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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1925
Page
4
Postmaster General New warned senders to include return addresses on Christmas and New Year cards. He cited over 1.5 million e cards ending in dead letter offices last year, costing about 150000 dollars to senders and 15000 dollars to the department for clerical handling. The text then mentions the crack St. Mary's quintet of Mc-
Sherrystown halted Albemarle A A of York in a Monday game with a 36 to 31 victory. The result snapped Albemarle’s winning streak and featured strong defense from the Sherrystown squad.
In Adams county there are 16 lawyers all living in Gettysburg except William McSherry who resides in Littlestown. In Cumberland county there are 60 lawyers. Letters testamentary on the estate of Eme May Brough Bastian in Hanover have been granted to Stephen T. Bastian.
County home readies a unusual Christmas with each inmate receiving gifts from the board of poor directors and visiting organizations. Sheriff Shearer plans a bountiful Christmas dinner and extended liberties to inmates to lift spirits inside the prison walls.
James H. Duttera transfers a tract of land in Washington township to Tillie Duttera. A Christmas entertainment will be held at Fickes school house Wednesday evening.
Sheriff Shearer seizes John Waddle property in Gettysburg and schedules sale for January 9. Abert Sneeringer of McSherrys town killed a hog weighing 448,144 pounds on the preceding Saturday.
Reports claiming four girls attacked a man near Gettysburg, stealing him to a side road and injuring him with a hot pin, were investigated and found unfounded. The tale spread to York with claims of a fatal hospital death and an arrest, but reflects no verified event.
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