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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1940
Page
6
Edith Harris endures a lonely Christmas Eve in a gray city room waiting for mail from home and Ken. A belated note and a large package finally arrive after a landlady’s mishap, revealing a blizzard kept Edith from town but mother’s card promises Christmas dinner with Ken.
A man boasts of a salary raise after praise for a research project and hints at a proposal gesture. Edith feigns ignorance as he plans to reveal more, implying a romantic moment arrives with an unexpected twist.
The Montreal Herald says the Ilchester Somerset badger feast began with Norman era poachers and has continued yearly. Village lads catch and kill a badger before Christmas. On Christmas Eve it is spit roasted over a large inn fire and slowly cooked.
A local reader plans to gift a year of the home newspaper to a distant relative or friend this Christmas. The offer promises regular delivery and keeps the recipient connected to hometown events across seasons.
The Adams County Historical Society filed Wednesday afternoon in the Prothonotary’s office for incorporation as a nonprofit. The group lists assets of about 200 dollars plus maps books genealogies and relics and sets annual dues at two dollars.
The East Berlin R 2 home of Howard Laughman is quarantined by Adams County health officer William I Shields after Florence Laughman aged five shows scarlet fever symptoms. The dwelling was tagged last Wednesday.
Guyon E. Buehler of Gettysburg was elected Worshipful Master of Good Bamaritah Lodge No. 336 at the annual meeting in the Masonic Building Gettysburg. He succeeds County Treasurer Ray J. Kitzmiller and joins a slate including George Raffensperger Edwin Harris Charles Myers W Preston Hull and trustees Raymond Topper Lloyd Keefauver and Arthur Hutchison.
Officers will officially take up duties at noon on St. John’s Day December 27. That evening the Good Samaritan lodge hosts its annual St. John’s Day banquet at the Hotel Gettysburg with Franklin Moore of Harrisburg as principal speaker and Divan member of Zembo Temple of the Shrine.
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