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New Oxford Item

Location

New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 13, 1940

Page

7

Gettysburg Women Reelect to Harrisburg Diocesan Council

Nearly 500 Catholic women from 15 central Pennsylvania counties attended the seventeenth annual National Council of Catholic Women convention closing in Harrisburg at the Penn Harris hotel. Two Gettysburg women were re elected to office and a $2,000 gift was given to Bishop Leech to support Catholic religious summer schools.

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 Oblinger Carmel J. Whalen Anthony Henry Charles Donlon Geraldine Pennsylvania Bonneauville Littlestown Fairfield

Doctors Elect 3 Delegates At Adams County Meeting

Adams county physicians elected delegates to the 1940 Medical Society of Pennsylvania session in Philadelphia. Dr. A. B. Erlain of Cashtown was chosen as delegate with H. E. Goeken of Littlestown and J. L. Boyer of Arendtsville as alternates. A uniform pre marital health rate was adopted.

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 Among 17 Graduates at St Josephs College High

Three Gettysburg students Elizabeth Jane Knox Monica Josephine Redding and Helena C Redding earned diplomas at the Emmitsburg Burlando auditorium ceremony. Monica Josephine Redding received a gold pin for shorthand at 120 words per minute alongside classmates 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 in McSherrystown area noted

Twenty years ago new items list multiple marriages in Hanover, Abbottstown, and surrounding towns, with notes on residents ill or recovering and several local deaths. The Wheat price is given at 2.80 and later 91 cents per bushel, with various local births and two notable obituaries.

30 Years Ago Echoes From A Scalding Incident And Birthday

A 4 year old Martha Reigle of McSherrystown suffered severe scalding when a bucket of water spilled on her hips. A surprise party marked Ralph Longs eighteenth birthday at the home of Mr and Mrs Adam Long in Mountpleasant township. The New Oxford baseball club has been reorganized with the follow-

Martha Howard Reigle McSherrystown Adam Long Mountpleasant Township Ralph New Oxford

Local Notes On People And Moves In Town

Lawrence Irishtown resident Iris h t o w n suffers foot pain after a needle injury. Rev S C Burger renovates Peters street house for Sisters to teach next term. Chas M Swartz plans Nashville study at University of the South Hospital. Lizzie Martin returns from Chestnut Hill after Sisterhood studies with illness. Anna K Himes graduates Swarthmore College this year. Pius Smith of Mountpleasant township dies Friday from pneumonia at 45. George P Weaver frees a grain of corn from Wirt Emlet nostril as child is treated nearby.

Swarthmore College Pius Smith Mountpleasant Township George P. Weaver Wirt Emlet Jacob Emlet New Chester

Notary Public Appointment and Local Incidents Noted

M. J. Smith is named Notary Public by Governor Stone. Mrs. Andrew Baker fractures her right leg after a cellar fall. McSherrystown School Board hires Bernardina Corrigan No 1 and M Adelaide Kuhn No 2 as teachers. Wm. Huff sustains a severe thumb wound while stretching a wire fence. Robert Sneeringer and Annie Devine wed on Tuesday. A daughter of Mr and Mrs Wm.

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

Local Items Include Marriages Deaths and Business Change

Wheat prices at 68c per bushel. Leo Smith of McSherrystown and ex Irishtown resident. W H Dechert Pitt street and Chas M Stough Mount Pleasant buy machinery from Jacob Heltzel shoe factory on Pitt street. Tempest E Bottner and Maggie M Goodenberger wed June 10. Mrs Solomon Jacobs aged 84 Reading Township died June 4.

Leo Smith McSherrystown Irishtown W. H Dechert Pitt Street Chas. M. Stough Mountpleasant Township Jacob Heltzel Tempest E. Bottner Hanover Maggie M. Goodenberger Abbottstown Solomon Jacobs Reading Onship

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