Old Cemetery Rededication Reveals Flohr Church History
W Clarence Sheely of Gettysburg spoke at the rededication of the enlarged Flohr’s Cemetery grounds. The address traced the church and cemetery history from 1807 onward, noting land acquisitions, joint use by Flohr’s German Reformed and Lutheran congregations, and subsequent cemetery trusteeships and legal changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ploht's Church
W. Clarence Sheely
Bay
Gettysburg
George BE
Ely
Arendsville
G. Howard Koons
Pairfield
B. Dysart
New Oxford
Edwin A. Rice
Arendtsville
Bheely
C. A. Cluck
McKnightstown
Plohr's Cemetery Association
Sheely
Flohr
Miohr
Plohr
Gettysburg and
Petersburg
Menno Simonis
Piot
Commonwealth
Joseph Morrison
William Erwin
Peter Piper
Jacob Mundorff
Frederick Bucher
Valentine
Franklin Township
Court of Common Pleas
Mohr
Adams County
Reformed Church
Henry Deardorff
Henry W. Deardorff
Robert Shull
New Cemtery Association
Cemetery Association
the Reformed Church
Flohr’s Church
New
Pfoutz's Church Centennial Observance Set in Highland Township
Pfoutz's Church of the Brethren in Highland township near Herefter's mill marks its 100th year with a June 18 centennial program at the church. Events begin at 9:30 including devotions by J I Hereter, scenes by school groups, a basket dinner at 11:45, afternoon sessions, choir performances, addresses, and final benediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfoutz
Church of the Brethren
Highland Township
Hereter’s Mill
B. F. Lightner
Gettysburg
Lightner
Brethren Faith
J. I. Hereter
R. L. Cocklin
Mechanosarg
East Berlin
Hershey
H. M. Stover
Waynesboro
John Waybright
Thurmont
Three Hanoverians Graduate From Catawba College
Three Hanover students Miss Evelyn Rahn daughter of Mr and Mrs Clinton D Rahn E Burnell Frock son of Mr and Mrs Edmond A Frock and Willam Black son of Dr and Mrs H Ross Black were among the graduates at Catawba college Bulisbury NY during last week’s commencement exercises all three earned A B degrees
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
Evelyn Rahn
Clinton D. Rahn
E. Burnell Frock
Edmond A. Frock
Willam Black
H. Ross Black
Catawba College
Bulisbury
N. Y
Abbottstown Community Notes and Memorial Day Observances
Abbottstown residents report recoveries and illnesses including Miss Lillie Stambaugh returning home after appendicitis surgery and Mrs Emory Alwine improving. Memorial Day services were held with a parade from the Lutheran church to cemeteries and back. Abbottstown’s baseball results include a 13 to 3 Abbottstown win at Nashville. Theophilus Bevenour pleurisy and other local updates are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Stambaugh
Warner Hospital
Gettysburg
William Ruth
East Berlin
Emory
Alwine
Marguerite Gladfelter
W. F. Hollinger
York City
York Springs
Paradise Protectory
Midway Wildcats
Pennville
Paradise
William Hamme
Jacob Grim
Hanover
Hanover Country Club
Theophilus Blevenour
Lewis
Moul
St. John's Lutheran Sunday School
Ida Boozle
J. Faber Wildasin
Peter Smith
Abbottstown
Charles O. Garner
Union Bridge
Lutheran Church
Paradise Protectory Band
Paul Gladfelter
Lincoln
George Berkheimer
Howard E. Sheely
Robert Emig
Nathan Smith
Theophilus Bevenour
Nashville
Army Camp To Open June 10 On Gettysburg Battlefield
Uncle Sam's reforestation camp for 200 jobless recruits will be pitched in Pitzer's Woods at West Confederate avenue and Wheatfield road. Superintendent McConaghie said the site in Gettysburg National Park was chosen by Engineer Adams after inspecting several locations. The 200 men arrive next Saturday and camp at once. Work began Monday to ready a 600 by 200 foot plot shielded by trees. The park service will appoint the superintendent and about ten foremen, with local selections for training in battlefield tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Pitzer
West Confederate Avenue
Wheatfield Road
McConaghie
Gettysburg National Park
Engineer Adams
Third Corps
Baltimore
Gettysburg
