Firemen Parade and Carnival Planned by Ephrata Fire Company
The Pioneer Fire Company of Eph rata announces a parade and street carnival on Saturday, Aug 28. Prizes include 75 dollars for best fire company in line with a band, 16 men minimum, 25 dollars for most men, 15 dollars for greatest distance, 10 dollars for oldest apparatus, 10 dollars for prettiest float, 5 dollars for best decorated automobile, 3 dollars for most comic pair, and 2 dollars for most comic individual. The company will not compete. A street carnival with booths will run between the square and Hotel Go calica in the evening.
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Pioneer Fire Company of
Ephrata
Sth
Ephrata Fire Company
Gocalica
Dr D B Schneder sails to Japan for orient voyage
Dr D B Schneder formerly of Reading and now president of North Japan College at Sendai prepares to sail for the Orient August 21. He was in Reading during the summer. An old-fashioned spinning bee was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Elmer N Tice Myerstown with Miss Agnes Tice demonstrating spinning on a spinning wheel using a family heirloom over a hundred years old.
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D. B. Schneder
Reading
North Japan College
Sendai
Japan
Orient
Schneder
Elmer N. Tice
Myerstown
Agnes Tice
Trolley cars repurposed as homes in Lock Haven
In Lock Haven discarded Susquehanna Traction Company trolley cars are being converted into dwellings for homeless families. Purchased by George Hale, a former policeman, the cars are demounted from their wheels and moved to the foot of Bald Eagle street where they will be set up and equipped with water and electric lights.
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Lock Haven
Susquehanna Traction Company
George Hale
Bald Eagle Street
Zug Tobacco Sale Sets Price Record for Lancaster Buyer
Brownstown man Isaac W Zug of Millbach Springs Lebanon county sold his tobacco at fifty cents a pound to Samuel L Carpenter of Brownstown Lancaster county an agent for L B King Co tobacco brokers Philadelphia. Zug planted three acres this year and half its crop was already cut when the sale occurred. two years earlier the firm bought his crop for forty five cents a pound, a record at the time.
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Isaac W. Zug
Millbach Springs
Lebanon County
Lancaster County
Lebanon
Zug
Samuel L. Carpenter
Brownstown
L. B. King & Co
Philadelphia
Pear tree planted in 1835 on Manor farm landmark
Garden Spot notes recall the John Sowers farm in Manor where a pear tree, planted by David Shoff in 1835, is celebrated as the most prolific tree in the area. E M Fahs on the Ziegler farm near Maytown cut thirty six acres of grain in a 25 hour span and hauled all the grain into the barn.
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John Sowers
Manor
David Shoff
E. M. Fahs
Ziegler
Maytown
Marti Eisenberger 88, Civil War veteran and canal hand
The second oldest resident of Marietta, Martin Eisenberger, reached age 88. He worked as a canal boat hand as early as 1848 and served Uncle Sam during the Civil War.
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Marietta
Martin Eisenberger
Sam
Reist Family Reunion Held at Landisville Camp Grounds
The fourth annual Reist family reunion will be at the Lan disville camp meeting grounds on Thursday August 26. John R. Reist of Lititz serves as president. Miss Margaret Smith daughter of Rev J W Smith of Eph rata, who has run an orphanage near Beirut Syria for eighteen months, arrived in New York and was greeted by her father at the pier.
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Reist
America
Landisville
John R. Reist
Lititz
Margaret Smith
J. W. Smith
Ephrata
Beruit
Syria
New York
International scientists visit Ephrata tobacco station
Ten scientists from Belgium, Italy, France, England, and Japan, all Doctors of Science, toured the United States Tobacco Experimental Station on the Hibshman farm near Ephrata. Otto Olson, federal tobacco expert, led the visit as the group studied root rot disease affecting U.S. tobacco fields, joined by two Cornell professors and two from State College.
