Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, August 7, 1903 Items from Wilmore C. F. Lingenfelter of Klahn (sic), Blair county, purchasing agent for the Williamsburg paper company is in this vicinity at present buying paper wood and timber for use in the new mill in which Charles M. Schwab is interested. The price offered for hard and soft ample, white birch, beech and elm is $5.25 per cord on board P. R. R. cars at Wilmore. Jack-pine, lind, cucumber, popular and quaking ash are considerably higher in price. A Mr. Thompkins of Burnside, Clearfield county, has purchased from Robert Smith of Lilly the timber on a tract of land belonging to James Itel in the southwestern end of Portage township and a man named Butler of Summerhill is now putting up a steam saw mill on land of Hugh and William Jones, adjoining in Summerhill township, to saw this timber which in all is said to amount to 900,000 feet. The many friends of T. L. Parrish of Loretto who has been for several months a sufferer from heart disease will be pleased to learn that accompanied by his wife and his son—Raymond—he went to Pittsburg last week to take treatment from a specialist in this disease and received much encouragement and is considerably improved in health. Mrs.----Ruth and her sister, Miss Barbara Klinger of Johnstown accompanied by Miss May McCormick came up from Johnstown on Saturday evening last to visit with the family of Mr. and Mrs. John McCormick and on Sunday accompanied by Mrs. McCormick and her daughters, the Misses Othelia, Jennie and Stella took a drive to Loretto on Sunday to hear mass in St. Michael’s church, returning to Wilmore in the same evening and to Johnstown on Monday evening. Miss Mary Wallace of Altoona, accompanied by Miss Catharine Quartz of Cresson, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John McCormick. Mr. F. H. McDunn of Albert Lee, Minn., an employee of the “Cannon Ball,” railroad, returned on Tuesday from a visit to his brother, Mr. P. A. McDunn of Wilmore. Messrs. George Wenderoth of Chicago and Charles Wenderoth of New York are on a visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wenderoth of Wilmore. While the writer was driving to Ebensburg on Monday morning along the road in the California woods he passed Mr. John L. Sechler and a friend who had taken shelter form a drenching rain under a large beech tree at the roadside. To the remark of the writer that it was a bad omen for the Republican candidate to be compelled to seek shelter so early in the campaign, the latter naively answered, “Yes.” Mrs. ---- Evans, an aged and respected lady and an aunt of Web Griffith of your town, who lives on a farm in the southern end of Cambria township, suffered a slight stroke of paralysis a few days ago. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Miss Isabella O’Neill of Pittsburg is visiting her sisters in this place. Attorney John Kephart returned Thursday from a business trip to Pittsburg. The pupils of Miss Hattie Sharbaugh gave a delightful musical recital in Carrolltown on Thursday evening. Misses Blanche and Florence McDermott, Johnstown, are spending a few weeks in this place visiting relatives. Master Robt. Horan, little son of Mr. W. A. Horan, of Johnstown is visiting his grandparents in this place. Mr. John Parrish and family of Pittsburg are spending a few days with Mr. Parrish’s parents, Squire and Mrs. J. D. Parrish of this place. H. J. Ovemberger of Patton has been selected for the upper room and Miss Katie Lantzy of Lantzy’s Mills for the lower room of the St. Boniface Schools. The story of the man who froze his feet while hunting near Johnstown is accompanied by the tale that there was frost in Clearfield township last night. The frescoers have finished their work in the Catholic Church at Lilly and made a handsome lot of it. The altars, in pure white and gold finishing, are said to be especially beautiful. On last Tuesday the county commissioners awarded to the lowest bidder, J. A. Lord, of Hastings, the contract for masonry for the new bridge to be erected over the Beaver Dam Run at Beaver Dam, White township. The following bids were received by the commissioners: A. K. Huber, Patton, $3,244; Lloyd & Ronian, Ebensburg, $3,000; Ross Anthony, Blandberg, $2,383; Zeigler Brothers & Trevorrow, Somerset, $2,244.65; J. A. Lord, Hastings, $2,215.50. Mrs. C. J. Hogue of Cresson has been suffering from a very painful wound in the eye which was inflicted in a rather peculiar manner. She was holding her baby, which was playing with a rush, when the child gouged the rush into her eye, tearing out a small piece of the white. She was treated by an Altoona specialist. Supervisor Thad Eakins of Reade township was working on the public road with a road machine and six head of horses near the residence of William Shirley recently when an amusing incident occurred. Shirley has an apiary of some thirty or forty colonies of Italian bees. The honey makers evidently did not relish the presence of Eakin’s men. Their pickets first charged on the horses then on the men, when all had to make a hasty but inglorious retreat and that part of the road was left for a cold day. At a well-attended meeting of miners at Patton Thursday evening of last week, Secretary-Treasurer W. B. Wilson of the United Mine Workers of America succeeded in effecting a compromise settlement of the peculiar strike which had been there in progress and on Friday morning the men returned to work. Patrick Gilday, President of District No. 2, helped Mr. Wilson in his good work. The trouble at Patton was due to the attitude of the Socialist miners, who for reasons arising from their peculiar economic creed, refused to sign papers required the authorities of the company to keep as much money from each man’s pay as may be required to pay the check weighman. FALLS FROM LADDER While at work on Tuesday of this week painting the store building of Andrew Eckenrode of Carrolltown, Henry Bender, formerly of this place, was knocked from a ladder and quite seriously injured. It seems that a team tied near by broke loose and getting upon the sidewalk, overturned the ladder upon which Bender was standing. His injuries were at first deemed fatal but his recovery now seems assured _________________________________________________________________ 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