Elizabethown Local Social Notes Chronicle Reunion and Events
Miss Mary Gainor visits Miss Virginia Crowthers. Walter White visits E Main Street Honeybrook. reunion at Fairview school recalls 1875 to 1887 era with 41 alumni and 152 attendees. Marriages include George L Grimes Jr and Alta Bush. Claude Meckley and Mayetta Heisey. Travel by motorcycle to Niagara Falls. Garber and Witman marriage. broader community visits, trips, and local notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Gainor
Virginia Crowthers
Walter White
Arthur White
E. ‘Main Street
Honeybrook
Stanley Ober
Salisbury High School
H. K. Ober
Fairview
Joseph H. Eshleman
Eshleman
H. H. Bard
Rheems
Barbara Brandt
J. H. Martin
John Stump
Bainbridge
George L. Grimes, Jr
Steelton
Alta Bush
United Brethren Church
Daugherty
Pilgrimage of Berks County Historians Visits Shrines
More than 200 Berks County Historical Society members completed a sixty five mile pilgrimage to local historical sites. Cyrus T. Fox led as pilot and guidebook, with stops at de Benneville House in Oley where Unitarianism first preached in America. The Sally Ann and Mary Ann Furnaces in Rockland Township are now ruins. Williamsport was chosen for the 1926 state convention of the Order of Independent Americans.
Local families join events across farms and churches
The Smiths moved to the Moyer farm and the Webper family to the Risser farm. Abner Pangier and kin spent Sunday at Mt. Lebanon visiting Vamel Buick and family. Rev Henry Aulenbach attended a ministerial meeting at Lebanon. Several locals, including Boward Gingrich, Alvin Blowers and Elvin Muller, took a mining trip to Bowers Beach, Delaware returning with several hundred. Ezra Kapp and Kauss Sopme Snickler married by Rev A S Arndt at Annville parsonage. Daravest Home services announced for Sunday. All jars to be cleaned and brought in by Saturday evening. Will Wagner and others attended the Dissinger reunion at Schaellerstown. Harry Gingrich will hold a public sale on Saturday Oct 4. Tenant house for sale through Samuel Moyer.
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Lester Martin
Kenneth
Manchester
York County
Claude G. Meckley
Mayetta
Heisey
East High Street
Joseph Daugherty
St. Paul’s
South Poplar Street
New York
New Jersey
Charles O. Garber
Mt. Joy
Viola G. Witman
Manheim
Church of God
E. F. Yoder
H.E. Reem, Jr
LeRoy Gipe
Iagara Falls
Canada
Erie
Butler
Pittsburgh
Altoona
Johnstown
Harrisburg
Garman
Lititz Springs
Wm. Groff
Harriet
Bryn Mawr
Stella
Catherine Oster
Lancaster
C. E. Balmer
John Gantz
Irvington
N. J
S. A. Conway
Thomas Bretz
Enos Floyd
Lime
Rheems
Graybill
Meadow Brook
Calvin Fryer
Sprin City
Howar Fryer
College Avenue
Annie Dulebahn
Greencastle
J. G. Dulebahn
Meyer
Elizabethtown College
Mary Meckley
Bainbridge
Alta Menemacker
Baro
Frank Coover
Robert Longenecker
Marietta
Gertrude Powell
Spring City
Laben Leiter
Baltimore
Monroe Sweigart
Town
Mary Swenk
George Remick
Ephrata
Harry Neiss
Mra
Louisa Haverstiel
Fianna Wickel
Kiehl
Howard Berkenstalk
Sandman
Ford Berkenstalk
Reading
George B Cohick
Albert Eshenbaugh
North Poplar Street
Smith
Uel Moyer
Joan Webper
Br. Risser
Abner
Pangier
Mt. Lebanon
Vamel Buick
Henry Aulenbach
Lebanon
Iomonday Boward Gingrich
Alvin Blowers
Elvin Muller
Bowers Beach
Delaware
Kauss Sopme Snickler
Ezra Kapp
Suzapethtown
A. 5
Arndt
Annville Parsonage
Dwatharyn Forse
Quentin
Daarvest
Saiem kKelormea Churen
Ana
Auenbach
Renauing
Henry J. Auchenbach
Will Wagner
Samuel Dissinger
Lydia Heagey
Dissinger
Schaellerstown
Harnson Haldeman
Last Min Street
Harry Gingrich Winold
Kor Keun
Apply
Samuel Moyer
Pennsylvania Industrial Conditions Show Improvement
Industrial conditions in Pennsylvania improved in the last two weeks of August with better employment and price signals. Metals and machinery sectors led gains as steel industry activity rose, while common labor demand remained uneven and construction workers were oversupplied.
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Pennsylvania
Department of Labor and Industry
District Attorney laments rising nonsupport cases in Pottsville
Pottsville district attorney Cyrus Palmer warns that forty nonsupport cases will come before him in upcoming terms. He notes repeated divorce actions and reports need for several days of special sessions to hear claiming wives. He says prohibition failed to fix friction and cites husbands love of fast cars as a cause of financial stress.
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Cyrus Palmer
Pottsville
Walnut culture urges use of native nuts and idle lands
A thrift magazine piece quotes H. R. Niosnot on US spendings for imported food nuts and notes vast idle acres in the East Central West suitable for hardy nut trees like black walnut. It argues native walnuts are top quality and could boost domestic production amid overflows in Corn Belt states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Niosnot
Thrift Magazine
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Corn Belt
Chestnut crop noted in several Pennsylvania counties
Campers and sportsmen report a fair sized native chestnut crop in Forest Clarion and Venango Counties with other northwest counties showing progress. The blight has not reached this section, and last year's crop was strong with high flavor.
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Forest
Clarion
Venango
Northwest Counties
Pennsylvania
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