Ostrich Farm in Espy Fails as Birds Starve for Lack of Feed
In tg Pa on December 18, Charles H. Reice for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals found ostriches starving at the Direct Supply Company farm near Espy. Once a big venture by William Hile, the enterprise collapsed after frauds and an extended legal entanglement. Two birds were dead, others skeletal, and several carcasses had been turned into fertilizer. The society provides food while a court order seeks resolution.
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Direct Supply Company
African Ostrich Farm and Feather Company
Espy
Here
Charles H. Reice
Bloomsburg
Society
Reice
William H. Hill
Coolumbia
Hile
Harrisburg
Cleveland
Witmer
J. S& Walter
Carmel
Perry County Deaths and Red Cross Day Observed
George Baltazer son of Stinson Baltazer Jackson township died Monday evening of pneumonia at about 25 years. He lived with the Stine family, then returned home. Survived by parents and two sisters. Mrs William H Zimmermann, 66, died, survived by six children and others including Dr George Zimmermann in the Army. Mrs Wilson Kitner, 58, died, survived by husband. Red Cross Day observed at Blain Zion Reformed Church with programs, prayers, recitations. five dollar offering and twenty new members enrolled.
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Perry County
Blain
George Baltozer
Stinson Baltozer
Jackson Township
George F. Stine
RED Cross
Zion Reformed Church
Newton Kerstetter
Red Cross Society
DD. P. Stokes
First farmers institute opens in Millerstown Pa
Millerstown Pa December 18 The first session of a farmers institute is held this afternoon. Sessions continue tonight and tomorrow. Another institute will be at Landisburg Friday and Saturday and January 9 and 10 at Green Park.
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Farmers’ Institutes
Millerstown
Farmers’ Institute
Landisburg
Green Park
Workman Injured at York Haven Plant
George Rife, employed at the York Haven Water and Power Company, was severely injured when a piece of iron struck his face while he opened a car. He was rendered unconscious, suffering a deep gash below his left eye.
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York Haven
George Rife
Elijah S. Krone Dies in Pennsylvania Home
Elijah S. Krone aged 86 died at his son B P Krone’s home near Lewisberry two weeks after his brother Newcastle Krone’s burial. Funeral in Emanuel Church with Rev H Heiges officiating and five choir members singing. Pallbearers were sons Andrew Bartlett Harvey and nephew George Krone. Survived by son George near Mechanicsburg. brother Newton T. Krone buried three weeks earlier. other service details noted.
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Lewisberry
Elijah S. Krone
B. P. Krone
Emanuel
Charles H. Heiges
Church of God
New Cumberland
Gable
Lewisberry Methodist Episcopal Church: Mrs. J. H. Shettel
H. C. Hetrick
Bessie Kunkel
Edith Cline
J. F. Sutton
Andrew
Bartlett
Harvey Krone
George Krone
George
Mechanicsburg
Newton T. Krone
York Haven
Elijah Krone
Mrs Wilson Kitner Buried in Loyaville
Mrs Wilson Kitner a 50 year old resident of Loyaville died Saturday at her home near Center from complications of a horse kick earlier in the summer that broke her jaw and led to infection. Funeral services were held at her home then burial followed at St Pauls Lutheran Church Madison township.
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Wilson Kitner
Loyaville
Wav
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Madison Township
Goldsboro
James Danner
Enoch Danner
France
Danner
Pleasant Grove
William
Mrs Alfred Poggy Dies in Hummelstown at 24
Mrs Alfred Poggy aged 24 died at her Prospect Avenue home after a recent pneumonia illness. Survived by husband and two children. Funeral at Zion Lutheran Church Friday at 2 PM. Burial in Hummelstown cemetery. Also two men from Myerstown were mustered out of the U S service and returned home.
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Alfred Poggy
Hummelstown
Prospect
Avenue
Herbert S. Garnes
Zion Lutheran Church
Comedy by Students at Marysville High School
Marysville High School students rehearse the one act comedy A Jack for Every Jill to be produced within the next several weeks in Marysville Pennsylvania.
