Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-04-25
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! fence enclosing the grounds is finished, the
roadway to the Park gate is completed and
big force of carpenters will be put on the
grand stand in few days
| The grounds will be rolled. dragged and
got in shape as early as possible.
The first game of the season will be
played in Meyersdae Saturday. May Ii, and
a return game played here the following
| Saturday-May %.
The two big games with Pittsburg on
Decoration Day. May 30, will be surely Il
drawing card and the management is fill
ing up the schedule rapidly Is possible.
Next week the team will have a few
words to say for themselves regarding their
playing strength and the chances they will
have to be top of the heap tins season.
Manager Dillon left Wednesday morning
for Washington, ID. e. He witnessed the
opening game between the American League
team of Washington and New York.
Speaking of Meyersdalc, that place has
got together good, strong team, and under
the management of that veteran player,
Wolfe" Rae will be heard from favorably
before the season closes. With Black Price,
Ryan and Rodebaugh as pitchers, they have
a corps of twirlers that are good. Williams,
Harm and Luddon are players that know
the game. and the out -Iiclders are among the
very best amateurs in this section.
Midland has Il team and new manager !;
SO great things are expected from them.
DIR. Carpenter, the manager, is getting ready
for great season. With incredible modesty
he claims t" have the very best team on
Georges Creek!
Up at the Beall cottages there are stopping
just now Il number of young men-mem-
beers of the Consolidation Coal Company's
surveying corps. They have several good
ball-players among them-sone who few
years ago were known widely in the localities
where they lived as hgh-grade artists in the
ball line. MacTaggart was the big star of
the GAINESVILLE club Il few years ago when
that town had the very best amateur team in
eastern Pennsylvania. Smith and few
others We're stars of considerable magnitude.
In little while they will be given an OPP
portunity to show what they can do against
"Our Own who make no pretensions to
anything but the ordinary plain, unos-
tentatious solid, winning game.
OF the three Owens Price the biggest,
accompanied by John Daniel. leading
barber of the growing end, inspected the
new grounds, fence. etc, Wednesday,
aud reported satisfaction with location
and progress Of work. Messrs. Price
and Daniel coincide fully with the
JOURNAL in the opinion that Council
should see that the electric railway
should be extended so as to "touch" the
new Park closely as possible. In other
words, 1.-the loop is Indispensable.
Many have wondered what name the
initial GO" stands for in Col. Dillon's
praenomen. The JOURNAL has been I'M
able to crafty popular curiosity until
this issue. Whatever it represented be-
fore, since Monday evening his full,
unabridged and international name is
Colonel Thomas Grandfather Dillon.
State Normal School No. =.
The following interesting paragraphs
have been contributed by five students:
One of the Freshmen, Miss Beulah
Smyth, unable to be in school for some
time because of sickness, we We're glad on
Monday to see i'll our halls again.
Mrs. Bartholomew, Director of the Model
School, has returned from a trip to Chicago,
where she spent the Easter vacation with
her SON. Chauncey.
Miss Bakers drawing classes are taking
up water colors,
Miss Baker has given us IA few songs
one of which goes something like this:
The Normal is jolly home
Swe-,le- lc-wc-dum- bum
We love it still where { er we roam
Swe-de-lc -we-dum-bum
The very song We used to sing
Swe-de- le-we-dum-b
Mid memories echoes long shall ring
Swe-de-G-wc-dum-b bum
Lh"r"s;
Irtoria. Letoria-
Swe-de- Observation-Disclosures,
Let0ria, LetOria--
Swe-dc-le we-dum-bum,
The boys of the Normal school are organ
ling base ball team.
\. Johnson Wilson has withdrawn from
school to accept a position with the c. and
7. railroad company.
William Gatehousc has gone on Il bust
ness trip to Baltimore.
Harry Robinson is i'll at his home. Iona
coming with Ia griipc. We hope he will
soon recover.
The boys have been making number of
lockers in which to keep baseball uniforms,
tennis racquetS, etc, They are placed four
lockers in II case and there are quite Il num-
her of cases. They will he very convenient,
as articles of value can he left IL the school
without fear of loss.
The basketball season has closed and
tennis will take its place.
The Sophomore and Junior classes of the
Normal School have begun their spring
Botany work, and find it very interesting.
The Junior class having completed Me-
,haeval History has commenced the History
of Education.
\ portion of the Freshman arithmetic
class has taken up ookkecping under the
direction of Mr. Dryden.
The Botany classes soon expect to make
excursions to the woods in search of wild
flowers which they are now studying.
Prohibit Them by Law.
Citizen" asks the Oakland Journul-
Has Oakland Health officer and is there
an ordnance prohibiting pig-pens within the
town limits? Ifso, why is a pig pen allowed