NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1912; 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, 29 Nov 1912 Volume 45, Number 47 Nicktown News A. J. Lieb and family were visiting friends at Colver Tuesday. Frank Kirsch and family were visitors at Spangler Saturday. On Tuesday the Brubaker Coal company made payments for coal lands to the Joseph A. Dumm and Frank Peters estate, this being the remainder of the eight hundred acres that M. F. Lambour had under option. With the exception of a few acres, the above deal virtually closes up all the coal lands in Barr township. Carrolltown News Notes Carrolltown, Nov. 26 Mrs. Lambert George of Portage is visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Fagan. The hunters in this vicinity are all smiling on account of the nice snow that has fallen, for they are coming home well supplied with game. Lottie B. McCombie of Carrolltown road arrived home last evening after spending a week among friends and relatives in Pittsburg and McKeesport. While in McKeesport, she attended one of the "Billy" Sunday meetings. Thousands of people come miles to hear him speak. Hurt in Automobile Wreck Homer George, a prominent South Fork business man, is at his home in a serious condition as the result of an automobile wreck on Saturday evening. He was going at a high rate of speed when the machine became unmanageable and plunged over a steep embankment. He was caught under the car. William A. Reynolds and George Miller, who were also occupants of the car, received serious injuries. Hunters Get Deer Nanty-Glo, Nov. 29 James Croft and Squire Cunningham of this place are members of the Camp Savage Hunting Club, which is in camp on the Big Moshannon, near Gordon Heights, Center county. Others in the party are D. B. Dearmin of Homer City, Jack Croft of Yarnel, Center county; Thomas Croft of Arviston, Center county and John Croft of Yarnel. The weather was unfavorable early in the season but members of the camp were hopeful that a fall of snow would help this week. One deer has been shot, John Croft bagging a four-prong buck the first day. Arrests Horse Thief Liveryman John C. Pender of Johnstown took the law into his own hands Tuesday when he arrested Angelo Delardo, who, it is alleged was one of two men who stole a team of horses from him some time ago. The men are alleged to have sold the team to M. F. Watters of Barnesboro. Mrs. Barnes Held as Witness Mrs. Warren Barnes, widow of the unfortunate colored man, who was shot to death in Johnstown on Saturday evening, November 16, has been brought to Ebensburg where she is held as a witness against Madison Pegram, who killed her husband. Mrs. Barnes is a white woman. Pegram is confident of acquittal, despite the fact that a damaging array of evidence is being gathered against him. Cousin of Johnstown Woman William Fink, reported in the DISPATCH of Saturday as having been held for ransom by Mexican bandits, is a cousin of Mrs. Lee W. Watkins, of Bedford street, Johnstown, daughter of the late Rev. Reuben A. Fink, at one time pastor in the First English Lutheran Church. William Fink's father, Jacob, was a brother of the Johnstown minister. The victim of the Mexican bandits formerly resided in Lima, later removing to El Paso, Texas, where he ran a dairy farm before becoming a mine foreman for the San Toy Company, owned by Pittsburg men. Colver Booming Colver, Nov. 26 Colver, the scene of the operations of the Ebensburg Coal company, continues to grow at a rapid rate and the town is one of Cambria's busiest. The mines of the Ebensburg Coal company are all working full time and the coal company is contemplating even further extension of business. During the year there have been a number of homes erected. In fact, Colver probably enjoyed a bigger building boom than any town in the county. THE FREEMAN has from time to time made mention of the fact that dwellings were being erected almost continually to meet the demands of the fast-growing populace. Believed Girl Burned Glasgow, Nov. 27 The search for Miss Anna Cann of this place, who disappeared from her home some time ago, has at last been abandoned after a futile effort of several months. It is believed that the portions of a body at one time thought to be that of an animal were those of the missing woman. It will be remembered that the newspaper in publishing the story of a fire which destroyed a large barn near here, noted the fact that Miss Cann disappeared from her home that evening. No clue to her whereabouts could be found by her friends and a diligent search has been made since. After the fire some bones were found and taken in charge by the local police. They were later turned over to Coroner Fitzgerald of South Fork, who declared that they were the bones of a woman. Miss Cann's friends, however, were slow to believe she was dead. Diphtheria Epidemic Checked: Harry Wright Health authorities are confident that the epidemic of diphtheria that has been current in Johnstown for the past two months is now checked by the cold weather. But 10 cases have been reported up to the present time this week. Harry Wright, aged one and a- half-years, is the latest victim, having succumbed at the parental home at 228 Wood street last night. This is the second death at that place during the present epidemic. No additional cases have required intubation of the throat and the disease is now in a much milder form than a month ago, when it was present in a most malignant form.