Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, August 28, 1903 PATTON ITEMS Ed Moore and wife left for his home in Lock Haven on Tuesday morning. Miss Gertie Noonan, sales lady at the Patton Supply Co.’s store, is on her vacation this week. Will Bennett accompanied the remains of Geo. Markers who was killed on Saturday morning at Pardee No. 3 mines to his home in Jersey Shore on Saturday 2:30 train. John Lilly’s house on Fifth avenue is now about completed and he will soon go to housekeeping. Enoch Short moved into his new house on Russell avenue. He rented his house on Mellon avenue to Mr. Shoof and Horace Magee. John Summerville reports his oats crop the best raised for a number of years. Dentist Fergueson will open his dental place in the P. R. Young building Sept. 1. Dick Barr and Jos. Marks are doing some fine papering in the Langbein and Schied Hotel. They are advertising business on the ceiling and making other fine improvements. The Brady block is up to the third story and will make a fine showing when completed. Mr. Karlheim, son of Joseph Karlheim, is now located at Villaridge, Mo. He is in the telephone business. W. C. Hubbard has the contract for building the Dinsmore Bro.’s store and dwelling. Mr. Johnston, a miner employed at the old McCormick mines, had a very narrow escape from being killed by the cars in the mine. He was caught in some manner unknown and was taken to his home in an apparently dying condition but we are glad to note he is getting along as well as could be expected. L. S. Belick and family are on an extended business and pleasure trip. Chas. Woulf and wife, Evan Thomas and wife and Wm. Woulf went to Philadelphia on Thursday. Casper Woulf is back to his old position as miller in C. K. Crossman’s flour and feed mill. Casper is well known as a first class miller. Contractor Joseph Marks has finished painting the homes of Lewis Detricks and Mrs. Johnston, near St. Lawrence, and Gerald Adams and Dick Delozier, St. Augustine, and is now finishing James Johnston’s house in Ashville. Jacob Thomas of Thomas’ Mills was in town Tuesday on business. Episcopal services will be held in the Good building Sunday morning and evening by their pastor, Rev. Potter. Mrs. Oliver Reed of Altoona is visiting at the home of P. J. Detrick on Magee ave. Mrs. Harry Barton and family retuned home on Friday after six weeks visit with friends in Benedict. LOCAL AND PERSONAL During the electric storm on Monday evening the barn of Michael Murphy in Cambria township about two miles east of Ebensburg, was struck by lightening, set on fire and burned to the ground together with its contents. A new mowing machine and horse rake stored away in the barn by John Murphy, neighbor, were also burned. There was some insurance upon the property. Miss Edith Evans of Johnstown is an Ebensburg visitor. Miss Delia Port is visiting among friends and relatives in Phillipsburg and Osceola. Mrs. George Hettler and two children are guests at the home of Jno. F. Tibbett. Messrs. H. T. Davis of this place and H. A. Dugan are spending a few days at Atlantic City. Miss Lula McKendrick is making a tour of the Yellowstone Park with a party of friends. Miss Myrtle Bloom has as her guest Preston Sherbine and Miss Mazie Sherbine of Wilmore. Tallieson Jones of Carbondale was a recent visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Davies. Miss Helen Connell of Lilly is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Connell of this place. It is understood that S. L. Reed, Esq., has purchased from P. J. Little, Esq., a lot on Centre street. The consideration was $2,000. Miss Trixie Monroe, heading her own company of players in the comedy drama, “Him and Me,” is the offering at the opera house Monday, August 31. Her many friends will be glad to learn that Mrs. Fes Lloyd is recovering nicely from the operation which she underwent in the Presbyterian Hospital, Allegheny, Saturday. [Mountaineer Herald] A. B. Williams of Patton on Thursday sold a strip of coal land to Attorney S. L. Read of this place. The men employed at the Lemon mine, Gallitzin, came out on a strike last week, claiming something was wrong with the scales. The scales were tested and were found to be absolutely correct. A reward of $50 has been offered for the arrest of the wire thieves, who stripped twenty-two poles of the Cambria county Telegraph & Telephone company between Wilmore and Portage last week. Elminta, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Prough of Frugality, recently fell backward into a tub of heated soap and was scalded about the back and limbs. The child will recover. Edward Callen, a telegraph operator at Cresson, on last Friday found some letters containing $12 and a pocketbook that were stolen from Landlord Frank McTague at his hotel at Cresson the Thursday before. They have been turned over to the owner. Robt. F. and J. M. Notley of Hastings; D. E. Notley, of Barnesboro; John Lloyd and Wm. Kimball of Ebensburg, says the North Cambria News, expect to leave shortly for the state of Idaho where they intend to take up government land which is very thickly grown with pine timber. E. R. Stumpp, who for some time has been connected with the Johnstown Postal Telegraph office, has accepted a position as agent at the C. & C. Station at Ashville, Cambria county. Before taking charge of the Ashville office, Mr. Stumpp will be in the Ebensburg office for a while to familiarize himself with the details of his work. Fred Wallace of the Webster Coal & Coke company’s pay staff accidentally shot himself in the calf of his right leg recently, the bullet passing down inside the arteries and coming to the surface near the ankle. The injured man drove to Cresson where he had the bullet extracted and is since said to have improved. Wallace carried a safety-lock revolver in his hip pocket. He took a payroll to Hastings August 15 and was returning from the mines when he saw a couple of suspicious characters in the road ahead. As he still had considerable money about him he seized his revolver, whereupon the weapon was discharged. Dr. R. Devereaux of Cresson who has been confined to his home ever since his sudden attack last week when he collapsed in the street from heart disease is now rapidly improving. A rattlesnake four feet long with eight rattles was killed in the street between the Anderson House and Parrish’s drug store in Cresson on Wednesday morning of last week, says the Cresson Record, by Edward Kelly and Edward Lawninger, two Pittsburg young men who are spending their vacation at Loretto. They took their trophy away with them. How his snakeship came to be traveling the main streets of Cresson is unexplained. A man who had just come out of the barroom wiping his lips, turned pale when he saw the snake and hurried toward the railroad station. _________________________________________________________________ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/