Dorson Furniture Founder Dorson Dies in New York
Louis J. Dorson president of the L J Dorson company and director of Gettysburg furniture firms died at 11 p m Saturday after a cerebral hemorrhage. Born in New York City he built a national furniture sales network and led Gettysburg factories for decades. Funeral held in Riverside Memorial Chapel with interment at Mount Judah Cemetery Ridgewood Queens. Survived by widow Gertrude Lester Dorson son Richard M Dorson and two daughters.
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Laws J Dorson
L J
Gettysburg Chair company
Hanover Cabinet company
Hanover
focal furniture
focal companies
Dorson
Gettysburg
Mi Dorson
New York city
Emmanuel
Mary Dorson
L J Dorson
ardt
United States
Metropolis club
Boar Bath
mus
Gertrude Lester Dorson
Richard M Dorson sand
John M Gingold
London
England
Marjory Dormon
David C A R
Robert
Riverside Memorial chapel
New York
Mount Judah cemeten Ridgewood
Queens New York
Dorsens company
Peerlesy, Furniture camping
Shippensburg
Nine Extra Employees Start Work at Gettysburg Postoffice
Nine extra workers joined the Gettysburg post office today to handle the Christmas rush ahead of 1998. Postmaster G A Williams said the office processed about 900 sacks of incoming and outgoing mail. Four extra carriers, three parcel postmen, and two office clerks were added to the regular staff for the holiday week.
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Gettysburg
G A Williams gides
posteaster
ats
Littlestown Lions Club to Host Speaker Chester Grogs
Congressman Chester H Grogs will address the semi monthly Littlestown Lions club meeting at Schotties restaurant Thursday evening. Prof and Mrs QO Buhlem er observed their twenty fifth wedding anniversary Sunday with visitors from York and Waynesboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester H Grogs
Manchester
York county
Littestown Lions club
Toom
Schotties restaurant
BUhelmer
Broadway
York
Waynesboro
Adams County Plans $58,000 Rural Road Aid At State Convention
Adams county road officials opened their twenty second annual convention hearing an appropriation of about 58 thousand dollars for township road aid. The funds come from the state and cover May through year end with roughly eighty five dollars per mile for township roads. Attendees included 125 supervisors and clerks as committees were named to present reports and resolutions for the afternoon session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams county
Highway department
Harrisburg
Marit
Adunsaun
Mahone
Oxford township
John HO Knox
Cumberland township
Raphael Gross
St Francis Xaver Catholic church
George D Sheely
Oxfor
Samuel E
Burchfield Lea McKendrck Franklin
state supervisors
nominaling
r.solutions
Bus Line Seeks Loans to Back Bus Stop Mortgages
The Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to guarantee up to 150000 in notes representing mortgage loans to lunch and test stations on its bus routes. The company would secure these guarantees with first mortgages to control station quality and operation, aiming to improve public service at stops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pennsylvania
Interstate Commerce commission
Revival of 25 Tax Liens From Five Years Past
Doerald Swope, acting as salvor, reports Adams County officials revived 25 tax liens filed five years ago. The notices, entered at the prothonotary's office, aim to secure overdue county taxes. Officials from school districts boroughs and townships anticipate additional revivals before year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doerald
Adams county
probonolars
court house
prothonotary s
Camp Nawakwa Council Meets in Zion Lutheran Tour
The advisor cornel for Camp Namakwa near Brysonia held its amnual meeting in Zion Lutheran church Harrisburg Saturday. Miss LaVene Grove Harrisburg camp due wor reported on the mp for 1929. A total of 998 students were enrolled in the various camps with 4 furmor boys, 99 termediate boys, 78 junior girls, 258 intermediate girls, 8% xetror boys, 10 senior girls and 34¢ on the leadership training camp. Total of 2597 hours of erect were carried by the students of the camps. The camp program for 7940 remained substantially the same as in 1939 with a few changes recommended to be acted upon by the board of directors. Molson pictures of the camp in operation were shown, some in color. The pictures are available to any church upon request to the Rev Marshall Brenneman Mechanicsburg. Members of the committee from Adams county attending the meeting were Dr IY D Hoover and Dr Ralph D Heinhold of Gettysburg and Wice Rev George HL Berkneinier Arendlsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
cornel
Namakwa
Brysonia
Zion Lutheran toureh
Molson
Marshail Brenneman
Mechanicsburg
Adams county
IY D Hoover
Ralph D Heinhold
Gettysburg
George HL
4 H Baby Beef Clubs To Organize Soon
Four H baby beef clubs will organize soon in Sir York Springs Biglerville and McSherrystown communities. Last week 41 purebred Hereford steers averaging about 400 pounds each were distributed to 14 youths in York Springs near Biglerville and 13 in the Sheirystown area. The new clubs include many youths from prior years and new members. the 1949 roundup site was Carlisle December 7 where 11 steers were selected for showing at the state farm show at RaNlsburg that month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York Springs Biglerville
McSherystown
York Springs
Bigierville
Ranispurg
Hospital report notes admissions and discharges in Chambersburg
Mrs T J Myrick was admitted to Warner hospital in an ambulance and discharged today. Other weekend admissions include Mrs Charles Lightner of Bal Limote Street and Mrs Paul R Boyer of West Maddie Street. Mrs Edward Welch of Aspers Road was discharged Sunday.
