Bible Institute Opens at Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown College will host a Bible Institute starting Friday at 9 A.M. with Elder E B Hoff, Miss Elsie Shickles, Elder Jesse Emmert, and faculty members leading lectures. Two week Training School follows, tuition 3 dollars, room and board 10 dollars, total 18 dollars, open to all denominations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Bible Institute
Elizabethtown College
E. B. Hoff
Bethany Bible School
Chicago
Ill
Elsie Shickles
Roanoke
Gennral Sunday School Board
Church of the Brethren
Jesse Emmert
India
S. H. Hertzler
I. W. Taylor
Ober
Meyer
Schlosser
Nye
Brother Hoff
Shrckles
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Lehigh Tops Pennsylvania Potato Harvest Nationwide Potatoes
The Department of Agriculture announced yields over 100 bushels per acre in 39 counties. State average is about 402 bushels per acre with a total crop near 26 million bushels. Lehigh leads with 2,869,500 bushels, Lancaster second at 1,182,000, York third at 1,350,000.
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Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Lehigh
Lancaster
York
Luzerne
Potter
Susquehanna
Wyoming
Fulton
Clearfield
Northampton and
Tioga
Schuylkill
Adams
Blair and
Columbia
Camperland
New United Brethren Church to be Erected at Hershey
At a Hershey United Brethren quarterly conference Rev. R R Butterwick authorized trustees to secure a site for a new modern church. A suitable lot lies on the west end of Hershey on the south side of Hershey Square, 180 by 180 feet, in the heart of the chocolate town. The present church is too small for growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey
United Brethren Church
R. R. Butterwick
Hershey Square
Hog raising and meat storage among neighbors
The article notes a shift in hog raising last season as spring prices dropped, allowing more households to own hogs. It observes rivalry among owners who sell, with many families now maintaining meat in the cellar and sufficient lard for a year amid high living costs.
Weiser Deed Reveals Stoever’s Mill Ownership in 1750
Recorder John G. Zimmerman of Lebanon County found a deed showing Conrad Weiser and his wife Eva transferred Stoever’s mill site on the Fredericksburg Road to Jacob Tuber in December 1750. This links the pioneer to early Moravian history and notes Weiser’s role as an Indian interpreter and ally to Count Zinzendorf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Zimmerman
Lebanon County
Conrad Weiser
Stoever
Weiser
Count Zinzendorf
Lititz
Sugar Shortage Outlook Delays Relief Until January
A sugar broker says relief from the sugar shortage will not come before January 10 as Philadelphia refineries resume operation. He notes favorable Cuban weather and many mills grinding may bring shipments by mid January, with supplies improving by month’s end though prices are expected to rise before stabilizing once demand adjusts.
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Philadelphia
Cuba
Tanks Ordered by US Government After War End
The United States government placed orders for 23 390 tanks worth about 175 million dollars. The fleet would be manned by roughly 58 000 men, as many as the entire prewar army, and if lined up would form a 40 mile long moving wall of steel.
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United States
Spain
Ey Alexander Powell
Player Scribner’s Sons
Reading Tlose Company plans Cuba trip and local news items
The Reading Tlose Company plans a trip to Cuba. Philip Heraty of Mauch Chunk visits Alpine Cal for a poultry ranch stay and may settle there. Turkeys falter at 65 cents a pound in Harrisburg as buyers balk. Several local deaths and accidents are noted, including a Nazareth child’s passing and a Doylestown millyard avalanche injury.
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Reading Tlose
Cuba
Philip Heraty
Mauch Chunk
Alpine
Cal
Harrisburg
Charles Morrieea
Charles Morricca
Nazareth
Easton Hospital
Harry Smith
Walter McNeal
Yardley Mills Co
Doylestown
Landisville Wins Engine. County News Mix
Happenings report multiple local items including Landisville's purchase of a 40 horsepower Win ton chemical engine mounted on a chassis. Terre Hill fire company buys a concrete block fire house site. bonds in Columbia bought by a Philadelphia firm at a premium amidst a $45,000 issue.