Civilian Conservation Corps
Confederate Avenue
National Park Service
Butler Township School Board Cuts Tax Rate and Elects Staff
Butler township directors met Thursday evening and cut the school tax from 15 to 12 mills. They elected Herbert Miller to teach Good Hope school next year and re elected four teachers. Re elected teachers include Maude Walters Guernsey and Alma Wert Arendtsville plus Maude Pensyl, and George Shank. Lloyd Garretson is board president with Luther Lady Conrad Guise Charles N. Thomas Roy Raffensperger as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler Township
Herbert Miller
Good Hope
Maude T. Walters
Biglerville
Guernsey
Maude. Pensyl
Bender's
Alma Wert
Arendtsville
Bridge School
George A. Shank
Two Boys Run Away From Paradise Home
Two 14 year olds, William Dormer and Conrad Murray, fled the Paradise protecto rate Monday a week. State police teletype from Shia mokaind mentions homes likely in that city. Dormer is 5 feet 2 inches and 110 pounds. Murray stands 4 feet 10 inches and weighs 105 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paradise Home
William Dormer
Conrad Murray
Paradise Protectorate
Shiamokin
Dormer
Murray
Gettysburg Room Opens at Pennsylvania State Museum
The Gettysburg room in the Pennsylvania State Museum at Harrisburg reopened with a new Lincoln statue, a life size Meade statue model by Charles Grafly, a Union commander chair, five Rothermel Civil War paintings, and Civil War relics including a Confederate flag. Five smaller Pennell paintings and other artworks were added, with the room renovated under Dr C F Hoban and featuring a large Gettysburg address pedestal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania State Museum
Harrisburg
Department of Public Instruction
C. F. Hoban
Lincoln
George G. Meade
Washington
Charles Grafly
Philadelphia
Meade
Battle of
Pennsylvania
Caproni Brothers
Boston
Hoban
W. S. Hancock
Joseph Pennell
America
New York
State Museum
Pennell
McSherrystown Local News Briefs Highlight Distinct Events
Reports from McSherrystown note multiple community items. Charles Keffer and Helen Storm are among those ill with Keffer in critical condition and Storm hospitalized in Hanover. The St Joseph academy and Central Catholic high faculties issue commencement invitations for June events. Knights of Columbus plan a corner stone laying on Main Street. 4-H club met at Mrs. Vitus Smith’s home. Dorothy Bowser taught fruit prep. Voter tallies for upper and lower wards show party registrations. Eagles beat McSherrystown 7 to 2 at Youngfield. Clyde Brady resumes work post operation. Reginald Ackerman injured a finger in a practice game. Elmer J. Herr’s Guernsey herd tested TB free since 1926.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Bunty
St. Joseph's Academy
Academy
Harold Snyder
Frank Brehm
Knights of Columbus
Main Street
Vitus Smith
Brushtown
Dorothy Bowser
McSherrystown
James Becker
Midway
Central Catholic High
St. Mary's
Hanover Eagles
Youngfield
Clyde Brady
Harry Brady
Edge Grove
Reginald Ackerman
Joseph Ackerman
Elmer J. Herr
Guernsey
Mr. Herr
Juniors Defeat White Hall 8 to 2 in Season Opener
The Hanover Independent reports the Juniors beat White Hall 8 to 2 on Sunday in their first game of the season. Hugh Rebert spends summer with his parents, Quinten and Mrs. Rebert. Quinten Robert is confined at home after a mule kick. St Luke's Union church hosts a social this Wednesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
White Hall
Hugh Rebert
Quinten Rebert
St. Luke's Union Church
Quinten Robert
Abbottstown Final School Report
Abbottstown borough final reports detail attendance and perfect attendance lists for grammar, intermediate, and primary schools. Names of students with perfect attendance and half day absences are recorded, along with teachers Miss Mary E Elder Miss Estella M Hale and Miss Mellie K Elsenhart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbottstown
Borough
Kathryn Baker
Margaret Bowser
