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, 29 May 1908 Volume 42, Number 22 Local and Personal Mr. and Mrs. Robert Danvir, who have been in Kentucky since February 5th, returned to their home in this place Saturday. Mrs. Danvir will remain here while Mr. Danvir will return to Kentucky in about two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Danvir were employed at the camp of the Clearfield Lumber company to do the cooking for the employees of that company. C. R. Jones, manager of the New York Bargain Store, is moving the goods of the firm from the old stand into the new building - the Pruner property – on High Street which has been recently remodeled and fitted up with modern conveniences, including a glass front in both the first and second stories. R. F. Lee, Demonstrator of the Agricultural Department of the State of Pennsylvania, was yesterday and today at the Poor farm, attending to the duties of his office. Among the Ebensburg people in Johnstown Saturday to see the Joyful Jonnies lambaste (sic) Harrisburg were Postmaster Bob Lloyd, Harry A. Englehart and James Rush. A Piano and Violin Recital will be given by Miss Eleanor Earnest and Miss Elsie McKenrick on Wednesday evening, June 10th at Fenwycke Hall. Mrs. Oldham, wife of the Rev. W. H. Oldham of Ohio, formerly of this place, is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Davison of the Centre ward. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Roberts returned home from Pittsburg where they were attending the wedding of their son, Dr. F. B. Roberts Saturday. W. H. Pruner, Ebensburg's popular painter, has gone on a business trip to Pittsburg. His daughter - Miss Emma - accompanied him. Miss Evelyn Parrish, manager of Postal Telegraph office in this place, returned Wednesday from a two weeks visit in Pittsburg. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lehman returned to their home in this place Monday after a few days visit with relatives in Johnstown. Charles Cauffield, formerly employed as a typo in this office, was a visitor in Ebensburg on Saturday and Sunday last. Charles Davison of this place has been assisting his brother-in-law, H. A. Morris, in his drug store at Barnesboro. Miss Alice Maloney of the Center ward visited friends in Johnstown and vicinity several days this week. Ed McConnell, an employee of THE FREEMAN office, spent Sunday with his parents at his home in Lilly. George Wismiller of Summit paid THE FREEMAN office a pleasant call Tuesday while in town on business. Harry Connell of Latrobe visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Connell, in this place Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Boney and Mrs. C. H. Barker of Ebensburg visited friends in Johnstown Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scanlan and children of this place visited friends at Hollidaysburg Sunday. Henry Clemens of Shamokin, Pa., visited his sister, Mrs. C. W. Port in this place Sunday. Miss Laura Parrish arrived home this week, having finished a successful school term in Spangler. Attorneys John W. Kephart and Frank J. Hartman of Ebensburg were in Johnstown Saturday. H. H. Myers Esq. is having a new porch erected in front of his office on Center Street. F. W. Gurley of Pittsburg is visiting his brother, George Gurley, in this place this week. Richard Tibbott of the East ward lost a valuable jersey cow by death one day last week. S. L. Reed Esq. returned home Sunday from a business visit to Philadelphia. Hon. A. V. Barker returned home Monday from a business visit to Pittsburg. Misses Gladys and Olive Parrish spent several days last week in Spangler. Mrs. J. D. Parrish celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday on Wednesday. Earned a Rest Gallitzin Coal Official Granted Leave of Absence by Two Companies Valentine Eichenlaub of Gallitzin, the general manager of the Taylor & McCoy Coal and Coke company and the Glen White Coal and Lumber company, has been granted an indefinite leave of absence in order that he may take a much needed rest. Owing to his strict devotion to duties, Mr. Eichelaub's (sic) health has become impaired and he hopes to be benefited by a rest. He will tour eastern and southern cities. Mr. Eichenlaub has been in constant service in the coal business for the last 42 years, beginning as a miner and working his way step by step to the position of general manger of the two companies. L. C. Donough and F. B. McNeelis have been appointed acting superintendents respectively of the Glen White and the Taylor & McCoy operations. Baptisms in a Running Brook On Sunday last Rev. N. Frank Boyer, pastor of the United Evangelical Church, at Somerset, admitted ten young people to membership in that church by the ceremony of immersion. The ceremony was performed in Kimberly Run, a small stream east of town. It is rather unusual in this day for any pastor to perform the ceremony of immersion in a running brook. Osman Bailed Out Man Arrested for Showing Obscene Pictures Released from Jail On Friday evening last O. H. Osman, who had been committed to jail by Squire Waters the Wednesday preceding in default of $300 bail, secured a bondsman in the person of J. F. McKenrick, Esq. and was immediately released from jail. Harry Wilson Arrested Charged with Exhibiting an Indecent Picture Harry Wilson, clerk for O. H. Osman, was arrested on Monday last on information of the latter, charged with exhibiting an indecent picture to boys of the town. He was taken before Squire Oliver Evans, where F. H. Barker went on his bond for his appearance at court. This is an outcome of the arrest of Osman on a similar charge last week, the latter claiming that it was Wilson and not he who showed the picture to young men. Be that as it may if Osman had not had the card in his possession, Wilson would have not have found it in his desk and both would have been saved a great deal of trouble and disgrace and the community would not have been disgusted with the filthy exposure. Ebensburg to Johnstown in Forty-Five Minutes Ex-Judge A. V. Barker's fine new automobile was gliding around the streets of Ebensburg Monday afternoon and greatly puzzled some citizens who saw it minus the rear body and from appearances judged the machine had been damaged in an accident. The chauffeur, David B. James, had removed the tonneau for a try out spin