Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-10-16
Thirty Years Ago.

Thirty Years Ago.
For the week corresponding with next
in 1879 the paragraphs below comprise
in part items Of occurrence then new :
Local option promoters addressed notes of
inquiry to Legislative nominees concerning
the latters standing upon temperance home
rule. Some of the nominees "stammered
in their writing very much"
In Medical-Society meeting in Cumber
land Dr. c. II. Ohr denounced those news
papers which publish physicians names in
connection with cases they are treating. A
resolution to that effect was offered, but it
encountered strong opposition from ply
sicians who hold that if such publications
be wrong, the newspapers are not always to
blame for it.
The Homecoming Times and Cumberland
Ne"S had controversy on hand which was
reported as nearing lighting basis. Some
of the remarks on both sides were mutually
unkind in shocking degree.
At Salem Reformed Church parsonage
Tuesday, October p, 1879, Mrs. Susan Eaton
was married to Mr.. HeIterbert Engle, both
of Mt. Savage, by Rev. J. Ruh.
The following question was handed to the
JOURNAL for SUBMISSION to public school
teachers
Does the steamer which crosses the Atlantic
to England 90 up hill or down hill
The Comptroller of the State Treasury
asked the JOURNAL to state that the publ
cation of Edward Manley's name in the
delinquent list of county officers is err
roneous."
Rev. Fathers Miller and I.itz, of Quebec,
Canada held mission exercises in St
Michaels Church.
John Beans house caught fire from a
miners lamp carried by little daughter
The neighbors extinguished it before the
fire department came.
John O'Brien, 46 years Old was killed in
Potomac mine, Barton Tuesday, October
p, 1879 by a fall of coal.
J. Cheston Lynn, of Cumberland was
killed in a Pittsburg and Connellsvile rail
road smash-up Wednesday, October D, 1879.
In the fall of 1873 the first snow fell Octo-
Der Is; in 1879 October n.
Died.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, Tuesday, October
>, 1909, Mr.. Samuel Blight Johns,
aged 80 years, son of the late Mr..
John Johns, of this place. The remains
were inferred in Massillon, o., Friday
OF last week. Rev. j. X. Jacob, pastor
of the NJ. E. Church, latter place, con-
Quoting the funeral exercises. The
independent, of Massillon, says of the
deceased:
He was born at Frostburg, Md, coming to
Massllon to live in 1889. He was for a time
IN the insurance business with his brother,
John f. Johns, of this city, and later joined
the SChumann Quartette as first tenor. At
the time OF his death he was connected with
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