NEWS:   Cambria Freeman; 1909; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 11 Jun 1909
Volume 43, Number 24


**[Most of newspaper faded]


Local and Personal 

Mrs. F. S. Donahue of Carrolltown visited relatives and friends in 
Ebensburg last week.

Mrs. Jonathan Lloyd has gone on a two months visit to her cousins at 
Freedom, New York.

Mrs. Cyrus W. Jones has gone to Atlantic City and Philadelphia to 
remain for several weeks.

John Ritter of Ebensburg started last week for Chicago to accept a 
position as a traveling salesman for a Windy City firm.  He will make 
his headquarters in Chicago.

Mrs. J. O. Fetter, who has been with her husband in New York and 
Hoboken for the past several months, is visiting her parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. W. D. Port in this place.

Miss Marian Jones, who has spent the last two weeks in Wilmington, 
Del., will attend the commencement exercise at Swarthmore June 11, when 
her sister, Miss Martha, will graduate.

The School Directors of Ebensburg Borough met Monday evening and re- 
elected Miss Elsie Eisenhart as assistant principal for the schools. No 
action was taken with regard to the election of other teachers.

The barn on the property of John C. G. Bearer in Spangler burned to the 
ground Tuesday night of last week. The building contained only a few 
old wagons and buggies. It is said the insurance will cover the loss.

Miss Annie Shields, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shields, is home 
from Philadelphia where she was recently graduated from the Nurses' 
Training school of the Presbyterian hospital.  She expects to locate in 
that city.


Miss Fannie Kerr Chosen 
Will Succeed Miss Harriet Humphreys at the Memorial Hospital
  
Miss Fannie Kerr has been chosen night Superintendent of the Memorial 
Hospital to succeed Miss Harriet Humphreys who resigned and left for
her home in Ebensburg.  Miss Kerr was graduated from the Memorial 
Hospital Training School for Nurses three or four years ago and 
preceded Miss Humphreys as Night Superintendent. She is a daughter of 
Attorney and Mrs. E. G. Kerr of the Eighth ward.  She will assume 
charge next week.


Eighteen Pass Exams 
Teachers of Cambria County Are Entitled to Receive Permanent 
Certificates

Eighteen teachers of Cambria County passed the recent examination for 
permanent certificates conducted by a Special Committee and four passed 
the exams in special branches. Those who are entitled to permanent 
certificates follow:
Beatrice Seller
Annie Gill
Sadie Kring
Marie Sleigh
Gertrude D. Englehart
Laura Dougherty 
Lucy O'Neil
Joseph Kearney
G. H. Miller
P. W. Shaffer
Katharine B. Ivory
R. C. Livingstone
T. W. Bender
Dennis L. Westrick
John D. Keefer
Alfred A. Earle
Jane Paterick
E. G. Meisel

The following passed in the special branches: 
E. V. Bearer
Hugh Slater
Alice Jones 
Alfred A. Earle


Widow Sues Saloonkeeper 

Mrs. Mary L. Bratton, widow of W. D. Bratton, has sued William A. 
Chaplin, a saloonkeeper at Flinton, for $5,000 damages on novel 
grounds.  Bratton was killed on the C. & C. RR on May 1 as the result, 
it was said, of his being intoxicated.  Mrs. Bratton set up the claim 
that Chaplin, knowing her husband to be a man of intemperate habits, 
sold him liquor nevertheless on the day of his death and helped thereby 
to put him into a condition which invited death when he went onto the 
railroad tracks.


Double Murderer Sentenced to Death 
Johnstown, Pa, June 10

Thomas W. Johns, convicted of murdering his wife and the latter's aunt, 
Mrs. Charles Cobaugh, was sentenced to death by Judge O'Connor at 
Ebensburg.  The murders were committed in Conemaugh, Sept. 21, 1908.


Civil Court Sees Lots of Business – Extracts

Ida Crossman, adultery, keeping a bawdy house and disorderly house; G. 
E. Whited, costs and remanded to jail for further sentence. [Snip]

Vincent Sprocht of Barnesboro was given one year and three months in 
the pen after pleading guilty to a charge of felonious assault and 
battery.  Mr. Sprocht is about 65 years of age and his wife about nine 
years older.  After her husband had been sentenced, Mrs. Sprocht said 
that he should have been given five years instead of one and a fourth.

Patrick McConnell of Lilly pleaded guilty to beating his wife and was 
assessed the costs with further sentence suspended.  [Snip]

Petition of George Simelsburger and wife for the adoption of Hillery 
Huber, a minor child; decree of adoption signed.  [Snip]

Dr. H. H. Penrod, Robert C. Hoerle and Attorney Charles M. Moses of 
Johnstown appointed commission to inquire into the sanity of Harry 
Campbell. [Snip]

Petition of D. J. Pfeister and wife of Cresson for permission to adopt 
Alice McCahill, aged fifteen years, an inmate of the Catholic Home 
Bureau for Dependent Children, New York City; decree signed.  [Snip]

Subpoenas in divorce granted in the following cases:  Amanda Speicher 
vs. Nicholas Speicher; Mary Elizabeth Van Horn vs. John H. Van Horn and 
Annetta Gilo vs. John Gilo.