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T J Myrick
Chambersburg strict
Warner hospital
Stindas
Charles Lightner
Limote street
Paul R. Boyer
West Maddie $treet
Edward Welch Aspers
Births Announced for Lightner and Boyer Families
Mr and Mrs Chartes Lightner of Baltimore street announce a son born Saturday evening at Warner hospital. A son was born this morning at the hospital to Mr and Mrs Paul R Boyer of West Middle street.
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Chartes Lightner
Baltimore street
Warner hospital
Paul R Boyer
West Middle street
Parked Car Damaged By Unknown Driver Near York Street
Borough officer Givne Ginne investigated a hit and run after a parked car on York Street was damaged around 10:15 PM Saturday. The other driver fled toward the town center as investigators searched the scene for the offending vehicle and driver.
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Bao
Paris
Kenneth
Kuhn
York street
Kuh
Glvon Ginne
ula
rae
amd
Florence Musselman to Become Bride Jan. 1
Invitations announce the wedding of Miss Florence K Musselman daughter of Mr and Mrs William Musselman Panfield to Archie C Chronister. The ceremony will be performed at Docioch in the afternoon of New Year’s Day in the Zion Church of Panfield by the Rev G H Musselman Lancaster with the bride’s mother assisting the pastor Rev Em Inert Colestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence K Musselmen
Wiliam Musselmin Panfield
Archie
docioch
Zio Tuthung
Panfield
g H Mussulman Lancaster
Em Inert Colestock
Scouts to Give Safety Drill Tonight in Gettysburg Annex
About 20 Boy Scouts from York will present a safety drill at 7:30 PM in the Gettysburg annex. The event, combining the court of honor and Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts activities, features Hudsd H Hills as liaison and honors notable local troops. Public invited, with leaders noting Roosevelt’s Christmas message to Boy Scouts and local marriage license news for Hari Fineriel Sharp and Martin Grine Edler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Boy Scouts
Gettysburg
Holl
New York Worlds
Gettys
York-Adams
Northy
Roosevelt
United States
Seouts
Hari Fineriel Sharp
Martin Grine
Edler
East Berlin
Gettysburg Adams County Christmas Basket Fund Drives Donations
The Gettysburg and Adams County Christmas Basket committee reports $116.08 today to reach $69,899, $20,101 shy of the $90,000 goal. Donations include $30 from Gettysburg Lodge of Cagles and $6 from Chi Omega Alumni. many individuals and organizations contributed small amounts as the fund nears its deadline. Packing of baskets begins Thursday with deliveries Saturday. insufficient cash may force item cuts.
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Gettysburg
adams county
Cristmas Basket committee
Thom Varios
Gettysburg Lodge of Cagles
Chi Omega Alumni association
Werner hospital
wonymou
Sheely
C H Huber
Lippys
George R
JB Goyne
Wallet
Roy Gifford
Harry Dearda
John C Lower
Lest
Muss
Mildred Hislall
George Stale
QCales
E Swisher
Mary Power Der
Two County Officials Announce Deputy Appointments
Two elected county officials announced deputy appointments this afternoon. Blame and Bisley White Hill will remain chief deputy under Sheriff W Spence after January 1. Cashtown will become Prothonotary of Adams County in two weeks. Elhoitz Morth Stratton is named deputy register and recorder, replacing Viola Sachs as deputy prothonotary and succeeding in the registers office.
