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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1938
Page
3
Only four couples filed applications for marriage licenses in February at the county courthouse, the lowest monthly total in a decade. January had nine. February last year six. Counts through 1936 show a trend tied to the three day law. Easter optimism may lift filings in March.
Mrs. Clarence Jeffcoat and family from Gettysburg visited William Wolf and family. Mrs. Katie Weaver and son from near Heidlersburg visited George Weaver and family. Several other families shared Sunday visits across Gettysburg York Hanover Shiloh Strausburg and Strinestown. Preaching at St. John's Reformed church was set for Sunday at 10 o clock.
John Johnson of Roxbury Massachusetts was held by Hanover police since Saturday evening after he resembled the man wanted for the Mattson kidnapping in Tacoma Washington. He was released Monday morning when police determined he was not in or near Tacoma at the time of the abduction.
The Bigierville town council met Tuesday evening and fixed the tax rate at seven mills, an increase of one mill.
A counterfeit five dollar bill was discovered Saturday night in Hanover. Police urge anyone with information to contact the local station.
The Gettysburg Lions Club purchases sixteen white canes with red bottoms to aid blind residents countywide. Distribution is underway after recent local canes. the project follows origins in Peoria Illinois in 1936 and Lions club adoption later that year in Toronto.
The state reports a net gain of 2 012 direct relief cases for the week ending February 20, bringing Pennsylvania’s total to 161 500. Adams County lists 935 on relief with expenditures of 1 581 20 dollars, 13 applications received, four new cases opened and none closed. Loss of private employment caused three openings and loss of works program funding prompted the fourth.
The Rev. Edwin L. Eslinger, pastor of the Gettysburg Methodist Episcopal church since 1933, announced from the pulpit that he will retire from active ministry at the end of the current pastoral year. Aged 72, he came to Gettysburg from Trinity church at Clearfield and succeeds the late Rev. Herbert P Beam. He is a native of Dillsburg where his father A N Eslinger served as postmaster for 20 years appointed by Abraham Lincoln.
Norman Smith of Hanover was held on bail after a Saturday afternoon hearing before Justice Lester J. Sell of Hanover for a Schuylkill county charge of passing a worthless check for 118 dollars. The arrest was made by a Schuylkill county officer.
Willis Eppleman of Aspers reports a plum tree in his yard blooming.
Notice warns that Certificates of Deposit numbers 2142 for 150 dollars 2143 for 300 dollars and 2144 for 350 dollars issued by Farmers and Merchants Bank New Oxford Pennsylvania to Anna Thomas have been mislaid lost or stolen. Public advised not to negotiate these certificates and that new certificates have been applied for.
Andrew R. Brodbeck former York Adams district congressman died Saturday morning at his Hanover home after a five week illness. He was 76. He served as sheriff of York County and two terms in the House of Representatives from 1912 to 1914 and 1916 to 1918. He longtime aided Trinity Reformed Church and supported education with monuments named in his and his wife’s memory. He is survived by three daughters Mrs Edward E Young Mrs Clair F Young and Mrs M M Fleagie.
Roger Collins Russell William Maitland and Bernard Shadle three high school boys missing since Tuesday were returned to Littlestown Sunday by Chief H S Roberts. Teletype alerts led to their capture by a Hamlet North Carolina South Carolina border officer. The youths said they rode freight trains with no fixed destination.
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