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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Oxford
New Oxford Tener Comers
Prenton Cists
Cssssasestes
Herbert L. Grimm
Aurea Son
D. Keith
Heegent
Trewenrer
Renry J. Smita
Local Illness Updates and Deaths Near New Oxford
Town residents report improvement from illness including Clarence Small of McSherrystown and Mrs Catherine Small. Daughters Mary and Jane Frominever of Philadelphia now better after influenza. Simon Frominever, a disease victim, funeral held in Philadelphia. May C McCullough 20 dies at Bonneauville home. Mrs Ross Cashman Jamison dies in Canon City. Wheat price listed at 2.50 per bushel.
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Horace Heltzel
Bonneauville
Ross Cashman Jamison
Canon City
Colo
Latorre and Small Marry in St Francis Xavier Church
Miss Dorothy Grace Small daughter of Walter A Small Gettysburg formerly of Edge Grove wed Joseph Steven L Latorre of West Pittston Pa in St Francis Xavier Catholic church Saturday morning at 7 30 oclock Rev Raphael Gross assistant rector officiated the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Grace Small
Walter A. Small
Gettysburg
Edge Grove
Joseph Steven L. Latorre
West Pittston
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Raphael Gross
Ruppert and Little Wed In Westminster Ceremony
Ruppert Harry Ruppert of Spring Grove and Catherine Little of McSherrys Town married Thursday January 18 at 3 p.m. in Westminster near St. Paul s Reformed Church parsonage. Rev Nevin E. Smith officiated with no attendants.
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Ruppert
Little Harry Ruppert
Spring Grove
Catherine Little
McSherrystown
Westminster
Nevin E. Smith
St. Paul's Reformed Church
Miss Rodgers and Ray Hawk Marry at Littlestown Parsonage
Miss Marie Kathryn Rodgers daughter of Mr and Mrs Ammon IX Rodgers Littlestown R D and Ray Earl Hawk son of Mr and Mrs William T Hawk Gettysburg R D were married Saturday afternoon at Christ Reformed church Littlestown. The ring ceremony was performed by Rev Dr H H Hartman. They were unattended and will reside at the bride's parents home.
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Marie Kathryn Rodgers
Ammon IX. Rodgers
Littlestown
R. D
Ray Earl Hawk
Wiliam T. Hawk
Gettysburg
Christ Reformed Church
H. H. Hartman
Miss Ethel Snyder Wed to Edward Horwedel at McSherrystown
Miss Ethel Irene Snyder daughter of Mr and Mrs Claude A Snyder Littlestown and Cowardin Edward Horwedel son of Pius Horwedel McSherrystown were united in a nuptial mass at St. Marys Church McSherrystown. The Very Rev Patrick F McQuee officiated with Genevieve Horwedel as maid of honor and Edward Mattingly as best man. A wedding breakfast followed at the groom's sister’s home. The couple will reside with the groom's family.
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Horwedel—Snyder
Ethel Irene Snyder
Claude A. Snyder
Littiestown
Cowardin
Edward Horwedel
Pius Horwedel
McSherrystown
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Patrick F. McQuee
Genevieve Horwedel
Edward Mattingly
Hanover
Paul J. Smith
Abbottstown Local Notices and Family Milestones
Henry E Landis shows improvement after illness. Mrs Earl Alwine confined to bed by sickness. Paul P Wolf slaughtered a hog dressed 600 pounds. Francis Elder slaughtered a worker dressed 677 pounds. Wilford Mumeert slaughtered a hog dressed 479 pounds. Mr and Mrs Luther Hull observe their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They married January 21 1890 at the Lutheran church Abbottstown. Mr Hull still farming celebrates seventy ninth birthday. Mrs Hall formerly Emma Jane Spangler is seventy six. They are parents of three children.
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Henry E. Landis
Earl Alwine
Paul FP. Wolf
Francis Elder
Wilford Mumemert
Luther Hull
Hanover R. 3
Abbottstown
Hull
Hall
Emma Jane Spangler
Marriage Licenses Filed for Local Residents
Marlin Eichelberger and Doris Weaver. George Miller and Mildred Rudisill. Neal Leonard and Mary Richards filed license applications in Hanover area. Mrs. Edna Griffin, 79, Gettysburg Route 5, died at daughter Daisy Buhrman’s Chambersburg home after age infirmities. husband George G. Griffin died in 1926. Surviving children include Carroll, Mrs. Buhrman, Mrs. Wagner, Royston, J Herbert, and others. funeral at Jessup’s Methodist Episcopal, Sparks, Md, with church burial.