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Marysville
Marysville High School
Workrooms Closed for Yuletide in Marysville
Marysville Red Cross workrooms will close during the Yuletide season due to heavy year end workload. Miss Sadie Bratton, chairman, announces that the rooms are expected to re open around January 1.
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Marysville
Suburban Notes Roundup of Local Visits and Military Returns
Local items report Mrs Iva Fry visiting with Miss Clara Williamson and various residents touring to New Bloomfield Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Several graduates and service members including Rodney Smith William Bowersox and Dickinson College trainees muster out or return home after military service.
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Liverpool
Iva Fry
Clara Williamson
Charles E. Deckard
New Bloomfield
Harrisburg
John Ritter
W. G. Morris
Ramsey Williamson
Pine Street
Harrisburg Hospital
Laura Coffman
Northumberland
Ada Brosius
Paul Brosius
Dalmatia
H. E. Bair
Jennie Hamilton
Palmyra
Newport
Anna Wanbaugh
Steelton
Alfred Bechtel
Camp Meade
R. G. van Newkirk
Charles Newkirk
Philadelphia
Ave. W
G. W. Myers
Josephine Sharon
Swarthmore College
S. A. Sharon
Rodney Smith
Coast Artillery Officers’ School
Fort Monroe
United States Service
William Bowersox
Eighteenth Battalion
Camp Lee
Leslie Markel
Edwin Soule
Clyde Doéner
Students’ Army Training Corps
Dickinson College
Carlisle
Minister resigns pastorate to lead Maryland church
The Rev. John B. Adam, longtime pastor of St. Pauls Reformed Church in Mechanicsburg, resigns after four and a half years to accept the pastorate at St. Marys Reformed Church in Silver Run Maryland. He plans to start in the new field late this month and his departure is widely regretted by townspeople and congregants. The consistory will act on the resignation at its next meeting.
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Mechanicsburg
John
Adam
St. Paul’s Reformed Church
St. Mary's Reformed Church
Sliver Ruh
Carroll County
Cumberland Valley R R schedule restoration signals pre war service
Carlisle Pa December 18 indications point to restoring the Cumberland Valley Railroad timetable and resuming through trains Nos 5 and 8 at noon. A local adjustments between Carlisle and Harrisburg improved travel west and south.
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Carlisle
Cumberland Valley Railroad
Carlisle Chamber of Commerce
Harrisburg
St Pauls Lutheran Postpones Christmas Entertainment
York Haven December 18. St Pauls Lutheran Sunday school postpones its Christmas entertainment from December 22 to December 29 because York Haven United Brethren Sunday school presents its cantata on the original date.
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York Haven
St. Paul's Lutheran Sunday School
Woman Dies From Stroke In Green Tree
Miss Emma Heidelbaugh aged 44 of Green Tree collapsed at home and died from a stroke while at work. She is survived by her mother Mrs Annie Heidelbaugh and several siblings. She was a Presbyterian and a member of the community church. On the same date Liverpool bankholders meet January 14 to elect directors and conduct business, with over $5 000 in Christmas checks mailed by cashier H A S Shuler to customers.
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WM. J. Meily
Mechanicsburg
Pay “Des
William J. Meily
Silver Spring Township
Richard Meily
Leah Meily
Marietta
Emma Heidelbaugh
Green Tree
Annie Heidelbaugh
Presbyterian Church
Liverpool
First National Bank of Liverpool
H. A.S. Shuler
Soldier of 151st Mastin Gun Battalion Killed in France
Private Martin G Cover of Mountville area died in France while serving with Company E Hundred and Fifty-first Mastin Gun Battalion. He joined the service in May 1917 and was 26 years old. He was the son of Aaron Cover.
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France
Marietta
Martin G. Cover
Aaron “Er
Mountville
Lieut Earl L Reese Dies From Wounds in France
Marietta reports Lieutenant Earl L Reese of Company L 111th Infantry died of wounds in France on October 3 while with the Keystone Division under Colonel Edward C Shannon. He was 22, formerly with B M Myers & Co sales, enlisted 1916 on the Mexico border, survived by parents and siblings. Roll Call notes 1163 names in Columbia Red Cross drive. Columbia Fire Company to receive tractor for steamer December 20, with motorized hose carriage installation. L M Hermann of Newberrytown, teaching forty seven years, closed his school due to influenza.
