NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 12 Apr 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, 12 Apr 1912 Volume 45, Number 15 Personal Mention Miss Marie Bender, who is a student at the Greensburg Seminary, spent several days the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bender of Hotel Bender in this place. Mrs. Catherine Myers left Tuesday for Johnstown to enter a hospital. She has been in ill health for some months. C. Randolph Myers, a son, accompanied her to Johnstown. The Rev. Father H. M. O'Neill of Holy Name Catholic church has gone to Indiana to assist the Rev. Father McNeelis in Forty Hours' Devotion. Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Anderson of Patton were the guests this week of their son, County Commissioner A. G. Anderson of the West ward. The Misses Shiffer of Big Bend were among the out-of-town guests who attended the dance in the opera house Monday evening. John Sutton of Ashville was among the visitors to THE FREEMAN office Wednesday, having been in the county seat on business. A. J. Darragh of Pittsburg was in Ebensburg this week. John B. Denny Jr. of Johnstown was an Ebensburg visitor this Saturday. Miss Maria Davis of Ebensburg has been critically ill the past few days. Attorney Frank P. Martin of Johnstown was in Ebensburg Wednesday. Mrs. M. H. James and Miss Verna Williams spent Thursday in Johnstown. Miss Dunegan of St. Augustine is the guest of the Bender family at the Hotel Bender. Miss Margaret Evans, chief operator for the Bell telephone company here, was confined to her home several days with illness. Peter P. Farabaugh of Carrolltown paid THE FREEMAN a pleasant call while in town on business Monday. D. E. Park and his sister, Miss Nellie Park of Pittsburg, are in Ebensburg looking after their summer home. The Rev. Father Killian of Baltimore, Md., preached Saturday and Sunday in the Holy Name Catholic Church. Quite a number of Ebensburg folks attended the funeral of Miss Clara Davis in Johnstown Wednesday. Miss Catherine Ebig of this place spent several days this week with Loretto friends. Local News Notes Thomas Hughes of near Ebensburg has received word to the effect that his nephew, Jesse W. Hughes of Olds, Alberta, Can., recently underwent an operation for appendicitis in the hospital at Lethbridge. He was confined to his bed for a couple of weeks, but is now reported as improving very nicely. Among the fanciers of pretty flowers who will have beautiful gardens this summer is George T. Adams of the East ward whose handsome grounds just below the courthouse containing many pretty flowerbeds and walks. Mr. Adams was about the only Ebensburg man who got his sweet peas planted early. His Spencer peas last year surpassed any grown in the county seat. Patton Notes Patton, April 11 A special meeting of the Sons of Veterans was held Thursday evening in Bell's Hall for the purpose of arranging for Memorial Day. The machinery of the silk mill is being packed for shipment. Miss Romaine Smale is home from the Indiana Normal school. The Rev. Father Welch, pastor of the St. Augustine Catholic church, is confined to his room with diphtheria. Dr. B. F. Shires is expected home soon from Philadelphia where he has been taking treatment in a hospital the past five weeks. Mrs. A. E. Foster and family expect to move from Patton to Reynoldsville about May 1. Later they will go to Pinellas Park, Fla. Miss Genevieve McCormick, a student at Indiana Normal, spent Easter at her home here. Ashville Notes Ashville, April 9 Mrs. W. C. Perry and children of Chest Springs are visiting relatives at Maderia. Mrs. J. J. Rhody is visiting her son and family at Pitcarin. Fred Henkle has been called to Harrisburg for the state constabulary examination. Miss Bessie Delozier of Altoona spent Easter with her parents here. Harry Cole and family spent Sunday with his parents. Patrick Donahue, who had been working at St. Augustine, was home for Easter. Mr. Donahue says the roads in that section are in bad condition. The condition of Miss Marie Krumbine, daughter of Dr. Krumbine, who has been ill with tuberculosis of the throat, is not much improved. Morgan Litzinger, who is employed by the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke company, Cresson, spent Sunday here with his parents. R. F. D. Mail Carrier Calverly says the roads between this place and Chest Springs are in a deplorable condition. Given Postcard Shower Wednesday was the birthday anniversary of Miss Alice Maloney, a well known and popular young lady of this place. She had intended that the event should be kept a profound secret, but in some manner unknown to her, the news leaked out and she was surprised when she received a shower of 200 post cards. Miss Maloney expressed her appreciation of the kindly spirit that was manifested by her host of friends. Barnesboro Boy's Success N. C. Fetter Jr., son of the Rev. and Mrs. N. C. Fetter of Barnesboro, will