Popular Palmyra Band to Play Here Saturday Evening
A Palmyra band scheduled to perform Saturday evening in town headlines a busy period of local activity. Other items note Elmer Eberly purchasing half a double frame house on Lincoln Avenue from N Derr Gn, and Chester Ruth buying a similar home on Liberty Street via Lancaster County Real Estate Agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer- Eberly
Lincoln Avenue
N. Derr
Wm. G. Eshleman
Preston Helman
White Oak
Lititz
Long
Harvey C. Krick
Studebaker
David Meiley
Rothsville
Chester Ruth
Liberty Street
Harry Showers
Lancaster County Real Estate
Lititz Springs
Leon Himmelberger
Charles Hollinger
Himmelberger
Hollinger
Ralph Gross
Palmyra Band to Perform Saturday Evening
The Palmyra Band of thirty five musicians led by H. H. Brand will appear Saturday evening. The program features popular and classical music and the wear Hussar fatigue uniforms. The Denver band's similar performance last Saturday drew praise and featured several numbers.
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Palmyra
H. H. Brand
Hussar
Denver
Lutheran Ushers Picnic At Snavelys Bungalow
The Ushers Association of St. Pauls Lutheran church held a picnic for about 200 guests at Snavelys bungalow along the Conestoga. Activities included quoit contests swimming a base ball game and croquet. Soup hot dogs beans and sides were served, dessert followed with apple pie cake and ice cream. A meadow service featured singing bible reading and remarks by Horace Eschbach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ushers Association
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Snavely
Chester Leiey
Emma Long
Horace Eschbach
Lititz Union Picnic Set For Aug 13 At Spring Grounds
A committee at the Lutheran church outlined the Lititz Union picnic for Thursday August 13 at Spring Grounds. Most local factories will close that day. The Lititz band provides music and coffee is free. Expect a large turnout in good weather with contests in the afternoon and after supper including wheelbarrow, eating, penny search, ball throwing, peanut carrying, bag race, three legged race, tug of war for stout men and women, and a 6 PM song service at the band stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Fishermen Return With Eighty Eight Fish at Bowers Beach
A party headed to Bowers Beach last Thursday returned forty miles out to the breakwater with eighty eight fish including croakers sea bass weakfish and a lead fish. The party members named are Toward Keen ar George Korte Willard Hershey Jacob Hershey Rev Jacob Hershey and Lester Hackman.
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Bowers Beach
Keenar
George Korte
Willard Hershey
Jacob Hershey
Lester Hackman
Ideal Plant Installed New Creamery Department
The Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate company will buy milk directly from farmers starting about August 31 to manufacture condensed milk for chocolate. The new system uses up-to-date machinery with conveyors on Kline street, a laboratory for fat tests, and a 12 000 pound daily milk capacity. Prices vary by butterfat percentage, and the plant promises businesslike farmer relations to avoid misunderstandings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Company
Kline Street
J. F. Cyphers
German apprentice arrives to work at Ideal chocolate plant
Gumpter Pieper a twenty year old German arrives in town and stays at Springs Hotel to learn chocolate manufacturing in the United States. He will study at the Ideal plant then travel to New York to study cocoa bean importing before returning home in a year. Alvin Ohle recalls the plant's sixty year history and notes the Harz region's famed birds and forest surroundings.
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Gumpter Pieper
Germany
Springs
Harz Mountains
Ideal
New York
Alvin Ohle
Mr. Ohle
Building New Bakery For William Kissinger In North Alley
William Kissinger begins a new cement block one story bakery on North Alley. The 82 by 49 foot building will house two ovens with a 700 pound daily pretzel capacity. Kissinger reports steady business growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Kissinger
North Alley
Kissinger
School Marms Return From State College
Miss Mary Hess of Rome Miss Marian Biemesderfer of Kissel Hill Ruth and Florence Myers of Martindale will return home Saturday after completing a special teaching course at State College begun June 26.
