NEWS: Item from The Cambria Freeman, February 6, 1903, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, February 6, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. Ira Bloom, of this place, spent Monday in Johnstown. Mr. and Mrs. Fergus Lloyd and son, Fergus, are visiting relatives in Renova, Pa. Messrs. W. R. And W. L. McGough, of Lilly, were visitors to Ebensburg on Saturday. Henry L. Cooper, of Clearfield township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. The ground hog saw his shadow on Tuesday and as a result the weather has been on the rampage ever since. A little three-year-old son of Harry Jones, of Cambria township, fell off a chair a few days ago and broke his right arm. Mr. Harry Owens, of this place, is to be married in Pittsburg on February 12th, but the name of the lady has not been learned by us. Frank Roberts and John Mountain, both colored of Johnstown, were brought to jail today (Thursday) to a charge of housebreaking. Landlord Kimball of the Metropolitan Hotel, in this place, is having stone hauled for the foundation of what rumor says is to be an office building. The Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company has moved its large saw mill from Vintondale to Clyde, in Indiana county, further down on the Blacklick. Rumor has it that Barker Bros., of this place, will erect an addition to their store building on Centre street the coming summer to be used for office purposes. Miss Flora Weakland, of Ebensburg, has resigned her position as teacher of the Killen school, in Barr township, on account of the protracted illness of her mother. A new apportionment bill has been offered in the House of Representatives and among other changes, gives Cambria County an additional representative, three instead of two. Mr. Harvey Williams, who had been conducting a restaurant at Tarentum, Pa., returned home a couple of weeks ago and is laid up with typhoid fever. He is at present getting along very well. The Ebensburg band, one of the finest musical organizations in this part of the state, will give a grand concert in the Opera House here Tuesday evening, February 25th, which, it is hoped will be well patronized. Mrs. Evan J. Bennett, of Cambria township, while going down the steps from the door of her home on Thursday of last week, fell and was seriously injured. No bones were broken but it is feared she is injured internally. Mrs. W. Horace Rose and daughter, Mrs. Samuel J. McClune, and the latter's daughter, of Main street, went up to Ebensburg last evening to visit the McNamara family for several days. [Monday's Johnstown TRIBUNE] Miss Lydia F. Knapp of Taylorstown, Washington county, having passed a satisfactory examination, has been appointed a rural free delivery mail carrier. The route over which she will make daily trips covers a distance of ten miles. Mr. John E. Yost, of Donora, Westmoreland county, son of Mr. Jacob Yost, of Cambria township, who had been home to attend the funeral of his brother whose death is mentioned elsewhere in this paper, returned to Donora on Friday. Mrs. Eva McKim, who resides three miles east of Ebensburg in Munster township, fell on the ice on Monday and suffered a compound fracture of one of her limbs. Mrs. McKim is about 80 years old and on account of her age, her recovery is doubtful. A new office has been created on the Cambria and Clearfield division known as the chief train dispatcher, which is filled by J. S. Willis. His assistant in John Wagner. Part of Willis' duties will be the distribution of cars over the division. Summerhill township, is now, it is said, furnishing provisions for thirty persons quarantined on account of smallpox at and near the mining town of Beaverdale, in the south of the township. W. K. Burtnett is the Health Officer of the township. Five cars loaded with coke and steel cars containing coal on the east borough freight trains were wrecked at Allegrippus on Sunday morning. No one was injured but the tracks were blocked for some time. The Gallitzin wreck crew cleared away the wreck. The entire plant of the Osterburg NEWS, of Osterburg, Bedford county, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night of last week. The whole building was enveloped in flames when the fire was discovered and nothing was saved. The loss is partially covered by insurance. This is the second time this paper has been burned out. Dr. J. W. Stine, who has been the assistant relief physician on the Cambria and Clearfield division for the past several months, has resigned his position and left on Monday for Philadelphia, where he will begin a practice of his own. His successor has not yet been named. A dispatch from Rome on Monday says that Monsignor Kennedy, rector of the American college in Rome, yesterday presented to Pope Leo in private audience, Mr. and Mrs. John Schwab, of Loretto, parents of Charles M. Schwab, and their daughter. The Pontiff gave the trio of Cambrians the apostolic benediction. Telephone exchange has been established in the Cambria and Clearfield offices at Cresson. Miss Emma Quartz, who has been in the office of the Cambria County Telephone and Telegraph