Community Event Calendar Obscured by Ample August Gatherings
A long list of August activities lists church and reunion events in Lancaster area, with picnics, reunions, fairs, and bands at Lititz Springs and nearby parks. Key entries include St Luke's and St John's Sunday schools, Steffy, Kemper, and Wenger reunions, various union S S picnics, York band performances, Lititz Union gatherings, and major fairs from Sept through Oct across Lancaster, Reading, Allentown, Trenton, and York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Luke’s
Lititz Springs
St. John’s
S. S. Lancaster
Steffy
Ephrata Park
Brownstown Union S. S
Church of Christ Lancaster
Kurtz
Farm Calendar and Insect Guidance in Pennsylvania
Farm Calendar notes daily wheat farming battles against the angoumois grain moth. A five day dairy testers course runs August 11 to 16 at Penn State College for dairy workers. entry requires dairy experience and math ability. Damaging pests include pear slug and fall webworm. recommended control is arsenate of lead spray mixed 3 pounds per 50 gallons water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angoumois
Pennsylvania
Dairy Department
Pennsylvania State College
Dairy Extension Department
State College
To Save a Girdled Tree by Grafting
A tree with bark cut around its trunk can die unless grafted. Skilled nurserymen show that inserting twigs into the bark above and below the wound allows sap to circulate and nourish the tree.
White Oak Dam Reaches Completion in Garden Spot
The White Oak Dam is finished and filling with water. A meeting of the Fishing Association and other fishermen was held Thursday evening to plan a thriving fishing area. Applications have been made to stock the streams with fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Oak
Fshing Association
Shipping Your Eggs to Market How Grading and Safe Packing Will Prevent Egg Breakage
The article urges producers and shippers to cooperate to reduce egg breakage in transit. It notes rapid poultry growth and rising egg value, cautions against shipping ungraded or cracked eggs, and bans second-hand honeycomb fillers due to strength loss. New fillers reduce breakage and boost returns, while claims rely on proper packing and fresh materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Transportation Company
Pennsylvania
Express
Ben Franklin Enjoyed Life’s Riches and Flaws
A portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a exuberant lifer who balanced genius with excess. The piece notes his calm diplomacy in the First Congress, fondness for sleep, meals, chess, and flirtations, plus gout, self awareness, and his late life wealth and orderly end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Franklin
First Congress
Boston
Richard
William Feather Magazine
Robbery at a Ride and Jewelry Theft in Boston
Mountain Grove farmer Albert Hess was robbed of 128 dollars after a stranger hijacked his ride home from Berwick. In Boston a car theft left Mrs. Kinley Tener missing 10 000 dollars of jewelry and toilet articles. In Northumberland a church basement skeleton, likely from before the original building, caused local alarm but drew no action from Dr. Joseph K. Fisher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Hess
Mountain Grove
Hess
Berwick
Kinley Tener
John K. Tener
Trinity Court
Boston
Mass
First Presbyterian Church
Northumberland
Joseph K. Fisher
Lion Tamer Injured by Attack During Bedford Show
John Helliott, a lion tamer, suffered severe chest and arm lacerations last Friday when one of the lions attacked him during a Hagenbeck and Wallace act at Bedford. A pet lion owned by the trainer charged the attacker, allowing Helliott to escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Helliott
Hagenback
Wallace Tireus
Bedford
Helliott
Drinking glass foils elopement plan on Tamaqua porch
Mary Woodward of Tamaqua descended a ladder to join her lover Walter Brode and flee to Elkton to marry, but a tipped drinking glass alerted Woodward Sr., who halted the pair before the railroad station. The elopement was canceled and the couple spent the night at Mary’s home. Rabbits imported into Pennsylvania for hunting include sixty thousand cottontails and 200 snowshoe hares among other restocking buys by the State Game Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Woodward
Tamaqua
Mary
Woodward Sr
Walter Brode
Elkton
Pennsylvania
State Game Commission
Honeymooners Fined Twice by New York Police
Brooks Swartz of Beech Creek returned from his honeymoon to Beech Creek via New York State roads where police stopped the couple for speeding. In Hornell the fine and costs totaled $40 and elsewhere a justice charged $16.25 for driving too fast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
Brooks Swartz
Beech Creek
New York
Hornell
N. Y
English Bird Sanctuary Near London A Hidden Woodland Gem
A tranquil bird sanctuary in the Brent valley near London is described as a rare woodland paradise. Guarded by keepers, it hosts owls, warblers, blue tits, goldfinches, nightingales and many other British birds, on 19 acres within oak and hazel coppices. It honors Gilbert White and remains a beloved, lesser known urban escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Brent Valley
Gilbert White
Shelborne
Shelborne Society
Annual W C T U meeting highlights 166 members
The W C T U held its yearly gathering in the Moravian Chapel with Miss A V Grosh leading devotions. Reports show 166 total members after adding 16 women and 14 men. Twenty three meetings were held, finances totaled $145 after expenses, and many departments reported activity from literatures distributed to babies and sick to public meetings and school visits. Delegates were elected to the county convention at Little Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Ladies
Moravian Sunday School
A. V. Grosh
Temperance Light
Temperance Legions
Francis Williard
Neal Dow
Young Peoples
Zion Home
Soldiers and Sailors’ Department
League Island Hospital
Flower Mission
Evangelistic Department
Child Welfare Department
Sunday
Scientific Temperance Instruction Department
Francis Willard
Ida Brown
C. R. Meinert
Lancaster
A. Virginia Grosh
Morris Kauffman
Moravian Church
W. R. Sammel
Jmutheran Church
S. A. Heisey
United Evangelical Church
McKee Weaver
The
Reformed Church
Geo. Rauch
United Brethren Church
E. Nethercott
Mary Miksch
Mary Guiles
G. L. Hepp
Temperance
J. L. Hertz
Sara Jenkins
Lutheran Church
C. M. Dillman
Oehme
Martin Bisker
D. M. Weidman
Erica Nethercott
David Brian
Katherine Wike
Loyal Temperance Legion
Esther Grosh
A.V. Grosh
M. S. Hess
M. 5. Hess
Mary , Gingrich
L. A. Weitzel
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Horace Grosh
Blanche Dietrich
John
Harvest Moon and Hunting Moon Concepts
The harvest moon is the full moon near September 21 that rises at nearly the same hour for several nights, creating extended moonlight, especially at higher latitudes. The hunting moon is the first full moon after the harvest moon, signifying a subsequent bright period in the lunar cycle.
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. H. Buch
Fire House
Lititz, Pa
Kemper
Mt. Airy Union S. S
Mt.Calvary Lutheran 8. S. Lancaster
Leola and Mechansburg S. S
Fire Co. Carnival
Adamstown
Lititz
Springs
Oberholtzer
Stuber
Rothsville Union S
Myer’s Grove
Rothsville
Rohrerstown S. S
Witmer
Gantz Reunion
St Andrews Reformed
S. Lancaster
Brubaker
J C. Brubaker
Keath Reunion
Fire Co
Reamstown
Hiser-Oberlin
West Chester
Pottsville
Reading
Allentown
Trenton
York
Doylestown Fair
Lancaster County
Manheim
Atlantic City
N. J
Ben Franklin
Keystone Exchanges
BIG Yearly Meeting
W. O
W. E
Hacker
S. Spruce St
In Young
Nat’s-Bank
Rakph
M?spacht
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