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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
13
A long list of area residents and relatives are described visiting family homes, studying away, or returning from Philadelphia and New Jersey. Draftees, students, and workers connected to Hanover, York, Gettysburg, and surrounding towns are noted with trips to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Camp Dix for holidays and duty.
Albert Jacobs formerly ran the York Springs garage was transferred from Camp Meade to the aviation corps and left for Texas. Walter Weigle from Tyrone township will also train in the aviation corps. J. Byrn Horner from Knoxlyn earned a first lieutenant commission after Fort Oglethorpe service. Charles F Thorn of Gettysburg got a captain’s commission and will join Fort Pike cantonment in Little Rock. Francis Smith of Littlestown leaves for Fort Monroe for an officers’ training camp. Pro f Cocklin of East Berlin plans to enlist, likely in the aviation department signal corps, by December 10. George W Morris received a first lieutenant commission and will be assigned to the Signal Corps in Washington. Walter E Morris also earned a first lieutenant commission and will go to infantry at Chickamauga. Twenty six Quartermaster Corps members head to Jacksonville for schooling. Toppy Hoar becomes a second lieutenant in the U S infantry branch. Ralph Bittinger of Detroit has joined the battalion at Canader. George Small of McSherrystown will face aviation corps exam in Columbus. Charles F Crouse and Harold J Angel of Littlestown travel to Harrisburg for infantry exams. An honor roll honoring St Mary’s parish members in service was posted at St Mary’s church. Contractor Ralph Miller is painting a bungalow at York Sulphur Springs.
Second Lieutenant Warren J. Miller of Philadelphia visits his Lincoln Way parents before duty in Charlotte on December 15. Frederick Winand of York Springs stays with his son J W Winand in West High street. Wiest Miller and family from Red Lion visit George A Miller on Lincoln Way East. Anthony T Smith and family visit Jeremiah Storm in Edge Grove. Yeager on business trip to Lancaster. Mary Stough visits Carlisle street friends in York. M T Boyer and wife and Charles Boyer visit John Bollinger in Vernon Wagner. George Otto and wife of Boiling Springs stay with D F Slentz on Carlisle street.
City council held its regular December meeting with members Livingston Little Hoffman Keeny Kepnor presiding. Actions included street repairs on West Golden Lane potential rain damage, Tarvia use on Lincoln Way East, contacting Charles White Gas Engine Co for a new cylinder, repairing the High street bridge leak, billing Hanover Light Heat & Power for pole taxes, assessing mains extension on North Water street, billing Telephone Co for pole taxes, authorizing a $400 bank loan for 60 days, renewing a $100 note for 60 days, approving $374.23 in bills including $159.97 for J E Miller cases, and noting a borough attorney ruling on fines for left turns at the square.
At a Monday court session, multiple accounts were confirmed. Names include Katie M Haar admix for Harry Haar of New Oxford with 34463 balance, W K and N W Weikert executors of G Amos Weikert of Littlestown with 3417.12, Daniel Musselman executor of Isaac Krumrine of Union Township with 110.38, NW Wagner admix of Margaret Small of McSherrystown with 36.53, Anna B Duncan executrix of Rev T J Barkley of Gettysburg with 325297, David P Hykes executor of David Stlykes of Reading Township with 114.39, Albert R Jacobs admr of Amelia Jacobs of Latimore Township with 490.21, Kate Hay Nixon admix of Henry B Nixon of Gettysburg with 21847.37, and Mary A Swartz executrix of H W Swartz of New Oxford with 3935.59.
Mr and Mrs James Sanders near Guldens Station welcome a daughter. Mr and Mrs John Kiser near Bonneauville greet a daughter. Mr and Mrs Adam Krout near East Berlin announce a daughter on November 28. Mr and Mrs Joseph Kahler near East Berlin have a son. Mr and Mrs Mervin Wintrode Terra Hill, formerly Littlestown, report a daughter. Mr and Mrs Harvey Hunter near Fast Berlin welcome a daughter. Mr and Mrs Philip Crook near Waldheim announce a son. Mr and Mrs Emory Krise near Lily's Mill report a daughter.
