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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
9
Readable items note Christmas preparations in progress one week away. Reports include a ten percent annual dividend by Manover Drove Yard Co and new fire equipment for East Berlin Fire Co. Local prices for turkeys, pension notices, farm incidents, and community events fill pages with notices of marriages, accidents, auctions, and public meetings.
The Congregation women will hold a church fair in the School Hall on Golden Lane starting Monday evening Dec 21 for two weeks. They will sell useful and ornamental articles and offer chances with refreshments each night. All are invited to attend.
The afflicted include John F. Warner of Hanover Street with heart trouble and W H Emmert Center Square seriously ill with lumbago and rheumatism. The Irs TM editor remains unable to attend duties due to rheumatism. Sallie Blair Philadelphia Street assistant postmistress suffers a rheumatic attack. Measles are spreading among middle aged residents. Reubin Noel with C A Ruff on Berlin Street confined at home by rheumatism.
Instruments belonging to the Citizens Band were repaired at J W Pepper in Philadelphia and arrived on Thursday. The New Oxford community is urged to support the band financially to improve local music. A charity Fair to raise funds runs January 19 to 23 with broad invitation to help the group.
Thursday afternoon a coal oil stove left burning in Dr. W. R. Snyder’s office adjoining his Carlisle street residence produced dense smoke. Mrs. Miller noticed the blaze and alerted D. F. Stentz, who quickly extinguished the flames averting serious damage. Only smoke stained room and furniture.
A granite monument 18 feet high will be erected on the O Bold family lot in Conewago Chapel Cemetery next week. It features a Faith statue by Henry Bretelli of Vermont atop a carved plinth and fern motif, with eight markers bearing family names to complete the site.
Captain James T. Long of Gettysburg faced repeated raids on his poultry. He ordered his hired man John Harris to guard the hen house. Harris fired when a man seized a chicken, striking him as the thief fled into darkness.
Thaddeus A Neely died at his Muncie Indiana home last Thursday at age 65. Born and raised on a Huntington township farm owned by Clayton Myers he was a nephew of George and Howard Wierman and Mrs Hulda Neely. Mrs Jacob B Wildasin of Pennville near Hanover died Thursday evening in Union Protestant Hospital Baltimore of stomach cancer at 57. She underwent surgery December 9 after being admitted December 4. She had been married twice. first to Joseph Angell of Littlestown who was killed April 1 1878, and then to Jacob B Wildasin in 1897, leaving three sons and two daughters.
The 70 year old Nelson B. Young was brought from Baltimore on Friday morning by the Western Maryland Railroad and interred at Conewago Chapel. He formerly lived in McSherrystown and left several relatives near Conewago Chapel.
Mrs Adam Brumgard died Friday evening December 11 at her Union township home from a stroke of apoplexy aged about 70. Her husband died about seven years ago. Survived by two sons John Brumgard near his mother’s home and George of Littlestown, and a daughter Mrs Henry Bechtel near St Bartholomew’s church.
Mrs Edwin Martin widow of Littlestown died in Philadelphia last Saturday from a brain hemorrhage. Her husband, son of Mrs Loretta Martin of Littlestown, died two years ago. John B Snyder of Hanover died suddenly Sunday at 7:30 pm from heart disease aged 46 years 3 months 18 days. he was a machinist with W M Railroad for 24 years and past master mechanic at Hanover shops. Survived by wife one son and one daughter. Mrs Isaac Wagner of Grangeville near Hanover died Monday evening from neuralgia of the brain aged 55 years 10 months 6 days. she was Elizabeth Rhine of Hanover, survived by husband and eight children.
Peter Smith of York spent Sunday with A. G. Low family on West High street. Mrs Josephine McMaster and son Joseph of Bonneauville visited daughter Mrs. Joseph Carbaugh on Philadelphia street. Cleopha Robinson of Orange street visited sister Mrs Charles Staub in McSherrystown. Win Cassat of Carlisle solicited fitting at a local shoe factory. Cora Byer of Philadelphia street accepted a job there and left for the city. Mac Gardiner of Wernersville Sanitarium is visiting friends. Laura Smith of Hotel O Bold Hanover spent Sunday with her mother near Iowan. Prof J O Funkhouser of Moller organ factory and E W Moller of Hagerstown spent Saturday with O A Smith family. O A Smith of Hanover street left Tuesday for Philadelphia and New York City for Moller Organ Co. Mrs Von Pfeter of Manchester Md visited sister Mrs J M C Gilbert at Center Square.
Open hunting ends for deer rail and reed birds on November Tuesday. Pheasants ruffled grouse hare rabbit quail of Virginia partridge wild turkey woodtrack and squirrels close. Plover may be hunted until January first and webfooted fowl until May. Sale restrictions apply to within state limits.
News briefs report a horse death for Martin Rickrode of Oxford township a cement rock discovery on the Wernger farm near Lititz a coffee and crackers price rise and a holiday sale at Naers Hanover updates on Edgar Blocher a Penn dental graduate Governor Pennypacker’s Hanover visit a laborer injury to Jacob Musser of Buchanan Valley and multiple local tragedies including the death of Mrs Sara C Miller related to her husband’s murder in Keedusaville Maryland a hay mow fall ends with a man injured and a tramp William Duff facing hospital care and possible amputation a home remedy note recommends Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets with sale by Randolph Wehler
An old advertisement touts Scott’s Emulsion as a blood tonic for pale sickly young women, claiming it restores strength and color. It highlights Cod Liver Oil content, appeals to teen health, and offers samples, with Scott & Bowne listed as chemists in New York.
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