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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
2
New Oxford Ites published every Thursday by H. J. Smith. Terms 8100 per annum in advance or 810 if not paid within the year. Subscriptions discontinued only by publisher. arrears paid. Failure to discontinue at expiration will be considered a new engagement. Advertisements at reasonable rates with yearly discounts. From smallest label to largest poster.
Constable William I Weasel arrested Peter Haverstock and George Jones of Hanover on cruelty to animals with warrants issued by Squire R M Straley. Bail posted for a hearing next Monday at 10 am. Lydia Small prosecuted William Small for assault and battery, settled amicably. Hubert White charged with cruelty to animals, case heard by Squire Straley with decision held over to Monday next.
At Fountain Dale on February 22 a storekeeper Mr. J I Barton left his safe open and a rear door unlatched. Six pocketbooks were stolen and later found by John Horner and Robert McNair, who identified them as Barton's. None of the $7 in one wallet’s flap remained after six months on the mountain.
Joseph Snyder about 60, of Windsorville York county, died from a broken neck after being jolted from his wagon on a late Friday night trip to York. He manufactured tool handles and drank alcohol during the journey. a whiskey bottle lay beside his body as family found him a mile from home. He left a widow and several children.
In Harrisburg Aug 5 John Wax of Perry county found his four pound blue green cast iron frog door stop missing. A neighbor James Bisline killed a seven foot black snake nearby and a post mortem revealed two half grown rabbits and the missing frog inside the snake.
The 22 year old David McClaskey was found Sunday morning in the rear yard of his South Court Avenue home in York. Authorities investigate possible drugging and robbery after his mother reported the last sighting at 1 PM Saturday when she gave him lunch.
An infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Geo Smith of York was scalded when a hot soup bowl toppled from a kitchen table as the mother left briefly. The child, seated on a chair, grabbed the bowl and the liquid poured over her face and right side, with potential fatal injury. In New Castle Pa Amos Martin died at 110 at his stepdaughter house after years of walking to the post office for pensions. He was a veteran of Mexican and the rebellion and had long avoided whiskey, though doctors advised cessation. A child sustained injuries after a wagon wheel passed over her following a street market incident when her mother Mrs Legore was away purchasing vegetables.
Tuesday afternoon four cases brought by agents of the Pennsylvania Pure Food Commission for impure food sold during encampment week were heard by Justice of the Peace John II Jill at Gettysburg. The cases against Wanover Produce Co J B Eckhart and R H Stoyer D G Lott John Dick and Mary Dick Cumberland township allege use of Boric Acid for preserving milk. The result of the hearing will be known next week.
The Adams County Teachers will hold their eighth summer meeting in Brow Chapel Gettysburg on Wednesday August 26 with three sessions morning afternoon and evening. Renowned instructors have been engaged for the event.
Marry Norbeck 28 suffers a gunshot wound to the neck and left arm at his brother’s home. self inflicted or accidental while cleaning the revolver. Mrs. Elizabeth Oden 70 is killed near Hagerstown after being struck by a westbound express. Dodder weed spreads on area farms. dangers to harvest. James Hackenberg, lineman, dies after grabbing a live wire. Robert Heim bach, 77, killed by lightning while in a corn field. Bucklen's Arnica Salve praised for quick healing by C G Hays of Bluff, Missouri.
Sale near New Chester York pike Carlisle road one mile south of Pines church lists horses cows hogs machinery including binder mower plows hay rake grain drill and many household items. Describes two farm tracts totaling about 70 acres with a slope house bank barn and outbuildings.
A sale features a variety of fruit on the property with a smaller tract west of the home adjoining lands of Jacob F Thomas Jerre Har Inan and others. Sale begins at 10 o clock with terms announced by Henriep ia M Fickes and G R Thompson as auctioneers.
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