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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
2
Carlisle resident Mrs Grover Myers shot the season's first deer, a five pronged head, on Charles Hamil's farm. A mammoth white oak near Stewartstown yielded 48 railroad ties 400 feet of lumber and two cords of wood from its limbs.
From Santa Cruz California to Leb anon Allwein traveled in a Dodge car arriving at his former home after a little under a month on the road. He photographed petrified forests cliff dweller homes desert scenes and other sights. He wore a tourist outfit. Wilmore Real Estate near Somerset reports bumper crops with cabbage at about 400 tons and hundreds of bushels of apples and potatoes harvested.
Four thieves hauled a big safe from the Ashland Reading station, found a mile and a half from Higgins in Schuylkill county. The door was blown open with all cash and money orders taken, but train tickets and a pay check for station agent Francis Meehan were recovered beneath the safe.
The 1920 census shows Lancaster with 916 Black residents, up 118 from ten years earlier, and a white population of 52,226, up 5,811. Lancaster also lists 8 in other categories for Indians Chinese and others. Harrisburg reports 5,256 Black residents, up 721, and a white population of 70,644, up 11,008. Chinese Indians and others total 17.
A Iowa farmer solves concrete door wear by inserting a three inch thick iron barrier in the groove at the barn entrance. Holes drilled every two feet accept rods to anchor the iron, protecting the concrete and creating a smooth door guide.
A four plane fleet flown to Nome Alaska and back completed the 9000 mile trip from Mitchell Field Long Island on October 20. Captain St Clair Street led the expedition to prove the durability of Ford Liberty motors and forge an Arctic air route to Asia. The return landed at 3 15 pm after weathering rain snow hail sleet fog and mist. The army pilots praised the motors no spark plug changes or missed cylinders were needed throughout the journey, a potential record for aerial navigation.
County resident John E. Wenger of Denver travels by sea from Chester to Miami and plans to spend the winter in Florida. The report notes wage reductions affect workers, with Eby Shoe Co of Ephrata cutting pay by two percent, about 40 cents weekly for a $20 wage.
A rear window lock was broken at E. Renninger’s cigar factory in Reinhold’s Station last week and 3,700 cigars were stolen. Supt. Fleisher, recovering from surgery at St Joseph’s Hospital in Lancaster, is rapidly mending there. Also noted are two oddly joined apples from G. J. Raub’s Red Rose farm and a failed installment clothing sale to Manheim residents.
President H. K. Ober of Elizabeth town College has returned from a monthlong lecture tour across the United States from Seattle to Lancaster. He was greeted by the student body at his College Avenue home. The issue also notes a 1921 dog licensing drive under the Pennsylvania Dog Law of 1917, warning that unlicensed dogs after January 15, 1921 may be killed and owners fined or imprisoned.
A lone trailing juniper near Elizabethtown on the Christ Shenk estate has been placed under Boy Scout care. The plant, under two and a half feet tall with a 45 foot spread and over 2000 square feet, appears as ground foliage yet shows a prostrate trunk and dense upright branches. State officials and forestry experts deem it historic and urge continued protection, noting age estimates around 165 years and a prior record of large growth in 1860.
In Pennsylvania last year ice cream value reached 26,228,400 dollars and confectionery including chocolate and cocoa products was over 81,000,000 dollars. Sugar refined in the state had a value of 128,562,700 dollars.
61 hogs on 8 P G Bard’s Fronville farm have died from poison in their feed with 33 more sick. Bard expects nearly 100 total killed. Authorities seek suspects. Bard accuses deliberate poison. Also notes Pennsylvania coal reserves and rising home heating costs at 10 dollars a ton.
A historical sketch recalls Dr Pierce, a rural physician who gained fame for curing disease. He later settled in Buffalo and marketed his Golden Medical Discovery tonic made from roots and barks. The remedy was sold nationwide, claimed to aid stomach liver and heart and over twenty four million bottles were sold.
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