John L Kratzert Dies In Hospital
John Lee Kratzert a longtime New Oxford educator and PSA honored supervisor died after a lengthy illness He taught at Liberty Tioga County Springville Rush and New Oxford He supervised vocational agriculture at New Oxford High School guided FFA members and earned a 25 year PSU service medal He was active in church fire company and local unions Survived by wife Ruth Maneval daughter JoAnne and son John M Funeral services Tuesday at 2 PM at Feiser Funeral Home with Rev George E Sheffer officiating Interment in New Oxford Cemetery Pallbearers named
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia High School
Pennsyvania State University
Liberty High School
Tioga County
Springville-Rush High School
New Oxford
New Oxford High School
Future Farmers of America Organization
Keystone Farmer
FFA
Penn State University
Kratzert
First Lutheran Church of
Fred F. Feiser
George E. Sheffer
William Snyder Jr
Merle Yohe
Charles Taylor
Edward Moul
Selon Dockey
Fred Elunk
Collision in front of Carlisle Street: Elder charged
Kenneth L. Elder 21 of Hanover faces charges after a two vehicle crash Friday at 990 Carlisle Street. He allegedly drove from a parking lot without a licensed driver in the vehicle and failed to yield to oncoming traffic, colliding with Aaron L. Pressell 35 of New Oxford at 9 Berlin Avenue. Pressell’s car sustained about 250 dollars in damage and Elder’s about 100 dollars.
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Kenneth L. Elder
Hanover
Carlisle Street
Place
Elder
Aaron L. Pressell
Berlin Ave
New Oxford
Pressell
Francis W Cratin Dies After Illness at 59
Francis Wiliam Cratin, 59, longtime McSherrystown resident and former borough council president, died Wednesday night after a two year illness. A WWI veteran, he worked 19 years as a clerk at Paul Topper grocery. Survived by wife Laura May Kuhn Cratin and four siblings, funeral Mass Saturday at Annunciation Church with Msgr. Patrick F. McGee celebrant. burial in parish cemetery. Pallbearers named.
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Francis Wiliam Cratin
McSherystown
McSherrystown
George E. Thomassy
Hanover
John and
Louisa Walter Cratin
Paul Topper
Laura May Kuhn Cratin
John Leibart
Enola
Agnes Harbaugh
Gettysburg
Joseph Cratin
Lidlestown
Richard Cratin
Annunciation Church
Patrick F. McGee
Joseph Murren
Joseph Sneeringer
Joseph Adams
John Topper
Fred G. Klunk
Mannard Masemer
Paradise Catholic Notes Of Interest
A Franciscan Father from St Francis Preparatory School Spring Grove will spend part of the week at Paradise Agricultural School and offer Masses in the school chapel during the absence of Rev Louis St Dougherty who will attend Mt St Marys College Emmitsburg for the annual parish priests retreat A class of 17 Paradise parish families and school residents graduated from Eight grade after the 9 o clock mass in the parish church They received Holy Communion together The eight graders with Father Dougherty who is improved after illness were taken during the week to the Jesuit Seminary Woodstock Md where Rev F X Brady first Paradise parish priest was educated more than 70 years ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis Preparatory School
Spring Grove
Paradise Agricultural School
Louis St. Dougherty
Mt. St. Mary’s College
Emmitsburg
Paradise Parish
Father Dougherty
Jesuit
Woodstock
F. X. Brady
Kunkel Naylor Wed In Hanover Nazarenes Church Ceremony
Kay Charlene Kunkel daughter of Rev Ralph Kunkel and Mrs Kunkel of Boonsboro Maryland married John Raymond Naylor son of Mr and Mrs J R Naylor of Wollaston Massachusetts in a double ring ceremony at Trinity Church of the Nazarenes Hanover. The bride given by an uncle Hansford Snead. Maid of honor Beverly Kunkel. Bridesmaids Rebecca Brendie Yvonne Phillips. Flower girl Betsy Brendie. Best man Richard Mann. Ushers Michael Brendle Monroe Phillips. Reception for about 75 followed in church basement. Newlyweds to Boston for a wedding trip via Niagara Falls. Mrs Naylor a Littlestown High School graduate. husband a Quincy High School graduate. Beth and husband attend Eastern Nazarene College Wollaston.
