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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
2
Farm notes urge readers to study pest life history and report that Pennsylvania State College issued a bulletin on the red banded leaf roller. Spring field tasks include manure spreading, ventilating poultry houses, and completing garden records. Grow trees and shrubs from hardwood cuttings before midwinter cold risk.
A discovery in Lebanon County reveals a colony of beavers living in the area alongside established families of beavers and brewers. The finding expands the region’s noted fauna and prompts further observation by local naturalists.
County Game Protector William L. Ibach located a colony of beavers in the northern Blue Mountains during a Monday business trip. It is the first known wild beaver colony in Lebanon county, with about twenty-five beavers released state wide six years ago now likely migrating from Schuylkill county. The animals are thriving in a large pond. Beavers are protected by law for at least fifteen years, and killing one carries a heavy fine.
James Crouch, confidant and advance man for the Fife Brothers evangelists, vanished last Wednesday with 57 dollars. The missing man, about 55, wore a blue gray suit and glasses, brown shoes, brown overcoat and brown hat, and had worked in McKeesport the prior week. Police urged to arrest him and inform Robinson Illinois headquarters.
Elmer Kreiser of Royalton received a prison term from three to six years in the Eastern Penitentiary after a 30 minute jury deliberation. He was convicted of wholesale chicken thefts in the south eastern section of Lebanon county.
An apple tree planted in 1797 by early settler Jonathan Colley near Benton persists despite a surrounding pine forest. The gnarled trunk is split, and wind has uprooted many other orchard trees left behind as pines grew taller.
Williamsport at the junction of the Susquehanna and Horse Shoe Trails sees thousands of tourists weekly as winter travel from New York State and the north peaks. Local charity groups report no aid cases for automobile hoboes in the area, with no food medicine or money assistance required.
The Ephrata School Board seeks a site for a new school house amid urgent state education orders. A Lancaster York grand jury review will consider the Susquehanna bridge plan with a preliminary survey due within two weeks. Valley Forge Park hosts an historic organ from St Pauls New York, linked to Washingtons inauguration.
A brief note highlights watercress as a highly regarded food in medical circles, citing its real nutritional value and traditional esteem among practitioners.
Lititz residents learn to heed backache as a kidney warning. Mrs Elmer H Eberly reports relief from backache headaches and dizziness after using Deans Pills from Densels Drug Store. Fester Milburn Co Buffalo NY manufactures. 60 cents at dealers.
A simple method uses an electric bulb placed inside the shoe to provide steady heat. The dry warmth evaporates moisture without warping the footwear, offering gentle drying.
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