100 Years Ago

Herald of Dec. 8, 1922

Elvin Liebegott, widely known baseball player, and for several years the leading batter in the Blair county baseball league, died at 9:30 o’clock Saturday morning at the University hospital, Philadelphia, after a ten day illness of influenza followed by pneumonia. He was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, enrolled in the Wharton school of finance. He was on the Penn Freshman baseball team and was the regular shortstop for the Penn Varsity nine.

Harry Cornelius, a well known teamster in Martinsburg, was struck and killed by an automobile on the Fredericksburg road. He was hauling mine props and ties from the lumber operations in the mountain, walking alongside his team when he was struck. His team of horses continued on without him, and went to the railroad siding where they were accustomed to stop and turned around in the place where the props were unloaded.