NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, August 7, 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, August 7, 1903 FALLS FROM LADDER While at work on Tuesday of this week painting the store building of Andrew Eckenrode of Carrolltown, Henry Bender, formerly of this place, was knocked from a ladder and quite seriously injured. It seems that a team tied near by broke loose and getting upon the sidewalk, overturned the ladder upon which Bender was standing. His injuries were at first deemed fatal but his recovery now seems assured. OLD SOLDIERS' REUNION Regarding the tenth annual reunion of the 133rd Regt. Penna. Volunteers together with all other old soldiers in Cambria county, to be held at Ebensburg, Wednesday, September 2, the following arrangements have so far been made: Edward Owens, Lester Larimer and J. R. Myers are the committee on contributions. The ladies of Ebensburg assisted by the Sons of Veterans will furnish a dinner to all old veterans attending. This will probably take place in the opera house. S. W. Davis, T. J. Hughes and F. H. Barker compose a suggestion committee. S. C. Reed, Dr. F. C. Jones and Lester Larimer are the committee on music. It is proposed to form an organization of the old soldiers of the county at this reunion similar to those existing in other counties. In the evening a camp fire will be held in the court house where speeches, stories of camp life, music and recitations will be heard. All the survivors of the war in Cambria county are cordially invited to attend. At 1:30 p.m. a business meeting of the 133rd regimental organization will be held in the court house. One of the features of the day, weather permitting, will be a street parade led by the Ebensburg band. Trains leave Cresson on the main line of P. R. R. for Ebensburg at 9:50 a.m., 4:05 p.m., 5:20 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. The citizens of Ebensburg are all invited to make such contributions as will guarantee the success of the reunion. The following committee of ladies has been appointed to have charge of the dinner: Mesdames F. H. Barker, W. H. Davis, W. H. Connell, Robert Scanlon, T. B. Davis, S. L. Reed, S. C. Davis, and T. B. Davison. The committee will meet this evening at the house of Mrs. Barker to consider arrangements. CAMBRIA'S NEXT SHERIFF Upon Monday last the Democrats of Cambria placed Samuel Lenhart in the field as their candidate for sheriff. Mr. Lenhart was born Jan. 9, 1866 and received his education in the public schools of Johnstown. In 1881 he started to learn the harness trade in the shop of his father with whom he was associated in business until the flood when he lost his father, mother and sister. After the flood, he started business at the old stand on Clinton street, where his grandfather started his business in the year 1841 and which was handed down to his father. The place is one of the oldest business houses in the county. Mr. Lenhart after the flood was elected to select council and served four years. At the expiration of this term of office he was elected city controller and later was elected to serve on the school board of the City of Johnstown, of which he is still a member. Items from Wilmore C. F. Lingenfelter of Klahn [Klahr], Blair county, purchasing agent for the Williamsburg paper company is in this vicinity at present buying paper wood and timber for use in the new mill in which Charles M. Schwab is interested. The price offered for hard and soft ample, white birch, beech and elm is $5.25 per cord on board P. R. R. cars at Wilmore. Jack-pine, lind, cucumber, popular and quaking ash are considerably higher in price. A Mr. Thompkins of Burnside, Clearfield county, has purchased from Robert Smith of Lilly the timber on a tract of land belonging to James Itel in the southwestern end of Portage township and a man named Butler of Summerhill is now putting up a steam saw mill on land of Hugh and William Jones, adjoining in Summerhill township, to saw this timber which in all is said to amount to 900,000 feet. The many friends of T. L. Parrish of Loretto who has been for several months a sufferer from heart disease will be pleased to learn that accompanied by his wife and his son - Raymond - he went to Pittsburg last week to take treatment from a specialist in this disease and received much encouragement and is considerably improved in health. Mrs. --- Ruth and her sister, Miss Barbara Klinger of Johnstown accompanied by Miss May McCormick came up from Johnstown on Saturday evening last to visit with the family of Mr. and Mrs. John McCormick and on Sunday accompanied by Mrs. McCormick and her daughters, the Misses Othelia, Jennie and Stella took a drive to Loretto on Sunday to hear mass in St. Michael's church, returning to Wilmore in the same evening and to Johnstown on Monday evening. Miss Mary Wallace of Altoona, accompanied by Miss Catharine Quartz of Cresson, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John McCormick. Mr. F. H. McDunn of Albert Lee, Minn., an employee of the "Cannon Ball," railroad, returned on Tuesday from a visit to his brother, Mr. P. A. McDunn of Wilmore. Messrs. George Wenderoth of Chicago and Charles Wenderoth of New York are on a visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wenderoth of Wilmore. While the writer was driving to Ebensburg on Monday morning along the road in the California woods he passed Mr. John L. Sechler and a friend who had taken shelter form a drenching rain under a large beech tree at the roadside. To the remark of the writer that it was a bad omen for the Republican candidate to be compelled to seek shelter so early in the campaign, the latter naively answered, "Yes." Mrs. ---- Evans, an aged and respected lady and an aunt of Web Griffith of your town, who lives on a farm in the southern end of Cambria township, suffered a slight stroke of paralysis a few days ago. COURTHOUSE NEWS Motion Court The regular monthly Motion Court opened here at 10 o'clock on Monday morning with Judge O'Connor on the bench. The following business was transacted: License Transfers Petition of John Ryan for the transfer of the retail license of