Druid Update Noted Amid Odd Fragments and Dates
A fragmentary OCR item mentions Druid and a Wednesday reference amid garbled text. The readable bits hint at a local note or obituary style entry but no clear event, name, or location is established.
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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
16
A fragmentary OCR item mentions Druid and a Wednesday reference amid garbled text. The readable bits hint at a local note or obituary style entry but no clear event, name, or location is established.
The text shows partial place names such as New York Pennsylvania and motor items plus pricing fragments. It reads as a jumble of storefronts speeds and hardware terms with no coherent event or person.
About 500 Catholic women from 15 central Pennsylvania counties attended the seventeenth annual NCW convention closing at the Penn-Harris in Harrisburg. Miss Mary Eberhart and Miss Mary Ramer were re elected to leadership roles, a $2,000 gift was given to Bishop Leech, and Lancaster was chosen for the 1941 convention.
Adams county physicians elected Dr A B Erlain as delegate to the 1940 Medical Society of Pennsylvania meeting in Philadelphia. Dr H E Goeken and Dr J L Boyer were named first and second alternates. They adopted a uniform pre marital health rate and supported a county cancer control drive.
Three Gettysburg students Elizabeth Jane Knox Monica Josephine Redding and Helena C Redding earned diplomas at the St Josephs College High School commencement in Burlando auditorium Emmitsburg Monica Josephine Redding received a gold pin for shorthand at 120 words per minute The class also included Eunice Margaret Bouey and Dorothy M O Donoghue of Emmitsburg.
The page lists multiple local marriages including Marion Slagle to Charles Little and Mary A Cashman to Leslie Reinecker, with other nuptials across Hanover and Abbottstown. It also reports illnesses and deaths such as me asles in a Bowser family child, diphtheria in Mildred Hider, and several residents hospitalized or recovering, plus a wheat price of 2.80 and 9c per bushel later.
Thirty years ago Martha Reigle of McSherrystown suffered severe scalding after a bucket of water overturned. A surprise party honored Ralph Long on his eighteenth birthday at Mount Pleasant township home of Mr and Mrs Adam Long. The New Oxford baseball club has been reorganized with the follow- up details.
Reports list injuries and events including Irishtown resident IrishtownLawrence injuring foot, Rev Burger remodeling Peters Street house for Sisters parochial schools, Chas M Swartz leaving for Nashville to enter University of the South Hospital, Lizzie Martin returning from Chestnut Hill after joining the Sisterhood, Anna K Himes graduating Swarthmore College, Pius Smith of Mountpleasant Township death from pneumonia, Dr George P Weaver removing corn from young Wirt Emlet’s nostril, Leo Smith of McSherrystown operated on, Dechert and Stough buying machinery in Jacob Heltzel shoe factory and to take possession Monday, Tempest E Borther and Maggie M Goodenberger wedding, Mrs Solomon Jacobs dies at 84.
M J Smith was named Notary Public by Governor Stone at West High Street. Mrs Andrew Baker of Abbottstown fractured her right leg after a fall in cellar stairs. McSherrystown school board elected Bernardina Corrigan No 1 teacher and M Adelaide Kuhn No 2 teacher. William Huff of New Chester injured a thumb while stretching wire fence. Robert Sneeringer of Irishtown and Annie Devine of Edge Grove were married Tuesday. A daughter of Mr and Mrs William ...
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