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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1927
Page
10
Local briefs note subscriptions handled by publishers, ads offered at annual rates, and several community items. J. Collins opens a new chicken house at Two Taverns. Miss Mary Bair takes a New York Times post. a Pentecostal camp meets at Gardners school house.
A Friday evening birthday surprise honored J. C. Krout with a party at the Krout home near Abbottstown. Many friends and neighbors attended, presenting gifts and extending thanks to the host for the kind celebration.
Abbottstown residents report school teachers returning from Philadelphia term and Sidman English work. Porch addition underway for Sara J. Haverstick. William Reichert moves within Paradise township. repairs planned before relocation with family. Memorial Day service by Abbottstown fire company praised. evening festival a success. Estate of Amelie Hoffman appraised over 10000 with listed appraisers. Abbottstown ball team dominates Wemover Athletic club 21 to 0 at Kopp's park and thumps Bittingers 138 to 4. Thoms...ville defeated 7 to 2. New Baltimore to visit Abbottstown Saturday.
Robert W. Williamson notes in The Ways of the South Sea Savage that Solomon islands once housed dense coastal populations but coastal inhabitants moved inland after centuries of inter village raids. Since white rule arrived, coastal villages face less war and seek safety near shores remains limited.
The article explains glass as a chemical compound from an acid and base, with silica as the acid from quartz. It notes lime and lead as modifiers producing hard or soft glass, addresses acids' effect on glass, and mentions iridescence from alkali loss and corrosion of wine bottles.
The Kansas City Star recalls Lucretia Mott joining anti slavery work in Philadelphia in 1343 and her bold act at a New York session when mobs broke up meetings. She moved toward a rough guard, declaring I will see me safely through, and guided to safety.
A short reflective piece defines villainy in two forms the amiable statesman and the rude road agent. It argues that every person engages in some villainy and that honesty would be easier and more profitable, condemning the old barbarian that claims a right to take what he sees.
An 189 year old four foot aperture reflector built by Sir William Herschel for his 40 foot telescope was discovered hidden behind a wall in an old cottage near the Slough observatory. Herschel advanced astronomy with his reflecting telescopes and his instruments' fame spread from his discoveries.
Peter the Hermit, a monk from Amiens in northwestern France, inspired western Europe late in the eleventh century with fiery sermons against Muslim mistreatment of Christian pilgrims. He led a hastily raised crusade that many volunteers died from, and Jerusalem was later seized by the regular army before he returned to Belgium and died in 1115.
A classroom anecdote recalls a pupil answering a teacher about railways by saying they date to Solomon. The student persists, citing biblical imagery of the queen of Sheba traveling with a grand train to Jerusalem.
Governor Fisher approved a measure raising legislator salaries from 2500 to 3000 and weekly mileage at five cents a mile, boosting a fifteen week session cost by nearly 200000. Miss Burnell Deardorff of Mumnyasburg, a 13 year perfect attendance student, and Myles Deardorff also graduated from Arendtsville Vocational School this spring.
In York juvenile court Estella Myers, mother of seven year old Robert Smith, filed a delinquent petition alleging incorrigibility. The boy admitted starting a shed fire in Hanover that damaged two machines. Parental neglect was later cited and the court remanded him to his mother with probation supervision.
Gettysburg College outlines a full commencement week from Sunday June 5 starting with the academic procession to College Church and ending with the alumni collation in the Eddie Plank Memorial gymnasium on Wednesday. Notables include Curtis D. Wilbur delivering the address, Diss Gisela A. Grim as salutatorian, and Norman S. Keller as valedictorian with honorary degrees for Franklin Menges and several clergy.
A published Q and A outlines how former service members who held Government life insurance can reinstate lapsed policies until July 2, 1927 the cut off date. Reinstatement is possible for any amount from 1000 up to the carried sum in multiples of 800 with seven plan options including ordinary life twenty and thirty payment life endowments and level premium term.
The fifth annual reunion at Belmont school house Tyrone township on Ascension Day drew attendees from six to eighty six years old. Wm. F. Shull Sr. was the oldest present, with Clarence Sheely of Gettysburg offering remarks. The event ended with a singing of God Be With You Till We Meet Again, to be repeated next Ascension Day.
Mrs. Maude Wierman Kennedy of Wierman's mill attended a nine states convention of Republican Women clubs in Philadelphia.
A jury in Wilmington Delaware failed to reach a verdict in the 15900 dollar damage suit brought by George B. Carey against Alvin Nissley of Hanover for Mrs. Carey’s death in a July auto crash. The trial before Judges Rice and Rodney ended with jurors discharged after five hours of deliberation. Each side blamed the other for the collision and conflicting driving claims.
Baltimore police report a prisoner in Ironton Ohio Carl Roberts alias Leo Martin 22 Middletown Pa confessed to shooting during the March 19 Provident Saving Bank branch hold up that wounded two employees. Two other men Frank Henderson of Baltimore and John Robert Sydney Giles of Hanover Pa implicated. Hanover police cannot locate Giles.
Notices sent to pastors in eastern states announce the next annual reunion to be held at Pen Mar on Thursday July 21. Mr and Mrs W Lavere Hafer of El Paso Texas are spending a month at their Gettysburg home.
T E Loftus, a general contractor in New Oxford, partners with Charles H Miller of Hanover to supply wall paper with a good sample assortment. Prices match local rates and all work is guaranteed. Bell phone 16 R5.
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