Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-11-28
Thirty Years Ago,

in 1878 the paragraphs below comprise
in part items Of occurrence then new:
The Hagerstown Gntrd common led L. VI
Gorsuch in fine terms for the latter's effort
in beh alf of the educational interest of his
employees.
The Fro>tburg Fire Department, number,
ing 80 mem hers. oriere uniform belts.
Great display in Frostburg of fine apples
Mr.. Wagus, an aged resident of Pompcy
Smash, died Friday. November -, 1873.
Misses Sadie and Mamie f. Mason, of
Sagertown, Pa. visited their brother Hiram
Mason, of this place.
Garrett county hunter shot at deer,
struck :, got none. Not much danger to
deer in his immediate Observation-Disclosures
one should contract blood poison by biting
him.
Messrs. William J. Cooper and Lincoln
Albright, of this place, returned from ,
weeks cruise along the South Branch with
string of bass weighing 60 pounds.
ID. w. Sloan, of Homecoming in Scotland.
was expected to reach home shortly.
DR., George Sloan, of Iowa, had informed
holidays with them.
X. NJ. Wilderman presented the JOURNAL
with holiday supply of fresh domestic
mince-
The deer which jumped into J. J. Hoblit,
zelPs garden the week before had a broken.
bleeding jaw, made by shot by John II.
DeMoss.
Much was reported IN the papers of the
electric light new invention.
Frostburg was honored IN a visit by
Emanuel Custer, of Michigan. Mr.. Custer
was born at Cresaptown in 1906. In 1924 he
emgrated to Michigan. He was a black
smith-in youth an apprentice Of George
Seiss, grand father of Mrs. Marx Wineland
of this place. He remembered well when
coal was hauled by wagon from Eckhart to
Cumberland. One of his sons, Gen. g. A.
Custer, was distinguished officer of the
Union army during the Civil War, and in
1876 with his entire command was slain in
the battle of the Little Big Horn River by
the Sioux Indians. In Cumberland Mr.
Custer was the guest of Mrs. George Will
hanson, who accompanied him to Frost
burg. Here both were guests of Marx
Wineland
Monday, December ID, r. C. Paul cap
tured a webfooted waterfowl of the order
o"Aeres, and family amatjdoe, popularity
known as wild duck"
The Grant Coal and Iron Company, in
charge of w. A. Monteil and Jonathan
Radcliffe, expected to reach coal at an early
day.
J. II. HOWE, superintendent of Midlothian
mine, New Central Coal Company, resigned
and returned to his old home in Scotland.
AT the meeting of the Fire Department
Tuesday evening, November 3D. Benjamin
Bowen was elected president Thomas II
Hamill vice-president, and Theo Gunnett
sergeant. alarms
Duncan J. Sloan of Homecoming. reported
quite i'll with quinsy.
The Meyersdale tPa) Commercial made
complimentary references to James J. Hob
litzell w. r. Hobltzcll and c. H. Hartzell,
all wellknown here.
AT the English Lutheran parsonage Thurs
day evening, December 5, 1873, Miss Nellie
V. McMullen was married to Mr. George NJ
Porter, both of Eckhart, by Rev. p. l..
Harrison.
F. K. Bracket, superintendent of the
Maryland Coal Company, removed from
Frostburg to Homecoming.
John Gnagey, of Accident, Garrett county,
shot and killed a deer without perforating
the hide or rntfiing HAIR. How was it
done? Inquire at the JOURNAL office.
The Reform Club organized the other
night when all around was stir by eIectng
J. w. J. Engar, NJ. d., president, d. G..
Percy, vice-p president T. S. Preston secre-
tary, and Alexander Tenant treasurer
The last named was dubbed into filling
l,0Ol bond. After the president had spoken
half his inaugural the Club rose and the
president sat. The secretary read the 9TH
verse of the 9TH chapter of the Heptameron.
The president finished his inaugural The
Club aske nobody to join; its select menu
bers were clu 5be,l in. The Club has its eve
on two men now. They will be seizel next
Thursday night at place and hour they
think not Nobody knew where or when
the Club met; the members didn't know
themselves, except after a series of irregular
rotatory displays of the heptahelron nu-
neral. club was the symbol of fraternity
w, H. Koch, C. Il p. II. agent, distributed
car oal of coal to the poor.