Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1910-04-16
Thirty Years Ago.

For the week correSpOndlng with next
in 1880 the paragraphs below comprise
in part items OF occurrence then new ::
The public schools closed for the year
Friday, April y, 1850.
THE town swarms with cows"
One of Sandy Conners Brahma hens laid
two eggs, each weighing ounces.
Thomas Brown qualified as State Mine In
speotor Monday, April 18th
Patrick Tiernev. crushed by fall of coal
April 18th in the Hampshire mine. near
waterproof, died next day
John Carney, Cumberland mason, was
badly hurt by a falling boiler at Bowery
Furnace. Though the blood flowed freely
from gashes on his head, face and one arm,
he had gone to work again when the sur
geOn reached him.
Mrs. Valinda Keller, aged ~ years. died
at the home of her sou-Iohn J. Keller
Monday. April ~, lSs0, She had been a
member of the NJ. +. Church - years.
A descriptive article mentions James G..
Barnard, William McCulloh w s. Hob
lItzell and Robert Scott as efficient workers
at the new Bowery Furnace.
Pirates of Penzance" announced for Mon
day. April 26th, at the Academy of Music,
Cumberland.
Messrs. John Winters. Patrick Coleman,
James Cosgrove, George Tppen, John Flana-
gan, James Finn, Thomas Rooney, Peter
Cordial, Patrick Moody John Burns, John
Donahue, John Powers, Michael Carney
James McCaughan, Walter Martin, James
Crowley Cornelius Lynch and William
Beane were committee of arrangements
for lecture by Patrick Meleday, Irish
patriot and ex-polltlcal prisoner, IN Pauls
Opera House Saturday, April 2ith,
John Chambers, aged Ii years broke a leg
in attempting to enter Rechabite Hall, Iona
coming through a window Monday evening
April 18th
C0lOred Jubilee Singers entertained large
Homecoming audiences in ReChabite Hall
Monday and Wednesday evenings, April
18th and DIST.
Personal,
Mrs. Arthur Weddell and daughter
Alma Jean, of Roanoke, Va, are visiting
the family of Thomas A, Caudill. Centre
street.
Mrs. William H. Koch and daughter
Miss Kate, arrived at their home here
Friday of last week after an absence of
about four months. William H., jr.,
brought them in his automobile from
Wheeling over 100 miles, in about six
hours, net. He returned to Wheeling
Sunday. accompanied by William H.
Jetfries-the latter to enjoy daylight
outing and railway ride back by night.
Albert Grove, son of MIR. and Mrs.
w. I. Grove, Broadway, has gone to
Oklahoma to live.
Mrs. John Adams and daughter, of
Hagerstown, this State, came to visit
her father-JOhn B. Rees, Monday,
and will remain week or longer
Frank J. Mcmahon, of Cumberland
was in town Tuesday, going as far west
as the current terminus of the Belt Line,
where he stated his conviction that the
Legislature had done we'll
Lawrence McKenna, of this place, is
filling a Geographic cooperating vacancy
at Homecoming temporarily.
Mrs. Olin Beall went to CharlestOwn.
w. Va, Tuesday-her former home.
At the close of the Jr. o. U. A. NJ.
State Convention at Chestertown, this
State, next week, MeSsrs. William
Hanna and William Merrhach will go
to Scranton, Pa, to stay a few days with
old friends. Mr.. Hanna lived in Scran.
ton four years, and his visit will be Ell.
ioyable alike to him and his hosts.
The Baltimore lmericdn gives Col
John Heating, of Cumberland, splendid
certificate of competency for the office
of Public Utilities Commissioner, and as
this portion of the State should be repre-
scented, can the Governor do better than
appoint him?
Rev. DIR. J. n Beall will leave Mon,
day for Baltimore to attend the regular
spring meeting of the Baltimore Pres
bytery.