NEWS: CAMBRIA FREEMAN; 1906; 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, 25 May 1906 Volume 40, Number 20 Items Local and Personal Ellen, the 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nelson, residing near West Branch Mine, Barnesboro, while playing on some railroad cars the other day, fell and caught her arm in a brake wheel, dislocating her elbow and fracturing her arm. The residence property of the Hon. W. C. Lingle on Beech avenue, Patton, has been purchased by George C. Yeager for a consideration of $7500. Mr. Lingle will move his family to Bellefonte in the fall, where they will reside in the future, says the Patton COURIER. Miss Mazie Lloyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lloyd of Centre street, this place, left Tuesday for Luthersville, Md., to attend the commencement exercises of the Maryland College for Women, from which institution Miss Lloyd graduated last year. Mr. Francis Slattery of Cresson who has been a student in the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia was visiting friends here in town on Monday evening. Attorney R. Edgar Leahey of Johnstown spent Sunday with his family who are spending the summer with Mrs. Leahey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peace of Julian street. Messrs. F. W. Eicher, editor of the Portage PRESS and T. J. Pierce, also of Portage, paid THE FREEMAN a pleasant call Monday while in town on business. Algernon Hines, employed as an operator at the depot in this place, is confined to his home at Cresson with a severe attack of rheumatism. Charles Hasson, Esq., of this place went to Johnstown Wednesday to look after business. He returned to the 'burg Wednesday evening. Miss Mayme Quigley, a professional nurse of Johnstown is in Ebensburg attending Hon. Alvin Evans, who has been ill for sometime. Miss Gertrude Sharabaugh accompanied by her friend of Carrolltown was visiting friends and relatives in town on Sunday. W. A. McGuire of this place was in Pittsburg Thursday having accompanied his sister who entered a college there. Deputy Register and Recorder Sherman Tibbott with his daughter, Emma, and son, Ira, were in Pittsburg Wednesday. Miss Lulu J. McKenrick who had been visiting relatives in Baltimore for a month past returned home Thursday. D. E. Park and son of Pittsburg arrived in the county seat Saturday and will remain during the summer. Mr. C. T. Roberts of this place is in Pittsburg this week attending the Knights Templar celebration. Miss Edna Lynch of Altoona spent Sunday in the Mountain City visiting among friends and relatives. Mr. A. Skelly, proprietor of the High street meat market, received a car load of fine Western cattle Tuesday. Dr. Robert Davison and wife of Pittsburg are visiting Dr. T. J. Davison and family of Julian street. Sherman Clement and Richard Tibbott were among the Ebensburg visitors in Johnstown Wednesday. Philip Jones, one of Jackson township's most prominent citizens, was in the 'burg on business Saturday. Conrad Brown of the Centre ward, this place, arrived home from college on Saturday of last week. Albert Hines, a well known farmer of Blacklick township, is in Ebensburg today on business. Ronald Darragh is home from college on a vacation. F. B. Jones of Johnstown spent Tuesday among old friends here. Miss Martha Jones of the East ward is visiting relatives in Cherrytree. David Williams of the Centre ward has been visiting relatives in Indiana. Mr. Frank Illig and wife of Carroll township visited Ebensburg Tuesday. Miss Sara Collins of Bellefonte is visiting friends and relatives in this place. Mr. R. T. McFarlane of Vintondale was in the 'burg on business on Wednesday. Miss Anna Port, of this place, spent several days the past week with friends in Altoona. Late News of County After visiting relatives and friends in St. Lawrence last week, Fred Gill, who had been working in Pittsburg for some time, left New York Monday for the Isthmus of Panama where he will help dig the big ditch, having secured a position with the United States government as a foreman of a blacksmith shop. Cresson to Get Catholic Orphanage Cresson, May 21 After much discussion and a general outlook over the possible sites of the building of the new orphanage for the Altoona diocese, Cresson has at last been chosen as the best possible location for the institution. Bishop E. A. Garvey of the Altoona diocese came to Cresson Saturday and was met by Frank Powers of this place and Mr. Powers' attorney, William Davis, Esq., of Ebensburg, when a deal was consummated whereby Bishop Garvey become the owner [2 words faded] of 15 acres of ground situated at the head of Keystone avenue, this place, the site finally chosen for the orphanage. Mr. Davis arranged the details incident to the sale. The consideration was $2,785. Sons of Vets in Charge Will Make Arrangements for Memorial Day Capt. John M. Jones Post 556 Grand Army of the Republic of this place has turned over to the Sons of Veterans the work of arranging for the observance of Memorial Day this year. It is expected Ex-Judge Harry White, of Indiana, will deliver the oration at the Court House in the afternoon. Since last Memorial Day Capt. John M. Jones Post has lost four members by death, two of whom were active workers. They were Col. Samuel W. Davis who died last June and Adjutant Valentine S. Barker who passed away a few weeks ago. The other veterans were Thomas McNamara who died at Leavenworth, Kan., and William Makin, who was burned in the fire at Webster Griffith's sawmill a month or so ago. The four veterans were laid to rest in Lloyd cemetery and their graves will be decorated for the first time on the 30th inst. The Post and sons will look after the graves of veterans sleeping in the four cemeteries in Ebensburg and vicinity – Lloyd, Holy Name and the old and new Congregational cemeteries, Munday's in Jackson township, Herman in Cambria township and others. Attorney Thomas W. Dick has been chosen Adjutant of the Post in place of Mr. Beecher to serve until January, 1907. Fire at Portage Fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, early Wednesday morning, destroyed a house owned by Thomas Pringle of Portage. Effective work by the local fire company saved the plant of the Portage bottling company on one side of the Pringle house and the Finn residence on the other. Mr. Pringle, whose property was destroyed is the Cambria County man who has gained a National reputation as a trap shooter. Fired at Engineer Charles Berry of near Lily was put in the Conemaugh lock up Friday charged by PRR Officer C. A. Parrish before Squire Crum of the railroad suburb with felonious shooting of a rather ridiculous nature. Because Engineer M. D. Parrish wouldn't run a freight train slow enough to allow Berry to walk on the track in front of it, the latter is said to have fired twice at the railroader with a revolver and then made off into the woods. Painted "Custer's Last Stand" New York, May 23 Papers found on the body of a man taken from the East river led to the belief that it was the body of John Mulvaney, the painter of "Custer's Last Stand," a picture which has been exhibited in every large city in the United States. The body was later positively identified as that of the painter by his sister, Mrs. Alice Muldoon. Mulvaney, according to his sister, had been missing from his home in Brooklyn since May 1. Death Claims Joseph P. Wilson of South Fork, Well Known Coal Operator, Dies Suddenly While testifying Wednesday before the board of viewers recently appointed by the court to assess damages in proceedings brought by the PRR looking to the condemnation of that portion of the bed of the South Fork reservoir through which its railroad passes, Joseph P. Wilson of South Fork, a well known resident, dropped dead. Neuralgia of the heart was the cause of death.