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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
1
A long string of names shows families and friends visiting relatives in Littlestown and surroundings towns for Christmas. Many travelers from York, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore and beyond spent holidays with kin along Lincoln Way and East and West streets.
The Lutheran pastor Rev W D Nichol received a large Christmas gift from his parishioners. Three sleighs transported a substantial bounty including grain provisions chickens ducks and other valuable items totaling 100 dollars.
Chester Nelson, 17, was killed when his gun discharged while he hunted raccoons with his hunting dog. The dog led volunteers to Nelson's body after an all night mountain search. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon. burial will follow. Christmas service at St Pauls Reformed praised. orphanage offering of 35.75 noted. Community events include an illuminated Park Square and bank dividend news.
The undersigned extends heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends for many acts of kindness during the long illness and at the funeral of her beloved husband Mrs Sampson Kepner
A series of marriages reported across Hanover and nearby towns includes Roy G. Jacobs of Jacob Mills weding Mollie Sterner of Hanover, and Mary E. Miller wounding Paul B. Trimmer, noted as among Hanover’s youngest couples. Also joining families are Cora Myers and Leslie Heikes, Harry Imhoff and Alverta Sterner, John Stahley and Emma Dugan, Clarence King and Blanche Lehman, Ruth March and Roy Kraber, Margaret Howe and Samuel Dahlhamer, and Lucy Neff with Howard Harner.
Miss Belle M Thompson daughter of ex Sheriff G R Thompson Granite and John W Deatrick son of Mr and Mrs G W Deatrick Mt Pleasant township wed at 7 pm Saturday in Gettysburg Lutheran parsonage by Rev Baker. Deatricks will live in Hanover where groom works at Hanover Shoe Factory. R S Fanus of Hanover and Miss Berths Thoman daughter of Rudy Thoman East Berlin wed at 8 am Christmas morning at bride parents home by Rev I S Ditzler.
At the bride’s home near Berimu dian the Christmas morning wedding of J A Wackerman to Linzie A Wolf took place. Rev I S Ditzler performed the ceremony. Wackerman, a native of the county, now farms in Othello Washington.
Monroe Frock of Melrose and Miss Lottie I Flickinger of Bittinger were married Sunday afternoon at Abbotts town by the Rev F C Sterpat.
Miss Mabel Benedick and Charles Lehman of Abbottstown married at Abbottstown Saturday evening officiated by Rev. F. C. Sternat.
Calvin L. Reynolds married Miss Florence I Gobrecht on a Saturday afternoon. The bride is the daughter of Amos and Mrs Gobrecht of Abbottstown, and the groom is the son of Pius and Mrs Reynolds of East Berlin.
Miss Mary L. Snyder of Butler townsip and Edward Eiker of Cumberland township married on Christmas Day at Biglerville by Rev. C. F. Floto. Samuel D. Whisler, son of Mr and Mrs Geo W Whisler Abbottstown, and Miss Emmet Berwager daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Berwager Union township were married by Rev J H
Cumberland county Judge Sadler issued an opinion in Gettysburg on the 1901 law governing adding an assignee to the G E Spangler estate. He held the law is inoperative on the question presented and no extra assignee to Raymond F. Topper was allowed.
Adams County rural school consolidation and stawardization will be the main topics at the county school directors convention to be held in the courthouse on February 8 and 9. Officers expressing plans include President Rev. W. S. Fleck and Secretary John Gise.
Miss Felicia Stark of Braddock and Charles F. Asper of Aspers were wed at noon on Christmas Day at the bride’s sister’s home in Pittsburgh by Rev. Dr. Wallace. Asper is a prominent Adams County business figure.
Prof Harvey Swartz principal of Biglerville High School and Miss Clara KE Hoffman near York were married on a Saturday evening by Rev J H Hege. The groom is a son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Swartz of Dover.
Wm. D. Gebrecht son of John A. Gebrecht of Union township wed Miss Edna M. Utz of York county in a ceremony officiated by Cov. J. H. Hartwan on Sunday morning.
Robert Stover purchased the Samuel Smith frame dwelling in Littlestown for 2250 dollars with possession on April 1. The Sallie Huse frame dwelling in Littlestown was sold to the Rev Stewart Hartman for his sister Mrs W E Rohrbaugh, with possession on April 1.
An Hanover Shoe Co employee presented watches to H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers. New Oxford auto owners received chocolate and white 1917 license tags. D. H. Baker of Abbottstown preached nine sermons over four Sundays. Gettysburg Catholic bazaar netted 575.74. J. H. Stine of Mt. Pleasant killed porkers weighing 472 and 415 pounds. Paul Chronister of Abbottstown bought a Ford roadster. Christmas services in town churches were well attended.
The story traces Henry Miller's ascent from a New York market helper nicknamed Potsdam to a major cattle magnate and landowner. After moving to California in 1850 he built a vast empire with Charles Lux, owning tens of thousands of cattle and sheep across California and other western states. Three years before his death he deeded a $20 million estate to his daughter to dodge inheritance taxes, prompting tax collectors to challenge the arrangement.
Cold Spring New York game warden James Barry collected the carcass of a large male deer after it leaped into a car near Peekskill village. The vehicle driven by Algernon Draper of Closter New Jersey was moving on Oscawanny road when the buck charged from the brush and collided with the auto, forcing the animal under the engine.
The Episcopal mission aid society starts a penny a day program to raise funds for a new church. A town census of all residents will be conducted, likely with other churches to determine every person’s denomination.
Riverside N J Joseph Grimmer devised a tin can trap at a grocery store to catch a thief, attaching a silk thread to four hams and a can which rattled when moved. A negro named Thomas Jones is held for the grand jury as missing hams from the storage room are alleged.
The New York Community chorus under Harry Barnhart will stage Christmas Eve concerts in Madison Square and then at Madison Square Garden aiming for 1500 to 2000 voices. An orchestra of seventy pieces and a soloist will accompany the performance of Handel's Messiah, marking rapid growth since 1916 from Rochester beginnings.
A 60 foot tug named Fuerza completed a 7000 mile voyage from Dordrecht to Tampico in 84 days under Captain HY Waltaker. Crewsman B M Eden Amsterdam artist joined for adventure. Limited coal carried and wary steamships mistook tug for a submarine during many rescues.
Oyster Bay, N Y Colonel Roosevelt seeks the culprit who feloniously entered Sagamore Hill and sawed down a sassafras tree and damaged a beech. He offers 25 dollars for information leading to the discovery of the offender. If more trees are felled he will do the chopping himself.
James Nolan of Morrisons pleaded guilty in Warren County to killing a mother bear out of season after spotting a female with two cubs. He returned home, killed the bear with a rifle, then kept the cubs, which state game warden I K Hogarth later seized.
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