New Oxford Item Noted Subscription and Ad Rates
A New Oxford notice lists subscription terms: runa 1.00 per year in advance, 166 if unpaid within the year, with online cancellation by publisher after arrears. Failure to offer discontinuance at end of prepaid time counts as a new engagement. Out-of-county rate 1.50 per annum in advance or 2.00 if unpaid. Ads at reasonable rates with yearly discounts. Printing services from labels to posters, Federal Advertising Rep The American Press Association. Entered at New Oxford Post Office as second class mail matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Runa
Jeb Printine
Doory
Ferelian Advertising
American Press Association
New Oxford
Local notes and events from York Springs region bulletin
Sunday parochial school play in Bonneauville. Yorkers attend meetings, farms, and故. Various community items include deer hunting success, dog licenses rise, and tax bill vote. Individuals named with towns: New Oxford, York Springs, Abbottstown, McSherrystown, Two Taverns, Gettysburg, and others.
Cigar Tax Amendment Defeated in House Vote
Representative Menges sought to restore a five cent cigar tax cut from four dollars to two fifty arguing it would hurt small hand made cigar makers in Red Lion Windsor Yoe and Dallastown and cost about 20000 jobs with lobby pressure from tobacco interests opposing any tax change and the house would not alter the current reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Mengas
House
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Menges
Menges
Red Lion
Windsor
Yoe
Dallastown
Christmas charity drives at Strand Theatre in Gettysburg
A double benefit at the Strand Theatre raised food for Red Cross Christmas baskets. Harry J. Troxell organized two performances with donations instead of tickets. Schoolchildren contributed twelve bushels of potatoes for a Potato Matinee. Forty baskets were packed at Miss McMillan's office and will be distributed by the Gettysburg Rotary Club to Adams county families. Each basket includes a chicken from Rotary and venison reportedly supplied by County Game Warden Leo Bushman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strand Theatre
Gettysburg
Harry J. Troxell
Red Cross
Adams County
Rotary Club
Leo Bushman
Tot Loses Sight of His Right Eye
John H. Gardner Jr., four and a half, son of Philadelphia residents formerly from Gettysburg, lost vision in his right eye after a knife accident while cutting cardboard. Surgeons at Jefferson Hospital operated last week. the eye will remain intact, but permanent blindness in the right eye is expected. The left eye became infected but doctors say its sight remains unimpaired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Gardner
Philadelphia
Gettysburg
Jefferson Hospital
Local and regional notes from Adams County readers
Grant Rexroth of Oregon visits brother H B Rexroth of Wiermans Mill. A two car collision in Abbottstown injures no one. Ruth Craumer’s Ford sustains heavy damage, Walter Baker’s car minor. A toll of weather marks Capricorn start. Christmas treats planned for multiple homes. Paroled Tilman Young returns to care for ill father after plea of guilty for assault. Hanover car crash on Hanover square leaves minor damages. Farmers State Bank Hanover boosts semi annual dividend by 1 percent to 6 percent. capital stock $50,000 with profits $116,000. Herbert Koontz sells his restaurant to J Edward Barr. possession given. Adams County issues 1926 dog licenses, 60 allocated per holder. Allen Smith returns from Pacific Coast furlough aboard U S S McFarland. John Meals, sailor on Marblehead, visits Centre Mills with extensive world cruise behind him. Aspers Fire Company bazaar scheduled December 25 to January 1, 1926. Abbottstown church officers elected. observers report no disturbance after raid on Hayes Grofit home by state police and county detective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Br. W. R. Snyder
Wm. Arbogast
Albert Peterman
Milton Wagner
J. O. Miller
Charles Miller
Luther Potterf
Frank
John McCadden
Elmer Dillman
David Leech
New Oxford
Doe
St. Joseph's Hall
Bonneauville
Wavnover
McSherrystown
Paradise Protectory
John D. Stallsmith
Charles Reinecker
Lester Davis
Treas
J. T. Myers
Lewis Criswell
Ralph Davis
Marie Roudebush
Helen Bower
Earl Miller
Dessie Deatrick
Home Dept
C. F. Menges
H. B. Pearson
H. A. Miller
Harrisburg
