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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
15
A wide list of locals and relatives visit, travel, or return from service with many staying in towns like Abbottstown, New Oxford, McSherrystown, and Hanover. Families travel for holidays, visits, and job changes while former service members resettle, including discharges and new postings across Adams County and nearby towns.
Prostration from extreme heat claimed the 60 year old David Nary of Arendtsville weighing 420 pounds. Funeral held Sunday with eight pallbearers and a large hearse. Nary’s brother Jacob died two years earlier weighing 404 pounds. another sister is heavier than either. Burial occurred without incident.
Arguments were heard in County Court by Judge Wanner in a suit involving C. J. Delone and H. N. Gitt of Hanover. Delone seeks to compel J. L. Butt to satisfy a judgment Butt is enforcing by attachment, claiming Gitt paid and assigned the debt while Delone was an accommodation party. Separately Ellis Bankert, 10, Hanover, broke the left forearm playing ball.
Andrew Little's northbound car on the Baltimore pike near Westminster struck an iron roadside post after veering to avoid cattle. Mrs Little suffered severe facial and head cuts when she was thrown through the windshield. The couple from Bonneauville had been visiting Baltimore and were returning home.
Chaplain Mark E. Stock of the 311th Field Artillery has landed in Boston after returning from service in France. He is the son of Mrs. George L. E. Stock of Gettysburg and formerly served as rector of the Immaculate Conception church in town before enlisting about two years ago.
The Public Service Commission approved Amos H. Butt of Gettysburg to operate a Gettysburg Hanover bus line despite Hanover operator William R. Bange protesting. Butt begins service after rates are approved. Bange warns Patrons that if a third line starts, he will discontinue the oldest Hanover Gettysburg route July 1.
Ascension Day gathering in Tyrone township Adams county marked the second class reunion for the Belmont School A grade of 1881 and 1882. Teacher Wm F Shull Sr led morning recitations and afternoon readings with music by Wm F Shull Jr. Attendees included Maggie Millar March Sallie Jemiet Chronister Alice Gise Henry L Gise J Emory Hersh Emory Millar and two absentees Elmira Shank Schue and Dr Wm A Yeagy.
A small Hanover family seeks a reliable woman for general housework no washing or ironing required. Apply at 51 Frederick Street Hanover Pa.
Aaron Moul nineteen son of Mr and Mrs Harry Moul of Thomasville was fatally injured at the Thomasville Stone and Lime Company when his clothing was caught in a hoisting machine. He was taken to York hospital where he died at 11 45 a m. He left parents three brothers and two sisters.
Mrs Alice R Kiser of Harney Maryland is freed after a February murder trial in Westminster. The defense relied on temporary insanity with alienist testimony while Dr Charles G Hill testified for the state. A cheering crowd applauded as Kiser left the courthouse with her son Estee Kiser, a veteran returning from France.
Equity suit by Charles J. Delone of Hanover against First National Bank seeks court aid to transfer 96 Citizens Telephone Co. shares and a $2,500 mortgage on L. M. Long real estate, arguing ownership through S. L. Johns adjustment. Judge Ross to rule after exceptions. decision to follow. Smith escapes Adams county jail work detail. recaptured at Sichelberger Park. Community notes include Children’s Day at Valley Chapel, Dettsburg High School graduation of 32, Gettysburg Grammar 58 graduates, and church notices with installation details.
Mrs Maria Bercaw aged 73 died from apoplexy at 6 30 Friday morning at her sister Mrs J E Patterson home in Hanover while visiting from Waynesboro She was wife of Samuel Bercaw and mother of Curtis Bercaw She leaves two sisters and a Wilmington Del based sister Her former residence was Two Taverns and she had come Tuesday to visit and died after a fall was found Friday morning by family with medical aid called but she had passed.
Chas H Basehear and Samuel Kea gy acquire 79 acre Katharine Kuhn farm in Germany township destroyed by fire. Edgar Fair buys Elmer Crum home at Starner Station and Crum buys near Bendersville. Clinton Smith sells 100 acre farm along Big Conewago in Reading township near New Chester to Mr. McElwee of Virginia for 4500 dollars with possession December 1 1920. Prof C K Tawney sells 55 acre farm at Salem U B church Mt Pleasant to Arthur B Kibler Mauertown Va for 5700 dollars with possession April 1 1920. Heirs of late J H Duttera sell 128 acre farm at Gulden Station to Hughe Orndorff Mauertown Va for 9100 dollars with possession April 1 1920. John Ferry sells 94 acre farm near Gulden Station to I Orndorff Mauertown Va for 6250 dollars with possession April 1 1920.
Miss Jemma Schriver of Hanover was moved from York county alms house to the state hospital at Harrisburg last week. Adolph Frock of Bittinger’s Station was admitted to York hospital on Thursday for a surgical operation. Mrs I R Stavely of Littlestown left for Mercy Hospital Baltimore on Sunday for another operation. Mrs Stavely had gall stones removed months ago. Herbert Smith of McSherrystown had a hernia operation at Mercy Hospital Baltimore on Thursday.
The sick list reports Peter M. Yohe of York improving after apoplexy. Burgoyne Keith of Gettysburg contracts diphtheria. Mrs C L Hicholtz of Lincoln Way East suffers head ailment behind the ear. A E Buckminster remains at home on Lincoln Way East due to illness. Hughe Colgan of McSherrystown, recently returned from a New Haven hospital, remains critical and not improving.
J W Trough formerly of New Oxford and Hanover and long located in Littlestown has moved his family to Taneytown where he operates a photograph studio. Mrs Trough is a daughter of Mrs Nicholas Carns of Abbottstown.
Mrs. D. Grant Deatrick expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends who assisted her brother George Meckley during his long sickness and for their kindness at his death and burial.
Alvin Heiges the boy of Mr and Mrs C A Heiges lost his grip on a rope tied to a tree near his Gettysburg home Monday night and fell striking his head on cement pavement. He was unconscious for several hours.
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