New Oxford Local Items Mixed With Holiday Notices
Hanover Street police appointment for Charles Rinehart Jr. and duties with Chief Walter Bemiller. Post office stamp windows open all day Saturday and evenings with overtime. Grace L. Rickrode files for divorce from Luther C. Rickrode. Local stores advertise Christmas specials and hours, with many closings on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Community notices include church conversions, school board re elections, and civic group events.
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Stock
Carlile St. Ie
Hanover Hospital
Charles Rinehart Jr
Hanover St
Walter Bemiller
New Oxford
Grace L. Rickrode
Luther C. Rickrode
Winter Gardens
Jocker
Win- Gardens
John H. Zinn
New Oxford R. 1
Hanover R
Rohrbaugh’s
Carlisle St
Lower Adams Jointure School Board
Harry Brinton
Clyde Garber
David B. Eckert
Pine Run
Newman's Hill
New Locust Inn
Cross Keya
Hebron Lodge
First Lutheran Church
Noel’s
Center Square
Oak Grove School
New Chester
Sipe
Seeady
Stough & Lings Motors
Ennie Keasler
Wil
Athetic
Oxford Lions Club
Florida
John Carroll
Abbottstown
Stremmel
Lingway
Deonohue
Donohue's
Xho Lao
Chiieumas
Staub Chevrolet
Christmas and Worship Services in Various East Berlin Area Churches
The calendar lists services for East Berlin Abbottstown St Marys Paradise Holtzschwsamm Lower Conewago Wolgamuth Latimore Latimore Chestnut Grove York Springs and York Springs Lutheran Parish with times for Masses Sunday School Christmas programs and special services including a candle light Christmas Eve and a midnight service. Parish pastors named include Lester Karschner Louis B Dougherty Rex J Keller Brantley Nowman L Bortner and others.
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York Springs Lutheran Parish
Nowman L. Bortner
Chestnut Grove
Lower Bermudian
York Springs
Christmas Cantata and Church Events Across Spreads
Combined deira of charge churches present the Christmas cantata Star of the Silent Night at Zwingli Church with Donald Golden directing and Frances Smith at Red Run as accompanist. St Pauls holds annual meeting with elder and deacon nominees.
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Robert H. Rezash
Emmanuel
Hampton
Mt. Olivet
Bertmudian
T. Johm
New Chester
Zwingli
East Berlin
Deira of
Francis Sterner
Ralph McGregor
Harold Schoup
Mervin Myers
Russell Fissell
Edgar Millhimes
Clyde Group
St. Paul's
Red Run
Glenn Snyder
Richard Hoffman
Church Hall
Mt Olivet
St. Paul's Young People
E B Lutheran Church Announces Officers and Christmas Activities
Trinity Lutheran Church East Berlin lists Gleaners Class officers Manuel and Christmas plans including carols, readings, and a story. New deacons Glenn Cashman Calvin Lerew and elders Jesse Gentzler Raymond Jacobs to be installed January 1. White gift service December 23 and candlelight service December 25. Sunday School 10:30 am. Choir rehearsals and catechetical classes noted.
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Gleaners
Trinity Lutheran Sunday School
East Berlin
Church Annex
Elaine Lerew
Gretna Burgard
Pauline Kunkel
Erma Grace Smith
Grace Stambaugh
Miriam Cashman
William Hildebrand
Bertha Brandt
Marc. Viola Schrom
Beulah Wentz
Glenn Cashman
Beatrice Fitzkee
Trinity Lutheran Church
Calvin Lerew
Jesse Gentzler
Raymond Jacobs
East Berlin News Notes Highlight Local Births Visits and Events
Local notes report births in York area with Miller and Jacobs families, residents moving, and visits by former locals. Community activities include Paradise PTA Christmas program and Sunday School party, plus post office holiday service changes and roadwork on Legislative Route 902150.
