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JOB PWNTINO of every description-- from the smallest label or card to tbe or poster. largest baiidbill THURSDAY, JUNE 22. 1916. Gettysburgian Killed in Mine. Receiving a broken neck when he was caught by falling rocks at a gold mine near Kendall, Mont, Monday night, John W.

Delap, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Amos Delap, of Gettysburg, died at 3:30 Wednesday morning. Delap left Gettysburg, 2 years ago and, after stopping at several other places, located at Kendall where he purchased a property.

His wife and three of the children later joined him. The mining concern for which he worked had a disaster last week when one of their workings caved in, killing 12 men. On Monday night he was caught under falling stones and his neck was broken. He was aged about 32 years His family consists of his wife and 4 children. The oldest living with his grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs, H. Amos Delap, of Gettysburg; while the other three are at home in Montana. The body was brought East for burial. Gettysburgian in Fatal Mishap The touring car of Mrs. J.

Rowc Stewart, of Germantown, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Diehl, of Gettysburg, struck and almost instantly killed Harold Sheldon, aged 20 years, a bicyclist, of Philadelphia, on Monday night.

Sheldon was making a turn at high speed when the car struck him Mrs. Stewart tried to change the course of the car, but it was impossible to avoid the accident. The youth was caught under the wheels, breaking his neck. Mrs. Stewart was arrested; but she was cleared of all blame for the mishap after the coroner had heard the testimony.

Sheldon was ambitious to be a crack bicycle rider, and he had laughingly made a boast to his friends that he would become a famous bicycle rider or be killed in trying, Woman Attacked. Harry Bender, tenant on the farm of Harry D. Rupp, below East Berlin, was arrested by Constable Henry Khng, on a charge preferred by Mrs. Lydia Altland, charging him with intent to kill her. Mrs.

Altland, who resides near the Rupp farm, had gone to a store to purchase some groceries. Upon returning home she says she noticed that the road in front of the Rupp farm was blocked. She knew of no reason for closing the road at time of the evening, and she says that she attempted to lead around the horse, which sue was driving in a buggy, she was confronted by Bender, who, Mrs Altland claims, told her that he intended to kill her. Thereupon she says he choked and threw her against the fence For a period of about five minutes she was unable to call for help and was rendered almost unconscious. It is said that an old grudge exists between the Altland and Bender families.

Council Proceedings. Light Contract Awarded. Juno 15,1910 --Special meeting.Burgess Hummer and all members present. Boro Attorney J. L.

Williams was also present. President Livingston presided. Secretary Bower read an ordinance relative to giving a franchise to the Hanover Light, Heat Power Company, prepared by the Ordinance Com. and the Attorney. (The Ordinance appears in another column) The Ordinance was carefully read and commented upon section by section.

Kepner moved, seconded by Little, that the Hanover H. P. Co. be given a franchise for 30 years for the erection and maintenance of an electric lighting system in the Borough of New Oxford. Carried, unanimously.

Wagner moved, seconded by Hoffman, that the ordinance be printed at once according to law, the Company to pay the costs. Carried. The agreement was then read and a few changes were made. Kepner moved that the agreement be adopted, as corrected, seconded by Hoffman--That the Borough of New Oxford enter into a contract with the Hanover H. P.

Co. for a 5- year lighting contract to furnish light for the Borough with four 250 watt lights and thirty 50 watt lights at the rate of $18.50 per year, these lights to burn from dusk until midnight every night with the exception of clear moonlight nights when they will not burn at all--Unanimously carried. On motion, adjourned. T. E.

B. John M. Bloc her, son of Mr. and Mrs C. A.

Blocher; John Sachs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sachs, and Rogers Musselman, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Elmer Mus- splman, all of Gettysburg, received degrees of Doctor of Philosophy at the graduation exorcises of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Mr. Blocher has been retained by the University as first assistant research to Prof. Morse, head of the department of chemistry. Mr.

Sachs has been retained by Prof. Ira Remscn for private research work in the university laboratories. Mr. Musselman has accepted a position on the teaching force of the University of Illinois. Samuel Gilliland, a Sophomore in Gettysburg college, has received notification from Congressman C.

Beales of his appointment to the U. S. Military Academy. He will report to West Point by July 25th. Mr.

Gilliland is a son of Mr. am Mrs. W. F. Gilliland, of Gettysburg Theodore Morris, a son of Dr.

and Mrs. B. Morris, of Gettysburg, has been named as first alternate for the appointment. Mr Morris is a Junior at Gettysburg College The appointment at this time comes unde: a recent act of Congress that provides fo: doubling the number of cadets in the Military Academy. At the commencement exercises of the University of New York, which were helc on Thursday, D.