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Terre Hill Fire Company
Chester H. Engle
Eliazabethtown
Florida
Lavish Lancaster Wedding Feasts On Record
At Bird in Hand home of David B Beiler Lizzie daughter of the host married Levi Fisher of Intercourse Bishop Beiler performed the ceremony followed by a wedding feast for 250 guests. The menu included five geese fifteen ducks twenty five chickens four hams forty custards eighty pies twenty two cakes a tub of doughnuts and three bushels of celery. It was the largest wedding party ever held in Lancaster county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
David B. Beiler
Lizzie
Levi Fisher
Bishop Beiler
Harrisburg Council Approves Daylight Saving Ordinance
Harrisburg City Council approved a daylight saving ordinance to move clocks one hour ahead on the last Sunday in March and return on the last Sunday in October, matching wartime practice after the Federal act was repealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
City Council
Hunter returns with eight pound rabbit after mistaken hunt
In Bart township Farrel Neff, a hunter for Charles Reinhart, finally bagged a rabbit eight pounds heavy after a season of empty outings. Investigation revealed the animal was Ben Waltman's pet Belgian hare, leading to a remedy of sending Waltman a stew of rabbit as settlement.
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Farrel Neff
Bart Township
Charles Reinhart
Farrel
Ben Waltman
Ben
Public sale items and local developments report
At a Perkasie sale an old quilt fetched 50 dollars and a candlestick 20 dollars. The Enos Waltman family moved from Dromore to a new home in San Francisco. Marietta plans a third silk mill with a new one expected by spring. The Lancaster and New Danville pike is toll free. State and county each contributed 15000 dollars to stockholder payments. The road is only five miles long.
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Perkasie
Enos Waltman
Dromore
San Francisco
Marietta
Lancaster
New Danville
Stork Wins Race On Express Train Victory Report
A stork reportedly raced a passenger train named the Washington Philadelphia express and won. The bird hovered near the train near Lock Haven as the crew observed it in evident excitement. A parlor car front became a temporary maternity ward and a doctor aboard assisted. At Sunbury the Mary M. Packer Hospital ambulance responded and Mrs. John Shiles of Shamokin and a new baby girl were taken to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lock Haven
Sunsbury
Mary M. Packer Hospital
John Shiles
Shamokin
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Bible Institute
W. H. Buch
Lititz Fire House
Keystone
J. P. Ashbrook
West Chester
Charles R. J. Hayes
Cumberland County
William HM. Miller
Carlisle Indian School
Carlisle
Switzerland
Bethlehem United Brethren Church
Dallastown
Tionel Jackson
Lester Mummey
Orefield
Lehigh County
the Argonne
Haiti
Ezra Muramey
Stoney Hollow
Wagontown
West Caln
Joseph Hatchett
Charles C. Hutchenl
Mevhaniesboro
Kansas
Middletown
John Krone
Susquehanna River
Tieut
Ray W. Brown
Landisville
Winton Chemical
W. B. Ishiler
Rock Lake
North Dakota
Elizabethtown
Milton Grove
H. A. Schreyer
Lanester
Manheim
Aaron Hoover & Co
New Holland
BE. L. Nissley & Sons
Cloyd W. Bartley
Sarah Johnson Webster Mellinger
R. H. Crawford
Hyman
Alter
E. S. Hacker
Ephrata
New York State
Franklin and Marshall College
Byers
Manheim Township
Rossmere
R. C. Renninger
Durham
Buffalo Live
Has. H. Frey’s Shoe Store
East King St
Lancaster, Pa
Wingert & Haas Hat Store
John A. Haas
Queen St. Lancaster, PA
England
W. A
Harrisburg Council
IAS
Stork
Express
W. W. Appel & Son Jewelers & Opticiana
Binorth
Lanoa
Ueen Street
Ter, Pa
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