Elizabethtown Drowns Seven-Year-Old In Coney Creek
Lester Lehman aged seven, of West High Street Elizabethtown, drowned in Coney Creek after climbing a tree limb. His father found the child with an arm extended from the water. doctors deemed it accidental. The column also notes a local death, births, property sales, and various town happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Lehman
Ammon Lehman
West High Street
Coney Creek
Lester
Martha Kulp
Martha Martin
Kathryn Brubaker
Martha Acker
Edna Aldinger
Martha Oberholtzer
Norman Crum
Henry Kaylor
Lester Brenneman
Joseph Eckinger
D. G. Brinser
Philadelphia
S. B. Landis
Mennonite Church
William Jennings
Concord
Tenn
S. S. Shearer
East High Street
Daniel Heisey
Harry Booser
R. C. Trimble
Park Street
Melvin Grove
Mt. Joy
Justine Shaeffer
Walter Shaeffer
Washington Street
Valentine
Father Valentine
Saint Valentine
F. W. Groff
Bainbridge Street
Mary Swenk
Lancaster
Monroe Sweigert
Augustus Coble
Elizabeth Levenight
Morris G. Ream
Newville
Mesars
King and Earhart
Missionary Movements Across Continents Spur Local Reflection
Charles Shoop sails for China under the United Brethren Board. Rev and Mrs J F Graybill have been in Sweden since 1911. Rev and Mrs W E Glassmire, both students and teachers here, went to Hordum Denmark in 1919. Emma Smith Climen hager and Lester Myers proceed to Africa under the Brethren in Christ Mission Board. May these missionaries challenge us to live our best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Frey
North Market Street
Frey
Gise & McBride
Vere Treichler
Goldie Elizabeth Sweigert
Charles K. Sweigert
South
Masonic Home
Eva May Decker
W. F. Decker
Bainbridge Street
Harvey B. Landis
A. D. Landis
Hummelstown
Christ Reformed Church
B. M. Meyer
Oregon
College News
H. H. Nye
Kemper
Spring Grove
Bareville
H. K. Ober
Missionary Service
Vera R. Hackman
Elizabethtown College
J. M. Pittinger
India
Kathryn Ziegler
May Roger
Sara Replogle
Nora Reber -Hollenberg
Elizabethtown
Manchester
Charles Shoop
China
United Brethren Board
J. F. Graybill
Sweden
W. E. Glassmire
Hordum
Denmark
Emma Smith Climenhager
Lester Myers
Africa
Brethren In Christ Mission Board
Matter of Life and Death Insurance Visit
A minister strict about his morning study hour accepts a caller only for life and death reasons. The maid interrupts with a visitor who reveals it is a life and death claim, an insurance agent, prompting the minister to go downstairs.
Poor Man Riddles and Farm Wit in Odd Dialogues
A quirky collection of verses and quips questions about body parts and a joke exchange from a classroom scene. Farmer Corn tassel and a joke about isolation and dinner bell laughter close the sampler.
Stork Gazes at Bobby as Mother and Child Visit Park
Bobby, with his mother, watches birds in a large park cage. He remarks that a stork seems to be trying to remember him, a playful moment linking memory and nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby
Political Speaker Claims Mother's Influence
A political speaker boasts that his mother made him what he is as he expands his chest in the hall. A man in the back retorts that she likely spent most of her time on other things.
Poor Coffee Clerk Replies About Muddy Brew
Quote captures a waiter defending a coffee served as mudty brew. Customer retorts and the clerk explains the grounds were roasted and ground that morning. The exchange highlights service standards and kitchen freshness in a humorous street scene.
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