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Mary Hess
Rome
Marian Biemesderfer
Kissel Hill
Ruth and
Florence Myers
Martindale
State College
Lititz School Funds Lead Lancaster County Appropriations
The state treasurer disbursed Saturday to Lancaster county fourth class school districts. Lititz bore $6551.25, Manheim boro $4713.78, Ephrata boro $5122.50, Lititz township $3960.00, Manheim township $5802.50, Clay township $1820.00, Warwick township $3960.00, Elizabeth township $980.00, Penn township $2590.00, Ephrata township $2810.00.
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Lancaster County
Lititzbore
Warwick Township
Elizabeth Township
Manheim Township
Clay Township
Ephrata Township
Penn Township
Manheim Boro
Ephrata Boro
Pair of Snow Owls Reported Near Kellers Mountains
Two large white owls have been spotted south of here near Kellers mountains. Believed to be snow owls, they are noted as a rare sight for the area.
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Kellers Mountains
Mussel harvest and a fatal auto crash in Lititz area
The story recounts a large freshwater mussel find near Bru baker’s dam described as the largest around here and used to make pearl buttons. It also details a Sunday auto wreck west of Annville near Lititz that killed Stella Hoffman and involved several Lititz residents including Agnes Shirtz and others with injuries but no other fatalities.
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Brubaker
Jacob Bachman
Ohio River
Mississippi
Lititz
Annville
Stella Hoffman
Schuylkill Haven
Agnes Shirtz
Lancaster
Moyer
Cressona
Arthur Johansen
William Eshleman
Elam Ritz
Preston Helman
Smokey City Visitors Stay With Lancaster Mayor
Mr and Mrs John M Pfautz of Pittsburgh guests of Mayor Musser at Green Tree for several days. They joined other men from the Smoky City representing the Lancaster county club. They attended the old fiddler's convention at Parkesburg on Saturday. Mr Pfautz left for home Monday while Mrs Pfautz remained several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Pfautz
Pittsburgh
Pfautz
Smoky City
Lancaster County Club
Musser
Lancaster
Green Tree
Parkesburg
Paul Evans
Philadelphia
N. B. Leaman
Albert
Vineland
N. J
Mabel Lesh
Reamstown
Cloyd Rhoads
Anna Fry
Nazareth
Wallace Meiskey
Lititz
Lizzie Becker
Church of the Brethren
Muddy Creek
Coldren
Martin Moyer
Mary Steiner
East Main Street
Alma Reynolds
Quarryville
Henry Heiserman
Warren Enck
Biglersville
Adams County
John Enck
Front Street
Bobst
I. W. Bobst
Emma Moore
Key Gardens
Long Island
Springs Hotel
Crosland
Newark
Wilson Baum
W. H. Buch
Womelsdorf
Rehrersburg
Reading
Joe Scheckard
William Mathers
Atlantic City
Edwin Stu
Keyston Incubator Co to Start Manufacturing in Masser Building
The Keyston Incubator Co has leased the first floor and basement of the Frank Masser building on Front Street and will begin manufacturing soon. The building, formerly a cigar factory, will house the new operation while Mr. Masser will launch a cigar business on the second floor.
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Frank Haas
Ephrata
Harry McCarty
Mr.Haas
Heie
White Oak
The
Keystons Incubator Co
Frank Masser
Front Street
Mr. Masser
Muddy Creek Church Celebrates 65th Annual Picnic
Fair weather drew a record crowd to Muddy Creek Church Sunday schools for the 65th annual celebration in the grove. An estimated 9000 attended as vendors sold 300 cases of soft drinks and 1,600 quarts of ice cream. The food spread included 350 pounds of ring Bologna 200 pounds of cheese 100 pounds of cold ham 15 pounds of coffee beans and 3 000 buns among other items. The church was built in 1847 with the church grounds hosting a yearly event since 1860 when the Sunday school began organizing this celebration.
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Muddy Creek
Impromptu Corn Roast at Local Used Furniture Store
A rainy day gathering at a local used furniture store turned to corn and roasting methods. An insurance agent returned with three ears and cooked them in the husk in about 15 minutes while coffee and bread were laid out. The event was a success except for the note that ten ears would have been better.
