endeavoring to provide for the in
creased passenger business in this
territory, and to give the best possible
train service facilities to the people
along the new extension. The new
service places these points in closer
relationship with each other, thus
opening up new opportunities for in
creased business which will result in
greater prosperity for the people of
this section.
For months the traffic officials of
the Western Maryland have been
studying closely conditions along the
new Connellsville extension of the
Western Maryland, and the addition
al train under the fall schedule is the
result of the efforts of the manage
ment of the railway company to give
passenger train service which will be
entirely satisfactory to all.
. The new train will leave Cumber
land at 7:45 A. M., arriving in Con
nellsville at 10:45 A. M*. Returning,
it leaves Connellsville at 2:45 P. M.,
arriving in Cumberland at 6 P. M.
Baltimore is drawp closer to Chicago
as a result of the faster through West
ern train service established. The
Chicago Limited, which runs between
the Monumental City, Pittsburg and
the West, is operated on a faster
schedule, thus making the run be
tween the East and West in less than
23 hours. Instead of leaving Balti
more at 9:25 A. M., as heretofore, this
train will depart from Hillen Station
at 10 A. M., and Union Station at 10:06
A. M.
The railway company has also es
tablished an additional through train
service between Cumberland and Bal
timore, and also between Chambers
burg, Waynesboro, Emitsburg and
Baltimore. The train from the last
named points also provides a new con
nection for the West. Another ad
ditional train is also operated on the
Durbin branch, between Durbin and
Elkins, W. Va.
• -V •
\ LOCAL AND GENERAL J
Miss Eva Thomas, of Green street,
is suffering with a case of blood
poisoning.
Miss Flora McElfish, who had been
suffering with la grippe, is able to be
out again.
Philip Downton, of Wood street,
recently recovered from an attack of
Diphtheria.
Miss Carolina Duggan, of Rich
mond, Va., is this week the guest of
Miss Edna Brown, of East Main
street.
Martin J. Brown, a former resident
of Frostburg, but now residing at
Huntingdon, Pa., is registered at
Hotel Gladstone this week.
That new electric sign of A. Chas.
Stewart’s is a beauty. Dike Mr.
Stewart’s fine stock of clothing and
men’s furnishings, it is just naturally
all right.
Mr. arid Mrs. Thomas Brady, of
Center street, are being visited by
their son Daniel, of Simpson, W. Va.,
who arrived here recently to remain
several weeks.
It seems to be the ambition of the
average Frostburg “kidl'et” to imitate
the voice of the average automobile,
and many of them are artists in that
line of disagreeable mimicry.
Joseph Cook has accepted a position
with the Juniata Dumber Co., of Mid
lothian. Mr. Cook formerly was
bookkeeper for J. Johnson & Son, at
their Bowery street planing mill.
Among the out-of-town people who
attended the funeral of Mrs Jos. C.
Dennison, Sunday afternoon, were
Mrs. Chas. Pugh and Mrs. .James
Grubb, of Rowlesburg, W. Va., and
Sidney A. Wildman, of Greensburg,
Pa.
Editor W. S. Uivengood, of The
Meyersdale Republican, W. A. Shoe
maker, one of his employes, and Mil
ton Gnagey, book-keeper for the Sav
age Fire Brick Company at Meyers
dale, were visitors in Frostburg last
Sunday.
Evan Uloyd and “Buck” Martin
went to the mountain wilds near Bay
ard, W. Va., last Sunday, where they
are putting in a week at hunting.
Two such -mighty' nimfc.'ds as they are
will doubtless cause a great shortage
of game in the Mountain State after
their week’s slaughter is ended.
Quite a number of The Spirit’s pa
trons paid their subscriptions during
the past week, for which the editor
feels deeply grateful. Whenja man
is handicapped with sickness, short
age of help and annoyances that al
most drive him daft and out of busi
ness, the cash support of his patrons
is doubly appreciated.
Mrs. John Wagus and son Raymond
recently went to Homestead and New
castle, Pa., to visit relatives. The
son, who lost a leg more than a year
ago while attempting to get aboard a
moving train at the Frostburg station
of the Western Maryland Railway,
expects to purchase an artificial leg
before he returns home.
“Squire” Daniel Dorsey, of Grants
ville, was in Frostburg yesterday with
a load of potatoes. Daniel never
looked more Irish in his life than
when he was perched high on his
wagon-seat with that load of “perta
ties,” nor more independent than
when he left town with almost a
wagonload of money in exchange for
the tubers.
Jesse Miller, of near Pocahontas,
Pa., was doing some marketing in
Frostburg on Tuesday, as were also
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murray who
reside in the same neighborhood. Mr.
Miller is a great good-roads enthusi
ast, and he says there is much mpre
inducement to come to Frostburg to
trade since the old National Pike has
been reconstructed west of town.
The Hoosier kitchen cabinet demon
stration which is going on at Jacob
Hafer’s furniture store, this week,
under the direction of H. S. Cramer,
of Newcastle, Ind., is proving a great
success, and is causing quite a stir
among the good housewives of Frost
burg, many of whom are availing
themselves of the advantages to be
derived by joining the Hoosier Cabi
net Club.
