NEWS: Cambria Freeman; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA; Mar 1908

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 20 Mar 1908
Volume 42, Number 12


Local and Personal 

Mr. Frank Cassidy of Altoona visited his brother, Mr. R. V. Cassidy of this place on 
Sunday. Like his brother, our well-known tonsorial artist, Mr. Cassidy is also a barber.

Miss Catharine Ivory, assistant principal of the Patton schools, spent Sunday with her 
brother-in-law and sister – Mr. and Mrs. Elmer F. Dimond of this place.

Mr. C. A. Cauffield, a former Johnstown typo, is now employed in the FREEMAN office.

Mr. W. H. Denlinger of Patton was in Ebensburg on Thursday afternoon attending the 
suit of Fred Moore vs. The Northern Cambria Street Railway Company of which company 
he is an official and while here paid THE FREEMAN office a pleasant call.

Mrs. Catharine Dougherty, an aged and respected resident of the West Ward, is 
seriously ill at her home.

Squire Thomas Brown of Barnesboro was brought up on an attachment for failure to 
appear at court as a witness.  He purged himself of contempt of court and was ordered 
to pay the costs of the attachment.

Poor Directors Hertzog and Cunningham came to Ebensburg this morning to view the 
damages to the barn on the poor farm and arrange for repairing same.

Charles Hasson Esq. is confined to his home by sickness.

Henry Friedhoff of Johnstown was a business visitor to Ebensburg yesterday.

W. A. Kessler of Homestead was in Ebensburg on Tuesday.  Mr. Kessler is president of 
the Loretto Club of Allegheny County.

Frank Jones, Republican aspirant for the nomination for County Commissioner, was in 
Ebensburg on Monday, circulating among the voters of his particular faith.


Samuel Whanebacker

Altoona, Pa., March 19 -- Fleeing from railroad officers, Samuel Whanebacher, aged 
twenty, of Bennington, jumped over a steep embankment to escape arrest for 
trespassing and landed on a pile of ballast twenty-five feet below, fracturing his hip and 
sustaining internal injuries which may cause his death.


Doings of 50 Years Ago! - extracts 

The Hon. Edward Everett delivered a great oration on the character of Washington in 
Harrisburg on Friday.

There is said to be a law in Mexico that if one man kills another in a duel, he must pay 
all his debts.

Mexican papers are filled with details of civil war.

The connection between the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago and Penna. Rail Roads 
has been established.  The trains connect at the Central Company's depot.

Hon. Wm. Wilkins has reported a bill in the Senate for the absolution of the tonnage tax.

The Committee of Ways and Means have made a lengthy and able report urging the sale 
of the balance of the State Canals.
[snip]

A delegation of Sioux Indians from Minnesota passed over the PRR last week on their 
way to see the President.
[snip]

Fifty years ago the ladies were once more beginning to wear hoop skirts which fashion 
was much opposed.  The item above quoted proves that they were at that time a new 
innovation.