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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1923
Page
2
Farm calendar advises sowing wheat after county agent dates to avoid Han Fly damage with fly free dates varying by locality. It highlights pasture management, summer crops for feed, peach borer control timing after Sept 10, milk care to prevent spoilage, poultry mash mix for production, and late season apple sprays for codling moth and fruit feeders with possible arsenate or lead applications.
Citizens in Reading saw a Conestoga wagon hitched to an automobile truck en route to a city barn at Fourteenth and Buttonwood streets. The wagon will join antique vehicles collected by Jacob Matthews for the evolution of transportation in the festival’s pageant. Matthews has acquired a Paris-made stage coach, a wooden phaeton, two Conestoga wagons, a high-box buggy, a big box phaeton, two 200-year-old sulkies, five saddles, and an open barouche. Minor repairs will precede the celebration.
A compiled schedule of August events statewide listing church reunions church picnics and family gatherings. Activities include St Luke s Reformed Lancaster Alsace Lutheran Reading Knights of Malta Lititz Springs readings and reunions for Dobber Kemper Landis and Frymoyer among others. The list highlights community social events and fair dates at local parks and camp meeting grounds.
Groundhogs plague Montgomery County farms causing damage to clover fields. Owen Shultz near Niantic tried blasting burrows with dynamite but caused a costly fire. Four acres of grass and a wagon load of wheat were burned before the blaze was controlled.
Fifteen women and three men of Bloomsburg State Normal School faculty dined on roasted rattlesnake after an outing on North Mountain. A four foot rattlesnake with seven rattlers was killed. One woman found it fairly good tasting but tough. Separately, Sunbury City Treasurer Henry Heckert began levying on nonpaying school taxpayers and warned women may be jailed under the new law if taxes aren’t paid.
Miss Catharine M. Clemens of Vuehanon wed George Lyrnn LeBaron of Lock Haven. They began a hiking honeymoon to San Francisco. She is the daughter of J Warren Clemens, an umpire in the Lancaster County league who has visited Lititz on various occasions.
The Little Church Around the Corner refers to the Church of the Transfiguration at No 44 Mast 20th Street near Fifth Avenue. A funeral once held there led actors to adopt the church for their rites, and since then the Transfiguration has hosted countless christenings weddings and funerals with support from actors and journalists alike.
The Pennsylvania Wire Glass Company of Dunbar plans a vast new plant near Lewistown on a 30 acre site beside the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. It will be the largest glass building in the country, producing wire glass and actinic glass. When running, it expects to ship two to three carloads daily and includes a siding with three spurs, a 50 by light building, a 50 by 100 box shop, a 30 by 50 glass crushing department, and a 00 by 150 polishing shop, with glass roofs.
In Landisville a large white oak was felled by Justus Bard. The tree bore 198 annual rings and measured 11 feet in circumference at 68 feet high. It died last winter. The grove holds many oak trees though some die yearly and are felled with reluctance. Camp began in the grove 53 years ago when trees were larger. Mrs. Charles F. Coovyer of Eph rata and Mrs. Wastinage of Gamsden, N D., left last Thursday for California to visit relatives.
Solomon Z. Sharp, retired Church of the Brethren minister and longtime California fruit grower, and Dr. Thomas R. Baker of Florida, mark the oldest living Millersville alumni from the class of 1860. Other city notes mention a mayoral election, a primary proclamation, and a grade school project amid funding changes.
Doan's Kidney Pills are promoted as a remedy for kidney trouble in Lititz. Testimonial from Harry Garman says after using several boxes he was cured and sleeps better. Price 60c at dealers. Published by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
The 68th annual Muddy Creek Sunday School picnic returns to Harting's Grove on Saturday August 4th. The no table event attracts thousands from across the north end by trolley and auto, with over 15000 attendees in recent years. Ringgold of Reading and Perseverance of Lebanon provide music and speakers are expected.
Noah J Harman a Landisville Telegraph operator in the Pennsylvania railroad Philadelphia division keeps a home museum at Mount Joy likened to a miniature Smithsonian. He displays about 400 birds in glass cases and houses scores of firearms including pistols rifles and braces of guns. Harman a cabinet maker built cases and tables while a burglar alarm protects the collection and his wife Mrs Harman assists in preparing birds.
An old advertisement explains catarrh as a local disease worsened by run down conditions. It promotes Hall’s Catarrh Medicine with an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic to improve general health, sold by F. J. Cheney & Co. for over 40 years.
A Philadelphia review sketches John Rickert’s life highlighting his disciplined study, exact surveying, elegant drafts, and mathematical prowess. It notes his limited social life, strong garden interest, kindness to family, mechanical ingenuity, and emphasis on honesty, charity, and conscientious conduct. His wife was Jacob Rock’s daughter. son Alfred became an Episcopal minister.
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