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lus
Sheil-cleet
Miss Elchoitz
Viola Sachs
Hoffman Orphanage to Receive Church Donation
An article reports the Heidelberg Reformed church will give $125 to the Hoffman orphanage near Two Taverns. A Sunday evening appeal announced a Sunday sprery collection to support the home for orphans.
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Hoffman
Heidelberg Reformed church
oe Reformed home
Orrtanna Couple Celebrates Golden Wedding Anniversary
Mary Shaner Frits and George A Herring of Orrtanna marked fifty years of marriage December 15 1889 at the Orrtanna Methodist church with family present. The couple resided in the Ontanna area most of their lives with Mr Herring once a butcher and later a farmer and fruit grower. They are now retired. Mr Herring serves as a director of the Fairfield First National Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Shaner
Frits
Mr Herring
John
Mary Moritz Herring
Ontanna
Mrs Herring
National bark of
Fairfield
wFiohr
Orrtanna Methodist church
Pridsy
George A Hering
Orrtanns Mir
Lanlticran
Arendtaville
D .T. Roser
Knoser
marrriage
Sarah Jane Pritz
Andrew ann
British Planes Shot Down in Major North Sea Battle
Germans report forty four British aircraft involved in a large air engagement off Helgoland. They claim four British bombers were shot down and two German planes were lost. German fighters led by Captain Schumacher scattered the British formation as wreckage washed ashore on German shores amid heavy anti aircraft fire.
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Bertin Dee 38
Thurtsfour
Germain
ecorstain medicinty
Helgoland
Genun
Germany
Schumacher
Germans may press Uruguay for Graf Spee reparations
AP dispatches from December 18 report German officials considering reparations from Uruguay for the scuttled Admiral Graf Spee. Argentina notes 1600 Graf Spee crew arrivals in Buenos Aires as officers may be freed on pledges not to join the war.
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URUGUAY
GRAF SPEE
Germany
Wesino Agmoa Graf Spee
smuces
Gaghanane
Geunnay
Argentina
sud
Buenos Aires
German battleship Graf Spee wrecked in Montevideo harbor
Fragmented OCR narrative recalls the doomed Graf Spee nearing Montevideo harbor with the ship's fighting top exposed as it sinks. The account hints at a fatal crisis, a final bombardment, and a crew leaving the doomed vessel before it vents its final act, with subsequent pages continuing the coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montevideo
Graf Spee
Monteyndes
Adel
Hans Langsdor
School Bus Driver Faces Code Charge
Mt Pleasant township school bus driver Elvin Harner was charged before Justice Leo Storm Bonnerisie for failing to stop at a Western Maryland grade crossing while children were aboard. State trooper from Gratysburg substation made the arrest. Also, two speeders paid $10 fines over the weekend: George Schroeder of Pittsburgh for 78 mph and Andrew David Baker of Tulsa for 60 mph before Justice C S Straley of New Oxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvin NM Harner New
Andrew David Baker
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Justice of the Peace
C S Straley
New Oxford
Two Men and a Woman Die in Taneytown Area Crash
A late night crash on the Key Mar highway near Taneytown killed Day E Vaughn 22 a Reaser Verniture employee and two other youths Ray Kaser 15 of near Harney and Olga Laura Graham 21 of Taneytown. Vaughn died at Frederick hospital after the wreck as investigators listed speed as a factor. The driver Kiser died en route to the hospital and Miss Graham died at the scene. Funeral services were planned for Vaughn and Kiser with interment in area cemeteries. relatives listed include Vaughn’s parents and siblings, Graham’s family, and Kaser’s mother Blanch Kaser.
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Agroland Use
Wan
Key Mar
Frederick
E Vaughn
Reaser
Witliam Vaughn
Hanes
Maryland
Ray Kaser
Harney
Olga Laura Graham
Charles Graham
Tanesown
Vaughn
Miss Graham
Kiser
Fredack hospital
Poleeman
Schlucher Westmuster
Marsh
New Windsor
ani
Fruit Growers to Elect New Officers in Adams County
Nomination and election of officers for the Adams County Fruit Growers association for 1940 are set for Thursday evening at 7:30 in the Biggerville auditorium. The preparation committee for the Harrisburg state fair in January will present a plan and discuss apple marketing, orchard pricing, and elimination of marginal trees. A quarantine lift is announced for scarlet fever at the home of Bernard W Eckenrode in Littlestown R2, with two more houses still under quarantine in the county. Irvin Hosbold is named president and Clarence M Kingoth vice president of the Baltimore Township school board at their annual meeting.