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Marlin Ediward Eichelberger
William Eichelberger
Hanover
Doris Clare Weaver
Clair Weaver
McSherrystown
George Henry Miller
Charles E. Miller
Mildred Genevieve Rudisill
Andrew H. Rudisill
Conewago Township
Neal Edward Leonard
Harry Leonard
Mary Alice Richards
Edna Rose Griffin
Gettysburg
Daisy L. Buhrman
Nelson Street
Chambersburg
Griffin
Granite
Edmund and
Mary E
Mays) Royston
George G. Griffin
Carroll Griffin
R. D
Buhrman
Harry M. Wagner
Baltimore
Royston B. Griffin
J. Herbert Griffin
Boston
J. Thomas Schock
Roscoe Kiel
Howard Schock
Jessup
Deaths of Samuel Neely and Samuel Schmuecker Neely in Gettysburg
Samuel S Neely 73 former Adams county district attorney and long time solicitor for county bodies died Monday morning at Warner hospital after sudden illness. He served 1908 to 1911 as district attorney and later as local attorney for Reading railroad and First National Bank of York Springs. Survived by wife Agnes White Clancy two daughters sister and two brothers. Requiem at Chestnut Hill convent with interment there. The second obituary notes Samuel Schmuecker Neely.
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Samuel S. Neely
Samuel Schmuecker Neely
Gettysburg
Adams County
Warner Hospital
Neely
Reading Raiilroad
First National Bank of York Bprings
Agnes White Clancy
Pittsburgh
Pail
Gilbert
Bethpage
Long Island
New York
Farmer Nathaniel Laughman Dies After Limb Fell On Him
Nathaniel Laughman a 75 year old Hanover R. farmer died at his home Monday morning from a fractured skull and cerebral concussion after a dead limb four feet long and three inches thick fell from a tree about 30 feet striking him January 13. He is survived by his widow three children ten grandchildren four brothers and two sisters. Funeral services at his home at 1 30 Thursday and at Mummert's Meeting house near East Berlin with Revs Howard Danner Samuel Lehigh and Jacob Stauffer officiating. Interment in Mummert's cemetery.
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Nathaniel Laughman
Hanover
Mummert’s Meetinghouse
East Berlin
Howard Danner
Samuel Lehigh
Jacob Stauffer
Mummert’s Cemetery
Mrs Mary Shultz 87 dies at Abbottstown
Mrs Mary M Shultz widow of Francis X Shultz aged 87 died at her Abbottstown home Thursday morning born April 4 1872. Surviving son Charles F Shultz Abbottstown sister Mrs Harry Weaver New Oxford brother Martin Eltz New Oxford. Funeral held Monday from her residence with Mass at St Marys church officiated by Rev William Burke interment Conewago chapel cemetery pallbearers listed.
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Mary M. Shultz
Francis X. Shultz
Abbottstown
Ephraim
Sarah Hamer Eitz
Charles F. Shultz
Harry Weaver
New Oxford
Martin Eltz
New Oxford R. Cd
Sister Mary Adele Dies After Long St Joseph Teaching Career
Sister Mary Adele of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, longtime St Marys grade school teacher in McSherrystown since 1914, died Friday at the convent of St Josephs Academy. She had been moved to the convent after being taken in while teaching, with parents from Emmitsburg.
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Mary Adele
Sisters of
Stu. Joseph
St. Mary's
McSherrystown
St Joseph's Academy
McSherryston
Adele
Emmitsburg
George E Bair 85 cigar maker dies in McSherrystown
George Edward Bair aged 85 a cigar maker died at his home 374 Main Street McSherrystown on Thursday. He is survived by three children Charles P Paul J and Mrs I M Staub all of McSherrystown a brother Charles Bair of Chambersburg six teen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services Monday at 9 in St Marys Catholic Church McSherrystown with Very Rev Patrick F McGee rector. interment in St Marys Cemetery. Pallbearers listed.
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George Edward Bair
George Edwar Bal
Main Street
McSherrystown
Jacob
Barbara Miller Bair
Annie Cramer
Charles P. Bair
Paul J. Bair
I. M. Staub
Charles Bair
Chambersburg
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Patrick F. McGee
Death of Gettysburg Resident Harry Bender
Harry Bender longtime Gettysburg businessman and undertaker died Saturday morning at 8 20 in Warner hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered at his home early Friday. He entered the furniture business in 1898 and moved to undertak ing two years later. Survived by his widow two daughters a son two sisters Mrs Ella Meyer and Mrs Charles Toot and a brother George W Bender of Gettysburg.
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Harry B. Bender
Gettysburg
Warner Hospital
Bender
Ella Meyer
Charles Toot
George W. Bender
Death notice for Sister M Charissima of St Francis order
Edward Funk of McHerrystown received word of the death of his sister Sister M Charissima of the Sisters of St Francis. The notice confirms the religious community and kinship but provides no service details or date.
