New Oxford Item Advertises Post Office Listing and Rates
An old notice from New Oxford Item details postal treatment as second class matter and weekly publication. It lists personnel Herbert I Grimm secretary John D Keith editor manager treasurer Henry J Smith, and outlines subscription terms 1.00 per year, 1.50 out of county, with arrears and discontinuance rules. Advertising rates are described as reasonable with liberal reductions for contract advertisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Oxford
New Oxford Item Company
Herbert I. Grimm
John D. Keith
Henry J. Smith
30 Years Ago Highlights From Abbottstown Area
Recap of local notices including William Yealey selling his restaurant to his father in law George Schott Sr, moves near Harney, various marriages and deaths, small accidents, farm goods, and community events across McSherrystown Abbottstown and surrounding townships with names like Hemler Harman and Alwine appearing in the year 1900s style items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Yealey
McSherrystown
George Schott, Sr
Midway
Mr. Yealey
Harney
40 Years A £ 0 Held Over from December 17
Eugene Lawrence begins construction of a new dwelling in Irishtown. Geo W Timmins named assessor of the 1st ward in MecSherrystown. County Commissioners fix tax rate at 3 percent, unchanged. Livingston still selling raisins as de hb. David E Wagner buys about 60 acres near Abbottstown for £2910 from Mary J Blicker Latimore township. Peter Laughman deeded Abbottstown property sold to Lucinda Longanecker for $250. Joseph Yohe, 36, son of the late Payid Yohe, dies at his Shiremanstown home last week. William S Topper of Hanover purchases National Hotel food and fixtures, to take possession in January. My Lattle plans move to York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Lawrence
Irishtown
Geo. W. Timmins
MecSherrystown
Livingston
David E. Wagner
Abbottstown
Mary J. Blicker
Latimore Township
Peter Laughman
Lucinda Longanecker
Joseph Yohe
Payid Yohe
Hampton
Shiremanstown
Wiliam
Topper
Hanover
Geo. Little
National Hotel
My. Lattle
York
Dodge and Plymouth Cars for Sale by D. E. Stetler
Classified list from 1930s era ads detailing Blue Seal specials. Dodge 1933, Plymouth 1936 Touring Sedan, Pontiac 1938 four door, Ford 1938 Coach, all with trade options and long-dealing promises. Addresses shown in York area. Also poultry supplies from Modern Poultry Equipment Co. Open Saturdays and Monday evenings.
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DODGE
D. E. Stetler
North Geo
Geo
York
Plymouth
Stetler
FORD
D. F Stetler
Honeet
Makoinb
Beacon
Modern Poultry Equipent Co
Bank Lane
Railroad St
Hanover
Broadway
Public Auction and Classifieds Roundup at Hanover Gettysburg PA
Dependable Used Cars list many classic models then moves to public auction of household goods on January 2 at the old express company building North Washington Street Gettysburg. Also ads seek repairs, farm for sale near New Oxford Holstein stock, dining set, electric sweeper, extra good lead horses and cattle, raw furs, horses and mares, Philco radios display, bicycles repair, Calves wanted and more from local Hanover York Gettysburg shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Express Company
North Washington Street
Gettysburg
Charles S. Mumper
H. B. Trostle
Bank Lane
Hanover
Geo. W. Wolf
45 Years Ago Held Over From December Seventeen
A brief item notes Mark Stock of Gettysburg broke his left arm twice within weeks. It also mentions a 20 month old son of Joseph Rickrode near the Red Hi school house in Oxford township who has begun talking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Stock
Gettysburg
Joseph Rickrode
Red Hi
Oxford Township
New Chester Community Members Share Sunday Gatherings
Residents from New Oxford Hanover Abbottstown and Gettysburg joined John Stock and family for a Sunday visit. Sunday school was at St Johns Reformed church at 9 30. Several local families including Geisler Wagner Snyder Lough Stack and Trimmer spent Christmas with relatives at The Pines and Seven Hundred nearby.
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Ralph Kopman
Near New Oxford
John Winand
Oscar McIntire
New Chester
Lorma Moritz
Hanover
Kay Cohn
New Oxford
Ellis Stambaugh
Harry Stanbaugh
Charles Grimm
Abbottstown
C. A. McGuigan
Gettysburg
Kenneth James
Emma Yeagy
Arthur and
Wilmer
John Stock
St. John's Reformed Church
Charles Geisler
Harley Wagner
Near
the Pines
Claton Wagner
Edwin Snyder
Aid Willis Plank
Robert Trimmer
Iva Bnyder
Spe
Harry Lough
Charles Stack
Biglerville
Roy Stack
Richard Trimmer
Local families share Sunday visits and Christmas greetings
Wives from Hampton and Hunters Town visit Edwin Snyder and Harman Beamer households. Alvin Mummert and family spend Sunday with D H Sharrer. Paul Wolf and family visit Elme Hoffman. John Kime with Harry Kime family. Susanna Stitt and family celebrate with George Slaylaugh. Ray Stitt and wife join Susanna Stitt. George Weaver with Katie Weaver near Heidlersburg. Mrs Albert Slaybaugh visits Clair Starry. birth announced December 28 at Warner hospital Gettysburg: a son weighing 82 pounds. Mrs A A Walker shares hog slaughter for ten animals totaling 375 to 425 pounds each. Charles Hoff and Abe Chaplin visit Annie Hoff’s family. William Decker and Charles Ogden visit Darius Shull. Clayton Eicholtz family receive Christmas greet from Dale in Los Angeles.
