Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1905-11-04

FIRST Maryland Council, No. J09
Young Mems Institute, of Enkhart, viii
hold il fair i'll the Literary and Sporting
Club hall, thar place, during the week
beginning Monday, 18th INST, and end
ing Saturday evening, 18th inst, for the
benefit of st. Mchael's Church, This
place Lots of amuScments Will be pro
Nlded Ivy the very competent committee
i'll charge MeSsrs Frank j Woke,
chairman; Joseph NJ Condor, secretary.
and John +. Farley, treasurer.
The ladies of ST. Johns Episcopal
Church Will hold "A supper in the Frost
burg Opera House "Wednesday evening.
November -, III the room lately vacated
10y Gehauf Il Mayer. The public cor
daily invited to attend.
An evening in holiday week Friday,
December 20, Will be made memorable
by the appearance in FroStburg Opera
House of 26 fair ALDERMAN mightengalcS
from Dublin, Ireland. They will sing
the real old Irish bardic melodies and
harp-lays "that once echoed through
Tara 5 halls, and the achievements of
modern composers will enjoy melodious
attention. They sang for the first time
i'll New York City last Sunday evening
and took the city, The Ancient Order
VI lllbtl IlldllN' Nv lNl''Il ~. VI llllS
place, have made the engagement
Messrs. Wardjohn, Wilson and Nor
gan, labor missionaries, will hold an
open-air meeting III front of the Hotel
Gladstone this Saturday evening,
\ Baltimore team will play foot ball
with the Utterly Ut InvincihleS of Frost
burg III the new Baseball Park, this
place. Tuesday afternoon-elcctiou day,
81, clock. flight tussle' talked to-
day, tonight, to-morrow-till Tuesday.
Obituary.
In addition to the notice of the death
of Hon David 7. Williams Thursday,
October 26, 1903, given in the these
columns last week, it should he stated
that he was born III Monmouthshlre,
Wales, December 25 lS65.
With his parents be came to this
country when he was 3 years old, set
Ting in Taylorville, Pa, later removing
to Nanticoke, same State.
At an early age he lost his father 10y
death, and, anxious to assist his widowed
mother he began work i'll the breaker.
Here he continued work IN and
about the mines, until he came to
Frostburg in 1883, and in that year mar
Ved Miss Grace ,JetfrieS, second daugh
ltl vi MI. dllNl -lIN. DtNllIp b'lll ltN
Excepting few years III NanticOkc Pa.
and Dodson, this State, he has lived
here ever since.
In 1901 he was honored by the re-
publican party with election to the House
of Delegates, and the record made was
III 1902 entirely satisfactory to his con
Stituents. He was largely instrumental
i'll the construction and passage of the
current mining law, and bore Il large
and influential part in obtaining the APP
preparation which started, and made
successful from the start, the State Nor
nal School.
In 1903 he took charge of operations
under the Rock Vein Coal Company, at
Short Gap, IA position later given up in
order to assume the general superintend
ency of the Gleason Coal Company 5
works at DodSon, this State. This he
held until July LIST, last, when he was
compelled by failing health to resign.
Mr.. Williams was IA citizen of Sterl-
ing character, faithful to his trusts, and
for these fundamental qualities he en-
joyed the high regard of an extended
acquaintance.
In his death the town loses an excel
lent citizen, his wife IA devoted husband,
and his five little children father who
loved them dearly.
The funeral was held at his late home,
Loo street Rev A. II. Thompson, of
the NJ f. Church, officiating Sunday,
Goth ult., p. M. Mountain Lodge,
No. 80, A., f. and A. M, of this place.
had charge.
Mr. Williams was Il member also of
Victory Commandery, No. 1, Knights
of Malta, and of st. naYid's Society,
also of this place.
Besides wife and children there are a
surviving sister and two brothers. all
residents of Nanticoke, Pa, "and, adds
"A Friend who writes, n host who
extend to the hereaved ones an express
ion of sympathy as profound as it Is
sincere. OF him it can be written truly
Gone. but Not Forgotten.