Gettysburg Times (Newspaper) - August 10, 1935, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Good Evening Another trouble with a vacation is that it usually such a worry to the neighbors how one can afford It THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Truth Our Public Our Aim Weather Forecast Partly cloudy with probably local showers tonight and In southeast Sunday nun 7.09 nun C 7 1902 Member of The Associated GETTYSBURG PA SATURDAY EVENING AUGUST 10 1935 Bead by Nearly Everybody in County PRICE THREE CENTS SUGGEST WAY TO DISPATCH MAIL f FTER P M Local Businessmen Propose Use of Bus Or Truck Service FEWER TRAINS CAUSE DELAY A movement is under way in to secure a new mail dis- patch listing out of here some time five o'clock in the afternoon f was learned from an ive source today Since August 5 Gettysburg has teen without a late dispatch of mail and business and in- leaders have been com- of the delay caused by the of two Western Maryland mall and passenger rams It was pointed out that receipt mail has not been changed here hrough the discontinuance of the rain service but that outgoing nail if not in the local post office Before four o'clock in the after- is sometimes delayed one day It is now proposed to have a bus r mail truck service out of about six o'clock in the vening daily except Sunday so hat outgoing mail usually ted after the closing of offices and plants could be delivered it nearby points the next day Under the present setup a bus here at o'clock in the from Blue Ridge Summit mail tram on the Reading line at o'clock and the Western Maryland mail tram ar- rives at a m Another mail s received here from Carlisle on a star route at o'clock in the Outgoing mail leaves on the at o'clock p m the Western Maryland at a star to Carlisle at and a star ute to Blue Summit at 3 m The latter makes connections urith the Baltimore and Ohio to Hagerstown The new plan if approved by Washington postal officials will give an opportunity to lave mail sent out of here about six in the evening assuring de- ivery at nearby destinations the owing day ENROLLS IN COLLEGE Stanley Settle son of Mr and Clifford Settle R 1 vill enter Shippensburg state college in September Mr Settle was graduated from jurg high school this year Birthday ft and Adams ians who are celebrating their Birthday anniversaries today In- A T Bennett York Springs 53 Judge Donald P McPherson isle street 65 Bernard Stock North Stratton treet Carl E Oyler Jr son of Mr and Carl E Oyler York street Norman W Storrick West avenue Miss Jean East Middle treet Ray 5 Felix Gettysburg R D 36 Delroy Rinehart son of Mr and VIrs Dwight Rinehart aurg 2 Edward Taylor Bendersville Mrs T Balmer York street O B Sharetts Gettysburg R 1 Those who usill observe the of their natal day Sunday Miss Christine Meyer daughter of Mrs John Meyer street James Siegrist 221 East Middle 34 Mrs E Ross Koons of York springs will celebrate the ol her birth on Sunday Fay Audrey Forsythe daughter Mr and Mrs Charles Forsythe Orrtanna R 2 8 Sunday John L Shoop Center Square will observe his day anniversary Sunday Miss Anna Mary Plank Hanover street will observe her eighteenth birthday Sunday Candy King in Comeback at 81 PENSION FUND DROP STOPS AID FAMILIES State Allotment mits Care of 13 Instead Of 24 A comeback that practically outdoes a Horatio Alger was effected by James ML Washburne at the age of 81 He lost a fortune during the depression and was forced to candy on New York streets for a living Then he got the idea of making from tables Now he has been named president of a candy corporation capitalized at a million dollars He is shown with his wife hi the kitchen of their appropriately making candy Associated Press Photo Invite Postal Clerks To Convention Here Local Branch of Mails Over 400 Questionnaires National Meeting Will Follow Pennsylvania Session From Aug 26 to 29 Programs Announced More than four hundred tion and questionnaires were mailed to Pennsylvania locals of the sylvania State Branch of the United National association of post office clerks on Friday relative to the forthcoming state convention to be held in Gettysburg August 24 and 25 The national convention of the will follow the state con- vention August 26 to 29 W Preston Hull president of the local branch of host branch to the state convention said that the invitations and naires were out to determine how many delegates and visitors be in attendance for the con- CORN PEACHES ATTRACT BUYERS Townspeople Jam Farmers Market Sell At 30 Cents a Dozen Mrs William Haner Hanover street observed her birthday August I Private John W Fiddler who served in the Civil war observed his birthday anniversary on July 22 Mr Fiddler is active for a man of his advanced years resides his son Benton Fiddler at The Fanners market was jammed to capacity with hucksters and buyers for the regular sale of Adams county farm produce and some of the hucksters who ar- rived late or had not reserved space were forced to display their produce and transact business out of doors Corn and peaches reigned with practically every ster showing a variety of produce to entice local buyers Eggs skyrocketed from 27 cents a dozen