Could be the wife of Miles E. McHugh and dau. of Luke and M. Bridget (Henry) Weakland? ----- Original Message ----- From: <jeanette.sosa@gmail.com> To: "PACAMBRI-L@rootsweb.com" <pacambri-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: [PACAMBRI] Weakland, Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday,February 6, 1903 >" Miss Flora Weakland, of Ebensburg, has resigned her position as teacher >of > the Killen school, in Barr township, on > account of the protracted illness of her mother." > > Who are the parents of Flora Weakland? > > Jeannette > - - - - - - - - - - > > Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: > http://www.camgenpa.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACAMBRI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

In a message dated 9/10/2008 2:22:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeanette.sosa@gmail.com writes: " Miss Flora Weakland, of Ebensburg, has resigned her position as teacher of the Killen school, in Barr township, on account of the protracted illness of her mother." Who are the parents of Flora Weakland? Jeannette Flora Ellen Weakland, born 7 Oct 1883, Ebensburg, Cambria Co., PA died 18 Apr 1865, unknown location d.o. Luke Weakland and Mary Bridget Henry married Miles E. McHugh, date and place unknown Mary Lou **************Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. (http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014)

I am searching for the date of birth for a relative. He is Harold C. Bradley of Allegheny Township, Cambria County, PA. He was born apx. 1912 to Thomas and Bertha Bradley. Any tips for searching? Thank you John B ************** Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. (http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014)

" Miss Flora Weakland, of Ebensburg, has resigned her position as teacher of the Killen school, in Barr township, on account of the protracted illness of her mother." Who are the parents of Flora Weakland? Jeannette

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, May 29, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Saturday is Memorial Day. Thirty-six cases of typhoid fever are reported at Ehrenfeld. Mr. Ed Kline of Hastings was in Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. William Kimball lost another horse one day last week. Mr. Harry Blair of Johnstown spent Thursday in Ebensburg. Mr. Philip Kline of Hastings was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Richard Davis of Johnstown visited friends in Ebensburg this week. Mr. Thomas Peach of this place lost a valuable horse by death on Friday. Mr. W. A. Horan and family of Johnstown are visiting relatives in this place. Mr. Thomas Miller of Barr township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. C. R. Claghorn of Wehrum has introduced an automobile into that new town. Mr. James C. Murray of Washington township spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Tuesday. Dr. and Mrs. Walker of Philadelphia have opened their summer cottage on Centre street. Mr. Herman Williams and son, Charles, of Vandergrift spent a couple of days in Ebensburg this week. Thieves broke into the granary of Mr. J. H. Edwards in Cambria township and stole a quantity of oats. Mrs. P. F. Fogarty of Greensburg attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Myers in this place on Thursday. Mr. Leonard Huntley and wife started on Wednesday afternoon on a visit to friends in Omaha, Nebraska. The June meeting of the Cambria county Pomona Grange will be held in the Parochial hall in Loretto on June 8th. High street, between Centre and Julian, is now in the hands of the Ikes, who are digging the ditch for the pipes of the Ebensburg Light, Heat and Power company. Sheep damages were awarded last week to Wm. Kimball, Farren Bros., John Tudor, Newton Pryce, John M. Hughes, Elsie Davis, David Griffith and Leighton Rowland. During the progress of a game of base ball at Johnstown on Saturday afternoon Miss Alice Wisegarver of that city was struck by a foul ball just below the heart and rendered insensible. She is recovering slowly. The wholesale liquor store of Quinn & Harper at Patton was destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon of last week together with all the fixtures and bottled goods. The loss foots up $2,600 with only $600 insurance. Miss Emily Philips, daughter of Mr. C. W. Philips, of Pittsburg, who has a summer home in this place, is seriously ill. Dr. Lawrence Flick of Philadelphia was called to Ebensburg on Sunday in consultation in regard to her treatment. Mr. John Manion, of the Central Hotel, in this place, now drives the prettiest team of black horses in the town. Mr. Manion takes great pride in owning and driving fine horses and it will take a couple fine specimens to equal Mr. Manion’s blacks. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Jones, S. S. Kinkead, Wm. Davis, Esq., and wife, and V. S. Barker, of this place, were in Philadelphia this week attending the semi-centennial of the Grand Commandery of the Pennsylvania Knights Templars. Jams McCleland, a special delivery messenger boy employed in the Johnstown post office was on Monday held in $500 bail for his appearance at court by United States Commissioner Craig, of Altoona, on a charge of embezzling three special delivery letters containing $81. Friday night lightening struck an elm tree on the farm of James Cain in Munster township and killed four horses that were standing sheltering under its branches. The tree stood in a pasture field and the loss is divided, the horses being owned, one each of James Cain, Demetrious Glass, John Murphy and John Latterner. John Boley, a railroad carpenter, aged forty years is a smallpox patient at Cresson, having developed the disease Thursday of last week when his home back of the Anderson House was placed under quarantine. Boley has a wife and four children, the youngest about a year old, and all are now shut up in the house under guard. Boley has not a severe case, according to Dr. Lynch. Andrew Palisni, an Italian about 30 years old, was taken to the Memorial hospital at Johnstown on Monday from Dilltown, Indiana county, where he had been employed on railroad construction work on a contract of McManamy & Sims. Thursday of last week the man was struck on the right side of the head by a guy rope and partial paralysis of the left side of this body, arms and legs, resulted. Michael Barnicle, aged 21 years, an assistant track foreman on the Cresson and Clearfield division at Patton met with a peculiar accident at that place at 11 o’clock Saturday morning. He was standing along the track when an engine ran over a railroad cap and a piece of it flying through air struck him on the left arm at the bicep muscle. It passed through his clothing and entered the flesh to the bone. He went to Altoona hospital Saturday evening where the piece of cap was removed. J. F. McKenrick, Esq., the well known attorney of Ebensburg, was arrested on Monday on a warrant charging him with forgery and obtaining money under false pretense, issued at the instance of John F. Cox of Vintondale. The case against the attorney grows out of the settlement of a prosecution which Mrs. Mary J. Herzog, of West Taylor township, had instituted against Cox in January last, charging him with adultery with her daughter, Miss Ella B. Uncapher. Mr. McKendrick appeared before Justice A. J. Waters and, waiving a hearing, entered bail in the sum of $500 with Thomas Peach, as surety for his appearance at court. On Tuesday night about 10 o’clock the large frame barn of Daniel Jones in Cambria township was destroyed by fire. The roof was about falling in when the fire was discovered by the family and it was with difficulty that two horses that were in the stables were gotten out. Seven calves were burned to death. One of the horses that was gotten out ran back into a shed and the boards had to be pried off to again rescue it, which was finally done. There had been no fire about the building, the fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. A lot of machinery and farming implements were also burned There is an insurance of $900 which will not near cover the loss of the barn as it was a new one. The corner stone for the new Catholic church at Summerhill was laid at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon by the Rev. Eugene A. Garvey, bishop of the Altoona diocese of the Catholic church, assisted by the Rev. Father Wolfgang of Johnstown, pastor of the German Catholic church at New Germany, and others. The services were largely attended, special music being rendered by a choir of mixed voices. The contractor and architect is John T. Long, who will push the work along as rapidly as possible. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, May 22, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Dr. A. C. Fitzgerald of South Fork was a visitor to Ebensburg on Sunday. Mr. William Kimball lost a valuable dapple gray horse by death on Sunday. Commissioners’ Clerk F. B. Jones of this place spent Sunday in Johnstown. Rev. Father Hurton of Vindondale spent a couple of days in Pittsburg this week. The brick work on Supt. H. T. Jones’ new residence is about completed. Miss Ann McDonald is home from Allegheny where she spent the past winter. Squire T. J. Stephens of Gallitzin spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. D. E. Parks has planted a fine orchard on land adjoining his summer residence. Charles Rowland, son of Amos Rowland, of this place, is ill with appendicitis. Mr. M. D. Bearer has accepted a position in Schettig Bros. hardware store as a clerk. The salary of the postmaster at Patton has been increased from $1,600 to $1,700 per anum. Last Friday night four sheep and eight lambs belonging to Pryce Brothers were killed by dogs. Miss Annie Kane returned from Pittsburg on Friday and will spend the summer in Ebensburg. A new barn is being erected by County Commissioner Benj. Jones on his farm north of Ebensburg. Messrs. Joseph Griffin and Alex Parrish of Munster township were visitors to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Squire James Mellon and wife, of Patton, spent Thursday in Ebensburg with their daughter, Mrs. John T. Blair. H. H. Myers, Esq., and sister, Mrs. Porter, of this place, attended the funeral of Mrs. Robert Brady at Loretto on Monday. A sawmill has been placed on the Jonathan Jones farm three miles north of Ebensburg for the purpose of cutting up the Hemlock lumber in that neighborhood. Contractor L. Z. Bloom of this place a few days ago received a car load of cedar shingles from the state of Washington. The freight bill amounted to $260. Mr. Ida Bloom of the east ward is still confined to his home by illness. Mr. Bloom contracted a heavy cold about two months ago