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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
14
Tenns one dollar per year in advance four dollars if not paid within the year. Subscriptions discontinued only on publisher option until arrears paid. Failure to discontinue at end of paid period treated as new engagement. Advertisements at reasonable rates with liberal yearly reductions for printing labels cards posters.
A Baltimore woman and Mrs. Kane were injured when Lewis Kane's car struck a telephone pole west of Caledonia. The auto skidded after trying to pass a machine, went 300 feet, then down a slight embankment, nearly hitting a trolley. Lewis Kane suffered a head cut, others had minor injuries. a derby hat saved him from worse injuries.
A hen on L S Snyder’s Huntington township farm hatched twenty partridge chicks from a nest abandoned by the mother. Snyder had moved eggs from a nest three weeks earlier after accidentally uncovering it while mowing briars. The mother partridge did not return and the eggs were placed under a chicken hen for hatchling success.
The notices record multiple marriages from June across towns in Gettysburg Emmitsburg York Springs Idville and Harrisburg. Couples include Mary Grinder and Howard Biesecker Raymond S Group and Mabel Wolf Mildred Myers and Wilmer Eckenrode Grace Fanus and Paul Davis Jessie E Trimmer and Harry M Hance Mary E Nunemaker and Walter King plus others.
Paul Winebrenner cashier of the Han over Savings Fund Society was treated at Hahnamanh Hospital Philadelphia for a bowel obstruction. The obstruction passed Thursday evening and he has been resting well since.
William Barnes the slayer of Policeman Dagwall in Waynesboro and a Fairfield native was refused a pardon on Wednesday. Senator Hoke's plea for his wife and children carried little weight against the father-in-law’s stance to keep the family. A petition against Barnes’s release circulated locally with many signers. Barnes serves eight to twelve years in the Eastern Penitentiary. the elder Barnes was shot attempting capture and confessed to firing the fatal shot, though the confession carried little weight. Dr A R Shands of Washington admitted guilt to speeding and paid a 5 dollar fine with costs. D Philip Young of York likewise paid 5 dollars and costs for speeding. A stop to night speeding on the battlefield is noted. Humphry farm in Frederick County sold to John M Potter for 37,500 dollars, the third sale in two years. the 235 acre farm will host thoroughbred cattle. Public notice from Toledo shows Frank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cheney & Co promising 100 dollars for each uncured case of catarrh with Hall’s Catarrh Cure. the ad promotes internal use and testimonials.
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