On p. 45 of the Carrolltown Book there is a paragraph about the Lieb Hardware store. Who's store was it? Names mentioned are Paul, Alfred, Bob, Eddie? Is the store Augustine Lieb's or one of his kids? James Thomas Rosenbaum 310 Melvin Street Johnstown, Cambria Co., PA 15904-1219 814-266-6855

The Kirsch store looks almost like the Lehmier Hardware store front in the Carrolltown book. Does anyone know if the store was taken over by the Kirsch's from the Lehmiers? James Thomas Rosenbaum 310 Melvin Street Johnstown, Cambria Co., PA 15904-1219 814-266-6855

Callahan researchers, I found this article in the Carrolltown Book: "Callahan's Restaurant, owned by Rose and Jim Callahan, was where the high school kids hung out. It was a great place to get a cherry or chocolate coke." (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, p. 45. James Thomas Rosenbaum 310 Melvin Street Johnstown, Cambria Co., PA 15904-1219 814-266-6855

For those of you who do Kirsch genealogy, I found this one in the Carrolltown Book: "We had three major grocery stores in town - Paul Kelly's, The Clover Farm and Merle Kirsch's Butcher Shop. I worked at Kirsch's and learned about different cuts of meat. I also learned how to slice liver. Merle was a great teacher and made me feel confident that I could succeed in all I attempted to do....even slicing liver." (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, p. 45. James Thomas Rosenbaum 310 Melvin Street Johnstown, Cambria Co., PA 15904-1219 814-266-6855

"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? James Thomas Rosenbaum 310 Melvin Street Johnstown, Cambria Co., PA 15904-1219 814-266-6855

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 27, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Jacob Burkey, of this place, is visiting friends in Altoona. For the first time in many months Altoona is free from smallpox. H. H. Myers, Esq., of this place, was in Johnstown on Tuesday. P. F. Dillon, of Elder township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Saturday. Mr. Francis Illig, of Carroll township, spent a few hours in town on Monday. Mr. Michael Bopp, of Croyle township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. During the past week Bloom & Skelly slaughtered a beef which dressed 1,000 pounds. Mrs. Frank Jervis is very ill at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles J. Owens, in this place. Mr. Phillip Shoemaker, of Wilmerding, spent the past week in Ebensburg visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Shoemaker. Mr. Leonce Shields of Pittsburgh spent a few days in Ebensburg this week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shields. On account of a freight wreck at Winterset on Saturday night passengers were delayed until near midnight to reaching Ebensburg. Monday was observed as a legal holiday in honor of the anniversary of Washington’s birthday although the date proper came Sunday. Mrs. Margaret Bock, of Morrellville, having been adjudged insane by a commission in lunacy, was on Friday, taken to Dixmont by Sheriff Davis. Mrs. Ellen Williams and daughter, Miss Ella, of Carrolltown, were in Ebensburg on Tuesday in attendance at the funeral of Mrs. Susan Williams. Mr. C. J. Hogue and wife, of Cresson, and Mr. Felix Yost, of Carroll township, attended the funeral of Mrs. Susan Williams in this place, on Tuesday. Mr. Herman Williams and wife, of Vandergrift, Pa., spent several days in town this week, being called here by the death of the former’s mother, Mrs. Susan Williams. Mr. H. B. Kelly, agent at the P. R. R. Station in this place, has handed in his resignation to take effect March 1st, and return to his home in Mifflin to accept another position. The school directors of Altoona have decided to add manual training and kindergartens to the public schools of the city, both systems to be put in operation at the beginning of the next school term. James Brussel, aged 21 years, and a brakeman in the yard at Altoona, while riding on top of a box car at midnight Sunday night was struck by the Fourth street bridge and suffered a laceration of the scalp. He had his wound dressed at the hospital. M. D. Kittell, Esq., Mrs. Maude Collins and Miss Blanche Henry, all of this place, went down to Pittsburg on Monday for the purpose of attending the ceremonies incident to the consecration of Rev. Regis Canevan, as coadjutor bishop of the Pittsburg diocese. The Ebensburg Cornet band gave an enjoyable concert in the opera house on Tuesday night to a good sized audience. The band rendered a very fine program and cleared about $75 by the concert. Besides the band music there were solos by Miss Louis McNamara, Elmer Davis, H. H. Myers and Harvey Tibbott. Thomas Phillips shot and fatally wounded Frank Berringer, another Italian at a boarding house at Wehrum on Saturday. The men had quarreled and Phillips shot the other man in the back. The shooter was arrested and turned over to the Sheriff of Indiana county, who lodged him in jail. This was the second shooting at Wehrum in a week. By a decision of the United States Supreme court in Washington Monday, the Carnegie Steel company scored a final victory over the Cambria Steel company in the celebrated “mixer” case. The decision has no bearing upon the validity of the patent held by the Pittsburg concern, but merely a question as to which of the litigants shall pay the costs. They amount to $2,700. William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, will be in Johnstown Monday evening next, March 2d, and will deliver a public lecture in the Johnstown Opera House under the auspices of the Johnstown Economic circle. The evening promises to be notable and the many admirers of Mr. Bryan should not fail of the opportunity to hear him. Hon. Alvin Evans, Col. S. W. Davis, Lemon Reed, Esq., Messrs. Web. Griffith, T. L. Gibson and others of our citizens went down to Harrisburg this Thursday morning for the purpose of appearing before the Legislative Committee on counties and townships. It is needless to remark that they are solidly against the taking of any territory off Cambria for the purpose of making a new county. While Lin. Lloyd, the eldest son of Postmaster Lloyd, was dancing on a small box on Saturday afternoon at his home, in this place, the box took a tumble and as a result, Master Lin., is now nursing a broken arm. A small bone of the right arm was fractured and the elbow out of place, but we are glad to state that after Dr. Davison got through with him the fracture was reduced, the elbow back in place and no serious results expected. A special train will run from Cresson to Vintondale and return stopping at all stations on Thursday evening, March 19th for the purpose of conveying passengers to the Grand Lenten Entertainment to take place in the Catholic church at the latter place by the New York Entertainment company. It is expected that a great many people along the line will attend the entertainment. A further notice of the schedule for the train will appear hereafter. About ten days ago. Sterling Aiken shot and wounded a Wehrum bookkeeper, Welton Thomas. Reports say that Aiken shot first at Aiken,[as written in the newspaper] who is a negro. Aiken escaped, but the Wehram residents ordered all the negroes in the town, about 20, to leave the neighborhood. After several refusals the white residents took ropes and poles and attacked the negroes’ shack. After an hours’ work it was pulled down and the negroes, seeing their position, gave up the fight and boarded a freight train and left. Messrs. John Gittings, L. W. Kauffman and F. E. Farabaugh, county auditors, met on Monday and after going over their work of the auditors settlement, discovered that they had made an error in balancing the accounts in favor of Treasurer S. J. McClune, amounting to $7,029.87. Ex-Treasurer McClune immediately stated that he would make good whatever amount the auditors found to be correctly due. GALLITZIN GIRL IN TROUBLE Tuesday morning’s Pittsburg PRESS contains the following item referring to a Cambria county girl who seems to have gotten into trouble in the Smoky city. “Detectives Kelly and Riley yesterday arrested a young woman, Lulu Yingling, of Gallitzin, in a Smithfield street store for shoplifting. