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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
6
Personal notices list Miss Anna Philips and relatives traveling and visiting in California and Philadelphia, with many local residents hosting guests from Dillsburg Hanover Lemoyne York and other towns. The piece records auto trips, hospital ties, and daily social calls across Philadelphia Street Pitt Street and Centre Square.
A series of weddings are listed from White Hall Littlestown and Hanover. Miss Ella Wherley marries Ernest Lentz near Harney. Grover Brown weds Miss Dorothy Ennis near Bittinger. Edna Wolfe weds William Hoffman at St Johns Lutheran parsonage. Emily Heckendorn weds Albert Black at the bride’s home. Robert Grove weds Bertha Lau in Hanover. Oliver Boose weds Annie Ferry in Hanover. Ava Miller weds Roger Davidson at St Marys Church rectory.
May minutes approved. Reformed church to receive four water taps for organ use at six dollars plus extra fittings. School use during encampment deferred pending deed. Cemetery access granted for road to pumping station. Park area oiling studied. report back. Crossing to Mrs Reed’s funded by borough. work cost borne by church. Water rent for new school building discussed. Tax duplicate for 1913 listed. bills approved totaling 94.74. Local notices include various social and sports items and incidents.
Mrs Caroline Thomas widow of Daniel Thomas died at 10 o'clock Tuesday night at New Chester home of her daughter Mrs John V. Miller after a long stomach cancer illness aged 77 years 1 month 21 days. She is survived by one daughter and her husband died about 16 years ago. Funeral at 10 Friday morning with services and interment at Pines Church Rev E E Dietterich officiating.
A two year old child of Mr and Mrs Robert Myers near Pines Church Straban township nearly died after licking rat poison from a lid rolled on the kitchen floor. The child grew ill and was rushed to a physician by auto. life was saved after urgent care. In Hanover a nuptial mass joined George Adams Jr and Mary Rogallia Sneeringer. Caruso insult incident in London prompts brief altercation. Roosevelt vindicated in Ishpeming court. A decapitated woman found in Bloomfield New Jersey identified as Mrs Alvira Corciello. husband’s money missing. Joseph R Wilson brother of the president takes a job with a Baltimore bonding company.
Finance Minister Requival Obregon signed a provisional contract for a 100 million dollar loan from Banque De Paris et Des Pays Bas with Speyer & Co. New York, to be issued as ten year amortizable six percent bonds. The National Railways of Mexico needs 10 million now, with 4 percent two year notes maturing. The railway’s finances are tied to federal government ownership, and European recognition of Huerta affects the deal. Speyer & Co. have longtime ties to Mexican rail financing.
Mrs. Augustus F Feiser of Philadelphia reports the death of James Neely a wealthy Taneytown resident who shot himself Monday at his home. He was about 73, survived by one daughter Mrs Clau dius Long, his wife predeceased him. Funeral held Wednesday June 4 at 104 m. He had frequent ties to the Feiser home and many local relatives this county.
Market report shows steady Philadelphia flour with winter cases at 154 4 40, rye per barrel 3 50, wheat No 2 red 1 08 to 1 10, corn No 2 yellow 67 cents, oats No 2 white 46 to 40 cents, lower grades 44 cents. Poultry live hens 16 to 17 cents, old roosters 11 to 12, dressed fowls 18 4 to 19 cents, creamery butter 8 steady 19 23 cents, potatoes old 95 cents per bushel and new 2 44 to 1 15 per barrel.
Live stock prices at the Pittsburgh Union Stock Yards show cattle firm with strong demand and prime grades around 5.40 to 8.40, veal calves at 10.50, heavy cattle near 3.50, and pigs trading near 8.95 to 9. Pairs of regular sheep bids range 5.35 to 5.50 with culls and common around 2.50 to 4.75.
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