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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
19
Publication details for New Oxford weekly issue by A.J. Smith. Subscriptions priced at $1.00 yearly in advance with arrears required before discontinuation. Advertisements offered at reasonable rates with yearly discounts. printing services including labels, cards, and posters.
Dr. Edmund W. Meisenhelder, likely York county’s oldest practicing physician, died suddenly of heart failure Saturday forenoon in a patient’s room in York. He collapsed while assisting Dr. Sterner, with his son Dr. E. W. Meisenhelder, Jr., present. he was 75 and Civil War veteran. Surviving are wife, three sons including Dr. Jr., daughter Mary, and a brother.
Nearly 100 marriage licenses were issued in the first eleven months at Gettysburg Clerk of the Courts office under Sheely. From June to November 1917, 106 more licenses were granted than the same period a year earlier, with 82 grooms soldiers. Many couples wed in York Harrisburg and Baltimore, showing troop families broad reach.
The Hanover Agricultural Society received a $1,188.66 state appropriation from Pennsylvania for the 1915 fair. Secretary S. A. Geiselman was told that 1916 and 1917 checks would be paid in a reasonable time. Ivan Kaler of Hanover was arrested on a warrant charging assault and battery on his wife, by Officer Crabbs. He was held until Monday when he posted bail for a hearing.
Philip Wejngert of 515 Howard street Pa, a butcher, reports stomach trouble gone after Tanlac. He says he can eat doughnuts and pies again, sleeps well, and feels strengthened. The medicine is sold locally by Ed Auker.
A list of weddings from McSherrystown to Hanover and Gettysburg, noting brides and grooms including Blanche Wilt and Joseph Gouker, Stella Kime and Roy Taylor, Mary Adreon and Benton Mehring, Mary Stultz and Harry Schriver, Eileen Power and Lt. Ralph Hankey, Ruth Reinecker and W H Bibus, Grace Carbaugh and Paul Weikert, Mary Nace and Morris Heiser, Cecelia Snyder and Earl Wilhelm. Also a Red Cross note from New Oxford and a soldier’s thanks letter from Henry J. Smith dated November 1917.
Professor Charles J. Hemmig former Abbottstown principal and Miss Nettie Jacobs daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Jacobs Abbottstown were married Thursday at 2 PM in the bride’s home New Oxford pastor Rev Walter J Garrett officiated.
Miss Nellie Robinson daughter of Mr and Mrs Theodore Robinson Gettysburg and John J Miller Lebanon were married at Gettysburg Thursday morning by Dr R S Oyler. The bride formerly worked at the United Telephone exchange and Eberhart garage Gettysburg as bookkeeper. They will reside in Pittsburgh where the groom is employed.
John Hemler moves from Blooming Grove to Hanover to work at Hopkins Mfg Co. Joseph Spalding and wife relocate from Reading to Littlestown for their future home. Chas N Dicks and family move from Round Hill to Hampton for winter with uncle Hon W Howard Dicks. Prothonotary G Harry Roth plans to move his family to Gettysburg once a home is found. Curtis S Spanseller leases Roth house on North Peters and will move in. Arthur Roth and family also move to Gettysburg. Raymond Gable, formerly at McCrory 5 and 10 store York, moves winter residence with wife to Lincoln Way West. Harry Noel and Harvey Noel relocate from McSherrystown to York with jobs at local firms.
Jas W Barnitz executor sold John F Kuhns West High street property to Lewis Breighner for 1015 dollars. March cattle sale at East Berlin drew many buyers with strong prices including Holstein cows calves at 262.50 142 135 and 114 110 for other cattle plus high hogs and fair horse mule prices. Brown mill farm sale totaled over 2400 dollars with strong Holsteins and hogs.
Marriage licenses were issued in Westminster last week to Miles J I Sterner and Margaret Laughman of Hanover and John W Mathias and Cora EX Winnert of Littlestown. Another license went to Jacob Guise and Annie Lew Sicholtz in Hagerstown, both of Gettysburg. Mervin Baker and Laura IX Moul of Paradise township and John W Sherman of Harrisburg with Miss Marie Hankey of Gettysburg were paired, as were Lloyd M Cluck of Bendersville and Miss Mery C Slaybaugh of Gardners.
Miss Ilva Shaffer of Hanover wed Mary W Meckley in Allentown with Rev I C Seitz officiating. Grover I Smith of York Springs married Miss Alvie Starner of Bendersville in Carlisle by Rev G M Diffenderfer. Helen EK Oyler of Gettysburg wed Charles A Truitt of Trench Mortar Battery at a Hagerstown parsonage. couple eloped, license first learned by Oyler parents.
Miss Annie FE Good daughter of John Good of Gettysburg and Frank W. O Connell a 51st Depot Brigade member stationed at Cap Devens Mass were married Friday evening at the parsonage in Gettysburg by Dr S Oyler.
Glenn R. Myers son of Mr and Mrs H B Myers Hanover and Ruth J Jorry daughter of Mr and Mrs Chas H Mary York were married Thursday morning in York by Rev Dr G W Senders.
The Hood College club of Southern Pennsylvania will stage its fourth annual banquet at the Colonial hotel in York on Thursday December 27. The decision came at a Saturday committee meeting at the home of president Mass Alliene Declant of Hanover. Attendees included Mrs. Samuel H. Stein of York, Mrs. Roy J. Ixnouse, Miss Lydia Robert of Littlestown, and Mrs. Gordon Fisher and Miss Viola Brodbeck of Hanover.
Mrs L A Carbaugh of Hanover improved after an operation for internal trouble at the Woman's Hospital Baltimore Saturday. Mrs Amos Snyder near Harney Md operated on Thursday for gall stones at the West Side Sanatorium York. Joseph Wissman former Kungle Hotel porter Center Square discharged from York hospital Saturday. Miss Isther Julius Littlestone underwent a surgical operation at the West Side Sanatorium York Sunday. Mrs Mollie Wills Littlestown underwent gallstone removal at the West Side Sanatorium York Sunday.
Of 66 men called for Tuesday exams by the Third District exemption board in York County, 10 passed the physicals and did not file exemption claims. Forty six passed and filed exemption claims. four were rejected. The list includes George N. Ruth of Lust Berlin.
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