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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1936
Page
5
Alton Wolford and wife visit Clarence Wolford near Gettysburg while many locals spend Sundays with relatives in Hanover York Springs and Two Taverns. Bucks deer are shot near York Springs and other property sales, hospital stays and school attendance figures appear alongside local notices and a sermon announcement.
A sheriff sale is set for December 19, 1936 at 2 PM at the Gettysburg Court House. The estate includes 288 acres in Cumberland and Mt. Joy Townships with a two and a half story stone house, large bank barn, several outbuildings, and a pond, seized as the property of J Kerr Lott and Margaret J Lott. Mortgagors and real owners are named in the notice, with ten percent down required immediately after sale or the property will be resold.
List of visitors includes Joseph Kline family Billy, Harry Stiner from Philadelphia, Lee Schaffey and Bernard, Mrs Clayton Krumrine Nellie Fay Eckard from York, Nelson Abel Hanover, Russell Abel Seven Valleys, Clyde Ohler and daughter, Mrs Herbert Krumrine Littlestown, Leslie Klinefeller family Eva Gloria, Kenneth Wolf Two Taverns.
Stella M Mauss transfers property in Oxford township to Mrs Viola Zinn of Berwick township. Norma E and A Burton Miller of Hanover move property to Clarence P and Florence Shoemaker in Conewago and Union townships. The First National Bank of Gettysburg sells lot with a one story garage fronting 60 feet on York Street to Ralph B Butt valued at 40000 dollars. George R Moore of Huntington township conveys 21 acres in Huntington township to Samuel L Davis. Louise M and Warren I Hemler of McSherrystown sell half interest in three Main Street lots to Joseph F Smith. Donald P McPherson executor transfers property and dwelling on East Lincoln Avenue at Gettysburg borough line to Dr J Clair and Florence B Donley.
Ruth EB Hykes teaches at New Chester school in Straban township as a list of November perfect attendance pupils includes Edna Bly Margie Deatrick Betty Jane Ford Freda Group Dolores Group Irene Heller Hazel Heller Dorothy Laughman Bessie Laughman Esther Laughman Mary Stitt Marion Starry Pauline Wolf Margaret Wolf Goldie Laughman John Bly George Group Fred Group Edward Huff Calvin Laughman Nelson Laughman Richard Milchimes Junior Nell Paul Stitt Charles Stitt William Witter Maurice Wolf Harold Ford and Ruth EB Hykes.
George Winters of Hanover was discharged from Hanover hospital on Monday and transported home by ambulance.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Tawney observed their fifty-ninth anniversary at home in Gettysburg. Married in Littlestown in 1877 by Rev. Metzler, they have two daughters, Mrs. Norman Wolf of Bloomsburg and Mrs. Carrie Pretz of Gettysburg, who visited for the weekend.
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