Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
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The JOURNAL had the promise of an
answer to the question-"what is the
matter with the Frostburg Baseball
Club 9'-but up to the last moment of
grace it had not materialized.
Berlin, Pa, with strong battery,
will play Frostburg, with ID herculean
direct, enfilading and richochet ar
tillery duo, at the Driving Park Mon
day afternoon. 1t will be one of the
games of the season.
Preliminary, however, to the Berlin
tout sort of sparring game will be
held with the Homecoming club-at 10
o'clock a. m. The Frostburgers seem
to need some such practice as this to
get its blood warm.
Religious.
The holiness meeting at the M. d..
Church, South, this Saturday even
ing will take the form of Il love feast,
after which the first quarterly con
ference will be held. There will be
no services to- morrow Sunday morn
ing, owing to the all-day meeting at
Johnson's. AT 1870 p. IN. there will
be preaching by Rev. G. H. thinner
man, presiding elder, after which
communion will be administered.
Rev George Scholl, d. D., of Balti-
more, General Secretary of the Board
of Foreign Missions of the General
Evangelical Lutheran church in the
Synod branch of the United States,
will occupy the pulpit of st. Paul's
English Lutheran church Tomorrow
Sunday morning and evening. DR..
Scholl is we'll known as a forcible, in
structive and entertaining preacher.
Brevities
Strange how things will !urn around.
In Cleveland, Ohio, the City Min
isters' Union enjoyed the powerful CO.
operation of the Lager Beer Fedora
ton of Sunday Labor in their effort to
stop Sunday baseball. 1t was argued
with great force that Sunday baseball
kept people out of the saloon AS we'll
as church.
Generally speaking, it is well to
confne dogs when the fear of hydro
phobia incubation is current. But it
has happened that dogs, otherwise un-
affected, have been driven mad by
confinement. What Them
The Homecoming Reoiew commends
the production of "a Miner" IN last
weeks issue of the Frostburg Meas.
Critical readers, however, have decid-
ed that IA Miner" is not miner.
The Hitchins Bros. company close
their stores at y o'clock for the
summer. All should do so.
Joshua johnson killed a copperhead
snake in his lumber yard a few days
ago. This style of dangerous reptile
is regarded as having gotten above its
normal altitude.
The antics of COW, evidently I'M
used to metropolitan grandeur, oc-
casioned considerable amusement to
bystanders Thursday as she was driven
along the street. The JOURNAL under
stands that in Cumberland she was
not at all embarrassed.
The fireworks Monday evening will
be visible from all parts of town.
Personal.
Rev. ID. C. DeWulf, former pastor
of St. Michael's church, sails from
New York TO Europe next Wednesday.
Mrs. Joseph Kinzer, of Piqua, Ohio,
is visiting the family of ex-Mayor
William Thomas.
D. c. O'Flaherty, Il leading member
of the Front Royal, Va, bar, is ded-
icating a portion of the heated term
to enjoyment of the salutiferousness
of Frostburg air.
DR.. &C. Jacobs is down for paper
entitled "Auto-Intoxication,' at the
Tri-State convention of doctors at Bed
ford Springs, 18th inst.
The JOURNAL inadvertently omitted
mention last week of Misses Lucy and
Eula Parker, of Portsmouth, Va,
guests of John l.. Porter, brought to
Frostburg by the marriage of their
brother, H. A. V. Parker. With
others here, these charming little
ladies are enjoying the delights OF
Frostburg salubrity.
Hon. A. j. Colborn, of Somerset
Pa, spent Sunday with the family OF
his on-in-law, F. G. Beall.
Rev. and Mrs. James B. Avirett, OF
North Carolina Col. and Mrs. John W
Avirett and little Miss Dunbar, OF
Cumberland, drove to Frostburg Wed
nesday evening. The elder Avirett
is veteran of the Army of Northern
Virginia, author of a life of Gen.
Turner Ashby and Il fluent oral his
torian of the war. For him, however,
the paths of peace have more fascina-
tions and his declining years are
patterned after those of Him who spent
his brief life "going about doing good
His wife, daughter of the late Philip
Williams, of Winchester, Va, one of