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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1925
Page
15
Community news lists a Lincolnway injury from a Center Square fall and several local events. Committees include Adams county representative Harry Stock and H D Hoff comments. Gas, radio sales, property assessments, and church activities blend with a sun eclipse bulletin and local business updates.
Miss Nettie Swartz returns to Marion from evangelistic work in Lincolnway East. Aaron Brown visits Washington. A sleighing party at Bowlder hosts Abe Fribush family, Cooper family, Pits Robinson family, Lippincott family, James Shover, chauffeur Spangler Hetrick. Mrs Warner visits Baltimore. Feiser spends weekend at Reading after operation on Jan 5 with steady improvement. Jonas Robert and son Quentin visit White Hall. A A Carbaugh of Philadelphia spends week here with family. will return Monday. Mrs Griffin and Norman visit Geo Griffin in Granite. Mrs Altland returns to Spring Grove from New Oxford after stay with daughter Mrs Lloyd Wolf.
The New Oxford Fire Company takes over a Hale motor fire truck for 4410 dollars paid in full. Community donors fund the purchase through a committee with plans to close donor lists by February 1. Demonstrations on Center Square showed a 25 foot stream and 370 gallons per minute at Conewago creek.
Dorothy Grandon, once tarred and feathered by Mrs. Louis Shank and others near Frederick, sees many assailants jailed. Mrs. Shank serves nine months. Shank and Luther Silvers are jailed for drunkenness and assault. Silvers was sentenced to a year for assault on Simon Dickerhoff after a dispute over Dorothy’s friend.
Mrs. Joseph R. Carbaugh of Lincoln Way West was admitted to Warner Hospital Gettysburg after blood poisoning from a scratched finger led to removal of the right index finger at the palm. The operation followed a failed lancing and she is improving.
Geo A Klingel of New Oxford and Geo H Duttera of Guldens were reelected as directors of the Citizens' Trust Co of Gettysburg.
Community column records moves to Gettysburg and nearby farms, visits by Emma Smith and others, local hospitality at dinners, sleighing accidents, illnesses, birthdays, and a sample hobby horse reminder. Names include Eckerf, Deatricks, Laughman, Hoke, Hoffman, Hartman, Clapper, Dicks, Myers, and Griest among many Hampton residents.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gross Edge Grove Tuesday welcomed a daughter who has four great grandparents and a great great grandmother. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar D Lentz Littletown R3 welcomed a son. Mr. and Mrs. William Myers Two Taverns welcomed a son. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Grost McSherrystown welcomed a daughter.
The Slaybaugh farm near Heidlersburg is now owned and occupied by M. S. Kennedy and rented to Emanuel Smith. Kennedy will move to Mt. Holly Springs. A gray fox evaded a pursuit by 15 hounds at Tate's shop, escaping into a groundhog hole after a mile-long chase. Miss Anna Thomas of New Chester visits York for two weeks. Hiram Marks of Heidlersburg is critically ill. George Morrison near Heidlersburg shows slight improvement after illness. Chicken pox cases are reported in Heidlersburg. Revival at Heidlersburg U B church continues with large attendance. Bible Study was at David Kemper's with 28 present and Rev. J. Harold Little as teacher. St Mark's Missionary meeting held Sunday evening with a well-prepared program. No preaching services on the New Chester Lutheran charge this Sunday. Sunday School at The Pines at 1 p m. Claude Kennedy and Frank Fail, formerly ill, have recovered. Rev. Chas Brown of Heidlersburg shipped 104 hogs to Baltimore, carloaded in Gettysburg. Roy Asper of York and Esther Slaybaugh of Gettysburg visited Sd. Asper's near Heidlersburg. Mr and Mrs John Funk and daughter of Waynesboro visited W H Brown and wife near Heidlersburg. George Bream and family visited J Hayes Herman area near Fleidlersburg.
New Oxford High prepares a Friday program January 30 featuring a one act play Not According to Schedule. An essay contest February 18 invites all high school students with the Lincoln Essay Medal awarded by the Lincoln Watch Company. A March play follows the contest. Library adds Art Appreciation books. February 20 local institute at the high school aims to attract the public and teachers.
A Gettysburg seminarian will preach at First Lutheran Sunday 7 p.m. with Sunday School at 9 a.m. and C. BE at 6 p.m. Congregation to discuss dividing the New Oxford charge after services. Masses at 7:30 and 10 a.m. at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. St Pauls Reformed New Oxford. Mission Band 2 p.m. Catechization 3 p.m. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship 10 a.m. Emmanuel Reformed Abbotsown. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship 7 p.m. Catechization 8 p.m. No preaching at local M E church Sunday. Sunday School 9 a.m. and Epworth League 6 p.m. All welcome.
Harry C Stock of New Oxford Adams county presents a bill to add a highway from Heidlersburg to Hampton to the state primary system. The stretch is described as badly in need of repair and necessitating state action.
The undersigned states he will not be responsible for any bills unless contracted by him self. G. Allen Yohe, recently returned from Florida, is teaching Hollinger's school in the absence of Miss Pauline Slothour who is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Miss Slothour has not resigned.
East Berlin items report Frank Bond of Reading township holding a sale on Friday February 20 before returning to Pittsburgh for a warden job at Kennywood Park. The piece notes various local activities from chicken business moves to party gatherings, illnesses, and a murder of a 714 lb bull. It mentions the Bell York merger and plans for a platform speaker, plus church services and a burglary alarm installation.
C L Brown of United Power & Light and United Telephone enforces a compulsory savings rule for 1400 employees at Abilene Kansas. The program, two years old, yields over 156000 dollars in annual savings and near zero turnover with even low earners saving up to 25 percent of earnings.
A reception for the new Mount Carmel pastor Rev. W. M. Allison was held in the Sunday School rooms of the Lutheran church on January 13. Several hundred church members and friends attended to welcome him. Mrs. Allison and their son James received floral tributes.
A Saturday evening reception at Mrs Ele_nore Staub's Lincolnway home welcomed St Marys church choir members including Elenora Staub Joseph Weaver the Staub sisters Smith sisters McCadden Gravatt Staub and Weaver among attendees. Out of town guests from Hanover Abbottstown York and New Oxford joined for music games and a supper.
At Friday’s meeting Russell Klingel was chosen president and John McCadden sec ond treas. A ways and means committee includes McCadden Sterner Carbaugh Miller and Klingel. Abbottstown York Springs Bonneauville and the Hams favor a junior league and Fairfield McSherrystown East Berlin Irishtown may be invited. A follow up meeting will be announced.
Philip A. Hartman of Annville, the state bank bandit and murderer, will face a life trial in Gettysburg next week for killing Francis L. Haley, a State Police member who tried to arrest him after the Abbottstown State Bank robbery on October 14, 1924. The shooting occurred along the Lincoln Highway near the Greffenburg Inn by the Adams Franklin County line. Hartman is defended by George J. Benner, appointed by the county court.
An important meeting of the directors of the New Oxford Base Ball Club will be held Friday at 8 oclock in Straley's restaurant. All are urged to attend as further plans of organization will be perfected and a report from attendees at the Gettysburg League meeting will be given.
For sale a Columbian Choice gray enamel range in like new condition. Contact Mt Cc A Bigham at Berlin Avenue New Oxford for details.
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