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Kaye Charlene Kunkel
Ralph Kunkel
Boonsboro
John Raymond Naylor
J. R. Naylor
Wollaston
Mass
Trinity Church of the Nazarenes
Hanover
Jessica Sheffer Hanover
Lois Kadel
Hansford Snead
Gettysburg
Beverly Kunkel
Rebecca Brendie
New Oxford
Yvonne Phillips
Littlestown
Betsy Brendie
Richard Mann
Paul Francis Topper graduates in civil engineering
Paul Francis Topper, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Topper of McSherry town, earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and received a commission as second lieutenant in the Air Force. He started work Monday with a Philadelphia consulting engineering firm. Texas produces about 80 percent of the nation's sulphur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Francis Topper
Paul Topper
McSherrystown
Pennsylvania State University
Air Force
Philadelphia
Parish NCCW Holds Monthly Meeting at New Oxford
The NCCW unit of Immaculate Conception Church New Oxford met in the parish hall to dedicate the shrine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Catholic Charities chair reports on cloth donations and a call for Catholic magazines. The Bishop's Fund will be collected in summer as pamphlets on Modesty Standards are distributed. Rosary recited each Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Lourdes Grotto in the cemetery.
Disorderly conduct arrest in Abbottstown follows dawn door knocking
State police arrested Beverly Walter Ellwood Helwig of New Oxford on a charge of disorderly conduct for knocking on doors and awakening residents. He was found asleep on a porch. Justice of the Peace Robert P. Snyder fined Helwig $10 and costs. Marshall, Texas, was once the capital of Missouri.
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Abbottstown
Beverly Walter Ellwood Helwig
New Oxford
Justice of the Peace
Robert P. Snyder
Helwig
Justice Snyder
Feature Writers Sparkle in Pictorial Review
Pictorial Review in the Baltimore Sunday American edition presents a lineup of top feature writers. Bugs Baer delivers humor, Pete Howe offers formative oddities, E V Darling shares life observations, and Louella Parsons comments on movie personalities. Weekly magazine supplement.
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Pictorial Review
Baltimore Sunday American
Henry S Alwine Dies In Hospital At 66
Henry S Alwine 66, of Abbottstown R 1, husband of Mary Ida Hoke Alwine, died Thursday night at Hanover Hospital after a lifelong residence in the area. He worked 32 years at Alwine Brick Company and was a member of Emmanuel Reformed Church and Abbottstown Fire Company. Surviving: two children Lester Spangler Abbottstown R 1 and Richard B Alwine East Berlin R 2. six grandchildren. brothers and sisters Isaiah Hoke, Joseph Altland, Mark Alwine of Abbottstown, and Robert Alwine Hanover R 2. Funeral conducted Sunday at Mt. Olive Cemetery Abbottstown with Rev A C Rohrbaugh officiating. pallbearers listed.
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Henry
Alwine
Mary Ida Hoke
Abbottstown R 1
Hanover Hospital
Emmanuel Reformed Church
Abbottstown Fire Company
Alwine Brick Company
New Oxford
Lester Spangler
Abbottstown R
Richard B. Alwine
East Berlin
Tve
Isaiah Hoke
Joseph Altland
Mark Alwine
Abbottstown
Robert Alwine
Hanover
A. C. Rohrbaugh
St. Stephen’s Reformed Church
West York
Mt. Olive Cemetery
Lester Nickey
Charles Moul
David Beckley
Ottis D. Livingston
Paul Leas Jr
Stewart Walker
Breighner and Bartlett Property Transfer in Mt Pleasant Township
Charles W. and Ellen L. Breighner transfer to Russell R. and Kathleen B. Bartlett a Mt Pleasant Township property for $1. The conveyance details a simple real estate transfer between neighbors in the same township.
