NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 5 May 1905; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 5 May 1905 Volume 39, Number 17 News Local and Personal Mamon Meyers of Dale Borough has resigned his position as deputy Register and Recorder and left Wednesday for Johnstown. Mr. Meyers expects to enter the mercantile business with a brother in Monessen, Westmoreland county. Carl Kanmer, one of the clerks in the Recorder's office, has been promoted to fill the vacancy. George Dunnegan of Harrisburg was in the County Capital several days this week attending the funeral of his niece, Miss Nannie Bender. Mr. Dunnegan was a welcome visitor at the office of THE FREEMAN yesterday. He returned to the State Capital last night. Mrs. Bloom of Water street has sold her house and half of the lot to William Hopfer of the firm of Bloom & Hopfer who will occupy the same as soon as Mrs. Bloom can have a house built on the Horner street end of the lot. The consideration was $1,000. P. J. Campbell of Portage drove to Ebensburg on business Thursday. Roy E. Brillhart, the station agent of the PRR at Hastings for several years, has been transferred to Vintondale. F. E. Farabaugh of Patton has announced himself as a candidate for county Commissioner on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Farabaugh is a staunch Democrat and will likely make a good showing in the campaign. The six-round boxing contest between George Rogers and James Plowden of Spangler will be pulled off in the Hastings Opera House on Saturday evening. There will be two preliminary bouts of local fistic artists. Joseph H. Hubbard of Patton has been awarded the contract for the erection of the new National Bank building at Cherrytree. The structure will be 44 by 75 feet built of brick, with brown stone front and will cost in the neighborhood of $20,000. Clarence Ridge and M. E. Stedman were before Justice A. J. Waters yesterday morning charged with maintaining a gambling house and violating the liquor laws. They were brought to Ebensburg by a Barnesboro constable Tuesday evening. Both men have been held for court in default of $500 bail. Edward R. Dunegan of St. Augustine was in town Wednesday. Mr. Dunegan it will be remembered was clerk in the office of commissioners when the present court house was built. He was also at one time one of the most enthusiastic baseball fans in Ebensburg and he hasn't forgotten the game yet by any means. He is well known and has hosts of friends in town as well as all over the county. Constable Pat Kelly of Carrolltown has gone to Baltimore where he will have an operation performed on one of his legs which has been giving him considerable trouble lately. Some years ago he had his leg injured by a rock falling on it. The injury apparently healed up, but about six months ago it began to bother him again. Mr. Kelly was accompanied to the hospital by his son, John. While fixing the fire the other evening, Maggie, the twelve-year-old daughter of Mrs. Daniel Quinn of Tunnelhill had a narrow escape from being burned to death. Her clothing took fire and was completely burned from her body. Several men in the neighborhood succeeded in quenching the flames which set the house afire, before much damage was done. The child escaped without any serious injuries. John Davis, (mason), of this place caught ten large cat fish and an eight-inch trout at Lake Rowena last Saturday. Adam Bauers, familiarly known as the "Burgess of Bugtown" was here Tuesday drumming up his candidacy for Poor Director. Charles Boyle of Sedalia, Mo., who had been in this vicinity visiting with his parents for some time, has departed for his home. Ossie Wilkinson of the marble and granite firm of J. Wilkinson & Son of this place paid Johnstown a business visit Tuesday. William Fisher of Big Bend was lodged in jail here Monday, charged with cruelty to animals and violations of the livery laws. The plaintiff is a liveryman at Big Bend. D. A. McGough who had been spending the last two weeks with his mother at Lovett has returned to his home. His mother, who has been critically ill for some time, is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peach of Ebensburg were in town Wednesday in attendance at the funeral of the latter's father, William Bagley, who was interred in St. Joseph's cemetery near here. (Carrolltown cor. Gallitzin TIMES) Policeman Jack Finn was obliged to shoot Deputy Sheriff M. D. Bearer's fine Scotch collie dog the other day. The animal had bitten several children about town and Mr. Bearer did not consider it safe for him to run at large longer. John McKnight of Tunnelhill had his foot crushed by being caught by a fall of coal in the Birdeye mine of the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co., Tuesday morning. He was removed to his home and given medical attention. He is getting along nicely at this writing. A. J. Donnelly, proprietor of the Bon Ton Store, Patton, is in New York this week in attendance at the H. B. Chapin Co.'s million dollar sale of general merchandize and will purchase an immense line of up-to- date spring and summer goods with which to more fully equip his already popular establishment. Friday evening William and Webster Griffith of this place left for an extended trip through Iowa and other parts of the West. They have many relatives in that state and if prospects seem favorable will likely locate there in the near future. Their interests here were sold by them recently and the farm owned by Webster Griffith has been leased. Hastings News Hastings, May 4th The town of Westover is greatly excited over the prospect of an oil find in that vicinity. A company has been chartered and is drilling several test holes just outside the borough limits. John Douglass of Moss Creek was a Sunday visitor in town. Rice & Davis Consolidated Shows will exhibit here on Friday, May 5th. The work on the borough water plant is being pushed to an early completion and if the weather permits will be completed by June 1st. Our public schools have entered upon the last month of the term. Prof. L. S. Jones, who has been the principal for