last week to 30 cents today Other prices Lima beans 35 cents a beets 5 cents a carrots and tomatoes 5 cents a bunch and apples 5 to 20 cents a box depending upon the riety and the size of the peaches 10 cents a small berries 10 cents a box or three for 25 string beans were 15 cents a quarter peck There were large and ens dressed and live They were selling from 40 to 60 cents corn on the cob was bringing 25 cents a dozen an increase of 5 cents over prices in effect a week ago Huckleberries were 15 cents a box or two boxes for 25 cents toes were one dollar a bushel and plums were 10 cents a box There was an abundance of other farm produce and many hucksters showing large bouquets of den flowers At the borough market in tho gion building there were seven sters doing business with shin tronage Return post cards were in- closed with the and Reception First Day This will be the first time that a state and national convention are to be held in the same city in sylvania and a large crowd is ex- to attend both affairs The state convention opens on Saturday August 24 with business sessions in the morning and after- roon Sessions will be held in the dining room of the Eagle hotel There will be a reception of Gates from 4 until p m after which there will be a banquet lowed by a dance On Sunday there will be a hour tour of the battlefield for all delegates who care to see the shrine The final business session will be held at 7 o'clock 111 the ball room of the Eagle hotel Monday morning August 26 the national contention opens with headquarters in the Hotel Iburg j There will be a business session at I 9 o'clock Monday morning m the Majestic theatre A tour of the will be made at o'clock m the afternoon a reception and dance Monday evening Tuesday's business sessions will be held at 9 a m and 1.30 p m There will be a theatre party at the jestic theatre in the evening Hall Heads Local Branch A business session will be held at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning with a baseball game followed by a nic at park in the after- noon The final session of the tional convention will be held Thursday In addition to President Hull other officers of the local branch in- clude Charles H Bowers vice pre- Jesso E Snyder Arthur W Warman treasurer The executive committee comprises C E Gilbert H H Spence D A Tawney and G W Fream The state officers arc Merril Farmer Chester Mal- thew Jr Easton first vice- A W Larson Warren second William V i Davis Altoona and Alfred F Grots Wilkes-Barre treasurer MONTHLY FOR TWO YEARS Eleven Adams county families who have teen receiving monthly ments from the Mothers Assistance Pension fund will be stricken from the rolls because the state has re- the appropriation to the local fund Muss Margaret McMillan secretary announced today Twenty-four families in the ty have been on the Mothers sistance Pension furd rolls for eral years Each month they have been receiving monthly checks half which is appropriated by the und the other half by the Adams county During a two-year period which May 31 the local board dis- less ten per cent which was used for administration purposes Half of the was by the state and the county commissioners appropriated a like amount Each Family Gets For tne next two years June 1 of this year to June 1 1937 the state appropriated The Adams county commissioners according to law appropriated a like sum ing the total amount available to the Mothers Assistance Pension fund in Adams county or less than the previous two-year allotment Of this amount will be used for administration purposes leaving a balance of 90 to be ed to needy mothers and their The will be distributed among 13 families over a two-year period Each family is paid by check each month This will mean that each family of the thirteen ing on the rolls will receive a monthly check of 88 If the allotment for the next two years were divided among the four number of lies on the rolls during the last two family would receive a monthly allotment of It is not known how the board judged the families to remain on the rolls and those to be stricken Film Romance Rumored Jean Harlow and debonair William Powell were sighted shopping in a Santa Barbara California store in the pots and pans impetus to rumors of an screen romance Associated Press Photos Last Day to File Primary Petitions Tuesday Afternoon at 4 O'Clock Is Deadline Hour J Clair Sanders Gettysburg Out for Constable One of 42 Candidates Filing Papers Today Adams county candidates for tor of elections democrat public office who want their names j W W Sheely Bendersville to appear on the primary ballots tor democrat must file their nominating petitions I R R Starner school the county commissioners not director democrat later than four o'clock Tuesday j C C Weav er Bendersville afternoon August 13 This cilman democrat line hour nas announced at I Luther M Harbold Latimore commissioners office today Forty-two more candidates filed their papers today They Hiram H East Berlin auditor democrat John L township democrat inspector of elections PICNIC AUGUST 17 Lancaster York Franklin and Cumberland county Visitation associations will hold their annual picnic