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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1905
Page
7
News brief from New Oxford York County listing local items. Prisons count 121 at York jail. Birth announcement born May 25 to Mr and Mrs Herbert Sheetz. Various notes include partridge releases, a parish play, a horse death, bank plans for Bigerville, and a Robed list of oberserved events.
About twenty five members of the Mite Society of Emmanuel Reformed church Hanover met at Mise Maria Kehm’s Philadelphia street home on Thursday afternoon. They arrived by the 1 19 p m train and returned on the 5 o clock train. Refreshments were served and the gathering was enjoyed.
A two story frame clay mill on Jacob Moul’s farm four miles northeast of Hanover was burned last Wednesday night with its machinery. A wagon and carpenter tools were lost. Loss estimated at 1500 dollars. Origin of the fire remains a mystery with no building or machinery insurance. Reading township reports a smallpox outbreak causing concern among families despite some claiming chicken pox. A physician warns the disease is highly contagious and could be fatal, urging precautions to stamp it out early.
The Hanover News reports a trailer left the Park Saturday at 11 30 PM and derailed near Blue Gables. Miss Kate Ackerman of North Street McSherrystown suffered a severe ankle sprain while the conductor sustained a bruised right leg. Investigators found a wood piece and large stones placed to throw the car off the track.
Joseph Miller aged about 9 of East High street narrowly escaped a fatal wound when his pocket knife, held during play, swung into his left chest above the heart. The blade penetrated about 11 inches but caused only a flesh wound. he is improving after treatment by the family physician.
Stricken with paralysis, Hampton auctioneer J. B. Crist delivered produce at Hanover warehouse, then at Eagle Hotel he grew weak. A physician found paralysis in his right leg and side, and he was taken home by J. C. Myers. This marks a second attack.
The easiest running cheapest and best washing machine on the market is the White Lilly. For sale by D. F SuEeNTZ on Carlisle Street.
Mrs Abdiel Baugher visits Hanover friends while Rev John W Love of St Joseph Mo tours Adams York counties. Dr J J Snyder home on leave from U S Navy aboard the Tacoma. Admiral Sigsbee’s squadron to France to bring Commodore Jones home. Local residents Mary A Smith ill but improving. Mrs Coleman of Baltimore visits Gettysburg and New Oxford amid pneumonia recovery.
Gettysburg May 28 For the first time in decades deer are numerous on South Mountain in Adams Franklin and Cumberland counties ruining crops. A herd of about thirty destroyed 25 acres of wheat near Narrows Adams county. Farmers post scarecrows fire guns leash collies and burn brush at night to ward off deer. An eastern rural mail carrier found three dead deer in a mountain pass and tramps are suspected. The district game warden is investigating.
Hanover’s crack baseball team The Champions were shut out 3 to 0 by Dallastown on Saturday. The club also fell in both games to McAherrystown on Memorial Day.
Mrs Fanie Violet Richardson wife of Rev A F Richardson and daughter of Mrs Sarah V King of Gettysburg died in Pittsburg last Monday morning at age 46. The remains were interred at Gettysburg on the following Wednesday.
Mrs Calvin Hicks died at her Bermudian area home Tuesday evening after a six month battle with cancer. She leaves a husband and six children.
Harry V Hemler son of ex County Commissioner George Y Hemler of McSherrystown died Friday at 10 30 am from consumption and dropsy aged 24 years 10 months 13 days He was born July 13 1880 attended Pennsylvania Business College Lancaster studied stenography and typing then worked for Frick Coke Company moving to Gary West Virginia where typhoid pneumonia progressed to consumption He returned home eight months ago and has been bedridden most of the time Five brothers and two sisters survive including Sylvester at East Las Vegas N M and Sister Philomena at St Joseph Convent Pottsville Funeral was Monday at St Marys Church Conewago Chapel Fr P P Hemler officiating.
Mrs Anna M Wagner widow of Levi B Wagner died at 3 30 pm May 25 at York County hospital York of erysipelas aged about 75 She is survived by son A E Buckminster Hanover daughter Mrs C W Kehm Carlisle St this place sister Mrs Elizabeth Sherman High street This funeral was May 27 at 2 pm in New Oxford Cemetery Rev Geo N Lauffer officiating Casper Weisensale died at his Conewago township home May 26 at noon aged 81 5 14 He was born in Germany and came to America at 17 He is survived by three daughters Mrs Daniel March Bonneauville Mrs William Bentzel Gettysburg and Miss Sarah Weisensale at home and two sons David and Amos Weisensale Midway
Emanuel Crouse aged 69 years 4 months 1 day died last Monday evening near St James Church Union township after a week long illness of pneumonia. He resided with his son Augustus Crouse and is survived by six sons and four daughters.
Mrs Charles Myers formerly of Bend ersville dies in Carlisle after thirteen weeks of tuberculosis illness, in her 28th year. She is survived by her husband and a four year old daughter.
Miss Amanda Schriver, visiting her sister on Berlin Avenue, was mauled when a large dog owned by Miss Lizzie Keller leaped at her and ripped her dress. Councilman M. G. Colestock intervened, driving the animal away before further harm. The dog has attacked others, and residents demand the owner restrain or remove it.
A Thursday festival on Center Square to benefit the New Oxford Athletic Association will serve ice cream strawberries cakes and more. Music by the band invites everyone to enjoy themselves. A heavy rain on Tuesday revived crops previously suffering from drought conditions.
The ad touts a White Lilly washing machine as the lightest running and best on the market and invites customers to see it at D. F. Slentz's on Carlisle Street.
The New Oxford A A baseball team opened the season by defeating Cashtown 9 to 3 on Saturday. Key performances came from H Bream and O'Brien for Cashtown and from the New Oxford battery J Miller and J Keller with Wm Lawrence at first base delivering notable fielding. Two games are planned for Ascension Day against Spring Grove at 10:80 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Charles Elder son of John Elden of Abbottstown married Minnie Stremmel of Bittinger P O at her home Tuesday evening. The ceremony was performed by Rev. M J Roth.
Mr Daniel Diehl raised the framework for a new barn on his Mountpleasant township farm to replace the structure destroyed by last fall's fire.
Henry W. Cole aged 45 was jailed Saturday in Towson Baltimore county Md by Justice Herbert on alleged felonious assault on 13 year old Miss Gertie May Gracey of Berwick township Adams county Pa. Cole denies the charge.
The Cumberland Valley railroad branch at D. & M. Junction with the Reading crossing will be converted into a trolley road and electric cars will operate on the line by August 1. Orders to the superintendent require fitting cars, planting poles, and stringing wires to ready the line promptly.
A letter from F W Devor & Co and Samuel Shirk & Sons in Hanover urges C H Haat to paint the town with Devoe paint. It praises the mayor’s leadership and links a fresh coat of paint to public esteem and bright town appearance, mentioning house, fences, and property.
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