New Oxford Item 1917 June 28 Brethren church Beaver Creek
The Beaver Creek Brethren church foundation is completed and the super structure will begin soon. Numerous local notices follow: car purchases by Albert Whistler near Gulden Station and Wilson Bish of Littlestown. St Joseph’s parish Bonneauville picnic July 14. James L. Taylor nears 90. many town services, auctions, Red Cross activity, and civic notes across Adams and York counties including farms, roads, schools, and local incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph’s
Bonneauville
Willl
Myers Grove
James L. Taylor
Arendtsville
Spangler Couple Marks 60 Years of Married Life in Gettysburg
Mr and Mrs George W Spangler celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary at their Gettysburg home. They wed June 21 1857 in Abbottstown Lutheran parsonage with Rev A R Gearhardt officiating who is now deceased. The couple has no children and remain active in town affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Lawrence
Lidy.s Mill
Lavere Gable
West High Street
George W. Spangler
Gettysburg
Mr. Spangler
Mrs. Spangler
Woman Struck by Auto in Hanover Plainly Hurt
A serious accident occurred in Hanover on Saturday morning when Miss Mollie Randolph of Baltimore was crossing Broadway and stepped in front of J. S. Schwartz’s automobile. She suffered a scalp abrasion on the right side and needed three stitches after being carried to a yard by bystanders. Dr Wertz and D Keagy attended the wound. Miss Randolph is visiting relatives near Edgegrove with Felix Jenkins and his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
J.S. Schwartz
Broadway
Mollie Randolph
Baltimore
Army Assignment At Fort Niagara Names Several Officers
Student officers at Fort Niagara expressed service branch preferences before the first term ended Saturday. Some transfers are completed while others await final physical examinations. Henry J. Smith of New Oxford is assigned to the Field Artillery. Richard Y. Nall of Hanover to Aviation. David D. Bixler of Hanover to Field Artillery. Infantry assignments go to Lavere Hafer of Gettysburg W. W. Van Baman and Robert Lafean of York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Niagara
Aviation Corps
Coast Artillery
Henry J. Smith
New Oxford
Wield Artillery
Richard Y. Nall
Hanover
David D. Bixler
Field Artillery
Lavere Hafer
Gettysburg
W. W. van Baman
Robert Lafean
York
Child narrowly escapes under load of hay near East Berlin
Kermit Ziegler, 38 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ziegler, was loading hay from a wagon when a wheel passed over his hips. He escaped serious injury beyond severe bruises as onlookers and Dr. Muller attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kermit Ziegler
Raymond Ziegler
East Berlin
Muller
Improved Milk Train Service Through Gettysburg Route
Better W. M. Service reports this week milk trains from Hanover to Baltimore will run through to Gettysburg. The Baltimore bound train leaves Hanover around 5:00 a m and the Gettysburg bound train at 9:00 p m. Beginning next Monday the York bound 9:22 a m train will shift to Baltimore and the 6:38 p m York to Baltimore return will operate from Baltimore. Exact times to be announced. after this week the temporary milk train service will be discontinued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
Baltimore
Gettysburg
York
Ten-year-old’s great toe crushed in street collision
Curtis Berkheimer, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Berkheimer, ran barefoot on Pleasant street Sunday evening when a pedestrian stepped on his right great toe. The nail split, flesh crushed, a local surgeon dressed the painful wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Street
Curtis Berkheimer
Norman Berkheimer
Teachers gain pay increase in town and township elections
Bendersville names Miss Nel lie and Miss Pearl Rice as teachers. Butler township lists Good Hope Robert Fisher Tabe Rock Eva Buyer Sunnyside Bessie laffensperger Pine Grove Isabelle Taylor as teachers. They will receive 60 for four months, a 10 rise from last year. Bagleyville assigns Principal H. Swartz and Assistant Principal Levi Gilbert with Ruth McWhennyyanod Lola Bowers in intermediate and primary roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bendersville
Nellie
Pearl Rice
Butler Township
Good Hope
Robert Fisher
Taken by Death Mrs Barbara A Oyler of Gettysburg
Mrs Barbara A Oyler wife of Alexander D Oyler died at her daughter Mrs Samuel G Spangler home in Gettysburg on Thursday morning aged 1? years 2 months 25 days Daughter of Gabriel Smith Wenksville She and her husband moved from Menallen to the Oyler farm near Gettysburg in 1860 later moved to Gettysburg 1907 Then living with S G Spangler She leaves husband four sons Edward J Wesley I Harry J Price Oyler and daughter Mrs S G Spangler and sister Mrs George Oyler Winchester Va and brother Jacob C Smith Wenksville
