Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-06
Personal.

MeSSrS. Frank Watts and f.. CT. Buck
ingham, of this place, became members
of the Cumberland Country Club last
Saturday.
Rev. w. II. Reed returned to Balti-
more Thursday after pleasant soiourn
among old friends.
Ellsworth Thomas, of Scottdale, Pa,
is visiting his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Thomas.
Hon. James Campbell, ex-member of
the House of Delegates, now engaged in
the government customs service, Balti-
more, was i'll town Tuesday. He looks
much like McKinley's reelection would
promote his health, already good
Miss Agnes Shannon, of Meyersdale
Pa, is visiting relatives i'll town.
R. H. Pascoe, the genial master of
machinery at the New Shaft, was i'll
town Tuesday evening helping to confer
the 18th degree upon Il new "Turkish
Noble" 1t is said to require men of his
weight-one for each of so many frac-
blOliS VI lllt tO1ltE l1ldU rank
upon new ct N" When the candi-
date rises from the wreck at the close it
is as much as he can do to gasp-"we are
T."
Miss May West, Of Piedmont, w. Va,
is visiting Miss Caroline T. Beall.
G. E. Presho, president of the Cum
berland Commercial College, was in
town Tuesday looking after the cstab-
ishment of night school branch here
of his institution. See advertisement.
John Williamson was i'll town Thurs
day en- r0"tc to Louisville to resume his
studies for the winter.
Capt. J. w. Glenn, of Shenandoah
junction, w. Va, stopped few days
this week with his daughter, Mrs. DIN
Beall, en- ro"tr home from lengthy
visit to Terra Alta, w. Va.
Miss Elizabeth Harley, of Phila-
delphia, Pa, has taken charge of Sterns
millinery department.
w. Arthur Hitchins, manager of the
Hitchins Bros. Coz stores, is at home
from nearly a months stay in the east
ern cities purchasing goods for fall and
winter business. Having given much
time to careful selection, the result is
ample stock of exceptionally good mer-
chandise. He was assisted by his
brother, E. c. Hitchins
Moses Dalinsky, of Salem, w. Va,
visited his parents this week.
Among the politicians i'll town Thurs
day evening was j. Forsythe Harrison,
of Piedmont, w. Va. Mr.. Harrison is
Il statistician of unquestioned ability
and tiuency. He has the republican
majority of every county i'll his State
at his tongues end, and i'll less time
than it takes to write it he Photographs
the whole 10000 i'll a computation
evolved from a bewildering mass of
hundreds i'll towns, counties and cities
His processes of calculation sparkle with
facility of expression that is electric
with spontaneity and sometimes startling
when Il current, stampeded, hops off the
wire. Altogether, Mr.. Harrison is the
most sublime impersonation of party
optimism the campaign has yet showed
within the range of JOURNAL earshOt.
So far as he is concerned, the thing is
over and done with. 1.-The star of em-
pire' has not only come westward"
but West Virginia is the base of its
geOmetric zenith.
Miss Josephine Metzger has gone to
Pittsburg to visit relatives.
Conrad Zinkan has returned from a
visit to his father, in the province of
Quebec, Canada, leaving the old gentle
man, now nearly so years old, in I'M
proved health.
ID. +. McMullen assisted his brothers
Tuesday evening in the fall opening of
the st. Nicholas store, Cumberland-an
occasion beautitied by flowers and en-
livened by music.
Mrs. John Reese, of Eckhart, pain
fully hurt while visiting the Piedmont
and Georges Creek Coal company's
mine, near that place, nearly two
months ago WAS in town Thursday