and has never recovered from it. Mrs. Wm. A Todd, of Scottdale, who was on the mountain in attendance of the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Robert Brady, at Loretto on Monday returned home on Tuesday. Smallpox has again made its appearance in Spangler, the victim being William Young, mine foreman at Delta Mine. His home has been quarantined. It is not known where he contracted the disease. Weston, the merchant of Gallitzin, has broken ground for a large brick department store to be completed for fall trade. When completed this store will have facilities to second none for rendering up-to- date service in all lines. The deal by which Mr. Julius Rager was to have secured the leasehold of the Central Hotel, in this place, from Mr. J. R. Manion, the present proprietor has fallen through and Mr. Manion will remain in charge of that hotel. Ex-Sheriff Joseph A. Gray of Spangler has bought from Col. J. L. Spangler, of Bellefonte, the Gray Hotel at Spangler for $10,000, exclusive of furnishings. The hotel was built by the Spangler Improvement Company in 1893 and is one of the finest in northern Cambria. Mr. Gary makes the purchase as an investment. As a result of carelessness on the part of a daughter, the entire family of John Sharp, living in Allegheny township, this county, near Chest Springs, is prostrated with a virulent form of smallpox. Mr. Sharp, his wife and eight children are down with the disease, the condition of the former being so serious that he is not expected to recover. John A. Gray, aged twenty-two years and a brakeman on the Cresson & Clearfield division, residing in Altoona, was the victim of an unfortunate accident about 6 o’clock Wednesday morning of last week. He was setting brakes on his train at Spangler when he fell and his right leg went down between the cars and was caught by the bumpers and badly contused and lacerated. He was taken to the Altoona hospital where his injuries were dressed with a view of trying to save the leg. On Monday a charter was granted to the Cresson Springs Brewing company, Mr. Joseph Henger of this place will be president of the new concern while H. A. Englehart, also of this place, will be the secretary. The new brewery will be erected at Cresson and will start out with a capacity of 15,000 barrels a year, although it will be built with a view to increasing the capacity to 30,000 barrels per year when necessity demands it. The buildings will be built of brick and located on the Pfeister property near the Y. Miss Emma Deis, of Johnstown, on Monday entered a suit against Frank A. Cressell, of the same city, asking for $25,000 damages for breach of promise. In her statement, as filed, Miss Deis related that on or about the 19th of January, 1898, and at various other dates, the defendant promised to marry her. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, May 15, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. T. S. Davis of this place spent the past week in Blairsville. Mr. Ed. Glass of Allegheny township was in town on Tuesday. Several dogs have been poisoned in Ebensburg during the past week. Mr. W. A. Lantzy of Spangler was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mrs. D. O’Donnell of Cresson spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. Charles Schryock of Wilmore spent a few hours in town on Tuesday. Mrs. T. M. Richards of this place is calling on relatives in Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. Peter Long of Croyle township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Jams M. Singer of Jackson township spent a few hours in town on Tuesday. Mr. George B. Stineman of South Fork was visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. Philip Sanders of Munster township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. Joseph Melloy of Loretto was in Ebensburg for a short time Wednesday evening. Miss Rosalyn Darragh of this place spent several days this week with friends in Johnstown. Landlord J. R. Manion has traded his team of driving horses for a handsome black horse. M. D. Kittell, Esq., of this place returned home on Monday after a brief visit to Atlantic City. Mrs. E. H. Plank and two daughters, of Christiana, Pa., are visiting relatives in this place. Mr. T. H. Heist is busily engaged in getting Maple Park Springs in readiness for the summer season. Mrs. Jones, wife of Dr. F. C. Jones of this place visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Wertz in Johnstown last week. Mrs. Jennie Griffith entertained the Whist Club Wednesday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. D. Barker. Mr. Robert McBreen is making preparations for the laying of a new brick pavement in front of his property on Centre street. Smallpox in a virulent form now prevails at the Blair county almshouse and rigid measures are being adopted to prevent a spreading of the contagion. On Tuesday morning the train from Hastings to Cresson struck and killed two cows a short distance East of Noel’s station on the Ebensburg and Cresson branch. Mr. Webster Griffith of this place purchased three fine sorrel horses at a sale at Blairsville on Tuesday. Mr. Stanton Davis bought a fine black mare at the same sale. Earl Hill, aged 23 years, said to be a young man of exemplary habits has been missing from his home in Blairsville since January 31, and it is feared he has met with foul play. Mrs. Robert Brady of Munster township was stricken with paralysis on Tuesday and is in a critical condition, this being the second stroke. Mrs. Brady is the mother of a large family. Misses Della and Mallie Bearer, of Carroll township returned home Tuesday evening from a visit to relatives in Charleroi, and were met here by their brother, Walter Bearer, and driven home. The Brallier property in Blacklick township consisting of 343 acres was sold Saturday by the administrator, Robert Ferguson, to John J. Evans, (ridge) for $14,350. The deal includes the coal and surface and timber up to ten inches in diameter. The barn on the farm of T. M. Apple, Sr., in Reade township caught fire on Monday about noon and was totally destroyed together with its contents which included a horse and buggy belonging to Elsworth Nevling, who a short time before had driven up to the Apple residence and put away his rig. It is supposed that a spark from the forest fires caused the conflagration. Harry Kane, husband of Rosy Kane, a smallpox patient who fell over a bluff and was killed after escaping from the Municipal Hospital at Johnstown where she had been under treatment, has sued the city of Johnstown for $25,000. Negligence in not properly guarding the hospital is alleged. Mrs. Kane is said to have been in a delirious condition when she made her escape and fell over the bluff. _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part of your life. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093175mrt/direct/01/

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, May 8, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. E. O. Jones is home from Pittsburg on a visit to his mother. Dr. Clark Creery and wife arrived home from Pittsburg on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Darrah, of this place, spent the past week at Atlantic City. Mr. John Love and wife, of Pittsburg, are spending a few days in Ebensburg. Mr. Isaiah Gates of White township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Christopher White and wife of Barr township visited Ebensburg on Saturday. Mr. Phillip Jones of Jackson township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Messrs. Ed. Shoemaker and Charles O’Hara of this place are home from Pittsburg where they attended a dental college. Burgess E. James and wife of this place spent several days in South Fork this week visiting their daughter, Mrs. Irvin Stineman. Mrs. Mary Parish and her sister, Miss Bridget McCullough, of Allegheny township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Tuesday. A knitting factory will be established at Somerset. It will start with twelve machines and produce twenty-five dozen pairs of stockings a day. The site of the old South Fork dam has been purchased by the Stinemans and the mineral treasures beneath its surface will soon begin to go to market. Cresson’s constable is looking for some Altoonians who successfully worked the shell game in the mountain town a day or two ago. [Altoona Times] A temporary roof has been put on the Anderson House at Cresson, and nothing further will be done in the way of repairs until the insurance adjustors have fixed the loss. Mr. John Love of Pittsburg has purchased the farm of Mr. Fes. Tibbott, about a half mile south of Ebensburg and intends using it as a summer home. The farm contains 26 acres and the price paid was $1,800. On Saturday the governor signed a bill authorizing County Commissioners to furnish metal markers for the graves of the United States soldiers and sailors on petition of ten residents of any township, borough or city. Messrs. Coon and Kough, formerly of Pittsburgh have placed a saw mill on the Capt. Thos. Davis tract on the stone pike, five miles west of Ebensburg, and are now cutting lumber. There are over 2,000,000 feet of timber on the tract. Landlord John Manion of the Central Hotel in this place has sold the leasehold of that well-known hostelry to Mr. Julius Rager, a former resident of Carrolltown, who will take possession as soon as the license can be transferred. Mr. W. H. Connell, of this place had a slight paralytic stroke in the hardware store of Schettig Bros., where he is employed on Tuesday. After a little time Mr. Connell was able to walk to his home and is now entirely recovered. Mr. Joseph Gutwald of Cresson, fell on Friday last and dislocated his shoulder. Mr. Gutwald who is 77 years of age, in March last, fell and fractured two ribs but owing to a good constitution and his sound Democracy, he is pretty hard to down and always pulls through. His many friends in Ebensburg, where he once served the people as burgess, hope he will soon be all right again. Donato Guortino, an Italian employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company near Altoona, lost his foot Monday afternoon in a peculiar accident. His foot was caught in a switch, which held him fast. Unable to escape, a draft of cars which were being shifted ran down the track and over his foot, badly mangling it. He was taken to the hospital where it was amputated. Thieves broke into the barn of Isaac Miller, a Jackson township farmer, Sunday night and stole there from a horse, buggy and harness. When Mr. Miller went to the stable in the morning he found the outfit gone. The tracks of the thief were followed and headed in the direction of Wilmore. The animal is a large sorrel, sixteen hands high and weighing about 1,250 pounds. The buggy was