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Hampton
Eva Raffensperger
Near Hunterstown
Edwin Snyder
Harman Beamer
Nea Hunterstown
Ralph Millichimes
Alvin Mummert
Tlanover
D. H Sharrer
Paul Wolf
Familly
York Springs
Elme, Hoffman
John Kime
Harry Kime
Susanna Stitt
George Slay- Laugh
Seven Hundred
Ray Stitt
Hunterstown
George Weaver
Katie Weaver
Heidlersbureg
Albert Slaybaugh
Guernsey
Clair Starry
Election Notice for Directors of Local Societies
Election of twelve directors of the Mummasburg Mutual Tire Protection Society will be held at its Gettysburg office on Tuesday January 1937 between 7 and 8 PM. Abbottstown State Bank shareholders meet January 4 1937 in Banking room from 1 to 2 PM to elect directors and transact other business. W A Bream Cashier.
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Mummasburg Mutual Tire Protection Society
Gettysburg
Sheriff Sale Notice From Adams County Pennsylvania 1937
Public sale scheduled for January 23 1937 at 2 p.m. in Gettysburg Court House Adams County Pennsylvania. Property: Huntington Township land one half acre with a two story weather boarded house barn three chicken houses and outbuildings bounded by Route 94 J R Hantz Clinton Lerew and N M Criswell. Owned by Charles W Hoopert and Florence Hoopert. Sheriff B W Spence to conduct sale with ten percent due immediately post sale. Proclamation to local officials accompanies notice.
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Court of Common Pleas
Adams County
Court House
Gettysburg
Huntington
J. R. Hantz
Clinton Lerew
N. m. Criswell
Charles W. Hoopert
Florence Hoopert
McClear charged with involuntary manslaughter after crash
Raymond McClear faces involuntary manslaughter charges in the October 21 automobile crash near Fairfield that killed Chester Spence, a Gettysburg borough policeman. Patrolman Mahalik reported the incident to Justice Shearer, under district attorney Butt’s directive. Both drivers were found by the coroner’s jury to have been speeding.
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Raymond McClear
Fairfield
Justice Shearer
Mahalik
Gettysboro
Highway Patrol
Acci‘ment
Chester Spence
Butt
McClear
Hanover Road
Gettysburg
Spence
Warner Hospital
Bonneaville Twins and Births Highlight Local News
A son, Laverne Joseph, was born to Mr and Mrs George Long. A son, James Le, was born to Mr and Mrs Raymond Gebhart. Miss Emma Myers spent Sunday in Baltimore with her brother Joseph, who has been ill.
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Laverne Joseph
George Long
James le
Raymond Gebhart
Emma Myers
Baltimore
Joseph
Gettysburg Mutual Fire Insurance annual meeting notice
Notice is given that the annual meeting of the members and policy holders of the Gettys burg Mutual Fire Insurance Company will be held at the offices of Keith and Bigham on the second floor of the First National Bank Building Center Square Gettys burg Adams County Pennsylvania on Monday January 11 1937 at 10 00 o clock A M for the purpose of electing not less than seven nor more than sixteen directors to serve for the ensuing year or until their successors are duly chosen and for other business. SEWELL E KAPP Secretary.
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Gettysburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Keith & Bigham
First National Bank
Center Square
Gettysburg
Adams County
Pennsylvania
Writ sale of Ira Linebaugh land in Adams County Pa
Public sale set for January 16 1937 at 2 pm in Crettysburg Court House Adams County Pa. Property is a forty acre tract in South Mountain Liberty Township adjoining Jacob’s Church lot with improvements including a weatherboarded dwelling a small stable a garage and a chicken house. Sold under a writ of fieri facias issued by the Court and the sheriff to conduct the sale if not complied with earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Common Pleas
Adams County
Court House
Crettysburg
South Mountain
Liberty Township
State of Pennsylvania
Jacob’s Church
Ira O. Linebaugh
Eagle Metallic Copper Company
Sallie Warren
B. W. Spence
Markets Report Wheat and Eggs Prices Steady
Wheat per bushel listed at 140 cents, oats 47, barley 95, rye 93. Eggs white and brown mixed priced at 28 cents per dozen.
Farmers Bank of McSherrystown Annual Stockholders Meeting
Notice is given by Farmers Bank of McSherrystown McSherrystown Pennsylvania of an annual meeting of stockholders on Tuesday January 12 1937 at 2:00 PM at the Banking House 375 Main Street McSherrystown Pa to elect directors and conduct other business as provided by by laws J Preston Smith cashier confirms attendance and authority for the meeting.
