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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
14
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY H J SMITH outlines annual and arrearage payment terms. Discontinuance requires publisher option until arrearages are paid. Advertisements offered at reasonable yearly rates with large and small printing jobs.
J Harry Dahlheimer and his son Stewart were returning from Hanover with a four horse team when the horses bolted as a freight train passed. Dahlheimer was knocked down, sustaining a broken right shoulder and injuries from a rail and wheels. Stewart received a severe bruise to his left foot as the wagon halted near a paper factory.
United States trooper Harry W. Miller of the Twelfth cavalry troop M, based at the Mexican border in New Mexico, died Tuesday in a Dallas hospital from injuries after being run over. He was 35, from Dillsburg and York Springs area, with a lengthy Army career including service in Fort Slocum, Kansas, Colorado, Alaska, and the Mexican border.
In York on May 24 Mrs. Wm. H. Wholf found 14000 dollars in notes and bank certificates in a paint bucket buried in the cellar. The husband, once a prosperous painter, died after a fall and had instructed her to dig in that corner if he died suddenly. Coroner Jones noted money in many pockets on his clothing.
Rev J H Hege, newly elected to succeed Rev Dr A G Fastnacht, married Miss Bertha Weagley on May 20 at Upton Franklin county. They will reside at the Dover Lutheran parsonage after June 3. Also recorded is a $750,000 mortgage from Cumberland Valley Telephone Co to Commonwealth Trust Co Harrisburg covering Adams county and other counties.
Miss Hilda Swartzbaugh of Hanover was thrown from a tandem motorcycle on the York pike near Thomasville. The riders traveled about 35 mph when the machine upset. Swartzbaugh suffered facial and body lacerations and contusions. The other rider was uninjured. A Plymouth Rock hen owned by Mrs. Roman H. Bowersox of Dover is laying from one to three eggs daily.
Frank J. Cheney, senior partner of J. Cheney & Co., swears to pay one hundred dollars per case of catarrh cured or not by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason records the oath on December 6. The claim promotes Hall's Cure as acting on blood and mucous surfaces, with testimonials and mail order details included.
Dissolution of the partnership between P. F. Smith and I. M. Staub of McSherrystown Adams County Pennsylvania under the firm name McSherrystown Auto Co occurred May 8 1916 by mutual consent. All debts to the partnership are receivable by I. M. Staub who also will receive all claims and demands for payment. Pp. F. SMITH I. M. STAUB
May figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture show improved fruit prospects with 91 percent of normal apple crops and high yields for plums 79 percent cherries 89 percent pears 88 percent and apricots 74 percent. Printing services offered at the loom office guarantee satisfaction.
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