a top vehicle with red running gears and black body. The outfit was worth at the least calculation $150. Joe Slot, an Italian laborer, employed by the Kerbaugh company on the New Portage railroad near Duncansville was perhaps fatally injured at 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon. While material was being lifted by block and tackle it broke and he was struck on the head by a pulley, knocked down and rendered unconscious. He was taken to the Altoona hospital and an examination showed that he had sustained a fracture of the skull, lacerations of the scalp and nose and abrasions of the face. His injuries were dressed and he was placed in bed. His condition is serious and he may not recover. The Anderson house at Cresson narrowly escaped destruction by fire Saturday morning. The hotel took fire at the roof at 10:40 o’clock from a defective flue. The flames gained considerable headway before the fire fighters work began to tell and before being extinguished, the roof was burned off and the third floor gutted. The entire building with others in the neighborhood was threatened with destruction and was only saved by the gallant work of the volunteer fire fighters and bucket brigade. The loss on the hotel will reach $1,500, covered by insurance. Proprietor C. G. Wenderoth will begin repairs to the hotel at once. The church of the Holy Cross, Spangler, will soon be in possession of a fine organ through the liberality of Andrew Carnegie. Two or three weeks ago James A. McClain, manager of the Spangler Improvement Co., wrote to Mr. Carnegie asking his help in installing an organ in keeping with their splendid church building and was gratified in receiving the reply that Mr. Carnegie would give $1,250 in consideration that the congregation would contribute a like amount for an organ costing $2,500. The liberal offer has been gratefully accepted by the congregation and the organ will be placed in position in the very near future. [Barnesboro Sentinel] The big frame hotel farm house and other adjoining buildings at Wopsononock, near Altoona, were destroyed by fire on Thursday afternoon of last week. The only person on the premises at the time was Mrs. Ellen Joy, the housekeeper. For two days, fire at the Bear Rock had threatened to destroy the hotel, but though Mrs. Joy telephoned to Altoona, the danger was not supposed to be imminent. The building contained sixty rooms and was owned by the Wopsononock Resort and Improvement company of which T. H. Greevy owned the majority of the stock. He also owned the furniture. On the loss which will reach $20,000 to $25,000, there is only $2,500 insurance. There is attached to the hotel an electric light plant valued at $7,000 and this was saved. Monday morning several veterans from Ebensburg left for a weeks’ visit to some of the southern battle fields. In the party were Col. S. W. Davis, ex-Judge Barker, E. J. Humphreys, Edmund James, W. A. Jones and F. H. Barker. John D. Roberts of Johnstown joined them at Harrisburg. Steward Jones of Boston met the party in Washington and accompanied them on the trip. _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, May 1, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Walter L. Main’s circus will be in Johnstown May 8th. Conemaugh is to have a national bank in the near future. The Ebensburg public schools closed for this term on Wednesday. Addie Pryce of Cambria township lost a cow by death last week. Mr. Ed. Shields of Loretto spent several hours in town on Wednesday. Mr. Adam Schettig of Carrolltown was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Messrs. Bloom & Skelly lost a fine gray draft horse by death on Thursday. Mr. I. N Wissinger of Blacklick township spent a few hours in town on Monday. Squire Andrew Strittmatter of Carroll township, was in Ebensburg on Monday. Dr. T. M. Richards of this place left on Saturday for Zanesville, Ohio, on a business trip. Mr. Joseph Bearer and son, Walter, of Carroll township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Monday. The supper at the Congregational church on Wednesday evening was largely attended and was a financial success. Dr. Davison’s soda water fountain will be started up on Saturday evening for the summer season. Don’t fail to try Davison’s delicious soda water. Mr. M. J. Ryan of Clearfield has taken charge of the Thomas D. Evans blacksmith shop in the East ward while Mr. Evans is recovering from his recent injury. Mr. William J. Dutton’s household goods have been shipped to Clearfield, Pa., where the family will follow in a few days where they intend to make their future home. Mr. Julius Rager, a former well-known citizen of Carrolltown but for a year or more has been a resident of Oklahoma, is on a visit to Cambria county, and spent a few days in Ebensburg this week. J. R. K. Shook, formerly landlord of the Metropolitan Hotel in this place but for a year or more has been running a hotel at Lock Haven, passed through here one day last week on his way to Winber. Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, accompanied by Mr. Schwab’s private secretary, arrived at Cresson on Sunday evening, where they were met by the Schwab coachman and driven to the Schwab summer home in Loretto. Brigadier General Wiley has decided that the Second Brigade of the National Guard of Pennsylvania shall encamp at Somerset this year. This camp will begin July 25 and the parade ground is said to be the finest in the state. Mr. Peter Delozier and his son, Ed, of Gallitzin township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. Delozier is an old and prompt paying subscriber to the FREEMAN and as a consequence one of the kind always welcomed in a newspaper office. Mr. Morgan Hughes of this place who has been seriously ill at Johnstown for the past two weeks is reported to be improving. Mr. Hughes is in his 86th year, but notwithstanding his age, there appears to be a reasonable prospect of his recovery. Word reached here today (Thursday) that Wesley Beynon, a native of Ebensburg, where two sisters, Misses Clara and Annie still reside, was badly injured in a railroad accident at Bolivar. Mr. Beynon has been an engineer on the P. R. R. for several years. No particulars could be learned up to the time of going to press. Congressman Alvin Evans has nominated J. Simpson Evans, son of Nicolas Evans, of Lilly, to be a midshipman at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Besides the principal, Mr. Evans has named the following three alternates: Wallace W. Smith, of Bedford county; Charles O. Huston, of Blair county; and Henry Monroe of Chest Springs, this county. G. W. Kough, of Tipton, Blair county, was given a hearing before a Justice in Tyrone Saturday night and was fined $50 for catching five trout out of season and from Tipton Run, a steam stocked last year. This is the fourth prosecution and conviction by the Blair County Branch of the League of American Sportsmen. Fire is raging in the woods near Beulah and this Thursday afternoon a large number of men went down from Ebensburg to assist in protecting the lumber and mill of Mr. Webster Griffith of Ebensburg. Mr. Griffith has a large amount of sawed lumber piled up near Beulah and also an immense pile of logs. The high wind scatters the fire very fast in the woods which is full of dry brush. Joe Fargo, an Italian, aged 19 years, and employed by the Kerbaugh company on the New Portage railroad, was painfully and perhaps seriously injured Monday afternoon. He was standing on a dump car near one of the big shovels when a rock fell from the shovel and hit him in the stomach. He was knocked down, bruised about the abdomen and perhaps injured internally. He was taken to the Altoona hospital for treatment. Lundro Francisco, the Italian who tried a few months ago to rob the Gallitzin post office and when discovered, turned a weapon upon himself, inflicting a wound, was on Saturday placed in jail at Pittsburg, where he will await trial at the May term of the United States District court in the Smoky City. In his effort at self-destruction Francisco succeeded in inflicting a pretty good wound upon himself which was treated at the hospital in Altoona. Later, on partially recovering he was removed to jail at Hollidaysburg and thence taken to Pittsburg. Michael Gendilli, an Italian, 51 yeas old, employed as a track hand by the Pennsylvania Railroad company, was run down by an engine in the Altoona yard on Saturday morning and his right arm was so horribly mangled that it was necessary to amputate that member at the shoulder at the hospital, to which institution he was afterwards taken. He was working on the tracks when the engine came along. He did not notice its approach until it was too late. He tried to thrown himself out of the way, but was struck, the wheels passing over his arm above the elbow. Two young men claiming to be from Cambria county, who gave their names as William Burke and George Bell, fell into the net of special officers of the Blair county Branch of the League of American Sportsmen on Sunday the 19th inst., when they were arrested above Duncansville by Officers H. E. Brown and George Myers, after a long chase on the charge of catching brook trout under the prescribed legal size of six inches. In their possession were found six brook trout from three to four inches long. Both culprits, after a night’s lodging in the county jail were arraigned before Squire Shoenfelt at Duncansville and plead guilty to the charge. They were sentenced to pay a fine of $30 a piece and costs, aggregating $70 for their days’ sport. The league has its eyes open so it would be well for everybody to keep within the bounds of the law. [Hollidaysburg Standard] Edmund Shaw, Esq., attorney for Millard F. Blake, of Martinsburg, several weeks ago brought a trespass suit in the county court against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to recover $282,875 royalties on a patent device for dumping freight cars. Wednesday judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount of his claim, the defendant having failed to file an answer or affidavit of defense within the time prescribed by law and rules of court. HAD A NARROW ESCAPE On Wednesday of last week while Mr. Joseph White was working on his sawmill in Barr township his clothing caught in the set screw in the line shaft and by miracle alone was Mr. White saved from a horrible death. While the mill was in operation Mr. White went under it to soap a belt that was coming loosely when his coat was caught by the set screw. