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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
18
By H. J. Smith. Terns for annual subscriptions and advance payment set at $1.40 if not paid within the year. Discontinuance only by publisher option until arrears cleared. A failure to discontinue at paid term end is a new engagement. Advertisements offered at reasonable rates with liberal yearly reductions for all printing needs.
The article lists several sick residents in the area. Nellie Eckert of Lincoln Way West was to wed John C. Hoffnagle Tuesday but is bedbound, postponing the ceremony. Others include Albert Reynolds in East Berlin with pneumonia, Mrs F G Miller also ill, Reuben Noel with pleurisy, James Bassler with throat illness, Tobias Laughman seriously ill, Vincent Adams with throat ailment, and Mary Smith convalescing in Lemoyne.
The report lists several patients from the region who underwent appendicitis or other surgical operations at York area hospitals. Martin Hemler of McSherrystown shows great improvement and expects to return home soon. Others include Mrs. Harry Hull of Hanover, Miss Lillian Miller of Hanover, J F Rohrbaugh of Hanover, Mrs. Michael Burgard of East Berlin, and Richard Mischler of Gettysburg, all moved to or treated at York Hospital or other facilities.
New Chester reports a large gathering of family and kin on Wednesday as William F Shull Sr marked his 76th birthday with all children and grandchildren present. A social day included a sumptuous dinner. Also noted, Daniel T Ferry of Hanover lost three fingers in a machine accident at Hopkins Wagon Works on Friday.
Mayors editors educators politicians and other public life figures in Oklahoma cities traveled by special train to Gettysburg on Sunday to observe a historic commemoration event.
County banks from McSherrys town New Oxford East Berlin Biglerville Arendtsville Gettysburg and others met in the Gettysburg courthouse on Tuesday evening to discuss the two billion dollar Liberty Loan. They urged rapid bond sales with a June 15 deadline and considered allowing fractional bond purchases of 5 10 or 25 dollars while retaining the $50 minimum.
World famed English organist-composer Gatty Sellars arrives for a brief United States visit and performs Saturday June 9 at 8 pm in St Pauls Reformed Church New Oxford. He had been recording in Germany with Welte Mignon rolls and later the Columbia Graphophone Company in New York. His last tour set a world record with 400 consecutive recitals and drew record crowd sizes on major organs across cities.
J A Kinneman sold the personal and real estate of the deceased Mrs Louisa Molison in Abbottstown at public sale with $194 personal property and $900 real estate sold to Miss Josephine Bosserman. Mrs Harry Deardorff sold her home in Arendtsville to Oscar Diehl for $2000. Charles Fair sold his Round Hill farm with livestock and implements to a New York state buyer who took possession. Samuel M Bare sold a Main Street building lot in McSherrystown to Rebecca Hamm and Bert Hamm of McSherrystown.
Samuel Wolf of Hamilton township near the Carlisle pike was kicked by a mule while harnessing a horse in the stable. He sustained severe bruises to the head and body but no bones were broken after being knocked against a stone wall.
Geo A Klingel, Hanover street barber, vents anger after a flock of birds destroyed most of his ripening early cherries in his yard. Meanwhile election tallies show 62 men aged 21 to 30 registered at the local polls on Tuesday and 64 in Oxford township.
A long list of marriages from Adams and surrounding counties is reported. Couples include Emmett H. Warren and Ruth E. Black in Wenksville, Lizzie Tirestone and Percy Gardner in Gettysburg, Pauline V. Lott and W L Bowls near Wichita, Daisy Flickinger and Grant Fissel, Alma Kittinger and James Donaldson, Anna M Young and J Walter Kugler, Miriam Krug and George Klunk, Clara Hofe and Granville Jacoby, William F Howe and Mary Motter, Clara A Wagner and George B Otto, Blanche Weaner and Russell Mizell, Bertha Freed and Clark Aldinger, Marion Blocher and Alfred Sutuliff, Grace Weaver and Herman Kappes, plus other local nuptials and related details.
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