NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 26 Jan 1912; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 26 Jan 1912 Volume 45, Number 4 NEWS Peter Long, one of Summerhill township's progressive farmers, paid this office a pleasant call while in town Monday on business. The Sanatorium Scare Some of the Cresson people are still filled with the dread that the state sanatorium for tuberculosis patients will injure the town. It is incorrect to call the institution the Cresson sanatorium, for the hospital is located three miles from Cresson in the midst of the wooded tract given to the State by Andrew Carnegie and two miles back from the pike. The State proposes to make the institution a model one as concerns immunization ways and means and sanitary precautions. Nevertheless some of the Cresson residents dread the idea of a sanatorium being located near them. The air there is dry, the territory is open to sunlight and fresh air with a sweep of miles and physicians say the hospital will be conducted along lines which will teach even the townspeople precautions in intercourse with consumptives, of which they now have no knowledge or are careless. Much Ice is Cut Cresson, Jan. 22 Postmaster John Parrish, Daniel McCann, proprietor of the Cottage hotel at this place and Mike Michaelowski, prominent member of the Cresson walking club, walked from this place to Loretto yesterday, a distance of about six miles. The trip was made in an hour and 15 minutes. Returning the men stopped at the plant of the Pennsylvania Ice company, about midway between the two places where a force of 150 men are taking off the seasons' crop of ice from the Anderson Dam. The three pedestrians took supper with the ice harvesters. All were exceeding well pleased with the treatment received and the menu set before them consisted of six country hams, potatoes, tomatoes, corn, bread, butter, coffee and fruit in ample quantities and served by a competent cook. For Another Orphanage Cresson people hear a well defined report that Bishop Eugene A. Garvey of the Altoona diocese has about decided to erect another orphanage at that place, utilizing the large tract devised to him by the will of Miss Slattery. The present orphanage on a tract of 15 acres is filled to capacity. The Slattery gift embraces a well cultivated farm of over 100 acres. The gift enables the Bishop to achieve two desirable results. One is the erection of a new orphanage, which will enable the diocesan authorities to separate the sexes; the other is that Miss Slattery's benevolence will enable farm work as one means of training the youngsters. The present orphanage was easily paid for and has been magnificently supported and there will be no difficulty at all about erecting another. House is Burned Patton, Jan. 22 An exploding lamp last evening set fire to the home of a family by the name of Mateon. The fire ate its way to the second story of the structure, which was of frame and before assistance could be summoned, the entire house had been destroyed. The family escaped from the flames but most of the household belongings were ruined. Word of the fire was sent to Patton and the local company arrived on the scene a short time later. Priests Goes South The Rt. Rev. Eugene A. Garvey, Bishop of the Altoona diocese, and the Rt. Rev. Monsignor John Boyle of St. John Gualbert's parish, Johnstown, left Altoona Monday morning bound for Jacksonville, Fla., where they will spend the next month or six weeks. The brother and sister of Bishop Garvey, from Dunmore, Pa., will join the party, which will visit other winter resorts in Florida but will make Jacksonville their headquarters. Filial Daughter Stricken Mrs. George Yost of Pittsburg is seriously ill with typhoid fever at the home of her father, Andrew Strittmatter, in Carroll township, near Carrolltown. Andrew Strittmatter is over 70 years old and was recently bereaved by the death of his wife. His daughter went there from Pittsburg to console and keep house for her parent and was stricken. Miss Lloyd Ill The condition of Miss Elsie Lloyd of this place, daughter of Mrs. J. G. Lloyd, and who underwent an operation at Mercy hospital, Pittsburg, Wednesday, is reported as being excellent. Surgeons declare the operation to have been a most successful one. Some One Should Interfere Bakerton, Jan. 24 This community is considerably interested in the coming wedding of a daughter of Mike Caranati to Mike Skibor, a well known young member of the foreign mining colony. The bride-to-be is only thirteen years old. The marriage is to be celebrated next pay day and the foreigners expect a splendid celebration.