Large bronze tablet to be erected on Bomberger farm
William Schwartz moved stock to Gardiff Maryland this week. Leaman Leed advertise home raised peaches sent from Vogel's orchard near Neilsville. A county union picnic and an Odd Fellows meeting are planned. A brigade drill and uniformed ranks gathering are slated for Thursday evening and Monday. H C G Seldomridge reports 5703.75 from state for teachers salary. A railroad siding extension at Leaman Leed’s warehouse will ease unloads. Mohnton band to play Saturday. Brunnerville Sunday School held picnic in bad weather. Mrs Sara Jenkins receives a new car from Lititz merchants. Doster pays Mrs Martha Hitner’s annual subscription. Bronze tablet to Christian Bomberger will be placed before August 23 reunion. Tablet, granite base four by five feet four tons, from Mt Hope quarry. Inscription honors Christian Bomberger, emigrant ancestor from Baden in 1722. Brubaker to attend Albany meeting for American Farm Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Schwartz
Gardiff
Leaman & Leed
Vogel
Neilsville
Odd Fellows
Henry Bomberger
Lititz
Bomberger
Christian Bomberger
Mt. Hope
William Penn
Henry Hershey
New York
G. L. Hepp
Campmeeting Guests Travel to Waldheim Park Allen Town Pa
At Campmeeting Grounds A. R. Keller and Livingston Im boden left for Waldheim Park Allen town Pa on Monday morning. They rented a cottage and will attend the School of Methods and camp meeting of the Allentown District East Pa Conference United Evangelical Church. Meetings continue to Sunday Aug 12. William Dehm Jr and Franklin Schleith and Clarence Keller will join them later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Keller
Livingston Imboden
Waldheim Park
Allentown
East Pa
United Evangelical Church
William Dehm, Jr
Franklin Schleith
Clarence Keller
Carvel of Millport Guilty in Forgery Case
Carvel, a Millport resident, pleaded guilty to forging a check for 29 dollars and 75 cents on M. R. Wenger. He claimed drunkenness, but the court rejected the excuse. He was fined 50 dollars plus costs and sentenced to one year in the county jail starting from his June arrest. Carvel is a well-known local figure with a troubled history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Down Carvel
Millport
M. R. Wenger
Carvel
Columbia to Play Ideal Team Here Saturday
The Ideal Chocolate Independent Club will meet Columbia A A nine here on Saturday August 4. Managed by Jim Sheckert the Ideal team has won constantly and Tatitz will try to stop them as they did Mt Joy after nine straight wins. Kreider plans two new players and the best lineup of the season for the game called at 3 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ideal Chocolate
Columbia A. A
Jim Sheckert
Tatitz
Mt. Joy
Kreider
Local outing to Penns Cave covers 310 miles
A group from Kissel Hill and Lancaster area drove in one car to Penns Cave Centre County on Sunday. They stopped at Millerstown to visit Harry Martin and family then visited Lewistown to see Jerome Biemesderfer and at State College. The trip totaled about 310 miles with all enjoying the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Sensenich
Marian Biemesderfer
Kathryn Heishu
Kissel Hill
Mary Witwer
Lancaster
Ralph Stauffer
Lititz
Walter Zook
Lexington
Penn's Cave
Centre County
Millerstown
Harry Martin
Helen Martin
Sara Spicher
Lewistown
Jerome Biemesderfer
The Garden of Eden and Memory’s Vernal Return
Poem recalls a childhood village as Edenic memory, noting that Eden lies in feelings not bricks while the speaker cherishes the birthplace and hopes memory sustains until death. The verse reflects nostalgia for a lost childhood home and the pull of memory over physical place.