C. M. ‘Trostle
Franklin Agency
Gaing
Market Street
Kansas City
North Carolina
Mississippi
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Huntington Township
L. M. Gardner
Pennsylvania
York County
Adams
Allegheny
Luzerne
Cameron
Franklin Menges
York-Adams
Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
A. W. Rupp
York Springs
Ralph Keech
York
Rupp
Paul I. Kohler
First National Bank of York
Albertstown
Luther Luckenbaugh
Gettysburg
Trimmer
Kernan
Luckenbaugh
J. Diehl
Abbottstown
Jump
Jay Epley
Fayetteville
Jhas
Olk Springs
Red Cross
B. Kenton Gardner
Charles Spangler
Mauge Wierman Kennedy
Adams County
Curtis Bushey
Bushey
George and
C. Grove Hymes
Ursinus College
George Nagle
Lehigh University
G. Horace Hafer
Yale University
Anna Gitt
Helen Baker
Gettysburg College
Gertude Ornworff
Nora Haar
West Chester State Noy- Juno
Grant Rexroth
Oregon
H. B. Rexroth
Wierman’s Mill
Walter Baker
Ruth Craumer
Miss Craumer
Baker
Children’s Home
Paradise Refectory
Christian Home
Our ‘Home
Messrs. Appel
Hd. R. Moore
Tilman Young
New Baltimore
Leo Fink
Hanover
Berwager
Hanover Square
Farmers State Bank
T. J. Warner
Herbert Koontz
J. Edward Barr
Manny
Harry J. Troxell
Allen Smith
C. P. Smith
Smith
Pacific
U. S&s. McFarland
John Meals
Adams Meals
Grace Pensyl
Centre Mills
Mr. Meals
United States Navy
Marblehead
Boston
Aspers Fire Company
Jonas Hildebrand
H. EF. Shellenberger
Heimer Hoover
Charles About
Littlestown Used in International Auto Theft Ring
Former Baltimore officer Orville Grim posing as Lawrence Charbénau of Garfield New Jersey led a scheme selling six stolen cars from New York and Paterson. Cars were retitled in Garfield and Littlestown before reaching Baltimore. Five cars recovered. engine serial numbers burned and replaced. Federal warrant filed charging three violations of the Dyer Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Littlestown
Baltimore
Lawrence Charbénau
Garfield
N. J
Orville Grim
New York
Paterson
Grim
J. Frank Supplee
United States
Information Wanted About Slain Fleming
County Detective Charles H. Wilson seeks information about Walter W. Flemming a Orrtanna native whose headless body was found in a Washington river last summer Washington police intend to press murder charges in the Fleming case. The victim disappeared July 28 from a farm where he worked and investigators suspect a fellow worker killed him after prior fires on the same farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Wilson
Vancouver
Washington
Walter W. Flemming
Orrtanna
Stroke Fatal to Two County Women in Fairfield Area
Two county women died of strokes near Fairfield. Mrs. Ada W. White, 47, wife of James H. White, died Monday evening at the White home. Mrs. Mary J. E. Herring, 72, of Fairfield, died Saturday at 4 30 p m while eating supper. Surviving relatives include husbands, children, and extended family in York and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary EB. Herring
Fairfield
Ada W. White
James H. White
White Home
Special course announced at Arendtsville Vocational School
Edwin A. Rice principal announces a short agriculture and home making course at Arendtsville Vocational School from February 1 to March for all residents over 14. No tuition. Subjects include farm crops animals orcharding gardening poultry wood and drow shop work sewing cooking basketry and English.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin A. Rice
Arendtsville Vocational School
Mr. Rice
State College
Arendtsville
Rice
Farmer Secretary Falls Asleep Driving Home
John B. Peters Upper Huntington dozed off while driving from a Gettysburg Farm Bureau meeting and rammed his car into a neighbor’s garden fence near Spencer Snyder’s property. No injuries occurred. Peters, secretary of Adams County Farm Bureau, had been working weeks to grow membership and supervise his fruit interests, losing sleep en route home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Gettysburg
John B. Peters
Upper
Huntington
Spencer Snyder
Mr. Peters
Adams County Farm Bureau
York Springs
Three Road Projects in Adams County Planned Next Year
Adams county survey lists three road projects with high build probability for the coming year. Gettysburg supports the half mile link to West Confederate avenue and Fairfield road, while the county commissioners back the three miles to Mummasburg and the Hanover road segment to Bonneauville. State aid involved. Day and night shifts set at the Gettysburg district office to map work across York Franklin and Adams counties. Concrete expected as the construction material. York County reports nine building projects on its program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County