graduate May 8 at the Rochester seminary and almost immediately following his graduation, he is to receive an appointment of rare distinction, having been assigned as student pastor of the Ann Arbor Methodist church at Ann Arbor, Mich., where he will also lead the Young People's Guild, numbering over 400 members. State is Growing During the month of January last there were 10,345 deaths in Pennsylvania from all causes while the number of communicable diseases reported to the state department in February totaled 11,988. The total number of births the same month was 17,633. Pneumonia led the list of the fatal diseases, carrying off 1,594 persons. Tuberculosis came next with 822 deaths, cancer claimed 452, Bright's disease, 654. One hundred and thirty-four persons died as the result of railway accidents and 100 were fatally injured in mines. Examined at Patton Patton, April 9 Alex Montieth of Patton; Timothy McCarthy of Barnesboro and W. D. Kerr of Spangler, comprising the Board of Examiners are holding examinations for mine foremen for the Fifteenth Bituminous District. The examinations are being given in the Miners' Hall. The following applicants are: F. D. Kirsch, Cherrytree Robert McTaggart, Martseller M. Ellie, Elmora T. H. Cullen, Colver C. R. Sterner, Colver Charles McTaggart, Spangler John Harvey, Spangler Richard Todhunter, Barnesboro August Shrenkle, Barnesboro George Armstrong, St. Benedict William Whitman, Barnesboro A. E. Davis, Saxman W. J. Madill, Saxman Second Grade A. Anderson, Glen Richey Isaac Baldwin, St. Benedict F. C. Tibbott, Barnesboro J. G. Chobby, Patton Daniel Parsell, Barnesboro E. A. Lamont, Garman's Mills Harry Jackson, Garman's Mills Wallace Dibble, Garman's Mills W. C. Mortinsers, Elmora Michael Able, Hastings William McNair, Barnesboro T. Anthony Kline, Carrolltown Robert F. Powers, Carrolltown John G. Kelley, Carrolltown W. E. Lamont, Patton F. L. Meredith, Patton William Martin, Patton P. J. Sullivan, Patton. W. J. Bollard, Patton J. Nicholson, Zimphia H. G. Gensler of Bells Landings B. F. Thomas, St. Boniface W. J. Carehart, Barnesboro W. E. Easton, Barnesboro Injured in Mine James McCann of Nant-y-Glo, who was injured in the Springfield mine at that place Monday afternoon, was taken to the Memorial Hospital, Johnstown, Tuesday for treatment for fractures of the left arm and the left thigh. Life of the Coal Miner Poverty and misfortune appear to be the inevitable lot of the coal miner. Rarely does this humble workman appear in the public light except when beset with the spectre of misfortune or the companion spectre of strike and hunger. Within the past five years, 6,000 coal miners have met the dreaded underground death that comes with the thunder of accumulated gas or a misplaced shot. In the first three months of 1912 almost 200 miners in the United States alone have been entombed and lost. In these numbers are included only those whose lives have been forfeited in disasters of world wide importance; no reckoning is made of the hundreds of individual lives that must have been lost in accidents common to industrial life. All this danger and woe for the mere privilege of earning a bare living beneath the earth. About the coal mining town there is something of a hopeless appearance that causes the alien to shudder. The gloom of the underground appears to permeate the outer air. The miner feels the unceasing anxiety incidental to his danger, one calling not so much as does his family. The native-born Americans are drawing away from this form of labor and they are not to be blamed. Someone must mine the fuel but the occupation is not an enviable one. (Youngstown TELEGRAM) ----------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS Veteran Teacher Dead Altoona MIRROR With the death of William J. McCoy a few days ago, at his home near Utahville, Clearfield county, along the Bellwood branch, one of the oldest school teachers in Pennsylvania passed to his reward. He was within a few months of being eighty years of age and he began teaching when but sixteen and followed the profession the greater part of his life. Mr. McCoy taught at different points in Clearfield, Cambria and Center counties and there are many residents of this city who received their educational training under this old veteran teacher. In a number of old families in those counties, three generations have attended the schools taught by him. Miss Davis Dead Miss Clara Amanda Davis, whose health has been impaired since childhood, died Sunday night at the home of her father, the venerable David Davis, No. 535 Grove avenue, Seventeenth ward, Johnstown, making the third death in the Davis family in 14 months. Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Jones Davis passed away on February 23, 1911 and Prescott Davis, only brother of Miss Davis, died at Chicago last September. Miss Davis was born in Jackson township, this county, where she became ill while attending school.