Brethren General Conference Elects I W Taylor Moderator
At Winona Lake Indiana the General Conference of the Church of the Brethren elected Elder I W Taylor of Neffsville as Moderator. Delegates from across the U S and from Sweden China and India attended. About 400 from Eastern Pennsylvania were present. The conference upheld opposition to liquor and noted progress across church activities and education. Eight new missionaries were appointed with a $25300 missionary collection.
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Church of the Brethren
Church of the Brethren At
Winona Lake
Warsaw
Ind
I. W. Taylor
Brethren Home
Neffsville
United States
Sweden
China
India
Brethren Church i
Pennsylvania
Taylor
Home and Orphanage
Brethren Church
Lancaster County
John Herr
Pennnsylvania
W. J. Seigart
James A. Sell
M. C. Swigart
W. M. Howe
G. K. Walker
Elizabethtown College
State employment bureau moves to larger quarters
Since last October the bureau has received 13 493 job requests and 9 798 applications with 3 788 placed. Many applicants face rejection due to disabilities or medical findings. Director Lightner will relocate the staff to a larger building on Fourth Street in Capitol Park near Walnut, per plan approved by Samuel B. Rambo.
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State Employment Bureau
Department of Labor and Industry
Bureau
John Price Jackson
Lightner
Samuel B. Rambo
Employment Bureau
Fourth Street
Walnut
Capitol Park
What’s Wrong With Timothy The Timothy Hay Situation
Farmers report poor timothy hay yields despite rains. Complaints tie to clover and fertilizer practices with calls to return to soil fertility. Lancaster Y M C A delinquencies prompt magistrate actions as fund repayments proceed. In the Susquehanna a canoe capsized near Balmaugh, Herbert J. Shaner 22, died and J C Miller narrowly escaped.
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Harrisburg
Shaner
Falmouth
Miller
William Myers
Bert Glenn
Wharton Extension School
Timothy
Timothy Hay
Rapho
Fulton
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Susquehanna
Balmough
Herbert J. Shaner
William J. Shaner
Church of
Columbia
J. C Miller
Pay Your Revenue Taxes Before July 1 At Lancaster Office
The Lancaster Revenue Collector Davis reports taxes due by June 30 with a final rush for personal and corporate income taxes and special liquor, cigars, theatre, pool hall, and narcotic law licenses. Some 15 counties send returns. after July 1 penalties apply. Uncertified checks not accepted.
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Davis
Lancaster
Lebanon
Dauphin
York
Cumberland
Adams
Franklin
Fulton
Perry
Juniata
Mtn
Huntingdon
Blair
Bedford
Snyder
Railroad shopmen approve volunteer train service plan
Ninety five percent of Pennsylvania Railroad shopmen volunteer for train service if a brotherhood strike occurs, per General Superintendent George W. Creighton. In one unit with 6500 workers, 99 percent agreed to stand by the company. The volunteers will keep trains operating following General Manager S C Long's appeal.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Brotherhoods
George W. Creighton
S. C. Long
National Disgrace and Rural Growth Calls from New York to Oregon
An Oregon rancher in New York campaigns for railway funding to open vast farm regions and denounces high living costs. Lancaster Intelligencer notes the view, urging food self sufficiency amid foreign demand and famine prices.
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Oregon
New York
Lancaster Intelligencer
High Cost of Keeping Well At Pennsylvanian Pharma Meet
Charles E. Vanderkleed chairs the drugs committee at the thirty ninth annual Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical association session. S. C. Henry reports narcotic drug sales have fallen about 80 percent since the government crackdown. He cites European war as a cause for high drug costs.
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Charles
Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association
S. C. Henry
Philadelphia
Mr. Henry
Europe
Vanderkléed
Ringgold Band to Head Lititz Fourth of July Celebration
Ringgold band of Reading will lead the Lititz Springs celebration on Tuesday July 4 with new uniforms for its first appearance. The Lititz concert band will also perform and New Holland and Mountville from the Lancaster county league clash in morning and afternoon events.
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Hummelstown
Swatara
H. H. Strickler
Charles‘t. Fasnacht
Wm. H. Fackler
George Barles
C. Yingst
John Baer
Acme
Ringgold
Lititz
Lititz Springs
Althouse
Ringgold Band of
Reading
New Holland and
Mountville
Lancaster County League
Road and railroad clash prompts highway replacement
Officials in Speeceville with Sunbury branch of the Pennsylvania railroad discovered encroachment onto the public highway from west Speeceville. The railroad agrees to fill the canal bed for 1.5 miles and construct a permanent sixteen foot wide highway replacing the narrow thorofare, improving space for teams to pass.
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Speeceville
Sunbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania
Speeceville road part of Sproul route 18 and Penn Highway
The Speeceville road links Sproul route 18 and the proposed William Penn Highway across the state. A dangerous grade crossing will be removed by a new subway, funded one third by the state highway department and two thirds by the railroad. The project yields a modern 16 foot road replacing a narrow defile that currently serves as a public route.
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Speeceville
State Highway Department
Pennsylvania
Farmers urged to curb cats to protect songbirds
Dr H A Surface, state economic zoologist, urges rural and urban residents to remove cats to help birds. He notes his orchard saw bird numbers rise after years with no cats and says cats naturally catch birds, a fact hard to prevent.
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H. A. Surface
Professor Surface
Altho
Surface
Prize money awarded to Wellsboro cattle herd testers
The Holstein Friesian Association of America informs Bennett and Latzer that part of the annual prize money will go to tests of two cows from their herd. One prize was for a full aged cow producing 611.3 pounds of milk and 30.72 pounds of butter in a seven day test. The other prize for a 2-year-old heifer yielded 441.6 pounds of milk and 21.53 pounds of butter in a week.
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Holstein Friesian Association .of America
Bennett & Latzer
Wellsboro
Elgin butter prices 1914 1915 and early 1916
Average Elgin butter prices ran about 29. cents in 1914 and 28.25 cents in 1915. In 1914 the low was 23.5 cents in April and the high 34 cents in January and December. In 1915 the low was 24 cents in August and the high 33 cents in January. The first quarter of 1916 averaged 32.25 cents.
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Pennsylvania
State Game Commission
Dauphin County
Lancaster
Lebanon
Pittsburgh Masons Fund Three Cottages at Elizabeth Town
Phin county announces Pittsburgh Masons contributed $100,000 for three cottages at the Elizabeth town home project. Groundbreaking is set for a few weeks ahead with corner stone exercises scheduled for September 4.
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Phin County
Elizabethtown
Pittsburgh Masons
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Lebanon Valley
State Bureau
Lancaster Y. M. C. A
Frank J. Large
Public Service Commission
Connellsville Belt
Connellsville
Large
Mexico
South America
Germany
Rio Grande
P. R
Shenk
Hiram H. Shenk
Lebanon Valley College
Montgomery
State Library
Luther R. Kalker
Annville
Shippensburg State Normal School
Ursinus Colege
Paris Green
Elgin
Masonic Fraternity
Dau
J. E.gruber
Hershey
Derry Church
Yingst’s
David Gordon Hershey
Hershey Press
Hershey Printing Company 1
Hershey Printing Company
Hershey, Penna
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