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Farmers Bank of McSherrystown
McSherrystown
Main Street
J. Preston Smith
Executor's Notice of Estate in Adams County
Letters testamentary issued for Annie M Oyler Osler of Reading Township Adams County Pennsylvania. Frances M Berry executrix Hampton PA and J L Williams attorney Gettysburg PA request all debts and claims be presented promptly. Decedent's estate details dated 12 10 61.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie M Oyler Osler
Reading Township
Adams County
Pennsylvania
Frances M. Berry
Evecatrix
Hampton, Penna
J. L. Williams
Gettysburg
Penna
Public election on school district debt increase New Oxford PA
Notice to electors of New Oxford Borough Adams County Pennsylvania that a public election will be held January 19, 1937 from 7 AM to 7 PM at usual voting places to approve an increase in bonded indebtedness for erecting and equipping a New Oxford Public School addition on North Peters Street. Existing debt $1600 and last assessed valuation $441,330 with proposed increase $25,000. Describes percentage impacts and election authority. Attest. Secretary Raymond S. Gable December 10, 1986. Alleat. Wilbur H. Miller, Present.
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New Oxford
County of Adams
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
A. D
Schuell
Scheol
Scchoul
New
Oxford
North Peters Street
Et Oxford
Adams County
Pennsylvania
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A. C. Hemler
Mountpleasant Township
Auker’s
John ‘S T. Hockensmith
Red Hill
Edward Alwine
Berlin Junction
J. E. C. Slaybaugh
C. T. Hersh
F. L. Fleshman
Fred J. Wolf
Clara Estella
John Luther Minter
West End
Daniel Lockenbill
Alexander Harman
Berwick Township
W. A Korn
Hellam
Cora Lucxenbaugh
Edna Grace Shultz
Frank Carns
Mamie Bixler
Mosheim Runkle
St. John's
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A. M
W. M
G. & Spotz
S. W
J. M. Hulick
J. W
George N. Lauffer
Jas. W. Barnitz
Treas
Z. H Cashman
A. W. Himes
W. F. Sheely
Geo. A. Klingel
Grand Lodge
Wm. R. Snyder
John Alttlesperge
Hartman's Mall
Peter Trostle
Paradise Two
Margaret McSherry
Yeatts
Heidlersburg
Eliz. Harman
Monroe Hildebrand
Myers’ Mill
Clunk Farm
John Shaffer
East Berlin
Chas. M. Swartz
University of the South
Nashville Insane Asylum and Hospital
Nashville
Tenn
Louis F. Bollinger
Cora D Barman
Murray W. Shaeffer
Dillsburg
Mamie Howard
Jacob Smith
Orden
Utah
West
Jin
Wm. G. Sell
Mt. Pleasant
Mary E. Myers
W. D. Myers
Della Schwartz
Conewago Township
Benjamin Albert
Sarah C. Miller
John W. Little
Alice J. Galloway
Nannie Peters
Vineland
N. J
Albert Miller
Nachusa
Sa Jem
Geo. Pittentorf
Heidlersburz
Bonneauville
Mount Peasant
A. Hemmer
Noah Bejevenour
Francis Smith
Ysaac Slaybaugh
Joseph Shultz
Ed. Helt
South
S. Duke St
York, Pa
Hull
Annie M. Staub
R. D
Mares Sherman
York Street
March & Markle
Philco
Baker’s
Columbia Bicycles
Keller and West
S. George St
H.B. Bender & Son
Funeral Directors
Gettysburg, PA
Abbottstown State Bank
W. A. Bream
Sheriff's Sale
Sheriff's Office
Adams
W. C. Sheely
Courts of Common Pleas
Adam and Fulton
Court of Oyer and Terhuner
Sherif
Sewell E. Kapp
Parabel
Farmers Bank OF
Mcsherrystown, PA
Chas. S. Mumper No. Wash
St. Gettysburg
C. F. Bless
Penney Bidg
Carlisle St
Hanover, Pa
New Fall
BE. Markets St
Continental Square
E. H. Walter
Acties
SUE ‘de
Conrad
Justice of the Peace
John H. Basehore
John W. Duttera
D. W. Woods, Jr
Main
Gilbert
Chambersburg St. Gettysburg
nyMake
SIT
Funk
Leo J. Funk
S. G. Naylor
J. C. Penney Bldg
Telephone
J. W. Lucabaugh
Daeufer
W. C. Chronister
Atlas Tires
ATLAS
Buford Age
BULLS
ESSO
Ralph B. Butt
York St
Newles County
Enna
Wilbur H. Miller
Raymond S. Gable
Cat Sunoco
Blue Sunoco Gas
Mercury Made
Sunoco Gardens
Willis L. Weikei
Lincoln Way West
Dr. B. Stillwagon
D.C. Brownell
Carlisle Street
New Oxford, PA
Dr. Balcom
Dr. Balcom Optometrist
Lela
Hanover, Venna
DE Chev
Bellspring
Central Garage Guy
A. Staub
Bolton Street
Snyder’s Store
New Chester, PA
Mark E. Trone
Baltimore Street