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Charles W
Ellen L. Breighner
Mt. Pleasant
Russell R
Kathleenb. Bartlett
Sister Stella Joseph Expires in Philly
Sister Stella Joseph Sneeringer of Conewago died last Wednesday at 8 Joseph's Villa Cheltenham Philadelphia. Funeral was Saturday at Mt. St. Joseph's Cemetery Chestnut Hill. She celebrated 50 years in the Sisters of St. Joseph. Surviving: four sisters Mary Lilly Sneeringer Helen Darden Caroline Maclean, two brothers Edward and Henry Sneeringer. Attendees included Edward Sneeringer Sr. and Edward Sheeringer Jr. of Conewago and McSherrystown.
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Stella Joseph
Lilly Sneeringer
Conewago
Helen Darden
Florida
Caroline Maclean
Los Angeles
Edward
McSherrystown
Henry Sneeringer
Edward Sneeringer Sr
Edward Sheeringer Jr
MecSherrystown
Library News: New Oxford Committee to Meet This Thursday
The New Oxford Library Committee will meet in the library room this Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. May circulation reached 750 books, the highest since opening over ten years ago. The library serves 830 patrons and has added a new book case for students from 4th to 12th grade. Miss Ethel Sheely runs Wednesday hours 7 to 9 p.m. and Mrs. George E. Sheffer handles Friday 3 to 5 p.m. Dr. Shef-
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New Oxford Library Committee
Ethel Sheely
George E. Sheffer
Shef
Local Committee Members Include Keefer Spangler and Alwine
Fer serves as chairman and Professor C P Keefer is secretary treasurer of the local committee. Other members include G M Spangler Charles E Alwine Henry M Hersh J Felix Sanders Mrs Wm Himes Sr and Mrs J E C Miller. Tom Thumb’s real name was Charles Sherwood Stratton.
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Fer
C. P. Keefer
G. M. Spangler
Charles E. Alwine
Henry M. Hersh
J. Felix Sanders
Wm. Himes Sr
J. E. C. Miller
Tom Thumb
Charles Sherwood Stratton
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N. C. Man
Donald B. Smith
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W. L. Sterner
Frederick Street
John F. Dutiera
B. F. Goodrich and
Texaco
Lincolnway East
New Oxford, Pa
Francis W. Cratin
John H. Basehore
Mitchel
Lincoln Square
Jacobs Bros
Grovery
Justice OF the Peace General Insurance
Kay Charlene Kunkel
John R. Naylor
Texas
Chronister’s
Glatfelter’s
Mervin E
Owen Chubby Shoppe
Princess St
York
East Berlin, Pa
Carlisle St
W. King St
NCCW
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N.C.C.W
Marshall
Missouri
Henry S. Alwine
Stenocrazuic Service
Jane K. Shealer
Phila
Walter Funeral Home
Ridge Ave
Harry F. Walter Dia
Reisingerb Jeweler
Pennsylvania Plywood and Lumber Co
York, Pa
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W.m.rb.r. Co
Kenks
House of Die
Gone St
S. Sumner St
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Motorola
Sherman. Radio_ Service
Leon D. Shepperd
Surge Dairy Equipment Sales
Diller Wierman, Inc
Gunther
Pabst
Schlitz
Rheingold Schaeffer National
Yuengling
Dortmunder Ritterbrau
Krueger
Coca-Cola
L. D. Jacobs
Hanover Streets
Kenny's Grocery
Elm Ave
Brady & McCadden
W. Elm Ave
Mundis Supply CO
Dover, PA
Phobe
Zenith and
Rca-Tv
Millard N. Klunk
TV Ant
Hanover Street
Hanover, Pa
Delone Catholic High School Athletic Board
Delone High School
Miller's High Life
Budweiser
Carlings
Hartacker’s
Valley Forge
Schmidt's
Rams Head
O' Keefe
Lewenbrau Heineken
Fes
Bob Yingling
Clearview
Rey
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High School
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New Chester
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