Frostburg Mining Journal

Wants to be Proud of His Town.

Col. R. B. Murphy, citizen of Front Royal, Va., is an extensive traveler, and an observant one—the latter because he wants his town to "keep up"

Writing to the Sentinel, of that place, recently, he says in part:

A gentleman who spent some time here lately with his family, asked me why we had so many fences, and, when informed, said—Is it possible that your people allow stock to run at large?

The fact is, no up to date towns, East, West, North or South, have fencing these days. The writer was passing over the Ohio River R. R. last week, through West Va., and came to a small town near Martinsville only 100 inhabitants, and was forcibly impressed with its beauty and up to dateness. Not that the houses are any finer than we have here but the clean streets and well kept sidewalks, the lawns and flower beds, not a fence—lot even a division one between houses the only thing of the kind being wire enclosures in back yards for poultry.

There are no hog pens.

Here let me tell you what they did at Shenandoah, Pa., a town of 2000. Under a borough ordinance, 250 hogs being fattened for slaughter in the fall, have been confiscated. The president of the Board of Health at one of their meetings inveighed against the unsanitary practice of keeping hogs within the borough, and declared that the hog not only wallows in filth, but devours carcasses of its kind: that it is a cannibal and the hog pen a breeder of bacteria that spread diseases among our people.

It is the duty of good citizenship that we protect our neighbor and work for the up building of our community, improving and making our town an ideal one.

The same remarks are applicable here. Frostburg should be kept clean so that no citizen need be ashamed to show it, or any part of it, to all who honor him with a visit.