NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 14 Jun 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, 14 Jun 1912 Volume 45, Number 24 Personal Mention Miss Margaret Connell has returned to her home in this place. She underwent treatment in a Philadelphia hospital and is much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Webster Griffith and their two boys, George and Thomas, are spending a few days in Philadelphia and other eastern cities. Mrs. Wm. A. Jones and daughter, Miss Rebecca, of this place, departed this week for a visit with her son and brother, Mr. Earl Jones of Wilmington, North Carolina. Hon. A. V. Barker and family returned to this place today after spending the winter in Florida. They stopped off at Atlantic City on their way home. Ex-Prothonotary H. A. Shoemaker, one of our former popular citizens, who is now in business down near Pittsburg, is spending a few days here with his family this week. Miss Julia Connell who is one of the teachers of the Johnstown public schools, has returned to her home in this place and will spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Connell. Master Charles Shaffer, son of Mrs. J. E. Shaffer of Altoona, who is sister of Mrs. J. G. Lloyd and Mrs. Martha Kerbey of this place, is quite ill with diabetes at his home. He is aged 16 years. Mr. Seward Jones, of the marble and granite firm, Jones Bros., Boston, was in town Friday on business. Seward is an old Ebensburg boy and a son of the brave Lt. Hugh Jones, who was killed in the Civil War. Robert Gillin of this place has returned home from Pittsburg where he had been for some time undergoing treatment for his back. His many friends here will be glad to learn that he is greatly improved. Russell Leech, son of Ex-District Attorney J. W. Leech, left his home in this place Tuesday morning for Atlanta, Ga. He has taken the agency for a punctureless automobile tire that bids fair to solve one of the most objectionable features in automobiling. Mr. and Mrs. Melville H. James will likely attend the meeting of American Press humorists at Detroit the first week in September. Mr. James, who conducts the Clotheshorse column for the Johnstown DEMOCRAT, is a member of the American Press Humorists' association which numbers among its members Robert J. Burdett, Col. W. J. Lampton, Cy Warman, Judd Mortimer, Lewis S. E. Kiser, Edgar A. Guest, Strickland W. Gillilan, John Kendrick, Bangs and other well known humorists. There are six Pennsylvanians in the association, among them Mr. James. Robert Dunsmore of Portage was here attending to business on Tuesday. Amos Dishong of Nant-y-glo was calling on Ebensburg friends on Tuesday. R. G. Davis of Barnesboro was in Ebensburg Thursday attending to business. Ernest Apel of this place was in Pittsburg visiting friends and seeing the sights. Joseph O. Thomas of Cambria township was a visitor to Ebensburg Tuesday. Rev. Bolsinger of Trenton, N. J., spent a few days here visiting his parents last week. Albert Lewis of Pittsburg spent Sunday with his mother and sisters in this place. Mrs. D. S. Rice of Hastings was calling on her many friends in Ebensburg Tuesday. Alvin Evans and Russell Leech of Ebensburg were in Pittsburg Saturday and Sunday. Miss Ruth Connell, who is a student a Vassar College, has returned to her home in this place. Mrs. Fred D. Barker and children have returned to this place from their winter home in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Evans of Johnstown are visiting relatives here this week. Mr. Evans is serving as a juror. Miss Hattie Humphrey who has been spending some time in Philadelphia has returned to her home in this place. W. H. Clemente, Bruce Adams and A. Abrams of Vintondale attended a Masonic meeting here Tuesday night. Miss Ada R. Gallaher is in New York attending the commencement exercise of her Alma Mater, Columbia University. Walter Bishop Esq., of Philadelphia is visiting in this place. He has a host of friends here who always welcome him back. Find Patton Girl Pittsburg, June 10 Susie Kopitz, 18 years old, of Patton, Pa., who for the past three weeks had been missing was picked up at 1:10 o'clock this morning by Police Capt. John Dean at Fifth avenue and Pride street. She said she had spent two weeks on the North Side and one week in the Hill district. She was sent to central station pending the arrival of her parents. U. S. Pays Civil War Debt Government Remits $1.77 Owed to Union Veteran for Forty-Nine Years St. Paul, Minn. Another proof that Uncle Sam is honest and will pay his debts as soon as he can is on exhibition at the office of Julius Schmahl, secretary of the state, at the capitol. It is a check for $1.77 which was received by Charles A. Rose, document clerk. Uncle Sam has been owing Mr. Rose this money ever since 1863 and has at last got enough ahead to pay the debt. In 1863 Mr. Rose was transferred from one company of volunteers to another and at the time of his transfer there was due him $1.77. The amount was never paid and Mr. Rose had even forgotten that he had it coming until the check arrived a few days ago. Criminal Court Week, One of Much Business – Extracts William Weston, the seventeen-year-old Hastings youth, who a few months ago accidentally shot another boy of foreign extraction on the streets of Hastings and who was indicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter by the June grand jury, Tuesday pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter, was sentenced to undergo 30 days' imprisonment in the county jail and pay a fine of $5 and the costs. Weston said he pulled a revolver from this pocket. It caught and was in some manner discharged striking the boy on the head. Weston picked him up in his arms and carried him some distance to a physician's office. He had no intent to shoot when he drew his gun. [snip] The trial of George Henderson of Conemaugh for the murder of Miss Fern Davis of Woodvale, Johnstown, has been continued until September. [snip] Mike Berrit, manslaughter. In this case the defendant was a 16-year- old boy who shot and fatally injured a baby whose parents lived near Spangler. The court sentenced him to pay a fine of $5, the costs and serve 30 days in jail. This was the third action of the kind during the present session of court. [snip] John Tirhara, manslaughter, Emil Kress. This was the case in which the defendant neglected to summon a physician when his wife gave birth to a child and the woman died. Tirhara was sentenced to pay the costs and to give bond to appear at the September term of court for further disposition of the case. Carrolltown Marriage Banns: Howe-O'Neill; Buck-Meaghan; Hoover-Arble At St. Benedict's Catholic church in Carrolltown Sunday morning were announced the banns of marriage of Harry Howe of Morrisdale and Miss Susie O'Neill of Carrolltown; Michael Buck and Miss Mary Meaghan of Carrolltown; and Aloysius Hoover and Martha Arble, also of Carrolltown. The weddings will take place the latter part of the month. Three Kill Themselves: Levi Yost; Percival Hartman; Lewis Kinney Three suicides in Cambria county in one day is about the record. Charles Yost of 329 Pine street, Johnstown, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock found the remains of his son, Levi Yost, aged 44 in a little shop in the rear of the house on Pine street, a small caliber rifle beside the body. Yost gave up his job in the Cambria Mills soon after the death of his sister, Mrs. John C. Pender and since then had been very much depressed. An autopsy on the remains showed the bullet had ranged through the mouth into the brain. The body of Percival Hartman, 66 years old, was found hanging in the barn of his farm near South Fork. His son-in-law, Frank Brewer, had been keeping close watch on the old man for some time, but the despondent farmer eluded Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, who began searching for him Tuesday morning and found him hanging in the barn. Hartman was a widower and Mrs. Brewer is his child. In the woods near Portage Tuesday some boys found the body of Lewis Kinney, aged 45, a 38-caliber revolver clutched in his right hand. The deceased was unmarried and for some time worked at cutting mine props.