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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1902
Page
4
Fripa Evennne argues Memorial Day has drifted into picnics and noise. He urges returning to the founders’ intent by decorating veterans’ graves and spending a quiet hour at a memorial service to honor the Civil War dead and foster better citizenship.
Hiram House of York presents to the York County Historical Society a silk ball woven in Two Taverns Adams county by his mother in October 1883. He recalls the November 18 1888 meteor shower believed to be a comet tail, frightening locals as stars seemed to fall, and his boyhood recollection of the silk reeling the next day in York Dispatch.
Miss Mary Ida Lawrence daughter of William G. Lawrence of Irishtown and George Wham Nicholson of Baltimore were wed at Conewago Chapel in a high nuptial mass. Bridesmaid Bertha Yake, best man Claude Nicholson. ushers Ira Leivelsperger Carroll Lawrence. A musical program honored the bride. the couple left for Baltimore to establish their home.
Mrs. John Austine, about 50, living two miles from Rea Lics, was found murdered near Herbstsweece, half a mile from her home. She had left for Bel Lion that morning and was last seen near the crime site. Her body lay behind a pile of cake in the woods with head injuries, dress torn, suggesting assault amid signs of a struggle.
Honor our heroic dead outline for Memorial Day events in New Oxford on Friday May 30. Parade forms at Center Square led by Chief Marshal J McC Gilbert at 5 p m proceeds to Immaculate Conception Cemetery then to New Oxford Cemetery with groups including Sunday Schools, McSherrystown People’s Band, Conewago Beneficial Society and Drill Class, Patriotic Order Sons of America, Sons of Veterans, G A R and Old Veterans. At New Oxford Cemetery exercises begin with invocation, audience singing America, ceremonies by Sons of Veterans, oration by W F Ditt Esq, band music, flowers strewing, firing salute, and benediction.
The County Board of Farmers Institute Managers will meet at the County Commissioners office on the second Tuesday of June to arrange for institute locations this season. The board includes local State Board of Agriculture members and one representative from each County Agricultural Society Pomona Grange and County Alliance. If you cannot attend, send a letter with your request to the Chairman of the Board of Institute Managers care of the County Commissioners.
Mrs. William Dellone of Paradise and Miss Minnie Noel with two children were riding near the school house at Conewage Chapel when a frightened horse bolted down a steep hill. The vehicle toppled and the shafts trapped riders briefly until rescuers freed them.
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