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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1949
Page
9
Several local engagements are announced with dates pending. Patricia Ann Cole and Robert Emme O’Brien Jr.. Betty Jane Evans and George Kohler. Soorisine A. Small and James D. Munshour. Patricia Anne Bricker and Raymond H. Bisking are listed alongside families in Gettysburg and Ridgefield Park.
The piece notes New Year occurs on different dates globally: January 1 in the West, January 13 for Orthodox Greeks, February for China, and other dates in Siam Abyssinia and Jerusalem. It mentions Elizabeth Jane Gettysburg’s engagement to John Kenyon Weitzel and details about Britcher’s Gettysburg connections. No wedding date set.
Sherman A. Taylor a Hanover truck driver was arrested at 4:45 am Thursday by Gettysburg police on a charge of driving too fast for road conditions. He paid a $10 fine and costs to Justice of the Peace Robert P. Snyder.
Mr and Mrs John Watter of Gettysburg observe their 55th wedding anniversary with a family dinner on Christmas Day. Their son in law and daughter Postmaster and Mrs Lawrence E Oyler also celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary at the same address. Walter and Oyler couples married on Christmas Day 1894 at Mrs Walter’s home on the Arendtsville Cashtown road by the late Rev M M Neacher. They moved to Gettysburg about 45 years ago. Mr Walter worked at the former Gettysburg Department Store and later at Maring’s Store and in recent years sold washing machines.
Mrs Osler is the couple’s only daughter and Jane Osler, daughter of the Gettysburg postmaster, is their only grandchild. She is a student at Shippensburg State Teachers College.
Mr and Mrs Preston Tate of Gettysburg quietly observed their 50th wedding anniversary. They wed December 26, 1899, in York. Mrs Tate, formerly May Kitzmiller, is from Gettysburg. Mr Tate served as a rural mail carrier for many years before retirement.
The B M Root Company of York 5 sues Fred Glass of Abbottstown R for more than 100 dollars in aassumpsit action. The claim arises from machinery sold to Glass as per papers filed with Adams County prothonotary by Daniel E Teeter. Municipal owned stores provide most of the local revenue in Minnesota.
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