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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1925
Page
2
R B Heshelman, a Pennsylvania railroad engineman, awoke to a house fire in Harrisburg after a 16 hour trip. He escaped his burning home by leaping from a window to a tin roof where flames trapped him again until firefighters rescued him.
The American Hotel at Sixth and Hamilton streets Allentown was purchased from the George W Sea graves estate by Aaron Potruch president of Potruch Construction Company for $500,000. The purchaser did not reveal plans for the property.
William Pike born in England in 186? arrived in 1880 to join a son in Bethlehem and marks his 100th birthday. He is Bethlehem's oldest living resident.
Ralph Maloney of Ridgway has bought the Hik Tanning plant and 26 houses at Portland Mills Elk County plus 40 acres. He plans to dismantle the tannery and houses and clear the land, erasing the village memory of Portland Mills twenty miles from Du Bois.
Robert Ammerman aged 90, Civil War veteran and former Libbyville prisoner, died of old age at Dabler's Station near Shamokin. He was wounded in action and spent months in an army hospital.
Work has begun on a new combat rifle range at Mount Gretna military reservation. When finished it will be the only range in the West outside Camp Bennings. Adjutant General Frank D. Beary said the project costs about 14000 dollars, funded by the Federal Government. The range reaches 1000 yards and aims to train larger groups than ever before at the camp.
Swinging scaffolds, the first of their kind used in building construction in York, have been swung at the New Yorktowne hotel. The new system replaces the heavy frame structures, promising quicker work and improved safety.
Fifteen year old daughter of Rev and Mrs M B Heiland of Red Lion preaches on Excuses from Chapel Church pulpit to relieve her father after a busy evangelistic stretch. Miss Heiland is a Red Lion High School sophomore.
George Jumper, 85, longtime custodian of Public Square Park squirrels in Wilkes-Barre, passed away. Civil War veteran and lifelong resident, he fed the animals daily and had served as official park keeper with annual funding.
Pennsylvania sportsmen protest a Baldwin bill that would raise resident hunter license fees from $1.25 to $2.25 a year. The measure faces opposition amid concerns about access and cost for local hunters.
Albert Cook Myers secretary of the Pennsylvania Historical Society called the William Penn Charter a great organic instrument of human government. He said the document profoundly affected the development of the province, Pennsylvania, and the wider American commonwealth and is a world significance heritage.
A tropical water inhabitant, the globe fish, is the sole species known to swim on its back. Its underside skin is loose and can be filled with air at will so the fish floats and travels on its back.
A Pennsylvania council supports a $25,000,000 constitutional amendment for reforestation citing land purchase and forestry work. The group argues the bill is unfair by taxing only sportsmen for reforestation.
Prof C M Cox of Ephrata son of Mr and Mrs H L Cox is a member of the 102 piece Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra. The group recently performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia with many Ephrata residents in attendance. Boy Scouts May Disband at Lancaster If $15 000 is not raised by June 1 the Lancaster scouts face extinction.
Lancaster business district will have all overhead wires placed underground by May 1. A Reading woman tied to a death bed confession related to Helen Zart man and an illegal operation will be arrested in Reading soon. authorities will not reveal her name until arrest. District Attorneys Mauger and Wissler have filed papers for the arrest and a manslaughter charge. The trial will occur in Berks county Galley 5.
Reuben Fellenbaum of Teph rata had his foot amputated at Lancaster General Hospital weeks ago after injuring the skin of his leg escaping a window. Blood poisoning followed the wound despite his initial indifference. The Hamilton Watch Company plans 50 modern homes in Landasgtar for its workers using six house designs with concrete foundations brick and stucco walls and built in baths. Milson Malles, 12, survived acute appendicitis when power was cut to enable linemen repairs and Lancaster hospital staff stayed on call by phone to provide electricity. he is expected to recover.
Nine wild geese alighted in a Fritz farm wheat field along the Drutote pike in Lancaster county. The birds roamed for seven days, could not be captured, and shooting them was unlawful. Abram G. Fritz hoped to domesticate them if caught. A prior local example shows tame geese once held nearby but eventually disappeared.
E Ellsworth Brown announced his candidacy for Mayor of Lancaster at the forthcoming Republican primary. He described himself as bone dry and he is the second candidate in the field.
Stockholders in ten Pennsylvania counties approved the merger with Bell Telephone Company. The deal's consideration totals 363500 dollars plus the assumption of 461500 dollars in Penn State Company mortgage debt.
Lancaster Chemical Company sues Louis A. Kramer Lancaster tobacco dealer for thirty thousand dollars in Commonpleas Court claiming slanderous statements that the fertilizer contains sand and ashes harmed farmers and caused a loss estimated between twenty five and thirty thousand dollars. A. B. Hess a local state legislator is listed as president of the company.
Work will start on the Hen sel Auditorium at F and M college a Colonial style hall seating 1000 named for Willam Uhler Hensel. It forms part of a quadrangle with dormitories on the north south east and west axes.
A cord of hardwood yields about 60 pounds of ashes whereas ten units of hard coal produce between 200 and 390 pounds, illustrating a wide difference in ash output between fuel types.
Public proclamation by Sheriff L F M Allister for Lancaster County urges city officials and justices to attend a court of jail delivery and quarter sessions to commence on the third Monday in April 1925 at Lancaster Court House. Officials, jurors, coroner and constables must be present with records and examinations to prosecute prisoners in the county jail. Dated March 26, 1925.
Lancaster farmers hear a committee will name organizers for a cooperative tobacco marketing association aimed to operate by 1925. County agents urge TB eradication testing with money allocated for area testing, noting Colerain Township as an early effort and rising demand for applications.
At the Lancaster County Farm Bureau invitation officials of the Lancaster Farm Bureau Federation and county representatives from across the state gather in Lancaster on April 8 1925. A statewide organization program is to be made public with preliminary steps for forming a tobacco marketing association. Secretary Frank Evans of the American Farm Bureau Federation predicts cooperative farm product marketing in Pennsylvania within a year.
Lancaster County poultrymen plan to unite with the Atlantic Coast Poultry Producers Association to handle eggs for the New York market. The eastern egg cooperative aims to protect eastern state poultrymen interests as T. W. Kemp, newly elected Lancaster County Farm Bureau secretary and publicity director, promotes the move to Maryland.
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