Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, June 19, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. Roland Evans, of Bloomington, Ill., is visiting friends in Ebensburg. Mrs. S. J. McClune and children of Johnstown spent Thursday in Ebensburg. Mr. Joseph Huffman of Barr township spent a few hours in town on Tuesday. Mr. Joseph Bearer of Carroll township spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Mrs. Julia Eger of Washington township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Railroad men report that snow fell on the mountain east of Gallitzin Sunday afternoon and night. The choir of the Ebensburg Catholic church will sing at the dedicatory services at Nantyglo on Sunday. Messrs. Joseph Griffin and Alex Parrish of Munster township were visitors to Ebensburg Thursday. Misses Mary and Bird Kinkead, of Johnstown, visited their uncle and aunt, Mr. F. C. Lloyd and wife of this place. Mrs. Albert Morris of Hastings spent a few days in Ebensburg this week with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Davison. Contracts have been let for the erection of 200 houses at Vintondale for the use of employees of the Vinton Lumber company. Captain Thomas Davis of East ward is laid up and is extremely ill with a carbuncle. His condition is said to be serious. The Pennsylvania Editorial Association will enjoy its annual outing at Atlantic City during the week beginning June 22nd. Mr. and Mrs. John Bender, of Altoona, former residents of Ebensburg, celebrated their fiftieth anniversary of their marriage on Sunday. Mr. David Evans (sawyer) lost a turkey hen and fifteen young turkeys through the depredations of a fox on Wednesday night of last week. McMenamin & Bailey of Philadelphia have been awarded the contract for the laying of five miles of track on the Pennsylvania railroad from Lilly to Portage. Rev. Chester Sprague, pastor of the Christina Church of this place, has recovered from his recent illness and will occupy his pulpit next Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. Richard Paul Miller, of Pittsburg, and Mrs. Frank Thomas, and sister, Miss Amy Davis, of Johnstown, were in Ebensburg this week in attendance at the James-Davis wedding. A competent caterer from Altoona will be at Nantyglo on Sunday with ample provender to feed all the visitors that attend the church dedication. The new hall will be used for the occasion. Constable McFeely went to Ebensburg yesterday and returned with Chester Trout, who is wanted on a charge of larceny. He was locked up at the police station to await a hearing before Alderman Crawford. [Tuesday’s Altoona Times] Stephen Kieber, a young man of eighteen years, residing in Pittsburg was injured at Portage on Tuesday and was taken to the Memorial hospital at Johnstown where his leg was amputated at the ankle. Kieber was attempting jump a freight train when he fell under it and had his right foot badly crushed. The many Cambria county friends of Squire John A. Kennedy, who some twenty years ago was treasurer of this county, will be sorry to learn that he has been ill for several weeks and is still poorly; the information coming from a letter lately received by the FREEMAN from his daughter, Miss Germaine at their home at Adrian, Minn. We trust the Squire’s old time rugged constitution will pull him through. During a thunder storm Wednesday of last week, John Mattern, whose farm adjoins Gaysport, lost seven head of cattle. The animals had taken refuge under a tree from the storm and it was struck by lightening. They were valued at $400. The Altoona grist and sawmill owned by Benjamin Coke of Altoona was burned to the ground early Sunday morning, entailing a loss of $9,000 on which there is an insurance. The mill is located outside the city and the blaze started in the stables. Two horses were burned to death in the barn. The plant was valued at $6,000 and 3,000 worth of grain was destroyed with it. H. S. Smith, who has been cashier of the First National Bank of Gallitzin since it opened, has resigned and will go to Hollidaysburg, July 1st, to take charge of a bank there. He will be succeeded at Gallitzin by W. G. Gilson, formerly connected with the Webster Coal & Coke company at Cresson. Mr. Gilson has entered the bank in order to become thoroughly acquainted with his new duties before Mr. Smith leaves. Coal shippers and operators in the Clearfield and Cambria district are much hampered by a car famine at present and the most serious in months, as a result, are falling far being in the filling orders. The miners, too are losing financially by the car shortage, there being various mines where work is temporarily suspended because the mined coal cannot be moved. All of the big operators in the districts named are affected: the Berwind-White, Webster, and Pittsburg and Rochester companies and J. C. Stineman & Sons, suffering along with smaller operators. The scarcity of cars is due to the heavy shipments in the far east and the delay of the railroads in rushing empty cars back to the mines. EBENSBURG TEACHERS The Ebensburg public school directors have elected the following corps of teachers at the salaries named for the ensuing term: Principal F. B. Ott, salary $90 per month; assistant, Miss Pearl Bash, $65; Room No. 7, Annie Jones, $50; No. 6, Agnes Myers, $45; No. 5, Mary Englehart, $45; No. 4, Mary Connell, $40; No. 3, Flo Stiles, $40; No. 2, Jennie Evans, $40; No. 1, Allie Lloyd, $45; Janitor, Wm. McKay, $320 per year. The millage was set for the coming year as follows: School: 7½ mills, building 2½ mills, being the same total taxation for school purposes as last year. _________________________________________________________________ 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