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 24, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. William Davis, of Altoona, spent Sunday in Ebensburg. Miss Flora Parrish entertained the whist club Monday evening. Mr. William McClarren of this place was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Ex-Sheriff Coulter of East Conemaugh was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Mr. James C. Murray, of Washington township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Constable Ellsworth Nevling of Blandburg was in Ebensburg on business on Wednesday. Mr. Charles Perry and wife of Chest Springs were visitors to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Editor W. R. Thompson and daughter, Miss Frances, spent several days in Pittsburg last week. Capt. Thomas Davis and son, T. Stanton, of this place were visitors to Johnstown on Monday. Drs. Robert Davison and E. B. Roberts, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with their parents. Mr. Charles Port, foreman of the MOUNTAINEER-HERALD, is in Pittsburg spending a ten-days’ vacation Dr. Olin G. A. Barker, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with his parents, Mr. and Mr. F. H. Barker. Mr. C. R. Jones of the New York Bargain Store is in New York this week purchasing goods for his store. N. J. Boyer, landlord of the Cambria House in Wilmore, is dangerously ill with but little hope for his recovery. Messrs. D. S. Slattery, of Cresson, and Joseph M. Boland, of Gallitzin township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. John L. Sechler of South Fork and A. B. Clark of Hastings, have announced themselves as candidates for the Republican nomination for sheriff. Mr. Mark Frailey of Frailey Bros., the Ebensburg clothiers, returned from a trip to the Eastern cities on Saturday after laying in a stock of summer clothing. Mr. George Harf, of Smith’s Mills, Clearfield county, was in Ebensburg on Friday, on his way to Nicktown to visit his mother, Mrs. A. Priser of that place. Misses Mable Richards and Margaret Nave, who spent the Easter vacation in Ebensburg, returned to Washington D. C., where they attend the National Park Seminary. While shoeing a horse on Monday, Mr. Thomas D. Evans, of the East ward, was thrown in such shape that one of his ankles was badly dislocated and Mr. Evans will be unable to work for some time. On Saturday, Mr. J. R. Myers, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Ebensburg, purchased the property in which he lives on Ogle street, from Mr. Hosea Evans, the consideration being $2,400. Mr. Morgan Hughes, one of Ebensburg’s oldest citizens, is seriously ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John L. Jones in Johnstown. Mr. Hughes is 85 years of age and about two weeks ago went to Johnstown on a visit and while there was attacked with bronchitis. The house occupied by the late Hon. A. A. Barker for many years and the old Barker store building adjoining this house on High street, are being torn down. Mr. F. H. Barker, of the firm of Barker Brothers, will erect a fine residence on the site of those old buildings. Among the pensions announced from Washington on Monday were the following: John A. Blair and Evan D. Evans, Ebensburg, each $12. Mr. Evans died here a few months ago. Both were Mexican soldiers and their pensions were increased from $8 to $12 per month. Mr. Harvey Williams, of the West ward, who has been confined to his home by illness for the past three months, is now able to sit up for a short time each day and his many friends hope he will soon be able to be out again. Weakness still prevents him from using his limbs. Paolo Sodora, an Italian laborer, living at Altoona, attempted to jump from a moving freight train in the yard Tuesday morning and his foot slipped on the step. He fell heavily, his right foot going under the wheels and being ground off at the ankle. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. Steward J. C. Deitz, of the Somerset poor farm, and Poor Director J. B. Mossholder of Somerset, last week took Mathias Cvenik, who arrived in this country last November from Havre, France and became insane at Arrow a few weeks ago, to New York. He was sent back to France at the expense of the steamship company which brought him across the Atlantic. The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company have about concluded a contract with Jno. S. Dumm, of Spangler, for the erection of fifty double tenement houses to be erected at Moss Creek. The main building of each will be 16x46 feet with a double kitchen, 12x16. The houses will be weather boarded and plastered and when completed will be much superior to many mine tenements. [Barnesboro Sentinel] The hardware store of Joseph G. Buck, at Gallitzin, was entered by burglars at an early hour of Thursday morning of last week and a few small articles and about one dollar in change taken. A shot gun taken from the store was found near the Central Hotel by Dr. T. S. Troxell, who was attending to a sick call about two o’clock the same morning. Entrance was affected by the breaking of a window. Harry Lauders, aged 16 years, a caller in the Altoona yard about 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon of last week, on his return after calling some crews was crossing the tracks when he was run down by an engine, the approach of which he had failed to notice. The engine struck him and threw him under the wheels, crushing his right leg above the knee and otherwise injured him. There is little hope for his recovery. While a number of Loretto boys were shooting at a target in that town on Monday, one of the boys, in shooting, missed the target and the bullet crashed through a window in the store of Mr. Ed. Shields and embedded itself in the wall. The bullet is said to have passed close to Mr. John A. Schwab, who was in the store at the time. Fortunately however, no one was hurt and the frightened boys will no doubt be more careful hereafter. A new sawmill is being put in on the John D. Ager tract near Vetera, in Barr township, to cut the timber there owned by Lantzy Brothers of Hastings. The capacity of the mill is 10,000 feet per day and there is estimated to be about 4,000,000 feet on the tract, which it is expected will be turned into lumber in about two years. Mr. Yahner of Hastings has the logging contract and Mr. Miller, of the same place, the cutting of the trees. While Samuel Rhodes and Frank Stiles were cutting logs in Barr township one day last week about a half mile west of Killen’s Mill they discovered a big bear trap in the laurel that had evidently been there for many years. The trap measured three feet, four inches from one end of the spring to the other, and the jaws when open are fourteen inches across. The trap is an old-timer and had probably been dragged there by some large animal years ago. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 17, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. Ira Bloom lost a valuable horse by death on Monday. Miss Nellie Lloyd entertained the whist club on Wednesday evening. Mr. Strang Henry of Homestead, Pa., is visiting friends in Ebensburg. Rev. J. J. Deasy of Gallitzin was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Rev. Thomas J. Hurton of Vintondale is visiting friends in Philadelphia. Mr. Jonathan Jones of Cambria township is seriously ill with pneumonia. Miss Florence Evans, of this place, entertained a party of friends on Friday evening. Mrs. E. M. Prosser of Barnesboro has been drawn as a juror for the May term of court. Miss Bird Roberts, who spent the winter in Lancaster, Pa., returned home a few days ago. Miss Margaret Nave, of Washington D. C., is the guest of Miss Florence Evans of this place. Julinnie, son of Michael Luther, the liveryman, is seriously ill with inflammatory rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. O. Q. Phillips of Allegheny, Pa., are occupying their summer cottage in Ebensburg. Miss Mable Richards of Zanesville, Ohio is the guest of her uncle, Dr. T. M. Richards, of this place. Dr. Fitzgerald of South Fork came to Ebensburg on Wednesday to attend a meeting of the whist club. The Summit Lodge of Masons held a banquet at the Mountain House in this place on Wednesday evening. During the past week, E. James & Son, druggists, have had a handsome new iron ceiling hung in their store. Judge Barker and family have moved into the Presbyterian parsonage while their own residence is undergoing repairs. Mr. Leonce Shields of Pittsburg spent several days in Ebensburg last week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shields. Supt. H. T. Jones will attend the graduating exercises of the Read Township High School at Blandburg this Friday evening. The new Catholic church at Nantyglo will be dedicated on Sunday, June 21st, instead of the 17th, as stated in last week’s FREEMAN. Mr. E. C. Parrish, one day last week, ran a nail into his left hand and has since been compelled to carry the injured member in a sling. The Pennsylvania railroad shops at Altoona and Juniata are now turning out an order of 150 new engines placed at the beginning of the year. A man who had squirting tobacco spit on Altoona store windows was arrested last week and the fine and costs imposed on him aggregated $17. Patton is to have a new brewery of which W. J. Stibich of the Goenner Brewing Company of Johnstown will be president. It will cost $60,000. Mr. John P. Lloyd the well-known Johnstown contractor is dangerously ill, the result of a fall received one day last week. Very little hopes are had for his recovery. Mrs. John Howell, of Johnstown, was in Ebensburg on Tuesday on her way to Cambria township to visit her brother, Mr. Jonathan Jones, who is ill with pneumonia. Messrs. Edward Owens and John Owens, of the West ward, were in Braddock, Pa., on Tuesday in attendance at the funeral of a grandchild of the former and a niece of the latter. Miss Leah Hughes, daughter of Steward Thomas J. Hughes, of the County Home, last week, went to Polk, Venango county, with Sarah Elliott, of Cambria township, who was placed in the State Institution for feeble-minded children. Prof. J. Harvey Brumbaugh, acting president of Juniata College, Huntingdon county, has been adjucated a bankrupt and Miss Cora A. Keim, of Elk Lick, who obtained a verdict of $9,250 in a breach of promise suit, later receiving a reduction to $5,000, will not receive anything. Messrs. R. Ferguson & Sons have opened out a wholesale and retail feed store at the railroad near the depot in the building formerly occupied by Mr. Sherman Tibbott, and are prepared to furnish all kinds of flour and feed on short notice and at reasonable prices. Goods will be delivered in the town. Give them a call. Dan Boccalie, a Slav, employed by Contractor Kerbaugh was stuck on the head in a fight in one of the shanties of the classification yard at Altoona on Saturday, his assailant using a shovel as a weapon. The man had several contusions and lacerations of the face and head and is in serious condition. There are three cases of smallpox at South Fork. The victims are