Fatal fire in Altoona shoemaker's shop claims Goettman life
From Friends in Chambersburg comes word Lewis L Goettman a native of Chambersburg and a 70 year old shoemaker died in Altoona where he lived alone in his shop The fire purportedly resulted from a stroke pushing him against a coal stove his body severely burned before discovery.
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Chambersburg
Lewis L. Goettman
Altoona
Hje
Goettman
York
Daniel Bowser
H. Allen Stambaugh
Thomasville
Clara J. Keller
Dover
William M. Lenbart
Blanche M. Henry
Adams County Draft Questionnaires To Be Mailed In 2300 Batch
Beginning December 15 the Adams County exemption board will mail draft questionnaires to registrants at 5 percent daily for 20 days. Recipients must answer within seven days of receipt. Exempted men and those in camp due to physical disability will also receive a questionnaire. The program aims to sort men into five liability classes and cover about 2300 questionnaires.
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Adams County
Hagerstown & Frederick Railways Gain Chambersburg Line
Control of the Chambersburg Greencastle and Waynesboro Street Railway Co passes to the owners of the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway Co in a deal worth about 1 3 million. The acquisition adds 30 miles of new road from Blue Ridge Summit to Chambersburg and connects with the Hagerstown line at Shady Grove. The Hagerstown & Frederick Railway capitalization rises to 7 million with annual revenue near 9 million.
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Chambersburg, Greencastle & Waynesboro Street Railway Co
Hagerstown & Frederick Railway Co
Chambersburg
Greencastle & Waynesboro
Hagerstown & Frederick
New Road
Blue Ridge Summit
Waynesboro
Greencastle
Marion
Shady Grove
Hagerstown & Frederick Railway
School trustees named for Shippensburg Normal School
Prof M Roth of Gettysburg and Arthur Griest of Guernsey named by the State Board of Education as trustees of the Shippensburg Normal School recently taken over by the Commonwealth.
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M. Roth
Gettysburg
Arthur Griest
Guernsey
State Board of Education
Shippensburg Normal School
Comes Monywealth
Greek restaurant proprietor fined for poodle possession
Gus Alvanos of Waynesboro paid 29.50 in fines after magistrate Potter found him in possession of a French poodle contrary to the 1915 law barring foreign born residents from owning dogs. On his ship Relph Funk, 80, a Waynesboro native and seaman on the UK transport DeKalb, shot himself, dying instantly as family were away. T B Hobler said 39 German submarines were sunk by the Allies between November 1 and 15.
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Gus Alvanos
Waynesboro
Potter
Relph Funk
H.C. Bank
DeKalb
T. B. Hobler
America
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