NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, April 10, 1903, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright July 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 10, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Easter, next Sunday. Commissioners' Clerk, F. B. Jones, spent Sunday in Johnstown. H. H. Myers, Esq., of this place, was in Harrisburg on Monday. Lake Rowena is being restocked with catfish from Huntley's fish ponds. The new Catholic church at Nantyglo will be dedicated on Sunday, June 7th. The borough council of Ebensburg are in the market for 1,200,000 paving bricks. Mr. Joseph White, of Barr township, was a visitor in Ebensburg on Friday. There are ninety-eight prisoners in the county jail, seven of whom are women. Mr. John L. Stough has commenced work on the erection of a new house in the West ward. Mr. Jerome Flick, of Allegheny township spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday. M. D. Kittell, Esq., will leave on Saturday evening for Atlantic City for a few days' vacation. Ground has been broken for the erection of the addition to the Metropolitan Hotel, in this place. Prothonotary Charles E. Troxell and wife, of Ebensburg, spent Thursday of last week in Johnstown. Mr. Philip Shoemaker, of Wilmerding, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Shoemaker of this place. Mrs. Albert Morris of Barnesboro spent several days in town this week visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Davison. Mrs. C. T. Roberts, of this place, who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Siviter in Pittsburg, returned home on Saturday. The foundation for the new residence of Superintendent Herman T. Jones on Ogle Street is fast nearing completion. Captain Morgan McDonald who spent the winter in a more congenial clime, has returned to Ebensburg, a certain indication of spring. Mr. Wm. H. Williams, formerly of this place, who last fall removed to Pittsburg, has returned to Ebensburg and will occupy his old home in the West ward. The old tannery building at the west end of town, now the property of Mr. Jeff Evans is being torn down to make way for a site for a new residence for the owner. Mr. George Williams, one of Hollidaysburg's progressive merchants, stopped off in Ebensburg on Monday while on his way to Barr township where he will visit his parents. Fireman A. E. Darvin, of Cresson, had his left arm strained in a wreck on the Stevens sidings of the Irvona branch Sunday afternoon. Two cars being shifted ran into his engine, knocking him from the cab. The Blair County democratic convention met at Altoona on Monday and nominated A. V. Dively for judge; J. Gleichert for prothonotary and Michael Maney for jury commissioner. The Republican candidate for Sheriff, G. T. Bell, was endorsed by the convention. William Smith, a young man of Point, Bedford county, Pa., was found seemingly dead in a field Thursday of last week from epileptic fits. His body was prepared for burial and Saturday was set for the funeral. The undertaker believed that the young man was not dead. Dr. Ealy, of Schellsburg, responded and decided that life was not extinct. Mr. John E. Lloyd of the firm of William Lloyd & Sons, contractors of Johnstown, fell from the second story of an unfinished building in that city on Monday evening, and fractured his skull. It was necessary to trephine the injured man's skull. Mr. Lloyd is well-known in Ebensburg, having built the public school building as well as several other buildings. Prof. T. J. Foley, a well-known teacher of Reade township, was a visitor to Ebensburg last Wednesday. About fifteen houses at Gallitzin and Tunnelhill have been quarantined and although smallpox is epidemic, it is believed the situation is under control. A BIG FIRE AT LILLY A large two-story frame building in Lilly, used as a liquor store, dwelling house and the office of the Lilly SIGNAL, caught fire between 2 and 3 o'clock this (Thursday) morning and was burned to the ground. The building was owned by James McCann, who also conducted the printing office and I. E. Carman owned the liquor store. McCann's loss is estimated at $9,000 on which there is an insurance of $4,000, while Carman's loss is placed at $5,000, with no insurance. Carman, with his wife and little daughter, escaped with only their night clothes. The origin of the fire is unknown.