NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 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, 16 Aug 1912 Volume 45, Number 32 NEWS Personal Mention Miss Margaret Ivory, a trained nurse of Philadelphia, together with Mrs. Mary Ivory and the Misses Kathryn and Helena Ivory of Carrolltown are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dimond this week. F. J. Christy and J. E. Burns of Gallitzin were in attendance at naturalization court Tuesday. Mr. Burns has just completed a fine brick veneered store building and is conducting a general mercantile business. Miss Anna O. Davis of New York, a daughter of the late D. W. Davis, is visiting friends here. She had been visiting relatives in Conemaugh and will return to New York in a short time to resume her studies. Miss Blanche Henry of Ebensburg has started for California. Upon her return she will be accompanied by her sister and two children. Her sister's husband died recently in that state. The Misses Florence and Augusta Linton of Johnstown with Mrs. Jesse Clark Gore and daughter, Susan, of Hillsborough, O., formerly of Cresson, spent Monday in Ebensburg. Messrs. Earl Moore, Con Brown, Harry Englehart, Jr., Jos. Parrish, Edwin Englehart and Harry Brown attended a dance in the Alpenroeschen Hall, Gallitzin, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Samuel Dunham and her daughters, Mrs. Mary Watson, Mrs. D. G. LaFrance and the Misses Maude and Blanche Dunham spent Wednesday with Ebensburg friends. Dr. Matthew Thompson Dill of Biglerville, Pa., who has been visiting his brother, Attorney William F. Dill of Barnesboro called upon Ebensburg friends Monday. Commissioner and Mrs. Thomas A. Osborn and daughter returned to Johnstown Monday last. Mrs. Osborn and daughter spent the past two weeks with friends here. Attorney Thomas H. Hasson and wife have returned to their home in Pittsburg after a visit with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James G. Hasson. Rev. Paul Brylski of Gallitzin transacted business in Ebensburg Monday. Father Brylski is rector of St. Mary's Catholic church at Gallitzin. Paul Nelson, proprietor of the Nelson House at Portage, was an Ebensburg visitor Monday and made a pleasant call at THE FREEMAN office. Mrs. Louis Schroth and children of this place are visiting Mrs. Schroth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Spiegelhalter at Gallitzin. Miss Margaret Minahan of Johnstown returned home Monday last after spending some time with Miss Alice Maloney of this place. Cyrus W. Jones of Philadelphia spent the past week in Ebensburg attending to business in connection with his properties here. Mr. and Mrs. John Leahey of Lilly, accompanied by their son and daughter, were registered at the Mountain House Tuesday. Miss Marie Spiegelhalter who had been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Louis Schroth, returned to her home in Gallitzin Tuesday. Caron Leahey of Lilly was a business visitor here Monday. Squire says there's nothing to it but that Wilson will win. Attorney Ivan J. McKenrick has returned home from a month's visit through the eastern part of the state. Attorneys Thomas J. Itell, W. David Lloyd, and L. Verde Rhue of Johnstown were business visitors Wednesday. Miss Edith Schroth of this place visited her parents, Squire and Mrs. W. C. Schroth in Carrolltown Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Taladay with her little son, John, of Pittsburg, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. D. Port in this place. Rev. Father Hugh O'Neill was a Pittsburg visitor Tuesday last. J. P. Myers of Coupon was in attendance at court here Tuesday. Rev. Ferdinand Kittell of Loretto was an Ebensburg visitor Tuesday last. Miss Kathryn Blair left Tuesday for a brief visit with friends at Burnside, Pa. O. P. Thomas and wife of Johnstown were visiting Ebensburg friends Monday. Miss Eleanor Thomas of Johnstown is visiting relatives and friends in Ebensburg. Samuel Kittell of Loretto was registered at Hotel Bender Monday of this week. Chas. G. Straub of Johnstown was among the visitors to Ebensburg on Sunday last. Landlord John Gutwald and J. L. Cox of Amsbry were business visitors here this week. George Yeckley and wife of Portage were registered at the Mountain House Wednesday. Lorens Wyland, one of Spangler's progressive business men, was in town Wednesday last. Chas. B. Hoelle of Lilly and John W. Rainy of Altoona called upon Ebensburg friends Monday last. A. J. Condon, formerly of Gallitzin, but now of New York, transacted business in Ebensburg Monday. Additional Personals Rev. M. G. Smith of Campbell, N. Y., is visiting his son, Owen Smith of the commissioner's office. Rev. Smith was formerly pastor of the Baptist church at Mountaindale at which place he will preach next Sunday morning. Rev. Father