Deaths Mrs Florence Amelia Markel
Mrs Florence Amelia Markel 06 Hanover R 5 widow of Allen Markel died Friday at 5 am at Kuhn Convalescent Home New Oxford where she had lived three years. Formerly of Hampton she taught school and was postmaster. She retired 12 years ago. Surviving sister Mrs Mary McDonnell Gettysburg. Funeral Sunday Hanover. Burial St Johns Cemetery Abbottstown.
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Florence Amelia Markel
Hanover R
Allen Markel
Kuhn
New Oxford
Markel
Hampton
John D
Juliann Kepner Richter
St. John's Lutheran Church
Abbottstown
Mary McDonnell
Gettysburg
Hanover
Lester J. Karschner
St. John’s Church
East Berlin Authority to Open Sewer Bids Tuesday
The East Berlin Municipal Authority will open bids at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the East Berlin Fire Company hall for a sewer system and treatment plant costing about 260000 dollars. Bid results may take 60 days to accept or reject. The project serves about 450 customers with construction slated to begin next March and plant operation in early 1957.
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East Berlin Municipal Authority
East Berlin Fire Company
C.D. Krout
Reymond H. Fissel
John R. Wisler
John S. Lehr
Harry B. Nell
Saul, Ewing, Romick and Saul
Butcher and Sherred
Philadelphia
William E. Lees Jr
Charles W. Wolf
Gettysburg
Engagement of Cross Keys Girl Revealed
Announcement of the engagement of Miss Kathryn Wolfgang of Cross Keys to Dale Reichert near Abbottstown. Kathryn Wolfgang a New Oxford High School graduate and Hanover employee. She serves in the Ground Observer Corps at New Oxford and Hanover posts and was honored for faithfulness at GOC observances in Littlestown. Reichert is East Berlin High School educated and a former Army serviceman who returned from Korea in 1954. No wedding date was announced.
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Kathryn Wolfgang
Maurice Wolfgang
Cross Keys
Dale R. Reichert
Estella Reichert
Abbottstown
Miss Wolfgang
New Oxford High School
Hanover
Ground Observer Corps
New Oxford
GOC
Littlestown
Reichert
East Berlin
Paradise Catholic shifts Sunday Mass times
Father Louis Dougherty announces that after January 1 the Paradise Catholic Church Sunday Masses will move from 8 30 and 10 30 am to 9 and 11 am to allow more time for those waiting at home. The 7 am chapel Mass remains. Holy day schedules keep 7 am chapel and 7 30 pm parish church. The morning church Mass moves to 9 am. The plan may change to suit parishioners.
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St. Mary's Paradise
Rev. Louis &. Dougherty
Louis Dougherty
Paradise Catholic
St. Mary’s Church
New Oxford
Philip J. Gergen
The
Rosary Confraternity
Robert Miller
James de Vine
James Groff
12 Year Old Girl Faces Trying Ordeal
Marion Davis, a 12 year old polio patient from Rahway New Jersey, lies in a heavy plaster cast in the Hospital for Special Surgery New York City as she endures a three year battle. Her grandparents Mr and Mrs Edward D Devis Milton formerly of York Springs are noted. Mrs Charles Wolf New Oxford is named nursing services committee chair by George L Haem county Red Cross.
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York Springs
New York City
Marion Davis
David B. Davis
Rahway
N. J
Edward D. Devis
Milton
Marion
Charles Wolf
New Oxford
George L Haem
County Red Cross
Christmas Trees Tie to Three Dollars at Noels Variety
Connie's Restaurant Lancoirway East Ree Oxford Visit Carls Toyland at 277 Baltimore Street Hanover. Xmas trees offered with prices tied to three dollars at Noels Variety Shop.
