Brethren church foundation and local notes in June 1917
Beaver Creek foundation for the Brethren church is complete with super structure soon. Villagers report car purchases by Albert Whistler and Wilson Bish, a Gettysburg man buys a second Reo touring car. St Joseph parish picnic set for July 14 at Myers Grove. James L. Taylor turns ninety. Several local infrastructural and civic items follow, including Red Cross efforts, piano and Delco electric plant mentions, a July Liberty Bond purchase, and various community happenings across Adams and York counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Creek
Albert Whistler
Near Gulden
Station Haw
St. Joseph
Bonneauville
Myers Grove
James L. Taylor
Arendtaville
Wilson Bish
Littlestown
Bish
Jacob
Henry Menges
E C. Livingston Farm
Swift Run
W.H Hardman
W. Grove
York Springs
Peach Glen Canning Company
Gettysburg
Lawrence Monroe
John Mickley
J. W. Mickley
Fairfield
Bernadette M. Kemper
Adama
Philadelphia
John Luckenbaugh
Abbottstown
Delco Electric
Graybill & Company
Hanover
George Leaks
Lincoln Way
Red Cross
Brumbaugh
Gnee
Brame Marage
Mesherrystown
Hnover
Hanover Taliman
Addams County Red Cross
Lutheran Church
FC. Sternat
John M. Bream
Andrew Rudisill
Owford Towbesip
Brenan
Harris Brothers
Center Square
Pan -Lutheran Suming Assembly
General Synod
General Council
Jacob Myers
Near
New Chester
John Hofangle
Bride
Town
John App
Near Nea Chester
Married 60 Years: Spanglers Celebrate Golden Anniversary
Mr and Mrs George W Spangler marked sixty years of marriage with a private gathering at their Gettysburg home. They wed June 21 1857 in Abbottstown at the Lutheran parsonage with Rev A R Gearhardt officiating. The couple have two children and remain active in town affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Spangler
Gettysburg
Spangler
Charlotte Hantz
York
East Berlin
Michael Spangler
Barbara A. (Smith) Oyler
Alexander D. Oyler
Samuel G. Spangler
Gabriel Smith
Wenksville
Oyter
Menallen Township
G. Spangler
Edward J
Wesley I
Harry
J. Price Oyler
George Oyler
Winchester
Jacob C. Smith
Venkeville
Bernadette Noel
Howard Noel
Mt. Rock
George
Bernard
Lawrence
Paul
Dorothy
Marie
Mary
Martha
Rita
Noel
Conewago Chapel
Fr. Koch
John M. Plank
Cluttysburg
Mr. Plank
Cumberland Township
Sarah Rinehart
Jeresiah Rinehart
George Gushmin
Jerome Phink
Highkind Township
Foster Beard
Emory
Hattie Elizabe
Jacoba
Samuel Jacobs
Sunea
Jacobs
Brethren Church
Andrew Jacobs
Thomasville
George Sulfa Admire
Isaac Bowera
Misa Eien Jacobs
Jerome Miller
Bear the Cross Pike's
Lydia Myers
Mummert’s Meeting House
Chas. Baker
Woman Struck by Auto in Hanover Saturday Morning
A serious accident occurred in Hanover about 30 oclock on Saturday when Miss Mollie Randolph of Baltimore was crossing Broadway and stepped in front of J S Schwartz's automobile driven by J S Schwartz. She suffered a scalp abrasion and head injury, treated by Dr Wertz and D Keagy with three stitches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
J.S. Schwartz
Broadway
Mollie Randolph
Baltimore
Army Assignment At Fort Niagara Names New Officers
Student officers at Fort Niagara select service branches for commissions and report transfers in progress. Henry J. Smith of New Oxford, son of the Item editor, passed exams and is assigned to Field Artillery. Richard Y. Naill of Hanover and David D. Bixler of Hanover move in aviation and Field Artillery respectively. Infantry placements include Lavere Hafer of Gettysburg and W. W. Van Baman with Robert Lafean of York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Niagara
Aviation Corps
Coast Artillery
Henory J. Smith
New Oxford
Field Artillery
Richard Y. Naill
Hanover
David D. Bixler
Lavere Hafer
Gettysburg
W. W. van Baman
Robert Lafean
York
Narrow escape as wagon wheel nearly crushes 3-year-old
Kermit Ziegler, 83 month old son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Ziegler near East Berlin, narrowly avoids being crushed when a wagon wheel rolls over hip while the child and parents load hay. He suffers only severe bruises with no obvious internal injuries after prompt medical check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kermit Ziegler
Raymond Ziegler
East Berlin
Dr. Miller
Better W. M. Service Milk Train Changes
During the current week the Hanover Baltimore milk train will run through to Gettysburg. The train leaves Hanover at about 5:00 a.m. for Baltimore and 9:00 p.m. for Gettysburg. Beginning next Monday the York morning train at 9:22 a.m. will depart about 8:30 a.m. for Baltimore, and the 6:38 p.m. York return train will come from Baltimore. Exact times to be announced later. After this week the temporary milk train service will be discontinued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York-Adams County
Red Men
East Berlin
York
Hanover
East
Berlin
Gettysburg
Red Cross
York Springs
Blaine Beamer
Quaker
J. Frank Myers
Beamer
Gardners
Oscar Stonesifer
O. H. Hostetter
Bortner
C. Roy Hart
Almond Sowers
Hanosver
New Oxford
York-Adams
George Henry
C. A. Diehl
Jacob Miller
Lingg’s Mill
Town
Catharine Diehl
E. R. Wilson
Kiger
L. D. Sell
R. A. Bowman
Baltimore
Ten-year-old Curtis Berkheimer suffers severe toe injury
Curtis Berkheimer, 10, barefoot near Pleasant street on Friday evening, had the great toe of his right foot smashed when a passerby stepped on it. The nail split in halves and flesh was crushed. A local surgeon dressed the wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone Bowman
J. C. Bowsman
United States
Lancaster
Bowman
Washington Sadler
Pleasant Street
Livingston
Henry A. Mears
York Springs
Meals
Curtis Berkheimer
Norman Berkheimer
Schools Name New Misses and Township Teachers
Benderaville elects Nel lie and Pearl Rive as Misses in its schools. Butler township teachers list Good Hope Robert Fisher Tabe Rock Eva Boyer Sunnyside Bessie Raffensperger Pine Grove Isabelle Taylor. They will be paid 60 dollars monthly, up 10 from last year. Biglerville fills posts: Principal H. E. Swartz assistant principal Levi Gulbert Intermed Ruth McAbenny Primary Lola Bowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benderaville
Nellie
Pearl Rive
Butler Township
Good Hope
Robert Fisher
Tabe Rock
Eva Boyer
Sunnyside
Bessie Raffensperger
Pine Grove
Isabelle Taylor
Biglerville
H. E. Swartz
Levi Gulbert
Ruth McAbenny
Lola Bowers
Death notices and obits in Gettysburg area roll
Multiple death notices and obituaries from Gettysburg and surrounding towns. families named include Oyler Noel Plank Crouse Hollinger Albaugh Jacobs and others. ages range from infancy to 77. incidents include barn fire and property loss at Brushtown. dates and local locations referenced.
