News: Items From the Hanover Evening Herald, November 20, 1903, Hanover, York County, PA

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Items From the Hanover Evening Herald, Friday, November 20, 1903

BRIEF MENTION

Chester Pearson and family will move from Abbottstown to Hanover Nov. 27th.

The entire plant of the Frick Company of Waynesboro will be heated in the future 
by its own exhaust steam.

Alderman Hartman, of Lancaster, has fined B. L. Rohrer, $5 for keeping his boy 
out of school.  The lad is about nine years old.  Rohrer has been fined three 
times for violating the compulsory education law.


Bills Introduced by Mr. Lafean.

Congressman Lafean has introduced the following bills in the House of 
Representatives:

Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Hinkle, of Hanover, which was referred 
to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Granting an increase of pension to George M. Gibbons, which was also referred to 
the Committee on Invalid Pension.

To correct the military record of First Lieutenant George I. Spangler, which was 
referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.


PERSONAL MENTION

Joshua Flickinger, of Baltimore Street, visited Gettysburg to day.

Miss Grace Hollinger, of Abbottstown, spent the afternoon in Hanover.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Milton Bair are visiting their son, Edward, in Philadelphia.

Hugh Hinkle, Esq., editor of the Jeffersonian, Littlestown, was in Hanover last 
evening.

Miss Mary Hartman, of Pleasant Street, has gone to York to spend several weeks 
with friends.

Mr. and Mrs. William Britcher, of Baltimore, are guests of his parents, Henry 
Britcher and wife, of East Middle Street.

Mrs. Charles F. Kump, of East Chestnut Street, spent the day with her mother, 
Mrs. Joseph Barker, at Littlestown, who to-day celebrates the 89th anniversary 
of her birth.


ADAMS COUNTY NEWS

John O. Eisenhart has sold his 22-acre farm in Huntington Township, Adams 
County, to Charles Myers, of Reading Township, for $600.  Mr. Eisenhart will 
move to York City.

W. P. Devine, ex-Clerk to the Commissioners of Adams County, and recently of the 
Hotel Hanover, this place, is now one of the proprietors of the Central Hotel at 
Gettysburg, the other one being Wm. B. Long, son of Capt. James T. Long, the 
late proprietor.


ITEMS FROM YORK

The wife of Rev. George Livingston, of York, may bring suit against the city for 
damages for injuries suffered by being thrown to the pavement by an obstruction 
caused by grading.