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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
7
Marionetta a poor shop clerk hides tears over no Santa Claus. A wealthy woman helps Jimmy Clancy and reveals a kind stranger who returned Marionetta’s purse. The tale ends with plans for a doctor and a hospital visit to fix Jimmy’s crippled leg.
Miss Betty Martin of Harrisburg daughter of Mr and Mrs George R Martin Gettysburg underwent an appendectomy Saturday at Harrisburg hospital and is reported to be getting along nicely.
The county Red Cross chapter must return all Army discharge applications based on non disability grounds due to a War department order making disability the sole discharge criterion in the present emergency. No casualty information is available to the Red Cross locally. Folders on sending supplies to prisoners of war via the International Red Cross are available at the courthouse Red Cross office, and contributions to aid prisoners of war with standardized donations are being accepted.
The ITEM invites readers to send news tips and contributions by calling 14 R 5 for coordination and placement.
News from the Pacific theater reports safety updates for local families. Myra Houck of Gettysburg confirms via cable that daughter Mrs Everett Bennett and her husband and their two year old son Larry are safe aboard a Navy ship near Pearl Harbor. The Bennett family resides at Pearl Harbor. Biglerville residents Mr and Mrs G W Koser receive word from daughter Mrs Daryl Cardell in Honolulu stating she is well and asks them not to worry. Cardell’s husband, a chief boatswain, is stationed somewhere in the Pacific and has not yet sent word.
One hundred and nine boys at the Paradise Protectory near Abbottstown received hair cuts Sunday. Barbers visiting the institution included Oscar, Donald and Kenneth Kinneman Archie Lingg Frances Aumen Ralph and John Ferry and Fred Baker of Hanover Leon Smith of New Oxford Earl Haverstick of Abbottstown and FP W Topper Sr of McSherrystown.
Notice that the annual meeting of policy holders of Adams County Mutual Fire Insurance Company will be at The Gettysburg National Bank Gettysburg Pennsylvania on January 12 1942 between two and three P M for electing eleven managers and other business. Donald P McPherson Jr secretary 12 18 41
One in a series of pruning demonstrations will be conducted by extension pomologist J U Ruef Friday at 1 30 p m in the J W Lucabaugh orchards between Hanover and Abbottstown.
Notice is given that Letters Testamentary on Cyrus Wolf late of Abbottstown Adams County Pennsylvania have been granted to Clarence R Wolf and Belle Wolf Flickinger executors. Creditors and others with claims against the estate must present them and debtors must pay promptly to the executors or their attorneys Laird and Buchen Keith Bigham and Markley Gettysburg Pa.
Coroners, justices, constables, and local officials are ordered to appear at Gettysburg for the Adams County Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions starting January 26, 1942 at 9:30 AM with records and examinations.
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