Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-09-24
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The Cumberland Times (city edition
of last Saturday contained two flatter-
ing notices of the close of the JOURNAL :
33d year. OF all the good things printed
the most valued is that
he Cthe litory fights for that which he
believes is best for the people
That statement is as certainly true as
that it is here reprinted.
Whether assailing party, faction or
individual, the invariable motive, the
essential purpose has been the good of
the largest, certainly the larger number
This has not always been so under
stood, because not a few people, con-
sciously and uncOnsciously, hold their
own individual welfare paramount to
that of the community.
That very able paper, the Baltimore
NcTs, says
Congratulations are in order in the case of
Editor and Philosopher J. Benson Oder of
the Frostburg JOURNAL, which has COM
pleted its thirty-third year of publication
under Mr.. Oder's edtorship. This is a long
career for a man on one paper, though not
so long as that of Editor George c. Rhoder-
lex of the Valley Rgisfcr at MIddetown
He has been editing the register almost con-
tinuously for about tifty-four years, and
with the assistance of his sons. is still hold
ing forth with vigor and skill ut its helm
The Frostburg JOURNAL is more largely i'm
bued with the personal characteristics of its
owner and editor than any other weekly in
the counties and Editor Oder has enough to
spare for half dozen papers. In establish
ing the JOURNAL he has erected Il monument
to his ability and his individuality of mind
Maryland has a number of papers that it is
well worth while keeping tab upon. 1t is a
most enjoyable task to do this in the case
of the JOURNAL.
The term, Editor and Philosopher,
idiomatic with the Nems, may be I'M
deserved, but, taken with the accom-
paniments, could its compliments be
better stated?
A subscriber living between Frost
burg and Cumberland writes letter
under date of September 20, and over
the signature of "On the Pike" He
says
notice the Cumberland Times gives you
a nice send-On at the close of your 33d year,
and endorse pretty much all it says. But
| think still, as wrote you three years ago,
that the people of Frostburg who have sus
tanned the Journal all this time are en-
titled to no little credit for its long and
successful career.
Without their favor and support the jour
NAL could not have lived, and say again it
is Il credit to their intelligence and spirit
that they have kept up paper like the
JOURNAL. ''Honor to whom honor is due
to one side as well as the other.
The JOURNAL does not remember this
contention as made three years ago."
but whether made or not it was just
then and is Just now without the
observed, it could not have lived" If
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recognition of this fact, it is i'll the SEEM
ing, based upon the other fact, uni
versally known, that mo man no"
to himself" Glad to admit this, it is
happier to learn that "On the Pike" be-
leves the paper has deserved to live.
J. b. Oder has celebrated his }3d year as
editor of the Frostburg JOURNAL and he has
seen the finish of about a dozen other
editors in Frost ourg Editors come and ed
itors 20 but Oder stays forever.-Queen City
COurier.
"A Dozen is too few. When Mr..
Gould's threatened retirement from the
Homecoming star of Frostburg ma
terialiZes his will make the Goth
valedictory.
The Homecoming star of Homecoming
contributes to the JOURNALS happiness
a brief but expressive paragraph;
With its last issue the MINING JOURNAL,
of Frostburg, completed its 33d year. The
veteran editor, Mr.. J. b. Oder, is still at the
helm and his paper is as widely read and as
popular as ever. The Star congratulates
both, and wishes them continued life and
prosperity.
The JOURNAL is profoundly grateful
to its contemporaries for their generous