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Edward Funk
Public Sale at Millar Farm Near New Oxford
Sale of farm stock and implements on the Harry Millar farm 2½ miles northwest of New Oxford on the New Oxford to The Pines church road. Items include a 14 year old bay horse, two 14 year old dark mare mules, cattle with Holsteins Guernseys and a registered Holstein heifer, two heifers in April, a registered Holstein bull 18 months, four Hampshire hogs, geese ducks turkeys hens and more. Implements listed: wagon binder mower corn implement grain drill harrow land roller etc. Sale begins 1 00 p m terms cash. Ladies Aid Society The Pines church reserves rights for refreshment stand.
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Harry Millar
New Oxford
Hampshire
McCormick Deering
Martha Punk the Convent Sister Dies in Tacoma
Joseph's hospital Tacoma Washington reports the death of former Miss Martha Punk a Sister of the Order for thirty seven years She was daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Peter Funk McSherrystown Surviving are brothers Lewis and Felix Punk Hanover Frank Funk New Oxford R D Edward Funk Moe Sherrystown John Funk Perkasie and sisters Mrs William Kline Hanover R D Mrs Clara Lightfoot Hanover Mrs Albert Shoffner Lancaster and Mrs Annie Wilson Philadelphia.
Rev. J. A. Huber Dies in Hanover at 83
The Very Rev. Jones A. Huber pastor of St. Joseph’s Hanover died Tuesday in the church rectory. Born in Lancaster he studied at St. Vincent’s La Trobe and was ordained June 1880 in Philadelphia. He served as assistant pastor in Lancaster Harrisburg Lock Haven and New Freedom before his Hanover tenure.
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Jones A. Huber
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Hanover
Harrisburg
Father Huber
Lancaster
St. Vincent's College
Latrobe
SS. Peter and Paul
Philadelphia
Archbishop Wood
St. Mary's Church
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Immaculate Conception Church
Lock Haven
New Freedom
Notice Concerning Skunks by Pennsylvania Game Commission
The Pennsylvania Game Commission at its January meeting 1940 removed skunks from fur bearing status effective immediately until September 30, 1941. During this period it is lawful to take skunks anytime by any method except poisons explosives or chemicals. traps require compliance with pest control rules. city and borough killings face no game law restrictions. The notice and summarized form are on file in Harrisburg. Seth Gordon executive director.
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Pennsylvania Game Commission
Commission
Harrisbore
Seth Gordon
Heirs to Sell Estate At New Chester In Mtville Area
The heirs of Alice A. Cashman will sell at the residence near The Pines church New Chester. Personal property includes household goods two Guernsey cows with calf one 28 acre farm with a 24 story 9 room house barn hog pen chicken house and outbuildings electric lights land well water and tools. Executors are Elsie Zeigler Harvey H. Cashman and W Earl Cashman with George D. Sheely as Clerk.
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Alice A. Cashman
New Chester
Elsie Zeigler
Harvey H. Cashman
W. Earl Cashman
Late Pennsylvania pastor dies at age advanced years
Father Huber, longtime priest in Carlisle Elizabethtown Cornwall Danville and Hanover, died recently from a heart condition. He served St Patrick’s St Hubert’s and St Joseph’s churches and was dean of York county. Services set at St Joseph’s Hanover with Office for the Dead Thursday and Requiem Mass Friday.
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St. Patrick’s Church
Carlisle
Elizabethtown
Cornwall
St. Hubert’s Church
Danville
St. Joseph's Church
Hanover
Father Huber
Harrisburg Catholic
York County
Joseph's Church
Local Notes From McSherrystown Area
McSherrystown residents report Linus Smith returning home after a Misericordia Hospital operation in Philadelphia. Rodney Slagle fractured his right ankle in a fall on ice. Joseph Price with an arm injury from work in Baltimore. Infant Mary Louise Neiderer discharged from Hanover Hospital and improving. A son was born January 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Burnell Feeser of Hanover.
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Linus Smith
John A. Smith
Oxford Road
Misericordia Hospital
Philadelphia
Rodney Slagle
Joseph Price
Baltimore
Mary Louise Neiderer
Leon Neiderer
Hanover Hospital
Local Notices Record Marriage Illness and Fire Incident
Miss Adeline Rutters, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Rutters, wed Feeser before marriage. James Miller of Brushtown, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Miller, is seriously ill. John Wagaman was patient at St Agnes hospital in Baltimore. A chimney fire struck Mrs Annie Staub on Ridge avenue. firemen were summoned.
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Feeser
Adeline Rutters
George Rutters
McSherrystown
James Miller
Joseph Miller
Brushtown
John Wagaman
St. Agnes’ Hospital
Baltimore
Annie Staub
Ridge Avenue
Market prices for grains and eggs listed
Wheat corn oats barley and rye prices per bushel and eggs per dozen appear with figures and a closing line The Markets section shows quoted yields and a final figure .20 as the closing cite.
