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New Oxford Item

Location

New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 27, 1940

Page

7

Milk Trucks Collide Injuring Two in Gettysburg

Two milk delivery trucks collide at an alley intersection behind 123 West Breckenridge street Gettysburg. Kathleen Butt Trostie suffers minor burns and bruises, her father unhurt. Driver Charles Speelman from Hanover escapes with a minor cut. total damage about 300 dollars and milk bottles lost about 50 dollars. Officer Wisler reports no charges filed.

West Breckenridge Street Gettysburg Kathleen (Butt) Trostie C. L. Butt Charles Speelman Allegheny Avenue Hanover Lance Dairy Lloyd E. Wisler Butt South Washington Street Bud Roberts Poll Room Wisler Speelman Breckenridge Street

Local News Bits From Abbottstown Area Refine Life Events

Twenty years back items note illnesses marriages births and deaths in Abbottstown and nearby towns. Among entries Mrs Geesey ill near Abbottstown. several weddings including Elmer Linquist Irene Rahn and Margaret Rife. newborns to Schriver Jacobs Kuhn Swope and others. deaths of Mrs Clouser Daniel Householder. hospital treatments and recoveries of local residents.

Kate W. Himes Alpheus S. Meckley West Manheim York County Elmer C. Linquist Hartford Conn Irene I. Rahn Berwick Township Margaret Rife Carmel David Sanders West High Street Roy Geisler Qualityville Zula Pottorff Pleasant Street Edward Kerchner Hanover

Local notices and obituaries from Abbottstown area

Thirty-year-old Russell Hensel improves from a threatened appendicitis. Marriages include Oscar Gobrecht and Daisy Earp, and Rev. John Ditzler and Ellen Auchey. Illnesses, school board appointments, injuries from mules and falls, a priest’s ordination, and several local deaths are reported along with a wheat price of 93 cents per bushel.

Berwick Township Green Springs S. A. Nagle Walnut Creek John Herman Curtis Eline William Eline Mt. Rock Anna Onster

Rural mail carriers to gain pay rise this July

The article notes rural mail carriers will see salaries increase from 400 to 500 dollars per year effective July 1. Other items report college degrees awarded, local injuries and births, a physician changing posts, a fireman’s injury, a range of local obituaries, a crop price, and a wedding in June.

Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg Martin J. Steffy McSherrystown Geo. P. Werver M. J. Myerly New Chester Marie David Mumma

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