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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1920
Page
2
Milk producers near Quarryville express satisfaction as a candy factory opens in town. The plant will use milk powder whitening agents and is expected to stabilize prices. Farmers complain of wide variations up to forty cents per hundred pounds and want known monthly rates from the start.
Capt Bernier noted musk ox fur yields excellent yarn and knitted garments. Arctic explorers at the Toronto session discussed domestication of musk oxen to supply wool and rein deer for food, with Stefansson backing the plan to establish government herds for fiber and meat.
A chatty elderly Black woman resists riding the carousel saying she has no use for such things and recalls a past ride that seemed worth little to her. The scene captures a moment of skepticism toward amusement at a fair or carnival setting.
Edward Harold Mott, known as Ed Mott, died at his Goshen home last week. He spent summers in Lititz as a boarder and once sent his book Pike County Folks to a former editor. Known as a foremost short story humorist, he faced jokes about his animal tales and contributed to the New York Herald.
A physician describes fees for medical calls and consultations, noting $25 per home visit, $10 for office advice, and $5 for a phone consult. A student asks, with humor, how much a fellow would be charged for passing him on the street.
George W. Ness, caretaker at Altoona filter beds near Canan station, appeared with 22 weasel pelts to claim bounty. Pelts dated from November 18 to January 22, mostly trapped near the filter beds. eight pelts were nearly all white except the tail tip.
In Elizabethtown three of four hotels have shut down within a year amid local business shifts. Akron National Bank plans a new modern building as part of growth. J G Ritter of Manheim bought a 269 pound Holstein calf from Graybill Hershey of Penn township, four weeks old.
A cellar dig at Seaman Place set a record as twelve men completed a two story double house cellar in ten hours. The cellar measures 36 feet square and 4 percent feet deep. The Gibbel clan plans its annual reunion near Hershey this year with large attendance foreseen as committees finalize arrangements.
At the public sale of registered Holstein stock held by H. C. Reinhold & Son at East Petersburg a year-old bull sold for $11,000 and sixty-one cattle brought $32,860. Reinhold, formerly a newspaper man for New York and Chicago papers, is now a leading cattle expert in pedigrees. Dr. T. C. Laubach visits his Quarryville sister after serving five years as a Congregational missionary in the Philippines and plans study at Columbia University on leave.
The Lancaster Pair Association to expand all fair departments this fall. A larger midway and more side show bids are under consideration. Officials promise an extended racing program and expanded steer exhibition with higher premiums. Grounds and buildings work will begin soon, improving the entire fair complex.
Citizens protest a tax rate hike after a failed $10 000 fund drive for a new engine. Rural donors report $3 835 subscribed while council and firemen clash over the engine make. Canvassing were urged to cover Mt Joy borough.
A bronzed officer with an empty sleeve recounts how he lost his arm after a trench duty, during a dance in a rest camp. He recalls dancing with the prettiest welfare worker and the request to remove his arm under the moonlight.
Herman P. Miller of Harrisburg learns one son heads for France while another goes to the Philippine Islands. Evan J. Miller has been in Jamaica and Cuba since January with a film company and recently landed in New York. he will soon sail to France. Herman P. Miller, Jr., who led wireless equipment in the war, plans to sail later this month for Guam and the Philippines.
Beaver Coat Colonel William Fairman, a noted Punxsutawney lawyer, bought forty beaver hides at twelve dollars each. Fourteen were turned into an overcoat he wears, drawing notice. Efforts to buy the remaining twenty six hides have reached one hundred dollars apiece, but Fairman will not sell.
A Lebanon marriage caused a stir as a woman calling herself Ethel K. Thaw, daughter of Pittsburgh magnate Harry K. Thaw, wed George B. Johnson of Harrisburg. Thaw has no daughter by Evelyn Nogsbit Thaw. their only child is said to be a minor boy. Alderman O. B. Siegrist, who performed the ceremony, reports many inquiries and believes the bride used a fictitious name.
Frank A. Markley of Reading writes from Andernach Germany to say his son Frank E. Markley in Company F Fifth Infantry met Ida Howard of Reading in Coblenz. Private Markley re enlisted for three years after returning from the A H F. He sailed with the first division bound for Sicily but remained on the Rhine awaiting the peace treaty action.
Honeybrook in Chester County expands as Waynesburg village grows. It has a successful vocational school, a pure springs water supply, multiple churches and institutions, and is served by a two terminal railway with connections to Reading and Wilmington. The town sits on a state highway undergoing improvements.
The Hershey Traction Co plans a 20 mile trolley extension from Hershey to Fredericksburg. It aims to speed milk shipments from Jonestown and Fredericksburg and provide travel convenience for hundreds of rural residents awaiting the line. The project promises a quick completion.
Isaac Kilmer of Richland shipped two carloads of Jersey cattle to be sold at public sale but the freight train was stalled by a railroad strike. The crew unloaded the cattle and released them on a nearby farm to prevent thirst or starvation in the cars.
A teacher asks each pupil for their name. The first boy says Julius, the second answers Bilious, highlighting a play on names and mispronunciations in a classroom setting.
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