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Carlisle
Melvin F. O'Hara
Reuben O'Hara
Harrisburg
Carlisle Trust Company
Marietta
Earl L. Reese
One Hundred and Eleventh Infantry
H. M. Reese
Mountville
France
War Department
Reese
Keystone Division
Edward C. Shannon
Army
8. M. Myers & Co
Mexico
Fourth Infantry
Harold
Trementon
Utah
Catherine
Mildred Reese
Columbia
Columbia Fire Company
23 Club Elects York Haven Officers
York Haven reports the 23 Club annual election with J. H. Brillinger as president Ruth Walton as vice president D I M Anspach as secretary and treasurer and Mrs I M Anspach as assistant secretary.
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York Haven
J. H. Brillinger
Ruth Walton
D. I. M. Anspach
I, M. Anspach
Degree conferred by Mount Wolf Lodge on four candidates
Mount Wolf Lodge No. 1196 I O O F conferred the initial degree on a class comprising Zacharias Bomberger Charles H Diehl William H Fitzkee and Robert E Fitzkee The first degree will be conferred next Friday night
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Mount Wolf
Mount Wolf Lodge
Zacharias Bomberger
Charles H. Diehl
William H. Fitzkee
Robert E. Fitzkee
York Haven paper official returns from national convention
Postmaster John H. Kline returned to York Haven from Buffalo New York where he attended the convention of cost accountants of the American Pulp and Paper Association held at the Lafayette Hotel. He represented the York Haven Paper Company.
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York Haven
John H. Kline
Buffalo
N. Y
Cost Accountants
American Pulp and Paper Association
Lafayette Hotel
Kline
Man Thought Dead Revives After Near Obituary
Frank J. Duffey a 22 year old railroad brakeman from Harrisburg narrowly escaped obituary after a wreck at Van Dyke in November. He collapsed on duty, was declared dead, but revived before coroner arrival and was treated at Mifflin Railroad Emergency Hospital before returning home in good condition.
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Lewistown
Frank J. Duffey
Duffey
van Dyke
Mifflin
Harrisburg
Influenza Spreads in Lewisberry Families
Influenza is spreading in Lewisberry Pennsylvania with many new victims reported. Whole families are stricken and among the worst cases are Mrs. Elmer C Wise and Glenn U Yinger.
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Lewisberry
Elmer C. Wise
Glenn U. Yinger
Milk prices rise in Millerstown two cents to ten
In Millerstown Pennsylvania on December 18 local milk dealers W J Hall and Samuel Black announced a price increase effective December 20. The cost to consumers will rise by two cents bringing the price to ten cents per unit.
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Millerstown
W. J. Hall
Samuel Black
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Old Hile African Feather Co
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Milton Miller
Saumemin
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Pierce Knaub
Benjamin Knaub
Israel Heiges
Frank Heiges
William Grove
Robert Grove
State College
Lloyd Weaver
Dulsburg
L. L. Bentz
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
Duisburg
John A. Goudy
Dewey O. Bare
Cassius M. Kennedy
Students Army Training Corps
Albright College
Myerstown
C. V. News
Cumberland Valley
R. R
John S. McAfee
Waynesboro
Mercersburg
Register and Recorder
Thomas A. McAfee
McAfee
Scott St. Clair McAfee
James McAfee
East Chapel Avenue
Nellie Lane
Fraklin County
Daisy E. Varner
Mary Varner
Varner
United States
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Emanuel Spiro
New York
Woman's Club
Murray L. Dick
West Main Street
Mifflin County
James Ricks
Charles Gay
Burnham
Davis
Dr. LaFever
McVeytown
Standard Steel Works
John Sherwick
Peter Noll
Shamokin
George Davis
B. Frank Heise
Reading
Heise
Marietta, Pa
Charles Weit
Samuel Weit
Lancaster
Columbia, Pa
Columbia Chapter
The
High Leg
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L. M. Herrman
Newberrytown
F. J. Duffy
J. BE. Whisler
Pat
Leon Lutz
Lutz
Miss Fry
Altoona
Boas
Ross Boas
North Second Street
Brazil
Victoria
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