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Belgium
Italy
France
England
Japan
Ephrata
United States
Hibshman Farm
Otto Olson
Cornell University
State College
Old P. R. R. Stations Highlight Local Towns
Columbia's small passenger business awaits a fine station. Lancaster, much larger, must endure the 60 year old shed serving as its P. R. R. station. In Ephrata, Reuben Cooper tends an 83 year old Yellow Transparent tree in a chickenyard, yielding 140 apples.
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Columbia
Lancaster
Ephrata
Reuben Cooper
Cooper
Wrightsville cigar roller breaks record with 1700 in a day
Edward Reisinger, renowned as Wrightsville’s champion cigar roller, set a new daily mark by rolling 1700 cigars last week, surpassing his previous 1500. At a rate of $15 per thousand, the day’s earnings total $24.50.
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Edward Reisinger
Wrightsville
Marietta Native to Captain American Crew in World Games
Ensign Edwin D. Graves Jr a Marietta native will captain the United States Naval Academy rowing crew representing the country in the World Games at Antwerp this month. He is the county’s sole representative and is described as an all around athlete. Miss Elizabeth M Schlegelmilch of Marietta sails for Seal Harbor Maine to study with harpist Charles Salzado then joins the Salzado Harp Ensemble on a California tour later this season.
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Edwin D. Graves, Jr
Marietta
United States Naval Academy
Antwerp
Elizabeth M. Schlegelmilch
Seal Harbor
Maine
Charles Salzado
Miss Schlegelmilch
California
South
Salzado Harp Ensemble
Tobacco contract in Havana region and Manor township
About half of the Havana tobacco in Washingtonboro and Manor township along the Susquehanna is contracted for 50 cents per wrapper and 50 cents per filler, with no sizing or sorting. Fillers are picked first, then wrappers left loose in bales. Mr. and Mrs. H H Martin begin a motor tour of New England from Manheim, planning Hartford and Aroostook County to arrange potato shipments.
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Washingtonboro
Manor Township
Susquehanna River
New England
H. H. Martin
Manheim
Hartford, Conn
A. H. Cook
Guard Found at Maytown Amnesia Victim Identified
Andrew Gavin of Scranton a member of Company K 13th Infantry in camp with the Pennsylvania National Guards was found in a dazed condition near the public squad at Maytown about twenty miles from Mt Gretna. Gavin had been missing since Monday and served in France in the Argonne with the Thirteenth Engineers. The item also notes marketing of the tomato crop with canned tomatoes.
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Andrew Gavin
Scranton
13Th Infantry
Mt. Gretna
Pennsylvania National Guards
Maytown
Gavin
France
Thirteenth Engineers
Argonne
Promised Rally Around Rheems Worries Growers
Growers report healthy plants heavy with blossoms but cannery buyers show no interest. They cite an overstocked market and insufficient packing capacity this year. Government surplus can stockpiled for troops during the war floods the market, driving glut concerns.
Will Unveil Eight-Ton Shaft in Honor of Soldiers
The Terre Hill town to honor World War I servicemen with an eleven foot granite monument. On August 28 the shaft will be unveiled, featuring 42 names and the time and place of death for two local soldiers. The stone lists all battles they fought in and required 945 letters for engraving.
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Terre Hill
France
Lancaster Millers Urged to Keep Wheat at Home
A Bray and Sharpless representative told Lancaster County millers at Hotel Rossmere to influence farmers to ship less wheat abroad. He urged milling at home, saying American mills can handle it better. In a second address H. S. Widder urged farmers to select better seeds for larger, finer harvests.
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Lancaster County
Europe
Bray and Sharpless
Philadelphia
Rossmere
Lancaster
H. S. Widder
Lady and Children From Europe Landed in Ephrata
A foreign woman and two children, fresh from Ellis Island, arrived in Ephrata en route to join her husband in Martindale, Pa. Language barriers delayed routing as railroad officials corrected a misdirection and villagers sent a corrective note to Lancaster rail staff.
