Adams County Red Cross toy drive surpasses 1100 items
Adams County school children donated over 1109 Christmas toys and favors for Elizabethtown Children's Hospital Paradise Protectory Hoffman's orphanage veterans hospitals and the county home. County Red Cross secretary Elizabeth Pennington urged remaining schools to send items to the county office by December 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County
Elizabethtown Children's Hospital
Paradise Protectory
Hoffman's Orphanage
Veteran's Hospitals
Elizabeth Pennington
Ronald, Hoke
Abbottstown
Woman lists wide toy donations to countyRed Cross and jails
Paper dolls and gifts from many schools go to veteran hospitals and county jail inmates as Christmas presents. About 30 glass paintings, wooden and plaster plaques, and stuffed toys from Abbottstown to Wenkeville shine in the county drive. William A. Robinson of York Springs R2, a Penn State sophomore, joins the Penn State Grange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Red Cross
Idaville
Abbottstown
Brysonia
Boyd's
Biglerville
Brush Row
Conewago Chapel
Franklin Township
Pairfield High
Gardners
Greenstone
Gettysburg High School
High Street
Lincoln and Meade
St Francis Xavier Parochial
Glenwood
Green Ridge
William A. Robinson
York Springs
Penn State College
Penn State Grange
Record births exceed prior year in Gettysburg area November 1945
November births reach 69 in the Gettysburg district per registrar Ralph Geiselman, nearing the all time monthly high of 73 and driving 11 month total to 546. Gettysburg accounts for most births with 282 males and 46 females. eight deaths so far this year, seven in Gettysburg, one in Cumberland township.
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Gettysburg
Ralph C. Geiselman
Cumberland
Straban
Freedom
Highland Townships
Geiselman
Straban Township
Cumberland Township
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Myers Drug Store
the Square
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H. C. Albright
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