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Christmas Trees
Connie's Restaurant
Lancoirway East
Ree Oxford
Carls Toyland
Baltimore St
Hanover
New Oxford
Warner Hospital admits and lists patients and staff
Warner Hospital receipts include Mrs. Walter Fairman Gettysburg R 5 Mrs Ted Romig and infant son Hanover R 1 Mrs Roy Martin Gettysburg R 4 Mrs Cleo Mumper Gettysburg mother of Clair 5 Mumper New Oxford Mrs Nellie Harris Gettysburg R 4 Mrs Raymond Weishaar and infant daughter Gettysburg R 5 Charles Greenholt Hanover R 4 Arthur Roth tonsillectomy Gettysburg Mrs Francis Auchter Gettysburg R 4 Mrs Merle Cleveland Gettysburg R 4 Miss Nancy Wagner Abbottstown Mrs Harold Riley and infant json York Springs R 2 Mrs Howard Hartzell Gettysburg R 5 and patients admitted Mrs Philip Eisenhart New Oxford R 1 Biglerville Mrs Ira Eisenhart East Berlin R 3 William Ecker Jr Abbottstown Miss Helen Johns McSherrystown Mrs Clista Myers East Berlin R 1 Harvey Ducet East Berlin R 2 Mrs Harvey Ruppert East Berlin R 2 Philip Orndorff Gettysburg BR 5
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Warner Hospital
Walter Fairman
Gettysburg
Ted Romig
Hanpover
Roy Martin
Cleo Mumper
Clair
Mumper
New Oxford
Nellie; Harris
Raymond Weishaar
Charles Greenholt
Hanover
Arthur Roth
Francis Auchter
Merle Cleveland
Nancy Wagner
Abbottstown
Harold Riley
JSON
York Springs
Howard Hartzell
Philip Eisenhart
Bigierville
Ira Eisenhart
East Berlin
Wiliam Ecker Jr
Helen Johns
McSherrystown
Clista Myers
Harvey Duccet
Harvey Ruppert
Philip Orndorff
Gettysturg
Gift suggestions at Saginaw hosiery shop advertise 34 gauge
A vintage page promotes Christmas shopping at Prowell's Millinery 51 Frederick St Hanover Pa and New Oxford store. It offers three pairs of hosiery 34 gauge 15 and M denier for 298 and a free gift plus Green Stamps with purchases.
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Saginaw
M Denier
Prowell's
Frederick St
Hanover
New Oxford
Local Marriage Licenses Log Lists Couples
Donald Roger Sheffer of East Berlin and Janet Lorraine Reever of New Oxford. Donald C. Thomas of Gardners and Loig A. Sheaffer of Mt. Holly Springs. McWilliams and Joyce Anneta Baublitz both of Abbottstown. Robert L. Thieret of Paradise Township and Jean Irene Sterner of Spring Grove. William Franklin Lehman of York Springs and Mildred LaRue Fuss of Dillsburg.
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Donald Roger Sheffer
East Berjim
Janet Lorraine Reever
New Oxford
Donald C. Thomas
Gardners
Loig A. Sheaffer
Mt. Holly Springs
Sterling C. McWilliams
Joyce Anneta Baublitz
Abbottstown
Westminster
Robert L. Thieret
Paradise Township
Samuel Thieret
Hanover
Jean Irene Sterner
Spring Grove
Isdian W. Sterner
William Franklin Lehman
J. Paul Lehman
York Springs
Mildred LaRue Fuss
Clarence M. Fuss
Dillsburg R. 1
Conewago Chapel Notes Of Interest
Conewago Chapel schedules daily Mass at 7 a.m. Saturday and 9 30 a.m. Sunday with confessions and a Sodality reception in the Blessed Virgin Mary sect. The marriage banns announced for Philip Smith and Marilyn Sneeringer of Sacred Heart Parish.
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The
Blessed Virgin Mary's Sodality
Philip Smith
Cyril Smith
Marilyn Sneeringer
Richard Sneeringer
Sacred Heart Parish
Squire Orndorff's Court Happenings
Larry Laughman of East Berlin R 1 was arrested Nov 28 charged with assault and battery. A hearing is set Saturday at Justice Gerald Orndorff's home. Richard Thompson Gettysburg R 4 was arrested Dec 1 charged with issuing a worthless check. A hearing is set Thursday at Justice Orndorff's home. James A Robinson New Oxford was apprehended Dec 10 charged with driving to the left of the center of the highway.