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County Sunday School Association
Green Springs U. S
Adams County
Gettysburg
Crosspikes
Jacob Schriver
East High Street
Schriver
William Schriver
Biglerville
Chautauqua
Rohrbaugh
Hanover
Barbara A. (Smith) Oyler
Alexander D. Oyler
Samuel G. Spangler
Gabriel Smith
Wenksville
Oyler
Menallen Township
S. G. Spangler
Edward J
Wesley I
Harry
J. Price Oyler
George Oyler
Winchester
Jacob C. Smith
Louisa Lucelia Albaugh
A. P. Albaugh
Walter Sengel
New Winsor
Guy Albaugh
York
Albaugh
T.P., Frazier
Near Town
Frazier
Bethel Church
Carroll County
Death of Miss Bernadette Noel at Mt Rock
Miss Bernadette Noel aged 19 years 10 days died at home in Mt Rock at 8 15 p m Thursday from a complication of diseases. She leaves Howard and Mrs Noel and brothers George Bernard Lawrence Paul and sisters Dorothy Marie Mary Martha and Rita. Funeral Monday High Mass of Requiem Conewago Chapel at 9 am with Rev Fr Koch officiating. Interment in Chapel cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernadette Noel
Howard Noel
Mt. Rock
George
Bernard
Lawrence
Paul
Dorothy
Marie
Mary
Martha
Rita Noel
Conewago Chapel
Fr. Koch
Mrs. George Watson Dead at 77 in Mel Knights Town
Mrs. George Watson died Saturday at her daughter Mrs Charles Musselman’s home in Mel Knights town from heart trouble aged 77. Survived by daughters Mrs Chas Musselman Mrs Frank Wetzel of Gettysburg Mrs John Sanders Littlestown and others sons John Charles Robert in the West and James in Aspers plus one brother Jacob Smith of Fountaindale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Watson
Charles Musselman
Mel Knightstown
Chas. Musselman
Frank Wetzel
Gettysburg
John Sanders
Littlestown
Lleary Cleusman
Slagerstown
Samuel Walters
Knoxlyn
John
Charles
Robert Watson
The
West
James Watson
Aspers
Jacob Smith
Fountaindale
Death of Samuel Keller Crouse at 75 near Taneytown
Samuel Keller Crouse died at the home of George Hilterbrick near Taneytown on Wednesday night at age 75 years three months and four days. He leaves three sons Frank Sk. Crouse of Taneytown Samuel Crouse of Tyrone and Harry Crouse of Middleburg and one brother Milton Crouse of Taneytown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Keller Crouse
George Hilterbrick
Taneytown
Frank Sk. Crouse
Samuel Crouse
Tyrone
Harry Crouse
Middleburg
Milton Crouse
Death of Miss Elizabeth Hollinger in Cumberland Township
Miss Elizabeth Hollinger died at her Cumberland home on Saturday morning at 62 years two months and twenty three days. She was a daughter of the late Christopher Hollinger and was born in Butler township where she spent most of her life. She leaves two brothers and a sister, Samuel Hollinger of Table Rock, Noah M. Hollinger of Pleasant, Maryland, and Mrs. John A. Yingling of Westminster, Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Hollinge
Cumberland Township
Dereased
Christopher Hollinger
Butler Township
Samuel Hollinger
Edward Culp
Gettysburg
Ellen Swartz
Charles and
Webster Hornish
Knight Vernon
New York City
Obituaries: Plank, Culp, Albaugh noted in Gettysburg area notices
Obituaries record John FE Plank at 81 from Gettysburg area after illness. Also listed are services for Mrs. Edward Culp of Gettysburg age 52 and Louisa Lucelia Albaugh widow of Dr A P Albaugh who died near New Windsor Maryland aged 71. Survivors and relations named. Funeral details given for Mrs Albaugh’s Bethel church service.
Mrs Hattie E Jacobs Dies at 82 in Ieast Berlin
Mrs Hattie Elizatt Jacobs wife of Samuel Jacobs of Ieast Berlin died at 82 years 10 months and 5 days from a complication of diseases She was a member of the church and leaves a son Andrew Jacobs of near Thomasville three daughters Mrs George Julius Admire Mrs Isaac Bowers York and Miss Ellen Jacobs Lyme Two sisters Mrs Jerome Muller near Cross Pike and Mrs Lydia Myers York Funeral Wednesday at 9 am from the house Interment at Mummert's meeting house with Rev Charles Baker officiating
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Elizatt Jacobs
Samuel Jacobs
Ieast Berlin
Sunca
Jacobs
Berethren Church
Andrew Jacobs
Thomasville
George Julius
Isaac Bowers
York
Ellen Jacobs
Lyme
Mars
Jerome Muller
Cross Pike's
Lydia Myers
Mummert’s Meeting House
Chas. Baker
Barn Raising At Bonneauville Aids Mau rice Baker Site
About 150 attended the barn raising on Mau rice Baker's Bonneauville property Thursday with William P. Smith as supervising contractor. A separate fire incident at Adam Fogle’s Brush Town property destroyed a summer kitchen and its contents around 4 pm Friday, with damage estimated at $1000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Baker
