NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 8 Dec 1905; Ebensburg, 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, 8 Dec 1905 Volume 39, Number 48 Items Local and Personal With his usual smile Patrick Toohey, the election prognosticator of Marstellar, accompanied by Mr. F. J. Byrne of Barnesboro, called at THE FREEMAN office Wednesday. Mr. Toohey is attending the court as a juror and Mr. Byrne, accompanied his 12-year-old son, Warren, who was a witness before the grand jury. Mr. Bert Daughenbaugh of Dearmin, constable of Jackson township, paid this office a pleasant call Monday while in town attending to legal business. Mr. Daughenbaugh came overland, being accompanied by his wife and reports the roads as being in a very bad condition for driving. Assessor John Miller of Tunnelhill borough made his return to the county commissioners on Wednesday and after a visit to this office departed for Hastings to attend the funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Julian Miller, who died at that place Tuesday morning. Capt. "Tom" Davis, who had been confined to his home in the East ward for some time through illness is now about to be about again. The captain and his family have removed to Fenwycke Hall for the winter. Mr. Jessie Nagle, a prominent and successful farmer and granger of Clearfield township, was in Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Nagle is now serving his 12th year as constable of Clearfield township. Mr. Lemuel Troxell of Blandburg was in town Tuesday attending to matters in connection with his taking possession of the Blandburg Hotel until recently owned by S. S. Hockenberry. James T. Shank of Dunlo was in the burg on Tuesday and after attending to his business paid us a pleasant visit. "Jim" as he is familiarly called is a staunch Democrat and loves a good horse. Thaddeus Jones of Cambria township returned Wednesday night from Oregon where he had gone to accompany his sister to her home. Mr. W. I. Stineman and family of South Fork are the guests of Mrs. Stineman's father and mother, the Hon. and Mrs. Ed James. Mrs. M. D. Kittell of this place has returned from Leavenworth, where she was recently summoned through the illness of her brother. Mr. W. J. Donnelly, a well known business man of Patton, was in Ebensburg this week, accompanied by his two daughters. Mr. George Myers and little son of Pittsburg spent Thanksgiving here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Myers. The veteran, Peter Campbell of Carrolltown, dropped in to see Ebensburg friends Saturday. Miss Ada Mellon of Patton is visiting her sister, Mrs. John T. Blair of Julian street. Mrs. Bloom has moved into her comfortable new house on Horner street. Late News of County The meat market of V. J. Burns at Big Bend has changed hands, Thomas Burns being the purchaser. W. W. Baker, formerly engaged in the hotel business at South Fork and Dunlo, has purchased the Mahaney House at Latrobe. The purchase price is said to be $50,500. Frank Coleman and Henry E. Patton, two of the gang of Bell Telephone robbers, who were arrested in Johnstown last week, were given a hearing in Pittsburg Friday and were held for court in default of $1000 each. They tapped the boxes at pay stations. Charles Miller, a barber in the employ of Robert Cassidy, of this place, is confined to his home in Carrolltown with a broken arm, the result of a fall while going to work last week. While walking over an icy portion of the street at Kittell's corner, Mr. Miller lost his footing and fell, sustaining the fracture. Dr. Jones dressed the injury. Miss Ada Lloyd, daughter of Postmaster and Mrs. Fes Lloyd of Ebensburg, Monday morning of this week where several specialists will confer in regard to the state of her health. [Sentence typed as it appeared in the newspaper] Miss Lloyd has been in a delicate condition for some time and it is likely that she will undergo treatment at a Pittsburg hospital. She was accompanied by her mother and Dr. A. Fitzgerald of South Fork. H. Stewart, manager of the company store at Gallitzin, fell upon the icy sidewalks Thursday morning, striking his head against the curbstone. He was carried into the Hotel Ford half dazed, a stream of blood issuing from the back of his head. Dr. H. Howell temporarily dressed his wound and advised his removal to the hospital where speedy recovery is anticipated. Mr. Philip Anstead of the East ward is suffering from a serious attack of illness. Mr. Anstead has been suffering for some years from a tumor and has been in poor health. Some days ago he went out as a member of the commission appointed by the court to decide on the line between Blacklick and Cambria township. The weather was very inclement and Mr. Anstead contracted a severe cold. News from Blandburg Blandburg has lots of old soldiers, but no subjects or victims of starvation of Andersonville to go out and celebrate the present occasion. They were all too fleet of foot to be caught in the enemy's net. By the way every able bodied man in White township – now Reade and White – boldly marched - to the front and some of them are missing to this day. Thursday evening last week, Bert Neviling of Glen Campbell and a first-class machinist enroute for Altoona met friends here at the station, friends whom he had not seen during the last 25 years. Sunday night Mrs. Parker Scott was taken seriously ill. Friends remained with her all night and next morning a doctor was called in and at this writing, she is getting along all right. Child of Ex-Sheriff Davis has Scarlet Fever A four-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Davis of Moxham was reported to the Board of Health Friday as having scarlet fever. Summerhill Man Disappears George Harris, of Summerhill, has disappeared and it is supposed that he either fell off the stone bridge west of that place while on his way home from the West End Hotel where he was last seen Wednesday night of last week, or that he was hit by a train and knocked off the bridge. Efforts will be made to find the man's body by exploding dynamite in the Little Conemaugh. A party searched toward Johnstown for the body. They have already hunted as far as South Fork. Harris has a wife and four children. He was last seen on the way home from the hotel Wednesday night of last week about 8 o'clock. Buys Grist Mill F. E. Farabaugh has purchased the grist mill at Patton conducted by Gray & Felton and has taken possession of the property. Mr. Farabaugh will handle flour, feed, baled hay, etc. The consideration given for the establishment has not been made known. Change in Sisterhood at Ebensburg It is stated that for the Catholic orphanage, which will probably be located in the former mother house of the Sisters of St. Joseph at Ebensburg, a new order of nuns will be located at the county seat and will have charge of the proposed institution. Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County At last we are to have an exhaustive and comprehensive history of Cambria county. Mr. Storey, the editor in chief of the work, has pursued his historical and antiquarian investigations for years and his reputation as a tireless worker and his literary ability is well known. The work is to be one in which the history of this famous region will be faithfully narrated from the earliest settlement down to the present time. In addition to the historical narrative proper, covering the county as a civil division and its various towns and villages. Chapters will be given to social customs in the early mode of living, the making of roads, the erection of public buildings from time to time, the newspapers, the old inns, historic churches, schools, academies and etc. Associated with Mr. Storey in the work is Mr. John W. Jordan, L. L. D. of the historical society of Pennsylvania. Mr. Jordan will have charge of the genealogical part of the work. His reputation as an authority on historical and genealogical matters is looked forward with pleasure to the publication of the work. Mr. C. R. Constable is now in Ebensburg gathering genealogical data for the work and we trust that the citizens whom he has been asked to call on will give him all the information possible and assist in every means in their power to make the work worthy of the historical region of which it treats. Buffalo Bill Gets New Job London, Dec. 6 Colonel William F. Cody has been officially appointed instructor to the balloon companies of the Royal Engineers. Tells How He Did It Mark Twain Attains 70 Years and is Feted by His Loving Friends New York, Dec. 6 Mark Twain was the guest of honor last night at a dinner at Delmonico's given by Colonel George Harvey in honor of the humorist's 70th birthday. The guests were confined closely to writers of imaginative literature and about 170 authors were present, nearly half of them women. During the dinner a congratulatory cable message was received from England signed by 40 of the most distinguished writers there. President Roosevelt and Joel Chandler Harris sent letters. Colonel Harvey introduced Mark Twain who spoke on how to get to be 70 and not mind it. When Mark Twain arose to speak he could not proceed for several minutes on account of the cheers that were given in greeting. He said: Moment of Triumph Arrives "The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven–terraced summit and look down and teach – unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to the great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time and now at last I have the right. "I have achieved my 70 years in the usual way – by sticking strictly to a scheme of my life which would kill anybody else. It sounds like an exaggeration but that is really the common rule for attaining old age. We have no permanent habits until we are 40. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since 40 I have been regular about going to bed and getting up – and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. Compelled to Quit Mince Pie "In the matter of diet –which is another main thing – I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself but last spring I stopped frolicking with mince pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For 30 years I have taken coffee and bread at 8 in the morning and no bite nor sup til 7:30 in the evening. "As for drinking I have no rule about that. When the others drink, I like to help; otherwise I remain dry by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. You let it alone. Strongly Opposed to Exercise "I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; I am always tired. "I have lived a severely moral life. But it would be a mistake for other people to try that or for me to recommend it. Very few would succeed. You have to have a perfectly colossal stock of morals and you cannot get them on a margin; you have to have the whole thing and put them in your box. Morals are an acquirement – like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis – no man is born with them. I wasn't myself. I started poor. "Three score years and ten! "It is the scriptural statute of limitations. After you that owe no active duties, for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time- expired man to use Kipling's military phrase. You have served your term, well or less-well and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated; compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle call but "Lights out." You pay the time worn duty bills if you chose or decline if you prefer – and without prejudice for they are not legally collectible." ENGAGEMENTS Underwood-Kinkead A January wedding of wide local interest will be that of Miss Mary P. Kinkead, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Kinkead of Johnstown and James Irwin Underwood of Renova, Pa. The ceremony, the exact date of which has not been set, will be performed at the home of the bride-elect by the Rev. Dr. C. C. Hays, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Miss Kinkead, who has a wide circle of friends both in Johnstown and in Ebensburg where she formerly lived, has been for the past several years a teacher in the Johnstown public schools, having charge at present of one of the rooms in the Somerset street building. Friday she filed with the president of the Board of School Controllers her resignation to take effect December 22d. Mr. Underwood holds the responsible position of train dispatcher for the PRR at Renova. Davidson-Kratzer The Pittsburg papers contain the announcement of the approaching wedding of Miss Nettie May Kratzer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kratzer to Dr. Robert E. Davidson, a son of Dr. Thomas J. Davidson of Ebensburg. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride in Glenfield, a fashionable suburb of Pittsburg. DEATHS Charles Prough John Connor, 26 years old, shot and killed Charles Prough, 35 years old, at Prough's house in Altoona last week. Twelve shots were fired. Mrs. Connor could not live with her husband, it is said, and went to keep house for Prough, whose wife died some time ago. Connor's protests were unheeded.