Local Happenings From New Oxford 1917
A long list of civic notes from New Oxford and nearby towns includes Miller Brothers repainting J McGilbert’s Center Square property, Pauline Tschop and Prof Shank reappointed to teach in Ither ton York schools, and Donald Mummert graduating from Lafayette College in a class of 39. Also reported are farm, road, and church events, naturalizations, accidents, sales, and local social activities across Adams and York counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelius Smith
Hampton
Ezra Shoemaker
Littlestown
Bermudian
Pauline Tschop
East
Exemption Requests in Adams County Draft
Among 2421 registrants in Adams County, 1558 sought exemption in four grounds. Sheriff Hartman H B Slagle and Dr J Mc Crea Dickson completed tallying. 2396 white citizens, 17 colored, eight aliens. Exemption cases include holding office 1 totally disabled 35 dependent relatives 1338 occupational 171.
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Adams County
Hartman
H. B. Slagle
J. McCrea Dickson
United States
Registration Board
Adams County Awards Bridge Contract on Lincoln Highway
The Adams County commissioners awarded the $9200 contract for a new concrete bridge over the Conewago on the Lincoln Highway near New Oxford to G A and F M Wagaman of Dallastown. Work to start in 10 to 15 days with completion in about three months. state to build and grade roads on both sides. The two fifty foot spans will carry a 23 foot wide roadway. Other bids: Arnold and Raub 10361, York. York Bridge Co 12989, York. R K Myers 12500, Lewistown.
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Adams County
Conewago
Lincoln Highway
New Oxford
G. A
F. M. Wagaman
Dallastown
Arnold and Raub
York
G. W. Drury
York Bridge Company
G. A. and
R. Kk. Myers
Lewistown
Totals Reported for Big Liberty Loan Drive
Reports from local banks show Liberty Loan subscriptions totaling 442960. Farmers and Merchants Bank of New Oxford led with 21000, Littlestown Savings 12500, Littlestown National 10000, Hanover Trust 310, First National 200, Saving Fund Society 168, Peoples Bank 75, Farmers State Bank 20, and Farmers Bank of McSherrystown with 25 subscribers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers and Merchants Bank
New Oxford
Rss
Littlestown Savings Institution
Littlestown National Bank
Farmers and Merchants Bank of
Hanover Trust Company
First National Bank
Saving Fund Society
Peoples Bank
Farmers State Bank
Farmers Bank of McSherrystown
Priest Loses Ford Car in Philadelphia Theft
Rev Fr H Gies, rector of St Marys Catholic parish in Fairfield, reports his Ford was stolen in Philadelphia last week. He had left the car for about five minutes near 16th and Market streets while visiting his sister, and despite notifying authorities with the license number and description, no trace has been found. The car was nearly new and in first class condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Gies
St. Mary’s Catholic
Fairfield
Philadelphia
Gies
16Th and
Market Streets
St. Gies
Old Soldier Returns
Paul Hersh a New Oxford native and former town schools teacher paid a brief visit to New Oxford Monday morning. A Civil War veteran and brother of Mrs C T Clippinger he has long resided at the Soldier's Time in Dayton Ohio now past 76 and this was his first return in over 26 years. On arrival he could recognize only a few townspeople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
W. B. Malaun
Hanover
Studebaker
Wm. Stambaugh
Conewago Township
Lewis Kohr
Mt. Pleasant
Stewart Mehring
York
Sheriff Haas
Charles Sell
Sheppard & Myers
Sell
Baltimore
Ladies’ Aid Society
Methodist Church of Hanover
Edith Jones
Harrisburg
William M. Weidner
York Springs Hardware Company
York-Adams Rural Carriers’ Association
White Rose City
J. C. Stambaugh
J. H. Dearhorff
Dover
W. W. Wallick
H. M. Haar
New Oxford
C. N. McCullough
P. Lt. Myers
York Springs
Paul Hersh
Hersh
C. T. Clippinger
Lincoln Way
West
Dayton
Ohio
Two Graduates Buy Lewistown Orpheum Theatre
Charles Diller and Myron Huff, both Gettysburg College alumni, purchased the Orpheum Theatre in Lewistown from Milton Shaffer. They left Friday for Lewistown to assume control, assisted by Edgar Ditler, Charles Diller’s brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Diller
Isaiah Diller
Lincoln Way
East
Myron Huff
Lock Havan
Gettysburg College
Milton Shaffer
Hanover
Orpheum
Lewistown
Edgar Ditler
Charles
Liberty Bonds Near Goal in Gettysburg Area Drive
Telegraphic reports show the Liberty Loan campaign closing at noon Friday with the $2,000,000 target surpassed. Adame county banks contributed their share, with most banks in the county passing the pledge set at a Gettysburg meeting held two weeks earlier.
