Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-03
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prosperous. ana commands the best average
attendance of any order in the town. This
is attributed to the very interesting and IN
structiye debates that take place between its
members, and the chancellor commander,
whose duty it is to preside over these de-
liberatons must he a good parimentarian
that he may be able to get out of the tight
position in which he is often placed by the
amendment TO the motion. and the amend
ment to the amendment, and the substitute
for the amendment, &c, &c. Despite the
financial pressure that is weighing so heavily
over this country at this time, they are adding
new members at every meeting. AT the last
session of the Grand Lodge of this State
resolution which was offered by Frostburg
City lodge, and which in substance is:
That all Knights who may be unfortunate
enough to be taken sick while away from
home shall have a nurse procured by the
nearest lodge to him, and that the bill for the
same shall be paid by the lodge to which
such sick member belongs
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
April 18th will be the Goth anniversary of
this lodge and already the ball has been
started to roll forwards to preparation for
grand celebration of the occasion.
OH Fe,oms-The |. o. o. f. is also very
prosperous Order.
Savage Mountain Lodge, No. lbs Frostburg
Lodge No. ~, and Hene Lodge, No. l27,
which is German organization, are all
financially and numerically prosperous.
They are doing an untold amount of good in
administering to the wants of those who by
reason of sickness or other inability are proper
subjects of their care and protection.
The Daughters of the Rebecca degree Of the
]. o. o. f. is making very rapid strides in
adding new members to this branch of the
order. Almost every meeting is characterized
by the admission of new members.
Among the many tiourishIng orders of
Frostburg may be mentioned the Royal
Arcanum the Knights of Honor, the Red
Men, an Assembly of the Knights Of Labor,
the American Legion of Honor st. Marys
Beneficial Society, the Ancient Order of
Hibernians. Daughters of Liberty and The
Ancient and Ilustrious Order of Knights of
Malta.
There are several other orders rep
resented here, among them the Knights
of the Golden Eagle, Ancient Order of
United Workmen and Free Masons.
These might haye been named instead
of ian Assembly of knights of Labor
which happily seems to own here
neither habitation nor a name.
Ia this connection the JOURNAL
copies the synopsis of States Attorney
David W. Sloan's very interesting re-
marks at the Washington Birthday
banquet here, as printed by the Cum
berland Netcs::
Mr.. Sloan during his remarks referred to
the appropriateness Of Masonic celebration
on the 22nd of February by a Frostburg
lodge, because that town alone, in all Western
Maryland retained a memorial of the famous
expedition which, to Washington, was the
primary school where he learned the rudi-
mentary elements of the art of warfare
in which he subsequently became SO pro-
ticient, and to which we are in great part
indebted for the independence and greatness
of our beloved nation.
While elsewhere, in the language of
political convention, we point with pride
to places where Washington lived and moved
in this region, we also "vew with alarm the
ravages time has made on the evidences of
his presence, but it remains for Frostburg to
preserve Il memorial which for nearly
century and a half has told the distance to
Cumberland or to Capt. Smiths Inn, and the
nearest way to Redstone's Old Fort.
Even that memorial had its danger. The
ruthless hand of the practical mason nearly
DESTROYED it. 1t may have been that its value
as link of the past compared with its use
fulness as a part of the foundation of Frost
burg's court house did not enter the mind of
him who sought its DETACHMENT, but it yet be-
came the pleasure of a master mason to re-
store it as far as possible, and its preservation
is due to the great paper as an individual'
who bound it with iron and remounted it. we
hope for all time.
1t should be stated also to The credit
of another Master Mason, Bernard
Stern, that, as IA County Commits
sioner he secured the consent of his
colleagues for the county to take charge
of the stone, restore it nearly as possible
to its unbroken condition, replace it
permanently and erect neat super
structure around and over it. The
expenditure caused some un-Masonic
comment at the time by people who
hold the Almighty Dollar above all the
memories of men and events which
have made the Almighty Dollar what
it is. But the store is now under the
county's protection and Masonic vener-
alton for it will always be polite of
enough force to insure ITS continued
preservation under that aeyis.
Personal.
Last Sundays Cumberland ,Scimitor
contained brief sketches aud good pic
lures of Rev. $. j. Clarke, DAVIDSON
Armstrong and John n. Benson.
George p. Tenant is in Baltimore
attending the annual American Lee
gion of Honor conclave, representing
Frostburg Lodge, No. go
Mrs. J. Creutzburg, Mrs. DR.. Bouch
err and Misses Wilson, Maggie Stewart,
Carrie Creutzburg, Agnes Stewart aud
Matte Cole, of Barton, attended the
"Story of the Reformation" Tuesday