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, 11 Jun 1909 Volume 43, Number 24 **[Most of newspaper faded] Local and Personal Mrs. F. S. Donahue of Carrolltown visited relatives and friends in Ebensburg last week. Mrs. Jonathan Lloyd has gone on a two months visit to her cousins at Freedom, New York. Mrs. Cyrus W. Jones has gone to Atlantic City and Philadelphia to remain for several weeks. John Ritter of Ebensburg started last week for Chicago to accept a position as a traveling salesman for a Windy City firm. He will make his headquarters in Chicago. Mrs. J. O. Fetter, who has been with her husband in New York and Hoboken for the past several months, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Port in this place. Miss Marian Jones, who has spent the last two weeks in Wilmington, Del., will attend the commencement exercise at Swarthmore June 11, when her sister, Miss Martha, will graduate. The School Directors of Ebensburg Borough met Monday evening and re- elected Miss Elsie Eisenhart as assistant principal for the schools. No action was taken with regard to the election of other teachers. The barn on the property of John C. G. Bearer in Spangler burned to the ground Tuesday night of last week. The building contained only a few old wagons and buggies. It is said the insurance will cover the loss. Miss Annie Shields, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shields, is home from Philadelphia where she was recently graduated from the Nurses' Training school of the Presbyterian hospital. She expects to locate in that city. Miss Fannie Kerr Chosen Will Succeed Miss Harriet Humphreys at the Memorial Hospital Miss Fannie Kerr has been chosen night Superintendent of the Memorial Hospital to succeed Miss Harriet Humphreys who resigned and left for her home in Ebensburg. Miss Kerr was graduated from the Memorial Hospital Training School for Nurses three or four years ago and preceded Miss Humphreys as Night Superintendent. She is a daughter of Attorney and Mrs. E. G. Kerr of the Eighth ward. She will assume charge next week. Eighteen Pass Exams Teachers of Cambria County Are Entitled to Receive Permanent Certificates Eighteen teachers of Cambria County passed the recent examination for permanent certificates conducted by a Special Committee and four passed the exams in special branches. Those who are entitled to permanent certificates follow: Beatrice Seller Annie Gill Sadie Kring Marie Sleigh Gertrude D. Englehart Laura Dougherty Lucy O'Neil Joseph Kearney G. H. Miller P. W. Shaffer Katharine B. Ivory R. C. Livingstone T. W. Bender Dennis L. Westrick John D. Keefer Alfred A. Earle Jane Paterick E. G. Meisel The following passed in the special branches: E. V. Bearer Hugh Slater Alice Jones Alfred A. Earle Widow Sues Saloonkeeper Mrs. Mary L. Bratton, widow of W. D. Bratton, has sued William A. Chaplin, a saloonkeeper at Flinton, for $5,000 damages on novel grounds. Bratton was killed on the C. & C. RR on May 1 as the result, it was said, of his being intoxicated. Mrs. Bratton set up the claim that Chaplin, knowing her husband to be a man of intemperate habits, sold him liquor nevertheless on the day of his death and helped thereby to put him into a condition which invited death when he went onto the railroad tracks. Double Murderer Sentenced to Death Johnstown, Pa, June 10 Thomas W. Johns, convicted of murdering his wife and the latter's aunt, Mrs. Charles Cobaugh, was sentenced to death by Judge O'Connor at Ebensburg. The murders were committed in Conemaugh, Sept. 21, 1908. Civil Court Sees Lots of Business – Extracts Ida Crossman, adultery, keeping a bawdy house and disorderly house; G. E. Whited, costs and remanded to jail for further sentence. [Snip] Vincent Sprocht of Barnesboro was given one year and three months in the pen after pleading guilty to a charge of felonious assault and battery. Mr. Sprocht is about 65 years of age and his wife about nine years older. After her husband had been sentenced, Mrs. Sprocht said that he should have been given five years instead of one and a fourth. Patrick McConnell of Lilly pleaded guilty to beating his wife and was assessed the costs with further sentence suspended. [Snip] Petition of George Simelsburger and wife for the adoption of Hillery Huber, a minor child; decree of adoption signed. [Snip] Dr. H. H. Penrod, Robert C. Hoerle and Attorney Charles M. Moses of Johnstown appointed commission to inquire into the sanity of Harry Campbell. [Snip] Petition of D. J. Pfeister and wife of Cresson for permission to adopt Alice McCahill, aged fifteen years, an inmate of the Catholic Home Bureau for Dependent Children, New York City; decree signed. [Snip] Subpoenas in divorce granted in the following cases: Amanda Speicher vs. Nicholas Speicher; Mary Elizabeth Van Horn vs. John H. Van Horn and Annetta Gilo vs. John Gilo.