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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
5
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At Mt St Marys college near Emmitsburg Maryland the commencement exercise presided by Cardinal Gibbons conferred the honorary Doctor of Laws on Rev L Auguste Reudter rector of St Marys Church McSherrystown and former Immaculate Conception priest in Harrisburg diocese on the Silver Anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. John Rice of McSherrystown was among graduates and Bryan McCann won a gold medal for the best written exam in the First Preparatory class.
Multiple couples wed across area towns in recent days. Misa Lillian Weaner and James Grayson Miller married at the bride’s Bendereville home with Rev. W D E Scott officiating. Raymond Bender wed Misa Gertrude Johns in Allentown, and Kathryn Pike tied the knot with J Dale Diehl in Halifax. Vida E Koser and Edwin A Rice wed in Arendtsville, while Georgianna Miller and Wilbur Fink married in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Edward Raffensperger and Elsie Whisler married in York, plus Miss Mary Musselman wed Charles Cluck in Fairfield and Amos Krout tied with Esther Wolf in East Berlin. A lightning strike damaged Foster Beard’s Cumberland Township home. Arendtsville Red Cross enrollment soars to 90 members.
Five hundred attended the second matinee at the Hunters Town track. The big race between Eddie C and Rubrician Jr was called off due to a death in the Gettysburg owners family. Only two classes were run with Fuschia and Dit Hale posting times in Class A and Charlie M and Gen Dewey in Class B. Judges were Dr Leaks Robert Bell and John Wible. The next matinee is set for July 21 at Hunters Town.
M I Hemler of Mesherrystown has returned home from West Side Sanatorium York four weeks after an operation and is improving rapidly. John Kaiser of 700 went to a Baltimore hospital Sunday for surgical removal of a small neck growth. Miss Lillian Miller of Hanover had a second appendicitis operation at West Side Sanatorium York and is in serious condition. Emma Kadel of Gettysburg was operated for appendicitis at Union Protestant Infirmary and remains in favorable condition after Saturday’s surgery.
Birth notices report a son for Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Baker near Abbottstown and a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jeffcoat of White Church. A son is listed for Mr. and Mrs. Geo. D. Wolf near Mount Pleasant, and a son for Mr. and Mrs. George Meckley Jr. Tyrone township on June 23. The twenty-eighth reunion of Reformed churches across Maryland Virginia West Virginia Pennsylvania and DC will be July 19 at Pean Mar Park with afternoon exercises at 1 30 in the auditorium.
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