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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1941
Page
7
Reports cover land sale and hires in Hanover Township and nearby towns. Education notes include Miss Anna M. Myers named teacher for first and second grades and Prof. C. E. Helman accepted as local schools principal. Various obituaries, marriages, illnesses, weather effects, and a large Conewago Chapel communion are recorded with local names and places.
Thirty years ago Misses Helen Korn and Marion Sheetz students at Woman's College Frederick spent summer at local homes. Miss Nettie Swartz graduated May 31 from Cleveland Bible Training School in two years instead of three. Roy Clunk returned home to Irishtown after fracturing his left leg playing ball at Charles Town & C. A Sunday night lightning strike damaged a Brushtown two story house by Paul Rahn. Charles Myers in Hanover Heel and Innersole Factory lost ends of three fingers.
Local school board re-elected Bernadina Corrigan and Mae Kuhn as instructors at Clearview and Red Hill schools. Several community notices list student and resident movements, church appointments, weather, sales, and local incidents in Abbottstown and surrounding towns.
Forty years ago Jos Ackerman and Mary Wolf of McSherrystown wed on a Wednesday. Mrs Harry Hemler of Edgegrove plans Friday operation in Baltimore for a timer. Mrs Harry Reed of Berlin Street is critically ill at her parents home near Two Taverns. Curtis G Miller builds a new bank barn at Brush Run Station. Mrs Sg Lingg near Emmitsburg bore triplets who died soon after birth. Miss Mary Waltman was reelected.
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