Mrs. George Costello and two children in Charles Bunting’s home, one a ten-year-old boy and the other a young man aged about twenty-two years. The Bunting cases were under observation several days, but it was not until Monday that the quarantine was put up. A reception in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Schwab and daughter, Miss Gertrude, who recently returned from their six month’s tour through Europe was held at the Central Hotel, Loretto, a few evenings ago in which a large number of guests participated. The evening was spent very pleasantly in playing cards and the rendition of a musical programme. Bishop E. A. Garvey of the Altoona Diocese of the Catholic Church has made public announcement of the contributions received throughout his see last year for the Episcopal residence at Altoona. There are in all about 10,000 names of person was gave $1 or over, many contributing much more than that, some as high as $100. The whole amount contributed is $16,615.36, Altoona leading the subscription with $6,318. Pictures of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Schwab of Loretto, parents of Charles M. Schwab, reproduced from oil paintings are given in the Pittsburg DISPATCH on Monday morning. The commission for the portraits was given last summer to Mrs. L. Hart Darragh, of Philadelphia, a former Ebensburg lady, and the sittings were at the Schwab cottage at Atlantic City. The paintings are three-quarter length, life size. They will be sent to Loretto within a few days. The remains of an unknown man, apparently a Hungarian, were found near the entrance to the south tunnel at Gallitzin on Saturday, the head having a hole in it, the left leg being cut off and his right leg crushed. The man had sandy hair, a slight growth of beard and a small moustache. In his pocket was found a smashed quart bottle of whiskey. He had apparently fallen off a freight train, explaining his death. At Lloydell Saturday two case of smallpox were discovered and Health Officer Holt of Dunlo, acting on the instructions given him by the school board of Adams township, immediately quarantined both places. One of the houses quarantined is occupied by foreigners and one of the occupants, John Kammiska, objecting, tried to escape. He attacked the guard, Patrick Nelson, with a pick and was shot by the guard and slightly wounded. Kammiska was taken to the Municipal hospital at Johnstown for treatment. Stanley Johnson of New Brunswick, N. J., appeared at police headquarters, Altoona, Wednesday morning of last week and told Chief Tillard he had been kidnapped by three tramps who enticed him into a box car Monday morning and had then shut him in, not allowing the door open until they reached Philadelphia, where they took him out, placed him in another car and started west with him. He had nothing to eat or drink, he said from Monday morning until Tuesday evening, when he attracted the attention of some trains men and they released him. He then found he was at Pittsburg. The trainmen furnished him with transportation to Altoona and later his mother sent money to pay his way home. A burly negro entered the office of the Vipond Construction Company on Seventeenth street, Altoona, about 8 o’clock Monday morning and demanded his pay envelope. Miss Ruth Clark, a bookkeeper, who was in charge told him there was no envelope for him and he walked out. The man returned a few minutes later, seized the young woman, and struck her over the head, rendering her unconscious, in which condition she remained for over an hour. The negro ransacked the office, but failed to secure any money. Miss Clark, after the first visit, hid $200 in the waste basket and the robber overlooked it. _________________________________________________________________ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 10, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Easter, next Sunday. Commissioners’ Clerk, F. B. Jones, spent Sunday in Johnstown. H. H. Myers, Esq., of this place, was in Harrisburg on Monday. Lake Rowena is being restocked with catfish from Huntley’s fish ponds. The new Catholic church at Nantyglo will be dedicated on Sunday, June 7th. The borough council of Ebensburg are in the market for 1,200,000 paving bricks. Mr. Joseph White, of Barr township, was a visitor in Ebensburg on Friday. There are ninety-eight prisoners in the county jail, seven of whom are women. Mr. John L. Stough has commenced work on the erection of a new house in the West ward. Mr. Jerome Flick, of Allegheny township spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday. M. D. Kittell, Esq., will leave on Saturday evening for Atlantic City for a few days’ vacation. Ground has been broken for the erection of the addition to the Metropolitan Hotel, in this place. Prothonotary Charles E. Troxell and wife, of Ebensburg, spent Thursday of last week in Johnstown. Mr. Philip Shoemaker, of Wilmerding, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Shoemaker of this place. Mrs. Albert Morris of Barnesboro spent several days in town this week visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Davison. Mrs. C. T. Roberts, of this place, who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Siviter in Pittsburg, returned home on Saturday. The foundation for the new residence of Superintendent Herman T. Jones on Ogle Street is fast nearing completion. Captain Morgan McDonald who spent the winter in a more congenial clime, has returned to Ebensburg, a certain indication of spring. Mr. Wm. H. Williams, formerly of this place, who last fall removed to Pittsburg, has returned to Ebensburg and will occupy his old home in the West ward. The old tannery building at the west end of town, now the property of Mr. Jeff Evans is being torn down to make way for a site for a new residence for the owner. Mr. George Williams, one of Hollidaysburg’s progressive merchants, stopped off in Ebensburg on Monday while on his way to Barr township where he will visit his parents. Fireman A. E. Darvin, of Cresson, had his left arm strained in a wreck on the Stevens sidings of the Irvona branch Sunday afternoon. Two cars being shifted ran into his engine, knocking him from the cab. The Blair County democratic convention met at Altoona on Monday and nominated A. V. Dively for judge; J. Gleichert for prothonotary and Michael Maney for jury commissioner. The Republican candidate for Sheriff, G. T. Bell, was endorsed by the convention. William Smith, a young man of Point, Bedford county, Pa., was found seemingly dead in a field Thursday of last week from epileptic fits. His body was prepared for burial and Saturday was set for the funeral. The undertaker believed that the young man was not dead. Dr. Ealy, of Schellsburg, responded and decided that life was not extinct. Mr. John E. Lloyd of the firm of William Lloyd & Sons, contractors of Johnstown, fell from the second story of an unfinished building in that city on Monday evening, and fractured his skull. It was necessary to trephine the injured man’s skull. Mr. Lloyd is well-known in Ebensburg, having built the public school building as well as several other buildings. Prof. T. J. Foley, a well-known teacher of Reade township, was a visitor to Ebensburg last Wednesday. About fifteen houses at Gallitzin and Tunnelhill have been quarantined and although smallpox is epidemic, it is believed the situation is under control _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 3, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. Joseph Davis spent a couple days in Pittsburg this week. T. J. Stephens, Esq., of Gallitzin, spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Mr. A. G. Kramer, of Belsano, spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Mr. John D. Bradley, of Allegheny township, spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Mr. Andrew Illig, of Carroll township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. Augustine Yost, of Carroll township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. Isaac N. Wissinger, of Blacklick township, was in town for a short time on Thursday. Mrs. T. M. Richards and Mrs. W. J. Dutton of this place are visiting friends in Pittsburg. Rev. Fathers Ludden and Hurton of this place visited Father Deasy of Gallitzin on Tuesday. Mr. Ambrose Weaklen, and his son, Edwin, of Carroll township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Mrs. Milton Connell of Philadelphia is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Barker of the East ward. Mrs. Robert Livingston of Braddock is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Richardson of this place. Liveryman Thomas Peach of this place returned home from a month’s visit to Texas and the south on Saturday. Contractor W. A. Lantzy of Spangler has the new Catholic church at Nantyglo under roof and the plasterers will go to work on Monday. Mr. William O’Neill, manager of the Vinton Supply Co.’s store at Vintondale has accepted a position with the Webster company at Cresson as book keeper. Burglars broke into the residence of Frank Murphy of Cresson early Saturday morning and removed goods to the value of nearly $100. Entrance was made through a kitchen window. Mr. John F. Tibbott of this place who went South for the winter last fall in the hope of benefiting his health returned home on Friday feeling much improved. Mr. Tibbott looks well and speaks highly of the southern climate. Dr. W. E. Matthews of Johnstown has been notified by Dr. Benjamin Lee, Secretary of the State Board of Health, of his appointment as Quarantine Officer for Cambria County. Dr. Matthews will have jurisdiction in all cases of smallpox in this county. Landlord Kimball of the Metropolitan Hotel in this place will build a three story addition to the hotel on the vacant ground fronting on High street during the coming summer. The first and second floors will be used for office purposes and the third floor for sleeping rooms. A charter will be taken out in a few days by a new banking institution of Altoona, to be known as the Real Estate Title & Trust company. The promoters have taken an option on a fine business block and will open up about May 1st. John Murphy of Altoona will be treasurer of the company. On Tuesday afternoon, while Mr. John Ludwig, Sr. of the East ward was engaged with an assistant in putting the stocks in a machine at his woolen mills, one of his thumbs was caught in the machine and torn open, making a severe wound. Mr. Ludwig had a narrow escape from having his whole hand drawn into the machine. Edward Clark, aged 27 years and a laborer employed by the Kerbaugh company at Portage, narrowly escaped death about 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. He was riding on an eastbound freight train and when a short distance west of Portage, he fell off. He