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Adams
Adams county court
W CO Bheely
John C Bream
Donald McCurdy Swope
Esq
West Broadway
Donald Swope
Swope touk
Sheely
wope
Gettysburg high school
Gettysburg college
University of Michigan
state Supreme court
county board of law examiners
Adams County
aissogiulaon
Ducumtbir
Biggerville
Harrisburg
rees no
Bernard W
LATTMORE
Tatimore township
Irvin Hosbold
Clarence M Kingoth
York Springs
FISCEL KIME WEDDING HELD
Mrs Glenn Sarah Kime united in marriage to Piscel Kime at their Baltimore road home. Rev Dr N B S Thomas officiated. Miss Stella Wolfe and J Clair Kime attended. Home decorated with white chrysanthemums and ferns. Guests included Calvin D Fiscel and Daniel P Kime. Fiscel, a woodworker, teaches at Valley school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Sarah Kime
Getysburg
Frederick Piscel
Miami
Cuhin ( Pisce
Gettysburg
Baltimore road
N B S Thomas
Memorist United Brethen church
Stella Wolfe
J Clair Kime
Doothy
Car Wreck at Newman's Park Injures Edward Bollinger
Edward Bollinger of 20 North Washington street was injured when his new automobile skidded on a icy Lincoln highway section near Newman's Park west of here Saturday. He struck a pole and tree after the rear end swung, suffering cuts on the forehead and hands and bodily bruises. Bollinger was treated by Dr. C H Johnson in Chambersburg street.
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Edward Bollinger
Washington street
Lincoln highway
Newmans park
here
Bollinger
Gettysburg
Boltinger
C H Johnson
Chambersburg street
Widow Beam of Goodyear Died After Ill Health
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Beam 78 widow of Feter Seam died this morning at her granddaughter's Goodyear home from complications after more than ten years of ill health. She was a Fay etteville native, daughter of Basil and Sarah Metew, member of Goodyear Lutheran Church. Survived by son Cletus Trust, Goodyear. granddaughter Mrs Beam and three great grandchildren. Funeral from Beam home Wednesday at 2 o clock with services at Goodyear Lutheran Church by Rev P J Horick. Interment in Goodyear cemetery.Visitation Friday 7 to 9 p.m. Infant Esther Peters, one month old, daughter of Grayson H L and Chloe E Walker Peters, at 430 East Middle Street, died in Warner hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Elizabeth
McNew
Beam
Goodyear
Carl Benny Goodyear
Fayetteville
Basil
Sarah
Hancock
Goodyear Lutheran church
Cletus Trust
Goodyear 2
Goodyear Lutheran diuirch
P J? Horick
Joan Esther Peters
Grayson HL
Chloe E (Walker) Peters
East Middle Street
Warner hospital
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D. M.C. SWOPE
Louis J. Dorson
TOBAR
Reaser Furniture Co
Wulism L Meals Esq
Hany F Kime
Iate
Abisham W. Gulse
Butler township
G M Miller
Donald P McPherson Jr Esq
Eleanor F Garlach
Weller
Howard P Weller
Joseph F Connelly
Ferriot brothers
OGnnvan
Charles Sipple
Melvin Herman
Abbottstowk
Wihim Richardson
Hamlton ban township
motmary
Roy D Rennel
Winteld
Homer register
G Cust
Lee M Hartman
Arthur Boya
aoner
DoJ Wolff sherff
Bus Line
Fete Durks
Reddings
deteila
YWEPA PES
CAMP NAWAKWA
REPORL
lorence Musselman
Amerian uie
iillions
Orrtanna
GEORGE A. HERRING
Hitler
Taneytown
MOUIMLERI
Taney- Wn
Buter
David Vaughn
jents
Wiliam
Carrie Vawenh
Eugene Exler
Alvert Bell
fung
fang son
Sutell
Paul Beard
Heaser
Tor Ray Kiser
Beard
iite
Guthean
ab Lanes
user
une Blanch Kaser
Haines
Kathryn
Lloyd bol
Mra Tulner
Graham
Charles
Lilian Graham
Lola
olothers Everett
Gillie Graham
Amos
Graham Johnsville
Howard Mackley
Taney town
Hever Dam
Union Bridge
Martland
oMenting minsters
Revs
Gharles
Hackman Saravel
Frank Fox
Dalearret
Dutarnervet
Hine
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