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Newspaper

New Oxford Item

Location

New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 13, 1940

Page

16

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.

Fragmentary OCR: scattered items and places across states

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.

Gettysburg Women Reelect to Harrisburg Catholic Council

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.

Gettysburg Harrisburg National Council of Catholic Women Penn-Harris Roosevelt Mary Eberhart Conewago Adams County Mary Ramer George L. Leech Lancaster Margaret Krimmel Frederick Rowe Hagerstown Rowe Leech Robert Angelo York J. R. Gallagher Eberhart Mary Donahue Mt. Carmel Herbert Lucas James Foster Lebanon Dorothy Sharpe Shamokin Grace Deitrich Chambersburg Joseph Mitchells Hanover Harriet Bailey Bloomsburg John Costello Hershey John Klunk McSherrystown Ramer Carlisle Richard Faith Pauline Callaghan J. P. Gallagher Frank Young Joan Callagher Louise Obdlinger Carmel J. Whalen Anthony Henry Charles Donlon Geraldine Pennsylvania Bonneauville Littlestown Fairfield

Adams County Doctors Elect Delegates to 1940 Society

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.

Medical Society of Pennsylvania Adams County Society Warner Hospital Philadelphia A. B. Erlain Cashtown H. E. Goeken Littlestown J. L. Boyer Arendtsville Adams County Pennsylvania Erlain

Gettysburg Girls Graduate from St. Joseph's College High School

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.

Gettysburg St. Joseph’s College High School Burlando Auditorium Emmitsburg Elizabeth Jane Knox Monica Josephine Redding Helena C. Redding Eunice Margaret Bouey Dorothy M. O’donoghue

Marriages and illnesses noted in McSherrystown area

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.

Local Notes On Accidents And A Teen Birthday

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.

Martha Howard Reigle McSherrystown Adam Long Mountpleasant Township Ralph New

Local notices from Irishtown and surrounding area

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.

Lizzie Martin Peters Street Chestnut Hill Anna K. Himes Swarthmore College Pius Smith Mountpleasant Township George P. Weaver Wirt Emlet Jacob Emilet New Chester

Notary Public Appointment and Local Accidents

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 ...

M. J. Smith West High Street Stone Andrew Baker Abbottstown McSherrystown Bernardina Corrigan M. Adelaide Kuhn Wm. Huff New Chester Robert Sneeringer Irishtown Annie Devine Edge Grove

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