Reform Speaker to address New Oxford church Sunday
Albert H. White, head of the American Civic Reform Union in Harrisburg, will speak at Mt EK church New Oxford on Sunday morning July 1 at the regular service on The Greatest Sin in the World. He has a decade of reform work and ties to Lancaster Dauphin counties and major cities in several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert H. White
American Civic Reform Union
Harrisburg
Mt. EK
New Oxford
White
Lancaster
Dauphin Counties
Philadelphia
Reading
Allentown
Easton
Union
Garret
Carson Cook
J E. Cook
Dillsburg
Justice of the Peace
Bowers
Lemoyne
Garrett
Cook
St. Mary's
Orden
Benji Cooper
Hanover
Warner
Eastern Penitentiary
Cooper
J. W. Hahn
R. Witmer
Festival on Center Square by First Lutheran church
The Young Men's Bible Class of First Lutheran Church will stage a festival on Center Square in the evening of July. Good music will be provided and all are invited by the festival committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Red Cross
Center Square
P.Q. S
St. John’s Reformed Church
New Chesster
First Lutheran Church
Also Mentioned on This Page
Taunspar
G. A. Raffensperger
Straban
Pines Lutheran Church
Lutheran Sunday School of
Hampton
Ida E. Feiser
Steelton
Frank Spangler
Near Town
Harry Senft
White Hall
Joseph McMaster
Charles Wolf
Jacob Menges
Wm. A Feiser
Cashtown
E. L. Eckert
Charles Smith
Red Cross Society
Peter Yeager
McSherrystown
Burgess Stokes
William Yealy
Guy Albright
Zeta Kablbaugh
Church of the Immaculate Concer«tion
Alumni Association of the High School
Miller’s Hall
William A. Lawrence
Lilye Mill
West High Street
A. F. Hostetter
Central Fair Circuit Association
Adams County
Hartman
McCrea Dickson
Harry Slagle
Commissioners’ Board
Mary B. Hostetter
Fannie Hostetter
Henry R. Konrad
Konrad
Hanover High School
Middletown
Conn
Dr. Wertz
Keagy
Mildred Miller
David Miller
Bittinter
Miriam Weikert
H. D. Weikert
Margaret Morison School
Pittsburgh
Arendtsville High School
Lydia Robert
Littlestown High School
Nina Rudisill
Gregory Beckman
Columbus
Ohio
U.S. Army
Hanover Tians
Carlisle Pike
Cross Keys
Gettyeburr
Adams County Sunday School Association
Green Springs U. E
Crosspikes
Jacob Schriver
East High Street
Schriver
William Schriver
Chautauqua
Arendtsville
Bendersville
Benjamin Cooper
Harry Shultz
George Dubs
Tranover
Squire Witlner
Shultz
Dubs
Rohrbaugh
Nanover
Leeming
Kingbolt
J.C Felty
Mr. Felty
Elizabeth
Lena
North Peters Street
Ethel Wright
West Cheater State Normal School
Ernest M. Kaffman
Harry W. Gross
Huntington Valley
Bucks County
Better W. M. Service
George Watson
Charles Musselman
McWnightstown
Chas. Museelman
Frank Wetzel
Crettysburg
John Sanders
Henry Cleusman
Hagerstown
Samuel Walters
Kuostyn
John
Charles
Robert Watson
The
West
James Watson
Aspers
Jacob Swith
Fountaindale
Samuel Keller Crouse
George Hilterbrick
Taneytown
Frank E. Crouse
Samuel Crouse
Tyrone
Harry Crouse
Middleburg
Milton Crouse
Misa Elizabeth Hollinge
Christopher Hollinger
Samuel Hollinger
Edward Culp
Ellen Swartz
Charles and
Webster Harpish
Knight Vernon
New York City
Louisa Lucelia Albaugh
4. P. Albaugh
Walter Engel
New Wilklesor
Guy Albaugh
Albaugh
Neartown
Frazier
Bethel Church
Carroll County
Maurice Baker
William P. Smith
Adam Fogle
Brushetown
Lincoln Highway
Sane
W. J. Cromer
N. M. Diers
Centre Square
Wagner's
Carlisle Street
New Oxford Foundry & Mig. Co
Bell Phone
Osford
J. J. EH
Sereet
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