J. J. Deasy, rector of St. Patrick's Catholic church, Gallitzin, transacted business in Ebensburg Tuesday. Father Deasy is able to be about his duties but has not fully recovered from injuries sustained several months ago. New Church at St. Michael The Rev. Father John Quinn of St. James' Catholic church at South Fork and of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church at Ehrenfeld has been requested by Bishop E. A. Garvey to organize a parish at St. Michael and build a church there. As soon as the new parsonage at South Fork is completed and Father Quinn takes up his residence there, he will organize the St. Michael congregation. He expects to rent a building at St. Michael for use this winter and begin the erection of a church next spring. Off on Extended Road Trip Attorney and Mrs. Harvey Roland of this place with their daughter, Miss Olive Roland and Mrs. Charles W. Port, also of Ebensburg and Harry Land, of Bradentown, Fla., the latter as driver, left Tuesday afternoon in the Roland touring car for a month's automobiling trip. They will visit the battlefield at Gettysburg, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New York, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Cleveland, Fort Wayne, Chicago, Kansas City and other points of interest along the way. Family Reunion Yesterday five hundred members of the Davis and Burkhart families held their annual reunion at Sunshine grove on the Southern Cambria road. Not only were the members of the families mentioned gathered there, but all their kith and kin and many invited guests. The forenoon was spent in preparation for the noon-day lunch and the various amusements scheduled for the afternoon. After luncheon the elders sought the shade of the grove to indulge in reminiscences while the youngest members indulged in various athletic sports, consisting of ball game and races. William Davis of Conemaugh, the well known Pennsylvania station agent, was chosen chairman of the big gathering in the grove in the afternoon. Quite a number of songs were sung by the picnickers and recitations were given by Miss Anna Davis of Conemaugh and young Mr. Custer, a son of Daniel Custer. Alvin Hepling of Pittsburg gave a patriotic oration. Attorney Walter Jones of Ebensburg gave a history of the Davis family. The gathering yesterday was organized by descendants of Richard Davis, one of the early settlers of Cambria county. Richard Davis' wife, Elizabeth Roberts, was born in Cambria township near Pensacola in June of 1798. Mr. Jones traced the history of ancestors of Richard Davis and of his descendants and also made mention of Richard Davis' three brothers, William, David and Evan Davis, descendants of whom were at the picnic today in large numbers. William Davis, one of the brothers referred to, was the first Treasurer of Cambria county. Attorney Jones' talk was very interesting as he was able to show how through marriage the Davis family connection has become very large. Harry L. Burkhart gave a history of the Burkhart family. The forerunner of the Burkhart clan in this section was Joseph Burkhart who came to Cambria county from the eastern part of the state, and whose father came from Germany. The histories of the Davis and Burkhart families are closely intertwined, many marriages having taken place between members of the two clans. Two daughters of Richard Davis were at the reunion today. They were Mrs. Milton Jones and Mrs. Mary Stiles, both of Ebensburg. There were five daughters of the elder Burkhart on the grounds, Mrs. Thomas Davis of Ebensburg, David Burkhart of Conemaugh, Harrison Burkhart of Roxbury, Johnstown; Daniel Burkhart of near the old Burkhart homestead and Mrs. Ben Byers of Morrellville, Johnstown. During his address Attorney Jones read excerpts from letters written by Capt. Tom Davis to his wife during the Civil War. The addresses and family histories proved very interesting indeed and were listened to very attentively. The Rev. Alvin Byers of Canton, O., who was scheduled to deliver an address on the Burkhart family, was unable to be present. The picnickers named a committee to take charge of the arrangements for next year's reunion. Members of this committee are Attorney Walter Jones and Lester Larimer of Ebensburg, Harry Davis and Cyrus Davis of Conemaugh and Harry Burkhart. The formal gathering dispersed after the singing of "America." A big supper featured the close of the day and then the majority of the elder people went home, but young folks with their chaperones, stayed for a marshmallow roast, which proved quite as enjoyable as the preceding pleasures. Cresson Man in Hospital Edward Mentch of Cresson is a patient at the Memorial Hospital, Johnstown. When taken to the hospital it was thought he was suffering from appendicitis but his physicians have decided that