and with Dr. Walter F. Burgoon hanging on for dear life went sailing over the eighteen miles from Ebensburg to Johnstown in forty-five minutes, which is good time. Schwab to have Grand Mausoleum Steel Magnate to Erect Magnificent Piece of Sculpture in Loretto It is reported that Charles M. Schwab is in the near future to erect a magnificent family mausoleum in St. Michael's cemetery, Loretto, at a cost probably exceeding $100,000. Ossie Wilkinson of this place has the contract but when approached about the matter said that he would give nothing out for publication until the job shall have been completed. Luke Crauley Dead Luke Crauley, who was, it is said, accidentally stabbed while acting as peacemaker in a fight between his half-brother - Andrew Crauley - and another man died at the Memorial Hospital in Johnstown on Wednesday evening. Andrew Crauley, it is said, did the cutting in his efforts to stab his opponent. A Recent Visit to Loretto Our Reporter Pays a Visit to Town Founded by the Apostle of the Alleghenies (Continued From Last Week) Father Gallitzin Locates at Loretto Charmed with the location, the simplicity and the faith of the people and the healthfulness of the locality, far removed from the hustle and turmoil and pride and pomp and sin of the world with which he was disgusted, Father Gallitzin believed that here was an ideal place to found a colony as a retreat where all might live a peaceful holy life and life's fitful dream at an end, secure a happy immortality. Moved by this impulse and at the request and seconded by the petitions of the people of the McGuire settlement, he sought and obtained of his ecclesiastical superior, Rt. Rev. John Carroll, first Bishop of Baltimore and of the United States, permission to locate in the place of the desire of his heart as a missionary priest. So in July, 1799, we find him, - the son of a Russian prince and a German countess, the heir of wealth and rank and power – fleeing not only from the pomp of the palaces of the great according to the world, but from ecclesiastical preferment as well, for ecclesiastical preferment, he could have had, but declined – immured in a lonely settlement, intent on ministering to the spiritual wants of his people and projecting a little log church, 20 by 44 feet, which was used for the first time on Christmas Day, 1799, in which the Gloria in Excelsis rang out as grandly and as gloriously on the frosty air on that winter morning as it ever did in the grandest cathedrals in the world. Besides attending to the spiritual wants of his people, Father Gallitzin took a deep interest in their temporal welfare. While he had it at his command, he used the money he received from Europe for the good of religion and for the advancement of his colony. His people were aided pecuniarly and it is said that in all he expended from $140,000 to $150,000, but his income having been cut off when it became known in Russia that he had become a Roman Catholic, and his sister having married a spendthrift, he was deprived of the aid she had formerly extended to him, so that he was reduced to penury and was obliged to appeal to the public to aid him to pay debts contracted for his people. The Founding of Loretto The town of Loretto was laid out in 1799, the streets bearing the names of saints as St. Mary's, St. Joseph's, etc. To encourage the building up of the town a proviso was inserted in the deeds of lots requiring the purchaser of a lot to build thereon within a specified time – not exceeding two years – a good log house with shingle roof, not less than 16 by 20 feet, of two stories with two rooms and with a good fire place in one end. The first house of Father Gallitzin's was 14 by 16 feet with a good shingle roof and in this he lived like a prince. Soon the little log church became too small for the growing population and an addition was added and in 1830 a frame church, 40 by 90 feet was erected, Father Gallitzin aiding in the construction by manual labor as a carpenter. This church, having fallen to decay was razed in 1891, much to the regret of the present rector, Father Ferdinand Kittell who much desired to preserve it. Pastors Succeeding Father Gallitzin Rev. Father Paul H. Lemke was the first successor of Father Gallitzin in the pastorate of St. Michael's, his pastorate existing until 1844. Luke Gallitzin Lemke was a remarkable man. Early in life a soldier – a volunteer in the Prussian army to repel the invasion of Napoleon I from 1813 and after the battle of Waterloo in 1815, he after the war studied for the ministry of the Lutheran Church and became a minister of that denomination, subsequently becoming a Catholic and determining to devote his life to the service of his countrymen in America, he emigrated to the U. S. and became associated with Father Gallitzin in 1834. After his pastorate at Loretto he founded the Benedictine monastery at Carrolltown – the first of the order in America - and there his remains are interred. An interesting biographical sketch of Father Lemke is published in "Souvenir of Loretto Centenary." From 1844 to 1852 Rev. Hugh P. Gallaher, a native of Ireland and a man of remarkable force of character and executive ability was the pastor. (To Be Continued) Doings of 50 Years Ago! - Extracts From the Mountaineer, May 27, 1858 [snip] A Concert – Some of our young friends have been spending their time very pleasantly and profitably in the acquisition of musical knowledge. On Monday evening they gave a concert before a few of their friends. The band consists of Masters A. McGuire, F. Kittell, W. Magehan, A. Shoemaker, A. McDermitt and Robert Thompson. None of them is over twelve years of age and the proficiency they displayed is said to be astonishing. Our well proportioned and generous hearted friend of the Arcade Hotel treated his friends to a Cotillion Party on the evening of the 20th inst. The refreshments altho' served up in the most modern style were eaten with old fashioned appetites. The music we need only say was from the violin of Captain McDermitt and the dancing was the best that Ebensburg could produce. All was gay, happy and joyous. Hymeneal – Married on Thursday the 20th of May, by the Rev. William Lloyd, Mr. John Tibbott to Miss Harriet Griffith, both of this vicinity. Thanks for the cake; it was delicious. May your lives be prosperous and happy.