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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
17
By H. J. Smith subscription at 81.00 per annum in advance with 8 if not paid within the year. Discontinuance only by publisher option and arrearages must be paid. Failure to discontinue at extraction of paid for will be new engagement. Advertisements at reasonable yearly rates. Zoe Paintixa described from label to handbill poster.
Charles W. Stine seeks the Democratic nomination for congress in the twentieth district facing A R Brodbeck with S Ferry Laucks possibly entering. Other names floated include Dr G Emanuel Spotz and Dr S K Pfaltzgraff. hints of delegate talk and a Young Men's Democratic Society leader. Sudden deaths in York County include John H Hamme and Philip A Lehr. Audry Gross, 12, faces serious blood poisoning after leg amputation, linked to a bite. Ralph Sierer suffers facial burns from a failed fire spit experiment.
William Miller aged 78 collapsed with apoplexy while returning from his brother in law Peter Goodling’s funeral in Loganville York County. He died five minutes later at his home after being rushed there by automobile.
Herbert R. Coombs, held in York jail, faced five charges in Hanover for breaking into J. W. Gitt store E. D. Bortner coal office Keystone Wire Co. and A F Reis plant. Witnesses linked stolen goods to him five cases heard before Squires Sell and Witmer. Five of six watches recovered a dime bank missing six dollars stolen. Coombs sentenced by Judge Warner to 3 to 10 years in the penitentiary.
At Gettysburg on Saturday the Adams County Principals Association appointed a committee to adjust first second and third class high school courses. Miss Helen Cope, D W Lehman and Prof Mummert were named to study how students could move between class levels without extra make up work. Attendance was strong.
The farmers bulletin explains parcel post rates and limits and details container types, grading and packing methods to ensure good quality shipments. It covers choosing handling packing poultry and grading fruits and vegetables for marketing through the post office.
Miss Emma Moore of Oil City, described as the United States fat test woman, weighs 7494 pounds and is ill with pneumonia. Eleven men assisted her to a hospital but no standard door would admit her. a second floor room with folding doors was found for entry.
Fire gutted the Eagle Run brewing establishment of Fuhrman and Schmidt in Shamo kin, nearly destroying a four story brick building. Loss pegged at 75000 dollars. Other items note a drowning of 12 year old Donald Snow at Towanda and family bereavements. Primary elections set for May 16 with broad nominations. Hood’s Division veteran Colonel R M Powell dies in St Louis at 89. Peter Goodling found dead in Loganville shop at 76. Pen Mar Park hosts wheat lading on W M siding for summer excursions. Advertising note for a 5 passenger touring car sale by J R Weaver New Oxford.
William Dutton, a Black man who led York officers on a 40 mile chase over three days in bare feet, died of lockjaw in York hospital Monday night. He had been picked up after injuring his leg on a railroad track and later escaped custody, wearing no shoes and using bags to cover his feet. He was recaptured, jailed, then moved to hospital where he died at 9:30 PM.
Three men—Collins Senft Sebastian Wise and Winfield Trone—nearly drowned when ice 14 inches thick broke at the paper mill dam in Spring Grove. Collins sank multiple times before rescue. Other incidents include John Dehaven's fatal 8 foot fall at Pottstown store and a 75 year old Civil War veteran’s death hours later after a head injury. A 15 year old girl shot her father during a home entry dispute in Johnsonburg. Local officials report a confessed suspect, Charlee Ojzan, in Cumberland Maryland. Mrs Albert Stauffer dies after farm work a breakdown at 57. John Staich and wife Mary killed in a snowstorm collapse near Union Furnace, with two young children injured.
An advertisement asserts deafness results from inflammation of the Nasal mucus lining of the Eustachian tube and can only be cured by constitutional remedies. It promises $100 for any deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, offering circulars free and listing Toledo, Ohio, as the company location.
The listed January posters and sale notices will be printed at this office and published in the register free of charge. Dates: 20Executors of E G Lough New Oxford real estate bank stock. 29John H Stock Ext personal property New Oxford. 2J W Herman near Kobler s school house farm stock and implements. 9C P Smith at New Oxford Machine Shops farm machinery. 18J H Bortner Tyrone township stock and implements. 24Frank Spangler near New Oxford cattle and hogs.
York woman Miss Mabel L Davidson aged 25 entertained friends Friday night then was found dead in bed Saturday morning after a farewell at about 10. She had suffered tubercular trouble for six years and died from a hemorrhage early Saturday.
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