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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
18
The notice lists subscription terms for Ten Oxford titles at $1.00 per year in advance with $4.80 if unpaid within the year. Discontinuance possible only after arrears are settled. Advertisements offered at reasonable yearly rates with liberal reductions and Zon Printing services for all sizes from labels to posters.
On Thursday June 14 1917 illness updates list Miss Mary Reinecker of Abbottstown with pneumonia and John Hipp of McSherrystown with a large neck carbuncle. Miss Nellie Eckert of Lincoln Way West improves from typhoid threat and expects to be active soon. Mrs Francis R Berry Hampton aged and ill. Bernadette Noel Mt Rock critically ill from complications.
Joseph Myers of Bonneauville is being treated at York hospital. Ezra Hawn of Bonneauville has returned home from Philadelphia hospital. Mrs Edward Simpson of York Springs underwent an operation in Harrisburg hospital and is progressing well. Mrs L A Carbaugh of Hanover shows improvement after an operation in Baltimore. Harry Swartzbaugh of Hanover had appendicitis surgery in Baltimore. Benjamin Kauffman of Hanover had a leg transplant operation in Baltimore and returns home with a plaster cast. M H Hemler of McSherrystown seeks to go home this week after appendicitis surgery.
J Daniel Stoner buys 15 acre Hartman farm in Huntington. possession April 1 1918. Charles P Trimmer sells Huntington township property to Wm J Asper. Trimmer buys from Martin Smith for 325 dollars. Bert Hamm购es property in Mesherrystown from Charles B Duncan. Red Cross branch organized in Biglerville with 36 members and officers elected. B F Shriver Canning Co upgrades Littlestown plant with four new buildings and new machinery for sanitary operations.
Mrs. George Smith of Midway welcomed a daughter on Monday. Mr. Herbert Hayes of Bristol W Va and Mrs. Hayes welcomed a son. Mary Hollinger of Abbottstown was his former name. June births include A P Wagner Carlisle street son. George Shelleman near New Chester son. Guy Iless Reading township son. Percy Hetrick Berwick township son. Geo D Sheely near town daughter. Charles Shrader Berlin Junction son. Roy Clunk Irishtown son. Paul Neiderer Mt Rock son. Ignatius P Smith Mt Rock son.
A Corpus Christi service was held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception Carlisle Street with a 3 PM procession. Students in white, B V Sodality, parishioners, cross-bearer and altar servers followed the Blessed Sacrament then Benediction on the school lawn. The event recalled historic Corpus Christi processions at Conewago Chapel.
The Traveling Bible and Flag of the P O S of A was given to W C No 22 by W C No 453 of Arendtsville. Prof Roy D Knouse of Littlestown spoke and George D Sheely accepted. Several clergy and members from surrounding camps attended as Arendtsville Band provided music. On June 13 Camp 22 will present these emblems to Camp 159 at East Berlin with the P O S of A Band.
The Rev. Francis X. Feeser moves from St. Patrick's Carlisle to St. Mary's Lancaster as assistant rector. Rev Fr. Phelan of York succeeds him at Carlisle. Nine hundred new U S Army recruits arrive in Gettysburg this week as the first wave of contingents. Hanover Chapter American Red Cross membership reaches 3 509.
A long list records numerous weddings in Emmitsburg Gettysburg Hanover and nearby communities. Couples include John William Eyler and Emma J Baker in Emmitsburg. Samuel Swope and Ruth Bucher in Frederick. Martha Duncan and Paul Miller near Abbottstown. Alice Bixler and George Brown in Hampstead. Elsie Hershey and Ralph Bange in Hanover. Grace Gochenour and George Orner in Huntington township. and many others in Littlestown New Oxford and Gettysburg.
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