Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, June 26, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Maple Park Springs opened up for the season today, (Thursday). The Ebensburg band will help Patton celebrate the Fourth of July. Mr. Fletcher George of Lilly was in town today (Thursday). Mr. Ira Bloom has a sick horse that he hopes to soon see convalescing. The inmates of the almshouse were treated to ice cream and cake on Sunday. County Commissioner W. S. Stutzman was in town for several days this week. Prof. John McCormick of Summerhill township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mrs. Paul Short and Mrs. Mary Burns, of Patton, were visitors to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. John Kirshner of Fitzgerald, Georgia, a former resident, is visiting friends in this place. Mr. Ronald Darragh and sister, Miss Bessie, are home from Canada where they attended school during the past year. The union journeymen plumbers of Johnstown are on a strike, their object being to compel their employers to recognize the union. The children from Pittsburg who spend the summer at the Laughlin Memorial Home near the fairgrounds, arrived here last week. Misses Fannie Lloyd and Alberta Gates, of this place, who attend different schools during the past year, returned home on Monday evening. We are pleased to note that the Lilly SIGNAL which was burned out some time ago made its appearance again this (Thursday) evening after a brief suspension. Cambria county will be 100 years old on the 26th day of March next. Cambria county was formed out of parts of Huntingdon and Somerset by an Act of Assembly of March 26, 1804. Mrs. John Zorn, of Carroll township, is minus twenty-two fine fat chickens that helped to keep her customers in Ebensburg in eggs and as a consequence some scalawag is living high at her expense. In accordance with the usual custom, there will be no paper issued from this office next week—Fourth of July week. The office will be kept open, however, for the accommodation of those who need job printing or desire to pay subscriptions. Two weddings of interest are announced to take place in the near future in Cambria county. Prof. Hugh Slater, of Loretto, and Miss Beatrice Mower, of Summit, are one couple, and J. E. Shields of Cresson and Miss E. Cully, of Loretto, the other. The Shields-Cully wedding is set for June 29th. The latest report from Captain Thomas Davis, whose illness was mentioned in last week’s FREEMAN, is to the effect that his condition is unchanged, he having, however, rested somewhat better this morning than usual. His condition is critical but his many friends have hopes that his rugged constitution will pull him through. James Rabolt, a boy 16 years of age, whose home is at Dysart, was taken to the Altoona hospital on Sunday night overland from Ashville with his right knee crushed. He was riding some cars and at Dean station attempted to put on a brake and fell off. His right knee was caught by the wheels and crushed. An effort will be made to save the limb. George Hettle, employed at T. J. Long’s mill at Summerhill, was caught by a circular saw while at work about two o’clock on Tuesday afternoon and had his left hand so badly mangled that it had to be amputated at the Memorial hospital. Hettle is fifty years old and has a wife and family, the wife and two sons accompanying the patient to the hospital. Samuel Mauk, an old resident of Altoona was a victim of a runaway on Monday evening. He was driving home when his horse took fright and ran away. Mauk was jolted from his seat and falling into the shafts, was carried several squares and finally was thrown to the street. He was picked up unconscious. He was badly cut about the head and sustained a probable skull fracture. His condition is serious and he will likely die. William Edwards, of Glen Campbell, and John Patrick, of Pittsburg, were arrested Thursday of last week at Bakerton, Cambria county, by Railroad Officer Bratton of Altoona for breaking into a car of merchandise, with the intent to commit a felony. They were found in the car, having entered it at a station some distance away from Bakerton. The men were brought to Ebensburg, where information was made against them before Squire Waters. Riston Bennett, a colored laborer, aged about 35 years, and working at Gallitzin, was taken to the Altoona hospital on East Line east on Monday morning with a bullet in his body. Bennett and several others had gathered together on Sunday night and were drinking when a row was started. He pulled a revolver from his pocket and in doing so it was discharged. The bullet entered his right side about the eighth rib and lodged somewhere in the intestines. After reaching the hospital an effort was made to locate the ball but it could not be found. _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/