Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-31
Irving to Find the Great Papcr.

The first session of the Frostburg
Ledger incorporators was held Tuesday
On motion to ask the JOURNAL for
one of its celebrated blotters the house
divided and tie was discovered.
The G. NJ w. cast The decisive vote
and the blotter WAS sent for.
The result is quite II triumph for The
Journal. IL, it settles the question to
the great papers satisfaction that
there is really another paper in this
locality''-that is paper other than
the Le7ger.
1t is probable, from all we can
gather, that the debate turned on that
issue. Some acrimony was INDUCED
and the dispute threatened intermlu
able length, when the G. M. w. APP
piled cloture ii rule which exists in
full force in so-called labor assemblies,
and stopped the badge.
Was the blotter sent9
OF course--three of them, or for as
many incorporatorS us the JOURNAL
absolutely knows can write. The
beautiful specimens of JOURNAL job
printing skill were tastefully wrapped
in the folds of copy of last weeks
issue of the great paper and trans
mitted by the company's own express
messenger to incorporation head
quarters, thus affording the skeptical
capitalists of the defunct bureau Of
the Cumberland Workman irrefutable
proof that the Ledger is not alone in its
glory.
The JOURNAL is glad it thus pur.
sued liberal policy toward the pub
fishing company-glad, because it
removes from the domain of affectation
an idea, negatively prominent in the
Ledger since its establishment, that the
JOURNAL has not been and is not here.
Had things gone on as before the
canyas back paper might have thought
it could forever keep in hiding its
knowledge of the JOURNAL as a living,
moving leader, not follower of public
opinion. The great paper repeats
that it is glad the long night of Ledger
stimulation of newspaper hermitage Is
over, or ought to be, for if any fact IN
journalistic physics is established it is
that the JOURNAL is sin this locality.'
The dispute, whatever it is or was is
adiudicated and adjudicated correctly
and conclusively for the G. M. w. has
testimony that cannot be impeached.
To conclude this commentary, the JOUR
NAL is obliged to say again that 1t Is
Glad it is at last determined that it is
here Otherwise, the history of the
Ledge,'s feigned exclusiyeness mi ght
have gone on to refute that immortal
saying of the great Lincoln-''nothing
is settled that is not settled right"
In further conclusion, the JOURNAL
offers the following voucher as i'll
some sort accounting for aud inter
preting the foregoing remarks:
OFFICE OF THE
FRosTBURG Ledger COMPANY,
FRosTBuRG, MD, Jan. 81, 1891. J
Mr.. ]. B. ODER,
Dear Sir--You will please let bearer have one
of your so-caled advertising blotters for us, as
we are short of such material at this, oul
first session. Besides, we are anxious to
learn if there is really another paper in this
locality. JOHN CHAMBERS,
g. M. w. of the Co.
p. s. -Should anyone fear, as is
sometimes the case, that the JOURNAL
has given the &c. M. W. of the Co.
too much attention this week, its
apology must be found in the fact that
it wants him to succeed in his search
for ''another paper in this locality
That is all.
"No it isn't, either AS q matter
of fact, the master workman found
the JOURNAL here when, as Frencl
gentleman from Kerry, he left the
Italian skies of Washington county tc
make his home in these sunset noun
tains. That particular act Of migra
ton, it is true, wiped out a great dea,
of Frostburg history and came very
near furnishing a new starting-poin1
for our calendar, but it did not affect
the JOURNAL. The great paper has
been here all the time-pieading foi
the people when the grand master
(since we have had one) is at home
and protecting them when he is away