Missing Word Contest Closes Week Seven
The seventh week of the missing word contest has strong interest and will run until the end. Last week the word was my taken from the Spruce Street Grocery advert. This week’s word starts with a and ends with a.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spruce Street
Old Rule Revived Generous Spain Prisoner Offers $120000
A Lititz alert warns of a long running scam letter from Spain claiming a prisoner needs aid to access 360,000 dollars in America and offers a third of the sum, 120,000, for help. The notice urges ignoring the identical letters sent to numerous locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Spain
America
Senor Valls Lista
Moravian circle to organize at Lititz August meeting
The Protected Home Circle will organize a circle at the Malta Temple in Lititz on Thursday evening August 2 at 7 45. The Grand Representative State Deputy of Harrisburg will install officers with a delegation from Harrisburg Lancaster York and Columbia. The Columbia degree team will perform the initiatory work. Members urged to be present at 7 45 sharp. The P H C is 37 years old and began in Sharon Pennsylvania. The Moravian Church hosts Lovereasts services next Sunday morning with Rev W V Moses of Bethlehem in charge. The following Sunday marks the annual fifth of August congregational festival with Rev E B Hagen of Staten Island officiating and Bishop C L Moench of Bethlehem on the following Sabbath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cirele
Lititz
Malta Temple
Harrisburg
Lancaster
York
Columbia
Sharon
W. V. Moses
Bethlehem
E. 8. Hagen
Staten Island
C. L. Moench
Local notes mix humor and small town lore
An Albert Gocenour trip to Philadelphia ends with an empty truck after discovering a ban on certain vegetables due to the Japanese beetle. A Lititz resident buys a massive three foot butcher’s fork for twelve cents and resells it. A Lititz man finds a tire cover looseness causing a hum. A large island flag and its mysterious lord of the domain are noted. The 63rd annual Muddy Creek Sunday School celebration is praised for forty years of good weather. The legend of Dr. Brobst’s skeleton, stolen for early anatomy study, is recounted with murder and hanging details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Gocenour
Philadelphia
J. C. Brobst
Lititz
Suit on a Book Account Filed in York County
John M. Groff, attorney for S. B. Tarris of Delta, York county, sues William Schwartz of Lititz for $1,000 alleging the sum is due on a book account. Schwartz ran a clothing store in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Groff
S. B. Tarris
Delta
York County
William Schwartz
Lititz
Schwartz
Warwick Township Leads County With Hot Tar Road
Warwick township gains credit as the first in Lancaster county to build a high type durable road with its own forces. The Lititz to State aid road section near Clay northward uses hot tar penetration, offering smooth surface and low maintenance. The new road aligns with the Bureau of Highways service test road, promising low yearly costs and long life compared with loose-stone methods. The article urges other townships to adopt similar permanent road construction for taxpayer benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwick
Lancaster County
Lititz
Clay
Bureau of Highways
Philadelphia
New York
Warwick Township
Rare musical treat by Loysville boys band in Lititz
The Boys' Band of Tressler Orphans' Home Loysville Pa will give a concert on Tuesday evening August 14 at Spring Grounds. They will tour the territory with new instruments including Cathedral Chimes and a specially built touring truck. A thousand feet of moving pictures of the Home will be shown during intermission. The group of 36 boys plus director and chauffeur travel with meals and lodging provided by church members. No financial obligation required. offerings welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tressler Orphans’ Home
Loysville
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Longenecker and Butter Win Building Lots in Baltimore
Mrs. J F Longenecker and Eugene Butter won building lots near Baltimore in a Mutual Co operative Realty Company transaction. This marks a second such win for Mrs. Longenecker within months though neither award was considered final. The lots are under the control of Mutual Co operative Realty Company, Baltimore Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Longenecker
Eugene Butter
Baltimore
Longenecker
Mutual Co-operative Realty Company
Week With the Newspaper Editors in New York