at park between and j day August 17 Entertainment for republican young and old is arranged to start at 2 o'clock m the afternoon Members of Betsy Ross council or j Edgar R Leister ship school director democrat Charles F Grofi judge of elections democrat Charles Cumberland tow I H F ille WED IX STEELTON Gettysburg are urged to attend LEAVES HOSPITAL Miss Hazel H j and David R Dayhoff Steelton were married Friday evening in St John's Miss Mildred E Shoop daughter Lutheran church Steelton Mr of Mr and Mrs John Shoop Dayhoff attended Gettysburg col- ter square who was operated upon lege for appendicitis at Sibley Memorial hospital Washington last week hat returned to Washington where she REVOKE 2.244 LICENSES Pressing its campaign for safety township republican En in Brough Laumore township republican Alonzo M Lavanture Latimore township judge of elections lican Robert Stoner York Springs school director republican Charles Gartman York Springs constable republican Hoopert York Springs years republican C Donald Larue York judge of elections republican E E Wolf York Springs man republican O F York Sprints In- spector of elections republican George Wampler York Springs councilman republican N R York Springs councilman republican N Miller York Springs councilman republican Ivan C Taylor York Springs ditor republican resides with an aunt while ol j Ro D Renner clerk ployed m the national capital Revenue 2244 of and re- 6 since i G republic Rosco Worley censes w the first of car In the Captain Hetfield a native of last Tuesday i wan will address a joint dinner revoked and 121 meeting of the Lions clubs in tins district at Log Cabin inn Caledonia Monday evening according to an announcement bv local club officers I Edwin C Flora Dale BOARD MEETS TUESDAY j republican Sanders Gettysburg con- Thc special meeting of the school R Humbert board has been from Lions from Gettysburg Monday Wednesday democrat burg Waynesboro Shippensburg Tlie school board will at UIP and Carlisle are expected to attend summer homo of Dr Walter 5 the meeting i Mountain Marsh Heights TO SPEAK The York club will meet in the hall In York Springs Tuesday evening Tlie bv F X Colpan of and Miss Edna oT Gettysburg president and president or the Adams county club Tripod n ely for the next also be ent CADDIES ENTER Four caddies from Uie Caledonia club at inn have entered central Pennsylvania's first annual caddy tournament to be held Monday and Tuesday August 12 and 13 at the Blue Ridse country club Tli caddies and their scores Kenneth Leonard 70 ton Brown John 72 and John Lauver 77 REMAINS SERIOUS condition ol Harold Ware 43 of C was in- i in an accident involving a i truck and two automobiles near i York early Friday morning remains serious in Use Harrisburg Jacobs of Nrw Mrs Mary Miller i- fl to Fruit n of Shooting Stars to Fill Sky During Next Three Nights and Adams count ians by the north tonight Sunday and Monday nichts after midnight may expect to sparks fly when old Mother Earth rambling alone its orbit at nineteen miks a through a cloud of celestial dust The Associated Press gives thr following information the sparks and their This cosmic cloud an oval nnc Jong diameter Is several lion miles is whirling at fifty miles a second The result of the contact will bo sparks 11 is the annual display of showers of shoot ing stars the meteors are swift streaks of fire Persons who stay up after setting of the moon that's alter midnight may expect to see sixty or seventy an hour Sunday and Monday nights are expected Jo be the best shows this year Look to the north for them They from the direct ion of con- of Perseus Hence call them Some call the of St a brilliant display on of If A D On that day the minions of the KAman Valerian a iron the i He had been proclaimed and saint- His pointed to the as his of com- Ur J R Lit school O rector D H Fairfield judge of democrat F C Fairfield school di- auditor road democrat Robert Fairfield in- of ejections democrat C Zepp Union township director democrat M Director can H B Fidel melon f auditor wn A M Millar of elections Guv republican Yf.uv inspector o J R Jones Town Native Found Shot In Hotel Room Dies N C Aug 10 AP Ross Jones chief or police here for the last 13 years and a world war veteran died in a pital this morning: several hours after suffering a mysterious bullet wound in a hotel room He was a native of The room door was unlocked The chief's revolver laid beside him on the bed and his watch and a wallet containing more than 540 were on the dresser The let had entered one temple emerged through the other and lodged in the mattress Authorities were notified and an inquest was ordered immediately Among the survivors is his mother who lives in North Carolina The late William T Jones father of J Boss Jones in the above Associated Press dispatch was engineer at the Lutheran Theological semi- nary several years 4 MORE AUTOS SCRAPE SIDES Drivers of Two Cars to Face Informations After swiping Crashes Friday Two more sideswiping accidents were recorded in the annals of auto- in Adams county Friday night and two drivers are to face charges for violation of the motor code Mrs Ruth E 20 of McSherrystown