Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-09-17
Still Growing.

Still Growing.
The following named new buildings
are going up and other improvements
making in different parts of town:
John NJ Phillips has erected residence on
Linden street.
Frank Milestone is laying foundation
for residence on same street.
Patrick Brady is excavating for a large
double block dwelling on Maple street.
John Lockhead is building residence on
Mill street.
George H. Wittg will shortly put plate
glass front in his lately acquired block, Main
street. When completed this will be one Of
the prettiest fronts in Frostburg.
D. J. Bez will do likewise with the room
vacated temporarily by c. F, Betz.
Charles Williams will begin the erection of
a residence on Linden street shortly.
Conrad Lapp is making preparations to en-
large his building corner Nam and Water
streets.
w. J. Lewis has just completed residence
on Linden street.
Nearly all the buildings previously
reported are completed.
BrevitieS.
News comes in that a Frostburg man,
tempted to subscribe for home paper
because it is the cheaper one, turned
around and sent the dollar to a Chi
cago firm for a pocket tire-escape. He
received a New Testament. Here is a
field for discussion. Isn't the last
state of that man better than the
one that threatened An answer, ac-
companied by $3.50. will obtain the
JOURNAL for one year.
Light bill for July $240.SS; for
August $240.9S. Eight and one-third
months of such consumption takes
from the peoples pockets enough to
buy the Normal School site. For this
there is no return but light. From the
other over $4OO month from the State
and over $3.50 from the schools
patrons-over 81 $50 in all. Yet there
are people declining to contribute to
the purchase of the site upon one
tiimsy preteXt or another, who seem to
regard it as privilege to submit to a
steadily growing light bill whose net
returns come back to only a few.
Strange but true. Barnum justified his
fakes with the statement that people
like to be humbugged. By the same
token it may be asked-do they like to
be robbed
Some writer's have thoughts for
whose expression they cannot find
words others have dead loads of words
but no thoughts.
Not far away is a young woman,
high school miss, proud of her
knowledge of several exotic languages
who was asked recently who wrote the
Declaration of Independence, and she
gayly replied-"Patrick Henry, a
Welshman of Irish descent" If there
is anything which disqualifes her for
holding high place on the staff of a
professional labor paper it is not yet
apparent.
There's been heep o rain, but the
suns come out to-day, and the dark
clouds of the wet spell is all cleared
away the reservoirs the deeper, the
surface mighty still-it may rain agin
to morry, but don't think it will
Some say the chestnuts' ruined, and
the corr drownded oud, and prophesy
that perks failure without doud
But the kind Providence that has ne Ell
begrudg'd a cloud, will be on hand
agin to make me feel mighty proud
Mayor Nickel.
The JOURNALS expression of faith
in the brotherhood of the Homecoming
Star and Frostburg Forum on Cuddy
will have to be withdrawn, if the last
issue of the Forum can be taken as
"the evidence of things not seem"
The Berlin Imperial Gazette thinks il
has the smallest circulation in the
world. 1t prints two copies, both Of
which are subscribed tor by the
Emperor. 1t is mistaken. The Frost
burg MINING JOURNAL prints but one
copy, and the Frostburg Forum, anti
corporation organ of several corpora
tons, gets that.