NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1 Mar 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, 1 Mar 1912 Volume 45, Number 9 Local and Personal Byron Davis of this place, who has been going to Johnstown several days a week for treatment for his nose, is recovering very nicely under the care of Dr. O. G. A. Barker. Friends of John Gittings of Julian street will be glad to know that he is slowly recovering from his recent severe illness and is expected to be about again in a short time. The condition of C. H. Barker of this place who is a patient in a Philadelphia hospital is reported as improving slowly. Mrs. Barker is with her husband. Florence Davis, the 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Davis, was sledding the other day and in an accident, broke her left ankle. Wm. A. McKimm, one of Cresson township's progressive farmers, paid THE FREEMAN office a visit while in town last week on business. Miss Alberta Tate, a daughter of William Tate of this place, has been taken to the Presbyterian hospital, Pittsburg, for an operation. Mrs. Webster Powell has been brought back to Ebensburg from Johnstown where she recently underwent an operation. William W. Good of Altoona spent several days this week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Good of this place. The condition of Mrs. Sherd Henry of Lloyd street, who was very ill with measles, is now improvingly slowly. Little Notes about People David R. Bryan of Johnstown, who was in Ebensburg on Wednesday, has passed his 70th birthday and looks to be about 55 years of age. He is an old soldier and is a veteran of the famous Fifty-fourth regiment. Mr. Bryan met a number of old friends here and talked over the days when they were at the front. R. R. Davis of the East ward celebrated his 80th birthday this week. Mr. Davis, according to those who know him, has not changed a particle in 20 years. He is as active and able as a man of 55. Other than a slight deafness Mr. Davis shows not a sign of old age. His many friends in Ebensburg congratulated him heartily this week on his having reached 80 years with so few signs of age. Old age rests upon some of our friends very lightly, in others, heavily. But upon very few does it rest more easily than upon the venerable Andrew Strittmatter of near Carrolltown who will be 83 years of age March 16. Mr. Strittmatter was a caller at THE FREEMAN office on Wednesday. He had been a subscriber for this paper for a great many years and promptly at the expiration of his year, he pays for another year in advance. This is a great commendable trait of Mr. Strittmatter, of course. But what we have in mind about this old citizen is the fact that he is so strong and lusty, bearing as he does the weight of over four score years. In his youth he was a veritable giant of strength and was the superior of any man in Cambria county when 30 years of age. He retained the superiority over men his age when he reached 45 and, as he naively put it to the editor of this paper, he could cut wood with any of them. "You should try your skill with Mr. Roosevelt," he was told. "It would never do," he said. "I'm not of his party. We wouldn't get along." Mr. Strittmatter lost his wife some months ago. One day this week another friend of his youth passed away, Mrs. Bender of Carroll township. There are few people of 70 years of age who look as young as Mr. Strittmatter. Measles on the Wane According to local physicians the measles epidemic will not last much longer, having runs its course. This is probably due to the fact that very few children remain who have not had the measles. Mrs. Sherd Henry of the Centre ward was taken ill with measles last week and was very sick at her home on Lloyd street. Several cases of mumps are reported but the victims were promptly quarantined and there is not much likelihood that the disease will spread. Again in the Business Dan R. Schnabel returned home Saturday evening from Pittsburg, where, incidental to attending the automobile show, he had contracted to represent in this district, the E-M-F and Flanders and the Columbus Firestone cars. Mr. Schnabel last season handled the Ford, but he has given this up and with such sellers as the Flanders and Firestone autos proposed to be bigger factor than ever in the local motor car market. Rev. Rowland May Return A Johnstown church has extended a call to the Rev. Hugh Rowland, who resigned the pastorate of the Welsh Calvinistic church here a year ago, to become the pastor of a Presbyterian church in the west. Mr. Rowland has many friends here. Home from Western Trip The Rev. Ferdinand Kittell, rector of St. Michael's Catholic church at Loretto, was in Johnstown Sunday night, the guest of the priest at St. John's Catholic parsonage. The Rev. Father Kittell was on his way to his parish from a six weeks stay at the Sacred Heart sanatorium in Milwaukee, Wis. He was compelled to go to the sanatorium to take a good rest which he needed for a long time. Father Kittell seemed to have been greatly benefited by his sojourn in Milwaukee. He left the city early yesterday morning over the Pennsylvania for Loretto. (DEMOCRAT, Tuesday)