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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
18
Abbottstown area news covers farm sales, church affairs, and local appointments. Wm Heltzel becomes sexton at St Paul Reform ed church, G W Sadler takes over M E church sexton role, and Easter services announced in Reformed church. Pen Mar opens June 21 for summer season.
Mr E M Bollinger brought 21 Kentucky and Virginia horses to town but lack of prior advertisement kept Saturday sale from drawing buyers. The horses are now offered at private sale or exchange. In church news the First Lutheran holds Easter services with sunrise prayer at 6am, Sunday school at 9am, Holy Communion at 10am, and baptism confirmation and new member reception at the same service, with a preparatory service Saturday at 7:30pm.
Henry Spangler, a respected citizen near New Chester, is critically ill after a second stroke. The Immaculate Conception Parochial Schools plan an April 26 Miller's Hall entertainment, said to surpass prior performances. Easter services at First Lutheran drew large crowds and $27 offering for Church Extension exceeded last year. Hetrick buys Het rick dairy farm operation, promising continued service to town.
The Central Methodist Episcopal conference closed in Tyrone Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening. Bishop Berry disclosed assignments including Geo W Stevens as Presiding Elder and William Hartman, Norman Smith, Joseph Brenneman and William Ruth to various charges. Former pastors receive new posts and Samuel Heck of Gettysburg is noted for a wrist fracture.
Mr Henry Emlet on the Wehler Sheely farm near town received a dangerous wound when County Surveyor S Miley Miller pitched a sharpened peg while Emlet bent to pick up an ax. The peg pierced the back of his neck about an inch, requiring force to remove and leaving him in great pain.
Charles Brady son of A I Brady a Philadelphia street shoemaker lost the index and middle fingers of his left hand when an ax struck while cutting kindling at his Lillys mill area home. The injury will lay him off from work for several weeks after assisting his father in the shop.
William D. Herman and Alice Myers of Hamilton township wed in Abbottsown on April 7. Mary Eldon and Jacob Rex also joined in marriage at Aspers on Thursday afternoon. Clarence F. Lippincott and Vertie E. Deatrich married April 7 at the Reformed parsonage Philadelphia street and will reside at the Eagle Hotel temporarily.
Obituaries detail the deaths of Mr. Washington Shover at 12 years old at his son's home on West High Street and Mrs. John Fiscel on Steinwehr Avenue after a long illness. Also noted are Sister Elizabeth of the Sisters of Mercy in San Francisco, H A Yeatts of Bendersville, and survivors including spouses and children. Funeral arrangements and locations in Fountain Dale, Grace Church at Two Taverns, and local homes are listed.
East Berlin and surrounding towns report visitors and long list of relatives calling on friends. Deaths include David Stauffer at 59 and Miss Hattie Dodge 17 with funeral planned for Ipswich Mass. Other items note Easter services, a new rural mail routes, and Miss Maria Whisler's stroke death in Hanover.
A letter from H H Stephenson cash ier of Oil City Savings Bank touts Devoe lead and zinc paint as durable in Pennsylvania’s coal region. It contrasts lead and oil mixes with machinery blended variants and notes widespread adoption, plus a local distributor in Hanover. Also a rental notice for a dwelling and store in New Oxford solicits inquiries from C. H. Myers.
Mrs. Alexander of Cary Me praises Dr Kings New Life Pills as best remedy for stomach liver and bowels in order. Ed T Auker guarantees the painless purifiers and offers them at 2 50.
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