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 20, 1903 LOCAL AND PESONAL Next Sunday, February 22d, is Washington’s birthday. Rev. Father Deasy, of Gallitzin, visited Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. Matthew Zahm, of Johnstown, visited friends in Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. John Nidemyer, of Chest township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. J. G. Lloyd, of the Ease ward, is confined to his home by illness. We hope he may soon recover. An eight-year-old daughter of Mr. Oliver Evans, of the West ward, is very ill as the result of a bad cold. Mrs. C. T. Roberts, of this place, left on Monday evening for Pittsburg to visit her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Siviter. Charles Grother, condemned to death in Monroe county, has asked permission to help build his own scaffold. Mr. John A. Schwab and family, of Loretto, who are now in Europe, are expected home about the middle of next week. Wednesday night was the coldest night this winter, the mercury getting down as low as 12 degrees below zero early Thursday morning. Ex-Associate Judge Thomas, of Cambria county, is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Bertram, Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third street. [Altoona Mirror] At a meeting of the School Board, held Monday evening, it was decided that all pupils be required to produce a certificate of successful vaccination before March 1, 1903. Mr. Harry Owens, formerly of this place, who was married in Pittsburg on Wednesday morning, arrived here on Wednesday evening with his bride for a brief visit among friends. With a capital of $400,000,000 the Pennsylvania railroad can be counted as one of the greatest and richest organizations in the world. It is a remarkable example of success attained by good management. Mr. Anthony Sill, a well known citizen of Allegheny township, was severely injured one day last week by being thrown from his wagon near Wildwood Springs, while returning from Gallitzin. A freight wreck near Wilmore early on Monday morning blocked the tracks and delayed trains. Robert S. Stalnecker of Macungie, Lehigh county, aged about twenty-five years was injured in the collision, receiving a compound fracture of the left leg. He was taken to the Memorial Hospital at Johnstown for treatment. The meeting of the county auditor’s to have been held at the Court House today (Thursday) for the purpose of examining into a supposed error in the auditor’s report has been continued until Monday next on account of illness in the family of Auditor Gittings and the death of a brother of Auditor Farabaugh, the particulars of which we failed to learn. Dr. J. T. Fuller, who some eighteen years ago was a practicing physician in Ebensburg, but since that time has been traveling largely over the world in various pursuits, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Among other places visited by Dr. Fuller was South Africa, being there during the Boer war as a correspondent of the New York WORLD. His present residence is in Pittsburg. Deeds were filed at Indiana last week in favor of J. L. Mitchell for twenty-six tracts of land, purchased in the eastern part of the county. All the tracts are located in Cherryhill township except two and they are in Pine township. The purchase includes over 2,800 acres and will mean the distribution of over $56,000 to the landlords, who receive $25 per acre for the coal alone. Col. William Jennings Bryan delivered a lecture in Altoona on Friday night on the subject, “The Value of an Ideal.” In it he advocated among other things the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. A reception was tendered to Col. Bryan later at the Eagles’ eerie. He refused to discuss Judge Parker of New York as a presidential possibility. Judge Martin Bell, of Blair county, specially presiding on Monday in a Clearfield county case, granted an injunction restraining the firm of Wertz & Kephart, coal operators, from running under the town of Houtzdale, Clearfield county. It was alleged by the municipal authorities that the foundations of the town were being weakened and the personal safety of the inhabitants endangered by the mining operations. A carload of insane soldiers from the Philippines passed over the Pennsylvania railroad en route to Ft. Myer, near Washington, where they will be given treatment. Dr. H. H. Brotherlin, assisted by Dr. Findley, at Hollidaysburg, on Saturday, extracted a bullet from a wound in the head of Lundro Francisco, an Italian prisoner, confined in the jail on a charge of attempting to rob the post office at Gallitzin in the latter part of January. Francisco was detected in the nefarious work and before being taken he attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head. Edgar M. Claybaugh, whose wife committed suicide at McKeesport two months ago, Sunday night attempted to take his own life in Altoona by swallowing poison. He was removed to the hospital and is expected to recover. He was at one time a prosperous druggist of Altoona, but suffered business reverses. He then went to McKeesport where he conducted a drug store until his wife took her life when he returned to the Mountain City. Mrs. Kate Begley was arrested Monday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Dias, in Ferndale, charged with stealing silverware from the Mountain House of this place. Six silver spoons bearing the name of M. J. Stoltz, proprietor of the Mountain House are said to have been found in the Dias home, and Mrs. Bagley was locked up. Mrs. Bagley was employed at the Mountain House. Her husband was some time ago brought to the Ebensburg jail to serve a term for trying to kill his wife and mother-in-law. Nothing has been learned of the whereabouts of Mrs. Mary Thompson, wife of William Thompson, who disappeared from her home in East Latrobe at an early hour Friday morning. It is said she rose at 5 o’clock and putting on a wrapper and slippers went out, leaving her husband and child sleeping. Mr. Thompson was awakened by the sound of the door being closed and got up. Mrs. Thompson is 26 years old. The couple have been married about six years and have had two children, one of whom died last summer. The school building located near St. Benedict, Carroll township, was destroyed by fire about 1 o’clock on Tuesday morning of last week. The origin of the fire is not known as the flames had gained considerable headway before being discovered. The building was a new one, consisting of two rooms. There was no insurance. The school board Met and decided to continue school next Monday. The old building will be used for one room and a house in St. Benedict has been rented and fitted out to finish this term. Jesse Eckenrode, aged 22 years and a brakeman on the Cambria and Clearfield division of the Pennsylvania railroad, narrowly escaped death in a wreck at Gallitzin at 5:40 o’clock on Monday morning. He is at the Altoona hospital, with a crushed pelvis, and though his injury is serious, it is not necessarily fatal. He was a member of a crew taking a train of loaded coal cars off the Cambria and Clearfield division to Altoona. At Gallitzin the two engines hauling the train cut off and ran ahead for water. The weight of the train was too heavy for the helper to hold and it started down the grade toward Cresson and collided with a train following. Two engines and four cars of the first train were wrecked. Eckenrode was breaking on the wrecked cars and was caught and squeezed between two of them. He was speedily removed and taken to the hospital. There was a slight wreck on the branch at Cresson Wednesday night. The late train for Vintondale ran into a freight train disabling the locomotive. No person was hurt. On account of the prevalence of that dread disease, cerebro spinal meningitis, the public schools at Blairsville Intersection were recently closed and will remain so until all danger is at an end. Large gangs of men are reported at work from Gallitzin to Petersburg, along the Pennsylvania new doubletrack route, and the line is progressing rapidly. It is expected that freight trains will be moved east over this line by May 1st and perhaps earlier. Plans are also being perfected for handling freight extensively in the new yards at Hollidaysburg. _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 13, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Saturday is Valentine day. Mr. Thomas Seymore, of Allegheny township, is confined to his home with smallpox. Mr. William G. Wilson, of Blacklick township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mrs. John Bowman, of Carroll township, who had been quite ill, is able to be about again. Dr. Olin G. A. Barker, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Barker, in this place. Messrs. John Barnett and Vincent Malloy, of Allegheny township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Lent begins on Ask Wednesday which occurs this year on February 25th and lasts for a period of forty days. Philip N. Shettig, Esq., of this place, attended a session of the Clearfield county court at Clearfield, Pa. this week. Fire on Wednesday afternoon of last week damaged a coal crusher of the Cambria Steel company, near Johnstown, to the amount of $25,000. Mr. Thomas A. Bradley, of Lilly, deputy factory inspector for this district, made his tour of inspections through Ebensburg on Monday. There will be a convention of coal miners of central Pennsylvania in Altoona on the second Tuesday of March. A new scale of wages is to be considered. A new machine for planing engine frames was placed in the Altoona shops last week. It will plane two engine frames at one time, and is said to be the biggest planer in the world. Ex-County treasurer, Samuel J. McClune, has purchased the real estate and insurance agency of Edgar O. Eisher of Johnstown and will continue the same business in that city. Solomon Suter, a wealthy farmer of Mt. Pleasant township in Westmoreland county, was held up by an unknown negro near Mt. Pleasant on Monday morning and relieved of his pocket book containing $25 in money and a check calling for $600. Mr. T. Stanton Davis purchased for himself, John L. Elder and B. F. James, the farm one mile west of Ebensburg belonging to J. L. and T. W. Jones, heirs of the late David Jones. The farm contains 141 acres and the consideration was $4,030 cash. Thursday morning of last week the Cherrytree accommodation encountered a landslide above Carrolltown. The engine and two cars were sideswiped and ruined and the passengers violently shaken up. The engineer and fireman jumped, probably saving their lives. Thomas T. Domley, of Cresson, a brakeman on the Cresson and Clearfield division was jolted from a car at Cresson on Friday and sustained an abrasion of the right shoulder and elbow and lacerations of the right hand. He was taken to the Altoona hospital were the injuries were dressed. An engine slipped from a crane in No. 2 erecting shop in Altoona on Saturday morning