several terms, will take up the study of law the coming summer. Miss Francena Ivory of Barnesboro called on friends in town on Sunday. Messrs. C. C. Adams and H. W. Chester of Carrolltown were in town on Sunday afternoon. Cresson Cuttings Cresson, May 4 This town is about to enjoy a building boom which will be a godsend to the community. No town in the county has been so scarce of houses and frequently people have been compelled to wait for months and months before they could move here in order to get a place to even store their household goods. A large number of new houses will be built this summer and all of them of the best class. Among those planned are the following: Walter Little, one; Samuel McCullen, one; P. M. Brown, three; Robert Smith, five. A number of other houses are also being planned and will probably be built. J. W. Buck & Co., a firm recently organized for the purpose, will erect a handsome opera house here this season. It will be located on a lot recently purchased for that purpose, opposite Lynch's livery stable. Cashier Empfield of the First National Bank is negotiating for the purchase of the Anderson Hotel from Conrad Wentroth, the present proprietor. The deal has not yet progressed far enough that its accomplishment can be predicted. William O'Neill, formerly a clerk for the railroad company here, has resigned his position to become bookkeeper for the Cresson Springs Brewery Company. Ebensburg Commencement Exercises The commencement exercises of the Ebensburg public schools will be held in the court house Tuesday evening, May 16th, when the class of twelve will appear as follows: J. Russell Leech, Valedictorian; Lawrence Davis, Salutatorian; Russell M. Evans, Class Historian; Alonzo Lehman, Will; Edwin Englehart, Select Oration; Morrison Lewis, Prophesy; Clark Reese, Oration; Marion Jones, Instrumental Solo; Mabel Jones, Vocal Solo; Albert Luther, Instrumental Solo; Catherine Apel, Recitation; Hattie Pruner, Essay. The Ebensburg Orchestra will furnish select music for the occasion and Misses Luther and Marion Jones will render a duet on the piano. The diplomas will be presented by S. L. Reed, Esq. Circus Coming Once Again Ebensburg is to have a real live circus within a couple of weeks. The advance agent of Welsh Bros. & Sawtelle was in town Wednesday arranging a place for the coming exhibition and the advance posters will say that the elephant will be here Saturday, May 27th. Admitted to Superior Court District Attorney J. W. Leech and John E. Evans, Esq., both of Ebensburg, were Tuesday admitted to practice before the Superior Court at Pittsburg. Mr. Leech was admitted upon motion of Harvey Roland, Esq. while Mr. Evans' name was presented by his father, the Hon. Alvin Evans. Open Every Day Now L. G. Hornick, the Johnstown photographer, who conducts a studio in Ebensburg, has installed a photographer here in the person of N. W. Blough, one of Mr. Hornick's able assistants from the Johnstown studio. Mr. Blough will remain in Ebensburg and patrons will find the studio open daily now. Heretofore, Mr. Hornick devoted only a day or two of each week to his Ebensburg trade. Robbed of $5,000, He Says A sensation was sprung in Patton Saturday when Jacob Thomas, a hardware man and lumber dealer announced that he had been held up and robbed of $5,000 several months ago on the outskirts of that town. A sleek confidence man had been staying in Patton for a month or more at that time and he succeeded in getting Thomas interested in a real estate deal near Thomas' Mills. A valuable farm, with considerable timber and coal, he said, could be bought for $10,000. Thomas agreed to become a partner. He drew $5,000 from the bank and the two started in a buggy, carrying the money in a satchel. When they reached the woods on the outskirts of town, two masked men with revolvers held them up and relieved them of their money. That evening Thomas' partner disappeared and has not been seen since. Thomas had $200 in his pocket, he says, which the robbers did not get. Million Dollar Plant To Be Built at Newell, W. Va., to Manufacture Pottery East Liverpool, O., May 3 The North American Manufacturing company owners of Newell W. Va., opposite this city, last night decided to construct in Newell a kiln pottery with warehouse and shop capacity, the largest in the United States. The new industry is to be a million dollar enterprise and work upon its construction will be commenced at once. The men interested in the plant are the most successful pottery manufacturers it the United States – Joseph G. Lee, secretary of the Knowles, Taylor and Knowles Pottery company; the Harker Brothers, Edwin M. Knowles, President; E. M. Knowles China Company, W. E. Wells, secretary-treasurer; Homer Laughlin China company and others. This move clinches the center of the pottery industry for this city and means the beginning of the concentration of pottery manufacture on a basis similar to the iron industry. Pottery will be made on a large scale with lesser profits than heretofore. Boy Dies of Hydrophobia Canine's Bite was Inflicted on Lad's Arm Last December The Wound Had Healed Nicely Lawrence, the 16-year-old son of Samuel Kelly, a prominent real estate man of Chest Springs, died at the home of his parents in Chest Springs Saturday morning in awful agony as a result of having been bitten in the arm by a stray dog some time last December. The canine did not show any symptoms of rabies at the time and little attention was paid to the boy's wound. The laceration healed and gave the victim no further trouble until about a week ago when symptoms of hydrophobia appeared. The lad suddenly became possessed of an insatiable thirst and the arm which had been bitten by the dog became greatly swollen. His condition soon developed into violence and Drs. Somerville and Rice, who where in attendance, were obliged to administer chloroform but nothing could be done to save the boy's life. The physicians say the case has been one of the most violent ever brought before their notice. About a year ago the boy was shot through the arm bitten by the dog while out hunting with his father.