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Europe
Ephrata
Ellis Island
Martindale
Portage
Cambria County
Lancaster
Sweet corn season arrives with abundant harvest hopes
Sweet corn now in prime condition as gradual planting expands fields. Farmers still protect scarce ground while early plantings near finish and second plantings begin. Old timers remember when field corn was luxury and canning of corn did not exist.
Old Deed Records 1788 Transfer in Columbia Lot
A colonial deed records Amos Gyrus Hollinger of Colum bia holding a land deed for lots in a town laid out by Samuel Wright in 1788. The instrument traces Wright from his father James Wright and aunt Susanna Wright of Hempfield township. The deed on sheepskin dates September 14 1788. Price £15 or about $75. parcel in Cherry street conveyed for $2 000.
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Amos Gyrus Hollinger
Columbia
Samuel Wright
Wright
James Wright
Susanna Wright
Hempfield Township
Cherry Street
Hollingers
Across United States by Auto in 444 Announcement
A five passenger touring car set an unofficial transcontinental record by reaching New York from San Francisco in four days 14 hours 43 minutes. An American Automobile Association executive said this surpassed all previous unofficial times. The route covered 8,347 miles with driver changes at Ely Nevada Cheyenne Wyoming Council Bluffs Iowa Valparaiso Indiana Lima Ohio Wheeling West Virginia Cumberland Maryland Easton Pennsylvania.
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San Francisco
New York
American Automobile Association
Ely
Nev
Cheyenne
Wyo
Council Bluffs
Valpariso
Ind
Lima
Wheeling
W. Va
Cumberland
Lititz Native Zentmyer Dies After Illness in Reading
Zentmyer native of Lititz died at his Reading home on August 9 from gangrene shortly after his 67th birthday on June 24. He leaves a widow Sarah Ann Hafer, daughters Carrie Blackburn of Dayton Ohio and Mary E. at home, a sister Carrie Kreider of Lititz, and brother William of Lexington Kentucky. The article also notes a separate public notice: the Public Service Commission orders elimination of a dangerous turn at Leaman Place, with a plan to replace the old bridge on Lincoln Highway. The new 120 foot girder bridge will span with concrete abutments, widening to about 35 feet plus trolley tracks, roadway, and a five-foot walkway, with costs shared by Pennsylvania Railroad, Conestalga Traction Company, the state, county, and Paradise Township.
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Lititz
William
Lexington, Ky
Leaman Place
Public Service Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Conestoga Traction Company
Paradise
Boating Dims on Schuylkill Canal This Summer
Boating on the Schuylill canal appears unlikely to extend the length of the waterway this summer. Below Reading the canal is in shape but above the city it is closed and may stay closed. Dredges had to be brought up three times to open channels above Reading due to heavy rains. Work continues as long as calm enters the river at the upper end.
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Schuylkill Canal
Reading
Hamburg
The Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Pierce
Over fifty years ago a young physician practiced in a rural district and gained fame for his success in curing disease. Dr. Pierce later settled in Buffalo N Y where he released a tonic called Golden Medical Discovery to supply stores nationwide. The remedy, made from roots and barks, was marketed as a blood maker and health tonic for stomach liver and heart. More than twenty four million bottles have been sold in the United States.
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Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Pierce
Quote Heavy: Missteps Across Professions and Women’s Ages
A vivid collection of quips notes how different professionals handle errors from duplicating charges to rewriting laws and blaming induction. It ends with a remark about women listing their ages as twenty two summers reflecting a cold climate influence.
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Imate
Fifth Gibble Reunion Attracts 790 Members Near Hershey
The Gibble clan held its fifth annual reunion at Spring Creek Church near Hershey with at least seven hundred in attendance. Henry Gibble, an early pioneer born in 1704, helped establish Manheim church and lived in Lancaster County. The next gathering may be at White Oak church. The piece notes rail fare rises versus buying a car and shoewear costs.
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Gibble
Spring Cre
Hershey
Henry Gibble
Brethren Church
Lancaster County
Manheim
White Oak
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