Remarkable Local Oddities and Public Notices
A compendium of quirky rural incidents and civic notes from the region. Rattlesnakes driven from a blackberries patch. a school census showing 5834 defective students out of 6779. complaints about flat wheels delaying a town clock. a 20 inch beach bass landed near Phoenixville. a five foot black snake found after an apple tree distraction. Military honors for Private Willis Snyder. checks for service years past. a frog money find. a $4,000,000 silk mills bond issue. a Corinne Delaware county serenade ending in a horse fiddle, horse death, and a bride’s heart trouble. amid a village ice cream treat after the melee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Rampelli
West Hazelton
Altoona
Public Service Commission
Norristown
Knickerbocker Dam
Pickerding Creek
Phoenixville
Rvin W Wadsworth
Paul Gortman
Sunbury
Willis P. Snyder
Reading
W. Hi Bneh
Lititz
Fenwick McGloud
Clearfield
James Scildt
Perkiomen Creek
Susquehanna Silk Mills Company
Pennsylvania
Clarence Brown
Corinne
Delaware County
Walter Stoopes
Maude Brown
Danville Soldier Marries Belgian Refugee Bride
Danville young man Charles Hullihen returned from overseas service with Belgian refugee bride Mrs Hullihen. Met at Romarantin France during the war and wed there. She, attractive and multilingual, will reside in Danville with her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hulliken
Danville
Hullihen
Belgium
Romarantin
France
Hulliken
County News Briefs From Lancaster Area
Twenty four divorce petitions set a county record in one day at Lancaster. Miriam Weidman of Ephrata will be physical training director at Angola High School. Strasburg plans fundraising for a swimming pool roller rink and new paving. Dr CharlesFP Bishop resumes veterinary practice in Manheim after service in the war. Lancaster leads in geranium production with over 1.5 million square feet of glass roofs over the city’s blooms. Rev M W Sweitzer of Ephrata raises purebred Guernseys and white leghorns. 28 hens yield 170 dollars from Oct 26 to Aug 1. A S Kreider Shoe Co of Elizabethtown to erect a large electric sign atop their building with 700 lights by Century Mig Co. Herbert Wolf of Akron injured his knee in a trolley accident in Baltimore, worsened by a second injury during surgery. Miss Maggie Herr, 22, near East Petersburg, died after shooting herself. mental illness following influenza. A heavy ball and vane from Trinity Church Lancaster were removed and will be reencased. Philip F Ruhl, president of Keystone National Bank in Manheim, died at General Hospital from kidney trouble after visiting his daughter in Lititz. Funeral held Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Miriam Weidman
Ephrata
Angola
Strasburg
Charles FP
Manheim
M. W. Sweitzer
A. S. Kreider Shoe Company
Elizabethtown
Herbert Wolf
Akron
Wich
Baltimore
Maggie Herr
Trinity Church
Philip F. Rubl
Keystone National Bank
Lebanon County
General Hospital
Soldier Bollock Shares War Front Tales From Argonne
John Bollock of Marietta recalls his France service with vivid stories from the Argonne Forest. He describes a deadly shell near the spot where he had stood minutes earlier, a left ear wound from shrapnel, and a wagon mission under shellfire aided by a French officer. He plans to return to work at the Marietta furnace after service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bollock
Jacob Bollock
Marietta
France
Tate
Argonne Forest
Bollock
Marietta Furnace
Uncle Sani
Work Cost For Courthouse Painting Approved
The courthouse painting is finished and approved by the committee. George W. Pearthree carried out the job at a total cost of 2772 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
George W. Pearthree
Mennonite Minister Appointed in Hammer Creek District
John Hess, 84, farmer near Lititz, was selected by lot last Thursday to be minister of the Hammer Creek Mennonite district. He was chosen from twelve candidates in a ceremony attended by seven bishops and twenty-five ministers. Hess is a Lititz High School graduate and was ordained in a traditional service following the selection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hess
Lititz
Lot
Hammer Creek
Wisconsin Factories Create World’s Largest Cheese Wheel
Wisconsin factories announce a record cheese giant weighing 31 964 pounds standing eight feet high and ten feet wide with a value of 876 000. It required 347 000 pounds of milk from 1 800 dairy farms and twelve thousand sows supplied grazing to produce the milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Popular Mechanics
War camp girls to stage county frolic at Buchanan Park
About 500 Lancaster County girls from Elizabethtown Strasburg Witmer and other districts will entertain at Buchanan Park on Saturday August 23 under war camp community service auspices. Each district unit 23 to 50 members will perform stunts music tableaux or dancing to boost girlhood spirit and friendly county relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Camp Community Service
Lancaster City
Buchanan Park
Elizabethtown
Catharine Kuh
Germans doubt American soldiers murder claims in occupied Germany
Richard Henry Little reports in the Chicago Tribune that a German traveler says tenfold basis exists for atrocity stories about U S troops in Germany. Farmers describe Americans as kind yet odd, noting only humorous, hard to understand behaviors like aggressive fly swats and large troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Richard Henry Little
Chicago Tribune
Little
O. D. Boys
Littie
Imad
Hwanig
America
Lancaster's Big Bank Clearings Soar In First Seven Months
The bank clearing house for seven months totaled 76,707,000, topping Reading Erie Wilkes Barre and Chester and nearly doubling York. Lancaster's wealth shows in deposits of 44,000,000 across city and county banks, with Trenton just 8,000,000 behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Erie
Wilkes- Barre
Chester
York
Trenton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ruhl
N. H. Diehm
W. H. Buch the Record Building Clothier
Lititz, PA
Lithiz
Occupied Territory
Hank and
Pete
By Ken Kling
Abe Coungey
Cootes
Zr Mustea
Stratcu
Wingert & Haas Hat
John A. Haas
N. Queen St. Lancaster, PA
Chas. H. Frey
East
King St. Lancaster, Ps
W. A
S&m
Longman & Martinez, Makers
N.Y
Lancaster’s Big Bank Clearings
W. W. Appel & Son Jewelf Oo & Opticians
North Queen Street
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