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/