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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
6
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Two Gettysburg residents were injured but not seriously when a skidding car collided with their vehicle on the Lincoln highway about seven o’clock Monday evening, east of Abbottstown. Albert Cardenti escaped injury. his daughter Gloria, 15, and Frank Abruzzese sustained facial cuts, knee and ankle injuries. The other driver, Christien C. F. Spahr of Rosemont, Montgomery county, was uninjured but his car was damaged. Police, led by Private W. L. Ramsey, investigated. Cardenti’s car suffered over $100 in damage and was towed to a local garage. Gloria and Abruzzese were treated at Warner hospital.
Winfield G. Horner, chief clerk to the Adams county commissioners, said he has begun preparing the 1939 budgets for Adams county and the county Institution district. Projections of receipts and expenditures for next year plus 1938 expenditures will be submitted to the commissioners for review before tentative approval and public inspection at the courthouse. The board met for routine business and inspected damage claim sites in Latimore township, with next session set for January 3 as the term nears its end.
Robert A. Little of McSherrystown and Reginald Carr of 213 Fair Avenue Hanover drove cars that collided Friday afternoon on West Chestnut Street at Eichelberger alley. Carr was traveling east while Little emerged from the alley and turned left. Little’s car owned by Little and Belz suffered rear wheel and fender damage. Carr’s car front end was severely damaged.
Weekend arrests reported by the Gettysburg state motor police list Vance Tucker of Keyser West Virginia who hitch hiked to Washington after his truck broke down four miles north of Gettysburg and left without signals or flares until it could be moved. He paid a $25 fine plus a $5 towing charge before Justice William D Brown. Other arrests include Harold Spriggle Baltimore Dave Reed Baltimore Robert Rider York and Thomas M Walsh Baltimore all fined for muffler speeding stop sign violations Saturday.
Paradise Parish unit of the National Council of Catholic Women voted to donate toward a Catholic encyclopedia for Martin Memorial library in York. The Hanover Deanery Council of the NCWC, covering all York County parish councils, funds the encyclopedia. Members decided to remember two St. Marys parish shut-ins with Christmas gifts.
The administration bond for Charles E. Thomas of Reading township was filed Wednesday at the Register’s office. Widow Jennie M. Thomas of East Berlin Route 2 is appointed administratrix.
J Edward Utz of Gettysburg is hospitalized at Warner hospital after an attack of pneumonia. His condition was reported as serious on Tuesday by hospital officials.
Postmaster and Mrs. Charles M. Boyer of York Springs announce the engagement of their daughter Margaret to John Baker son of Scott Baker of Dillsburg. The couple met at a 500 card party at the Boyer home Monday evening. No wedding date has been set. Miss Boyer is York Springs High School graduate and works as secretary for Fuller Brush in Harrisburg.
Fred Kriembring of Gettysburg was treated at Warner hospital shortly before noon Sunday for a cut chin and forehead abrasions after being hurt in a fight. He was listed in fair condition and the incident remains under investigation.
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