and went crashing to the floor, sustaining considerable damage. Several of the men who were working about the locomotive narrowly escaped being killed, fortunately receiving but slight injuries. Barney McClement, employed by the Vintondale Lumber Company at Vintondale, narrowly escaped death on Monday morning. He was riding a car of logs, when they started to roll. He was caught under one of them and sustained internal injuries. He was taken to the hospital at Altoona. Wednesday evening of last week the high winds blew a telephone pole across the tracks at Glen Campbell. The Glen Campbell accommodation coming along shortly afterward was thrown from the track and slightly injured. The passengers received a serve shaking up and the engine is ruined. Attachments for the arrest of the president, treasurer and officers of the Pittsburg, Johnstown, Ebensburg & Eastern Railroad company were issued out of the Blair county court Monday in contempt proceedings for failure to obey a decree of the State Supreme court. The officers of the corporations reside in Philadelphia. A cutting affray occurred at the east end of the Gallitzin tunnel on Sunday afternoon, in the same shanty in which Charles Irvin shot another colored man and for which he was sentenced to the penitentiary. One negro was cut in the side in the affray. Four negroes were arrested for the affair and were taken to jail on Tuesday. A call has been issued for a convention of sub-district No. 3, of district No. 2, United Mine Workers of America to be held in Benscreek on March 6th. The officers to be elected for the sub-district are a president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, one member of the district board, six members of the executive board and two auditors. Mr. T. Stanton Davis, of the real estate firm of Larimer & Davis sold the timber off a tract of land in Jackson township, belonging to Captain Thomas Davis Lester. Larimer and T. Stanton Davis to Kuhn & Kough, of Winder to take possession immediately. The tract contains over 2,000,000 feet, three-fourths of which is hemlock, consideration $6,000. Three or four white men disguised as negroes broke into the home of Mrs. Sweitzer, living near Dumas, Somerset county, the other night. They bound the woman in a chair on the porch and threw a bed quilt over her head, after which they ransacked the house securing $2. Mrs. Switzer, who had been an invalid for years, was nearly frozen when discovered by her children upon their return from church. A bear’s fur is worth from $20 to $50. To bring this price the animal must be killed between September and March. The deer skin has small value as a fur. If tanned it will bring from $1 to $5 for a rug. An otter’s hid is worth from $10 to $15. A pelt of the unsavory skunk is worth 50 cents to $2 and the rat skins will bring from 5 to 20 cents each. The passing of the beaver hats left the rabbit’s fur without value. To facilitate the handling of the ore cars, the Cambria Steel company at Johnstown, will install an automatic car dumper, which, it is said, will perform three times the amount of work which can be accomplished under the present plan. The machinery will be placed in such position along the tracks that as the cars arrive they will be lifted up, turned upside down and the contents deposited in special self unloading cars, which travel to the furnaces. The cars, when empty, will be classified at once and returned to the Pennsylvania tracks, thus preventing congestion. Suits in which damages in the sum of $800,000 are claimed against the Pennsylvania Railroad company were entered in the Huntingdon county court last week by J. R. and W. H. Simpson, administrator of the estate of Robert E. Brown, a Broad Top coal operator and the Delta Coal Mining company, of Cambria county. The plaintiff’s claim that they were the victims of unjust freight discrimination in the transportation of coal from 1893 to 1900, inasmuch as a few favorite shippers were allowed a rebate of 60 cents per ton of coal, as against 30 cents the rebate which obtains generally. It is further claimed that because of this discrimination Robert E. Brown was forced to make an assignment, while the Delta company went into bankruptcy. An entertainment for the benefit of the Catholic Church at Vintondale will be given in the church at that place on Thursday evening, March 19th, 1903, under the direction of Rev. Father Hurton, by the New York Entertainment company. The entertainment will be accompanied by a lecture explaining Catholic doctrines, by Prof. Starkweather of Boston. Also by five vocal solos by Prof. George Trewella Martin, of Boston and New York. Also by the history of Joan of Arc in moving pictures, and a series of beautiful moving pictures illustrating the songs. The entertainment will close with a magnificent spectacle, the eruption of Mt. Pelee and the destruction of St. Pierre. Admission 50 cents. Do not fail to attend as the entertainment is of a high class and the opportunity of witnessing it may not again occur. BOARDING HOUSE BLOWS UP A dastardly attempt to hide robbery and murder resulted in the wrecking by dynamite of an Italian boarding house at Portage early Monday morning. Two persons are dead, two are injured and a score of others had miraculous escapes from death when the explosion let go. The concussion broke the windows in all the buildings for nearly a square and did some other damage. The dead are Tony Grillo, aged 44 years, and Mrs. Tony Grillo, aged 40 years. The injured are Ralph Tellilido, a shoemaker, thumb pierced by a splinter; Joe Deslavo, injured about the shoulder. The scene of the affair was the boarding house of Tony Grillo and his wife on Railroad street, not far from the old Pennsylvania railroad station, in a store building owned by the Doran brothers of Wilmore. In this building which is a large frame structure, two stories high, they kept a score of boarders, the latter for the most part sleeping in the store room and the room back of it, which had been fitted up with cots. Grillo, his wife and three daughters—-Lucy, aged 9; Mary. Aged 7 and Rosie, aged 5-—occupied the ground floor adjoining the store room part of the building. Immediately over this room was another in which Tellilido and Charlie Grillo, aged 13 slept. Michael Grillo, the oldest of the five children, slept with some of the boarders in the other part of the house. When the frightened people of Portage reached the scene they found the Grillo building badly wrecked, the walls bulging and parts of the joists and timbers lying out in the street. They also found that some of the inmates of the house were in the cellar, under piles of debris. The boarders in their night clothes, rushed out of their sleeping quarters in affright. Patrolman Henry Plummer took charge of affairs. Under his direction a search of the ruins began, groans being heard from the cellar. The first and second floors had been torn loose, the plaster, lath and flooring lying in a pile in the cellar and under this heavy mass came cries for help. Willing hands soon pulled the stuff away and the body of Mrs. Grillo, clad in her night clothes and with a cut on her neck was found. She was dead and as soon as this fact was established, she was laid to one side and the work of rescuing the living went on. Soon the workers found little Rosie and strange to say, she was not injured, as far as they could se. Shortly afterward more workmen brought to the outer air, Mary and Lucy Grillo, neither of whom seemed to be hurt, except for a few scratches. They were in their nightgowns and were covered with the dust from plaster. When taken out they were carried into the Union Hotel near by and given attention. Satisfying themselves that no more were alive under the mass the searchers soon had Mrs. Grillo’s body and that of her husband lying side by side. The latter had a gash on the head but whether the wounds were received through the explosion and subsequent fall into the cellar and the awful mass of debris no one knew. Many were of the opinion that murder had been done and the explosion was to hide the crime. The house is a wreck. The first and second floors in the part where Grillo and his wife lived were torn loose and hurled upward, then falling into the cellar, the debris of the second floor falling on top of the occupants of the first floor and covering them up. The roof of the house was left on and the walls were standing somewhat bulged. Quite a lot of stuff was thrown into the streets by the force of the explosion. Of the men injured Deslavo was hurt by the explosion forcing a partition with great force against the cot upon which he was sleeping, but his injuries are not serious. Tellilido and young Charles Grillo were thrown from their beds in the second story against the ceiling of the room and the marks where their bodies dented the plastering can be plainly seen. The boarders are all Italians employed about the railroad at Portage. They had no occasion to use dynamite and none of the explosive was known to be in the house, yet persons familiar with its use say that at least twenty-five pounds must have been put off under the room where Grillo and his three little girls slept. It was stated that Grillo had between $600 and $700 and his wife $200 more in the house, but none of the money has yet been found and the theory is that it was stolen by some one who killed the couple and then exploded the dynamite to cover the crime and who did not scruple to place in jeopardy the lives of nearly a score and a half of people, including five children. Dr. Miller’s examination of Grillo’s body showed him that his head was crushed in as if by some heavy instrument and his ribs were all caved in. Mrs. Grillo, according to Dr. Miller, was suffocated, as the injuries she sustained would not be sufficient to cause death. Grillo had been a resident of Portage for twelve years. He conducted a fruit store in a room in the Exchange Hotel building, where he did a thriving business. He and his wife were hard working people and were well thought of in Portage. _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. 