A writer details the National Editorial Association tour from Buffalo to Niagara Falls and on to New York City. The 250 editors and families enjoyed New Jersey tours, a Dempsey fight arena visit, Standard Oil Works, Palisades drives, a George Washington ship lunch, and a New York Hall reception with Mayor Hylan, ending with a Trinity Church wreath for William Bradford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Editorial Association
Buffalo
Saratoga Springs
New York State
Niagara Falls
Thousand Islands
Alexandria Bay
New York City
John F. Hyland
City Hall
Gotham
Hudson Tubes
New Jersey
Colgate Soap Works
America
Standard Oil Works
Hudson Boulevard
President Harding
George Washington
Hoboken
Newark
Passaic
Paterson
Hackensack
Columbia Amusement Park
Palisades
Palisades Park
United States Shipping Board
New York City Hall
Hylan
Trinity Church
Broadway
Wall Street
William Bradford
New York
Philadelphia
Trinity
Old Log Building Being Converted Into Modern House
The former residence of the late James Sturgis, now owned by N. D. Sturgis, undergoes complete renovation. German words on a lath read a warm wall and more letters remain unreadable. The house dates before the Declaration of Independence with a nearby 1835 town fire leaving fire damage evident on walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Sturgis
N. D. Sturgis
Dr Elmer E Evans Dead Here After Illness
Dr Elmer E Evans a noted local physician died last evening at his South Cedar street home aged 61 years 7 months from a complication of diseases after eleven weeks illness He was a Nazareth Hall and University of Pennsylvania 1885 graduate who married in 1885 to Kila Brandt and practiced here since then He is survived by his wife three children a sister and others Funeral services will be held at his home Monday at 2 pm with interment in Moravian cemetery Also noted Saturday public sale of Joseph Bollinger personal effects at 45 S Proad St
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer E. Evans
South Cedar Street
Evans
Nazareth Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Kila Brandt
Manheim
Lititz
Willian
Elizabeth Evans
Howard
Arthur
Raymond
Pittsburgh
Mary
Charles Gibble
Lancaster
Moravian
Travelers Near and Far Visit Announceable Local Guests
A long list of visitors and travelers appears from Lititz and surrounding towns. Mrs. Charles Pfautz visits her sister-in-law in Emaus while Frank Ellis, formerly with Ideal Cocoa, is seen in town. Miss Winifred Huber visits Norristown. Mrs. Agnes Iensel and Mrs. James Helt of Wiconisco stay with the Hensels. Mrs. Mary S. G. Buch summering with the Buchs in Lititz. Emma Gear and James Goldthwait head to Atlantic City via Estelle. Several families from Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, and Shenandoah are noted as visiting, plus Rev. Imboden’s grove sermon at Adamstown and various local trips to Maine, Atlantic City, and Mt. Gretna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Pfautz
Paul Shultz
Emaus
Frank Ellis
The
Ideal Cocoa & Chocolate Co
Winifred Huber
S. M. Huber
Frank
Norristown
Agnes Iensel
James Helt and Son
Wiconisco
Curtis Hensel
Mary S. G. Buch
Chambersburg, Pa
W. H. Buch
Emma Gear
James Goldthwait
Atlantic City
the Estelle
Paul Evans and
Child
Philadelphia
Mt. Gretna
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bomberger Farm
Bamberger
H. CG. Seldomridge
Mohnton
William Stauffer
Brunnerville A. B
Ephrata Band
Sara Jenkins
Morris B. Doster
Martha Hitnier
Eitnier
Zlyster
Lincoln
Dr. Doster
Joseph Pfants
Jacob Hackman
Middle Creek
Brunnerville
Maria
John
Christian
Baron von der Fels
Hicelbornn
Baden
Waibstatt
God's Acre
Yonder Hill
Pennsylvania
Albany
J. C. Brubaker
Hudson
N. Y
American Farm Bureau
Chicago
Brubaker
Penn’s Cave
Garden OF Eden
Adam
L Joe Baker
Owen Hershey
Diehm
Harry Showers
Daniel Imhoff
Sherman Steffy
Showers
Arlington Rader
George Evans
Samuel Hoffman
Clayton Schmuck
Howard Hollinger
Frank Kready
J. W. Beathart
George Schreiber
U. S. Delp
Buther
Samuel Steffy
Muddy Creek
County
Tressler
Joseph Bollinger
S. P'road St
G. W. Imboden
D. D
Adamstown Grove
C. B. Dillman
Famly
Imboden
Norman Hertzler
Maine
Moosehead Lake
Edna Jongenecker
Kathryn Fasnacht
Edna Cassel
Ferry
Jack Reidenbach
Alice Milchsack
Pauline
Mildred
Reicenbach
East Main Street
Elmer Kauffman
Carpenter Street
Norman Leicy
Brownstown
Richard Bender
Mr. B. Manns
Hazleton
Albert Manns
Shenandoah
Ernest Sauders
Mary Lou
Millway
Ira
F. B. Bucher
B. Lane
Delaware
Harold Weidman
Paul Krafft
Eugene Longenecker
Tarrytown
Jacob Landis
Robert
Fleetwood
H. Reist Landis
Landis
Harry Stoner
Highland Park
Sellersville
Cora Albright
Daniel Smith
Wenona Cottage
Minnie Eitmier
Grace Peters
Miriam Starry
Richland
Edith
Bessie Crouse
Denver
Mary Reist
Lillian Himmelberger
W. E. Crouse
Paul Bomberger
Farmers National Bank
G. F. Bomberger
Anderson
Ind
Toosier
Scott’s
Rogers Silver
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