NEWS: Cambria Freeman; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA; May 1908 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 8 May 1908 Volume 42, Number 19 Local and Personal Mrs. Esteban Duque de Estrada, wife of the city engineer of Havana, Cuba, was the guest of her daughter at Miss Galaher's (sic) school over Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Duque de Estrada will return to Cuba next week, leaving her daughter with Miss Gallaher for several years. Mr. F. K. Fitler, a much esteemed summer resident of this place, arrived here Wednesday morning with his man, who will remain here and put the Fitler residence in shape for occupancy. The Fitler family will come here when the weather settles. Dr. W. F. Burgoon of Pittsburg is sojourning at the Bender Hotel. The doctor is a descendant of early pioneers of the county. It was to visit his great grandmother on a sick call that Father Gallitzin made his first trip to what is now Cambria County. Mrs. J. Twyson Jones and Mrs. Fred Tate of Ebensburg are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome F. McCleary in Johnstown, having gone to attend the annual meeting of the County Sabbath School Association. Mr. John Leahy and son of Lilly had business in Ebensburg Friday and we were glad to meet them. Mr. Leahy is one of the most prominent men in the coal trade in this section and has been for many years. E. S. Mackall and Miss Ida Carney of Conemaugh came here Monday and will attend the Summer Normal School which opened here Tuesday morning in the Ebensburg School building. After a few days stay in Johnstown with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John T. McGahan of Cambria City, Mrs. Rose O'Hara returned to Ebensburg last week. Ex-County Commissioner William S. Stutzman and his brother, Jacob, of near Johnstown, drove up to Ebensburg last week and purchased a draft horse from A. Skelly. Miss Galaher was a guest of the Westmoreland County Branch of the Indiana Normal Alumni at a banquet in Greensburg last week. Mrs. Katharine Daugherty who has been very ill for some weeks is gradually sinking and her death is momentarily expected. Miss Helen Barker, who is attending Wilson College, returned to her home in this place last week where she is spending a short vacation. Miss Thecla Shoemaker who recently underwent an operation in a Pittsburg hospital has returned home much improved. Mr. David Davis of Morrelville has been visiting his brother, William Davis, in this place. Burgess Thomas H. Callan of Cresson was in Ebensburg yesterday and paid THE FREEMAN office a pleasant call. Dr. W. R. Heiser, James Dunn Esq. and John Bager of Nantyglo were visitors in town Monday. Landlord Coon Wenderoth of Cresson departed Tuesday for a business trip to Montana. J. W. Gill of Coalport was in Ebensburg Wednesday. Mrs. Charles Makin has been ill with mumps. Local Happenings Mr. George W. Davis of Cambria Township who recently sold his farm has purchased a home from L. F. McKenrick which adjoins the property of F. W. Ream in the East ward and will move thereto. Alex Lawrence, a miner employed at Nantyglo, accidentally cut one of his fingers Sunday. He severed an artery and is very weak from the loss of blood. Mr. Joseph Weakland has taken charge of the old Evan Evans (sawyer) farm in Cambria Township. We hope he will make a success of it. Robert Gillen, undertaker Jeff Evans' competent assistant, has been laid up with measles. Too bad, Robert. Postmaster J. G. Lloyd of this place has been quite ill for a few days, but we are glad to learn is improving. Burglary in Summerhill The Store of Will Kirby Entered on Saturday Night About Two Hundred Dollars Worth of Goods Stolen The store of William Kirby near the bridge of the PRR at Summerhill was entered by burglars on Saturday night last and goods in the value of about $200 were carried off. Entrance was made through a window at the end of the building facing the office formerly occupied by Dr. Stott, the frame on which was an iron grating or iron rods, having been pried out. This was easily done without causing alarm as Mr. Kirby lives a considerable distance away, hence there was no one near to hear the noise. Mr. Kirby's store was burglarized last summer but that time the burglar was caught, the goods principally recovered, and the burglar went to penitentiary. He was detected by PRR Agent Rubine of Summerhill, recognizing a pair of pants he wore as belonging to Harvey Long who was then moving to Altoona, and the car in which his household goods were awaiting shipment to Altoona was broken into and the pants and several other articles and papers of value were stolen. The thief wore the pants under another pair, but the band of them projected higher than the outside garment and the keen eyes of the agent detected them. Judge Barker Buys Large Touring Car A Forty-Horse Power Auto to Carry Seven People Ex-Judge A. V. Barker and his son, Fred D. Barker, Esq. last week went to Philadelphia where they bought a handsome forty-horse power touring car, and procuring the services of a competent chauffeur, went to Atlantic City where Mrs. Fred Barker and children had been sojourning and started home by way of Gettysburg battlefield, where they spent some time in taking in the sights of that historic spot. The party arrived in Ebensburg today. Located at Nant-y-Glo Ed Cassidy Starts a Barber Shop in Coal Town Edward Cassidy, son of Barber R. V. Cassidy, of this place, and competent tonsorial artist, has started a barber shop in Nant-y-Glo. Successful at Mine Examinations Local Applicants Passed at Recent Quiz, Appoints Now in Order Among the successful candidates for mine foreman and fire boss at the recent examination for the Sixth Bituminous District of Pennsylvania recently held are the following: James R. Dunmire, mine foreman, first class, South Fork; mine foreman, Charles Smethhurst and Harry Fessler, second class, South Fork; for fire boss, John Maloy, Ehrenfeld, John Robson and James B. Dunsmire, South Fork and James T. Parks of Beaverdale. Nantyglo Carpenter's Accident Nantyglo, May 4 -- A slide down a long steep roof and a fall of thirty feet to the ground, resulting in a dislocation of his right ankle, was the experience of D. B. Dearmin, a well known carpenter of this place. Mr. Dearmin was working this morning on a new house being erected by Jas. Dunn and one of the supporters on the roof gave way. That he was not more seriously injured is remarkable. Dr. Barr attended him. Umbrella Mender Found Dead Lilly, May 4 -- The unknown umbrella mender whose lifeless body was found this morning in the fanhouse of the Moshannon mines of the Leahey coal company near this place is not believed to have been a victim of murder. It is the general belief that the man who Saturday evening was seen in an intoxicated condition was literary roasted alive by the heat coming from a steam pipe against which he was resting when he took his long and fatal sleep.