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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 6, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. Ira Bloom, of this place, spent Monday in Johnstown. Mr. and Mrs. Fergus Lloyd and son, Fergus, are visiting relatives in Renova, Pa. Messrs. W. R. And W. L. McGough, of Lilly, were visitors to Ebensburg on Saturday. Henry L. Cooper, of Clearfield township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. The ground hog saw his shadow on Tuesday and as a result the weather has been on the rampage ever since. A little three-year-old son of Harry Jones, of Cambria township, fell off a chair a few days ago and broke his right arm. Mr. Harry Owens, of this place, is to be married in Pittsburg on February 12th, but the name of the lady has not been learned by us. Frank Roberts and John Mountain, both colored of Johnstown, were brought to jail today (Thursday) to a charge of housebreaking. Landlord Kimball of the Metropolitan Hotel, in this place, is having stone hauled for the foundation of what rumor says is to be an office building. The Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company has moved its large saw mill from Vintondale to Clyde, in Indiana county, further down on the Blacklick. Rumor has it that Barker Bros., of this place, will erect an addition to their store building on Centre street the coming summer to be used for office purposes. 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. A new apportionment bill has been offered in the House of Representatives and among other changes, gives Cambria County an additional representative, three instead of two. Mr. Harvey Williams, who had been conducting a restaurant at Tarentum, Pa., returned home a couple of weeks ago and is laid up with typhoid fever. He is at present getting along very well. The Ebensburg band, one of the finest musical organizations in this part of the state, will give a grand concert in the Opera House here Tuesday evening, February 25th, which, it is hoped will be well patronized. Mrs. Evan J. Bennett, of Cambria township, while going down the steps from the door of her home on Thursday of last week, fell and was seriously injured. No bones were broken but it is feared she is injured internally. Mrs. W. Horace Rose and daughter, Mrs. Samuel J. McClune, and the latter’s daughter, of Main street, went up to Ebensburg last evening to visit the McNamara family for several days. [Monday’s Johnstown TRIBUNE] Miss Lydia F. Knapp of Taylorstown, Washington county, having passed a satisfactory examination, has been appointed a rural free delivery mail carrier. The route over which she will make daily trips covers a distance of ten miles. Mr. John E. Yost, of Donora, Westmoreland county, son of Mr. Jacob Yost, of Cambria township, who had been home to attend the funeral of his brother whose death is mentioned elsewhere in this paper, returned to Donora on Friday. Mrs. Eva McKim, who resides three miles east of Ebensburg in Munster township, fell on the ice on Monday and suffered a compound fracture of one of her limbs. Mrs. McKim is about 80 years old and on account of her age, her recovery is doubtful. A new office has been created on the Cambria and Clearfield division known as the chief train dispatcher, which is filled by J. S. Willis. His assistant in John Wagner. Part of Willis’ duties will be the distribution of cars over the division. Summerhill township, is now, it is said, furnishing provisions for thirty persons quarantined on account of smallpox at and near the mining town of Beaverdale, in the south of the township. W. K. Burtnett is the Health Officer of the township. Five cars loaded with coke and steel cars containing coal on the east borough freight trains were wrecked at Allegrippus on Sunday morning. No one was injured but the tracks were blocked for some time. The Gallitzin wreck crew cleared away the wreck. The entire plant of the Osterburg NEWS, of Osterburg, Bedford county, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night of last week. The whole building was enveloped in flames when the fire was discovered and nothing was saved. The loss is partially covered by insurance. This is the second time this paper has been burned out. Dr. J. W. Stine, who has been the assistant relief physician on the Cambria and Clearfield division for the past several months, has resigned his position and left on Monday for Philadelphia, where he will begin a practice of his own. His successor has not yet been named. A dispatch from Rome on Monday says that Monsignor Kennedy, rector of the American college in Rome, yesterday presented to Pope Leo in private audience, Mr. and Mrs. John Schwab, of Loretto, parents of Charles M. Schwab, and their daughter. The Pontiff gave the trio of Cambrians the apostolic benediction. Telephone exchange has been established in the Cambria and Clearfield offices at Cresson. Miss Emma Quartz, who has been in the office of the Cambria County Telephone and Telegraph company for several years, is one of the operators. A telephone has been placed at the Munster siding for the convenience of train men. The West Penn officials have decided not to cut and store a supply of ice this winter for summer consumption. Manufactured ice will be used, as it can be furnished now at much less cost. Consequently the old historic ice pond at Blacklick on the Indiana branch which years ago supplied the Pittsburgh division and West Penn with a full supply of ice will be abandoned. [Indiana Democrat] On account of the increasing demand for material several departments of the Juniata shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona did not observe the usual weekly half holiday Saturday. It is rumored that work in all departments will be resumed on Saturdays hereafter. In some of the shops at Fourth street, Altoona, the men have received orders to work three hours overtime three nights of each week. Little Annie Herlinger, daughter of Frank Herlinger, of Brushvalley township, Indiana county, was on her way to school on Thursday of last week with some companions when they encountered a bull dog belonging to John W. Evans. The dog ran after Annie and she got up a bush but fell off when the dog attacked her and bit her ear off. Assistance was summoned and the dog was driven off and shot, but the girl will be maimed forever. The farm house of Louis Stull along the Wopsy road a short distance north of Altoona was entered by a robber on Thursday morning of last week and robbed of $110. Mr. Stull and his housekeeper were shopping in the city when the robbery was committed. An entrance was gained by breaking open a door with a hatchet. The police were notified and an effort is being made to apprehend the thief, who is supposed to be a negro, as one was seen in the vicinity of the house about the time the robbery was committed. The South Fork Coal Mining company has recently added 735 acres of coal land in Croyle township by lease to their possessions. Miss Anna Thomas, daughter of Mr. Joseph O. Thomas, who teaches at the Pensacola school a couple of miles from her home met with an accident Monday evening from which it is hoped she will soon recover. Miss Thomas rides on horseback to and from her home to the school house and on Monday evening after dismissing school mounted her horse and started to return home. On the road near the residence of Mrs. Martha Jones, the saddle turned and Miss Thomas was thrown to the road where she was found a short time after by Miss Edith Jones, unconscious. She was taken to her home and a physician summoned and it is believed that with the exception of a severe shock, Miss Thomas is not seriously hurt. _________________________________________________________________ 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, January 30, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. John Lahey, of Lilly, spent a few hours in town on Monday. Mr. J. E. Shields, of Loretto, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Dr. Claire Fitzgerald, of South Fork, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. John G. C. Bearer, of Spangler, spent a few hours in town on Monday. Mr. Henra [as spelled in the newspaper] Dunman, of Barr township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. George E. Meisel, of Carroll township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. William O’Hara, of Munster township, spent a short time in town on Monday. Mr. N. I. Roberts of Johnstown, was in town on Thursday in attendance at the funeral of Evan D. Evans. A petition is being circulated for a Sunday train between Ebensburg and Cresson. A Sunday train will fill a long felt want. Mr. and Mrs. Abel Lloyd, of Ebensburg, will celebrate their golden wedding this (Thursday) evening at their home in this place. Mr. Frank Fresh, of Nicktown, recently slipped on the ice and falling, fractured both bones of his right leg between the ankle and the knee. Dr. T. M. Richards, who has been absent at Zanesville for several months in the interest of a business house in Zanesville, Ohio, returned home on Friday. Mr. John