COUNTY TRANSPORT CHANGE AND TELEPHONE UPGRADE
Ephrata and Adamstown lose trolley service as Conestoga Transport discontinues routes while Reading Transportation Company begins bus service linking borough to Adamstown and Reading. Terre Hill to Blue Ball link ends. Manheim to switch to common battery telephone system by July 1 with major rebuild at $25000, new exchange by Sept 15. Lake Grubb level drops 22 feet 3 inches with unknown cause. Akron area gains jobs at Miller Hess shoe Jebowitz shirt and Fleck Steiner cigar plants. five day work week noted.
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Ephrata
Adamstown
Conestoga Transportation Company
Blue Ball
Terre Hill
Reading Transportation Company
Public Service Commission
This Bore
Lancaster
Reading
Stevens
Denver
Manheim Telephone Company
Ephrata Company
Baby
Exchange
Akron
Miller-Hess
Jebowitz
Fleck and Steiner
LocalVisitors and Departures Spotted Across Lititz Area
A long list of social visits fills a Lititz region column with families from Lititz Brunnerville Rothsville Hopeland Snavelys Mill and nearby areas visiting relatives and hosting gatherings over the weekend and Sunday. Revival services are slated May 1 at the Brethren Church led by Rev Norman Musser of Columbia.
Numbers win sugar and roast at Lutz Market
The market announces that Friday or Saturday drawings will award 2 pounds of sugar to winners listed as 5914 5443 5599 5952 6076 5834 5949 5932 6051 5560 6011 5873. No 5999 wins a Fancy Beef Roast this week. Mrs Emanuel Ditzler won the roast last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emanuel Ditzler
Akron hosts Strohm home and Rothsville visit
The home of Mr and Mrs Emory Strohm in Akron is noted and Rev and Mrs Lee Reed and their children from Rothsville spent Wednesday with Mr and Mrs Lloyd Witmer, reflecting a local social gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emory Strohm
Akron
Lee Reed
Rothsville
Lloyd Witmer
Community Notes From Kleinfeltersville And Nearby
Local attendees at Fountain Day services share visits across towns including New Holland Leacock Reading and York. Evangelical Church youth stage a playlet on Saturday May 9th. Rev Miller delivers an illustrated lecture on Christ. Men’s Bible Class holds a business meeting with many families attending. May meeting planned at Getz home. Sunday School service features solos readings and a quartet.
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Kleinfeltersville
Ida Richwine
New Holland
Walter Kensnger
Anna Kensinger
Leacock
Willis E. Pierce
Walter Herr
Neffsville
S. M. Herr
James Leicey
Philadelphia
Glenn McQuate
Reading
G. M. Leicey
Stewart Campbell
Dorothy
York
Annie Bare
A. F. Getz
Emma Wolf
LeRoy Wolf
Monterey
Evangelical Church
K .G. E. Mall
A. E. Miller
Christ
Evangelical Sunday School
J. G. Bucher
M. Herr
Chas. Witwer
J. W. Buch
W. P. Beck
J. C. Buch
W. F. Getz
G. Leicey
R. B. Getz
Howard Murr
J. G. Mumma
Morris Mearig
Allen Buch
John H. Krick
Walter Kensinger
Local Residents Share Sunday Visits Across Lancaster Area
Penryn and nearby towns report a series of Sunday visits among residents. Mr and Mrs Ray Matheit of Lancaster visited Mr and Mrs Harry Long. John Greiner and son from near Manheim visited Mr and Mrs Isaac Greiner. Other gatherings included Mrs J B Biemesderfer and friends visiting Peter Grauber at Elizabethtown and Alice Ober visiting Irvin Keath. Additional calls list Clayton Burkholder Farmersville Rufus Kline Brunnerville and George Biemesderfer with daughter Blaine visiting Robert Biemesderfer, plus Norman Getz Lititz and Vera Ery Penryn and Rufus Derr Lititz.