sustained lacerations of the head and body bruises. He was taken to Altoona and admitted to the hospital. Messrs. Augustine Eberly, and Philip J. Sanders, of Munster township, started for Mt. Clemens, Michigan on Tuesday morning, the former to take a course of treatment at a sanitarium, he having been in poor health for some time past, while the latter accompanied him for the purpose of giving him any needed attention on the trip. Mr. Sanders will return home in a week or two while Mr. Eberly will remain for some time if the treatment proves beneficial. Mr. Arthur Howell, who for the past year and a half has been manager of the Postal Telegraph Co.’s office in this place has resigned and left here today, Thursday. Mr. Howell was an obliging gentleman and both he and Mrs. Howell made friends during their stay here who regret to see them leaving. The Postal office is now in charge of the new manager. Fire which began shortly before 9 o’clock Monday morning destroyed in less than an hour, the planning mill of Michael Bracken, located in Maysville, the north ward of Gallitzin borough. No one knows how the blaze started but it is supposed to have commenced business in a pile of shavings. Between 25,000 and 20,000 feet of all kinds of lumber were picked up like tinder, the efforts made to stem the seep of the flames making no impression. The loss is estimated to reach $5,000 at the lowest. It is understood that the plant will not be rebuilt at once. Says the Johnstown DEMOCRAT: Several cases of smallpox have broken out at Dunlo--—Edward Morgan, Mrs. Bai, and a member of the Harrison family being the victims in that town. Clifford Fox, another patient, has been taken away for treatment. Fox boarded at the Merchants’ Hotel. Several men went to see him before his case was diagnosed as smallpox and these men are now quarantined in their homes. Several clerks of the Logan Supply company’s store also boarded at the Merchants’ and they have now been quarantined to the store. Several others who came in contact with Fox are also locked up. A number of those now quarantined objected strenuously and even went to the extent of interfering with the health officer. Dr. A. J. Miller of Loretto was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, March 27, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. H. A. Bitters, of Barnesboro, paid Ebensburg a business visit on Tuesday. Mr. Valentine Weakland, of Cambria Mines, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. E. C. Parrish exhibits a fine line of Easter cards in his store window on High street. Mr. William Hopfer, of Carroll township, was in Ebensburg on business on Thursday. A sixteen-year-old son of Mr. Ellsworth Rowland of Blacklick township is ill with smallpox. Ex-Sheriff Joseph A. Gray, of Spangler, and Mr. Charles Adams, of Carrolltown, spent Tuesday in Pittsburg. Herman F. Wentz, of St. Lawrence, this county, has been appointed a substitute letter carrier at the Altoona post office. New porches will be added to the residences of M. D. Kittell, Esq. and Mr. Robert Scanlan, both of the West ward, this spring. Mr. James M. Thompson of this place will put a handsome new front in his store building this spring and build an addition to the rear of the store. Landlord Kimball of the Metropolitan Hotel of this place and District Attorney Stephens of Johnstown were spectators at Indiana county’s license court on Tuesday. Because they failed to comply with the vaccination laws, a number of pupils have been expelled from the public schools in Altoona and an indignation meeting of parents has been called. Mrs. Robert James has purchased a half lot fronting on Lloyd street, in the West ward of Ebensburg from Miss Annie J. Breese and will erect a residence thereon during the coming summer. The tax rate for the coming year has been increased from 4 to 4½ mills for the coming year by the county commissioners in order to provide funds for the erection of a number of proposed new bridges. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Schwab and their daughter, Miss Gertrude, arrived at their home in Loretto on Thursday of last week, all in good health and glad to greet their old friends and neighbors after several months absence in Europe. A Winber woman recently stowed currency amounting to about $200 in the kitchen stove for safe keeping during the night. Next morning without thinking she built a fire in the stove and the money was not thought of until it was consumed. Editor W. R. Thompson, of this place, today (Thursday) sold his two lots of ground fronting on Horner street in the east ward, to Mr. Thomas G. Davis, of near Beulah, the consideration being $1,400. Mr. Thompson recently purchased the lots from the estate of Charles J. Owens. The Grand Lenten Entertainment held at Vintondale on Thursday evening of last week and also at the Church of the Holy Name, in this place on Tuesday evening, was well patronized at both places and the amounts realized which was for the benefit of the respective churches amounted to quite a neat sum. The station house at Carrolltown Roads was broken into on Sunday night and several trunks were broken open and rifled of their contents and two satchels were carried off. One of the trunks broken open belong to P. H. Grade, the well-known salesman of Pittsburg. Entrance was gained to the building by prying open the door. The Cambria County Telegraph and Telephone company with headquarters at Cresson has decided to improve and extend its service. Its lines take in all the towns in central and northern Cambria county and about May 1st the work of building trunk lines between Cresson and Altoona, Patton and Ebensburg and Ebensburg and Johnstown. The new lines will bring this place in closer touch with many towns in the county. On Monday Sheriff Elmer E. Davis and Deputy William Piper went to Pittsburg, the one taking to Dixmont Asylum one Tom Benson, the Hastings foreigner who cut this throat several months ago but was saved by the doctors and the other accompanying to the Polk Institute for Feeble-Minded, a young man named Frank Koontz. Koontz and Benson are each about 25 years old. A large blast was put off a few days ago by workmen employed by D. F. Keenan, subcontractor on the construction of the extension of the P. R. R. from Dilltown to Blacklick. When the blast let go a large rock weighing 300 pounds was hurled clear across the creek, alighting upon the roof of the frame dwelling house of Thomas Dayton, crashing through both floors and embedding itself in the soft clay in the cellar. It made a large hole and it is a wonder it did not cause the total collapse of the house. There was in the house at the time a young lady and a boy about 14 years of age. They were not in the room through which the rock fell and escaped unhurt, though badly frightened. Mr. Dayton will ask damages. The miners’ convention in Altoona finally came to an end last week after being in session almost two weeks. The sessions were long drawn out on account of the miners and operators being unable to reach an agreement on the wage scale. They finally got together with the result that the miners get an eight hour day and an increase in wages. It looked for a time as though the disagreement would result in an extensive strike, happily such an occurrence with its deplorable results have been avoided. Eight hours have been won at a heavy pecuniary sacrifice by the miners. To the persistence of the men the operators have yielded in the matter of hours, but to get this the men made a concession on wages which it is estimated would have been worth a million and a half dollars a year in the aggregate. The men have the right of all men everywhere to get as good a wage as they can, but it would have been much more sensible on their part to work nine hours a day and get the higher wage scale. ATTACKED BY ROBBERS Thomas Morris, James Barnes, and Charles Harris were lodged in jail on Tuesday afternoon, having been committed by Squire W. A. Donahey, of Barnesboro, to answer to a charge of assault and battery preferred by John G. C. Bearer of Spangler. About 11 o’clock on Monday night Mr. Bearer who had been a member of the coroner’s jury holding an inquest on the body of Peter Magulick, returned to his home and at once went to his barn to attend to his horse for the night. There he found three men who requested the privilege of sleeping in the barn, to which Mr. Bearer consented providing they would light no matches. While Bearer was working around his horse, one of the men struck him without warning and shouted, “Hands up!” Although taken by surprise, Mr. Bearer succeeded in freeing himself from his assailants, getting out of the barn and was followed to the house, where, on reaching, he gave the alarm and his assailants disappeared. On Tuesday morning a warrant was issued and about noon Constable Yeager, assisted by several people, succeeded in capturing the three men who are believed to be professional tramps and they are now safely lodged in jail. _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, March 20, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL March thus far set an example that early days of April may well copy. Dr. A. J. Miller of Loretto was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Rev. Father Deasy, of Gallitzin, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Augustine H. Nagle, of Patton, spent several hours in town on Wednesday. Mr. A. Schrift, of Croyle township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Mr. Peter Parrish, of Barr township, spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Mr. John McGough of Allegheny township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mrs. A. J. Gutwald, of Gallitzin, visited relatives and friends in Ebensburg last week. Mr. Albert J. Nagle of Clearfield township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Mr. Geo. H. Roberts, who spent the winter in Philadelphia and New York has returned to Ebensburg. Schettig Bros., the hardware firm of this place, purchased a fine horse from Mr. Ira Bloom on Tuesday. Mr. Robert Ferguson of this place has taken up his residence on his farm in Croyle township near Summerhill. A marriage license was issued in Hollidaysburg, last week, to Richard Garfield Davis of Ebensburg and Sarah M. McGregor of Altoona. Mr. Philip J. Huber, of Carroll township, has sold the coal under his farm to Rembrant Peele of New York. It is understood that the purchase price was $80 per acre. C. Anstead has resigned his potion with M. & E. Farabaugh at Carrolltown and moved his family and effects to the Anstead homestead in Barr township where he will engage in farming. Amedia Wrend, an Italian laborer, 23 years old and working at Ebensburg, was admitted to the hospital Saturday for treatment of an injury