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

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 23 Apr 1909
Volume 43, Number 17


Local and Personal 

Miss Blanche Henry of this place has gone to Houtzdale to attend the 
wedding of a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Todd on Wednesday. Mr. 
and Mrs. M. D. Kittell left Tuesday to be present at the wedding.

Mrs. Elizabeth Creswell has rented her home in Ebensburg to Mr. Barnes 
of Philadelphia who, with his family, will spend the summer here while 
Mrs. Cresswell and family will spend the summer at her old home in 
Strongstown.

Mrs. Thomas H. Davis of the West Ward, who has been ill the past three 
months, is improving.
     

Local Briefs 

Dan Thomas, the ticket agent at Bradley Junction, has been transferred 
by the railroad company to a similar position at Coalport. Mr. Thomas 
was freight agent in this place for a number of years.

Flagman Joe Piper of the Ebensburg passenger train, has removed with 
his family from Cresson to Wehrum, where he has secured a comfortable 
home and five acres of land on which he will reside in the future.
  

Barker Still Improving 

Word received from Philadelphia from former Judge A. V. Barker is to 
the effect that he is recovering rapidly and will arrive home in 
Ebensburg shortly when he will enter into a vigorous campaign for the 
nomination for the additional law judgeship, if the Governor signs the 
bill. The report that he will not be a candidate is unfounded, 
according to his friends.


Frank Gates Transferred 

Within a few days Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gates of Ebensburg will move to 
Wilmington, Del., to which place Mr. Gates has been transferred by the 
PRR.  For some time past Mr. Gates has been in Barnesboro for the 
railroad corporation.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Gates are well known and very popular throughout the 
county. Mrs. Gates was Miss Lovell Barker, daughter of former Judge A. 
V. Barker, prior to her marriage.  The removal of Mr. and Mrs. Gates 
will be regretted by their many friends.


Arrested at Cresson 

Wayne S. Hampton and B. A. Leighty, representatives of the Grand Union 
Tea Company of Johnstown, were arrested in Cresson last week for 
refusing to pay a license. They were taken before Burgess d'Invillers 
who turned the case over to Squire Letts for a hearing.


Woman War Veteran Injured 

Washington, April 22 -- Mrs. Susan E. Thompson, aged seventy-one, who 
served as a spy during the Civil War and is said to be the only woman 
carried on the pension rolls as a soldier, was so severely injured by 
being knocked down by a street car near the capitol, that she may die.


Many Cases Heard at Argument Court Here on Tuesday – Extracts

The Court heard arguments in the motion for a new trial made on behalf 
of Nick Cravatto, the South Fork barber, convicted of murder in the 
second degree. Counsel for Cravatto urged as a reason a remark alleged 
to have been made by one of the jurors who convicted the man that, "We 
don't want such people in America, and if I had my way the verdict 
would have been murder in the first degree."

The motion for new trial on behalf of Thomas Johns, who last year 
murdered his wife and the latter's aunt, Mrs. Charles Cobaugh in 
Conemaugh, was also argued.


Celebrate Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Davis of the West ward, celebrated their 45th 
anniversary in a quiet manner Saturday last.  Their many friends 
remembered them by a postal card shower, Mr. Davis being kept busy 
carrying them home until 116 had arrived.

Mr. and Mrs. Davis moved to Ebensburg several years ago from Beulah and 
are highly regarded by their friends, who hope they will live to see 
many more happy anniversaries.


Earl Jones

Mrs. William A. Jones of Center Street is in North Carolina where she 
attended the wedding of her son, Earl Jones. 


Card of Thanks 

The family of the late Mrs. Martha A. Jones desire to express its 
heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the friends who so kindly aided and 
sympathized with them during their recent bereavement.


Defendant's Sudden Death

S. M. McHenry, aged 65, and the father of 15 children, a wealthy 
Indiana County farmer and coal operator, died Thursday in the Indiana 
court house library, a few minutes after being stricken with apoplexy 
while testifying in a case in which he was defendant and had appealed 
from a justice's docket on a judgment.  The old man was just about 
finishing his testimony and had asked to be shown a paper of record 
when he collapsed.  He was carried into the library and died despite 
medical attention.