Murphy, of Munster township, who has been on the sick list for some time, is again able to be about and will soon be fully recovered. At the sale of the Richard Owens farm in Cambria township on Saturday last, the farm consisting of 95 acres, coal reserved, was knocked down to Ira Bloom for $3,252 and the coal was bought in by John M. Hughes at 29 per acre. One day last week Mr. Jacob Holtz, of New Germany, brought to town a sled load of coal weighing 7,800, the net weight of the coal being 6,600. Considering the fact that Mr. Holtz’s pair of horses only weigh about 1,100 apiece the pull is pretty hard to beat. About 900 acres of coal land in Barr and Blacklick townships have recently been optioned by Henry Duman, of that locality at $50, $60 and $80 per acre, the latter price including the surface. Rembrandt Peale, the well-known coal operator is the prospective purchaser. Monday morning fires broke out the house of D. H. Stroup of Glen Campbell and destroyed it and his photograph gallery, and the house of James France adjoining. Mr. Stroup’s loss is estimated to be $2,000 and Mr. France’s $400, the latter covered by insurance. The Pennsylvania Railroad company several days ago took out of service a passenger coach used on the Cambria and Clearfield Division because it is said a woman with smallpox had ridden in it. It was side tracked at Cherrytree and thoroughly fumigated before being used again. A stuffed calf’s hide owned by William Fisher of Mt. Union is quite a curiosity. Some time ago the calf was born at Johnstown, but died in three weeks, and the skin was stuffed in Buffalo. It is made up of one head, two eyes, three ears, two bodies and two tails and eight legs. A sensation was created in Altoona social circles on Wednesday by an announcement that Miss Clara McAlarney, of the Mountain City, had brought suit for breach of promise against John G. Gorsuch, liveryman, claiming $5,000 damages. Gorsuch’s marriage several weeks ago to another woman was a society event. Over in Blair county, the judicial term of Judge Bell expires on the 1st Monday of January next. Judge Bell is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the office and William S. Hammond, Esq., of Altoona, who has served two terms as District Attorney in that county has announced himself as a candidate for judicial honors. Mrs. Rachel Brode, of Altoona, and her nephew, Berry Dodson, of Altoona, were convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the Blair county court on Saturday. While Mrs. Brode was holding a masquerade party at her home, a party of boys congregated outside. A quarrel ensued between the masqueraders and the boys and in the melee a boy named Ambrose Gehl was shot and killed. Mrs. Edward Parrish, who has been quite ill at the home of her son- in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brown of the East ward is improving. Miss Gertrude Ferguson, of this place, has been selected by the directors of Jackson township to teach the Joint school, the former teacher having resigned. The Cambria Powder company whose factory is at Seward, has been sued for an aggregate sum of $80,000 damages by four widows, whose husbands were killed in the explosions of June, 1900. The four suits entered at Greensburg are for $20,000 each. Sixteen children were left fatherless, two having been born after the explosion. It is claimed that the deaths of the four men were due to carelessness on the part of the company. The tunnel built by the Pennsylvania Railroad company on the Middle Division, two miles east of Altoona, has been completed. On Monday the tracks were connected, and Way Passenger west, known as No. 31 and Mail Express east, known as No. 34 were the first to pass through. The tunnel which is one mile long was built for the purpose of eliminating a curve. It was built by Contractor Kerbaugh and is a fine work of masonry. It will be used only for the passenger service. On Wednesday morning about 3 o’clock Lambro Yraresco, a young Italian, broke into the post office at Gallitzin by pushing out a large window. The noise of the glass falling attracted the attention of Policeman James Lees who rushed to the scene and caught the man in the building. Yraresco immediately, on being discovered, pulled out a revolver and tried to commit suicide by shooting himself, the last shot being fired into his left ear and producing a wound that may prove fatal. He was arrested and is now in charge of a government officer. A freight wreck in which four trains participated blocked all the tracks about midway between Wilmore and Portage on Sunday morning and delayed traffic for several hours. None of the trainmen were injured. Freights were standing on tracks Nos. 1 and 2, when another came along on No. 3 and stopped. Shortly after, another train crashed into the one standing on No. 3 and the impact wrecked the cars on the other two tracks in such a way that it was a long time before the debris was cleared up. It is said the property loss will exceed $10,000. William Murray, of Myersdale, Somerset county, Tuesday morning about 6 o’clock, before starting to the mines, went into the coal house where he keeps his kegs of powder to fill his flask in which he keeps his daily supply. His miner’s lamp furnished the light. The light must have fallen over for soon stray grains of powder began fizzing and they traveled toward the keg. Murray fought them a little but had to retreat. Just as he reached the door of the coal house, the powder in the keg was reached and there was a violent explosion, burning the back of his head and one of his ears very seriously. His face and eyes show signs of explosion. He will not be able to work for some time but had a very narrow escape. Powder and the open lamp do not mix except at a great risk. Standing over her husband as he lay sleeping Monday night, Mrs. Fannie Estabol, of Crabtree, Westmoreland county, sent a bullet crashing into her brain and died two hours afterward. Her husband is agent for the Loyalhanna Brewing company of Latrobe. The man who was elected coroner of Huntingdon county, Dr. G. G. Harman, is now acting sheriff of that county, brought about by the death of Sheriff Wilson. The law of the state provides that when the sheriff is removed from office by death or from any other cause, the duties of his office devolve upon the coroner. Dr. Harman will continue in the place until the governor fills it by appointment. But such appointment extends only to the next general election, which will be held next fall, when a new sheriff will be elected in the regular way. Messrs. J. C. Cameron and Isaac Griffith of Indiana, left for Cambria county on Monday to negotiate for the purchase of a big tract of land being between Spangler and Nicktown and which is owned by Stadden & McHugh, the Glen Campbell lumbermen. The deal will probably be made as it is said there are only a few minor details to be agreed on by the contracting parties. The tract contains 5,000,000 feet of good timber, convenient to railroads and it will take between five and six years to complete the job. Stadden & McHugh will sell only the surface, retaining only the coal, with which the entire tract is supposed to be underlaid. It is the intention of Messrs. Cameron and Griffith to put modern machinery in place on the workings and also to operate lath and shingle mills. But very small waste will be made in the cutting. [Indiana Messenger] The Protection Mutual Fire Insurance company of Cambria county, at its recent election, held at the office of the Secretary, T. W. Dick, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: J. M. Thompson, John J. Evans, Webster Griffith, V. S. Barker, John Lloyd, J. G. C. Bearer, Wm. J. Buck, John C. Gates, D. W. Lake, Mathiot Reade, W. J. Hoppel and John L. Stough. At a meeting held for organizing, the following officers were elected: President, Mathiot Reade; Vice President, J. G. C. Bearer; executive committee, John Lloyd, John J. Evans, and James M. Thompson; Secretary and treasurer, T. W. Dick; Agents:, Geo. A. Kinkead’s Sons, R. R. Davis, Ebensburg, and I. E. Roberts, Johnstown. The Cambria Mutual still maintains its place as a safe, reliable and cheap company. The company has been in existence 16 years and has levied only 18 assessments in that time. The last one having been levied over two years ago. It is gradually increasing its business along safe lines. The suit brought by John M. Metzler and D. M. Thompson, executors of Ephraim W. Metzler, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to recover $860,000 damages in the Blair county court, has been settled to the parties. The late Mr. Mentzer was a Hollidaysburg coal shipper, owning mines located at Ben’s Creek, this county. He alleged that the coal company was illegally discriminating against him by granting drawbacks or rebates on coal shipments to the business competitors, and he brought suit under the act of 1883 to recover treble damages. These shipments extended over a period of twenty years. The defense was that a large portion of the claim was outlawed by the statute of limitations and that Mr. Mentzer had sold free on board cars at mines, and that consequently he had not suffered by reason of the alleged discrimination. The exact basis of settlement could not be learned but it is said that the amount approximates $75,000. Suits of a similar character are pending against the railroad company by Max Frick, of Blandburg, $100,000, and J. E. Schmittle & Co., of Lloydsville, $56,000, each of this county. _________________________________________________________________ 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, January 23, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Miss Florence Evans, of this place, is home from a visit to Cuba. Mr. A. Strittmatter, of Carroll township, spent a few hours in town on Monday. Mr. Joseph Huffman, of Blacklick township, spent a few hours in town on Saturday. Mr. Hugh Bannan, of Loretto, was granted a pension of $30 per month on Saturday. Mr. William Springer, of Carroll township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Joseph Bearer, of Carroll township, spent a few hours in town on Wednesday. Judge F. J. Kooser, of Somerset, was here on Tuesday disposing of some cases in which Judge O’Connor was interested. Mr. Owen Rowland, who has been visiting relatives in Iowa City, Iowa for some time past, returned home on Saturday. Johnstown’s new shirt factory started operations on Monday. The factory will employ about 1,000 girls when running full. Mrs. Lester Larimer, of this place, was has been seriously ill during the past week, is much improved and it is hoped she will soon be able to be about again. Mr. Thomas Peach, a leading liveryman of Ebensburg and candidate of the Democratic nomination for sheriff, was a visitor in the city yesterday. [Tuesday’s Altoona Times] It is reported that Judge F. J. O’Connor, who now lives in Johnstown, will in the near future remove his family to Ebensburg where he will reside during his term on the bench. W. R. Thompson, former editor and owner of the MOUNTAINEER HERALD, of this place, on Monday, purchased a half interest in the establishment from T. L. Gibson. We congratulate Brother Thompson on getting back among the elect and Brother Gibson in having a partner to share his joys and sorrows. The convening of the legislature has given the Republican plum tree the customary shake and David D. Pryce, of Ebensburg, succeeded in picking up the position of janitor in the coat room of the house. Our old time fellow townsman, Lemuel Davis, of McKean county, was appointed as one of the transcribing clerks in the house. Michael Dunn, of Gallitzin, was discharged from the Altoona hospital on Friday morning, where he had received treatment for a fracture of the left arm above the elbow. Dunn remained in the city and on Friday evening was again admitted to the hospital, he having again broken the arm by falling on Eleventh avenue. At argument court held here on Tuesday Judge O’Connor made it known that he wanted applicants for liquor licenses to be present at license court in order that he could see whether they were fit persons to conduct a licensed house. Also that he wanted photographs of houses for which new applications were filed. Summerhill borough has been officially declared free from smallpox, the last case of the disease having been last Monday decided by a physician to be cured. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in December, eight cases in all have been treated in the town. Squire E. W. Hull, who acted as Health Officer, reports the place to be in good sanitary condition. Albert Itell, formerly of Johnstown, Dr. Edwin S. Cooper and Mrs. Delia Talbitzer, of New Castle, Pa., and Dr. J. R. Hahn of Edinboro, Pa., have been arrested, charged with being connected with a criminal operation upon Miss Mable Williams, of Conemaugh, causing her health at New Castle on September 16th last and will be given a preliminary hearing at New castle on Friday. Mr. Augustine Yost, of Carroll township, has sold his farm to Mr. John Lantzy,of Elder township, the consideration being $9,000. Mr. Yost will remove to Carrolltown. Theodore Lythe, death watch over Jacob Gearhart, who will hang for the murder of his wife, robbed the murderer of $25 on Monday in the Sunbury jail and disappeared. Lythe also got money from politicians on the fictions plea of his wife’s death. One of them sent a wreath to his home. William R. Douglass, a farmer who resides a short distance west of Altoona along the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania railroad, occupies a bed at the Altoona hospital as a result of an accident which befell him about 6:30 o’clock on Monday evening. In getting off an engine he slipped and fell, striking his head against a tile or stone, causing a laceration of the scalp, concussion of the brain and probably fracture of the skull. His condition is serious and he may not recover. Rembrandt Peale, owner of the Brawley and Snyder mines, has made the residents of Carrolltown one of the most liberal propositions that will ever be their good fortune to receive, says the Carrolltown NEWS. Mr. Peale is erecting a large electric plant at his mines to haul the cars and on being consulted, agreed to furnish the citizens of the town with electric light, providing that enough subscribers can be secured to pay the actual expense of the same. Mr. Peale would have to hire an extra man at the power plant, and the cost of stringing wires would also figure largely in the expense. Mr. Peale says he desires no profit from the transaction and wants nothing more out of it than actual expense. On Wednesday evening of last week there was a disastrous fire in Davistown, a small country village about a mile south of Portage, which destroyed the house and furniture of a man name Richardson. Mr. Richardson and family were at supper at the time, about 6:30 o’clock, he having previously fixed the fire in the parlor stove, opening the draft. Shortly after hearing a cracking noise, he went to the parlor door to find the interior a mass of flames. The wind was high at the time and the house and contents were quickly consumed. Mr. Richardson had recently built an addition to his house, on which it is said there was no insurance. The loss is therefore heavy and as the family lost nearly all their worldly goods, the kind people of Portage are raising a fund to assist them in their distress. Ice seventeen inches thick, is now being cut and hauled to town from the borough dam north of town. Annie Unko, a Slavish woman in jail, who is demented, attempted to kill her four-month-old babe by strangling it Friday. _________________________________________________________________ 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, January 16, 1903 LOCAL AND PESONAL Mr. C. R. Jones, of this place, was a visitor to Altoona on Thursday. The erection of a new court house is being agitated in Somerset county. The recent snow storms closed up many of the country roads with drifts. Rev. Father Ludden, of this place, spent several days in Pittsburg this week. Mr. William Frailey, of this place, spent the past week with his parents in Irvona. Miss Bertha McAteer, of Loretto, was a visitor to friends in Ebensburg on Tuesday. H. H. Myers, Esq., went to Philadelphia Thursday evening on a business visit. Miss Nellie Lloyd, of this place, is the guest of Mrs. A. M. Stinerman at South Fork this week. Mrs. Luke Weakland, of this place, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia is much improved and is now on a fair road to recovery. It is reported that a new roundhouse will be constructed in East Hollidaysburg this spring with capacity for thirty-four locomotives. While there are still quite a number of smallpox cases in this county, the disease is reported to be abating considerably. Mr. M. D. Bearer has sold his property on Julian street in the West ward of Ebensburg to Mr. E. J. Luther, the consideration being $3,000. Messrs. John Thomas, of Cambria township, and Richard Tibbott, of this place started on Monday for Iowa City, Iowa, where they will visit relatives. The recent cold snap has covered Lake Rowena with a good quality of ice about 12 inches thick and people having ice houses to fill are busy with the harvest. The commission to inquire into the mental condition of George E. Betz, of Summerhill, this county, appointed at the instance of his wife, have reported that he is perfectly fine. M. D. Kittell, Esq., of this place, left on Monday afternoon for Bellefonte to attend the funeral of ex-Governor, Daniel H. Hastings. Mr. Kittell was an honorary pallbearer. Frank Lewis, a guest at the Merchants Hotel, Johnstown, supposed to hail from Pittsburg, attempted suicide by cutting his throat early Tuesday morning. He was suffering from tremens and was removed to the Memorial hospital. There are 509 cases of smallpox throughout Pennsylvania, exclusive of Philadelphia, and but two deaths from the disease during the month of December, according to the report of Dr. Benjamin Lee, the secretary to the State Board of Health. Hon. John Dean, of Hollidaysburg, is increasing his purchases of mineral rights in the Brush Valley fields. Recently he has purchased about 900 acres of coal lands in Brush Valley township, Indiana county, and is about to close options that he secured on a dozen other tracts. Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad company in Altoona announced on Friday that the company will pay all employees who were members of the National Guard, during the recent coal strike, full time, the same as if they had been working. It will amount to over $10,000 on the Pennsylvania Railroad division. The coining mill at the Cambria Powder Plant in Westmoreland county near Seward blew up between 1 and 2 o’clock this (Thursday) afternoon and one of the employees, Robert Woods, aged forty years, was badly burned. The cause of the explosion is not known. Two men were killed by an explosion at the same place in November. Charles W. Bowles, son of Prof. J. W. Bowles, of Altoona, was knocked down late Tuesday night in the back yard of his home and stabbed half a dozen times in the region of the heart. It is believed his assailant thought him an Italian fruit dealer living next door, who has had trouble with some fellow countrymen. A new bituminous district has been created of the territory in Cambria county, north of Cresson, and Alex Monteith of Benedictine, has been appointed Mine inspector therein. The semi-annual convention of sub-district No. 2, United Mine Workers of America will be held in the opera house at Hastings on Wednesday, February 27, for the election of officers, including a president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, six members of the sub-district executive board, two adults [yep, it says two adults.] and one member to represent the sub district on the district executive board. Frank Trombaugh, night watchman for the Duquesne Coal and Coke company, of Bradenville, Westmoreland county, had a thrilling experience with two negro highwaymen about 2 o’clock Monday morning. They ordered him to hold up his hands and when he politely refused, fired at him, one ball cutting a gash in his head. Then they took all his garments, but his underclothing. The man was almost frozen when he found shelter. John H. McClure, of the People’s Credit clothing company of Altoona, was arrested to answer a charge of embezzling preferred by Richard P. McCarthy, general manager of the company. About two or three weeks ago, McClure reported to Chief of Police Tillard that the store had been robbed of $338.35, and that the thieves had evidently gotten in the back way, as there were tracks there. At the time the chief investigated the affair but did not take much stock in the story. The amount of the shortage, including the $338.35 cash, is about $1,200. It is stated that McClure recently lost about the amount of cash that was stolen in an Altoona gambling joint. While thawing out dynamite on Saturday morning about 9 o’clock at the new Gallitzin tunnel, Henry DeVaughn, aged 31 years, and Charles Reonolds, aged 22, both of Bennington, were injured. DeVaughn received a laceration of the scalp while Reonolds received a fracture of both bones of his right forearm. Both men were taken to the Altoona hospital where they are receiving surgical attention. Messrs. Smith & Courtwright are opening up the coal on what is known as the Moore syndicate on the Blacklick, and it is expected that they will be ready to ship coal from one of their operations within the next sixty days. They have secured about twelve hundred acres of coal land and intend to put in three other operations in order to work the coal to the best advantage. Arthur Horn, nineteen years old, was arrested in DuBois Wednesday on charges of desertion from the United States army and horse stealing. He was stationed at Fort Robinson, Neb., and deserted after three months service. He hired a horse at Bakerton, this county, on Monday and failed to return it. He was traced to DuBois and the horse was found in his father’s barn. Alfred Ruggles, a young man about 23 years of age, left his home in Altoona Monday evening for no particular destination. He bid the members of his family good-bye and stated that he didn’t know when he would see them again. Twenty-four hours later they were startled by receiving letters written by him at Tyrone in which he stated he intended to take his own life and that his body would be found at the bottom of the river. Is he dead or alive, is now a question that is puzzling the members of his family. Recently Mrs. Mary Uncapher of Cambria township, made information before Squire Joseph Jenkins., of West Taylor township, charging John Cox, of Vintondale, with adultery and also an information charging her daughter, Miss Ella B. Uncapher, aged 18 years, with fornication. A warrant was issued for Cox but before the officer succeeded in arresting him he got wind of the warrant and eluded the officer. Miss Uncapher claims that she and Cox were married in Canada while on a visit to Niagara Falls a short time ago; while it is said Cox has a wife and two children in addition to Miss Uncapher. The new Evangelical Lutheran church at Glasgow, this county, will be dedicated on Sunday, January 18th. The church cost $4,000. EXAMINATION FOR MINE FOREMAN Tuesday morning, January 20th, in the City Hall, Johnstown, will begin the annual examination for mine foreman and fire bosses in the Sixth Bituminous district, in connection with similar quizzes all over the state. The examinations will be in charge of a board composed of Mine Inspector Josiah T. Evans; John Donaldson, foreman of the Conemaugh mine and Peter Connors, foreman of a mine at Well’s Creek, Somerset county. The examination will last three days, the first two days being for mine foremen and the last day for fire bosses. Mine Inspector Evans says there is a great scarcity of both mine foremen and fire bosses; that for several weeks he had pending applications for at least six coal companies to secure for them mine foremen but that he has not been able to furnish the men. _________________________________________________________________ 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, January 9, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Six murders and seven suicides occurred in Cambria county in the year 1902. Girls can whiten their hands by soaking them in dish water three times a day. Mr. Henry E. Fenlon, of Bellefonte, Pa., was a visitor to Ebensburg this week. Miss Della Bearer, of Carroll township, visited friends in Ebensburg on Thursday. Eight foreigners were naturalized at the afternoon session of court held here on Monday. Mr. Isaac N. Wissinger, of Blacklick township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Editor Milton Spencer, of the Barnesboro SENTINEL, spent a few hours in town on Tuesday. Fred D. Barker, Esq., of this place, went to Philadelphia on Wednesday evening on a business visit. Mr. C. M. Parrish, of Bellefonte, Pa., spent Sunday with his parents, Squire J. D. Parrish and wife, of this place. Mr. J. L. Elder, of this place, returned home from Pittsburg on Tuesday where he spent several days transacting business. Mr. John C. Gates and daughter, Miss Alberta, were in Pittsburg on Tuesday, the latter being on her way to school at Oberlin, O. The court on Monday appointed Charles Stiffler Constable of Blacklick to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Merton Edwards. Mr. Edward W. Humphreys, of this place, has sold his property on Julian street in the West ward to Mr. Alex J. Evans for $2,200. Mrs. J. R. Manion, of this place, accompanied by her sister, Miss Baker, of Susquehanna township, spent a few days in Tyrone this week. Mr. Webster Griffith, of this place, on Christmas Day surprised his foreman, Mr. Elisha Mahon, by presenting him with a fine driving mare. Miss Annie C. Oatman, a native of Ebensburg, daughter of the late George W. Oatman, Esq., has been appointed assistant to Postmaster D. W. Coulter at Conemaugh. A child of Mike Senig, who resides near Lancashire mine No. 6 at Barnesboro, was badly scaled about the arms and face Friday afternoon by falling into a pan of boiling water. William Isenberg of Ebensburg, driver of Herman Apel’s teams, hauled 85 bushels of coal from Nantyglo to Ebensburg one day this week. Pretty good two-horse load. At court on Monday the wholesale liquor license of James McCann at Lilly, was transferred to I. E. Carman. The retail license granted to Edward Rhue for the Hastings Hotel at Hastings was transferred to T. F. Maher. Prof. Morris D. High, Johnstown, has sold a copy of the New England Primer, printed at Boston in 1727 to Dodd, Meade & Co., the publishers of Philadelphia for $2,500. Prof. High paid 12 cents for it at an auction sale. Mr. John F. Tibbott left on Tuesday for a visit to his brother in Georgia and with the hope of benefiting his health by a brief sojourn in a milder climate. During his absence his duties as borough collector and treasurer will be attended to by Mr. G. Calvin Port. The B. P. Anderson homestead in Allegheny township, between Loretto and Cresson has been sold to a party from Pittsburg, who, we understand, will utilize it for a summer residence, $8,000 being the consideration. Rev. Father Gallitzin at one time owned the property. A meeting of delegates from the different Catholic societies of Cambria county was held in the Y. M. I. Hall in Johnstown on Tuesday of last week. Six Catholic societies were represented, they being present from almost all the towns of the county. An organization was effected and two sessions were held. Frank W. Pearman, a well-known P. R. R. conductor living at Conemaugh, suffered a fracture of the left leg at the ankle Monday evening by falling from a car when his train parted near South Fork. He was taken to the Cambria hospital at Johnstown. Pearman is aged thirty-eight years and is married. His escape from being killed is said to have been miraculous. Professor John McCormick, of Wilmore, has in contemplation the writing of a history of Cambria county. It is, needless to say, that it is a work that should have been undertaken by some competent person long ago and that in consequence of the delay much valuable material and information has been lost. We hope Professor McCormick may see his way clear to the undertaking. One hundred business and professional men of Johnstown attended a banquet at the Crystal Café on Monday night, given by Attorneys Robert S. and Thomas Edwin Murphy, in honor of their guests, Colonel J. A. Johnston, U. S. A., of Washington, D. C., and Captain Timmerlin of the Military Academy. Among the appointments sent by President Roosevelt to the Senate on Monday was that of Hugh Pitcairn of Pennsylvania, Consul at