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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
6
The Mount Saint Bernard's Monastery at Whitwick England houses about 40 Trappist monks who vow perpetual silence and abstain from meat or fish. Christmas Eve Mass is followed by early morning prayers and a frugal schedule ending with Boxing Day dawn prayers. The Guest Master calls this season's observance the best way to spend the Holy Season.
Adams County Child Welfare Services advisory committee set January 13 for its annual meeting in the courthouse. Officers to be elected and by-laws voted on. Foster care summary shows 23 children in foster homes and 21 in their own or relative homes. Attending were Rev. Dwight F. Pallan and other local officials. several members absent.
Ralph W. Baker and family moved from 358 York Street to 16 Seminary Street in Gettysburg.
The Adams County Republican Committee filed a detailed report listing income of 1500 from James Torrence and 500 from Chester A. Gross plus other contributions. Expenses covered services, car use, rent, transportation, meals, refreshments, advertising and more totaling 4394.02 since September 4 leaving 387.98 in coffers. William L. Mears served as treasurer.
Harold Mauss of Gettysburg was held for the January grand jury a week after a hearing before Justice of the Peace John Basedore on a serious charge brought by A. S. Wiseman. Mauss was released under $500 bail.
The Mount Pleasant Township Board of School Directors will sell at public sale a brick Conewago School building about 20 by 30 feet with steel roof in good condition. The sale, without land, occurs December 21, 1940 at 1:00 p.m. near New Oxford along the New Oxford to New Chester road. Two outdoor toilets will also be offered. purchaser must remove the building. Joseph A. Chrismer.
The national Christmas tree is a giant Sequoia over 267 feet tall in General Grant National Park 64 miles east of Fresno California. Devotional and patriotic services have been held beneath the tree each year since 1925 and broadcast nationwide.
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