Gettysburg
Fairfield Road
Borough of
Mummasburg
Hanover Road
Bonneauville
York
Franklin
Adams
York County
Globe Trotters Return Home After Vagrancy Arrest
Brvin Wolford and John Emig, aged 16 and 17, sons of local residents, began a Florida trip by hiking and begging lifts. They were arrested in Baltimore for vagrancy and jailed briefly before returning to York and Abbottstown. They had little money left when captured by Patrolman Orville Cudk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brvin Wolford
William E Wolford
York
John Emig
Abbottstown
Florida
Baltimore
Monumental City
Orville Cudk
Autoist Held for Injuring Woman
H A Sanders of Littlestown was arrested by Detective Fickes on the information of Martin L Diehl of York. An alderman’s court heard Sanders Monday on charges that he, while driving his car, struck Anna Diehl and left the scene without aiding her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Sanders
Littlestown
Fickes
Martin L. Diehl
York
Taughinbaugh
Anna
Sanders
Anna Diehl
Sanders Fox
Automobile crash seeks damages from reckless driver
Robert T. Eckenrode of Harrisburg files suit in Gettysburg against William Mervin of Philadelphia for $297.85 after a Belmont schoolhouse collision. He claims his car lost $200 in value and sustained $97.85 in damage due to Mervin’s reckless driving. John D. Keith represents Eckenrode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Yohe
Robert T. Eckenrode
Harrisburg
Gettysburg
William Mervin
Philadelphia
Eckenrode
Mervin
Belmont Schoolhouse
John D. Keith
Seven Hurt When Car Skids on York Hanover Road
A Chevrolet touring car carrying seven people skidded off the York Hanover road between Nashville and Five Mile House, falling fourteen feet. Driver Harvey Ruth of Hanover suffered facial lacerations, while his seven year old daughter and a 14 year old girl sustained scalp, abdominal, facial injuries and tooth loss. George Dobbs and family members from Hanover suffered serious cuts and leg injuries. one daughter remained uninjured. The car was badly demolished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Dubbs
Leroy
Thelma
Hanover
Hospital Admits and Discharges Noted at Warner Hospital
Mrs Gerry Bankert of Gettysburg and Miss Garrie Slagle of New Oxford were discharged. Roy Lauvee of Gettysburg was admitted. Noel Sallenbergery of Piney Mountain Inn and Mrs Elmer Snyder of Littlestown were discharged. Michael S Orner of Gettysburg, Mrs CF Rouzer of Biglerville, and Emory Reffensperger of Biglerville R D were admitted. Maude Newton of Gettysburg Route 5 was discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerry Bankert
Gettysburg
Garrie Slagle
New Oxford
Warner Hospital
Roy Lauvee
Noel Sallenbergery
Piney Mountain Inn
Elmer Snyder
Littlestown
Michael S. Orner
C F&f. Rouzer
Biglerville
Emory Reffensperger
R. D
Bentz and Wonders swap farms near Mt Top and Big Dam
Carl Bentz of York bought the J A Wonders farm near Mt Top. J A Wonders purchased the Daniel Wonders farm known as the Krout farm near Big Dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Bentz
York
J. A. Wonders
Mt. Top
Daniel Wonders
Krout
Big Dam
Biglerville postmaster reappointed after long tenure
Harry A. Walter is reappointed postmaster of Biglerville, serving since January 1, 1918. The note lists local Christmas events at St Francis Xavier Gettysburg and White Church Sunday School exercises, plus several obituaries and holiday tidings from Taneytown Littlestown and New Oxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Walter
Biglerville
St. Francis Xavier's Church
Gettysburg
Mark E. Stock
School of White Church
Eli M. Duttera
Taneytown
John Stair
Littlestown
Auto
Plant ‘City
Florida
Charles H. Brinkerhoff
Itglerville
Lloyd
Margaret
Robert
C. P. Brinkerhoff
York Springs
Heidlersburg Lutheran Church
O. D. Coble
Alice S. Brown
Cumberland Township
John H. Brown
Charles §. Brown
John A. Wineman
John H. Lauver
Zora Lauver
Walter 2
Garret
Kreay Creek
M. D. Dieks
New Oxford
John Schildt
White Hall
Three Auto Crashes On Parr's Hill Cause Minor Injuries
