Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-07-12

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museum of Aztec and other relics was
hugely patronized and enjoyed.
Personal.
T. Getz Hill is spending his vacation
at the home of his mother, Mrs. Eliza
beth G. Hill.
G.. o. Towles, aforetime Frostburg' 5
leading photographer, now of Baltimore,
was here to spend the Fourth.
Isaac Shearer, a popular merchant of
Albright, w. Va, is the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Sapiro.
H. b. Mason and sister, Miss r. NJ.
Mason, of Kansas city, Mo-, arrived
Monday and will be guests of their
grandmother, Mrs. H. b. Shaffer, sew
eral weeks. They are son and daughter
of the late Hiram Mason.
Mrs Samuel Pugh, of Scranton, Pa,
is the guest of Mr.. Pugh's uncle, Thomas
Gatehouse, Loo street.
Ransom Z. Powell, of Baltimore, son
and namesake of Il former Wellknown
and popular citizen, was here among old
friends last Sunday.
Samuel Kaplon, Of Harpers Ferry,
visited his parents here last Sunday
Misses Rebecca Todd, Jessie Dining,
Effie and AgSie Wier, of KoontZ, We're
guests of Mrs. Henry f. Cook on the
Fourth.
Hon. Binger Herman, United States
Land Commissioner, was IA guest of Hotel
Gladstone Friday night of last week.
Mr.. Herman is native of Homecoming
who has honored his birthplace by IA rise
to considerable eminence i'll the admins
tration of national affairs. In his
adopted State-Oregon, he has enjoyed
much popular preferment, expressed in
election to local offices and several times
to the national House of Representatives,.
Intellectual, atfable and fluent, he is a
most entertaining gentleman.
Tobias Lazarus visited relatives i'll
Cumberland this week.
The Misses Rankin visiting the Misses
Shatfer, have returned to their home at
Penn station, Pa.
Hon. James Campbell u. S. Appraiser,
was here on the 4th. He came all the
way from Baltimore just to see ii real
crowd.
Edward Anderson, of Lorraine, Ohio,
is visiting his mother, Mrs. Martha An
derson. Ed is a Frostburg boy who
has grown big in spite of the fact that
he left the altitude where bigness
flourishes.
a similar instance presents itself in the
case of Fred. Pfeitfer, of the U. S. Marine
Band, Washington, ID. c., who left the
Capital where nothing was doing, to
come home and see the great anniver
sary celebrated right.
Benjamin Thomas, of Meyersdale, Pa,
formerly of this place, was among old
friends here before, during and after the
Fourth.
Mrs. j. Russell, of Homecoming, was a
guest of Mrs. H. E. Mendelsohn last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Gatehouse visited
relatives here from the 4th to 9th insts.
Prof. Claiming Rudd, filling the
Chair of Oratory in the Columbian
University, Washington, D. c., sojourn-
ed in town several days this week
Misses Helen and Besse Berkcy. of
Johnstowu, Pa, are visiting Mrs.
Joshua Johnson.
Norris E. Wetmorc, stenographer for
J. Sussman g. Co., of Baltimore, came
up to enjoy the Fourth with Mrs. W.,
who is here with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Wehner.
"Uncle" Frank Mckenzie, of Cresap-
town, spent the Fourth i'll town.
Mrs. Owen England, Mrs. Daniel
Porter and Mrs. John j. Price, attend
ing the Rathbone Sisters reception, re-
manned over Sunday among Homecoming
friends,
Miss Evans, of Helena, Montana;
Miss Porter, of this State; DR.. +. S.
Gerstell, of Elk Garden, w. Va, and
II. b. Bacon, of Easton, Pa, are guests
of Miss Nell Gerstell, Midlothian.
James Bannatyne, of Eckhart, keep
ing up habit contracted early in this
generation, was here and paid his year
subscription i'll good time for the 4th.
Jim" doesn't set fire to many explo-
sives himself, but he appears to suspect
that a paper which was founded and
reared on the gospel as laid down in the
Declaration of Independence needs Il
little "money to burn" on the national
birthd ".
John L. Gerlach son of the late John
Gerlach, of this place, a hospital officer
of the army, here last and this week at
tending The funeral of his father, will
leave within Il few weeks for sorvic" in
the Philippine Islands. He expects to
remain two years. Mr.. G.. is an excel
lent young man, once set type ON the
JOURNAL, and still remembers the good
points he acquired i'll those days.
Mrs. Rose Retberg and three children,
of Baltimore, are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Fcldman. Hill street.
Moses ,Jandorf, of New York, quit that
town for Il few days and came to the
metropolis to see the Fourth observed i'll
the good old way.
William Dando, of Glassport, Pa, was
in town several days last week visiting
his family