it is liver disease. "Cy" Young Says Farewell Famous Pitcher Makes His Final Appearance on the Diamond at Place Where He Started It was a fine sense of the appropriateness of things that led Denton T. Young to make his final farewell announcement on the diamond where he began his career. It was at New Athens, O., at the commencement day game of Franklin College where the veteran first learned the fine points of the game. Young consented to pitch part of the game for the college team. He twirled three innings then the veteran walked out before the grandstands and declared he was through, "The old arm is gone; I give way to a younger man. This is my last game. It was here that I began my baseball career and it is befitting that I should end it here," he said. Pittsburgh Exposition Begins 24th Season on August 28 Everything is life and activity in the great Exposition Buildings of the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society located at the Point in Pittsburg in preparation for the opening of the annual Exposition season of 1912, on August 28, and continuing through to Oct. 19. Hundreds of men are at work in the buildings fitting up booths, placing exhibits and cleaning, painting and brightening up the great structures while carload after carload of exhibits from out of the city are arriving and are being unloaded. On the opening day there will be the best display of exhibits covering the widest range of industrial arts and sciences that have ever been held at this famous place. Much attention this year is being given to the music program which will, in many respects, far overbalance any former year's effort in this direction. Some of the attractions are familiar and have had wonderful success in the past years in Pittsburg. Others have been away for a number of years and are returning to the city better than ever, and the whole list presents an array of musical arts and organization that have seldom been seen at expositions in any place in the country. Modes Altschuler, at the head of the Russian Symphony Orchestra, will open the Exposition season. This organization last season won a place in the hearts of music lovers in western Pennsylvania that insures it a splendid welcome and as it will remain for ten days, there will be abundant opportunity for those who enjoy its performances to hear the splendid programs that have been prepared. Coming after the Russian Symphony Orchestra will be the splendid organization of Sousa, who is matchless as an inspiration of enthusiasm among the people and his band that has traveled around the world and carried off honors unparalleled in the history of band organizations since last visiting Pittsburgh. Following Sousa and his band will be the Innes Concert Band, another organization of national repute and years ago one of the most popular musical attractions at the Exposition which comes to Pittsburgh after winning laurels after many years throughout the east and west. Conductor Innes of this organization was one of the late Patrick Gilmore's star players on the trombone and since his rising to the position of band leader, has inspired in his organization that wonderful spirit that made his predecessor so famous throughout America. The Thomas Orchestra with Frederick Stock, and one of the greatest symphony organizations of the west, will come from Chicago. Victor Herbert, former conductor of the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, composer of operas and his orchestra are also to appear. Carl Pohlig [best guess; surname faded], formerly conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a great symphony orchestra leader, now of Europe, is also to come to Pittsburgh and with a splendid organization, present programs for one week during the season. But in addition to this splendid array of musical talent the Exposition this year is to have the greatest display ever made by the United Stares Government in Pittsburgh. It will construct models of defenses along the seacoast, working models of the Panama Canal and relief maps showing the progress of that wonderful work which ties the two great oceans together and is today the subject of international discussion. There will be models also of the colonial army uniforms and of the modern uniforms and equipment, ordnance such as is used in the army of today and many other features that are of direct interest to the people, telling them what the Government is doing in their behalf. The city of Pittsburgh will have its greatest display in models showing the wonderful Lincoln avenue concrete bridge, about the largest structure of its kind in the world and the most artistic structure ever built of cement. There will be models also of the great filtration plant, built at a cost of $13,000,000 to give Pittsburgh its pure water supply. There