Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27

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Frostburg, Md. February %, 1907
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Improvements.
A new floor and other repairs of the
basement of the German Lutheran
church have kept the Sunday school
out of its usual quarters for several
weeks. All will be ready by Sunday,
March 6, it is believed.
Caution.
Someone knowing that the family of
Randolph Inks, in Grahamton, is in a
destitute condition, has been imposing
upon the public by soliciting and OBJ
tanning aid which the family has never
received.
This fact was learned the other day
by Mrs. B. S. Randolph and Mrs.
George Wehner. who called to have
the JOURNAL caution the people against
yielding to specious appeals without
knowing their donations will reach the
proper destination.
To this the JOURNAL adds the sug-
gestion that there is no better way of
getting relief to deserving poor than
through the hands of the ladies
named.
Dead in a Gage.
About 8 o'clock Thursday evening
policeman Fisher found Weyman Dor
sey, colored, lying insensible upon the
pavement in front of James Rankin's
place, Main street. After considerable
shaking he was aroused, taken to the
lookup and placed in one of the cages.
About 3 o'clock yesterday morning
he was discovered prone upon the
floor of the cage-dead.
Justice Smeltz empaneled a jury. a
number of witnesses were heard, in
Guiding several doctors, and verdict
reached, in substance as follows:
Weyman Dorsey came to his death from a
clot Of blood ON his brain, caused by bruise
back of his left ear; cause of said brllise be-
ing unknown to the jury.
c. II. WALkER,
Foreman.
Dorsey got into some trouble at
Rankin's and was put out about 5
minutes before he was found.
Dorsey was about % years old.
A Giant in Town.
No man has been in Frostburg for a
long time who has attracted so much
attention as Col A. A. Powell. repre-
senting Jergens & Co., of Cincinnati.
Everywhere his towering physique
drew the respectful notice of men and
the admiring gaze of women. He is
feet 81 inches in his stockings, and
when on the street the distance from
the pavement to the top of his hat is
feet 81 inches. He ''tips the BEAM at
272 pounds, indicating a physique in
excellent proportion to his height.
He is a handsome man of 36 years,
we'll dressed, self-possessed and in no
way abashed by the universal attention
accorded his pre-emlnence. Free
Masons, Knights of Pythias and Sound
Money democrats will be interested in
learning that he is member of those
organizations of high standing in
two-fold sense. In both orders two
lodges combined and two double joint
ed goats were required for the third
degree, and then only half of him could
be initiated in one evening. He can
not travel incog., nor sleep in less than
two beds. More can be said of this re-
markable man, but as be has promised
to return and call on the JOURNAL,
further report is reserved.
Brevities.
The JOURNAL is indebted to the
George E. Pearce drug company for
match-holder which is not only useful,
but ornamental, and a permanent ad-
vertisement of an enterprising, de-
serving firm.
While "Julia' is after the JOURNAL
for want of eallantry to the ladies,
"School Marin" is roasting j. Joker
Robinson for being "a pork-headed,
degenerate son of Adam" Both are
wrong; at least it is certain that a
''school marin" ought to know that IN
the philosophy of heredity nothing
with a "pork head' could descend
from the dear old father of all ladies.
Another new paper is in course of
incubation-to be started just as soon
as enough evidences multiply to satisfy
the man who is hunting them that it
is a long-felt want.
Towles, the artist, has adorned one
of the lobby walls of Hotel Gladstone
with a huge collection OF his fl ne photo
graphs. The frame is "a by 81 inches.
1t is beauty.
Papers and papers may be started
here, but there will never be another
that will give the town the prestige the