Frances Chronister
Dorothy Dick
Betty Sanders
Josephine Altiand
Richard Alwine
Walter Alwine
Robert Berkheimer
Ervin Butt
John Kime
Edward Meckley
Billy Smith
Mary E. Elder
Pearl Baker
Anna Deatrick
Ferne Grim
George Alwine
Fred Schaffer
Richard Sanders
Estella M. Hale
Mildred Alwine
Regina Anthony
Bernadine Blevenour
Minnie Emig
Belletta Gise
Jeune Leib
Mary Rutter
Geraldine Rutter
Carroll Slothour
Keins
Curtis Alwine
Francis Anthony
Ralph Baker
Ralph Butt
Samuel Grim
David Hoke
John Rutter
Stuart Wagner
Polly Alwine
Anna Kuhn
Mellie K. Elsenhart
Kermit Harbaugh Wins Ursinus Prize
Kermit Harbaugh of McKnights town won the 825 Beeshore prize at Ursinus College for excellence in Greek and holds an open scholarship for students of exceptional ability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kermit Harbaugh
Ursinus Prize
E. R. Harbaugh
McKnightstown
Urainus College
Inquest Planned For Two Deaths Near Gettysburg
An inquest will be held this Wednesday afternoon at the Harrisburg road scene seven miles north of Gettysburg into the deaths of Kenneth Connor and his bride of five hours Clara Farr. Connor and Arthur H. Leh of Allentown were involved in a sideswipe crash that left Mrs. Connor dead almost instantly and Connor dying Monday at Warren hospital from injuries sustained in the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Connor
Clara Farr
Harrisburg Road
Gettysburg
Connor
Warren Hospital
Arthur H. Leh
Allentown
Miss Nadine Miller Visiting State College Couple
Miss Nadine Miller of Lincolnway East is spending several weeks with Mr and Mrs Guy Miller at State College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nadine Miller
Lincolnway
East
Guy Miller
State College
Hospital Notes From Hanover Gettysburg and Nearby
Patients admitted and treated at Hanover and Warner hospitals include Miss Eather Martman of Cletysburg Eugene Aapera of Hanover Delmar Kime of Bigterville and Patt Osborne Jr in tonsil removal. Discharges include Mrs Huber Blocher Beulah Harrai Mrs Clarence W Epley and infant son Gettysburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eather Martman
Clettysburg
Eugene Aapera
Hanover
R. D
Patt Osborne, Jr
Bigterville
Delmar Kime
Huber Blocher
Gettysburg
Beulah Harrai
Bendersville
Warner Hospital
Clarence W. Epley
Winifred
Kathleen Jones
Richard Codor
William Sherman
Edward J. Gobrecht
Hanover Hospital
Sarah Spangler
Frank
Creager
Ray Meckley
Abraham C. Keefer
McKnightstown
Harvey van Waltersdorf
Elizabeth Daley
C. F. Daley
Edward Gobrecht
Public Sale of Dairy Cattle in Latimore Township
The sale on Saturday July 11 at a Latimore township farm offers 718 cows weighing 30 to 126 pounds each. Cattle include Fresh Dawn close springers Jerseys soy Holsteins all tested for TB blood. Sale begins 12 30 pm cash to highest bidder with delivery possible. Bruce Harbold is auctioneer and N J King clerk.
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Latimore Township
Springs
Bfsylvania
M. Anderson Bruce Harbold
Auct
N. J
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Old Cemetery
Catawba
Charles Keffer
J. W. Keffer
Helen Storm
Louis Storm
Joseph Price
Genevieve Price
H. B. Bender & Son
Gettysburg, PA
Hospital News
Oliver
HE B. ’ Davis
General Line
J. W. Hook
Broadway Telephone
Hanover, PA
Tanger’s Poultry Farm and Hatchery
York Springs, Pa
Beauty Shoppe
York St
Red’s Cafe
W. Market St
York, PA
H. D. Zeigler
the Music Man
B. Market St
Continental Square
Sunoco
Adden Ensational Pensiactorervice
Lincolnway West
New Oxford, Pa
Good Brothers
Chrysler
Pontiac Co
Ford
Good Brothers Motor Company
Chrysler and Ply
West Market St
Dial
Janet Gaynor
Henry Garat N
Sweetheart of
FBI
SAT
Eagle Fire Co. Minstrels
George Arliss
Hette Davis
Old Boy
Loretta Young
Gene Raymond
Budapest
C. M. Moore
Whit
NOAA
Mark E. Tron
White Rose
Yuengling's
Pottsville
Earle
Sea Food
Chambersburg St
Gettysbe
Livingston
Livingston’s
Lincolnway, W
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