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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
14
An ad describing Dr Miles Nervine as restoring nervous energy to cure ailments caused by weak organs. A testimonial from Mrs Rose Otto of Columbus Ohio claims rapid improvement after using Nervine. The Miles Medical Co advertises guaranteed first bottle benefit or money back.
Public sale conducted by the Orphans Court of Adams County covers a five acre unimproved timberland tract in Tyrone Township adjoining John Kime Frank Ejcholtz and heirs of Henry Hoover. Sale on Saturday July 25 1998 at 1 pm with 25 percent cash and balance due November 1 1908 when deed delivered. trustee Cora E Slothour and attorney John D Keith.
Borough council enacts new water rents effective July 1 1908 including minimum taps at five dollars per year and additional charges for meters urinals watering troughs stables and vehicles with varied rates for animals and services. Building taps require use of water at established prices and building occupancy triggers payment. Repeals inconsistent ordinances. Enacted June 2 1908.
The administrator of Charles F Sheely late of Mountpleasant township Adams County will sell on the premises a 35 acre tract in Mountpleasant township near New Oxford Bonneauville. The property includes a two story frame house a frame barn and outbuildings with a nearby schoolhouse. lies 14 miles west of New Oxford and adjoins lands of Lieyeneur Stambaugh and Wagner. Sale begins at 1 pm terms to be announced by Joseph H Sheely Adm'r. inspect by calling John Herman on the property.
Members extend gratitude for contributions to their July 18 picnic. Also an advertisement for a July 21 to 28 corset sale at Frey WenTz Bros with Loomers No 490B corsets and remnants at bargain prices. Two men were killed and another fatally injured when hit by a train at the Acme slope mine near Dubois.
A roundup of residents and guests visiting in town includes Mr. Wm A Wagner of Philadelphia visiting friends, Mr and Mrs Eugene F Myers of Brooklyn vacationing with Mrs J E Myers, and Hon Wm Decker of McCungie Snyder county staying with his parents. Also listed are visits by Frank Blair of Cleveland and Chas Glasscock of Baltimore, among others, plus illnesses and recoveries. Bluffton Ohio News.
New Oxford won the third game of the series against Littlestown 18 to 2. Kessick allowed three scattered hits while Ehrhart of Gettysburg College yielded the ball to frequent hits from New Oxford. B. McKinney led with five hits as Littlestown floundered in fielding and errors galore.
A July 16 ceremony at the Lutheran parsonage in New Chester united William W. Harman and Ida M. Bolen in marriage officiated by Rev. E. E. Dietterick. Another couple Ammon E. Bupp of Gettysburg and Nellie Williams of Gettysburg married Friday in Hagerstown.
Littlestown residents learned that cigar maker Harry Orndorff tried to take his life on Saturday night by drawing a knife across his throat after heavy drinking. A neighbor intervened and Dr Crouse treated the wounds as Orndorff remained in critical condition with poor prospects for recovery. Orndorff, 40s, has eight children and once lived in McSherrystown.
Charles Hemphill a Clayton New Jersey man abducted Cora Garton a Millville child near Glassboro sparking a lynch mob. Police moved him to Woodbury Jail after a dramatic pursuit and arrest at Pitman station. The girl trusted doctor care though severely frightened and injured.
Miss Roberta E. Swartz of Harrisburg gave an expression recital on Monday evening at the Methodist church titled The Sign of the Jack O Lantern. The audience remained engaged for over an hour and praised her elocution talent. Music included a vocal solo by Miss Mary Emmert and an orchestra. In a separate matter, G H Strausbaugh sued Allen Hartman for trespass and damages over a hunting dog shot on Hartman’s premises. Squire Lilly awarded Strausbaugh $25 plus costs as Hartman did not appear.
The Citizens Band will furnish music for a picnic at East Berlin on Saturday afternoon and evening July 25, with a concert on Center Square tomorrow evening at 7 30. Sheriff Colestock sold Deatrick property in Mountjoy township for 400 dollars to Mary J Shephard on Saturday. Eleven year old Ellis Geiselman fractured his right arm and back after a willow fall in Hanover. John Flemming weighed 229 bushels from seven acres near New Oxford and blamed Birely’s phosphate. A soaking shower ended a drought on Tuesday. Edward Weikert of Two Taverns visited his sister Mrs. Herman on W High street. Miss M A Kuhn of New York and Miss Mary Dellone of Hanover stayed with the Kerrigans at Cedar Ridge Tuesday. William Goulden and family visited Cedar Ridge. Stanley Goulden returned to Martinsburg W Va. Cordelia Little, Baltimore nurse, vacationing with her parents in Bonneaville. Prof Robert Myers and family from Johnstown visiting Pitt street. Reuben Eckert of Hickorytown and Louise Troup of Boiling Springs plan to marry after 12 years divorced. they secured a license and showed divorce papers.
