NEWS: Cambria Freeman; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA; Aug 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, 7 Aug 1908 Volume 42, Number 31 Local and Personal John E. Reagen and family of Braddock, who were recently in attendance at the reunion of the Seymour family near Chest Springs and who recently visited the family of Elmer Dimond, a cousin of Mr. Reagan in this place, left here for his home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Seymour of Portage, stepfather and mother of Mr. Reagen. Mr. John Conrad of Braddock, who visited his old friend, Captain Morgan McDonald at the Bender Hotel in this place yesterday and today, departed this afternoon for a visit to friends in other parts of the county. Mr. Charles Miller of Loretto spent Thursday in Ebensburg. James H. McDunn of Wilmore, who as reported last week met with an accident while harvesting, had a narrow escape from death. He was assisting Frank White to unload hay at the barn of the latter near Wilmore in a mow that was full almost to the roof when White, who did not see that McDunn was crossing the mow, dumped a forkful of hay above him which, rolling outward, pitched McDunn off the mow and into the ladder by which access to the mow is gained. The phalanges of the right hand were broken but this probably saved him from more serious injury. Squire Andy Strittmatter of Carroll Township was in Ebensburg on Monday looking well after his return from Colorado where he had been on a visit for some time. On June 28th he was present at the dedication of the Church of the Sacred Heart at Bowlder City of which his son – Rev. Father Agatho is rector. Mr. Strittmatter was in Denver at the time of the Democratic Convention. Squire Dunn of Nant-y-Glo received a letter from Dr. W. H. Heiser, formerly of that place, who is now located with his family in Fruitland, Ga. Dr. Heiser speaks well of the country. He says the peaches there are the largest he has ever seen and fruits of all kinds are plenty. The town, he say, has electric light and water works and eight passenger trains stop there every day. Master Raymond L. Huff, who is a guest at the Ebensburg Inn with his parents, although only fourteen years of age, is a singer of note. He will assist at the concert for the Hastings Relief Fund on Friday evening and will sing a solo in the Presbyterian church in this place on Sunday evening next. John Hovan of Bakerton was in town Tuesday on business. Miss Viola Brown has returned from her trip to Atlantic City. Albert Boslet of Carrolltown was among the business guests here Tuesday. John Bearer and James Somerville of Susquehanna Township were visiting in town on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Zahm of Cresson visited their relatives, the family of James McClune on Sunday. Miss Edna Curry of Altoona and Miss Mae Yeckley of Gallitzin are visiting E. C. Parrish and family in this place. John A. Bender of Carrolltown was in Ebensburg on business Tuesday and while there favored this office with a pleasant call. Robert Scanlan, Cashier of the American National Bank of this place, visited his sister, Mrs. Mary Fogarty of Greensburg on Sunday. Several Johnstown young men on Sunday walked to the county seat from the Flood City, making the trip in three and a quarter hours. Miss Ada Carson of Irwin, who had been the guest of the Updegraf family in Cambria Township for the past month, returned home on Sunday. R. Edgar Leahey Esq. of Johnstown spent Sunday in Ebensburg with his family who are at the residence of Mrs. Leahey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peach. Valuable Driving Horse Dies Father H. M. O'Neill, of this place, last night lost a valuable driving horse under peculiar circumstances. He had been having his horse boarded at the livery stable of C. J. McNulty in this place. Yesterday he drove to Loretto, returning in the evening. Last night McNulty, having a call to take a couple of persons to Cresson and being short of horses, hitched the priest's animal in a buggy and drove the pair out in Cresson. On the return trip on Durbin's hill near Munster, the horse dropped dead, much to the discomfiture of the driver who had taken the animal without permission. Principal for Ebensburg Schools Elected Prof. Penn Hallow of Penn Yan, New York, Chosen to Fill Vacancy Caused by Resignation of Prof. Leopold The Ebensburg School Board met in the office of S. L. Reed Esq. on Wednesday evening last and elected Prof. Penn Hallow of Pen Yan, New York, principal of the Ebensburg schools to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Prof. W. L. Leopold. The salary of the principal is $430 per month. The schools will open for an eight months' term on the first Monday in September. Prof. Hallow is a graduate of Syracuse College and comes highly recommended. There were some twenty five or thirty applicants for the position. H. M. Gooderham Operated on for Appendicitis Successful Operation at St. Francis' Hospital, Pittsburg, on Tuesday Henry M. Gooderham, the well known prominent Granger of Carroll Township, whose illness from appendicitis has been noted in THE FREEMAN, was operated on in St. Francis' Hospital, Pittsburg, by the hospital surgeons and Dr. Samuel Thomas of Carrolltown, his physician. The operation was successfully performed and at last accounts the patient was doing well and his many friends hope to see him soon at his home, fully restored to health. Relieving the Congestion of the Jail Upwards of Forty Prisoners Pleaded Guilty to Various Charges On Tuesday last upwards of forty prisoners confined in the county jail plead guilty to various offenses with which they were charged and several of them received penitentiary sentences; while some were sent to the reformatory and a few were discharged. Among the number was Lawrence Platt of Patton, who pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving stolen goods. Platt, who is by no means a young offender has, it is said, a respectable family, trusted in the community in which they live, who kept their father without it having been necessary for him to do much to support himself, but his passion for strong drink, it is believed, had much to do with his late downfall.