to his right hand. While at work in a stone quarry at Amsbry he was hurt in blasting. [Altoona TIMES] The annual readjustment of salaries of clerks in first and second class post offices throughout the country has been completed and will go into effect July 1st. By the new adjustment the clerks will receive a material advance over the old rate. Thursday night of last week thieves entered the Pennsylvania railroad station at Glen Campbell, ransacked and broke the ticket case and succeeded in getting away with about $20 in cash. Suspicion attached to several strangers seen around the town the day before. Messrs. John Springer and Joseph Dunman, of Barr township, who left about a month ago on a visit to the state of Oregon with the intention of locating if they liked the country, returned last week and have come to the conclusion that Pennsylvania is good enough for them. On Monday night the baggage room at the depot in this place was entered by thieves and one trunk and several satchels were broken open and despoiled of their contents. Most of the plunder carried away consisted of clothing. The entrance was effected by prying off the hasp that secured the door. The dwelling house of Theodore Neelan in Barr township was burned to ashes on Monday evening, March 9th, about 5 o’clock, together with most of the furniture and clothing of the family and a lot of potatoes and apples. The fire originated from a defective stove pipe. There is no insurance and the loss is a severe one. Jules Walles, an Italian, of Wehrum, was arrested on Friday last and taken to jail at Indiana to answer to charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. Jules was courting a Miss Wolflensky of that place, and on Friday he gave the girl the choice of marrying him or being killed on the spot. Miss Wolfensky cried for help and a policeman arrested Walles as aforementioned. On Saturday on an affidavit made by J. G. Lloyd and Joseph Davis of Ebensburg, and presented to the Court by S. L. Reed, Esq., a preliminary injunction was issued by the court restraining the officers of the Ebensburg Agricultural Society from leasing the property or otherwise encumbering the same. At a hearing in court on Monday, the injunction was dissolved and the bill dismissed. Between one and two o’clock on Monday morning, Mr. William Makin, who is night watchman at Mr. Web Griffith’s saw mill at Beulah, was somewhat startled to behold a bear perambulating through the fog yard. Mr. Makin had a lantern with him and was quite close to Mr. Bear who did not seem to be much alarmed and marched off at a leisurely gait. It is supposed to be the same bear that was seen in that vicinity last fall. John Swartzentruver, engineer at the Stineman mines at South Fork was waylaid by an unknown man near the brick works one night recently. Mr. Swartzentruber received a number of cuts on his forehead and nose but he beat off his assailant with a piece of lead pipe and the miscreant escaped. The cases against Albert Itell, of Portage township, this county, Dr. Edwin S. Cooper and Mrs. Della Talbitzer, of New Castle, and Dr. J. R. Hahn, of Edenburg, charged with causing the death of Minnie Williams, of Conemaugh, were tried at New Castle last week. Albert Itell pleaded guilty and related all he know concerning the criminal charges, which relieved him from a formal trial. The case was given to the jury on Friday evening and after being out sixteen hours found a verdict acquitting Mrs. Talbitzer and finding Drs. Cooper and Hahn guilty. A motion has been made for a new trial. John Shippen, a blacksmith employed at the Piper mines at Lilly, worked for several years during spare hours in an effort to invent a trolley for electric street and mine cars that would not leave wires. Fellow workmen laughed at him and said he would never gain the desired end. John only laughed back and “allowed” that some day he might strike it. Recently he had his device patented and he has refused an offer of $40,000 for his invention. Other firms on being shown the device have raised the bids, with the chances that Shippen will strike a good bargain for the sale of the patent in the near future. Engineer Roy Spispler and Fireman E. D. Buckle, of Altoona, were injured in the wreck of an engine at Kittanning Point at midnight. While running along at a fairly good rate of speed the locomotive ran into another one, was thrown from the track and wrecked. Engineer Spispler was caught between the engine and tender and had his left foot crushed and sustained numerous body bruises. Considerable trouble was experienced in removing him. Fireman Buckle sustained lacerations of the head and contusions of the left hip by being thrown from the engine. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, March 13, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Commissioners Clerk F. B. Jones, of this place, spent Sunday in Johnstown. Mr. Michael Luther, of the West ward, is confined to his home with erysipelas. There are a great many cases of grippe among the residents of Ebensburg. Mr. Philip Huffman, of Blacklick township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. The maple syrup season is in but the absence of frosts just now is bad for business. Mr. Henry Sproal, of Clearfield township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. J. G. Lloyd, of this place, who has been ill for some time is able to be about his home again. Joseph A. Bertram, a well known citizen of Gallitzin, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Rev. Chester Sprague, of Bethany, W. Va., has been chosen pastor of the Christian Church, in this place. Dr. Olin G. A. Barker, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Barker, of this place. Mr. Harry Blair, of Johnstown, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with his parents, ex-Sheriff and Mrs. John A. Blair. Edward Cassidy, of this place, has become a resident of Altoona, entering the employ of his uncle, Frank Cassidy, barber. Mr. Harvey Williams, of this place, who is just recovering from an attack of typhoid fever, is suffering greatly from rheumatism. Mr. Ira Bloom has purchased from John E. Thompson, the Rodgers property on High street, East ward, and will move thereto April 1st. Smallpox has broken out in Scalp Level. One case, that of Frank Hagen, has been reported and it is believed that other cases exist in the locality. The next meeting of the Cambria County Pomena Grange will be held at Carrolltown on April 6th and 7th. The programme will be announced later. Mr. John Parrish and little daughter, of Pittsburg, spent a couple days this week in Ebensburg, visiting his parents, Squire J. D. Parrish and wife. Eight hours will hereafter constitute a legal days’ work in the coal mines and collieries of Pennsylvania. If a bill which passed finally in the house last week becomes a law. The work of setting up a new iron bridge across the Conemaugh at William Howells’ place in South Ebensburg is under way. When completed it will be a great improvement over the old bridge. The strike at the Black Diamond mine, near Carrolltown, brought about by the discharge of one of the workmen, has been settled. The person in question was reinstated, whereupon the men returned to work. The Pennsylvania plant of the American Tin Plate company at Arnold, Westmoreland county, was started up Monday morning, after being closed down since last June. Five hundred men are employed in the plant. In the contest for the nomination for president judge at the Republican primaries in Blair county on Saturday last, Judge Martin Bell was successful over W. S. Hammond, the vote being 6,359 for Bell and 4,442 for Hammond. Andrew Carnegie has promised to give a $2,000 pipe organ to the Laurel Avenue Presbyterian church, Johnstown, if the congregation will pay $1,000 for the amount. The Johnstown TRIBUNE says the proposition will likely be accepted. Hudson C. Bracken, of Johnstown, has entered suit to recover $15,000 damages from the Pennsylvania Railroad company for the death of his 12- year-old son, Robert Bracken, who was killed November 22, 1902, at the Morrellville crossing. William C. Gilligan, a compositor, of Meyersdale, Somerset county, who was quarantined in a home in which smallpox had been discovered, broke the quarantine and with a young lady of the town, went to Washington D. C., where they were married. Mrs. Jacob King and Mrs. Albert Mauk, both of Summerhill, are being treated at the Memorial hospital, at Johnstown. The women are sisters and there are two other members of the same family suffering from the same disease, typhoid fever. Among the bills introduced in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg on Monday was one making it unlawful for persons of either sex of pure Caucasian blood to be joined in marriage with persons of negro descent and declares all such marriages contracted after January 1, 1904, in violation of the proposed act. James McAvoy of Patton and John O’Brien of Norristown fought at Patton Saturday night in the presence of a good-sized crowd, the latter being knocked out in the fifth round of what was to be a fifteen-round bout. Punch Legel, of South Fork, challenged the winner and Legel and McAvoy will fight at Patton in the near future. The strike of the Altoona painters and paper hangers came to an end Thursday evening of last week when the Master Painters’ Association acceded to the demands of the strikers, which called for a nine-hour day, $2.25 a day for common painting, $2.50 for paper hanging, $2.70 for fresco work, $5 for graining and double time for Sundays. On Saturday the Pennsylvania railroad authorities let to D. F. O’Rourke of Altoona, the contract for the stone work on the abutments of the overhead bridge at the Brownstown crossing which the railroad, the City of Johnstown and the Lower Yoder township authorities have agreed to join hands in building. The price of Mr. O’Rourke’s contract is not given. Work, it is understood is to commence as soon as possible, which means whenever the weather settles. A dispatch from Paris, France, says Charles M. Schwab, who sailed from Cherbourg for New York on Wednesday on the Kronprinz Wilhelm, accompanied by his wife and his parents has greatly improved in health as a result of his extended sojourn in Europe and when seen looked the picture of health and was in good spirits. Mr. Schwab said he had made absolutely no business plans, having purposely avoided business affairs in order to get the full benefit from his vacation. The Old Portage railroad, a pioneer railway line of America, abandoned half a century ago has been reconstructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and will be re-opened to public travel about May. This railroad traverses the wildest and most picturesque portion of the Allegheny