company for several years, is one of the operators. A telephone has been placed at the Munster siding for the convenience of train men. The West Penn officials have decided not to cut and store a supply of ice this winter for summer consumption. Manufactured ice will be used, as it can be furnished now at much less cost. Consequently the old historic ice pond at Blacklick on the Indiana branch which years ago supplied the Pittsburgh division and West Penn with a full supply of ice will be abandoned. [Indiana Democrat] On account of the increasing demand for material several departments of the Juniata shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona did not observe the usual weekly half holiday Saturday. It is rumored that work in all departments will be resumed on Saturdays hereafter. In some of the shops at Fourth street, Altoona, the men have received orders to work three hours overtime three nights of each week. Little Annie Herlinger, daughter of Frank Herlinger, of Brushvalley township, Indiana county, was on her way to school on Thursday of last week with some companions when they encountered a bull dog belonging to John W. Evans. The dog ran after Annie and she got up a bush but fell off when the dog attacked her and bit her ear off. Assistance was summoned and the dog was driven off and shot, but the girl will be maimed forever. The farm house of Louis Stull along the Wopsy road a short distance north of Altoona was entered by a robber on Thursday morning of last week and robbed of $110. Mr. Stull and his housekeeper were shopping in the city when the robbery was committed. An entrance was gained by breaking open a door with a hatchet. The police were notified and an effort is being made to apprehend the thief, who is supposed to be a negro, as one was seen in the vicinity of the house about the time the robbery was committed. The South Fork Coal Mining company has recently added 735 acres of coal land in Croyle township by lease to their possessions. Miss Anna Thomas, daughter of Mr. Joseph O. Thomas, who teaches at the Pensacola school a couple of miles from her home met with an accident Monday evening from which it is hoped she will soon recover. Miss Thomas rides on horseback to and from her home to the school house and on Monday evening after dismissing school mounted her horse and started to return home. On the road near the residence of Mrs. Martha Jones, the saddle turned and Miss Thomas was thrown to the road where she was found a short time after by Miss Edith Jones, unconscious. She was taken to her home and a physician summoned and it is believed that with the exception of a severe shock, Miss Thomas is not seriously hurt. ANOTHER CASE OF SMALLPOX The Altoona TRIBUNE of Monday says: Between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon a young man called at the office of Dr. R. F. Baoks and stated he desired some medicine for a breaking out on his face. The doctor took in the situation at a glance and quickly diagnosed the trouble as smallpox. He took the fellow to city hall where Health Officer Miller was summoned, who removed him to the contagious disease hospital on the county farm. The disease was not at the stage wherein it is regarded as contagious, but the indications are that in a few days more it will develop into one of the more than ordinary severity. The story told by Kingston is that he is 19-years-old, an orphan and came from Patton, Cambria county on Saturday last. He had been in the city ever since but could not tell where he boarded, although he said he had a boarding house. He further started that in Patton he lived with a man named S. J. Luther. He has an aunt in Patton, another one in Bellwood and a brother in Tyrone. Where he contracted the disease is not known. He says he was vaccinated about six years ago but that it did not leave a mark. In other words it was not a success. WILL USE OLD TRACK At a point above Wilmore, Pennsylvania railroad forces have begun work connecting the shorter line put in by H. S. Kerbaugh last year with the old track between Wilmore and Summerhill. By this connection cars containing lime, etc., can be taken to the old Wilmore station, leaving the main tracks open for through freight. The run eastward from Summerhill is easy, while westward there is a steep grade. The new tracks are about twenty-five feet higher than the old ones, which, until now, had been abandoned following the completion of the Kerbaugh operations. In putting in the new tracks, the old line had been moved over until it ended up against a bluff. The work in progress now will cut away enough of the bluff and make a fill-in so as to permit the connecting of the old line and the new line. The latter is almost a straight line between Wilmore and Summerhill, while the old track is more roundabout. For 1,584 feet westward from a point above Wilmore, the new track is a dead level and then follows a grade of seven feet, gradually increasing to one of fifteen feet. On the old line there is a stiff grade near the deep cut, trains being frequently stalled there, but with the locals, which will switch in, no trouble is expected.