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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1930
Page
2
New Oxford post office notice outlines subscription rates for second class mail. Annual advance $1.00, $1.50 if not paid within the year. Discontinuations require arrears paid. new engagement if unpaid. Out-of-county rates $1.50 in advance or $2.00 after a year. Ads offered at reasonable rates with contract discounts.
The York Springs Comet merged with the East Berlin News to form News-Comet, under the New Oxford Item publishers. J Harvey Neely remains editor with P W Kimmel as managing editor. The combined weekly will publish from York Springs with a 1900 circulation and broader news from York Cumberland and nearby counties.
New Oxford topped the Albemarle Blackcats 5 to 2 Saturday afternoon at home. Bevenour hurled three hit ball while New Oxford gathered nine hits, scoring in the first and fourth innings aided by three Albemarle errors. The scoring sequence followed.
A kerosene stove explosion started a blaze that fully destroyed the log home of Melvin Black near Wenksville on Saturday morning. Firefighters from Bigierville arrived to find the dwelling more than three quarters burned, with only a small amount of furniture saved by Mr Black and his children.
A stream of visitors and relatives visits to Littlestown and nearby towns is noted. Roscoe Klinefelter and family spend days here while Gale Stiner and parents visit Cedar Ridge. Numerous residents from York Centre Square Two Taverns Abbottstown and Hanover host relatives and friends over weekends and holidays.
Maurice M Fogle's license is restored after suspension. Letters of administration for Elizabeth C Miller of Franklin township were issued to her son Ernest G Miller. Estate values total 4 033 22 in personal property and 4 850 in real estate. The 41st annual Reformed church reunion is set for July 17 at Pen Mar. W M RR warns against park excursions. travel by auto or bus advised. J Howard Redding of Red Lion drowned in Chesapeake Bay while on a fishing trip aboard Arthur Meads yacht. body recovered after a search.
Doctor Henry W. A. Hanson president of Gettysburg College will depart with Mrs. Hanson and their sons T. Painter and Robert for a European voyage. They plan to sail Thursday at midnight aboard the Lancastria of Cunard Line from New York City, visiting Madeira, Morocco, Algiers, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, England and France.
The Littlestown community reports on a July 1 Gettysburg battlefield service by the council and Pocahontas degree group, a birthday party for Grace Crabbs, a large Reverend Longanecker reception, and 175 attendees. Also noted are school honors for P. Emory Weaver, Bible school kickoff, local housing work, and staff changes at Mechanicsburg high.
New Chester Jacob Myers and family from New Oxford along with George Frank and wife and Reynolds Weaver from Hanover and Margaret Herman of York spent Sunday with Alvin Groupe and family. Other families visited, and St Johns Reformed church schedules include a Children's Day program on July 6 at 7 45 PM and a festival on June 28 hosted by the Abbottstown orchestra with a missionary meeting June 29 at 5 30 PM featuring the Benders church choir and Rev F C Sternat.
Harriet MacAvoy withdrew the oath charges of adultery against Joseph MacAvoy and Mildred Bixler, with the costs paid. The 45th annual W C T U convention for Adams county will meet at Zion Lutheran church in Fairfield this Thursday. Mrs Calvin Leer serves as local union president.
James C. Cole of The Narrows was elected Adams County Democratic chairman at the biennial reorganization meeting held at the court house. Miss Edna Eticholtz Gettysburg was chosen vice chairwoman, I. S. Brumgard Littlestown was elected treasurer, and Clayton F. Palmer was named secretary. Cole urged religious tolerance and equal treatment of candidates, while speakers praised his stance and stressed party unity ahead of the fall campaign.
Judge Donald P. McPherson presided in 1929 as James Flori, Philadelphia gangster, was convicted of Pasquale Livey murder amid gang dispute over alcohol running. Flori appeals to the pardon board for commutation of death. execution set for July 7. Livey was killed at Broad and Federal streets in Philadelphia after earlier killings linked to rivals. Flori, 25, claims self defense after being wounded by Livey.
The open season for bass pike pickerel and muscallange in Pennsylvania begins July 1. Fishermen may begin angling for these species on that date under state regulations.
William Doshi formerly of near Hanover died at his Baltimore residence. He leaves two children. Burial took place Saturday at Mt. Carmel cemetery.
Amos F. Myers aged 57, native of Adams county, died suddenly of a heart attack. He was the last member of the Myers family of Table Rock and was employed at Bethlehem Steel Company in Steelton.
James P. Gilbert of Parsons West Virginia died June 10 at his home after residing previously in Biglerville and Table Rock. He died at his daughter Mrs. William Rhyne's home and was buried at Mt. Pleasant. He leaves four children.
Levi J Motter aged 76 died at his Littlestown home from heart trouble. He was a retired farmer and longtime treasurer of the Littlestown Fire Insurance company. Surviving are eight children, 45 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren, and a wide family. Funeral was held Saturday morning.
Alfred Howard an 18 year old colored youth died in Gettysburg on Saturday from tuberculosis. He was the son of Mrs. Robert Taylor and is survived by his mother and step father Robert Taylor, one sister and his grandmother Mrs Ellen Howard of Gettysburg.
