May 1869 - Odds & Ends

Child Desertion - Conemaugh Borough

Frank Hay & Napoleon Haynes

Johnstown Opera House

John M. Reese, boy named Watkins, 102 year old named Shehan

 

January 1869 - Odds & Ends

Frank Bolyz, Conrad Teeter, Frederick Metsker, James George, Wm Wills, Frederick McIntire and Patrick McAleer

Parke's Opera House and Cambria Iron Company

 

May & June 1869 - CHILD DESERTION, 102 Year Old Hit by Train & Young Girl Coughs up Shawl Pin

Child Desertion in Johnstown

Mrs. Shehan - 102 years old - hit by train

Gale Heslop coughs up shawl pin.

 

December 13, 1869 - Cambria Freeman - St. John Fair, Womens Rights, Turners, Assorted Organizations, and Scarlet Fever

 

November 15, 1869 - CAMBRIA FREEMAN - Local Correspondence - Dangerous fever making the rounds, old East Conemaugh man father of 32, old citizens passing away and tales of a giant ghost roaming parts of Johnstown

 

East Conemaugh father of 32! And Captain Gageby.

Oldest citizens passing away James Purse and James Mitchell.

Tales of a giant ghost roaming parts of Johnstown.

 

October 25, 1869 - CAMBRIA FREEMAN - Local Correspondence - Lots of interesting bits from the mill tunnel to Mill Creek, streets being paved and the new woolen mill coming along

 

October 7, 1869 - CAMBRIA FREEMAN - Swank's new "Directory of Johnstown Borough and Suburbs" is just coming out, assorted marriages and sad death of a little Millville boy

Kittell - McCann

Ryan - McDonald and Grew - Dempsey

Little son of G. Hagar of Millville. Buried at Sandy Vale.

 

September 24, 1869 - CAMBRIA FREEMAN - A Live Rat in a Boy's Stomach - Altoona

 

September 14, 1869 - CAMBRIA FREEMAN - President Grant visits Johnstown by train on anniversary of the 1866 Platform Disaster with President Johnson

 

September 2, 1869 - Cambria Freeman - Two train accidents - one fatal and one not - Franklin horse race and a pic-nic in Woodvale

 

July 29, 1869 - Cambria Freeman - Local Correspondence - More on Perkinsville (now Coopersdale), Johnstown Zouaves, Telegraph Update & Missing books from St. John's

June 18 , 1869 - Cambria Freeman - Hand cut off at woolen mill, farmer murders wife, paving around St. John's and Sandy Vale

May 31, 1869 - Cambria Freeman - Man cut in half, 102 yr old hit by train, mine accidents and Memorial Day