Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, June 12, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Bloom & Skelly lost another valuable horse by death on Friday. Mr. W. J. Buck of Allegheny township spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Landlord John Manion and wife, of the Central Hotel, in this place spent Sunday with relatives in Cherrytree. The Johnstown school directors have raised the salaries of the seventy-two teachers employed in the schools of that city, $5 per month. Mr. C. M. Parrish and wife of Bellefonte, Pa., spent Sunday in Ebensburg with the formers’ parents, Squire J. D. Parrish and wife. Misses Gertrude and Ethel Plank, who are spending the summer in Ebensburg, left on Tuesday for a two weeks visit to friends in Pittsburg. Squire John T. Long of Summerhill was in town on Monday, having been summoned here as a juror but excused by the court on account of ill heath. Miss Nellie Lloyd of this place left on Tuesday morning for Wooster, O., to attend the commencement exercise of Wooster College, after which she will visit friends in Polo, Ill. Demetrio Jonnella, of Amsbry, while dumping coal on a tipple at that place Saturday was caught between two mine cars and his left leg was fractured. He was taken to Altoona and admitted to the hospital. Andrew Oschak was taken to the Memorial hospital at Johnstown on Saturday morning from Garman’s Mills, suffering from a broken back, the injury having been sustained in the Greenwich Mines there. He is thirty-six years old, married and is in a serious condition. A letter received by Mr. Ambrose Schettig of this place from his brother, Anselm, who at present is in the northern part of California states that the latter is seriously ill with consumption, with very little hope for his recovery. Anselm Schettig is well known in Ebensburg where he formerly worked at the blacksmith trade for E. J. Luther. J. S. Eeisenring, Esq., a well-known Republican lawyer of Altoona has announced himself as an independent candidate for president judge of that county. Judge Bell, the present judge, is the regular Republican nominee for re-election and A. V. Dively is the Democratic nominee. If the three corner fight continues the chances will be in favor of Mr. Dively. Wesley Horner, of Jenners, Somerset county, is a sufferer from a peculiar accident the other of the other day, as a result of which he will lose the sight of his right eye. He was hammering a nail into a piece of hard wood in a buggy when the nail rebounded from the wood and flew back into his eye, where it punctured the ball. It is thought it will not be necessary to remove the eye, but the sight is gone. Friday last the surviving members of the Fifty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers and their friends and relatives held a reunion at Lakemont. The regiment was made up of men from the counties of Cambria, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and Blair. Among the principal speakers of the day were Major General John R. Brooke, formerly colonel of the regiment and ex-Governor James A. Beaver. John Flitz was a stationary engineer at the Allport mines, living at Barnesboro. Tuesday evening, June 2, after he had finished his day’s work, he disappeared and his whereabouts was unknown until Mrs. Flitz received a letter from him Saturday. In the letter he told his wife to sell the household goods and shift for herself as he was joining the United States navy. Mrs. Flitz says that her husband took with him $400 which he had in the Barnesboro National bank. The card of Mr. Samuel Lenhart, a well-known Democratic citizen of the 3rd ward, Johnstown, appears among the political announcements this week as a candidate for sheriff. Mr. Lenhart is known to the Democracy of Cambria county as one of the working Democrats of the Flood City, who at all times has been in the front in advancing the cause of Democracy. Should he receive the nomination the Democracy of Cambria county will have a standard bearer worthy of the united efforts of the party. Mayor Pendry, of Johnstown, on Monday entered suit on behalf of the city against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company for $50,000 for encroachment on the Stony Creek river. The mayor’s affidavit was filed with the prothonotary and sets forth the damage done the city in the matter of filling up the river and rendering it narrower than it should be. The action was rendered necessary by the refusal of the attorney general of the state to permit the suit to be brought in the name of the commonwealth. _________________________________________________________________ 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