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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
1
A roundup of residents and visitors with ties to Abbottstown and surrounding towns. R. M. Baugher represented Hebron Lodge at a Philadelphia convention. many locals secured or sought wartime employment in Harrisburg and York areas. Several relatives and friends travel, visit, or return from travels, while enlistments and aviation corps entries rise among Hanover and Gettysburg residents.
J A Brockley moved his family from Hanover to the Raymond Gable property on Carlisle street and plans to start a shirt factory in the Dieb building Lincoln Way Weat on Monday December 17 seeking 30 operators. Howard Cromer moved his family from the Rittase farm to Pennville near Hanover on Friday. Forty Hours Devotion opened with Mass Exposition at 10 on Sunday morning and ended Tuesday evening with parishioners in attendance. Fr Shanahan was assisted by a Father from Paradise Protectory and Fr Scanlon of Fawrfeld. There is a sale on heavy winter coats offered at 17 75 in place of former 20 to 22 50 values.
Multiple obituaries note the deaths of Mrs Mary Fahs at age 83 in York with four weeks of illness and references to her family including J A Fahs and several children. Also reported is the death of Miss Mary Reinicker at Abbottstown after tuberculosis aged about 35, with funeral details. Additional notices recount Zacharia Shoff dying at 99 in Wrightsville, and Michael Lingg’s widow Maggie Lingg noted near New Oxford. Included are brief items on Dr L H Fackler learning of his brother George Fackler’s death in Eckman West Virginia after an auto accident, and various local legal and civic notices and schedule items.
Rev. William B. Hooper rector of Memorial Church of the Prince of Peace Gettysburg died in Charlottesville Virginia after weeks of illness and a prior automobile accident in Philadelphia. He was a New York native who served Orbisonia before coming to Gettysburg and leaves his wife and two daughters Mrs W H Kepner of Charlottesville and Miss Beth Hooper of Gettysburg.
Limer C. Bender of Mount Rock faced desertion and support charges pressed by wife Kate Bender. The case lingered through four hearings from Squire Sell to Squire Rice, passing to Adams County, then York County, with each court ultimately dismissing the charges.
The six Little children of McSherrystown are improving from diphtheria. Carmen Weaver of McSherrystown is improved after a serious illness. Mrs Emma Hafer of Abbottstown is ill in Hanover. Augustus Long of Littlestown suffers a sprained back from heavy lifting. Frank L Weaver of West High Street has a slight blood poisoning from a wound. Mrs Aaron Nace near Hanover shows improvement after a compound ankle fracture. Mary Bortner of Hanover is ill with diphtheria.
Birth notices report daughters for Leo F. Santh Pleasant street Edward Overbauh McSherrystown a daughter Charles Feiser Fast High street a son Roy Bollinger Midway a daughter. War news notes Wilson Jordan and Mark T Little in France while a Gettysburg service flag shows sixty seven stars.
Harry Tieman announces a public sale of personal property at the New Oxford cemetery house on March 19. Earlier, Abram Roth held a Saturday sale near Abbottstown, grossing 1600 dollars as 44 shoats sold from 10 to 75 dollars, cows from 45 to 85, and a bull at 75 amid harsh weather.
War dispatch notes renewed heavy fighting before Cambrai on a front under ten miles between Marcoing and Gonnelieu. British repulse German assaults with heavy losses. Italian front sees resumed infantry activity as Austro Germain forces maneuver behind lines, likely preparing a major northern front strike. Teutons move north of the Asiago plateau between the Brenta and Piave but stay out of range of Italian guns.
Austrian and German forces press an assault to break the Piave line and seize Venice but fail to pierce the river defenses. After days of costly attacks they retreat from the Piave Brenta area and shift toward Trentino while not renewing action in the Cambral sector.
General Byng orders a careful retreat from the Cambrai salient to stronger positions, executed without German knowledge. The move follows wedges last week that threatened disaster if held. On all fronts the Austro Germans press the Italian line on the Asiago plateau as battles intensify.
Allied fronts report continued pressure from German forces west of Cambrai with villages and Bourlon wood abandoned as troops slide to safer lines. Austrian efforts on Trentino front push Italians but front remains intact. Romanian troops join armistice moves. hostilities pause overall. Italian front sees max efforts to break through Asiago plateau with 16 000 Italian losses claimed by Germans.
The Bolshevik announced General Kal edin and General Kornilov have raised the Don Cossack revolt amid prewar intensification. In Italy the Austro German thrust toward the Asiago plateau is checked as Italian forces with British and French support halt the oncoming offensive. Western front activity continues with minor infantry movements in France and Belgium.
Survivors of the Norwegian ship Imo were taken into custody by British authorities in Halifax as the admiralty begins its collision inquiry. Torrential rain and a fifty mile gale hampered rescue and search efforts for the Mont Blanc explosion victims, with 2099 dead and 3000 injured reported and a relief fund appeal launched by Halifax and Dartmouth mayors.
A Petrograd despatch outlines likely German terms for peace, including fifteen years of Russian wheat market control and duty free German goods, with no Russian territories to be surrendered. Bolsheviks lose ground as Socialist Revolutionaries gain in constituencies and the assembly faces overhaul. Emperor Charles says peace would be his finest day, amid Vienna reports. Navy notes a fatal explosion on the submarine A-2, killing chief electrician Joseph Schoener.
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