Union Picnic for Manheim Sunday Schools at Penryn Park
County notes report a union picnic for all Manheim Sunday schools at Penryn Park on Wednesday August 15 with Congressman William B. Wilson as principal speaker at the Lancaster county Democrats event in Lancaster on August 19. Additional items include speeding fines in Elizabethtown, Kreider family reunion canceled, Mount Joy residents cited, a 60 foot tunnel and 7 foot shaft on Jacob H Young land near Mt Joy, and Howard HE Dean's liabilities of 98468.38 with assets of 800 amid vaudeville concerns. The Lancaster area sees wet harvests delaying threshing, public roads washed, Peters Creek bridges vanished, and Terre Hill Electric works wiring Reamstown to Borough with power from Reading’s Metropolitan. Chestnut tree blight exhibit planned for county fair with expert guidance.
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Manheim
Penryn Park
William B. Wilson
Lancaster County Democrats
Lancaster
Elizabethtown
Mount
Family Association
Lititz
Ben Harbart
Jacob H. Young
Mt. Joy Township
Columbia
Howard HE
Dean
New Colonial Theatre
Lancaster County
Joseph K. Shultz
Washington Borough
Shultz
Havana
Peters Creek
Terre Hill
Cooling Off With Water Ends Heat Wave
A narrator describes trying many cold drinks from lemonade to soda and ice cream to beat extreme heat. After exhausting fruit flavors, ginger, phosphate, and pricey beverages, the narrator discovers plain cold water provides relief, ending the quest. A closing joke features a hen and an empty nest with a pun.
The Huge Express Graft Report on Express Monopoly
The Interstate Commerce Commission report finds express companies capitalized at 106 million dollars but investing only about 7 million dollars in reality. It argues the firms charge roughly fifteen times a fair profit and amount to the graft. It notes 45 cents charged for a package that could be moved for 3 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
County Convention in Reamstown Plans Big Day Parade
Washington Camp No 602 members and Reamstown residents prepare for the County Convention of the P O of A to be held August 10 at the Lutheran and Reformed Church. A grand parade at 4 pm features home and visiting lodges five bands and floats. An evening festival follows with music and town decorations. Separately Justice Keogh denied Thaw's bid for freedom, ruling his release would threaten public safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Camp
Reamstown
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Martin J. Keogh
Supreme Court
Thaw
Old Maids classified remark from Rev Hoffer in Grand Rapids
The Rev Elmer V Hoffer at Grand Rapids Colorado says there are old maids of several types. He cites clobbered and disappointed maids who despise men or await love but warn about their gloom. Helen Gould is said to be in a class by herself and would be happier with eight children than $8000000 in a vault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer V. Hoffer
Grand Rapids
Col
Taft
Helen Gould
Rainfall in July tops records since 1889 and more
July rainfall reached 8.84 inches, 4.28 inches above the 32 year average, second only to July 1889’s 9.27 inches from the Johnstown flood. Year to date rainfall was 26.44 inches, 1.16 inches above the 32 year average. The month saw 2.19 inches in a single day on the 10th and 58 hours 10 minutes of total rain time.
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Nuebling
Department of Water
Johnstown
Hobson Lecture Delights Lititz Community
The Lititz chautauqua drew praise for Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson and his masterful address The Great Destroyer His talk on the yellow peril is seen as calm and accurate by readers and copies are available via Washington officials for those not present The hero of the Merrimac has spoken across the nation and his message is urged for schoolboys to read
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Lititz
Richmond Pearson Hobson
United States
Washington
Hobson
Who Sent the Flowers to the Lady of Fort Anderson
A woman thanks a sender of flowers after a night of harsh words and apology. The man, walking with her beneath the bowers, forgives her. He ponders who sent the flowers to the lady, identified as Luroy Hacker of the 59th Co. C. A. C., Fort Anderson, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luroy Hacker
59Th Co. C. A. C
Fort Anderson
Mass
Farmers institutes schedule for county meetings announced
A. L. Martin deputy secretary of agriculture and director of farmers institutes announces next winter’s institutes and movable schools. The season runs November 26 to March 18 across five state sections with county chairmen overseeing local events. County dates include Quarryville November 29 30 Lampler December 2 8 Paradise December 6 9 Lititz December 16 17 Ephrata December 18 19 Maytown December 20 21.
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A. L. Martin
Quarryville
Lampeter
Paradise
Lititz
Ephrata
Maytown
Insects in Relation to the Dying Chestnut Tree
The Bureau of Entomology outlines extensive insect involvement in chestnut decline. The two lined chestnut borer, active May and June, girdles trees via inner bark and wood. Control hinges on removing infested trunks and bark damage in fall and winter. wider investigation urged across the chestnut range from Maine to Georgia and Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Agriculture
Forest Insects
Bureau of Entomology
A. D. Hopkins
Appalachians
Maine
New Hampshire
New York
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Tent Caterpillar Eggs Explain How to Combat Them
A Wyoming county letter to Prof. H A Surface asks about peach limb eggs found on trees. The reply explains tent caterpillar eggs are laid in bands on twigs and covered with varnish like waterproof seeds, hatch next spring, forming white tents in forks of peach and wild cherry trees. It advises watching for egg masses and rubbing them off to ground during summer, fall or winter to prevent hatching next spring.
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Wyoming County
H. A. Surface
Harrisburg
the Inquirer
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Walter H. Buch
S. Broad St
Farmers’ Institutes
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Farmers National Bank
Lititz, Penna
Heinitsh’s
S. Queen St
Pump
Oxford
Chas. H. Frey
King St
North Queen Street
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