NEWS: Items from The Cambria Freeman, May 13, 1904, 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 13, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 20 Prefatory Note: Most of this newspaper is completely faded. Some articles are faded to the point where there are no images on the paper to complete the sentences. Local and Personal Mrs. Robert Scanlan spent Sunday in Johnstown. Mrs. J. M. Buck of Cresson was in town on Monday. L. J. Bearer of Hastings was here on business Wednesday. A. A. Noel of near Loretto was in town on business Saturday. E. A. Gill of Vintondale was in Ebensburg on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lorenzo Driggs has returned to her home in Philipsburg. P. J. Little was in Johnstown Tuesday on professional business. L. S. Bell of Patton was a business visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. P. M. Brown of Johnstown was transacting business in this place on Monday. Messrs. L. T. Sanker and T. F. Callin of Cresson were in town on Wednesday. J. D. Bearer of Hastings and Jno. A. McGuire of Coupon were registered at the Hotel Bender on Tuesday. Miss Mary J. McDermit of Cresson was visiting friends in this place Saturday. Walter Jones, the hustling notary, has purchased a property in the West ward. Miss Minnie Kelly of Gallitzin was visiting friends in this place this week. Mrs. A. Eckenrode and daughter, Mrs. H. W. Chester, of Carrolltown were in Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mrs. Cecelia Kaylor has returned from Johnstown where she was visiting friends and relatives. Herman T. Jones offers his new house on Ogle street for sale as will be seen in another column. Bert Davis is expected to return next week from St. Louis where he has been spending a few weeks. Attorneys W. D. Lloyd and [image faded] Bell of Johnstown were transacting legal business in this place on [image faded]. Messrs. George and Oscar Kinkead and H. T. Davis witnessed the Homestead-Johnstown ball game on Saturday. Union Memorial services will be held in the Court House Sunday evening, May 29, Rev. C. W. Teasdale will deliver the sermon. Mrs. Fred D. Barker and Mrs. M. D. Kittell who were taken to a Pittsburg hospital last week are reported to be rapidly improving in health. Ward Hite of Johnstown the well known ball player who has been employed by the Cambria Steel Company has accepted the position of assistant cashier with the Spangler bank. Rev. J. Twyson Jones will address the State Association of Congregational churches in Pittsburg on Thursday next, taking for his subject, "The Need of the Positive Note in Pulpit and Pew." Webster Griffith has purchased one-fourth of the Gallagher square in the West ward from Stanton Davis. The consideration was $3200. Mr. Griffith intends erecting a couple of houses on his property. Among the out-of-town people who were transacting business in this place during the week were: M. P. Frederick, Gallitzin; Ed F. Thomas, Vintondale; Jno. A. Gunn, E. Gurius, S. Lucas and Thos. J. Graham, Patton; Wm. Ednle, Vintondale. The roster of the State Normal School at West Chester, just published, shows the following Cambria county students enrolled: Carthew, Katherine, Johnstown Connell, Agnes, Ebensburg Connell, Wilbert, Ebensburg Davis, Emma, Johnstown Leonard, Flornell, Johnstown Williams, D. W., Johnstown Williams, H. J., Johnstown Williams, J. H., Johnstown Things New in the Borough Fine weather on Thursday. An addition to the house of Wm. A. Jones. Liveryman Peaches' new sorrel driving horse. Many shade trees recently planted along our streets. A new brick pavement in front of the residence of Hon. Alvin Evans. The Ebensburg Normal School opened on Tuesday with large attendance. The Street Committee has authorized the erection of the borough scales. The score of 20 made by Out-of-Practice-McClarren at the shoot last Friday. A new 15-horse-power motor and new planing and wood working machinery at the Ebensburg Planing Mill. Bloom & Hopfer have equipped a fine plant and are prepared to turn out all kinds of work. They are leaders in their line. Bright News from Patton Mrs. W. H. Denlinger spent several days this week with friends in Pittsburg. Prof. L. S. Jones, Dean of the Hastings University and Dr. Heuther, mineralogist for the Penna. Coal and Coke, Co., attended Pawnee Bill's Wild West show last Friday. William Evans, a student of Jefferson Medical College, has returned to Patton for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sanford entertained a number of our young people at their handsome home last Thursday evening. The occasion was in honor of Miss Shoemaker, one of our most efficient and popular teachers who, owing