In New York on July 21, Mrs. Gussie Benson, despondent over ill health, dived into the East River with her two young children, a four year old boy and a two year old girl. The bodies lay in the morgue awaiting burial as investigators believe she jumped from a ferry with the children in her arms.
Honolulu July 21 A burst steam pipe in the forward starboard boiler of the battleship Kearsarge of the Atlantic fleet injured five crew members badly. Fire followed the accident and the steam plant was out of action for nine hours. The injured are recovering with burns but none will die. The pipe connected the forward starboard boiler to the dynamos and repairs required drawing all fires and cooling procedures.
Bishop Henry Codman Potter, who has been ill since June 27 at Fernleigh, Mrs. Potter's home in Cooperstown, N Y, suffered a relapse on July 21.
Port Chester New York on July 21 ordered by the state department of agriculture to cut down infected orchards due to San Jose scale. Ho bart J Park and Mrs Homan Clark of New York are among those required to destroy trees and it is expected that within a month no apple trees will remain in Port Chester.
Two Italians Frank Thomas and Nicholas Fenezo of New Castle Pa are in serious condition from numerous gunshot wounds after a duel over Jennie De vito seventeen. Both await felonious shooting charges as they lie in hospital.
In Mahanoy City Pennsylvania on July 21 an eight year old girl Annie Zerko was seriously gored by a cow. She was angered by a bright red dress she wore triggering the attack and required medical care.
Seven men died and ten were injured in a gas explosion at Summit Branch Mining in Williamstown near Pottsville Pennsylvania. The victims named are John Reilly Arthur Hawk Charles Rickert John Whittle Anthony Frelas James Bowman and Michael Stakum. The blast hit No 1 shaft of the Williamstown colliery after a safety lamp was adjusted following a shot explosion, and rescue work began under Superintendent Aumen with many volunteers entering the burning mine filled with after damp.
F B D Prickett a retired Methodist minister and former Metuchen NJ recorder was shot and killed in the street. Archie Herron the alleged shooter stood at his stairs with a cocked revolver to avoid arrest but surrendered when told he would be taken dead or alive regardless of additional deaths. Two years earlier Herron had been arraigned before Prickett for disorderly conduct and once jailed for ten days.
In Pottstown Pennsylvania a canoe with Peter Frankl aged eighteen and Marion Engle seventeen overturned after Engle moved to avoid a tree branch. Frankl, though an expert swimmer, and Engle sank together and were found about twenty feet apart. Elsie Fryer sixteen and William Edwards eighteen escaped, while Edwards aided Fryer to shore. All four were residents of Pottstown.
Eugene W. Chafin of Chicago and Aaron Watkins of Ada Ohio were nominated for president and vice president by the Prohibitionists at their national convention in Chicago. Both nominations were unanimous after three ballots. Rev William B Palmore of St Louis led challengers with 274 votes on the first ballot and a larger vote on later ballots as Chafin’s nomination solidified.
In Wilmington municipal court Judge Cochran fined Christopher Brooks five dollars and costs for contempt after he used the forms Mr Mrs Miss toward colored individuals. The ruling bars addressing colored people with those titles and cites a disciplinary enforcement for warnings. Sarah Archer, a colored woman, was similarly addressed as Mrs Archer.
A condensed diary notes a Philadelphia child fatally burned by matches, Peleg Barker the former Washington Post owner dies in Portland, a hanged 18 year old in New Castle for a Hillsville murder, and a Lakemont woman drowns herself. Also reported are electrocutions in Marietta and Allentown, a man crushed in Bridgeport, horse kick deaths near Toronto, and multiple official actions and shipyard reopenings.
The latest closing prices show firmer Baltimore wheat grades with No 2 spot at 96 9 10c and steamer No 2 spot at 90 9 10c. Corn is steady with mixed spot at 9c and Sept at 80c. Oats are firm with various No 2 to No 4 grades listed. Butter is easy with creamery extras at 24c and prints 25 26c. Eggs steady at 17c for Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia fancy and 18c for southern per dozen.
At Pittsburg Union Stock Yards cattle were dull with prices around 6.30 to 6.50 for choice grade. Sheep held steady with prime wethers 4.65 to 4.75, lambs 4.30, veal calves 7.50 to 8.60. Prime heavies and heavy Yorkers ranged 7.05 to 7.10, light Yorkers 6.60 to 6.80, pigs 6.28 to 6.40, roughs 8.00 to 6.90.
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