Warren Martin Stouck 61 founder and president of Stouck Reaser Wholesale Lumber, suffered a fatal heart attack after tending to flowers at his Gettysburg home. Resided in Camden earlier. survived by widow and four children including Kathryn and Ruth. Funeral was held Monday.
George Edward Slonaker died Saturday at his Hanover home from a complication of diseases at age 67. He was a son of William and Leah Slonaker and is survived by his wife, several children including Mrs. David Lockenbill and George Slonaker, and a stepson Elmer Harman. Funeral was held Tuesday at St. Pauls Church Dubs.
Mrs Catherine Livingstone former wife of Jacob Livingstone died at 3 15 am Sunday at her son Edward Livingstone's home in Paradise township She was 86 years 10 months and 18 days old She leaves her son Edward and three brothers Samuel Kinaman Alexander Kinaman and Emanuel Kinaman The funeral was held Tuesday with brief services at the home and concluding services at Holtzschwam church Reverend George W Enders Jr officiated Interment was in the church cemetery.
Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Annie M. Byers Biggs aged 76 formerly of Adams county in Minneapolis Minnesota on June 22. She is survived by one daughter.
Samuel Dennis died Sunday in Cumberland Maryland after a life spent near Gettysburg in recent years. He was twice married and his second wife Clara Mhaddlekauff, whom he wed, had died two years earlier.
McSherrystown residents report Frank S. Burkee buys a Chrysler in Hanover, a barn at Bernard Topper’s yard torn down for a future garage, and estate appraisals by Paul Sell and Pius Topper. Rev C P Hufnagle travels to Havana to resume duties at St Augustine college after recovery. Knights of Columbus confer second degree on sixteen. various home remodels and school attendance data noted.
Elias Stahr farmhand died from internal injuries after being thrown from a loaded hay wagon on Roy Greist’s farm two miles southwest of Clear Springs in Franklin township York county. Greist left to fetch a pole and the wagon wheels hit a rut causing the fall. No inquest will be held, survivors include a nephew and a niece. This follows another Franklin township harvesting fatality earlier in the week.
The Beamer family held its seventh annual reunion at Arendtsville Union Park on Saturday with a large crowd. A A Beamer was elected president. Parker W Kline vice president. Edna M Kline secretary. Lola Hartman assistant secretary. Roy McDonnell treasurer. John Rice musical director. Verna Heckenluber pianist. The program featured Edgar Orner orchestra, songs, devotionals by Rev George B Ely, a business session, an address by Rev Ernest W Brindle, a vocal duet by Mrs Ella Beamer and Verna Heckenluber, a talk by Herbert Leatherwood, and awards to Herbert Beamer and Blaine Bushey for distance traveled.
Louie Watson of Abbottstown was arrested on a larceny charge but the case was amicably adjusted and dropped. William Wolovsky opens a branch sewing factory in the Lillich Building supplying cloth pants for boys with Gladys Alwine as forelady. The Altland family porch is completed and Prof. George Haines returns from Clark University. Fireworks banned over the Fourth. Abbottstown nine defeats York Social Club 15 to 8. Altland family reunion set for July 12 in Farmers’ Grove. Prof. Eugene Brady to hold public property sale in Abbottstown August 23 with household items for his mother Matilda Brady.
Gettysburg truck driver Lester Goodermuth, 21, was jailed in Adams County after an altercation with Russel Gulden while possibly intoxicated. He pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle while drunk, received six days in jail and a $200 fine, with jail sentence dated June 18.
A Hudson sedan license 3 X 555 was stolen Sunday at 9 45 p m after A Young of East Berlin stopped to offer a lift to two men. One robber, in a light suit with glasses, ordered Young out then both drove off toward Harrisburg. Young walked to East Berlin and reported to the Gettysburg state patrol. Police nationwide were alerted via teletype. The car carried only one gallon of gas.
A collection of local classified ads lists a 1927 Ford sedan in excellent shape from A Bigham Lincoln Way New Oxford Pa. seven pigs aged six weeks from Melvin E Myers Just West of East Berlin. multiple Model A cars and trucks from Slaybaugh and Stough New Oxford Pa. 1929 Chrysler 75 roadster and sedan plus 1927 Chrysler 10 sedans and 1926 Hudsons and 1924 Ford coach from Good Bros Motor Co Hanover Pa.
Mrs Amelia Hildebridle accuses John Narry of defrauding her of part of a board bill. Detective Crabbs arrests the man on a Thursday night with Justice Sell presiding. The three payments of three dollars seven dollars and five dollars total fifteen dollars, leading to his release and the prosecutor paying costs.
On Saturday D C Stalism.th reports a slim chance for the Slayer in hospital care after his Philadelphia trip. He visited Mrs Helen Riker at Philadelphia General Hospital where she fights tubercular pneumonia. The ill Mrs Eker whispers to her uncle Stallsmith while relatives Frank Wagner, her grandfather, also lies ill in Gettysburg. The Wagners reared Mrs Eiker from infancy.
Two Holstein bull calves for sale that can be registered. Contact J. D. Markle at 507 Locust Street.
Classified notice selling grass on 2 percent acres. For details call Sarah Colestock at New Oxford Route 2.
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