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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
6
Clair H. Mou of Hanover was stabbed in the chest at his home Sunday night by his wife during an argument following a party. The knife was recovered by police. Mrs. Mou faces assault and battery with intent to kill charges with bail set at $1,000.
Adams County Brural Letter Carriers Association held its semi annual banquet at the Hotel Bigler in Biglerville on Saturday evening. Carriers from York Adams Franklin and Dauphin counties attended despite heavy foggy driving conditions. Notable attendees included Mr and Mrs W Ralph Miller Mr and Mrs C E Sponseller Mr and Mrs M A Yohe Postmaster Joseph I Weaver of New Oxford Postmaster and Mrs C E Boyer and Mr and Mrs Russell Gardner of York Springs.
The annual Week of Prayer will be observed in New Oxford Protestant churches from January 1 to 6 with six evening services. Two pastors will deliver messages on two occasions each, spread across the Lutheran Reformed and Methodist Episcopal churches. Everyone is invited to attend and support as in previous years.
Christian Herr, 17 months old and son of Mr and Mrs E Herr of Mr Pleasant township near New Oxford, has scarlet fever. The home was quarantined Friday by Health Officer John Detrick of Biglerville after visiting Lancaster County where the illness was contracted. Herr runs a nursery business.
A short shopping blurb notes Brock's chocolate drops priced at 10 cents per pound available at Lincolnway Grocery in New Oxford.
Santa Claus will visit Rupp's store on December 23 with two sessions from 3 to 5 PM and 7 to 9:30 PM. Awards will be given at 9 AM Saturday. Ed Auker named to the American Druggists' Syndicate Fellowship. Various local notices include church plans for January 20 1934 and new neon sign at Superior Garage.
Christmas Eve carols will be sung by the combined choirs of the Lutheran and Reformed churches. Anyone wishing to take part should meet on the Square at 11:45 p m.
The New Oxford School notes a Friday assembly program with devotional reading songs films and skits led by students including John Myers Clyde Garbor and Lawrence Himes. A December 21 730 p m Christmas program at Miller’s Hall is free to the public followed by a December 22 high school assembly program joint by the Dramatic Club and the Girl Reserves. The seventh and eighth grade Girl Reserves hiked and hosted a wiener and marshmallow roast with officers Mildred Hull Arlene Bowers and Katherine Miller and planned a Christmas basket project for a local family with Dorothy Gable assisting.
Howard Mummert, 28, of Abbottstown R D, was arrested by state police on a charge of stealing a shotgun and a rifle from Merle Sanders of Abbottstown. The weapons were recovered. Mummert was jailed in Adams county overnight on $500 bail after a hearing before Justice I R Witmer in Hanover.
The bureau of motor vehicles announced in Harrisburg today the revocation of William E. Eckert of Gettysburg for incompetence behind the wheel. In the same action the bureau restored driving privileges to George Wortz of New Oxford and Harold Wortz of Fairfield.
The Farmers' union will meet in The Pines community hall on Tuesday evening December 26 at 7 30. All farmers seeking better prices for their products are urged to attend this gathering.
Local notes say Aero Oil distributed Christmas bonus checks to its workers on Wednesday. The Payne studios in Paterson are installing church windows for the new Lutheran church on Lincolnway East nearing completion. A December 28 Irishtown schoolhouse party will benefit the Irishtown fire company.
The Rev. George E. Sheffer leads at New Oxford Lutheran Church with a 9 a m Sunday school aiming for full attendance next Sunday. A 10 15 a m worship features themed “The Blessings of Christmas” and three anthem performances. An evening 7 p m service includes the Christmas pageant “A White Christmas.” No church census this Saturday. Holy Communion on December 31 both morning and evening. Preparatory service Friday December 29 at 7 30 p m.
The Rev. Jos N Whalen rector announces midnight mass Christmas Eve at 12 01 AM and Christmas morning masses at 7 30 and 8 00. Church services are at St Marys Church New Oxford.
The Rev. H. E. Sheely at St. Pauls New Oxford announces a Saturday afternoon program by the Mission Band children at 2 o clock and a Christmas night program at 7 with a cantata The Bethlehem Way. Morning church services replace the evening service with a sermon The Changing Power of Christmas. All welcome.
Emmanuel Abbottstown announces a Sunday 7 p.m. worship featuring two parts by children and young people. The event aims to prepare for Christmas Day and invites all. An annual election of church officers follows the service. there will be no morning service.
The Rev. R. B. Dysart leads services with Sunday school at 9 30 a m under E S Hager. Christmas exercises at 10 30 a m. Cottage prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7 30 at Charles Sadler's home Hanover street. Bible study Friday 7 30 at Miss Nettie Swartz Lincolnway East.
Abbottstown Lutheran notes Sunday school at 9 with no preaching. Christmas program by primary class children Saturday 7 30 and senior class program Christmas evening 7. East Berlin Lutheran offers Sunday school 9 worship 10 and a Christmas program Sunday 7.
The Pines Heidlersburg holds Christmas exercises Sunday evening at 7 30 and preaching Sunday at 10 am. Hampton hosts Christmas exercises Wednesday evening at 7 30 and preaching Sunday at 2 pm.
The Rev. H. D. Houtz will lead services at Bermudian 9:00 a.m. East Berlin 10:15 a.m. and Red Run 7:30 p.m. Christmas programs by Sunday schools at East Berlin and Red Run. A midnight recital and chorus will be held 10:45 p.m. December 24 at East Berlin. Christmas service at New Chester is Friday December 22 at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is invited.
