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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1933
Page
6
Fragmentary text appears to reference Latelle, TR, and an Obituary or notice involving property and payment of seventy two dollars. The readable portion is too incomplete to identify full names, dates, or the exact action.
The Lutheran church will host Children’s Day programs Sunday at 7 30 PM with Lutheran Sunday school Sunday at 9 AM. Local families and many residents attended weddings and visited kin across Gettysburg York Springs and neighboring towns.
The Reading township tuber culin testing committee will meet Thursday at 6 15 PM at John Lennart's home in Hampton. They will arrange annual cattle retests starting June 26 and open bids for transporting the veterinarian at the meeting.
In Hunterstown Miss Betty Hand returns from Gettysburg and Miss Gene Linton from Philadelphia visits Frank Weaver. George Ford estimates strawberry crop at 45 to 50 bushels. Neva Gibson from Philadelphia returns home to care for bedridden mother Alice Goldsboro. J Oyler blanks Hunterstown until eighth then Hunters town scores twice to spoil shutout.
Dennis B. Collins, Littlestown high school class of 1933, moved to Newark New Jersey to work at Canton Chemical Laboratories under a three year contract. In 1938 he developed a blue flame candle method and sold the patent for 1150 dollars last summer, later accepting the new job offer.
Louis W. Wagaman announced that Wednesday is the final day for associate judge candidates to secure 100 signers for nominating petitions. Petitions must be filed with the secretary of the commonwealth by July 31. July 6 starts signing for county township and borough offices with petitions due August 15. Wagaman will request information from school boards road boards and councils to aid ballot preparation.
The bond of William Ogden tax collector of Gettysburg was approved by Judge Donald P. McPherson at a Monday morning session. The $74 666 bond was furnished by a bonding company. Court heard arguments in Duplex Electric Co vs Simmons Britain and English and Gettysburg National Bank and RKO Distributing Co vs A O Myers Regent Theatre Littlestown. Decisions in both cases reserved. Several arguments listed for Monday continued to July 1 including Bittinger vs Bittinger and Southern Asphalt Co for a new trial.
The Rev. Alton M. Motter of Gettysburg was elected pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church of the Redeemer in Harnsburg. He succeeds Rev. Ralph R. Gresh who resigned in January for St Peter's Lutheran York. Motter will move to Harrisburg to begin his charge in July and is a Gettysburg College and Gettysburg theological graduate.
The text notes a seminary background and summer service as a supply pastor in 1931 and 1992 at Keller Memorial Lutheran Church Washington DC, plus Holy Week service at Christ Lutheran Hartlyburg in 1933. It mentions Rev J F Rudi Sill as pastor and Mrs Misa Lodge Elizabeth Yealy of Littlestown as organist at Trinity Reformed Gettysburg. It states Rev Mr Matter will be Redeemer church’s fifth pastor, organized about thirty years ago.
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