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, 13 Aug 1909 Volume 43, Number 33 **[Newspaper very faded] Local and Personal Thomas Davis of Johnstown is here on a visit with his father, Thomas Davis, mason, and brothers. Mrs. Mary Eckenrode and daughter, Vera, are spending a month at Conneaut Lake, Crawford County. Mrs. Blanche Bowman of Blairsville is visiting her parents, T. W. Dick, Esq. and wife of Ebensburg. Mr. Frank Swoyer of Altoona was the guest of his relatives, Mrs. Deborah Kinkead and family last week. Miss Mary Welsh of Rockville, Maryland, is the guest of Misses Marion and Martha Jones in this place. Mrs. Thomas Peach of Ebensburg was in Johnstown several days last week with the R. Edgar Leahey family. The Misses Vera William, Ada Jones and Mary Evans are spending a few day at the Wildwood Springs Hotel. Miss Emma Tibbott, daughter of Deputy Register and Recorder Sherman Tibbott, is visiting relatives in Altoona. Sunday was Ebensburg's hottest day for the Summer so far – 92 in the shade but a gentle little breeze helped this out. Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bennett of Johnstown came to Ebensburg on Tuesday to attend the funeral of Evan Bennett. Miss Minnie Stewart of Ebensburg has returned home from Indiana County where she had visited relatives for several days. The Messrs. John Owens, P. J. Little and John W. Kephart went to Johnstown Wednesday in Mr. Kephart's Winton car. Miss Frances Thompson of this place is visiting her friends, Misses Martha Davis and Ruth Leventry in Johnstown this week. James McClune of the County Commissioner office, Ebensburg, was in Johnstown over Sunday with his mother, Mrs. William McClune. Masters Gardner Lloyd, Orville Buck and Ned Bender, three young hopefuls of town, have been camping at the Ten Acre the past week or two. Miss Mary Murphy of Johnstown is spending several days in Ebensburg. Her cousin, Miss Clare Murphy, is also in the county seat for a few days. Congressman Nicholas Langham and family of Indiana County are the guests of Mr. Langham's brother, William Langham of Ebensburg Wednesday. Christopher Spink of Cleveland, O., who spent a few days with Wallace Benham, also of Cleveland, as guests of Mrs. Mary Maloney, returned home Sunday. Mrs. Mary Mehole of Cincinnati, O., before her marriage Miss Bertha McAteer of Loretto, is visiting the family of her relative, O. E. Wilkinson in Ebensburg. Miss Flo Parrish of Ebensburg, who had been visiting her brother, John D. Parrish of East End, Pittsburg, for the past two weeks, returned home Saturday evening. While working on the new residence of Mr. Noah Dishong in the East Ward Tuesday morning, Carpenter Worth Blair was so unfortunate as to run a sharp nail through his foot. Mrs. Robert Scanlan and her daughter, Louise, of Ebensburg, returned home last week after a visit of a few days in Johnstown with their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Bailey and family. Mrs. Dr. J. T. Davison has returned home from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Albert Morris of Spangler, who had been seriously ill, but who at the time of her mother's return had greatly improved and was convalescent. Mrs. Jesse Bolsinger of Ebensburg is at East End visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Bolsinger. She left home Wednesday of last week, being accompanied as far as Johnstown by her husband. James Dick of Baltimore whose family has been here for the past couple of weeks with Mrs. Dick's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McKenrick, arrived in Ebensburg Sunday and will spend a few days before returning with his family to Baltimore. Misses Blanche and Florence McDermott of Johnstown, who have been visiting friends at Patton, and Mrs. Strawbridge, Mrs. Lush and Harry Blair, all of Patton, spent Sunday in Ebensburg as guests of O. E. Wilkinson and wife, having driven overland to the county seat and returned to Patton in the evening. Ed Fenlon, Esq., an attorney of New York City, who was well known here during his boyhood days, while on his way to the Pacific Coast on business, stopped off on Friday and remained until Sunday evening with his aunt, Miss Margaret Rhey, and greeting his old friends. Almost Time to Name Census Enumerators for Easy-Money Jobs President Taft Has Matter Under Advisement and Before Long Plum Tree Will be Shaken Will be Soft Picking for Some Although the time for taking the thirteenth decennial census of the United States is many months distant, persons who are looking forward to securing the position of enumerator in this section are cropping up daily and the various politicians and law makers of this congressional district are already being besieged for appointments. So far the exact procedures by which the positions are to be filled has not been announced, but the appointments will be made in accordance with the civil service rules. Many inquiries have been made during the past few days relative to the work. Congressman Reynolds states that he has not received any definite instructions from the department at Washington, but that he has been informed indirectly that the various census enumerators will be appointed under the civil service rules following an examination. Mr. Reynolds states that sometime ago he asked the department