to impaired health, has been compelled to relinquish her duties and go home to recuperate. We hope change and rest may have the desired effect and that Miss Shoemaker will return to Patton where her conduct as a woman and as a teacher have won her so many friends, socially and in the schoolroom. Miss Nan McClain and her brother, Joe, both of Spangler, rode to Patton Sunday afternoon to visit their niece, Miss Mary Harvey Lingle. The ladies of Trinity Guild held a fair and festival on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of this week for the benefit of the new church. It was well patronized and the net results were extremely gratifying to all concerned. It cost nothing to get in, but bless your heart, getting out was a different proposition. The display of fancy articles was bewildering, so daintily made and artistically arranged, how the ladies did rave over them. Of course there was nothing of real utility for the men, but no one could resist making a purchase, it was simply impossible to withstand the wonderful bargains offered. We were so fortunate as to secure several articles, not that we needed them in our business nor had any idea for what they were intended. We took them only because they were very, very cheap and besides they make nice wall decorations. The cakes, candy, ice cream and other refreshments were to the "Queen's taste," and served in the finest style. Miss Mamie Jones has been selected to take charge of the second primary room at the public schools. Miss Jones is eminently qualified to perform the duties of her new position. Miss Nora Gales left Tuesday morning for Ebensburg to attend normal school in hopes of acquiring a block of knowledge from that institution. Among the distinguished visitors at Patton last week was that handsome, whole-souled and genial gentleman, W. C. Shiffer of Big Bend. Dr. H. G. Jones, an eminent dentist of Kylertown spent Sunday with Dr. H. W. Ferguson. W. H. Denlinger, the trolley magnate of northern Cambria has been elected a director of the new trolley line running from Corwinsville to Clearfield. Talking about trolleys, why not build a line from Ebensburg to Patton? It would give the inhabitants of your sleepy old town a chance to run down to the metropolis and see what is going on in the world. Miss Francisca Ivory, a member of the educational staff of the Hastings public schools was a visitor over Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Denlinger. The Barnum & Bailey Shows Coming! Already the public is congratulating itself upon the fact that it is to have the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth this season. The date has been positively set for Tuesday, May 18, and a great crowd as well as a great circus day are anticipated. Johnstown will be the only city in this vicinity where this greatest of all big shows will exhibit this year and naturally there is a great deal of local interest in the event. Inquiries at the ticket offices of the various transportation lines elicit information that special cheap rate tickets to the show will be on sale circus day and that large numbers of people in this locality will take advantage of the opportunity to see the big exhibition. They will go expecting to see a great performance as well as a splendid exposition of zoological and other displays and judging from the unanimous verdict in the newspapers in New York city and elsewhere they will not be disappointed. The performance is original from beginning to end. It opens with a magnificent reproduction of the "Durbar at Deihi," the most gorgeous picture of Oriental pageantry and coloring ever attempted and closes with a series of sensational and hotly contested modern and ancient racing events. The intervening circus program is complete with startling novelties. A great company of 300 performers from all parts of the world present all that is best and most startling in aerial, acrobatic and equestrian feats, there is a congress of high-class mange riders from the principal circuses of Europe and forty clowns make the great hippodrome track resound with frequent and hilarious merriment. The comedy of the show is so interspersed through the performances as to relieve the excitement consequent upon the "thrillers" in the show. The greatest of these sensational acts are the marvelous feats of Volo, the Vollant, in riding the aerial arch and of the famous Ancillotti in turning a somersault on a wheel while looping the gap. The menagerie with its thirty elephants, the herd of four giraffes and its fifty cases of other rare animals is in itself a great exhibition. The models of Uncle Sam's fighting ships also attract a great deal of attention. The