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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
2
Nazimova stars in Eye for Eye a serene drama of desert life and war at the Paramount. The fiery performance follows Hassouna a young Arab girl who helps a French officer then endures capture exile and bondage before recovery and reunion with the officer.
Public schools in Rapho and Fenn townships are closing for the present term. Within a few days all schools will have ended their sessions, ending the work for the term and affecting teachers and pupils.
Easter candy prices have risen with sugar costs and labor. Small candy eggs shift from a penny or 10 cents per dozen to five cents per egg or a dozen eggs. Easter nests now cost two to three times their older prices as makers turn to home production after the sugar shortage.
Dyes for decorating eggs are in strong demand as Lent ends and Easter nears. Pharmacies and grocers report heavy sales and rising prices, with eggs averaging about 40 cents a dozen. Cheaper dyes exist at 10 to 15 cents, but marbles and design dyes now go for 25 to 50 cents per bottle. Store displays show fewer colored eggs than in prior years.
A small White Leghorn rooster owned by Mrs. Kersey Carrigan of Quarryville is described as a ferocious scrapper in his yard. He battles any intruder and even neighbors’ dogs and cats keep away, earning the title cock of the walk in his domain.
Lancaster legislator A B Hess travels to Louisiana on business. Rittner and Shirk of Gordonsville plan a candy factory at Quarryville in Levan and Son’s grain building. Ephrata grows with two new garages on North State and South State streets. Samuel O Stauffer and family of near Ephrata depart for Canada to reside there. Martin B Stauffer stays a week or ten days.
The American Stores Company plans to open a store in Ephrata leasing a room in the Mohler property with possession on April 1. The company operates hundreds of stores nationwide.
The A. S. Kreider shoe company announces a new three story factory to be built at Palmyra. The plant will measure 170 feet by 70 feet and represent a major expansion for the firm in the Keystone exchanges.
The west of Campbelltown turnpike sank several feet over a 30 foot stretch. A trolley pole eighty feet high disappeared from view. Heavy stone filling was needed to restore the bed. Holes are being drilled to inspect the underlying condition.
C. E. Walters of Philadelphia presented a Harrisburg borough note of 1837 for $3 to the city treasurer and received the principal plus one year’s interest. The note’s interest was to run for a single year and few such notes survive, tightly guarded by collectors.
Robert Redding of Pittston famed as the tallest doughboy in the A. E. F. applied at the Knights of Columbus in Philadelphia for work. The former drum major of the 311th Artillery band stands six feet eight inches tall and weighs 215 pounds.
Irvin Benfield of Huffs Church Berks County suffered a six week sleeping illness after traveling to New York. He does not sleep for eight days then falls into a deep sleep after meals, waking only to eat and be returned to sleep. He has spent equal time in New York and at his father’s home, being aroused only for meals.
Hershey, the Chocolate King, left Friday for Cuba to inspect sugar cane and other company properties. He will be absent for several weeks.
Isaac Rake 82, listed as a government deserter in Washington records, died at his Sunbury home last week. A Civil War veteran who served in major engagements, he was later classed as a deserter for absence without leave when his battery mustered out and never had the blot erased. He lived in poverty while peers received $36 monthly pensions.
While waiting for a train in a small Illinois town I asked an elderly local where to eat. He pointed to two restaurants near the corner and quipped that choosing one would make you wish you’d picked the other.
The will or heirs face a dispute over the disposal of thirty gallons of forty year old wine found among the effects of Mrs Martha J Campbell widow of a Presbyterian minister who died recently in Northumberland. George B Reimensnyder Sunbury lawyer and executor of the $25 000 estate worries over the matter as he holds a fee of rum for twenty five years.
Herbert Graybill of Buck, praised as Drumore township's top goose raiser, notes rising demand for goose eggs. He says the market favors early hatching as the most profitable approach and reports starting to get eggs amid strong interest.
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