Local Notes From Elizabethtown Area and Surroundings
A roundup of regional items reports John E. Nissley elected mayor of Guthrie Oklahoma defeating ex Governor C M Barnes. A Norwalk family wagon trip through Elizabethtown is noted. Local carp control on Kurtz’s dam near Martindale. 86 year old Mrs Susan Smith to accompany daughter to Tucson. Tobacco growers see improvements after rains. Oak blight feared by Norman C Maule of Colerain. Lancaster General Hospital breaks ground on Nurses Home for 30 to 40 staff with completion hoped by October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Nissley
Mount Joy Township
Guthrie
Okla
C. M. Barnes
California
John Lang
Norwalk
Conn
Elizabethtown
Kurtz
Martindale
Susan Smith
Alice Cameron
Tucson
Ariz
Norman C. Maule
Colerain
Maule
Lancaster General Hospital
Nurses’ Home
Masonic Home Elizabethtown Progress Report
Construction at the Masonic Home site in Elizabethtown advances with partial wall foundations and forthcoming masonry on the main building. Holmesburg granite chosen for facing stone. 2100 feet of amicite driveway laid. a giant Washington State fir will become a 300 foot fog pole en route around the Horn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown
Holmesburg
Washington State
State's Biggest Chestnut Tree Near Landisville Camp Grounds
On John K. Stauffer's farm near Landisville camp grounds stands a chestnut tree believed to be the state's largest. Its base measures forty feet in circumference with a trunk circumference of twenty seven feet at four feet high. The tree is several hundred years old, yields abundant chestnuts, and has attracted noted botanists and crowds from across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John K. Stauffer
Landisville
Pennsylvania
California
United States
Why Tobacco is Not Raised in Lehigh
Squire Fenstermaker, superintendent of farms for C H Trexter, explains Lehigh county tobacco lacks market reputation. He notes past efforts failed as local buyers set low prices, steering farmers away. He cites soil suitability from the city to Kutztown and argues Lehigh could rival Lancaster if a local market existed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehigh
Squire P
Feastermaker
C. H. Trexter
Lehigh County
Fenstermaker
Kutztown
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Royer Farm Bond Dispute Brought in Common Pleas Court
Isaac R Royer Harriet Bassler and others sue Milton R Royer in the common pleas court to settle who must pay a $2000 charge on the farm of the late Samuel Royer in Ephrata township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac R. Royer
Harriet R. Bassler
Common Pleas Court
Milton R. Royer
Samuel Royer
Ephrata Township
The Captain and Hulda in a Mile Valley Encounter
In a Baltic town the captain presses Hulda about her past life and love while she resists venturing beyond sorrow. He offers protection and asks for Laura or Beatrice as a possible companion. Gabriela teases Skarnikatis during a quiet room scene as the two drift between longing and restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hulda
Creation
Gabriela
Giusti
Giuseppe Giusti
Gingillino
Groves
Dante
Tusso P
Ariosto
Skarnikatis
Mill Valley
Hey
Laura
Beatrice
Gabrila
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W. H. Buch
Clothier and Gents’ Furnisher Record Building
Lititz, PA
America
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
Heinish’s
Heinitsh
BIG Furniture and Carpet
S. Queen St
Hoffmeier Bros
Lancaster’s
E. King Street
Opticians
North Queen Street
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