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Harold Koch
Tititz
Samuel Hofer
Sherman Abel
Clare Abel
Germantown
Morris Carpenter
Wilson Spanglar
Harold and
Ray
William Seibert
Brunneville
Clarence Shue
Paul Stark
Carl
Ethel
Lititz
Elam Stark
Thomas Christ
Lancaster R 3
John Minim
Coatesville
LeRoy Firestone
Martha Hineer
Lancaster
Bertha Firestone
Elmer Herr and Son
Clay
John Singer
Samuel Hubecker
Hiram Meek
Wilson Gantz
John Weidler
Rothsville
Milton Getz
Millway
Jennie Enck
Leona Williams
Sue Hehnley
Donald Singer
Brethren Church
Norman Musser
Columbia
Samuel Hornley
Elmer West
Clem Witmer
Murrell
Samuel Fahnestock
Jacob Fahnestock
John Mohler
Ephrata
Ray Matheit
Harry Long
John Greiner and Son
Near Manheim
Isaac Greiner
J. B. Biemesderfer
Christ Heaston
Manheim
Peter Grauber
Elizabethtown
Alice Ober
Irvin Keath
Clayton Burkholder
Farmersville
Rufus Kline
Brunnerville
George Biemesderfer
Blaine
Robert Biemesderfer
Norman Getz
Vera Ery
Penryn
Rufus Derr
Lit
Community Notes: Sunday Visits and Local Gatherings
Residents across Lancaster and surrounding towns enjoyed a day of visits on Sunday. Neffsville, Middletown, East Petersburg, Lititz, Mt. Joy, Sporting Hill, and other locales are cited as friends and families such as Shank, Keath, Galebach, Koehler, Bishop, Nye, Moyer, Shelly, Bomberger, and Horst shared meals and hospitality. Tomorrow evening the Fire Company holds its annual meeting in Jerusalem Reformed Church, and the Jerusalem Reformed Church choir performed at the Odd Fellows Home in Middletown.
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Itz
Mary Shank
Neffsville
Washington
Warren Landis
Middletown
Harry Shank
Harvey Henrick
Anna
Eastetersburg
Alice Keath
Lititz
A. Y. Keath
Paul Galebach
Gladys
Paul Koehler
June
Russell Bishop
Mary Bishop
Charles Zell
Margie Keath
Meda Keath
Sporting Hill
Rufus Shelly
Erbdale
Elmer Zook
Millport
Henry Keath
Howard Shepler
Erma Shepler
Campbellstown
Katie
Anna Bomberger
Penn
Fred Galebach
Kate Horst
Origin of the United States Name and Demonym
The Declaration of Independence of July 4 1776 described the colonies as the Thirteen United States of America. Official usage is United States as a singular name, while United States sometimes appears in plural. Inhabitants are referred to as Americans distinct from other peoples in the Americas.
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United States of America
United States
North
South America
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Silvver
Grubb
W.M. Amer
South Broad Street
Landreth and
Buist
Mecling
Moyer’s Drug Store
W. H. Buch
Clothier
Radio
Pennsylvania
Jasper National Park
Canadian Rocky Mountaine
Taa
Maligne
Rockies
Lexington
Christ Risser
Erb-dale
Grace Hollinger
Esther Markley
Quarryville
Rufus Bucher
Benjamin Hacker
John Todd
Buck
John Martin
Harold Nissley
Amanry
Near Brickerville
Paul Meiley
Frank Frederick
Ben-jamin Kauffman
Snavely
Layman Felix
East Petersburg
Frantz Lincoln
Wm. Hatker
Hopeland
Amanda Moore
Samuel Fuhnestock
Morvis Carpenter
Wilson Spangler
Bessie
Ruth
Harry Shreiner
Trustville
Wilson, Spangler
Myr
Jerry Carpenter
John Smith
Alice Young
Phares Keller
Wilson Spangler and
Norman Bomberger
Hallville
Addison Merley
Martha Brown
Rohverstown
Clay Breitigan
Rebecca Althouse
The
Lutz
Market House
Brownstown
Em Town
Kinner
Ally Jones
Mary Schmidt
Egg Stove
Lehigh Valley Nut
Lehigh Valley Stove
W. H. Muth & Co
Watt & Shand
E. R. Gehman
Walter Booth
Grube
Beck’s
Lititz, Pa
Manheim, Pa
Beck Bros
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