Mountains, the reconstructed line extending from Hollidaysburg northwest, 17 miles to Gallitzin, this county, the point or union with the main line of the Pennsylvania system. Another Pennsylvania branch line extends from Hollidaysburg due east to Petersburg, Huntingdon county, where the main line is again tapped. With this cut off completed, passenger and freight traffic between Philadelphia and Pittsburg will have 17 less miles to travel which will be a great saving. _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, March 6, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Both Johnstown and Altoona will have a street fair next July. Mr. Augustine Yost, of Carroll township, is seriously ill with pneumonia. Mr. F. A. Westrich, of Elder township, was in town this week doing duty as a juror. The entire stock of Mrs. R. E. Jones of Vintondale will be closed out. See regular ad. Mr. Isaiah Gates, of White township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Daniel Hanlin, of Gallitzin township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. William Tate of this place has been confined to his home during the past week by illness. John Lutz, for many years editor of the Bedford INQUIRER, has been appointed postmaster of Bedford. Miss Marguaret Levy, of Houtzdale, Pa., was the guest of Mrs. Maude Collins, of this place on Monday. South Fork which has been free from smallpox since last November now has three cases of the disease in its limits. The interior of Mr. Charles M. Schwab’s summer residence at Loretto is being beautifully decorated by a force of painters from New York. The doctors report that smallpox has been entirely stamped out of Vintondale and Wehrum, the quarantine having been taken off all infected houses. The bill before the State Legislature fixing the minimum salary of public school teachers at $35 per month passed the House on the final reading last Thursday. Ex-Sheriff D. A. Luther and his son, B. M. Luther, both of Carroll township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday and were visitors to the FREEMAN office. On Monday, the court appointed J. L. Elder, J. J. Evans and John L. Edwards viewers to lay out a road from Ebensburg to Vintondale through Nantyglo and Twin Rocks. Mr. John L. Stough, of this place, will begin tearing down the residence in which he lives in a few days and will at once begin the erection of a fine case brick house on the same ground. The new house will have all modern conveniences. The House of Representatives at Harrisburg on Tuesday passed finally the bill already passed by the Senate, making it a misdemeanor for a husband or father to desert and neglect to support his wife or children, prescribing a penalty therefore and making the wife a competent witness in such cases. Smallpox has broken out in Spangler. Two cases are already reported but the board of health has promptly quarantined the residences of the victims and are taking all means to prevent the spread of the disease. The schools in the central part of the town are closed and will remain so for some time. J. J. Godfrey, mine boss for the Savage Fire Brick company at the Gooseberry mines, Hyndman, Bedford county, purchased a large wildcat recently from Edward Shroyer and had it shipped to E. R. Dignan, proprietor of the West End Hotel at Gallitzin, this county. Mr. Shroyer caught the cat with the aid of a steel trap. George Lazzor of Portage was brought to jail on Monday to answer to a charge of murder in causing the death of Steve Valastick by striking him with an axe some three weeks ago at Jamestown. Valastick died at the Memorial hospital at Johnston on Saturday and a Coroner’s inquest found that Lazzor was responsible for his death. A dwelling house owned and occupied by Martin Flick near Loretto caught fire and burned to the ground one day last week, together with nearly all if its contents. The fire started from a defective flue, and before it was discovered, had gained such headway that it was only with great difficulty that Mr. Flick, who is a very old man and in feeble health was rescued. The loss will be about $1,000 and it is fully covered by insurance. James Miller, aged 55, of Altoona, employed as a laborer in shops was admitted to the hospital Saturday morning as the result of being seriously injured while at work. A car load of steel tires for the 80-inch driving wheels of locomotives was being unloaded, Miller was assisting the work, and while one was being rolled to the main pile it fell, caught and pinioned him between it and the other tire. He was removed to the hospital where an examination showed he had sustained contusion of the shoulders and back and possibly internal injuries. With a fearful crash a section of fully 75 feet of the north-west section of the Pennsylvania Railroad company’s Twelfth street round house at Altoona caved in at 2:20 on Tuesday afternoon. It was used by the middle division engines. Two locomotives were caught and completely covered with debris. Bricks and timbers were piled up in a big mass. At first it was thought that several workmen were buried in the ruins. Two workmen had been working on one of the engines but had gone away just a short while before the accident happened. The damage will amount to several thousand dollars. Wednesday morning of last week by an explosion of dynamite in the new tunnel at Gallitzin, two men were seriously injured. They are: James Sheehan, aged 28 years, a foreman, and Patrick O’Connell, aged 28 years, a laborer. The men were engaged in blasting. One load had failed to go off. The men resumed the work of loading more holes when the dynamite in the other hole let go. It is believed that it was put off by the powder being ignited from the other blasts, and burning unnoticed until it eventually reached the blast. Sheehan was blown across the tunnel 25 feet. He was unconscious when picked up. O’Connell was standing near the blast and the flash burned him. A negro in the vicinity of the blast was also burned. Sheehan and O’Connell were removed to the Altoona hospital. At this writing it is feared that the former is fatally injured and that the eyesight of the latter is destroyed. Hinder DeVolgin, an Austrian, attempted suicide at the Altoona hospital at 7:30 o’clock on Tuesday morning by throwing himself over the porch railing outside the convalescent ward to the brick walk, eighteen feet below. He landed on his head, sustaining a severe contusion of the brain and will likely die. William Bacon, an orderly, saw the man go onto the porch, also his attempt at self-destruction from the sun parlor, but was unable to do anything to prevent the act. DeVolgin was admitted January 8th from Gallitzin with both bones of his right arm broken and became despondent because he thought he would not recover from the injury. He arose as usual on Tuesday and ate his breakfast, after which he walked out on the porch. He stood there for a short time then threw himself over the railing. As soon as he struck the pavement Orderly Bacon gave the alarm. The man was carried into the dispensary where his injuries were dressed. Blair county authorities were notified on Wednesday of last week of an aggravated case of smallpox at Tunnelhill, just inside the Blair county line. The victim is Mrs. Joseph P. Warner, who has been suffering with the disease for some time but little attention. A physician has been provided and the place properly quarantined. Besides the parents there are five children in the house. The painters and paper hangers of Altoona went on strike Monday to enforce the payment of a new scale of wages calling for $2.25 for painting, $2.50 for paper hanging, $2.70 for frescoing and $5.00 per day for graining. They also ask a nine-hour day. The Master Painters’ Association has refused to pay the scale and 100 men are out. Three independent master painters have signed the scale. Fred Martell, a Pittsburg division brakeman residing in Altoona, was seriously injured near Greensburg Saturday morning. He was walking along the top of the cars of the train and not noticed that the train had parted, walked off, falling to the track below, breaking one of his legs and badly spraining the other and sustaining body bruises. It was his first night on duty. He was taken to the Westmoreland hospital where he was given attention. _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/

The Patriot-News, Wednesday, September 3, 2008, p.B6 Cynthia J. "Cindy" Duryea Cynthia J. "Cindy" Duryea, 50, of Downingtown, passed away suddenly on Sunday, August 31, 2008. Born in Johnstown, she was the daughter of Rita Rodgers Duryea of Carlisle and the late Retired Naval Chief Petty Officer James K. Duryea. Cindy was employed as an inspector for Aqua Pennsylvania for 18 years and was a resident of the West Chester/ Downingtown area for over 30 years. In addition to her mother, Cindy is survived by her sister, Jan M. Duryea of Phoenix, AZ; and by her brothers, Daniel J. and his wife, Bobbie of Citrus Heights, CA and Scott J. Duryea of Jacksonville, FL; and by numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephew. She is also survived by her dearest friend, Glenda Inman. She was predeceased by her brother, Sgt. 1st Class John R. Duryea. Funeral services will be held at the convenience of the family. Memorial contributions may be made to West Bradford Fire Department, 1305 W. Strasburg Road, West Chester, PA 19380; Good Fellowship Ambulance, P.O. Box 361, 600 Montgomery Ave, West Chester, PA 19381; or to Sky FlightCare, 199 Reeceville Road, Coatesville, PA 19320. www. jamesterryfuneralhome.com www.pennlive.com/obits <I have not connection to this family. It was in my local paper and said she was born in Johnstown. If you want a scanned copy, just email me.>

----- Original Message ----- > "On the south side of town was Lehmier's store. They sold groceries and > all kinds of "stuff." I went because they had the largest selection of > penny candy. For a nickel, Hattie would fill up a paper bag with the > goodies of your choice, "plus a few extra." (Stated by Bernice Bender > Seng.)": Carrolltown Pennsylvania 1858 one hundred & fifty years 2008 by > John Peter Glover, Joan M. Yeckley, Sandra M. Stevens, Mary Anne Burkhart, > Raymond Yeckley. Published by the Borough of Carrolltown July 2008. Cover > Design by John Peter Glover. > > DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO HATTIE IS AND WHICH LEHMIER OWNED THE STORE AT THAT > TIME? > Hattie Lehmier was the daughter of William A. and Margaret C. (Smith) Lehmier. She never married, and as of 1960 was still alive and living in Carrolltown, PA. While I believe she was the one working in the store, I don't know if she owned the store or not. (Margaret C. (Smith) Lehmier is the sister of my great-grandfather Michael Jerome Smith.)