Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-02-02

DR.. II. G. Wilson, dentist, is i'll Easton,
this State.
Charles c. Kafer. of Ocean, was i'll
town IA few days ago visiting relatives
and friends.
Miss Bessy Johnston Coulehan, of this
place, is at the Bard Avon school, Balti-
more, taking IA course in Literature and
Physical Culture.
w. B. Jones, of Youngstown, Ohio,
came here Monday to see his father,
Evan Jones, who is Frustrated with Ia
grippe, and left for his home Tuesday.
Miss Usella McCaughan, of this place,
is taking a course of study i'll the Central
Commercial College, Cumberland.
William Grimes, of Carlos, i'll town
Tuesday, contided to the JOURNAL the
information that there was an observance
of Burns birthday at Midlothian Friday
evening of last week Mr. Grimes was a
guest and it is not too much to say he was
overpowered by the display of attention
and hospitality enjoyed. 1t was his
HiSt outlLS AIMING tHt 'ototS' 'ouCIl
singing, dancing eating, and the beauty
of the joyful programme was-the effect
of Il warm drink was instantly neutral
| lied by the administration of one Just off
the ice, and the latter counteractcd, in
turn, by one four degrees hotter than the
first In this way Il generous feeling
was generated until at last it became
'dismaterial' to the guest, as George
Mauck once said, whether the next drink
came from the cooking stove or the ice
house Mr.. Grimes left ut II o'clock,
after hours communion, and pending
Il debate between two Highland patri-
archs concerning the identity of the
building wherein the banquet was
located. One contended that Eve are i'll
the new school house," the other that I'VE
are i'll the old" To settle the dispute,
he afterward understood both went out
side to take view of the exterior, and
when they returned each gentleman
cordially conceded the other was right
Mr.. Grimes thinks the Scots are the most
jovial people i'll the world that they
know more about the cOnventiOnalities
Of social upheavals, and exhibit more
concern for the comfort and happiness of
their guests than any other. He is
awful glad he was there.
ID. +. McMullen, down with Ia grippe
about week, is again at his post steer
ing ''The Iron Front along under sail
of those propitions breezes known as the
zephyrs of prosperity.
Thomas G.. Porter, of this place, has
taken employment as book keeper under
the Hoblitzell company at Hyndman,
Pa.
John +. Edwards, eX-Public School
Examiner, was Il guest of the Elks
Tuesday evening. After the ceremonies
incident to an initiation the body re-
| solved itsely into a literary symposium,
to which Mr.. f.. contributed lecture
embodying Il cosmopolitan variety of in
teresting topics. OF this the Frostburg
members are loud i'll praise.
N. f. Wetmore will leave to-day for
his new home, Baltimore. Wednesday
evening his brother Elks rendered him
"a farewell smoker About 80 We're
present and the demonstration was a
send-otf of which he may well feel proud.
AS before stated i'll these columns he
leaves Frostburg to take employment as
stenographer under G. O. Towles, form
erly of this place.
w. p. Sullivan, chief scribe of the
Hitchins Bros. company, was "off duty
nearly all week, occasioned by "a feel
ing of 'goneneSs' which," he says can
neither be described nor imagined. ="
Must have been Ia g,jppc.
Miss Belle Benson went to Pittsburg,
Pa, Monday, to spend the remainder of
the winter with her sister, Mrs Otto
Frey.
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