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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1949
Page
36
Patricia Ann Cole and Robert Emmet O'Brien Jr engage. Betty Jane Evans and George Kohler announce engagement. Dorine A Small and James Mianshour plan a future wedding. Patricia Anne Bricker and Raymond H Bisting announce engagement. All details note high school and military service backgrounds with no wedding dates set.
A playful travelogue notes multiple New Year dates across cultures and regions. It cites January 1 in the Americas, January 13 for the Orthodox calendar, February 8 for China, and other regional beginnings in Siam Arabia Abyssinia and Jerusalem tied to Rosh Hashana.
Elizabeth Jane Gettys, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gettys, will wed John Kenyon Weitzel, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E Weitzel. Miss Britcher, class of 1944 Gettysburg High and 1948 Gettysburg College alumna, is a radio dispatcher for Little Taxicabs in Newark. Weitzel, a Gettysburg College alumnus, attends Columbia University branding school at Rockefeller Center and works for Chubb and Sons. No wedding date has been set.
Sherman A. Taylor a Hanover truck driver was arrested by Gettysburg police at 4 45 a m Thursday on a charge of driving too fast for road conditions. He paid a $10 fine plus costs to Justice of the Peace Robert P Snyder.
Mr and Mrs John Watter of Gettysburg celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary with a Christmas Day dinner. Their son in law and daughter Postmacher and Mrs Lawrence E Oyler observe their 30th wedding anniversary. The Watter and Oyler families share the same address. Mr Walter and Mrs Osler were married Christmas Day 1894 near Arendtsville Cashtown road.
Mr and Mrs Preston Tate of Gettysburg quietly observed their 50th wedding anniversary. They wed December 26 1899 at York with no special celebration. Mrs Tate, the former May Kitzmiller of Gettysburg, and Mr Tate a rural mail carrier for years, retired several years ago. ON PAY DAY BUY BONDS.
The B M Root Co of York sues Fred Glass of Abbottstown R 1 for more than $400 for machinery sold, filed in Adams County by attorney Daniel E Teeter. Municipal stores provide most local liquor revenue in Minnesota.
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