Slippery wet roads and a steep hill led to three separate vehicle accidents along Parr's Hill between Littlestown and Westminster Sunday afternoon. One woman hospitalized in York with facial and head injuries. others treated for cuts and bruises. Cars skidded and rolled, including a Willis Knight touring driven by William J. Zacharias carrying Edith Collins and his daughters Alice and Gladys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parr's Hill
Littlestown
Westminster
York City
Ene
William J. Zacharias
Alice
Gladys
Hanmer
Edith Collins
Midway
Alice Zacharias
Zacharias
Willys-Knight Touring
Parr’s Hill
York Woman Injured As Car Skids Into Bridge
Mrs. Susan Adams of York and her son Calvin Miller with Raymond Carr of Hanover were injured when their Hudson car skidded after crossing the Maryland line near Parr's Hill. They were returning from Reisterstown to Littlestown. Adams was admitted to York Hospital with a split nose and cuts. A passing motorist took the group to Dr. H S Crouse for temporary treatment before possible hospital transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Adams
York
York Hospital
Calvin Miller
Raymond Carr
Hanover
Maryland Line
Parr’s Hill
Reisterstown
Littlestown
H. S. Crouse
Gettysburg Jewelers Car Skids on Slippery Hill
George Chritzman, a Gettysburg jeweler, was driving toward Westminster with Mrs. Chritzman and Mrs. Danner Buehler when the car skidded on a slippery hill and overturned onto its side. All occupants escaped injury though the vehicle was badly damaged and towed to Gettysburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Chritzman
Gettysburg
Chritzman
Danner Buehler
Westminster
Biglerville Water faces PSC order to file new rate schedule
The state public service commission rejected a tariff filed by Biglerville Water and ordered a new schedule to cap annual gross revenue at 4,884.16 with hydrant charges not exceeding 25. The action follows a year of rate disputes with the borough of Biglerville and others. Avery and Lamb sought 2440.81 from the company for services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biglerville Water Company
State Public Service Commission
Biglerville
W. K. Enck
Commission
Novel water siphon bank robbery near York
Robbers bored a hole in the Seven Valleys National Bank vault ceiling, filled the safe with water to float cash and securities toward an exit, then carried loot in stolen milk cans. Over $2,500 in cash and securities were taken. $36,000 in cash and papers left behind. three suspects were arrested but not tied to the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seven Valleys
National Bank
York
C. T. Krout
Gordon Kohler
Ralph Keech
Two Gettysburg men jailed after bridge crash escape
Paul E. King and William Patterson of Gettysburg were arrested by state police Tuesday evening after their vehicle struck a concrete wingwall on the Littlestown Taneytown road. King faces two counts including operating a vehicle under the influence and illegal liquor transportation, with $1,000 bail. Patterson is charged with illegal liquor possession and held on $500 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Littlestownu-Taneytown
Paul E. King
William Patterson
Gettysburg
King
Patterson
Midnight Christmas Masses and Holiday Events
A midnight mass will be held at St. Vincent's in Midway with a musical program starting at 11 40 p m on Christmas Eve. Idaville schools plan a Christmas entertainment on Thursday evening December 24 for school benefits. Grace church in Two Taverns hosts Christmas exercises on December 25. A midnight mass is also scheduled at St Marys in McSherrystown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Vincent’s Church
Idaville
Pec
Grace Church
St. Mary's Church
McSherrystown
Multiple Deaths and Obituaries Across Maryland and Pennsylvania
A batlimore area woman Mrs Anne Hemler 79 widow of Jerome Hemler died after a four year illness. Survivors include two sisters Mrs Agnes Hopp and Mrs Vincent Eckenrode. Funeral in Hanover with a requiem mass at Corenago Chapel. Also noted are deaths of Mrs Ella C Myers 76 of Gettysburg area, Dr Karl F Tipton Erie native, Mrs Anna M Fiscel Gettysburg 79, Mrs Elizabeth C Gilbert Whitmore 94 Lincoln Neb. and several other local obituaries with services in York Springs Abbottstown Biglerville Hanover and surrounding towns. Burial plans and church services are listed for multiple families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Hemler
