Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-04-30

Only ten votes were cast against the issue
OF $4,000 bonds tor street paving at Morgan
town. Even the mOssbacks over there want
to get out of the mud.-Charleston Gazette.
The JOURNAL would like to learn
the ages of the "ten.''
Frostburg experience is--the most
hopeless of all backs that generate and
grow moss are the young ones.
Whether as "a condition or theory"
it is proven here, too, that the swifter
man is as a mossback. the slower he
is as a public-spirited citizen.
Personal.
John T. Ravenscroft, leading
brother of that name in the ownership
and management of the Opera House
here, has leased the Slicer Opera
House, Meyersdale, Pa, and there will
be many d jump from Frostburg to
that place and gice gersa.
George Gunnett was called to
Clarksburg, W. Va, Tuesday by the
serious illness of sister, Mrs. Baltzley.
M. l.. Beachy and Rev. &C. Mackey,
Phi. D., of the Brethren church, both
of Salisbury, Pa, paid the JOURNAL
an appreciated call several days ago.
The Homecoming Star says "Mr.
John B. Dixon, assistant postmaster in
Homecoming for the past eight years,
will go to Frostburg Monday to fill the
position of assistant to Postmaster
Davis Of that place. Mr.. Dixon is
young man above the average in postal
matters, and will be valuable acquisi-
ton to Mr.. Davis already efficient
force. Mr.. Dixon is also a thoroughly
reliable and upright young man and
will fill any position of confidence and
trust to the entire satisfaction of his
employer and friends.' Anent this
matter-the publication last week of
Mr.. Dixon's accession to postoffice
honors in Frostburg occasioned no
little critical, not to say adverse com
ment, the politicians generally holding
that Frostburg positions should be
held by Frostburgers. But politicians
frequently err in complaining of the
medicine the doctors prescribe.
Col. w. E. Griffith, the new bank
examiner, was in town Wednesday re
ceiving and enjoying the congratula-
tions of his friends.
Misses Parsons and Souders, of
Piedmont, w. Va, were guests of
Miss Sophia Mayer this week.
John S. Grayson, of Luray, Va,
called Thursday and gave the JOURNAL
series of pleasant reports concerning
the people of auM lang syne-a series
saddened only by names mentioned
now and then Of those who have en-
tered the shadowy state intervening
between 1.-THE life that now is and that
which is to come" Many of the JOUR
NAILS school-day contemporaries, how
ever, are still but little past Efe's
prime, and it is delightful to learn
that for the most part they are pros
porous.
w. B. Redgrave. of Baltimore, spent
several days here this week.
The many friends of Mrs Jennie
Payne are glad to see her at home
again in the enjoyment of an excellent
prospect for complete recovery.
BrevitIes.
That is a very pretty sign-the
prettiest in town, recently put up by
a. F. Parker in front of his drug
store. 1t is an illuminated mortar,
Digit with CANDY colors and gold-leaf.
There are colors below and Is or 20
in the crest, making, at night especial
ly, a thing Of beauty.
1t is to be hoped that the war-seek-
ing coored citizen of Uniontown, Pa,
on whose doleful-looking face a Frost
burg surgeon placed several stitches
will realize hereafter that "a stitch
in time saves nine" or there will not
be room on his upper lip for any more
embroidery.
Warrington, West Va, has secured
the location at that place of window
glass factory. Pay roll $1,000 a
month, 100000 a year. The town
gave not only site but 81 building
lots to get it. For want of sufficient
water Frostburg cannot invite enter
prlses of that character, and sufficient
water can't be obtained because, near
ly all our voters being civil engineers
of bullying ltelligence, must know and
understand "a PLAN that the present
Council had no right to formulate.
This sort of thing is very tiresome.
1t gives Frostburg the undeserved COM
pleXlon OF a slow town-just slow
enough for the people to know that,
having begun their water supply sys-
TEN, in voting down the bonds for
completion, they 'stopped quick
1.-The Stolen Jewess" was presented
Thursday evening to crowded house
and the merits of performance and
players won tremendous approval.
Street Superintendent Jeffries is
hauling off some of the mud. Asked
when it would be hauled back ~
like the faithful officer he is, he said
soon as | get the order"
In these advanced times no man, at
peace with his neighbors, has any
more right to locate a hog pen in
closely-built neighborhood than Spain
had to plant submarine explosive
under the Maine. If he is at war with
his neig hbors and adopts the hog pen
as an implement of mortality the
town should intervene-if for nothing
else, for the sake of "us innocent
reconcentrados.'
Glenn, the 4-year old son of DIN
Beall, was taken last Sunday by Mrs.
Beall to the Pasteur institute, Balti-
more, for treatment in event of serious
development of injuries from dog-bite
a few days before.
Bailitf Bowen's raid on unmuzzled
dogs has perceptibly lessened both
the number and size of their street
meetings
w. L. Parker contracted this week to
build a huge blackboard for citizen
OF Mt. Lake park-to work two or
three horses abreast as the owner NAV