driving a roadster was enroute to Hanover Moms J Roser 54 of Hanover was en route to McSherrystown As the two cars approached they and Mrs machine crashed into the parked car of A G W Forry of Hanover The stones of an and the two operators failed to agree on the cause of the mishap Marks on the highway led Patrolman G H- man of the local of highway patrol to blame Mrs who admitted that she had been drinking according to the officer An information be laid against Mrs Weisendale charging her with reckless driving Damage to the three machines is estimated at about FAST RECKLESS DRIVING BLAMED FOR GULP DEATH Jury Recommends Suspension of Mrs Earl License INQUEST HELD IN COURT HOUSE Harry W Gulp prominent barber died of injuries re- in an automobile accident on the morning of July 31 that Mrs Pauline Gulp wife of Earl Gulp Hanover was operating the vehicle which crashed into a parked car on York street at an excessive rate of speed and in a reckless manner and that we recommend to the Pennsylvania motor vehicle ment that the operator's license of Mrs Pauline Gulp be indefinitely suspended This was the verdict of a jury which convened Friday afternoon in the arbitration room of the court house and heard mony given before Dr Edgar A Miller Adams county coroner Earl Gulp brother of the deceased and husband of the operator of the car was the first to testify He de- clared that his wife was a tent driver that with his wife and Mrs Henry Kohsin of Lancaster he came to Gettysburg about p m Tuesday July 30 and visited at the Harry W Gulp home that about p m they accompanied by Mr and Mrs Harry W Gulp drove to the Rainbow inn operated by Gordon Signor on the Lincoln highway east to attend a square dance that his wife drank not more than two glasses of beer and that they started for Gettysburg about p m The witness said that he was ting in the front seat with his wife who was driving That Mrs Kohsin and Mr and Mrs Harry W Gulp were in the rear seat Mrs Gulp ting m the center and that Glair Good York street was sitting on an auxiliary seat on the left hand side of the car Speed 40 Miles An Hour Gulp continued his testimony by saying that his wife was with the light beams that he saw the parked car about the Continued on Page YORK SPRINGS GRADUATE WEDS Front Wheels Broken Storm 22 of town was driving a sedan toward New Oxford and Miss M Obel 32 of Taneytown R 1 was driving toward on the New road about 10 o'clock Friday night As the cars approached they swiped Storm said he was on his right of the road and Miss Bortner told Patrolman G H Harleman investigated that she was on her right side of the road Marks on the highway were said fcj the patrolman to indicate that Miss Bortner had driven to her ex- treme to allow Storm to pass and that Storm had not his portion of the Miss car was off the road the two rmht wheels a foot off the the officer said whue Storm's car was in the center of the road with the two front wheels broken An information will be Storm lum with failing to yield the right of way to highway traffic Miss Catherine Reefer Be- comes Bride of H A Staub To Live in Harrisburg s that each of these shoot me is n jof cosmic and bums up with n V mry rat o bv of Uaf earths atmosphere at terrific i When tho into the atmosphere about abow earth burst into flames and like stars 7 Frant j j -1 O I Mr Mrs D B of guests of Mr and Mrs rham North Stratton Wm Allison Calls Guides Meeting William H Allison of the Graces has a special meeting of the for at 7.30 o'clock in the hotel President said that Iw had an important item of to present to the their consideration and that he was especially anxious to have as as possible attend tlie It be a brief Mr said but Quezon of ital to and I to every of association present prove or reject ion Miss Catharine Keefer burg daughter of Mrs E C York Springs became the bride of Harry A Staub son of Mr and Mrs Daniel Staub Chamber Hill Wednesday night in the Marysville Church of The Rev E Sheetz of the bridegroom performed the ceremony The bride was gowned in brown printed satin which she wore brown accessories and a shoulder bouquet of gardenias and yellow roses Her sister Mrs Guy gert of Harrisburg who attended as matron of honor was attired in navy blue silk crepe with navy accessories and a shoulder bouquet of roses Russell Staub brother of the bridegroom served as best man The wedding music was played by Dr Guy D Wengert brother-in-law of the bride Friday night Mr Staub and bis bride left for a wedding trip to Niagara Falls Quebec Canada and the New England states On their return the couple will live in risburg Mrs Staub from the York Springs high school and the Harrisburg Hospital Nurses Training school Mr Staub is with the Progressive ice company in Harrisburg HOSPITAL REPORT Louis Quintanilla 5 of ton son of Mr and Mrs Louis the former to the Mexican had his sils at the Annie M Warner hospital Uns morning Cleveland of and Edwin of wre admitted as patients Martin of was dis- charged as a patient GROWERS ERECT A new 50 by 209 Is brine erected at by 40 Adams county fruit growers is an additional tion to the 40 by 60 b for of Lackey of Thursday and expect to be finished four IV
