Woman buried by sand at Gettysburg quarry dies
Mrs. Samuel Robinson of near Round Top was buried under tons of sand at a local quarry while screening sand. A 13-year-old boy alerted nearby workers who dug her out. she died shortly after, despite being alive at the scene. Her husband was at work on the highways project and could not reach her in time.
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Gettysburg
Samuel Robinson
Round Top
Robinson
Paul Cluck
John
Emory
Frank Rosensteel
New Oxford
Bor
Melita Lodge Elects Offiers Knights of Pythias Mechanicsburg Pa
In Mechanicsburg last evening the Melita lodge No. 83 Knights of Pythias elected officers for the next six months. Names include A. B. Rider as chancellor commander W. Scott Graybill as vice chancellor EB 8 Cocklin as prelate Frank Rowe master of work H. R. Gelwicks master of arms Walter Wyant inner guard J 8 Whitman outer guard H. R. Whitman keeper of records and seals E C Gardner master of finance D J Beitzel master of exchequer E 8 Cocklin trustee John 8 Whitman host George W Hershman representative to the grand lodge.
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Mechanicsburg
Melita Lodge
Knights of Pythias
A. B E. Rider
W. Scott Graybill
Cocklin
Frank Rowe
H. R. Gelwicks
Walter Wyant
Whitman
Portuguese Princess Fern Kreybill Visits Oklahoma Ranch
Mount Joy Pa June 26 Princess Brangance Detvellar of Portugal, daughter of Reuben Kreybill, once Fern Kreybill, now Ruth Maycliffe, travels from Portugal to Oklahoma near Vinita with Prince Duvellar. She roped steers as a young girl and may reprise the skill at the Coffeyville banker Roberts owned ranch. Funeral services for a local pastor are set for tomorrow.
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Mount Joy
Brangance Detvellar
Portugal
Reuben Kreybill
Kreybill
J. R. Missenier
Ruth Maycliffe
Europe
Oklahoma Ranch
Vinita
Mr. Roberts
Coffeyville
Kas
Prince Duvellar
America
Lemoyne Firemen parade and festival planned
William Baer as president leads Lemoyne fire company arrangements for a major parade through Lemoyne followed by a festival at Bosler avenue and Rossmoyne street to raise funds for a new hosehouse. Parade launches at 7 pm with three divisions and ends at the festival grounds. Proceeds fund the hosehouse on Herman avenue and York street.
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William , Baer
H. E. Mountz
S. B. Leach
Bosler Avenue
Rossmoyne Street
Hummel Avenue
Lorne
Herman
Bucker
Bosler
Armstrong
Hummel
East Hummel Avenue
Commonwealth Band Will Give Camp Hill Concert
The Commonwealth Band of Harrisburg conducts a public concert on the Episcopal Church lawn in Camp Hill under conductor W Fred Weber. The program includes March King Cotton Poet and Peasant Valse June Songs of Scotland America Orpheus Lovely Lucia Louisianas Louisiana Lou Imperator. Visitors from Harrisburg will arrive via streetcar at Myers Avenue. Lemoyne reports Miss Clara Renecker dies at 30 after heart trouble at home of her parents along the State road. She leaves parents two brothers Raymond and Murray and three sisters Mrs Shaeffer Mrs McCandlass and Zeda.
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Commonwealth Band of
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Episcopal Church Lawn
Willow Avenue
Lof
W. Fred Weber
Scotland
America
Lucia
Louisiana
Imperator
Vistors
Myers Avenue
Lemoyne, Pa
Clara Renecker
C. Renecker
State Road
Raymond
Carlisle
Murray
Raymond Shaeffer
White Hill
McCandlass
Lemoyne
Zeda
Boys' League of Columbia Heads to Philadelphia Trip
Eighty members of the Boys' League of Good Citizenship with forty visitors traveled to Philadelphia yesterday aboard a special Pennsylvania railroad car. Directress Miss Ada Ferry and assistant Miss June Kepner led the group, visiting City Hall Independence Hall and the U S Mint. Moving pictures were filmed en route to be shown next week in Columbia.
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Boys’ League of Good Citizenship
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ada Ferry
June Kepner
Porter
City Hall
Independence Hall
United States Mint
Broad Street
Recent Deaths in Central Pennsylvania
Columbia Vernon S Hartman, a popular young man, died at his parents home in Mountville in his twenty first year. Marietta Matthias D Gebhart died at Hanover after a long illness in his sixty eighth year. Quarryville Galen Girvin, 55, a leading local businessman, died from acute indigestion. his wife and three sons survive.
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Coumbia
Vernon S. Hartman
Jacob
Hartman
Mountville
Marietta
Hanover
Matthias D. Gebhart
Lancaster County
Quarryville
Galen Girvin
$25 000 Playground Opened in Gettysburg
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania on June 26 about 5000 people attended the formal opening of a 30 acre playground gifted by Mr. and Mrs. William B. Kurtz of Philadelphia. Mr. Kurtz announced the $25 000 gift while Prof. Charles F. Sanders accepted. A band played The Star Spangled Banner as a flag floated and flags were handed out. The grounds featured a clubhouse two baseball diamonds six tennis courts a football field and extensive apparatus.
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Gettysburg
William B. Kurtz
Philadelphia
Kurtz
Charles F. Sanders
Steam Heat for School Brings New Plant to Brain Borough
In Brain Pa on June 26 work began on a steam heating plant for the borough school building. The first floor houses the primary and grammar rooms while the second floor serves as a town hall used for entertainments. Space on that floor will be allocated for the high school when it opens, and the entire building will be heated by the new plant.
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Telegraph Brain
Kerstetter Named High School Principal at Blain District
At a special meeting of joint school boards covering Blain borough Jackson Toboyne Northeast and Southwest Madison townships Newton Kerstetter of Hagerstown Maryland was elected principal of the planned high school opening the first week of September He comes highly recommended.
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Blain, Pa
Blainborough
Jackson
Toboyne
Madison Townships
Newton Kerstetter
Hagerstown
Kerstetter
Auto Driver Held for Court in Fatal Turnpike Crash
Ammon S. Graybill of Bird-in-Hand faced involuntary manslaughter charges after running down Mrs. Zelia Howard at the toll gate on the old Pennsylvania Turnpike. He was held for the September term of criminal court following a hearing before Alderman Doebler in Lancaster.
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Columbia
Ammon S. Graybill
Zelia Howard
Alderman Doebler
Lancaster
Ring-Beslhler Wedding Unites Couples in Maytown
This morning in Marietta Pa Rev Joseph D Krout married Raymond Ring of Elizabethtown to Miss Emma Beshler of Maytown in a ring ceremony. A reception followed at the bride’s Maytown home and the couple will reside in Elizabethtown.
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Marietta
Joseph D. Krout
Maytown Lutheran Church
Raymond Ring
Elizabethtown
Emma Beshler
Maytown
Newlyweds Spend Night in Car in Railroad Yards
A Bloomsbury couple on their honeymoon near Sunbury Pennsylvania were moved into a stray rail car and spent about half a night trapped in a dark carriage in the yards. They later rode on an early train after asking railroad workers to keep silent.
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John Graham
Bloomsbury
John Casey
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