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New Oxford Item

Location

New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Aug 07, 1952

Page

8

Obituary notices and family news from McSherrystown area

Twenty years ago notes record deaths from Green Springs to Hampton and McSherrystown. Alfred Beeves aged 60 dies at his daughter's home near Five Points. Alex Engelstine 68 in Hampton. Miss Amelia A. Mill 83 of McSherrystown. Minnie Brown age six of Berwick Township ill with infantile paralysis. other family notices include Mrs. Susan Reed and Mrs. Preston Myers.

Minnie Orington Brown Berwick Township

Mrs. Mary Jane Sanders 78 Dies in Gettysburg Region

Mrs. Mary Jane Sanders aged 78 of Gettysburg died Sunday at 1 15 PM at the home of her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Mack Sites Fairfield R 1 after two years ill health She was born in Baltimore daughter of the late John and Mariah Shulley Shertzer Her husband Robert F Sanders died in April 1936 Survivors include 11 children 27 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren Also a sister Mrs Clara Stafford Kansas Funeral services Tuesday at 2 PM from Bender Funeral Home with Rev Dr Norman Wolf officiating Interment in Fairfield Cemetery

Mary Jane Sanders Gettysburg Mack Sites Fairfield R. 1 Baltimore John and Mariah Shulley Shertzer Robert F. Sanders Bender Funeral Home Norman Wolf Fairfield Cemetery

Dicks Dam Welfare Association Elects Officers

William C. Chronister is reelected president at the annual Dicks Dam Welfare Association meeting held at Miss Gertrude S. Smith’s summer cottage. New officers include Ray mond H. Newman as vice president Gertrude S. Smith as secretary George Wildasin as assistant secretary and Joseph B. Bollinger as treasurer. A slate of directors was also chosen including William B. Menges Paul Topper William H. Mowery J L Small Frank Posey Paul Wagner Francis Slagle William Black Emanuel Krebs Cecil McClarin T F Christwaite Roger Johnson Robert Rouzer Harry N. Gitt 2nd Robert Fleming and Herbert V. Jordan.

William C. Chronister Dicks’ Dam

Gas Increase Postponed by Public Utility Commission

The Public Utility Commission suspended a $4 245 annual gas rate increase for six months to February 1 while an investigation into the rates occurs. The Manufacturers Light and Heat Co of Pittsburgh seeks a single uniform rate to replace 22 schedules, affecting about 200 000 customers in western and central Pennsylvania, with Gettysburg and Myersdale gainers totaling a $131 000 yearly reduction for 8 000 customers.

Public Utility Commission Manufacturers Light and Heat Co Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Gettysburg Myersdale

Driver charged after Hanover police nab suspect

Kenneth Wolf of East Belin R was charged with reckless driving in an information filed before Justice of the Peace George A Lippy in Hanover after his apprehension Wednesday night at 10 30 p m by Hanover police.

Kenneth Wolf East Belin Justice of the Peace George A. Lippy Hanover

Executors Named in Estate of Rose Sneeringer in Adams County

Estate notices declare Letters Testamentary granted to Raymond Sneeringer and Thomas Sneeringer for the Rose S Sneeringer estate in Mount Pleasant Township Adams County Pennsylvania. Creditors and debtors are urged to present claims and make prompt payment to the executors through attorney J F Yahke Jr Gettysburg. Proclamation orders Coroner Justices Constables to appear at Gettysburg for Oyer and Terminer and Jail Delivery in Adams County on the fourth Monday of August 1982 at 9 30 AM.

Ruse S Sneesinger Mount Pleasant Township Adams County Pennsylvania Raymond Sneeringer Gettysburg PIAYS Thomas Sneeringer Linden Avenue Hanover Rose S. Sneeringer de Eased, Or J. O F. Yahke, Jr Penns Adams W. C. Sheely Courts of Common Pleas Adams and Pulton Sessine A. Dale Knowme Re. P. Taylor Baye

Abbottstown Fair had contests and local farm sales noted

Thirty years ago Arthur Martin Irishtown John Dicks Hampton and Mrs Charles Berkheimer Abbottstown were ill. A Abbottstown medicine show crowned Miss Helen Rutter and Kenneth Craumer as top lady and prettiest baby. Local sales included Mrs Rose J Murren buying 44 acre farm near Mt Rock for 97 per acre and four acre timber tracts sold for 150 and 220 to Vitus J Smith and a widow.

Arthur Martin Irishtown John Dicks Hampton Charles Berkheimer Abbottstown Helen Rutter Kenneth Craumer W. J. Craumer Rose J. Murren Edw. Murren Mt Rock Berwick Township Vitus J. Smith Conewago Township Geo W. Wilkin Straban A P. Lambert Hanover Curtis A. Noel Annie L. Lawrence Conewago Chapel M. W. Lau Detroit Mich G E. Spott York Sheely Lincolnway East G. Mervin Spangler Spangler Center Square Pius Robinson Anna Colestock Swift Run

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