NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1907; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 8 Feb 1907 Volume 41, Number 6 Items Local and Personal Philip Sanders of Munster township was in Ebensburg yesterday. Mr. Sanders is lamenting the fact that all the boys are leaving the farms these days and either going to the cities to seek employment or taking up railroading as an "occupation" thus making it almost impossible for the farmer to secure sufficient help to conduct his farm. Mr. James Gallagher of Lloyd street, Ebensburg's centenarian, was 102 years old Saturday. Although apparently in good health the old gentleman is compelled on account of weakness to remain in bed most of the time. He has the newspaper read to him daily and takes keen interest in the general news of the day. Mr. Fred Bland of Blandburg was in Ebensburg this morning. About June 1st Mr. Bland, accompanied by his wife, will depart on an extended tour through Europe. Bloom Kimball & Notley, the Ebensburg horse dealers, sent overland Monday to Conemaugh ten fine big horses intended for the Conemaugh Brewery Company. Mrs. R. M. Brooks, who teaches the primary school in Big Bend, spent Thursday and Friday with her sister, Mrs. A. E. Bender being on the sick list. J. B. Esch and J. A. Koontz arrived in town this morning with a sleighing party composed of Barnesboro ladies. Dinner was taken at the Metropolitan Hotel. William J. Tierney and wife of the East ward and A. J. Darragh and several members of his family of the Centre ward are ill with the grip. Messrs. W. A. McGuire, Chas. Hasson, Dr. D. H. Shoemaker and Harry Blair attended a dance at the Brandon Hotel in Spangler last week. Iceman John Blair and the various hotel keepers in town are taking advantage of the present cold snap by harvesting ice off the lake. Lester Larimer, Assistant Cashier of the American National Bank, accompanied by his wife, was in Pittsburg Saturday and Sunday. Attorney Wm. Davis has an attack of the grip. The venerable Squire Parrish is still confined to his home with a similar complaint. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Humphreys of Conemaugh spent Sunday with Mr. Humphreys' parents, E. J. Humphreys and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lichty of Cresson spent Sunday with Mrs. Lichty's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Owens. Ex-Register and Recorder F. B. Jones of Johnstown spent the early part of the week in Ebensburg visiting old friends. Mrs. Phil G. Fenlon returned from Johnstown Sunday where she had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Milton Brown. Miss Blanche Henry returned home Monday from a month's visit with relatives in Williamsport and Bellefonte. Alf Evans of Kane was called here Saturday by the serious illness of his father, Robert Evans. Wm. Kimball received twenty head of fat short horned cattle from Indiana County yesterday. Miss Mabel Griffith, who suffered a relapse the early part of the week, is reported improving. Bloom, Kimball & Notley will receive a car load of horses from Ohio next week. Late News of County Raymond Hughes, the 21-year-old son of Edwin Hughes of Cambria township, lyes (sic) dangerously ill of appendicitis at the hospital in Omaha, Neb. The young man left Cambria Township several years ago and is mining at Red Oak. Iowa. The railroads of Pennsylvania killed 3,872 persons and injured 33,825 during the fiscal year ending June 30th last. Of the killed, eighty- eight were passengers and the rest were employees of the various companies and persons other than passengers and employees. J. H. Harbaugh, a Pennsylvania railroad brakeman, crawled on a flat car near Bakerton on the Cresson & Clearfield branch Wednesday night to loosen the brake when he saw four bright spots glowing in the darkness. In a moment he realized they were the eyes of two catamounts. One of the beasts sprang at Harbaugh who is over six feet tall and he met it with a pocket knife. The other animal jumped upon his back. Harbaugh succeeded in beating both catamounts off. He was taken to Altoona to have his wounds dressed. His clothes were torn to shreds and covered with catamounts' blood. [Mahaffey GAZETTE] Postmaster Resigns F. A. Thompson, postmaster at Lilly, has resigned his position, the same to take effect as soon as a successor can be secured. Mr. Thompson has held the office of postmaster at Lilly during every Republican administration since 1878. It is likely that John Leap, a mine superintendent and Republican politician, will be appointed to succeed Mr. Thompson. Had Cruise on Family Yacht Washington, Feb. 6 Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter, Miss Ethel Roosevelt, have returned from a two-day cruise on the lower Potomac aboard the yacht Sylph. A Suspected Murder Three Men Thought to Know Something Arrested The investigation of County Detective James L. Berkebile and Chief of Police Slates of Franklin borough in the suspicious death of Stasko Bielizuk, the foreigner who was found dead on the streets near his boarding house in Johnstown last Saturday night, has resulted in the arrest of four foreigners; one of the them is the proprietor of the boarding house where the dead man lived. Three of the men, Milo Sponovic, Mike Chalick, and Mike Colonich are locked up in the city police station while the other foreigner is a prisoner in the lockup in Franklin. It was stated Tuesday that the men have been arrested on nominal charges and are being held as suspicious persons in the belief that they may know something about the death of Bielizuk who it is strongly suspected, was murdered.