circus engagement will be introduced with a monster free street parade. Gallitzin Commencement The commencement exercise of the Gallitzin public schools was held in the Opera House in that town on Tuesday evening. The year ended this week has been a very successful one. The graduating class is composed of fourteen members, all of whom successfully passed the examinations and were awarded diplomas. The class is composed of the following: Eleanor Bradley; Regina Brannan; Stella Cooper; Ethel Donoghue; Theresa Lenz; Hilma Nordstrom; Ruth Troxell, Georgie Weston; Mary Yeckley, Ralph Conrad, Marcellus Anstead; John Byrne, Earl MacDonald and Francis Patcho. [The remainder of the article was too faded to read] Miller Unearths Crime Coroner E. L. Miller went to South Fork Monday night and continued the inquest over the death of James Williams, the young man found dead a mile north of the coal town some days ago. After hearing the testimony of a number of witnesses the jury empanelled some time ago returned a verdict that Williams came to his death from causes unknown, but that everything pointed to foul play. It is very probably that the case will be taken up by the district attorney and county detective who will investigate the young man's death fully. From the testimony of some of the witnesses it was learned that three unknown colored men had been seen walking up the railroad tracks the night Williams met death, in the direction in which his body was found. The young man had an engagement to call on a young lady that evening, but he did not appear at her house, nor was he seen by anyone after he left South Fork. He had on his person $18 when his friends left him but only a few cents were in his pockets when his body was discovered lying in the south fork of the Conemaugh river. Back to Merry England Herbert Goodrum of Barnesboro who left that place for his native home in England last Friday evening for the benefit of his health was tendered a banquet at the Barnesboro Inn when as a token of friendship he was presented with a gold watch and chain besides a very pretty umbrella and his wife was given an emerald ring. C. J. Wood was toastmaster and speeches were made by Charles Wood, John Clipe of Patton and M. McTaggart of Barnesboro and Barney Rice of Dubois. Messrs. Whalley, Rice and McTaggart entertained the company with songs and recitations after which the company departed for their homes. Letters Issued Estate of Peter R. Mulvehill, late of Westmont, will probated and letters issued to E. P. Martin. Estate of William Behe, late of Washington township, to F. C. George. Estate of James M. Shields, late of Johnstown, to Jacob B. Hegle. Estate of Mary Hildebrand, late of Summerhill, will probated and letters issued to Lucy J. Grove. Estate of Abraham Custer, late of Franklin, to William H. Paul. Estate of William Moter, late of Hastings, to D. M. Kirkpatrick and B. J. Waltz. Estate of James Douglass, late of Ashville, to Milton Douglass and Jacob P. Stoltz. Estate of Sarah L. Hughes, late of Johnstown, to William H. Hughes. Estate of Robert Henderson, late of Johnstown, to Johanna Henderson. Estate of Annie Keelan, late of Johnstown, to Patrick Keelan. Estate of Mary Jane Hughes, late of Cambria township, to Walter J. Davis. Estate of John L. Myers, late of Reade township, to Susie J. Myers. Estate of Mary H. Thomas, late of Johnstown, to Samuel H. Bailey. Estate of Catherine Hall, late of Portage township, to Daniel Hall. Estate of Samuel G. Smith late of Jackson township, to E. H. Smith. Estate of Steven Mystal, late of Johnstown, to F. P. Marrin. Estate of Sarah J. Zane, late of Conemaugh, to Jacob Zane. Estate of Joseph Kost, late of Johnstown, to Lawrence Kost. Knights of St. George Organize Messrs. Joseph Beiter, John Schonhardt, Frank Grosch and Nicholas Schmadel of Johnstown took part in the organization of Company C, Second Regiment, Uniform Rank, Knights of St. George at Carrolltown on Sunday. The Johnstowners named are members of Company B, Uniform Rank, etc., of that city. The organization and installation exercises were held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at Eckenrode's Hall. Fred Wiederkehr of the Altoona Company and John Schonhardt of Johnstown, being in charge. Another Altoona Sir Knight present was Stephen Murphy. Lane Lasts Well On Tuesday evening Deck Lane of this place and James Parr, the English champion, gave an exhibition of wrestling at the Cambria Theatre in Johnstown. It took the Johnny Bull fourteen minutes to find the turn for Lane. Another match has been arranged for Saturday evening, friends of Lane having wagered that he can stay with the champion for fifteen minutes.