Clarence Dahl, an employe of The
Meyersdale Republican, came to
Frostburg on Tuesday afternoon to
render emergency assistance in get
ting out The Spirit. When a fellow
is ghort of help he appreciates assist
ance from any source he can get it,
even though a man in a shop he is not
acquainted with is at a great disad
vantage in helping along. Neverthe
less, Mr. Dahl’s work has helped us
greatly.
The Hitchins store was surely a
great hive of industry last Saturday
evening, and the great army of oblig
ing clerks in that establishment was
kept on the jump to wait on the great
army of customers. All the other
stores were busy, too, and. those who
advertise in The Spirit especially so.
The Frostburg banks, too, had a very
busy time of it receiving deposits, for
Saturday was pay day at the mines,
and the Consolidation Coal Co. alone
paid out over $85,000.
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WHOLE NUMBER 2,179
A POPULAR COUPLE.
Capt. James Little and Wife Visit
Frostburg.
Captain and Mrs. James Uittle, of
Portsmouth, Ohio, arrived in Frost
burg last Saturday, where they were
greeted by many of their old-time
friends, who hold them in high es
teem. Capt. and Mrs. Uittle had been
in Cumberland before coming here,
where they were called on a sad-mis
sion, occasioned by the death and
burial of the wife of the late Captain
Andrew Spear. The deceased was a
sister of Mrs. Uittle, and after attend
ing the funeral of the beloved sister,
Captain and Mrs. Uittle decided not
to return home without spending a
brief visit with friends here.
Capt. Uittle lived in this region
many years ago, and he and his es
timable wife are well and favorably
known to many people from Frost
burg to Piedmont. They have for
some time been living at Portsmouth,
Ohio, but the captain has extensive
coal mining interests in West Virginia,
and he knows all about coal from a to
z. While here he made special in
quiry about the editor of this paper,
whom he had never before met, and
he was promptly brought face to face
with the editor and introduced by a
friend. Then a long and, pleasant
conversation followed, and it was in
deed a pleasure to the editor to con
verse with so fine a gentleman of the
“old school.”
Capt. Uittle is a rugged Scotchman
with a delightful brogue, full of ready
wit and just blunt enough in his re
marks to convince one of his honesty
and sincerity. He was one of the
first dozen men to send a check for a
year’s subscription to The Spirit, and
he expressed himself well pleased
with the,paper, even though realizing
the many shortcomings of the sheet
that are due to handicaps that would
keep most men from getting out a
paper of any kind. “In spite of all
you can say,” said the captain, “your
paper has the right ring to it and is
worth the price. It is bound to be a
big success in time, and I liked it
from the very start. That’s why I
sent you a check for $1.50 instead of
$1.25 to pay for a year in advance.”
Capt. Uittle further stated that ac
cording to the best of his knowledge
and belief he was the first man to
subscribe for The Spirit’s predeces
sor, the Frostburg Mining Journal,
saying he met the veteran editor and
founder of that paper on board a
train at the time he was en route to
Frostburg to launch his paper, and
told him to enroll him as a subscriber.
That was in 1871, and he took the
Mining Journal from its birth until it
went out of business, which proves
that a good .Scotchman is a good
stayer.
It Is Bad Business for a local bus
inessman not to have his advertise
ment in this paper. . tf.
To Increase Efficiency of Firemen
on Western Maryland Railway.
Greater efficiency in locomotive fir
ing on all lines of the Western Mary
land Railway Company is expected to
result from the appointment of C. R.
Fritz as traveling fireman of the East
ern and Middle divisions of the rbad.
This is a new position just created,
and Mr. Fritz was selected for the
post by Mr. H. R. Warnock, the super
intendent of motive power of the
Western Maryland. The new ap
pointee will establish headquarters in
Hagerstown.
The duties of Mr. Fritz will be to
travel over the Eastern and Middle
divisions and to devote special atten
tion to instructing new firemen in the
matter of firing engines. It is believ
ed that, in this way, operating ef
ficiency can be greatly increased by
making firemen more proficient in
their work.
Railroads, the country over, are
paying more attention than ever be
fore to engine firing, not only as a
means of increasing effiency in opera
tions, but also as a matter of economy.
There is as much of an art in firing
an engine as there is in running one,
and if greater skill is used in this par
ticular work, a great saving will re
sult in the fuel bills of the carriers.
Mr. Fritz will enter upon new
duties immediately.
Messrs. George Tulles and C. A.
Cozins have been appointed assist
ants to George H. Sheets, trainmaster
of the Western Maryland Railway
Company at Hagerstown. Both ap
pointees were engineers.
Frostburg Souvenir Books.
Sixty-two pages; beautifully em
bossed flexible cover; 172 fine illus
trations of people, buildings, street
scenes and local scenery printed ar
tistically on high-lustre coated paper;
a complete historical and biographic
al sketch of Frostburg and Frost
burgers; also contains the names and
addresses of about 2,500 former re
sidents and old-home week visitors;
a valuable work to preserve for fu
ture reference; gives a better idea of
Frostburg than a billion postcards
could give. These books would be
cheap at 50 cents each, but can be
had at The Spirit office for only 15
cents; sent postpaid to any address
for 21 cents. tf.