Local notices recount trials tragedies and crop reports
Fees totaling 40 825 paid to County Treasurer for liquor privileges in York county for 1908. Numerous incidents include Johnson Clark killed by a train near Coopersburg, Mrs Arabella Campbell age 111 dies in Wrightsville, and Frank Schaeffer found dead in Columbia with throat cut. Ice harvesting ends at Laurel. seed corn crop expected poor statewide. several suicides and accidents in York county. moving primaries voting rules clarified. marriage and birth anecdotes. an Als gene for paint pricing offered by York agents.
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Brodbeck
York County
Coopersburg
Johnson Clark
Tragedy in Frederick County: Bentz Kills Wife Then Self
In York on March 14 George Bentz 48 of Boyd's Station Frederick county Md shot his wife about 35 in the dining room of a boarding house and then shot himself both dying minutes later Four or five children witnessed the act Mrs Bentz and the woman killed were identified as Florence Kind of Frederick who had left husbands and children in separate accounts police say the couple were runaway spouses prior to the tragedy
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York
George Bentz
Boyd’s Station
Frederick County
Bentz
Charles O'Brien
Rouse Avenue
Frederick
Florence Kind
Child Dies After Oil Fire at Mt Royal Home
Eight year old Mamie Kunkle suffered fatal burns when she poured coal oil on kindling to aid washing, igniting her clothing. Her 6 year old brother and 3 year old sister alerted a neighbor who extinguished the flames, but Mamie died on Friday after severe suffering. Her father Samuel Kunkle had died a year earlier, and the children were living with step-brother Ives Kunkle near Mt Royal, Dover township, York county.
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Mamie Kunkle
Ives Kunkle
Mt Royal
Dover Township
York County
Mrs. K
Mamie
Samuel Kunkle
Calvin T Lower Pledges Local Option Support in April
Gettysburg March 11 1908 The Item New Oxford Pa Calvin T Lower Republican candidate for Assembly declares if nominated and elected he will press a local option measure and support its passage with voters’ control whether by county township or borough He also pledges to bring the measure before the House and to aid its passage The new York jail will include a permanent gallows and the likely first user will be McQuayne the colored murderer.
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Gettysburg
the Item
New Oxford
Friends of
House of Representatives
Calvin T. Lower
Assembly
York
McQuayne
Calvil T. Lower
Franklin Township
Local candidates announced for county offices
E L Eckert of Oxford Township announces for Register and Recorder after close Democratic Convention bid. Jacob A Appler seeks County Commissioner. H Frank Philips Tyrone, N B Sprenkle East Berlin, J Andrew Kane for Clerk of Courts. Jacob F Thomas Straban, J F Rider Cumberland for Director of the Poor.
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Register and Recorder
Jacob A, Appler
Franklin Adams District Senator Nominee Notice
Subject to the decision of the Republican Primaries on April 11 1908 John W Hoke of Chambersburg Franklin County Pa and Gettysburg is named for Senator in General Assembly Franklin Adams district seeking party nomination.
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General Assembly
Franklin-Adame
M. Good
Waynesboro
Franklin Co
Franklin-Adams
John W. Hoke
Chambersbur
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Samuel Miller
Harry Brickner
Harvey Guise
Frank Schaeffer
Columbia
State Department of Agriculture
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Allegheny
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Straban Township
E. P. Sponseller
Mountpleasant Township
E. L. Eckert
Oxford Township
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Hamilton Township
Mountjoy Township
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New Oxford Borough
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Liberty Township
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Tyrone Township
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J. Andrew Kane
Jacob F. Thomas
J. F Rider
Cumberland Township
Isaac Co, Thomas
Willis A Witter
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Conewago Township
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Cumberland
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Harry M. Keller
UC H. Wilson
Henry M. Strine
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Reading Township
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Weaver
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Edw. Trostle
York Springs
Gettysburg, Penna
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Sally
Ose R. Square
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