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, 30 Apr 1909 Volume 43, Number 18 Local and Personal Miss Grace Denny of Main Street, Johnstown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Denny, spent several days in Ebensburg with friends. The Denny family will not come to Ebensburg for the summer until about June 1st. Mrs. Owens, wife of Marshall Owens, a clerk in the office of Register and Recorder Arthur Griffith, has returned from a visit to her mother, Mrs. James Fisher in the Eighth Ward, Johnstown. Frank Chirdon, one of Patton's well known and respected citizens, was among the Ebensburg visitors during the past week and paid THE FREEMAN office a pleasant call. Dr. Olin G. A. Barker came to Ebensburg Sunday morning from Johnstown and when he returned he took with him his automobile which had been in storage here during the winter. Misses Mildred and Louise Owens, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Owens, have returned from a visit to the Thomas family of Westmont, Johnstown. Mrs. Thomas A. Osborn of this place who has been in Johnstown with relatives for six weeks past was in Ebensburg Thursday and Friday. Will Elder of the First ward, Johnstown, is spending a few days with his brother, County Commissioner Tom Osborn of Ebensburg. William Connell, clerk of the Ebensburg council and a resident of Johnstown during the winter months, was in Ebensburg yesterday. Robert Jones, a Civil War veteran, is lying in a precarious condition with general debility at his home in this place. Attorneys W. A. McGuire and P. N. Shettig spent Thursday and Friday of this week in Pittsburg on business. I. K. Meyers, of Susquehanna Township, a well known war veteran, was in Ebensburg today on business. Mrs. Ellen Griffith of Cambria Township is critically ill with pneumonia. Nant-y-Glo's Building Nant-y-Glo, April 29 -- M. B. Nairn has had plans made for the hotel building he will erect and work is soon to begin off the foundations. Ben Fresh, the butcher, is to add a substantial structure to the town's real estate equipment. John Long, the section foreman, has broken ground for a new home. W. J. Keating will put up three new dwellings. Barker Brothers of Ebensburg will put up a building here to be used as a drug store. Commencement in the Courthouse - Extract Graduating Class of High School Holds Exercises on Friday Night Arrangements are completed for the commencement exercises of the Ebensburg High School in the courthouse Friday night of this week. The graduating class is composed of the following: Misses Catherine Mahan, Zella Bloom, Jean Davis, Mary Rivinius, Dora Owens, Maurice Luther, and William Pryce. Miss Mahan is the valedictorian and Miss Bloom the salutatorian. An Altoona orchestra will furnish the music. Following the exercises there will be a dance in the opera house. Attacked in Her Room Charged with attempted rape, James Burns and George Ellis were brought here from Portage by Jesse Flynn and lodged in jail to await trial in court. Their alleged victim is Mrs. Max Beer, daughter of Mike Ruffling of Portage and was attacked in her room while in a sickly condition. She was somewhat abused by the men but not seriously injured. Gulo Not Man Wanted Tony Gulo, who was taken to Johnstown Wednesday night for investigation in connection with the murder of Constable Samuel Taylor at Barnesboro Nov. 12, 1905, was released Thursday. The alleged murderer is Frank Farrell. It was thought at first that he might have been masquerading under the name of Tony Gulo. Gone to Kentucky R. J. Danvir and wife of Ebensburg left Monday evening for Rigley, Ky., where they will reside in future. Mr. Danvir spent several months in Kentucky some time ago and is well pleased with the country and climate. Capt. Bradley Ill Capt. Hugh Bradley of Hollidaysburg was operated on at the Altoona hospital several days ago for bowel trouble and has since been lying in a critical condition. Capt. Bradley is seventy-six years of age and resided in Johnstown for many years before going to Hollidaysburg several years ago. He is the father of Mrs. Edward W. Bailey of Johnstown and Mrs. Robert Scanlan of Ebensburg. David Eckenrode Ill David Eckenrode of Loretto, a well known citizen of that town, is quite ill of dropsy. He is 55 years of age. Mr. Eckenrode has been ill for several months but not until the last few days has his condition become critical. St. Benedict Physician Ill Dr. A. A. Watkins of St. Benedict has been unable to practice his profession the past few days, owing to an attack of erysipelas. Returns from Hospital Wellington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Millard Good of High Street, is home from Pittsburg, where he had been a patient in one of the hospitals there for the past two weeks. He expects to return to the Smoky City Institution during the next fortnight. Has Anti-Toxin Dr. W. E. Matthews of Johnstown has received notice from Dr. Dixon of the State Board of Health that the latter has appointed Squire W. A. B. Little of Loretto as the distributor for State diphtheria antitoxin for the indigent in that vicinity. Dr. Matthews states that there are now forty patients from Johnstown on the lists of those who have been treated at Mt. Alto Sanitarium for consumptives, and that a large number of these have received marked benefit. There are more patients at this sanitarium from Johnstown than from any other city in the state. This is because of the energy shown by Dr. Matthews in gaining admission, not because we have more consumption here than in other places. Dr. Somerville Here Dr. Harry Somerville of Chest Springs was in town Wednesday. He is one of the busiest men in the north of the county, being prominent as a physician, farmer, a poultryman, a financier, a politician, president of half a dozen rural telephone lines, interested in the success of the Democratic party and Supervisor of roads in his township. Now Case of Murder Spangler, April 29 -- Since the death of Joe Berti at the Miner's Home Hospital here Monday morning, Cambria County has what appears to be another first-degree murder. In a statement made last evening before Coroner J. C. McMillen, Berti said he was shot without provocation by another foreigner who is now in jail. Frank Bonney has been incarcerated at Ebensburg since the shooting of Berti and on the basis of Berti's statement to Dr. McMillen, the charge of felonious shooting against him was changed to murder. The shooting occurred on the night of February 21st at Mosscreek. Berti was admitted to the hospital here that night with a bullet wound in this abdomen. The bullet tore the spleen and the hospital physicians say death was due to the wound.