NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1 Jun 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, 1 Jun 1906 Volume 40, Number 21 Items Local and Personal We are sorry to note that Connie Anstead of the East ward is quite seriously ill with pleurisy of the heart or something of a similar nature and it is feared an operation may have to be performed upon him. We hope that he will soon improve. Miss Annie Shields, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shields of this place left Tuesday for Philadelphia where she will enter the Presbyterian Hospital to study for a trained nurse. Rev. A. J. Welty will preach it the Christian church in this place on Sunday next (June 3rd) morning and evening. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend these services. Mr. S. M. Douglass, one of St. Augustine's prominent citizens, was among the Ebensburg visitors Thursday and paid THE FREEMAN office a pleasant call while in town. County Commissioner Charles Leventry associated with W. E. Shissler, of Johnstown, will engage in the hardware business at that place about July 1st. County Superintendent Herman T. Jones delivered an address at the dedication of the Salix academy on the afternoon of Memorial Day. Robert E. Treese and family of this place spent Sunday with Mr. Treese's parents at his former home in Duncansville, Blair county. Mrs. J. Bert Denny and son, Master John Denny, of Ebensburg were among the visitors in Johnstown Friday and Saturday. Mr. Joseph Urda drove to Johnstown Saturday and brought home a fine new rubber- tire buggy for Rev. Father O'Neill. Daniel W. James has assumed the position of Sexton of Lloyd cemetery, taking the place of Job Mills who resigned. Attorney R. E. Cresswell of Johnstown was in Ebensburg Tuesday, having stopped on his way to Strongstown. Caron Leahey of Lilly was an Ebensburg visitor Tuesday. Dr. T. M. Richards departed Tuesday morning on a business trip to Du Bois. Prof. John McCormick of Wilmore transacted business in Ebensburg Tuesday. Mr. E. H. Fenlon of Bellefonte spent Memorial Day with relatives and friends in this place. Edward Burns, of the East ward, is able to be about again after several weeks of serious illness. Mrs. M. Jennie Griffith of Ebensburg is the guest of Attorney and Mrs. John H. Brown and family in Johnstown. Miss Ada Lydick of Philadelphia is the guest of Mrs. M. D. Bearer and will remain in Ebensburg several days. Jas. G. Hasson of this place is attending a session of the United States court in Pittsburg this week as a juror. J. W. Sharbaugh of Carrolltown was in the county seat yesterday visiting his son, Attorney F. C. Sharbaugh. Mr. Thomas Bishop of Patton paid THE FREEMAN office a pleasant call while in town Tuesday on business. Late News of County William Pyles has moved from Patton to Barnesboro where he is looking after the interests of the Cresson Brewing Company. Thieves forced the lock on Philip Bender's beer vault at Barnesboro the other night and hauled away twenty-five kegs of beer. There is no clue to the thieves. W. H. Denlinger of Patton and Jas. H. Allport of Barnesboro owned the majority of the stock at the Burley Heating Company whose plant located at Grazierville, just east of Tyrone, was destroyed by fire Saturday night. The loss is several thousand dollars. J. W. Huff, of Sankertown, a carpenter for the PRR, while standing on a ladder making some repairs to the water tub on the C. & C. Division near the Cresson car shops the other day, fell a distance of twenty feet, breaking two ribs and severely spraining his left ankle. Farmer Jonathan Reese of Cambria township has sold his farm at the foot of the "Big Ridge" to Benjamin Williams and has purchased the old Mary Powell farm, containing 140 acres in the same vicinity, which he will move to. The prices in the deal have not been made public. Reuben McPherson of Clearfield, a former well known resident of Patton, has returned from a hospital down the State, where he had undergone an operation for appendicitis. His recovery seemed to be rather backward and the presence of a hard substance in the abdomen caused the Clearfield physicians to reopen the incision. From his interior they hauled out a roll of gauze cloth about four inches wide and three feet long. It is said McPherson is considering the advisability of suing for damages. Rev. Kittell to Celebrate Loretto Priest's Anniversary of Ordination to Priesthood to Be Observed Next Sunday The Rev. Father Ferdinand Kittell, pastor of St. Michael's Catholic church at Loretto will celebrate the 35th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood Sunday next. Father Kittell pursued his theological course for a long time in Rome and was elevated to the priesthood in the Basilica of St. John Latern by Mgr. Bastellacci, vice regent of the cardinal vicar. He returned to the United States and has ever since been an active worker in the Pittsburg and Altoona Diocese. The celebration of Father Kittell's anniversary will be made the occasion of a family reunion and it is expected that in addition to many personal friends, the following brothers and sisters of the well known priest will be present: Sister Mother Bernadine, assistant superior of the Sisters of Mercy, Pittsburg; Mrs. M. K. Collins of Ebensburg; Rt. Rev. Mgr. William Kittell of the cathedral, Pittsburg; Mrs. Margaret Henry of Williamsport and M. D. Kittell of this place, will also attend. Officer in Bad Mix-Up Barnesboro Man Accused to Taking Liberties with Woman Prisoner He Says It's Persecution Before Squire Thomas E. Brown of Barnesboro, Wednesday, Constable Thomas Stephenson of that place, furnished bail in the sum of $500 to answer at next term of court to charges of a widely sensational character, brought by Borough Policeman E. C. Van Buren. Stephenson technically charged with adultery is accused of maintaining in the borough lock-up illicit relations with a foreign woman whom he had arrested for larceny. At the preliminary hearing the prosecutor testified that when he and PRR Officer H. L. Crouse entered the borough bastile about 2 o'clock one morning not long since, they found Constable Stephenson and the prisoner in a compromising position in the latter's cell. In his own defense Stephenson maintains that the entire case has been trumped up to persecute him, professional jealousy being the motive. After arresting the woman on the larceny charge, he says, he decided that the lock-up was no fit place for a woman and had gone there to try to persuade her to arrange for bail so that she could go home. Van Buren and Crouse came in, he says, while he was endeavoring to so persuade her. Fire near Belsano Fire destroyed the sawmill of Harrison Wheeler near Belsano Friday night, entailing a loss of probably $3000, on which there is not supposed to have been any insurance. It is believed the blaze started from the engine. Mr. Wheeler who is from Williamsport, was cutting up the timber he purchased last fall from G. C. Mardis.