Jacob Melhorn of McSherrystown sold land to John W. Klunk. W P Stoner sold for Mrs. Sarah Study a 19 acre Union township farm near Littlestown to Howard Diehl of Carrow County Md. Hollinger & Bro sold a 303 acre Hamilton township farm for Norman Z Reinecker to Joseph H Hahn. Possession April 1. Mrs P L Houck Gettysburg home sold at public sale to Miss Marie Iverhart for 2700 dollars. Rev C C Brown sold property in East Berlin to Joseph Oberlander near Holtzschwam. Terms private.
H C Stock of the New Oxford Milling Company reports a fine lap robe stolen from his automobile in Hanover on Saturday night. Joseph Holtz of Lincoln Way West killed a parker weighing 405 pounds on Monday. Clarence Kopp of Hanover opens a grocery store in the G I Bender building at McSherrystown.
Jacob Reynold, son of Edward Reynold of near Abbottstown, severely burned the palm and back of his left hand while cleaning his automobile on Monday. Gasoline covered his hand and ignited. Dr. T C Miller of Abbottstown treated the injuries.
William Frock of MecSherrystown resigns as conductor on the H. & Mes. Street Railway and accepts an agent position with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co to fill the vacancy left by W. R. Numbert, who also resigned.
British repulse another counter attack in Bourlon wood near Cambrai as Byng’s forces hold the northeast corner of the wound. French and British troops aid Italians north of the Veneto plains while Austro German assaults are checked along the Piave and Brete sectors. Turks west of Jerusalem press attacks but are repulsed with heavy losses.
Petrograd dispatch reports Germany agrees to immediate armistice talks on all fronts. A conference is scheduled for December 2. In France heavy fighting near Fontaine Notre Dame and Bourlon. British forces retake and lose villages amid German counterattacks. Austro German forces press in the Venetian passes despite prior setbacks.
German authorities approve Bolshevik armistice efforts and set Sunday for a conference. Bolshevik emissaries visit the Teutons and gain acceptance of their proposal within hours. On the Bourlon Fontaine Notre Dame line British and German forces clash as they press toward Cambrai and hold positions. In Albania, Italian war office cites repelled attacks near Avion a ten miles distant. North front sees heavy artillery with no major infantry assaults.
American engineers contribute to the British push toward Cambrai by building railroads in the Somme for four months while under German artillery fire. National guardsmen from all states and the leading American air corps have arrived behind the front in France, with many in training near the front as Germans attack south of the Cambrai drive sector.
Reports from the Cambrai front describe a serious German effort to destabilize the Byng led salient. British forces faced a turning movement that forced a hurried withdrawal as a wedge advanced toward the base. Berlin claims 4000 prisoners and the capture of several field gun batteries.
According to the Berlin statement German forces thrust back British attackers between Moeuvres and lR Bourlon and from Fontaine to La Folie. They took Goune lien and Villers-Guiselain, while counter attacks halted the Teutonic rush and saved the day.
German forces launched a heavy second attack along the Cambrai front from La Vacquerie to Vendin le Vieil and Masnieres. British reinforcements repelled La Vacquerie’s assault after multiple attempts. Germans occupied Masnieres briefly but faced intensified British countermeasures and aerial artillery fire. Byng’s troops held near Villers-Guislain as German divisions estimated at twenty pressed the line in a fierce, costly exchange.
The German general staff announced that since Friday they had captured 6000 British prisoners in the Cambrai region. The Guns taker numbered 100.
Reading baker George W. Rudolph died at sixty in a local restaurant. The state industrial board will meet in Philadelphia on December 11 to review codes. In Phoenixville a shortage of three sub mail carriers may force hiring women if men remain unavailable.
Reports include appointments in Harrisburg and Reading, court actions against suspects in Bethlem, and a string of accidents and deaths across the region. Notable items involve a boy halting a runaway team, a horseman statue dedication, a burned woman in Hyde Park, and a mass show planned by the state agriculture department.
A Lancaster County Aerocorps contingent leaves for Kelly Aviation camp at Fort Sam Houston Texas to train. Among them is Joseph F. Stokes, great great grandson of General William Hensey, a Revolutionary War officer.
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