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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1915
Page
15
$1.00 per annum in advance or $140 if not paid within the year. No subscription discontinued unless the publisher collects all arrearages. A failure to discontinue at expiration of time paid for will be a new engagement. Advertisements at reasonable yearly rates. Jon Palextina offers labels, cards, handbills, and posters.
Plans by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Blakeslee consider a motor express route between York and Gettysburg to serve farmers merchants and consumers. The line would test quick shipment of perishables with daily round trips using a large covered auto truck andexpand as patronage grows.
A 1915 bounty payment statute requires checks from the State Treasurer to the person named in the affidavit. The Game Commission warns against advancing money to bounty claimants or buying such claims and states no claim will be certified for payment except in the affidavit-maker’s name.
An act approved by Governor Brumbaugh bans possession of paper balloons in Pennsylvania after January 1 next year. Violators face fines up to 200 dollars and up to 60 days in jail. Critics say July Fourth balloons cause fires when inflating liquor-soaked cotton ignites fire on contact with burnables.
A Ford touring car overturned on a Tuesday evening near Thurmont as a rear wheel collapsed. The 2 year old son died en route to Frederick hospital, while the parents escaped serious injury. The child slept on his mother’s lap when the crash occurred as the car turned turtle into a farmer’s yard. The family was returning from Baltimore with a daughter. A farmer freed all from the wreck. Also noted the state treasury received 550 pennies in an express package after a treasury check for 5.50 was returned for lack of certified funds. Frederick Stoe of Lancaster has been jailed for allegedly setting fire to Thomas Hartman’s house for cash.
Harrisburg June 2 The Sproul Senate bill to have counties pay primary costs, saving about 400000 yearly, approved by Governor Brumbaugh. Also approved Senate measures include disease control in hotels and eateries, separationbased business rights for married women, and guardianship tweaks in minor licenses.
Reuben Hilliard died in a Kane hospital and was laid to rest with his mother in Frostburg. After a 26 year search, his mother learned through a found letter that he had died years earlier and left her $16 000. The 1889 Johnstown flood is noted as the believed cause.
Robert Nicholas aged 15 son of Byrd Nichlas York was seriously injured when he was roller skating and rode into the path of an automobile driven by H C Hershey of Blue Gables. He suffered a broken right collar bone a fractured left thigh and other injuries and was taken home then to York hospital.
Henry Kauffman aged 40 was instantly killed at York's Spring Garden brickyards when earth loosened by heavy rains collapsed a pit. Harvey Busser escaped with luck as the 10 am incident unfolded. Kauffman had just recovered from a severe rheumatic attack limiting his reflexes.
For late Emanuel Yoke the small farm two miles northeast of New Oxford near the Carlisle pike Hamilton township and a two acre tract of timberland in Berwick township are up for bids. Apply at the home of Harry Zero near Pines Church route 12 Gettysburg Pa 520.
Under an act approved by Governor Brumbaugh, school authorities must report unusual rashes skin eruptions sore throats and symptoms of contagious illness in students to the local health officer. The measure also lets quarantine for measles German measles mumps and chicken pox drop to 16 days upon physician request.
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