Miss Louisa Weitzel Returns From Poconos Visit
Miss Louisa Weitzel, after a trip to Waldheim Park near Allentown and Emaus with Cresco in the Pocono mountains, praised Crestwood hotel in Monroe county run by William Walters. The new 80 guest capacity hotel sits on a 72 acre farm with views of the Delaware Water Gap and nearby sights.
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Louisa Weitzel
Waldheim Park
Allentown
Emaus
Cresco
Pocono Mountains
Miss Weitzel
Crestwood
Monroe County
William Walters
Weitzel
Delaware Water Gap
Fall Fashion Quarterlies Debut at Scott's Book Store
Scott's Book Store releases the Fall Fashion Quarterlies featuring new season styles and trends. Local shoppers can explore curated outfits and accessories during the store's seasonal display and events through the week.
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Scott’s Book Store
Trap Company Declares Dividend On Preferred Stock
At a regular board meeting, Animal Trap Company of America declared a quarterly dividend at 7 percent per annum on its 7 percent preferred stock. The dividend is payable August 1, 1925 to stockholders of record July 25, 1925.
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The
Animal Trap Company of America
Fresh Air Kiddies Coming to Lititz
Lititz and surrounding areas will host New York children from August 20 to September 8 under the Fresh Air Fund. Dr. F. W. Stengel leads a Lititz committee with church ministers and two delegates per church, as districts are formed with no set quotas. The Exchange Club and Rotary Club of Lancaster back the effort, a reprise of a 28 year old program that brought city children here and left hosts eager for the experience and grateful for gifts.
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Lititz
New York
F. W. Stengel
Exchange Club
Rotary Club of
Lancaster
Warwick Township Rebuilds Four Roads Initiative
Warwick township supervisors plan to rebuild four roads with completion aimed by October 1926. Costs will be split four ways among the township county and state, with Lititz and Rothsville road under progress employing tarvia and surface restoration. Additional routes include Rothsville to Millport, Rothsville to the stone bridge, and Lititz to the Penn township line along the old toll road to Manheim.
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Warwick Township
State
Lititz
Rothsville
Keller’s Mountain
Steffy
Millport
Joe Asner
Stone Bridge
Ephrata
Penn Township
Manheim
Dr. Cappy Again in Business
Dr. H. A. Cappy, longtime at the Ideal chocolate factory, has joined the Riessner chocolate factory in San Francisco. Riessner, formerly superintendent at Ideal, is rejoining the local man in a new venture. Strange things will happen.
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Dr. Cappy
H. A. Cappy
Ideal Chocolate Factory
Riessner Chocolate Factory
San Francisco
Calif
Riessner
Ideal Factory
Canadian Wheat Field Assignment For Three Men
Charles Weidman Charles Dussing er and Lloyd Hoffman depart in days for Alberta to work in wheat fields. They travel to Canada for seasonal harvest labor and will join local crews in the province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Charlies Weidman
Charles Dussinger
Lloyd Hoffman
Alberta
Miss Keller Keeps Lititz Connected Forty Years as Operator
Miss Grace Keller a Bell Telephone operator in Lititz marked forty years of service with a bouquet of forty roses. She began Aug 1 1855 at the Malta building and has since moved with the exchange to Broad Street. Lancaster colleagues joined in celebration and she noted she has no plans to retire.
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Miss Keller
Lititz
Grace Keller
Bell Exchange
Telephone Exchange
Malta
Grace
Pperators
Exchange
Catherine B. ‘Wendel
Lancaster
Emma Herzog
Gift of
J. T. Harris
Philadelphia
van Vleck
Broad Street
Miss Grace
Mrs Keller
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Lititzborough
Burgess
Frank Ellis
Here
Ellis
Snavely’s
Ideal Plant
Pfantz Bros
Poconos
Trap Company
Adam Long
J. F. Longenecker
Dorothy
Sylvia
D. M. Weidman
Mt. Gretna
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