News: Items From the Hanover Evening Herald, May 8, 1899, Hanover, York County, PA

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Items From the Hanover Evening Herald, May 8, 1899

BRIEF MENTION

C. F. Redding has just placed a fine monument at the grave of Mrs. Agnes Keagy 
Krug, at Keagy's burying ground, in Conowago Township.

The loss by the burning of the barn of Henry Kohler at Glen Rock, was $500, 
partly covered by insurance.  The live stock and wagons were gotten out safely.

186 head of fat cattle were received at the Hanover Drove Yards this morning, of 
which L. P. Brockley received 86, Bair & Worley 13, and Jeremiah Johns, 57.

On Wednesday, Rev. J. Edwin Hartman, a son of Rev. J. H. Hartman and wife, of 
York Street, will graduate from the Chicago Theological Seminary.  He will be 
the class orator.


PERSONAL MENTION

S. F. Smith, of York, transacted business here to-day.

G. D. Bauer, the green grocer, was at Baltimore to-day.

Clarence Reigle and wife, of East Berlin, spent Sunday in town.

James M. Stoner and wife, of Westminster, were Hanover visitors to-day.

Harvey Gobrecht, of Harrisburg, spent Sunday at his home on East Middle Street.

John H. Flickinger, Esq., of Abbottstown, transacted business in Hanover, this 
morning.

Reuben and Albert Wildasin, of Union Township, were in town this morning on 
business.

Mrs. F. G. Stark, of Pleasant Street, spent the afternoon with her father, J. S. 
Gitt, at New Oxford.

J. Frank Frysinger, of Carlisle Street, left this afternoon on a few days' trip 
to New York.

Samuel H. Willet and family, of East Middle Street, spent Sunday with friends 
near Littlestown.

John C. Emlet, of York, spent Sunday with his parents, William Emlet and wife, 
of Franklin Street.

Percy C. Houck, of East Middle Street, spent Sunday with his uncle, G. H. Houck, 
near Bandana.

Clayton Miller, clerk in Charles Trone' Sons' store, York Street, spent Sunday 
at his home at Abbottstown.

George Oaster, of York, returned home this morning after spending a few days 
with his parents at Mt. Rock.

Miss Carrie Humbert, of Grangeville, spent Sunday with her parents, S. M. 
Humbert and wife, at Union Mills.

Mr. Formwalt and lady friend, of Silver Run, were the guests of Miss Grace 
Krebs, of Locust Street, yesterday.

Mrs. J. H. Schriver, of Baltimore Street, and Mrs. H. N. Gitt, of Abbottstown 
Street, spent the afternoon at York.

Mrs. E. A. Strevig, of Baltimore Street, left this morning for Lykens where she 
will spend some time with her husband.

B. F. Leivelsberger and daughter, of New Chester, were the guests of Mr. and 
Mrs. S. T. Bastian, of Carlisle Street, to-day.

Mrs. Charles Blocker and son Paul, of Littlestown, spent Sunday with her 
parents, Jacob W. Bender and wife, of Carlisle Street.

Dr. and Mrs. D. Sherman Smith, of Lancaster, were the guests of Dr. M. D. Bishop 
and wife, of Abbottstown Street, yesterday.

William Willet, of East Middle Street, clerk in H. W. Miller's store, spent 
Sunday with friends at Union Mills and Silver Run.

Harry Miller and Emory Topper, of Two Taverns, spend Sunday with their 
grandparents, George W. Carl and wife, of Pleasant Street.

Miss Drucie King, of Virginia Mills, returned home on Saturday, after spending a 
week with her sister, Mrs. H. E. Weikert, of Walnut Street.

W. A. Slagle, Mrs. Jacob W. Bender, Miss Margaret Slagle, and Benson Slagle, of 
this place, Master Paul Blocher, of Littlestown, and Michael Slagle and wife, of 
near Abbottstown, were guests at Jacob Slagle's, near New Oxford, yesterday.

Miss Emily J. Young, of Carlisle Street, will leave to-morrow for Baltimore, to 
attend the annual meeting of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of 
the General Synod of the Lutheran Church, which will convene in St. Mark's 
Church in that city.

Thomas Eck, of Philadelphia, who was here to attend the wedding of his niece, 
Miss Nellie Eck, to Charles Miller, April 23d, and who has since been the guest 
of his brother, James Eck, of Locust Street, and other friends in Hanover, 
returned home to-day.


Misuse of the Mails.

Arthur A. Perry, a young man of twenty-four, living between Uniontown and 
Linwood, Carroll County, was arrested by United States Deputy Marshall James M.  
Stoner, on Friday morning for sending obscene letters through the mail.  Perry 
was taken to Baltimore by Marshal Stoner.  Two letters were intercepted, one 
mailded at Linwood and the other at Uniontown.  Both letters were addressed to a 
young lady.  The trial will take place in the United States District Court, 
Baltimore, on Tuesday.  Bail was placed at $500, but the prisoner was unable to 
obtain a bondsman and was taken to the city jail.


Brought To Grief.

Mabel Lehman, a pretty little miss of fifteen summers, was arrested on Friday by 
Constable White on a bench warrant, she having failed to appear in response to a 
summons as a witness in the case of Robert Noll and wife, charged with keeping a 
disreputable house.  The constable found her along the railroad in company with 
a number of the "Buzzard" gang.  On Saturday she was given a hearing on a charge 
of incorrigibility before Judges Bittenger and Stewart, and sentenced to the 
House of Refuge, to which place she will be taken to-day. - York Daily.