NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1909; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 26 Feb 1909 Volume 43, Number 9 Local and Personal Among the visitors at THE FREEMAN office this week was F. A. Buck of Summitown who has been a subscriber of this paper for the last forty years. Mr. Buck came to Ebensburg to attend the directors' convention. Harry Pruner of High Street is confined to his home with a severe attack of ear trouble. Since Friday, Mr. Pruner has been confined to his bed and is suffering excruciating pain. James Scanlan has been confined to his home for the past week with the grip. Vintondale Briefs Vintondale, Feb. 25 Ira Thomas of this place was a Johnstown caller one day last week. Samuel Sher and William Shafer of the Indiana Normal school were home to see their parents over Sunday. Max and Joe Fleitzer of the Indiana Normal and their friend, Mr. Pricers, were with their parents here Saturday and Sunday. Misses Kathryn and Florence Jones of Gallitzin visited friends and relatives here over Sunday. L. H. Davis and Dr. Comerer were at Indiana on business one day last week. "Barney" Baron of Osceola Mills visited his parents here over Sunday. Walter Treester has rented the Rodgers farm near here and will move there soon. He intends to engage in farming during the coming summer. Mrs. Albert Fleitzer of the Vintondale Inn successfully underwent an operation in a hospital at Altoona one day last week. Herman Donofsky is selling out his dry goods and removing to Nant-y-Glo to go into the same business there. Patton News Patton, Feb. 25 Mr. Eisenlohr and family have moved into the residence of J. E. Parnell on Palmer Avenue. Adam Ratoskey is ill of typhoid pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Felker are home from York, Pa, where they attended the funeral of the latter's sister. Catherine, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cairns, is ill with typhoid fever. Frank Brown, who for sometime has been assistant postmaster, has resigned his position and has been succeeded by Daniel Jones. Adam, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Smith of the Commercial Hotel, is ill of gastric fever. Mrs. John Gould has been seriously ill of heart trouble at her home on East Magee Avenue. Margaret, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Brown, is ill at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Patterson of Sewickley, and is threatened with appendicitis. Mrs. Harry J. Hinterleitner has returned from Philadelphia where she had been taking treatment for some months. Miss Mary Lyons expects to enter a business college at Lancaster this week, to take a course in short hand and type writing. The Star Theatre has changed owners, A. C. Fisher disposing of the same to T. E. Van Scoyoc & Co. Mr. Van Scoyoc will give his entire attention to the business. Scarlet Fever Appears Two children in the family of Addison Owens are suffering from scarlet fever, but neither is seriously ill, it is said. The patients are twin children, Grace and Everett, six years of age. These cases are the first reported in Ebensburg for a long time. One Man May Die - Extract Quarrel Over Debt at Moss Creek Results in Shooting of Two Foreigners As the result of a quarrel at Moss Creek Sunday night over money alleged to be due one man from another, Joe Bart lies in the Spangler Hospital in a critical condition, shot through the body. Tony Canella is at his home, also wounded and Frank Roma is a prisoner in the county jail. Nant-y-Glo Woman in Hospital Nant-y-Glo, Feb. 25 Mrs. O. C. Sickles, who had been suffering for some time with cancer of the breast, was removed to the Memorial Hospital at Johnstown last week and submitted to an operation. From last reports, she was resting well. Gallitzin Woman Breaks Hip Gallitzin, Feb. 25 Mrs. Peter Sonafelt, while walking about her home here Monday morning, slipped on a board and fell, fracturing her right hip. She was attended by Dr. Ferguson Buys James Farm John James, near Ebensburg, has sold his farm along the Cresson branch to John Lazar of Ridgway, Elk County. The farm consists of 56 acres of land and the livestock were included in the deal. The price paid for the property was $2600. Mr. James will move into Ebensburg within a few weeks. Couple Lodged in Jail Said to Have Planned to do Away with an Infant Tom Chestkin and wife, who were arrested in Curwensville on serious charges made at Barnesboro, have been brought to the county jail here to await a hearing. It is alleged that they asked a well known physician to attend Mrs. Chestkin during the birth of a child and also to assist in disposing of the infant after birth. The physician did not attend the woman but it was learned that the couple left Barnesboro and went to Clearfield without the child. A warrant was issued and they were located at Curwensville. When brought here Monday afternoon they first said the baby had died and then declared that they had given it away. They have with them two boys, aged two and four years. Local People Entertained Attorney and Mrs. P. J. Little of Center Street entertained the Whist Club Saturday evening. Judge Francis J. O'Connor and wife of Johnstown were among the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Barker of Horner Street entertained a number of friends at a dinner party on Monday evening. Received with Surprise During the last few days many Ebensburg people have received cards announcing the wedding Feb. 6 in New York of Mrs. Elda Davis of Conemaugh, formerly Miss Donmyer to Charles Weakland, formerly of Ebensburg, but now of New York. Mrs. Davis is well known in Ebensburg, having been the guest there frequently of Mrs. T. A. Osborn. Mr. and Mrs. Luke Weakland of Ebensburg are the parents of Charles Weakland.