NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, May 8, 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, May 8, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. E. O. Jones is home from Pittsburg on a visit to his mother. Dr. Clark Creery and wife arrived home from Pittsburg on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Darrah, of this place, spent the past week at Atlantic City. Mr. John Love and wife, of Pittsburg, are spending a few days in Ebensburg. Mr. Isaiah Gates of White township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Christopher White and wife of Barr township visited Ebensburg on Saturday. Mr. Phillip Jones of Jackson township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Messrs. Ed. Shoemaker and Charles O'Hara of this place are home from Pittsburg where they attended a dental college. Burgess E. James and wife of this place spent several days in South Fork this week visiting their daughter, Mrs. Irvin Stineman. Mrs. Mary Parish and her sister, Miss Bridget McCullough, of Allegheny township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Tuesday. A knitting factory will be established at Somerset. It will start with twelve machines and produce twenty-five dozen pairs of stockings a day. The site of the old South Fork dam has been purchased by the Stinemans and the mineral treasures beneath its surface will soon begin to go to market. Cresson's constable is looking for some Altoonians who successfully worked the shell game in the mountain town a day or two ago. [Altoona Times] A temporary roof has been put on the Anderson House at Cresson, and nothing further will be done in the way of repairs until the insurance adjustors have fixed the loss. Mr. John Love of Pittsburg has purchased the farm of Mr. Fes. Tibbott, about a half mile south of Ebensburg and intends using it as a summer home. The farm contains 26 acres and the price paid was $1,800. On Saturday the governor signed a bill authorizing County Commissioners to furnish metal markers for the graves of the United States soldiers and sailors on petition of ten residents of any township, borough or city. Messrs. Coon and Kough, formerly of Pittsburgh have placed a saw mill on the Capt. Thos. Davis tract on the stone pike, five miles west of Ebensburg, and are now cutting lumber. There are over 2,000,000 feet of timber on the tract. Landlord John Manion of the Central Hotel in this place has sold the leasehold of that well-known hostelry to Mr. Julius Rager, a former resident of Carrolltown, who will take possession as soon as the license can be transferred. Mr. W. H. Connell, of this place had a slight paralytic stroke in the hardware store of Schettig Bros., where he is employed on Tuesday. After a little time Mr. Connell was able to walk to his home and is now entirely recovered. Mr. Joseph Gutwald of Cresson, fell on Friday last and dislocated his shoulder. Mr. Gutwald who is 77 years of age, in March last, fell and fractured two ribs but owing to a good constitution and his sound Democracy, he is pretty hard to down and always pulls through. His many friends in Ebensburg, where he once served the people as burgess, hope he will soon be all right again. Donato Guortino, an Italian employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company near Altoona, lost his foot Monday afternoon in a peculiar accident. His foot was caught in a switch, which held him fast. Unable to escape, a draft of cars which were being shifted ran down the track and over his foot, badly mangling it. He was taken to the hospital where it was amputated. Thieves broke into the barn of Isaac Miller, a Jackson township farmer, Sunday night and stole there from a horse, buggy and harness. When Mr. Miller went to the stable in the morning he found the outfit gone. The tracks of the thief were followed and headed in the direction of Wilmore. The animal is a large sorrel, sixteen hands high and weighing about 1,250 pounds. The buggy was a top vehicle with red running gears and black body. The outfit was worth at the least calculation $150. Joe Slot, an Italian laborer, employed by the Kerbaugh company on the New Portage railroad near Duncansville was perhaps fatally injured at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. While material was being lifted by block and tackle it broke and he was struck on the head by a pulley, knocked down and rendered unconscious. He was taken to the Altoona hospital and an examination showed that he had sustained a fracture of the skull, lacerations of the scalp and nose and abrasions of the face. His injuries were dressed and he was placed in bed. His condition is serious and he may not recover. The Anderson house at Cresson narrowly escaped destruction by fire Saturday morning. The hotel took fire at the roof at 10:40 o'clock from a defective flue. The flames gained considerable headway before the fire fighters work began to tell and before being extinguished, the roof was burned off and the third floor gutted. The entire building with others in the neighborhood was threatened with destruction and was only saved by the gallant work of the volunteer fire fighters and bucket brigade. The loss on the hotel will reach $1,500, covered by insurance. Proprietor C. G. Wenderoth will begin repairs to the hotel at once. The church of the Holy Cross, Spangler, will soon be in possession of a fine organ through the liberality of Andrew Carnegie. Two or three weeks ago James A. McClain, manager of the Spangler Improvement Co., wrote to Mr. Carnegie asking his help in installing an organ in keeping with their splendid church building and was gratified in receiving the reply that Mr. Carnegie would give $1,250 in consideration that the congregation would contribute a like amount for an organ costing $2,500. The liberal offer has been gratefully accepted by the congregation and the organ will be placed in position in the very near future. [Barnesboro Sentinel] The big frame hotel farm house and other adjoining buildings at Wopsononock, near Altoona, were destroyed by fire on Thursday afternoon of last week. The only person on the premises at the time was Mrs. Ellen Joy, the housekeeper. For two days, fire at the Bear Rock had threatened to destroy the hotel, but though Mrs. Joy telephoned to Altoona, the danger was not supposed to be imminent. The building contained sixty rooms and was owned by the Wopsononock Resort and Improvement company of which T. H. Greevy owned the majority of the stock. He also owned the furniture. On the loss which will reach $20,000 to $25,000, there is only $2,500 insurance. There is attached to the hotel an electric light plant valued at $7,000 and this was saved. Monday morning several veterans from Ebensburg left for a weeks' visit to some of the southern battle fields. In the party were Col. S. W. Davis, ex-Judge Barker, E. J. Humphreys, Edmund James, W. A. Jones and F. H. Barker. John D. Roberts of Johnstown joined them at Harrisburg. Steward Jones of Boston met the party in Washington and accompanied them on the trip.