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Liberty Loan
Adame County
Gettysburg
Cigarmakers Union Sends Death Claim Payment
The Cigarmakers Union of McSherrystown mailed a 550 dollar check to Mrs. Harry A Little of Hanover as payment of the death claim for her husband, a late union member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cigarmakers Union of
McSherrystown
Harry A. Little
Hanover
Death Toll Tells Of Many Local Sufferers And Survivors
Obituaries record the death of Joseph Sheely aged 12 in White Hall Mt Pleasant township after brief illness. He leaves wife Madeline Stonesifer and several children with siblings across towns. Also noted are the deaths of Eliza Winand, John Rohrbaugh, Meade Becker, Sarah Altland, Annie Reichard, Henry Spangler, and William Miller with details on ages relatives and burial places.
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Joseph Sheely
White Hall
Mt. Pleasant Township
Mr. Sheely
Union Township
Madeline Stonesifer
Henry Baschoar
Littlestown
Samuel Bair
Lizzie Treiber
New Oxford
Thomas Whaley
Philadelphia
Wm. Weikert
Mary Sheely
Amos Sheely
McSherrystown
Lifelong resident Jie Miller dies after illness at 26
Jie Miller, aged about 26, died after a lingering illness. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Ephraim Miller his wife and several brothers.
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Lowing
Jie
Ephraim Miller
Help wanted at Centre Square Restaurant New Oxford
Job notice seeking a girl or middle aged woman to work in a restaurant with steady employment and good wages. For details contact N. M. Dicks at Centre Square Restaurant New Oxford.
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N. M. Dicks
Centre Square
New Oxford
Special hat sale and scrap iron buyers advertise bargains
Special sale of all hats priced at three dollars now cut to one dollar each on Panamas too. Wagner's on Carlisle Street proclaims big bargains. New Oxford Foundry and Mfg Co offers to pay top prices for scrap iron, with Bell phone 16 R 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagner's
Carlisle Street
New Oxford Foundry & Mfg. Co
Bell Phone
First Lutheran Church Festival On Center Square
The Young Men's Bible Class of First Lutheran plans a July 4th festival on Center Square with good music. Everyone is invited to attend. Committee notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Lutheran Church
Crystal Theatre
Young Men's Bible Class
Center Square
Comanttee
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Aaron Siegrist
East Berlin
I. B. Lau
Reading Township
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Iruit Growers’ Hall
Bendersville
Gettysburg Catholic High School
Xavier Hall
Hagerstown
Eugene Miller
Biglerville
Irene Black
Aspers
G. W. Herman
Carl Stough
Qualityville
Hoffheins Rocks
Conewago Creek
New Chester
Hanover Boy Scouts
Slagle Farm
E. F. Faust
St. Clair
The
Reformed Church
Roy D. Knouse
Redeemer’s Reformed Church
Altland House
Abbottstown
Jennie Spangler
Mer
Mer. Bernard J. Bradley
Mt. St .Mary’s College
Emmittsburg
Gladys
Chas. Carr