For Sale Items and Farm Goods Advertised
For Sale items include apples cider honey and applebutter from Nunda Fruit Farms Hanover Route 194. Also for sale Mammoth red clover seed and shoots from Samuel Osborne Route 2 New Oxford. Plus used lumber boards 2x4 2x6 2x8 and 1 inch from Young's Bark Shed phone 280 Z Hanover Bill Rohrbaugh. Dates 12 14 31 1 18 31 1 25 31.
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Nunda Fruit Farms
Hanover R. D
Samuel Osborne
New Oxford
Young's Bark Shed
Telephone
Hanover
Bill” Rohrbaugh
Wm. F. Shull
R. D
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J. Clayton Sheely
Carlisle Street
Palmyra
Beatrice Sterner
Bell Telephone Exchange
Wm. Anthony
Hanover Street
Harry Sponsener
John Bream
Mt. Pleasant Township
Harvey Boose
Silver Run
Charles ©. Brown
Round Hill
Abilene
Kansas
Paul Lenhart
Mr. Lenhart
Sinclair Oil Co
A. H. Rodgers
John N. Hersh
Cross Keys
John W. Mears
Straban
George Wilkin
Hammond
Ind
Paul M. Hoke
Maple Grove
Howard Albright
Mr. Hoke
Mr. Albright
York
Relda M. Leppo
Union Township
Paul T. Berwager
Sells Station
Grace M. Hemler
C. Walter Petry
M. C. Baker
Union Protestant Infirmary
A. A. Gulden
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hetrick’s Hill
Emma Sheets
Raymond Heil
Lings’s Mill
Young Heil
A. R. Powell
West High Street
Joseph Kaiser
John C. Myers
Lincolnway West
Maurice Rife
Seven Hundred School House
Brook Yantis
Wiliam Topper
Mary
Sponseller
Brush Run
A. G. Miller
Joe. C. Felty
Benjamin Eicholtz
Farmers’ & Merchants’ Bank
Miley Miller
Geo. Meckley
Jas. W. Barnitz
William Sheely
James R. Weaver
Abe Fribush
New Oxford Garment Factory
Eric Larsen
Samuel Holtry
Mechanicsburg
C. E. Diehl
John Timmins
McSherrys
Farl Theatre
New Oxford, Pa
Goldwyn Follies
Adolphe Menjou
Ritz Brothers
Charlie McCarthy
Tex Ritter
Gary Cooper
Latorre
Hawk—Rodgers
Mrs
James Stewart
Marlene Dietrich In “Destry
Nelson
Nona Massey
Basil Rathbone
Tower of London
Nan Grey
Boris Karloff
Nick Carter
Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson
Chestnut Hill
Alasgonda
Black Bonnet Sisters of Charity
Mt. St. Vincent
Hudson
John Neck
Joseph Neck
Emmiteburg
Warner Brothers State
Hanover, PA
Charles Laughton
Notre Dame
Richard Dix
Reno
Melvyn Douglas
Joan Blondell
The
Amazing Mr. Williams
Barry B. Bender
MS Charissima
H. Bender Millar
John Z. Millar
Paul E. Miller
Harry Hulick
Ladies Aid Society of
the Pines
J. A. Huber
Mountville
George D. Sheely
Caesar
Egypt
the Big Magne
Baltimore American
Paradise Protectory
St. Mary’s Parish
Abbottstown, Pa
FORD
H.p. Motor
Stough Motors
Lincoln Highway
Oxford
Myrl May Diehl
C. W. Leghorns
S. C. Br
Leghorns
N. H. Reds
W. Rock
B. Rock
McSherrystown Hatchery
B. McCarty
Table Rock
Ph. Biglerville
J. Walter Brendle
Brendle
Honolulu Conservatory of Music
Carlisle St
Trade
Furniture Exchange
W. Clark
Rear York Supply Company
Z. Ruth Sponseller
Duke St
York, Pa
Bentzel's Poultry & Egg House
W. Phila. St
D. B. Sharrer & Son
Helen Ruth
M. D. Friser
Lincolnway East
Goodyear
Boehler
Baltimore St. Hanover
Pontiac
Willys
Robert Montgomery
the Earl of Chicago
Edward Arnold
Reginald Owen
Shadow
Farmers & Merchants Bank OF New Oxford
H. B. Flaherty
E. Taughinbaugh
Riddle & Gouker
Balto
York Street
de Soto
Plymouth
York St
Spangler Chevrolet
Anderson
Studebaker
Nash
Oldsmobile
Anderson Motor CO
King and Queen Bts
Yora
Saley’s
Riley
North Stratton St
Gettyeburg
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