Hamburg, to be Consul–General at the same place. Mr. Pitcairn is one of the owners of the Altoona TRIBUNE, a brother of Robert Pitcairn, Assistant to the president of the P. R. R. and has been Consul at Hamburg since early in President McKinley’s first administration. He was appointed from Altoona though his home is in Harrisburg. _________________________________________________________________ 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, January 2, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Here we are again. Vintondale is said to have one case of small pox. With this issue the FREEMAN begins its 37th year. No better way to start the new year than to square up with the printer. Mr. Harry Owens, of this place, spent several days in Pittsburg last week. The days will now grow longer but the difference will hardly be noticeable for a month. Ex-Register and Recorder James M. Singer was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Miss Victoria Brown of Pittsburg spent Christmas with her brothers and sister in Ebensburg. County Treasurer-elect Harry B. Heffley, of Johnstown, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. John L. Stough, of this place, went to Greensburg this Thursday morning to visit relatives. Dr. W. R. Shoemaker, of Wilmerding, spent a couple days in Ebensburg this week visiting relatives. Mrs. P. J. Gallagher, of Youngstown, Ohio, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Darragh of this place. Mr. Leonce Shields, of Pittsburg, spent a couple of days here last week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shilds. Editor Gibson of the MOUNTAINEER-HERALD is in Jefferson county this week acting as musical director of the teachers’ institute. Miss Fannie Lloyd, daughter of Postmaster Lloyd, left on Friday of last week for Oberlin, Ohio, where she will attend college. Coal is worth about any price the operator has the conscience to ask on the car at the mine these days, provided he has the car. Mr. Robert Jones and wife, of the West ward, are visiting friends in Pittsburg, where Mr. Jones may remove his family in the near future. Mr. Simon Lantzy, of Garman’s Mils, while on a visit to Ebensburg on Friday last, slipped on the icy pavement, breaking his right ankle. Philip N. Shettig, Esq., and Mr. Edgar Lahey, of this place, have been in Clearfield, Pa., for the past couple of weeks engaged in abstracting titles. Work on the eastern end of the New Portage railroad is about completed and last week a large force of workmen were moved to the Gallitzin end of the road. Mrs. Esther Loch, of Lisbon, Ohio, and Mrs. A. E. Hmmphreys of Lorain, Ohio, both sisters of Mrs. Edward Griffith are visiting the latter at her home in this place. A young man named Elliott, aged about twenty years, residing about four miles West of Ebensburg on the clay pike with his mother and sister, is suffering from smallpox. He was taken to the pest house at Johnstown on Wednesday. Steward Hughes, of the county home, and his aides, feasted the inmates of that institution on Christmas Day at dinner on 145 pounds of the finest roast turkey with dressing and other concomitants complete, which was immensely enjoyed by the recipients. Thomas Dillon’s residence at Gallitzin was burned to the ground last Saturday with all its contents, entailing a loss of $800 or $900 on which there is some insurance. The household goods were all destroyed, there being no insurance on them. An overheated stove is said to have been the cause of the fire. Mr. Isaac Kelly, while working in the woods a couple miles west of Ebensburg about two weeks ago, saw a black bear, about three-fourths grown, leisurely wandering through the woods. Mr. Kelly had no gun and both he and the bear were satisfied to leave each other undisturbed. Several men from this place started out on the bear’s trail but bruin escaped. Extra train No. 370 got beyond control after leaving the Gallitzin tunnel Saturday morning and crashed into extra No. 1620, also running on No. 1 track between Bennington and the tunnel. The engine and five cars of No. 870 were wrecked and traffic blocked for a time, the Gallitzin wreck crew being called out to clear up the debris. Brakeman Edward Whitesill, of Altoona had his right leg caught under the wheels and it had to be amputated above the knee. He was the only person hurt. The famous stone house, located a few miles from Gallitzin on the Old Portage railroad, has been purchased by James D. Callery, a wealthy Pittsburg man, from S. H. Lemon, of Philadelphia, for a cash consideration, aggregating a number of thousands of dollars. Mr. Lemon retains ten acres of the land. It is the intention of Mr. Callery to make improvements about the property. Mr. Lemon, the former owner, is well and favorably known in Cambria county, and spent considerable of this time at the stone house. Augustine Eberly, of Munster township, has sold his farm, stock and machinery. His health has made it imperative that he leave the farm, which he will do in the spring. FORESTALLING A DAMAGE SUIT The Barnes & Tucker colliery at Barnesboro took a peculiar action last week to avert a damage suit on the part of the father of brakeman Berringer, who was knocked off his car and killed by an overhanging chute. The chute was removed within twenty four hours after the accident. L. I. Berringer had intended photographing and measuring the chute to show that the accident was unavoidable on the part of his son. The coroner was busy at another case and did not arrive until after the chute had been removed. In case the elder Mr. Berringer should desire to enter suit for damages he is thus deprived of a valuable piece of evidence. Mr. Berringer formerly lived in Barnesboro. [Indiana Messenger] _________________________________________________________________ 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

Anyone know her maiden name.Any information would be appreicated John Bauman Mrs. Matilda, wife of Robert Brady, of Munster township, whose serious illness was mentioned in last week?s FREEMAN, died at her home on Friday, May 15th,1903,aged 54 years. Mrs. Brady was born in Munster township and was a daughter of the late Jacob and Jane Glass. Several years ago she was stricken with paralysis but was able to be about and at the time of receiving the last stroke which caused her death was at the home of a neighbor.She was conveyed to her home where she lingered for a couple of days when death came. She is survived by her husband, and four daughters: Cora, Bertha, Bernadine, and Harriet. She is also survived by four sisters, Mrs.Susan Burns and Amanda, wife of Frank Burk, both of Gallitzin; Ann, wife of William A. Todd, of Scottdale, and Ella, wife of Charles Sharbaugh of Cresson, and one brother,Demetrius,of Munster township.Her funeral took place at Loretto on Monday morning at 10 o'clock where after a High Mass of Requiem, her remains were interred in St. Michael's cemetery.

In a message dated 9/8/2008 11:49:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, NagleH@aol.com writes: Does anyone know if the postal addresses have changed in say the past 10-15 years in regards to folks who used to live in RR1-Box 35 -South Fork, PA in the Rockville Section as you leave South Fork. ========== Yes. As I have it, Rural Routes around South Fork (and presumably other communities) were changed by assigning street/road numbers to houses and other places that had previously had only an RFD Box Number as site identification. The reason for the change was to facilitate the response of emergency services (fire, police, ambulance, etc) by aiding the responders to locate the place to which they were summoned. It probably facilitated delivery of mail and parcels, too, but I do not know if that was also a driver for the change. Cecil Townsend Vienna, Virginia (ex-South Fork person) **************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)

As 911 Emergency calling goes into effect, Rural Route numbering is replaced with street names and numbers. This makes it easier for emergency responders to locate the actual house or business. A rural route could cover a large area with no definitive location. 911 is more advanced in some states, counties within a state and even towns and areas within a county. Kenny Stallard http://kenny.250free.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <NagleH@aol.com> To: <PACAMBRI@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 11:49 AM Subject: [PACAMBRI] Southfork - Rockville Question > Does anyone know if the postal addresses have changed in say the past > 10-15 > years in regards to folks who used to live in RR1-Box 35 -South Fork, PA > in > the Rockville Section as you leave South Fork. My wife's Aunt, Thelma > Johns, > lived at Box 35 for years but now on those homes we see address in the > 800's. > Herman Nagle > > > > **************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) > - - - - - - - - - - > > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.6.18/1658 - Release Date: 9/7/2008 > 3:30 PM > >

Does anyone know if the postal addresses have changed in say the past 10-15 years in regards to folks who used to live in RR1-Box 35 -South Fork, PA in the Rockville Section as you leave South Fork. My wife's Aunt, Thelma Johns, lived at Box 35 for years but now on those homes we see address in the 800's. Herman Nagle **************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)

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Rev. Stocklayer married one of my relatives in 1927. Was he a minister in the Johnstown area, perhaps Walnut Grove? Batha May Risher Karr