Ralph Starry, son of Mr and Mrs. D. F. Starry, of York Springs was given the degree of A. which had earned by work in connection wit! his duties as a teacher in New Jersey' public schools.

Mr. Starry is at prcscn time supervising principal of the Plainfielc N. schools. Simon Stock, son of Mrs. George Stock of Gettysburg, was among the graduate, of Mt St.

Mary's college, atEmmitsburg on Wednesday. The Rev. Fr. Mar Stock, of this place, a brother, is attend ing the commencement exercises. The Commencempnt exorcises of Sain Mary's Parochial was held on Sunday afternoon.

Ther were thirty graduates, ten from the com mercial class and tw roty from the gramma clttf. If the Boro desires more lights they'll be installed at the Hanover II. P. Company's expense, and the pame rate per year will be charged for their use. The Hanover H.

P. Co. agrees to furnish to the borough 300 kilowatt hours of current to be used in the Council room and engine house per year free of charge for the term of the contract; Also, to have the light plant erected and in operation within six months time, or up to December 1, 1916, or the foregoing contract will be null and void. The agreement was duly signed on Thursday evening by President Livingston, Burgess Hummer, Secretary Bower, of the New Oxford Council, and the seal of the Borough attached. The Hanover H.

P. Co. presented the franchise and agreement to the Public Service commission at Harrisburg for ratification on Monday, but no action has as yet been taken by the commission. Fifty-eight teachers took the examination for provisional certificates, held in the Gettysburg high school building on Friday by county superintendent H. Milton Roth.

Another examination at which teachers may qualify for provisional ccrtificati will be held June 29th. Teachers who will be present at the latter one, are those who are now in attendance at State Normal brhools, and were unable to get away for ic examination on Friday. Examination or professional certificates will be held on uly 11th. Pupils desiring to take entrance xaminations for county high schools may so at this time, also All pupils who itcnd taking the examinations should ommumcatc with County Superintendent loth, prior to that time. A page and a half is given in a recent is- uc of the "Literary Digest" to quotations rom, and comments on, txieccnt article by Dr.

A It Wcntz, of Gettysburg ou "The Vai and Dr Wcntz's ar- iclc, which was first published in the "Lu- licran a local periodical, has attracted no little attention. J. W. Johnston, of Rocehester, N. has decided to devote a fund, the interest of which will be used for the decoration of John Burns' frrave, in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, on July 1st, of each year.

On July 4th, at 8 o'clock, Mr. Johnston will deliver a etereopticon lecture in the Court House on John Burns, whose life he has studied; for the entire public. Included in the list of graduates at the commencement exercises of the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, Shippensburg, June 25 to 28, are from Adams County: Nellie A. Rice, of Biglerville; Elmer N. Gruver, of East Berlin; and J.

F. Slaybaugh, of Arendtsville. The alumni reunion will be held at the school on Tuesday afteruooi), June 27th. Benjamin Fisher, his wife and daughter, and Norman Walters, of Bunkie, former Adams county people, are visiting friends in Cash town for several weeks. The trip was made by automobile.

Fisher and Walters are employed by the Standard Oil company at Bunkie. Mrs. Fisher is a daughter of H. P. Bream, of Cashtown.

Francis Gross and wife, accompanied by their son, Charles H. Gross, of Hanover, motored to their former home in Mt. Pleasant township, near Storm's store, on Monday morning. This was Mrs. Gross' first ride in an automobile, at the age of 90 years.

Ralph Bowers, an employee of the Hanover Shoe Factory, had the first finger of his left hand badly mashed on Friday. State of Ohio, City of Toledo. I Lucas County. ss Frank J. Cheney makes oath that is senior partner of the firm of P.

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DR. J. L. SHEETZ, Physician and Surgeon, NEW OXFORD, PA Calls answered night or day! A Milton Baublitz, 12 years old, son of Curtis Baublitz, living below East Berlin, employed as a hired boy by Ervin Smyser, a Dover township farmer, is in a serious condition, suffering from internal injuries, suffered when he fell through a hay hole while jumping from various heights in the straw in the barn on theSmyser farm, on Saturday afternoon, alighting on a corn cutter. His lungs are said to be punctured.

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6-1 DICKS; Proprietor, 9 Judge Ross, of York, on Monday, sentenced Edith Jackson, who pleaded guilty to a charge of being a pickpocket, to a term of from two to three years in the Eastern Penitentiary. She admitted to robbing several York pedestrians. During a recent thunder storm, the large shed on the farm of John M. Staley, near Taneytown, wrs struck by lightning, and burned, with its contents of farm chioery. Vance C.

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