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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
22
Community items from Littlestown and Gettysburg report births and local sales, farm activity including hogs and cattle weights, bank dividends, real estate trades, and minor crimes. Notable mentions include a hog dressed 582 pounds, a 50,000 dollar mortgage, and several auctions and clerical appointments.
By April 1 1606 a reliable man is sought to lead a mill team and act as general helper with house room for a small family. Single or married considered. Good lead possible. Contact or address W R Ganrvax New Oxford VA.
Next month brings Lincoln's birth day St Valentine s day and Washington s birthday. Plymire s restaurant at Gettysburg reopened last Saturday under Mrs Plymire s management. E E Freed Carlisle street grocer recovering from pneumonia. Lewis Gise of B M Miller farm Hampton cut himself while butchering and suffers blood poisoning. Lewis Clunk near McSherrystown lies critically ill from multiple diseases. Coit Slaybaugh Cedar Ridge cut knee in wood cutting accident.
A. D. Brown of Reading township killed two hogs aged about 15 months weighing 502 and 446 pounds producing roughly 325 pounds of lard. He also killed a 9 month old pig weighing 326 pounds. A local sale notice urges spring sale date submissions for the Sale Register. A boy’s accident on Berlin Ave left Chester Bower with a 13 inch scalp gash treated by Dr. Sheetz.
Isaac Stine and his Baltimore partner have purchased a truck farm of over 200 acres with all stock and implements located about miles east of Baltimore. They will take possession shortly.
Augustus Mehring of Littlestown reports a blast after adding fresh wood to a stove. Lids blew off and a fire nearly started. Authorities suspect powder in the wood but have no identified perpetrator at this time.
Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia produced 2250 locomotives in 1905. The output marked the greatest by the company in three years and required around the clock work. A total of 14,811 men were employed during the year, peaking at 17,105 workers.
Hampton harness maker E. J. Hoffman contracted blood poisoning after a small hand cut. The wound became inflamed and caused him pain, but he is now improving.
Friday evening Mrs Clint on Cashman Pitt street hosted intimate friends of her daughter Miss Daisy. The gathering featured games and singing with Prof William A Sheely on the organ. Refreshments followed before guests dispersed to their homes.
Adams county youths Paul Laughman and Elmer Harman were found guilty in York county court last week of firing the Hanover and McSherrystown Water Co. land in the Pigeon Hills. They received a stern lecture on the deed and were told they would be sent to the Huntingdon Reformatory until reaching legal age due to their ages.
The Festival and Bazaar to benefit the Immaculate Conception Church runs this Saturday through Saturday Jan 20. It offers a variety of useful and fancy goods, a $50 gold grand prize, daily lunches and refreshments, and grand suppers on Jan 13 17 and 20. The Citizens Band provides music and all are invited to attend.
Congressman D. I. Lafean oversees a winter planting by the United States Fish Department delivering a record number of young game fish to streams in York County, marking the largest local distribution in years.
The Festival and Bazaar for the benefit of the Church of the Immaculate Conception begins Saturday evening, inviting the community to attend and support the church event with stalls and activities.
The Plymire restaurant in this place sold at sheriff sale on Saturday to Theo E Warner for 320 dollars. The acetylene light plant bought by J B C Miller for 120 dollars was later purchased by Mr W A Diehl who will move it to Pitt street for lighting his and his son Curtis Dieht’s new dwelling.
An eight year old son of Calvin Fox of Hendrix Station underwent an appendicitis operation Sunday afternoon at 2 oclock. Dr Edward Meisenhelder of York performed the operation assisted by Dr J L Sheetz and son Dr Wm R Snyder and Dr Leaks of this place. The patient was resting as well as could be expected at last accounts.
Paul Laughman of Berwick township Adams county was arrested and given a hearing and then recommitted within hours as part of an arson case. Three boys are linked to burning acres of woodland owned by the Hanover and McSherrystown Water Company in Penn township York county. Witnesses from distant towns were in York for the day, prompting a swift move to present the case to the grand jury.
Charles O Carey of Cumberland township near Gettysburg lost his left arm when his coat sleeve snagged in a corn shredder on the Wm Johns farm. Surgeons amputated the arm between shoulder and elbow. Neighbors offer sympathy as the farm accident ends his livelihood.
The region records several deaths including John F. Yake a Berwick mason and bricklayer aged 66 from Brights disease. Rev W C Hesser former pastor dies at 65. Miss Masura Wine dies at 30 in Manchester. Infant David Clare of Littlestown dies at 5 weeks. Alton Murray Thomas Hanover photographer dies at 33 after typhoid. Burial rites and family survivors listed.
John Nickey of Reading township near Hampton died at 59 from blood poisoning after a small hand scratch on Dec 30 worsened. He left a wife and four children, served on the Hampton Ind. District school board, and was active in local affairs. Funeral was held Tuesday at Hampton cemetery.
Mrs. Rebecca Caster visits Baltimore with niece Kia Weterline. Chas Staub and family visit his mother Caroline Robinson on Orange street. Fider Warner from Philadelphia stays with friends. Myrra Plank and child visit grandparents Benj Eicholtz on Hanover street. Richard Steffy attends Patrick's Commercial School in York. Aug Feiser and family visit daughter Wilmot Glosserman in Tyrone township. Mamie Bolin Annie Bolin and George Overdick host Daisy Rhea on Pitt street. Samuel M Nichols dies in railroad accident near Highfield after 9 pm. he was a freight brakeman residing with his widowed mother near Cascade.
A series of marriages are recorded in the area. Hymenial Robert Chronister wed Miss Mabel Myers at the German Reformed parsonage East Berlin. Daisy Mickley and Jacob B. Wineman married at the bride’s Gettysburg home before about 100 guests. Charles H. Eyster and Clare Williamson Wright married in Baltimore. Carvin Good and Carrie Rahn wed at Littlestown parsonage. Clinton A. Swope and Elsie Slagle married at Abbottstown. Harry N. Trostle and Irma Bream united in Arendtsville. John H. Dotterer and Ella Harting wed in Steelton.
All clocks watches and jewelry repair work completed neatly and cheaply. Goods left with A Klinger New Oxford will be forwarded and promptly returned. Penrose Myers Jeweler Gettysburg Pa signs on as a local repair service.
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