will be designs and plans showing the great hump cut going on in the heart of the city and which is changing the topography of the entire downtown section. The schools of Pittsburgh and vicinity are to be shown with actual work being done. Public schools, manual training schools and domestic arts and sciences among the children, such as cooking and sewing and for the first time a display of work of the great institution of Technology which is Andrew Carnegie's greatest gift to any community. Germany is sending to the exhibit the first machine ever built for making embroidery. It will be set up and operated and embroidery turned out by the yard. For years embroidery has been a hand made product. There will be models of two ocean going vessels in different parts of the great building, equipped with a complete system of wireless telegraph and visitors will be enabled to send dispatches from one ship to the other, having friends at the further point to receive them, the purpose being to display the great progress made in wireless telegraphy and what it can do on the high seas for saving of human life. The Exposition will have its usual amusements and attractions for entertaining the little folk and young people, including moving pictures in the Theotorium, ponies for riding, merry-go-rounds, roller coaster and the crowning feature of all this will be the representation in miniature of the departure of the ill-fated Titanic from Europe on its last voyage. The model will sail the sea until it strikes the iceberg and then will sink in view of the audience which will thus be given the exact reproduction of the greatest sea disaster in human history. Visitors will also have boat rides starting from the Exposition grounds and passing out of the rivers. There will be displayed the latest inventions and mechanical devises affecting all the industries of the Pittsburgh district. Every arrangement has been completed for the care of the patrons coming from points outside of the city. The usual excursions will be run each week. Street car lines are to give the best possible connection with Exposition buildings and the entire season will be made exceptional for its increased comfort to the greater throngs that will visit the Point. Ten thousand electric lights will be used in the buildings. The approaches to the buildings in the city streets are to be illuminated by double the ordinary street lights. New rest rooms and new restaurant are being added. The music hall is being entirely redecorated and exhibitors are assuring the Exposition management that this year will be a memorable one in their part of the work because of the greater care and pains taken to make their displays interesting. This season is the twenty-fourth annual Exposition of the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society. It is approaching its jubilee year and each year it is growing better and more popular with people. Ten million people have thus far visited this famous Point or at the rate of more than 400,000 a year. The outlook for weather conditions is most favorable and estimates swell the attendance this year by many thousands. The date of the opening and closing of this season is being particularly imprinted on the minds of the thousands who come and will be urged upon everybody to remember as one of the most favorable opportunities for enjoying the greatest musical programs possible to obtain and the greatest educational benefits possible to enjoy for the smallest sum and expense. 45 Years Ago March 28, 1867 Who Was It? – On Sunday evening last while Mr. Saupp and Mr. Beck were returning with their ladies from St. Augustine to Loretto and while passing along an uninhabited part of the road, they were suddenly startled and their horses rendered unmanageable by three severable discharges of firearms in the immediate vicinity. The night was too dark to distinguish any object or to ascertain where the firing came. The question is, who did the shooting and what was the motive which prompted it? April 4, 1867 Commissioned – We are pleased to notice that our young friend, Capt. James Quinn of Johnstown, has been commissioned a second Lieutenant in the regular army. James served through the greater part of the war with a devotion and bravery highly creditable and we are pleased to notice this recognition of his merits by the powers that be. April 4, 1867 Monuments – Altoona and Logan township, Blair County, have commenced the erection of a monument to their fallen soldiers. An effort is now being made emanating from Hollidaysburg to erect a county monument. If these enterprises succeed, as they should, Blair will be known as the Monumental county. Why don't (sic) Cambria have a monument to her fallen sons? April 11, 1867 Changes – We see that our friend, E. J. Mills, Esq., has