NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 3 May 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, 3 May 1912 Volume 45, Number 18 Personal Mention Dalton Williams, who had been the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Williams, has returned to Pittsburg where he is employed by a printing firm. Herschell Davis of High street is confined to his home with quinsy. This adversary encounters Mr. Davis a couple of times each year. Mr. and Mrs. James G. Hasson were visiting in Johnstown Wednesday. Mr. Hasson was 65 years old that day. Mrs. Mary Ellen McBreen of Julian street observed her 77th birthday anniversary Wednesday. Among the out-of-town guests was her daughter, Sister Innoceneia of Pittsburg. Mrs. J. B. Lehman and daughter, Edna, and Mrs. M. L. Knight of Ebensburg were in Johnstown Wednesday. John W. Kephart has returned home from Harrisburg where he attended the Republican State convention. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jones had as their guest Sunday their daughter, Mrs. Mabel Jones Tibbott of Johnstown. Orville Scanlan was home Sunday from Loretto where he is a student at St. Francis college. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. James attended the funeral of E. H. Bailey in Johnstown last Sunday. George Porch of Johnstown and James Buck of Cresson were in Ebensburg Wednesday. The Misses Oline and Gussie Evans of Colver were guests of local friends last Saturday. Attorneys William M. McGuire and Charles Hasson were Johnstown visitors this week. George D. Kinkead attended the opening Tri-State game at Johnstown Thursday. J. Edgar Long of the Ebensburg Coal company, Colver, was in town this week. Miss Zelda Butler of this place is taking a course at Rowe college, Johnstown. William Muhlenberg of Centre street is suffering from an attack of lumbago. Among the visitors in town Monday was Squire George Boone of Patton. Isaac Mahan of Blacklick township was an Ebensburg visitor Thursday. Mrs. V. S. Barker has as her guest Mrs. Clyde Gardner of Detroit. Local News Notes The Hon. Jacob C. Stineman who spent the past few months in his winter home at Orlando, Florida, returned to South Fork Saturday. Mr. Stineman is in excellent health and reports a pleasant stay in the sunny south. His many friends welcome him back. He was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. George Slick and her son, Stineman Slick. H. A. Thompkins, one of the prominent coal operators of the county and who resides on Horner Street, Ebensburg, is the owner of a fine new car. It is the Great Western 1912 model. Mr. Tompkins had a similar car last summer and traded it in to the factory on account of the 1912 model having so many new features. Walter R. Thompson has purchased a new Regal automobile and is now learning to distinguish the exhilarator from the transmission. Mr. Thompson and Charles Boney drove the machine overland from Pittsburg last Sunday. Colver is growing. It has a fire company now. Its new hotel will be opened within a month, when Judge Stephens will grant it a license. The large store is about finished. The town has a population of about 1,500. Owen S. Smith of Johnstown, a clerk in the commissioners' office, is occupying the George Davis home on Sample street. Mr. Davis has gone to live with his brother, W. H. Davis of Caroline street. Clyde H. Lady and Miss Elsie Eisenhart are in charge of the Ebensburg Summer Normal, in attendance at which are about 30 young people. This is a feature of the spring season in Ebensburg. Dr. John D. Caldwell has purchased a Ford car and will discard his horse and buggy as soon as his new machine arrives. Several other cars have been bought by Ebensburg men. Harvey Tibbott's new drug store is rapidly approaching completion. Mrs. Tibbott expects to occupy these handsome quarters about the middle of the month. Aloysius Skelly has sent his large gray Percheron stallion to La Jose, Clearfield county, where it will remain during the stallion season. T. Stanton Davis is building a new house on High street, near the old Blair homestead for speculative purposes. Johnstown Well Represented Indiana Normal school has a larger alumni association in Johnstown than any other school. At present there are 22 persons from that city attending Normal. Indiana Normal commencement will be held June 20. Goes Back to the Farm Mrs. Sarah A. Stephens who has been spending the winter in Johnstown with her sons, Judge Marlin B. Stephens and John Stephens and daughter, Mrs. Mayer, wife of Dr. L. H. Mayer, left Saturday afternoon for Dilltown, where she will spend the spring and summer on the Stephens farm. Kick May Affect Brain Tragic fate may have overtaken 2-year-old Joe Ceressa, son of John Ceressa, a foreman for Contractor John L. Elder of Ebensburg. Joe was kicked in the forehead by a horse. The blow fractured what are known as the frontal sinuses, the wavy sutures or lines marking the lining of the frontal or forehead bone with the parietal or bones of the temple. Fracture of the skull was thus narrowly averted and the attending physician will require further inspection and observation before he can decide whether the blow has affected the boy's brain. The hoof of the horse did not reach the eye cavity in a way to cut the eyeball but the question of the effect on the sight will also have to await determinations. Patton's Typhoid Epidemic Analysis of the reservoir supply at Patton has established that the water furnished by the company is not responsible for the sudden and virulent revival of typhoid in that lively coal town. W. H. Denlinger when asked for a survey of the situation said, "I believe that several wells and springs in use around here for years are responsible, assisted by unsanitary conditions around many homes and in backyards. A wholesale cleaning up and abatement of the use of spring and well water which has been contaminated by seepage will, in my judgment, soon rid Patton of the peril of annual visitations of typhoid. The situation seems to be up to the town's sanitary authorities." Saw Gruesome Sight Henry Stiehler of Huron, Ohio, just back from Germany is visiting Johnstown relatives. He traveled on the Rhein and in one afternoon counted 12 bodies of Titanic victims, one of them a woman with a baby in her arms. He said the sight was sickening and has cured him of the desire for ocean travel unless it be to return to the Fatherland and stay there. Prophetic Story of the Sea Morgan Robertson, one of the foremost living writers of sea stores, has proved that he is a prophet as well as a novelist. Fifteen years ago he wrote a novelette that he called, "The Wreck of the Titan." It told of the destruction of the largest and finest steamer ever constructed, the wreck being caused by an iceberg in the vicinity of the scene of the Titanic catastrophe. The similarity of names in the imaginary wreck and that of the boat that actually went down is not the most striking feature of the story. There are other remarkable and startling coincidences. Walter Bell Altoona As a result of eating poisonous weeds, Walter Bell, aged 15, is dead and his two schoolmates, Charles White and Charles Sherer are quite ill. The three boys went for a jaunt on Brush mountain and while there ate a quantity of leaves from herbs. On their return home they became ill, Bell dying in agony before a physician could be summoned.