C. A. Cypher at Hasting. Held over on account of exceptions filed. Petition of Ed L. Blum for transfer to himself of the wholesale license of Henry M. Blum, the Sun Brewery at Carrolltown. Granted. Permission was given to R. C. Edelblute of Gallitzin to move his wholesale liquor store into his new building. Petition of Peter J. Hartman for transfer to himself of the retail liquor license of Fred Dietz in Geistown, Richland township. Granted. Petition of John Westover for transfer to himself of the retail license of Michael Baker at Garman's Mills. Held over. Petition of Beriah Thurston for the transfer to himself of the retail license of James Hatton at Moss Creek in Barr township. The court held this over, he stated, on account of certain reports that had come to his ears regarding Thurston's conduct while previously holding license. Petition of Marcus Wold for transfer to him of the wholesale liquor license granted to George G. Westover in Scalp Level. License transferred. Petition of J. W. Fisher for transfer to himself of the wholesale license of J. S. Fredericks of the Twentieth ward, Johnstown. Granted. Petition and Appointments John Hahn, appointed tax collector of Elder township. T. H. Hasson, Esq., appointed auditor in the assigned estate of Margaret A. Burk and D. C. Burk. Petition of Matilda Daugherty for the discharge of her son, Leo Daugherty, from Dixmont Insane Asylum. Granted. Philip N. Shettig, Esq., appointed auditor in the estate of Henry S. Damon, deceased, late of Barr township. Petition of Elizabeth Malone for the appointment of a guardian for the estate of Mary Ann Sheehan, a woman of feeble mind, of Allegheny township. Ed A. Sheehan appointed. Charters Application of the Cresson Fire company for a charter. Granted. Applications for charters were filed by the Russian Greek Catholic Society of St. John's of East Conemaugh and Italian Queen Margherita Musical Club of Johnstown. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Miss Isabella O'Neill of Pittsburg is visiting her sisters in this place. Attorney John Kephart returned Thursday from a business trip to Pittsburg. The pupils of Miss Hattie Sharbaugh gave a delightful musical recital in Carrolltown on Thursday evening. Misses Blanche and Florence McDermott, Johnstown, are spending a few weeks in this place visiting relatives. Master Robt. Horan, little son of Mr. W. A. Horan, of Johnstown is visiting his grandparents in this place. Mr. John Parrish and family of Pittsburg are spending a few days with Mr. Parrish's parents, Squire and Mrs. J. D. Parrish of this place. H. J. Ovemberger of Patton has been selected for the upper room and Miss Katie Lantzy of Lantzy's Mills for the lower room of the St. Boniface Schools. The story of the man who froze his feet while hunting near Johnstown is accompanied by the tale that there was frost in Clearfield township last night. The frescoers have finished their work in the Catholic Church at Lilly and made a handsome lot of it. The altars, in pure white and gold finishing, are said to be especially beautiful. On last Tuesday the county commissioners awarded to the lowest bidder, J. A. Lord, of Hastings, the contract for masonry for the new bridge to be erected over the Beaver Dam Run at Beaver Dam, White township. The following bids were received by the commissioners: A. K. Huber, Patton, $3,244; Lloyd & Ronian, Ebensburg, $3,000; Ross Anthony, Blandberg, $2,383; Zeigler Brothers & Trevorrow, Somerset, $2,244.65; J. A. Lord, Hastings, $2,215.50. Mrs. C. J. Hogue of Cresson has been suffering from a very painful wound in the eye which was inflicted in a rather peculiar manner. She was holding her baby, which was playing with a rush, when the child gouged the rush into her eye, tearing out a small piece of the white. She was treated by an Altoona specialist. Supervisor Thad Eakins of Reade township was working on the public road with a road machine and six head of horses near the residence of William Shirley recently when an amusing incident occurred. Shirley has an apiary of some thirty or forty colonies of Italian bees. The honey makers evidently did not relish the presence of Eakin's men. Their pickets first charged on the horses then on the men, when all had to make a hasty but inglorious retreat and that part of the road was left for a cold day. At a well-attended meeting of miners at Patton Thursday evening of last week, Secretary-Treasurer W. B. Wilson of the United Mine Workers of America succeeded in effecting a compromise settlement of the peculiar strike which had been there in progress and on Friday morning the men returned to work. Patrick Gilday, President of District No. 2, helped Mr. Wilson in his good work. The trouble at Patton was due to the attitude of the Socialist miners, who for reasons arising from their peculiar economic creed, refused to sign papers required the authorities of the company to keep as much money from each man's pay as may be required to pay the check weighman. WE'LL HAVE A FINE LARGE POULTRY PLANT Ebensburg will soon have an up-to-date squab and poultry plant. J. S. Adams of this place is busily engaged in erecting the necessary buildings and intends to have his enterprise in running order by at least the first of October. Two buildings have already been erected and one is in course of construction. The broad house and incubator cellar are to be heated with hot water and the plant is to have all the modern improvements. The start will be made with six incubators, having a capacity of 360 eggs each. This part of the plant will be contained in the cellar which will be constructed in the near future. For raising squabs, Mr. Adams will have about 800 pairs of homing pigeons of the large variety. The brood house will have a capacity of about 1100 chicks. Besides this there will be a hennery with about 500 hens for furnishing eggs to meet the fancy winter trade. Besides furnishing eggs, poultry and squabs for the local market, Mr. Adams intends doing a large shipping business in the Philadelphia and Pittsburg markets. When completed Mr. Adams will have about the only plant run upon scientific lines in this locality.