removed from the P. O. corner to the store room recently occupied up R. Davis, dec'd., and more recently by E. Hughes & Co., where in company with Mr. Roland Davis, he is reported to be selling goods below cost. And our old friend, R. J. Lloyd, Esq., has assumed the duties of P. M. in the place and stead of Mr. Mills. Mr. Lloyd is justly termed "a man of letters," as he has been P. M. since his early boyhood and cannot fail to give satisfaction. April 25, 1867 Game Fifty Years Ago – Speaking of hunting, Mr. Mills, the venerable Court House janitor, says that in 1818 he killed forty two bears, one wolf and one panther and as to deer and turkeys, he never counted them, for as often as they were needed they were "condemned and punished." April 25, 1867 Lumbering – More lumber has got to market this spring by the Susquehanna than at any previous time within the recollection of the "oldest inhabitant." More than five hundred returned raftsmen have already passed thro' Ebensburg on their way home. May 16, 1867 "Young men, do you believe in a future state?" "In course I duz; and what's more, I intend to enter it as soon as Betsy gets her things ready." At last accounts Betsy was busily engaged in the pleasant task of getting "her things ready," as she was seen coming out of V. S. Barker's cheap store on High street with a bundle of dry goods and other wedding "fixins'" wrapped up in brown paper. She was not only happy in anticipation of her approaching nuptials, but manifested the utmost good sense in buying her wedding finery from the clever dealer aforesaid. May 16, 1867 Visitors – Our sanctum was invaded on Tuesday by Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing. The young Commoner of Pennsylvania, having served his country and his Commonwealth for half a decade in our legislative halls, will, we trust, be called to serve her in still more important positions. Mayor Ryckman, the Johnstown Chief of Police was with us – the beau idea of an officer and a gentleman. Justice Strayer was also here on the stump. Joe is a clever fellow and hard to beat on the dead wood. May 23, 1867 We wish we could approve of an equal number of the acts of the editor THE FREEMAN – ALLEGH. The ALLEGHANIAN is hard to please. Don't believe its editor would approve of the Acts of the Apostles. The Names of All Veterans to be Placed on Shaft The county commissioners unanimously approved and accepted the plans for the monument to old soldiers and sailors at a meeting Monday morning, a resolution to that effect having been presented by county commissioner, T. A. Osborn. According to the resolution, the contract price is to be $12,000 and the monument is to be completed, by May 15, 1913. The price submitted for placing the names of soldiers and sailors on the shaft is accepted, pending a decision of the grand jury to appropriate more money for this purpose. About $3,000 will be necessary to pay for having the names inscribed in bronze and put on the monument. The resolution adopted was as follows: Whereas, a committee representing posts of the G. A. R. of Cambria County has made recommendations to the commissioners of said county, which recommendations are hereto attached, now therefore, be it: Resolved, That the county commissioners do hereby approve and accept the plans for the memorial monument to old soldiers and sailors of all wars as submitted by J. Wilkinson & Son and marked plan "A," with the specifications thereto belonging and submitted. That the contract price for said monument completed (without names of soldiers and sailors) shall be the sum of $12,000 and that said monument be erected and completed on or before May 15, 1913 and for failure to so complete, a penalty of $100 per day be charged and liquated damages for each day over May 15, 1913. That the price submitted for placing the names of all sailors and soldiers of all wars on the monument be accepted and approved, pending the decision of the grand jury as to the further expenditure of a sum of money sufficient to cover this item. That contracts be prepared covering these features by the county commissioners. Death of Thomas J. Lynch Thomas J. Lynch, a widely known undertaker of Altoona, died Tuesday last following a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Lynch's health had not been the best, but it was not until Saturday that he ceased actual work. Mr. Lynch had many relatives and friends throughout this county who were shocked to hear of his death. Surviving him are his wife and three children, his aged mother and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. F. J. Hartmann of Ebensburg; John of Cincinnati; and Miss Catherine Lynch, Mrs. L. J. O'Brien and Bernard Lynch, all of Altoona. The funeral was held this morning from St. Leo's church, Altoona, with interment in Calvary cemetery.