Local items mix town news and recollections in Mt Joy area
In Mt Joy Albert Stickler sells a 12 pound cabbage for 10 cents at market. Maytown resident Andrew Hinton returns from Alaska with Klondike tales before heading back. Elizabethtown transplant Claude Grollman notes low prices for produce in Texas. Bart township mourns the loss of a parrot after forty years. Petitions to take over toll roads by condemnation are signed at a county meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Stickler
Mt. Joy
Andrew Hinton
Alaska
Burg
Maytown
Klondike
Claude Grollman
Elizabethtown
Texas
Robert S. McClure
Bart
Free Roads Campaign Launched By Lancaster Autoists Parade
Three hundred autos from Lancaster York Dauphin and Lebanon counties join a band led parade in Columbia to oppose tolls. Robert J. Cunningham and D F Magee speak on high Lancaster tolls including 40 cent river bridge charge for a four passenger car. Proceedings aim to condemn toll roads and press county control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Automobile Club
Columbia
State Armory
Lancaster County
Lancaster
York
Dauphin
Lebanon
Robert J. Cunningham
D. F. Magee
Boston
Delaware
Hudson Rivers
Pacific Coast
York County
Mississippi River
Penna
Lancaster and Susquehanna Pike
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Wrighteville
Neal of the Navy serial to debut in The North American
The North American will publish Neal of the Navy by William Hamilton Osborne starting Thursday August 26 as a daily six installment chapter. The first episodes blend Mount Pelee catastrophe with a new motion picture tie in promising dramatic eruption scenes and a novel screen adaptation approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neal
Navy
William Hamilton Osborne
Mount Pelee
Osborne
Far-Flung Journey Through Iowa to Chicago and Back
J. F. B. describes a 7500 mile journey from Denver along Union Pacific through Colorado Nebraska Iowa to Maquoketa and Canton Ohio then Chicago. He notes prosperous Iowa farms with alfalfa cattle and crops, Maquoketa’s pleasant town design, hospitality from Beidler family and others, and thanks to many friends across Stark county, California and Los Angeles. The trip is billed as joyous with no illness or accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Colorado
Upper
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Omaha
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Iowa
Chicago
Missouri River
Keystone
Clinton
Mississippi River
Illinois
Maquoketa
Jackson County
Lancaster County
Edward Beidler
Agnes
Sweet Sixteen
Rebecca Beidler
John H. Seifert
Berks County
Chicago and Northwestern
Windy City
Pittsburgh
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Ohio
Canton
Stark County
Uniontown
Tuscarawas Valley
Joseph Reighart
Charles Brobst
Allen Leed
John Leed
Ralph Bassler
Shiffler Family
Dayton, O
California
W. C. Wise
San Francisco
Lydia Mohr
Bard
Los Angeles
Thrifty Without Raising Tobacco on Hostetter Farm
A 180 acre Manor farm of Bishop Christian Hostetter shows thrift by abandoning tobacco for fruit. An orchard now covers ten acres with apples and peaches while dairy cattle, grain crops, and vegetables support a self sufficient homestead. The family values education with sons sent to training school and brothers learning farming, with peanut trials in the orchard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian N. Hostetter
Brethren In Christ Church
Hostetter
Timothy
Columbia
Christian
Bible and Missionary Training School
Greythorne
Cumberland County
Prospect Hill School
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W. H. Buel Dothier Tmz
The
Reading
R. R
Niagara Falls
Eagles
Toowa
Bishop Hostetter
John
Farmers National Bank
Lititz
Panama
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Walthams
Elgins
Hamiltons
Appel
Lord Jewelers
Opticians
EN Sports
W. A
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
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