Bonneauville
William P. Smith
T'i.e
Adam Fogle
Brushtown
Albert H White to Speak at New Oxford Church
Albert H White Eastern Superintendent of the American Civic Reform Action will address the M F E church in New Oxford on Sunday morning July 1. His talk titled The Greatest Sin in the World comes after a decade of reform work and involvement in criminal cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert H. White
American Civic Reform Action
Harrisburg
M. FE. Church of
Philadelphia
Reading
Allentown
Easton
Festival to aid Red Cross on Center Square Saturday
A Red Cross fundraiser is set for Center Square this Saturday evening to benefit the chapter with proceeds for a worthy cause. The P Q N of A band will provide music. A lost black feather pocketbook containing $1 to $12 was lost on Lincoln Highway near Loween Abbottstown and New Oxford. reward offered for return to W J Cremer Abbotstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Luckenbaugh
Abbottstown
Delco
Graybill & Company
Hanover
George Leaks
Lincoln Way
Red Cross
Fairfield
Jacob Menges
Center Square
Wm. A Feiser
P.O.S. of A
Cashtown
I. L. Eckert
Near Town
Philadelphia
Charles Smith
Red Cross Society
Peter Yeager
McSherrystown
Burgess Stokes
William Yealy
Littlestown
Officer Crabbs
Burgess H. M. Stokes
Arthur F. Moul
Fort Niagara
N. Y
Jive
Lo Chapter of the Red Cross
P.Q. N.of A. Band
Black Feather
Lincoln Haghway
Loween Abvottstusu
New Oxford
Vinder
W. J. Cremer
Abbotts~ Town
Festival fundraiser for St Johns Reformed church in New Chester
A church lawn festival benefits St Johns Reformed Church New Chester on Saturday evening June 30 invites all. A position for a middle aged woman to work in a restaurant offered with steady pool wage. Call No M Dicks Centre Square Restaurant New Oxford for details. Also a sale of 94 hats at $1 each from Wagner's Carlisle Street. Scrap iron collected by New Oxford Foundry and Mfg Co pays more than anyone else Bell phone 16 R 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G A. Raffensperger
Straban
Pines Lutheran Church
New Chester
Lutheran Sunday School of
Hampton
P.O.S. of A
Ida E. Feiser
Steelton
Frank Spangler
Near Town
Harry Senft
White Hall
Joseph McMaster
Bonneauville
Charles Wolf
Gettysburg
Garret
Carson Cook
J E. Cook
Dillsburg
Justice of the Peace
Bowers
Lemoyne
Garrett
Cook
N. R. Bailey
New Oxford
Littlestown
St. Mary's
McSherrystown
St. Mary’s
Benjamin Cooper
Manover
Warner
Astern
Cooper
J. W. Hahn
Ianover
R. Witmer
Bride
Town
John Rupp
Near New Chester
St John's Reformed Church
New Cheseter
Resturant
M. Dicks
Centre Square
Jsig
Wagner's
Carlisle Street
Oxford Voundry & Mfg.Co
Syone
Bell
Festival on Center Square by First Lutheran July 4
The Young Men's Bible Class of First Lutheran church hosts a Center Square festival on the evening of July 4 with good music. Everyone is cordially invited by the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Bible Class
First Lutheran Church
Center Square
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brethren
Beaver Creek
Albert Whistler
Gulden’s Station
Wilson Bish
Bish
Jacob
Henry Menges
E C. Livingston Farm
Swift Run
W.H Hardman
W. Grove
York Springs
Peach Glen Canning Company
Lawrence Monroe
John Mickley
J. W. Mickley
Bernadette M. Kemper
Guy Albright
Miss Zeta
Ahlbaugh
Church of the Immaculate Conceration
Alumni Association of the High School
Miller’s Hall
Brumbaugh
Hartman
J. McCrea Dickson
Harry Slade
Commissioners’ Board
Boone Bowman
Rev
J. C Bowman
United States
Lancaster
Bowman
A. F. Hostetter
Hostetter
Hanover and McSherrystown
Central Fair Circuit Association
Mary B. Hostetter
Annie Hostetter
Henry R. Konrad
Konrad
Hanover High School
Middletown
Conn
Wertz
Keagy
Mildred Miller
David Miller
Bittinger
Miriam Weikert
H. D. Weikert
Margaret Morison School
Pittsburgh
Arendtsville High School
Lydia Robert
Littlestown High School
Nina Rudisill
York-Adams County
Red Men
Blaine Beamer
Quaker Bakery
J. Frank Myers
Beamer
Gardners
Oscar
York-Adams
George Henry
C. A
Jacob Miller
Lingg’s Mill
Catharine Dick
Se. R. Wilson
Migh
Kiser
L. D. Sell
R. A. Bowman
York County
Gregory Beckman
Columbus
Ohio
U.S. Army
Hanover High School Hall
Hanoverians
Carlisle S Pike
Cross Keys
Washington Sadler
Livingston
Henry A. Meals
Mr. Meals
Leeming
Kingdolt
J. C Felty
Mr. Felty
Elizabeth
Lena
North Peters Street
Lutheran Church
Cettysburg
Ethel Wright
West Chester State Normal School
Ernest M. Kaffman
Harry W. Gross
Huntington Valley
Bucks County
Better W. M. Service
John FE. Plank
Mr Plank
Sarah Rinehart
Jeremiah Rinehart
Ife
George Bushman
Jerome Plank
Highland Township
Foster Beard
Emory Plank
David Plank
Roy Plank
Vincent Little
Near
Charles Plank
Straban Township
Miles Wilson
J. H. Dutter
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