Jerome Hemler
Baltimore
Join Davis
Agnes Hopp
Hagerstown
Vincent Eckenrode
Harney
Hanover
Louise Smith
Corenago Chapel
Father O'Donnell
Storm's Store
Guy Smith
Stanislaus Smith
George Slusser
Benjamin Gallagher
Ella C. Myers
William C. Myers
Melbourne G. Myers
Gettysburg
John C. Sauerwein
Charles D. Sauerwein
Littlestown
Annie Flook
Ella V. Lerew
C. T. Lerew
York Springs
Eugene
Amos Bushey
Ervin Weaver
Dillsburg
R. D
Charles Bushey
Aspers
George W. Fox
Altoona
Alice Swayze Sampson
Vaughn T. Rue
Wrightsville
New Oxford
Emma Hawthorn
Lancaster
George Sampson
Rue
Bernell Neiderer
Milton Neiderer
Brushtown
Elizabeth C. Gilbert Whitmore
Adams County
Lincoln
Neb
George Gilbert
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Evans
Wales
Dayton
Ohio
Joseph Kinsely Whitmore
Whitmore
Sarah C. Kuhn
William Kuhn
Biglerville
Frederick
Elizabeth Heller
Wenksville
Mary McCauslin
Fred Kuhn
Gardners
Aaron Kuhn
Paul Starner
Glenn Naylor
Carlisle
Albert
Asbury
R. E. Coulson
William Shoemaker
William Fiscel
Samuel
Mary A. Slothour
Solomon Slothour
Abbottstown
Lutheran Church
Paul Gladifelter
Katie Eisenhart
T Chas. Eisenhart
Hamilton Township
Mummer' S Meeting House
Henry Baker
Barvintes
Christmas program and postal hours in Hampton area
The Reformed S. S. will hold a Christmas program on Saturday December 26. The local post office will close from Thursday noon until Friday noon with limited window service on Friday. Numerous local residents visit family and attend events, including weddings and school performances, while community notices report church schedules and social visits.
Letters to Santa From New Oxford Families
Children write requests to Santa Claus listing gifts such as story books blocks skates a sled candy oranges and nuts. Names Lloyd Orville Ralph Rummel of New Oxford R D each request gum boots and clothing items with no further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Lloyd Rummel
New Oxford R. 4
Orville Rummel
New Oxford R. Ac
Santa Claus
Ralph Rummel
New Oxford
R. 4
Christmas Cantata Planned by St Pauls Churches McSherrystown
The Christmas cantata He Came to Earth Not as a King will be presented by St Pauls Lutheran Church McSherrystown with the combined adult and primary Sunday schools on Thursday at 7 PM. An early dawn Christmas morning service will also be held in the same church with Rev Jerome C Jackson in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
McSherrystown
Jerome C. Jackson
Gettysburg
Christ Reformed Sunday School
Littlestown
Hoffman
Mt. Joy Lutheran Church
L. K. Young
Redeemer'’s Reformed Church
Earl G. Kline
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Obituary notices describe multiple family passings and services
The text records death notices and funeral details for several relatives, including Amos Baker and Jacob G. Weise, with survivors in-laws and siblings named. It notes funeral arrangements, residence details, and officiating ministers, reflecting local obituary practice.
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Oxford
Bed House
Tot
Upper Huntington
Globe Trotters
ROB York County
Bank OF $10
Hampton Items
S. S
P. O
Florence A. Markel
John Miller
Jesse Albright
Chase
Pittenturf
Gladys Cashman
Bowlder
Pan Chronister’s
Richard Kline
Harry
Luther Cleaver
Joyce Alliene
Harry Albert
Dale March
Stephen Wolf
Monroe Moul’s
Bairs
Joseph Hudson
Jefferson Medical College
Wm Baxter
Hudson
Geo. Kimmel
Clinton Lerew
Oliver Lerew
Martin Kauffman
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot
Charles Rivthrode
Richard George
R. Yingst
S. Jonas Wolf
C. O. Chronister
Donald
Tillie Chronister
Curtis Butt
John Myers
East Berlin
Flora Dicks
Frank Roudebaugh
Mechanicsburg
Harry Myers
Hayden Deatrick
John
Southeran Communion
Brethren Church
Lewis. Kauffman
Charles Caler
Augustus Thomas
Daisy Thomas
Chas. Caler
Alice Clapper
Bermudian
J. O. Garber
Luther
York Springs High School
Bushey’s Hall
Washington, D. C
Hamme Sisters’ Orchestra
Verna Hess
Mary Abbey
Martha Dicks
Marry Sterns
Stanley Hoffman
Sally Carter
Harry Sterns
Pauline Stock
Berdon
Mary Abby
Mary Bentz
Melvin C
Amos Baker
Mummerth
Mana House
C. L. Baker
Miller
Church of the
Jacob G. Weise
Merle Stokes
University of Maryland
Laure V
Edward Taneytown
Wn Hewk
Léutiestown
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