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Larry Laughman
East Berlin
Justice of the Peace
Gerald Orndorff
Joseph Laughman
Hanover
Richard Thompson
Gettysburg
Justice Orndorff
James A. Robinson
New Oxford
Special Services At Salem Church
Two Christmas programs will be held at Salem EUE Church in Galdens announced by Rev. Wilbur F. Lantz. A film Immanuel will be shown Christmas Eve at 7 30 with dialogue and music. A unified Sunday School and worship service will be held Christmas Day at 9 30 with a children’s program. The sermon topic is The Coming of the King.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem Eue
Galdens
Wilbur F. Lantz
Immanuel
First Evangelical
Letheran Chetek
G. E. Sheffer
Paul
Harbaugh
Women's Missionary Bank
Frederick L. Coleman
India
David Alewine
J. F. Sanders
Pam
Welcome Circle
John J. Stock
Clyde Garber
Norbert Linge
Linge
R. J. Brendan
George E. Sheffer
Church Council
Philip Alwine
Laurin Sheely
Kermis Sebright
Kenneth Walker
Sheffer
Zion Lutheran Church, Harrisburg
Amos D. Meyers
York Springs
Hunterstown
New Oxford
York Springs High School
Shhor
Christmas Concert at Hunterstown Church
The South Mountain Male Chorus presents a Christmas music program at Great Conewago Presbyterian Church in Hunterstown this Friday at 7 30 PM. The public is invited to attend.
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South Mountain
Great Conewago Presbyterian Church
Hunterstown
Christmas Program At New Oxford Elementary
Grades 1 through 4 present a winter scene play at the New Oxford Elementary building this Friday at 7 30 p m Approximately 325 children participate with teachers directing each grade’s performances featuring songs dances and carols.
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New Oxford
SQUIRE STRALEY COURT HAPPENINGS ARRESTS FOR ILLEGAL PARKING
Dec 7 arrests in New Oxford include John L Staub Jr Leonard L Wentz and Cyril Staub. Officer Charles Rinehart handled the cases. East Berlin High School ninth graders visited York Nursery School on Dec 6 with teacher Helen Brown to observe nursery activities. Nursery plans a Christmas party Dec 21 at 2 30 p.m. with about 50 children expected.
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Ilegal
John L. Staub Jr
New Oxford
Leonard L. Wentz
Hanover
Cyril Staub
Charles Rinehart
East Berlin High School
York Nursery School
Helen Brown
Card of Thanks to Warner Hospital Friends
Mrs Blanche Winard of East Berlin thanks those who sent cards gifts and visits during her stay in Warner Hospital and after returning home. Also notice of a fine selection of hand bags at Prowell's Millinery 51 Frederick Hanover Pa with prices from $2.00.
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Prowell’s Millinery
Frederick
Hanover
Panese
Warner Hospital
Blanche Winand
East Berlin
Prowell's Millinery
N O High School to Present Christmas Chorus Program
The New Oxford High School auditorium hosts a Monday 8 00 p m Christmas program with mixed chorus boys and girls and juniors and seniors performing carols and solos. Nancy Wolf Nancy Sebright Billy Baker and Robert Millar are among listed soloists with accompanists Judy Werner Gwen Freed and Edwin Starner.
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Oxford High School
Jesus
Glona
County School Board Names Five Year Terms At Adams County Meeting
Faber Wildasin of Abbottstown was re elected to a five year term on the Adams County Board of School Directors at the annual county convention in New Oxford. Paul Crum of Bendersville was named auditor for three years. Charles E Slaybaugh of New Oxford and Arnold E Orner of Arendtsville were elected delegates to the state convention with Fred Hartlaub and Ralph W. Tyson as alternates.