Salem United Brethren Church will hold preaching at 9 a.m. followed by Sunday school at 10 a.m. The schedule indicates morning worship and educational sessions for parishioners.
York Springs Lutheran Charge lists Sunday school at 9 30 a m and preaching at 10 30 a m. Christmas service at 7 30 p m Monday. Chestnut Grove offers Sunday school 9 30 a m and Christmas service at 7 30 p m Sunday. No preaching. Lower Bermudian Sunday school 9 30 a m and Christmas service The Christ of Glory Saturday at 7 30 p m.
St Marys School children perform a musical Christmas play titled Christmas Wit as the Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe at Parochial Hall New Oxford on Friday evening December 22 1933. The program features opening chorus several solos a duet and group numbers with characters Sleep Fairy Fairy Godmother Santa Claus Mother Goose and others. The two part production includes songs No Matter What the Weather Hey Diddle Daddledee Everything Is Ready and I Want To Know along with choruses and scenes by the Fairies and Children of Santa Claus.
A daughter was born Tuesday to Mr and Mrs Leslie Reinicker East Berlin and another Thursday to Mr and Mrs Paul Kuhn Orange Street. The Chamber of Commerce of New Oxford placed a large Christmas tree in Center Square lit with many bulbs. Roger B Hertz Hanover sells beer and ale in New Oxford Saturdays. D F Slentz Center Square grocer offers a wagon of groceries as a prize. A personal property sale by Frank Bashore near town netted 64 50. Several injuries and recoveries are noted, including Judge Stock learning of scalp laceration and a broken forearm of a young Rife. Hebron lodge elected new officers. Mrs W L Kohler hosted a gathering. Receipts from a minstrel show by New Oxford Athletic Association were about 75 amid poor weather. Robert Miller of Lincolnway West walks with crutches after a fall from a horse. Discharges from Gettysburg hospital reported for Wortz and infant, and for a hospitalizing injury to Keiser in Hanover.
The Business and Industrial Girls' club held a Christmas party in their clubhouse on Monday December 18 with fourteen members and guests. Santa Claus attended and gave each attendee a gift. Beer packages were prepared for distribution to town shut-ins as the club's annual holiday remembrance.
The Rev J F P O'Donnell rector will celebrate a solemn high mass at Conewago Chapel at 12 o'clock on Christmas Eve.
Howard Norris, 26, of York, was arrested on the Carlisle pike south of Cross Keys at 12 30 Saturday morning on a charge of stealing E C Masemers automobile. Norris slept in the car when stopped. Masemer found his garage lock forced and car missing. Norris jailed in Adams County. information sworn before a York alderman.
One hundred forty five boys from the Paradise protectory near Abbottstown toured the Cook Brothers European circus opening in the Hanover Y M C A gym. Sponsored by the Hanover Ei wants club, proceeds aid underprivileged children. Transported in 17 Kiwanis and school buses, the boys received bags of peanuts as guests.
Green Springs presents a children’s Christmas program on Tuesday December 27 featuring The Beanville Community Tree. The same weekend a Christmas play is slated for Friday December 29. A congregational meeting on Thursday December 21 will elect church and Sunday school officers for 1934.
Emory S. Smite of Hanover is offering needle pine and cedar trees for Christmas use. The notice lists Emory Smite as contact for orders and pickup details in Hanover.
A notice announces cemetery wreaths priced at $2 at Lancolowey Grocery in New Oxford.
Adams county commissioners boosted the 1994 county tax rate by two and a half mills to nine and a half total, leaving the half mill sinking fund unchanged. The higher levy lowers projected operating-revenue to about $150,721 from $167,900 due to a $1.46 million drop in real estate assessments. Transfers of a four mill money-at-interest tax to the state and $40,000 in 1933 taxes owed also shape the budget, with slashes in appropriations anticipated. The sinking fund will yield about $8,377 to pay interest and retire obligations.
A state veterinarian began the annual tuberculosis eradi cation retest in Hamilton township with Himer Hoover of Abbottstown transporting cattle. The Straban township retest starts December 26, announced at Gettysburg by township farmers. Curtis Swope of New Oxford will transport the veterinarian.
Charles FE Horwedel of Mr and Mrs P I Horwedel Jr and Mildred O Willet of Mr and Mrs Edward Willet McSherrystown received licenses. Rev Jacob R Zepp son of Samuel M Zepp New Oxford R D and Ruth M R Kennedy daughter of Clinton E Kennedy East Berlin were licensed in Gettysburg on Tuesday.
The New Oxford High School Alumni association met Tuesday evening at the high school and elected Frances Weaver as president Frank Higinbotham as vice president Minnie Colestock as treasurer and Louisa Duttera as secretary for the coming year.
Salvaged stock from the Sweetland shop in Gettysburg goes on drastic reduction sale. Temporary location is in the First National Bank building at the southwest corner of Center Square, advertised in this issue.
A group of Oxford township taxpayers asked Adams County Court to vacate two road sections between New Oxford and McSherrystown. They claim the roads are useless and inconvenient due to highway improvement and widening. No residents live along the segments. A three member board Robert F. While, Leone F. Dultera, and P. B. Omner will view the sections and report back.
Turkeys are selling at per pound prices with figures cut off in the listing. The notice notes limited stock as shoppers prepare for upcoming celebrations.
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