C S. Fickes
Gentlewomans Home
Washington, D. C
Mrs. Burleson
Mary Rife
Wm. Rife
Susan Marshall
Brooklyn
N. Y
Hanover Road
Town
M. D. Feiser
W. H. Jiebler
R M. Wirt
St. Paul's Reformed Church
Isabelle Rudisill
H. M. Rudisill
Esther K. Julius
George R. Julius
York City
G. E. Spetz
Carlisle Avenue
Marie
Thomas A. Monk
Pittsburgh
G. Harry Roth
Joseph L. Carver
Louis Kramer
George W. Harbold
Latimore Township
Claude Forney
Chester
John Rice
Geo. L Rice
MceSherrystown
St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg
Henry Moore
Fleshman
Timmins
John F. Clunk
Irishtown
H. E. Melhorn
Metz
E. Larson
Larson
Hanover Furniture
Hampton Lutheran Sunday School
New Oxford P. O. S. of A. Band
Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry
Altoona
Joseph Freet
Midway
James Sterner
MecSherrystown
Mary Gouker
G. L. Rice
T’ J. Barkley
the Reformed Church Messenger
Harover
Red Cross
Daniel Fox
New York
Othiver Weikert
Harry Small
Malinda Small
Squire G. L. Rice
Mesherrystown
Granville
Gettysburg College and Academy
Alexander P. Ringler
F. A. Faust
H. E. Heller
W. W. Bennett
C. N. Schaeffer
Hanover — Schools
Oden C. Gortner
State Board of Examiners
the Normal School
Indiana
Washington, Westminster and Gettysburg
Water Street
King Street
Burgess Hummer
John Aulabaugh
St. Mary’s Church
North Street
Bertha A. Heiges
C. E. Association
H. B. Macrory
C. I. Association
Z. A. Colestock
United Brethren
Colestock Home For
Quincy
Franklin County
Penn Grove
Mr. Colestock
George Colestock
Colestock
Swift Run School House
M. G. Colestock
Hanover Street
William Murren
Mt. Rock
Hartiman
Orrtanna
Epworth League of the Methodist Church
Elsie Singmaster Lewars
Hunterstown
Great
Liberty Bonds
Eliza M. Winand
Ephraim Winand
S. FE. Taughinbaugh
J.taughinbaugh
Philip Griest
Sunnyside
John F. Rohrbaugh
Medico-Chi Hospital
New Baltimore
Amos and
Fannie (Lorry) Rohrbaugh
George Unger
Pennville
Pius Renoll
Isast Berlin
Michael Russer
Landisville
Meade Becker
James Becker
George FE. Gordon
Becker
George A Strausbaugh
McC. Gilbert
Sarah E. Altland
Peter Altland
Altland
Cramer
York County
Bright
Harvey
Herman
Nashville
Elmer
Jackson Township
David Chronister
Germany Township
Peter Rohrbaugh
John Dolhheimer
Farmers
Catharine Alwine
David Lingg
Emanuel Dollheimer
Annie Reichard
Blaine
Perry County
Reichard
Laram
Charlotte Mickley
J. Calvin Reichard
Mary Reichard
Sallie Sowers
Cushtown
Ienry Spangler
Cumberland Township
S’unday
Mr. Spangler
Spangler
Emmitsburg Road
Harvey E. Spangler
Franklin Grove
Laura Deardorff
Arendtsville
Calvin SI
Robert C
Ila M
George A
William Spangler
Levi Spangler
Sarah H. Plank
William Miller
Dutteraveeneen
Sseaeereeans
Charles F Rickrode
Tate
Oxford Township
Clement Lingg
New Oxford Ps
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Jas. W. Barnitz Ceshiee
Elizabeth Sprenkle
Heiderberg Township
Adamos County
Newchester
Carlisle Pike
Creager
C Smith
Henry Haar
Geo
Gitt
George Sprenkle
Henry Sprenkle
A Roth
Welen
of Lumber & Wood
Peter Brown
Stone Bridge
N. H. Musselmar
J. M. Caldwell
Audt
P. A. Miller
Pen Mar Park
Coney Island
Bohl
Tubin
Libby
Pen Mar
Maryland