for information and that he expects the instructions within the next day or two. The work will start the latter part of next April or the beginning of May. Heretofore the enumerators were appointed on a spoils basis, but the civil service ruling will take the matter out of the hands of the congressmen. The preliminary arrangements of the work have already been perfected by the bureau officials. The state of Pennsylvania will be divided into 23 census districts with a supervisor over each. Blair, Bedford and Cambria Counties will make up the sixteenth district. The position of supervisor pays $2,500. Enumerators will have charge of subdivisions. According to the census bill, each enumerator will be charged with the collection in his subdivision of the facts and statistics required by the population and agriculture schedules as follows: To visit personally each dwelling house and each family therein and each individual living out of a family in any place of abode and by inquiry made of the head of each family or of the members therein deemed most competent and trustworthy, to obtain each and every item of information required by the act, the schedules being: Name, relationship to head of family, color, sex, age, conjugal condition, place of birth, place of birth of parents, number of years in the United States, citizenship, occupation, whether or not employer or employee and if employee, whether or not employed at the date of the enumeration and the number of months unemployed during the preceding calendar year, whether or not engaged in agriculture, school attendance, literacy, tenure of home and whether or not a survivor of the union or confederate army or navy; and if under 18 years of age, whether ruptured, crippled or deformed; and the name and address of each blind, deaf and dumb person. The enumeration of institutions shall include paupers, prisoners, juvenile, blind, deaf and dumb inmates of benevolent homes. Compensation of enumerators shall be determined by the director of the census as follows: In subdivisions where he shall deem such enumeration sufficient, an allowance of not less than 2 nor more than 4 cents for each inhabitant; not less than 20 nor more that 30 cents for each farm reported; 10 cents for each barn and enclosure containing live stock not on farms; and not less than 20 nor more than 30 cents for each establishment of productive industry reported. In other subdivisions the director of census may fix a mixed rate of not less than one nor more than two dollars per day and in addition, an allowance of not less than 3 cents for each inhabitant enumerated and not less that 15 nor more than 20 cents for each farm and each establishment of productive industry reported. In sparsely settled communities a straight per diem compensation will be fixed by the director of the census. It shall not be less than three nor more than six dollars per day of eight hours actual field work. Hastings Lad Shot [and other Hastings news] John Gray Tried to Get Gun Out of Pocket to Kill Snake and Accident Resulted Hastings, Aug. 11 -- In attempting to get from his pocket a revolver with which to shoot a snake, John Gray, eighteen years old, was accidentally shot through the left hand this morning. The boy was out picking blackberries when the accident occurred. The bullet, a .32- calibre, passed entirely through the hand, causing a painful wound. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gray. Hazel, the 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall McHenry, was bitten on both thighs last Saturday by a dog owned by Henry Elden. It is not thought the animal was mad. Policeman H. A. Kline has received word that the dog's head which he sent away some time ago for examination was in such a state of putrefaction that it was impossible to tell whether the animal was afflicted with rabies. The reunion of the Neff family is being held today at Sunset Park and about 1000 people are in attendance. Aged Pastor Killed Indiana, Pa., Aug. 12 -- Enroute to his hotel after a trip to the post office, the Rev. J. G. Schaid, aged 70, pastor of the General Council Lutheran Church in Saltsburg, stepped in front of an east bound freight train in crossing the tracks and was instantly killed. The remains were sent to the minister's old home in Maryland for burial. Twin Rocks Coal Company Exempted Not Held Responsible By Jury for Death of Andrew Joseph, Found in Mine Twin Rocks, Aug. 11 -- "Andrew Joseph came to his death on August 7th from some natural cause unknown to this jury. The company by which he was employed was in no way responsible, either directly or indirectly for his death." Such was the verdict rendered by the Coroner's jury at the inquest conducted yesterday at the cemetery here into the death of Andrew Joseph, forty-six years old and married, who was found dead last Saturday in No. 3 Mine of the Commercial Coal Company at this place. The inquest was held at the instigation of John Strizak and in behalf of friends of the dead man. His friends did not believe that a crime was committed and his life willfully taken and the cost of the investigation will have to be borne by them instead of the county. Coroner J. C. McMillen wanted the case thoroughly investigated as indicated by the large number of witnesses he called.