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Faber Wildasin
Abbottstown
Adams County Board of School Directors
Adxis County
New Oxford
Paul Crum
Bendersville
Charles E Slaybaugh
Arnold E. Orner
Arendtsville
Fred Hartlaub
Mr. Pleasant
Ralph W. Tyson
Huntington
New Oxford Lions Club Illuminates Center Square For Christmas
The New Oxford Lions Club lights Center Square with pine and red lights around the circle, pine and blue on four archways, and two large trees at north and south entrances. Peace on Earth in pine outlines the east and west approaches. Richard Higinbotham chairs the decorating committee and praises the job.
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New
Special Christmas Service At Pines
The New Chester Lutheran parish will hold its annual Christmas Eve candlelight service at 7:30 in St. Pauls Lutheran Church The Pines. The program features carols It Came Upon The Midnight Clear O Come O Emmanuel Come Ye Faithful Joy To The World Silent Night and a recessional Hark The Herald Angels Sing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Chester
Alwine bricks used in president's home
A reader disputes Life magazine on Eisenhower farm home materials stating it is built of wood stone and brick with painted brick. claims his company shipped 42 750 bricks to the site.
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Eisenhower Farm
Hampton fire hall hosts 300 card party this Friday
A 300 card party kicks off at 8 pm in the Hampton Fire Company hall with prizes and refreshments. The Centennial Fire Company plans a second card party Saturday at the firemen's hall to raise funds for the truck fund. Others are invited to a Paradise Catholic church sponsored shooting match December 18 at 1 pm in the church field. Delone Catholic High School Alumni dance is set for December 23 at the K of C Hall in McSherrystown from 9 pm to midnight with Mei-Obe music. reservations required.
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Hampton Fire Company
Centennial Fire Company
Paradise Catholic
Church Field
Delone Catholic High School Alumni Association
K. of C. Hall
McSherrystown
M An
Christmas Eve Candle Light Service At Local Church
Long community church notices list Sunday schools and worship times at multiple congregations. Special programs include a Christmas Eve candlelight service, Christmas music, and choirs with named pastors and organizers in Chetek and surrounding towns.
Sale Register and Auctions in East Berlin area
Dec 17 sales listed for John Gise near Holszechatam Church and Jacob Hutton near Dillsburg with real estate items. 1 pan at Wolfs Furniture Store in Two Taverns features toys Christmas lights electric trains and appliances. Additional notices for Alice Chapman real estate on King Street East Berlin. The Ruth Kay Shop and Hanover area listings appear in the advertisement.
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John Gise
Holszechatam Church
East Berlin
Jacob Hutton
Dillsburg
Getysburg
pan—Wolfs
Alice Chapman
King St
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Little Joe's Newstand
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Rosa E. ‘Harbold
York R. 1
Brougher Lane
York
Warren Miller
North York
Miller
Mervin D. Jacobs
Adam Jacobs
Holtzschwamm
Han‘over Hospital
John Krall
Culbertson
Mont
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Laverne Weaver
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Paul Shorb
W. King St
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Kenneth Burgard
Hanover City
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Clyde Staub
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Wellsville
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Glen Himes
Harry Berkheimer
Donald Messersmith
E. B. Authority
Merle Wilson
York Springs R. 2
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Charles Spicer
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Watt Avenue
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York Springs R
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Carlisle
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Holly Springs
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Tioga County
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Aspers
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Fla
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Steve
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New Oxford R. 2
Peters
Larry
Bainbridge Naval Training Center
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William A. Griffie
B. J. Griffie
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Conewago Chapel
Squire Orndorff
Salem Church
Squire Straley
N. O
Wildasin
County School Board
N. O. Square
Life Magazine
David B. Alwine
New Oxford, Pa
Leinhardt's
N. O. Church
Evangelical and Reformed Charge
A. C. Hohrbaugh
St. Paul’s
Woship
Youth Fellowship
Emmanuel’s. Abbottstown
Jack Gardner
the Pines
St. Mark’s
St. John’s, Hampton
Church of God Pentecostal Mission
Carl White
Ning
Sumdey School
Ruth Kay
LicAllister
York Street
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