Hollinger couple relocates shop to Perkasie
Mr and Mrs Hiram D Hollinger moved their smoked meat green goods and confectionery business from 25 South Broad Street to Perkasie on Wednesday. They sold the business name to Martzall of East Petersburgh who takes charge and aims for a profitable venture. The Hollingers travel about 65 miles with two horses and their pug Nellie accompanying them, planning to arrive this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram D. Hollinger
Perkasie
South Broad Street
Martzall
East Petersburg
Nellie
Sturgis Child Dies After Week of Diphtheria
Arthur Sturgis eight year old son of Mr and Mrs William Sturgis of Apple Alley died Wednesday after a week long illness of diphtheria He is survived by four siblings at home Funeral services will be Friday morning at the Moravian Cemetery with Rev E S Hagen officiating
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul’s Lutheran
United Evangelical
Moravian
St. James Lutheran
United Brethren
St. Luke’s Reformed
The
Evangelical Alliance
Buiner
Deer
Raezer
Keene
Clarke
Woehrle
Hagen
Arthur
William Sturgis
Apple Alley
Diphtheria claims Laphelter child. two deaths in Warwick and Neffsville
Laura May Helter aged 3 years 1 month 21 days died Friday of diphtheria at Warwick Orange Street. Funeral Saturday at Machpelah Cemetery with Rev. Geo D Clarke. Edward Grube of Manheim Township died last Saturday at Neffsville aged about 80. buried at Neffsville Lutheran cemetery. Surviving relatives include wife Susan Grubaxer and siblings David Grube Fast Petersburg and Lydia Grube Lancaster. Funeral from Grube home and Lutheran Church services were held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura May
John Helter
Orange Street
Warwick
Machpelah Cemetery
Geo. D. Clarke
Edward Grube
Manheim Township
Neffsville
Lutheran Church
Susan Grubaxer
David Grube
Fast Petersburg
Lydia Grube
Lancaster
Mrs E B Kurtz Dies at Age 46 in Ephrata Township
Mrs E B Kurtz daughter of late Abram Kreider of Manheim died at her home in Ephrata township on Thursday afternoon December 26 after a prolonged illness of over two years from consumption. She was 46 years old and a member of the New Mennonite Church of Brownstown. Survived by husband and six children Kreider Joan Harry Clyde Mary and Anna all at home, a brother Dear Kreider of Manheim and a sister Mrs Mary Hoover of Manheim. Funeral from Brownstown Church Monday morning, interment in adjoining cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Kurtz
Abram Kreider
Manheim
Ephrata Township
New Mennonite Church
Brownstown
Kreider
Joan
Harry
Clyde
Mary
Anna
Dear Kreider
Mary Hoover
Life and Faith of Cornelia Regennas Revealed
Cornelia Regennas born June 7 1815 to George and Elizabeth Clewell near Bethlehem. She mentored in Lititz Moravian Sunday school and married Rev John J Regennas in 1851. She supported missions, had children Edward Eugene and Walter, lived in Hope Indiana, and died December 21 after a long devout life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelia Regennas
George
Elizabeth (Luckenbach) Clewell
Bethlehem
Lancaster
Samuel
Rachel
Shoenline) Grosh
Simon Eichler
Regennss
Canada
Edward J. Regennas
Lititz
Emaus
Hope
Ind
Lotullus
Eugene
Regen- Nas
Dagowber
Twelve Silver Cups and cash prizes awarded at Lancaster poultry show
The eighth annual Lancaster County Poultry Pigeon and Pet Stock Association exhibition ended Saturday in Linden Hall Gymnasium with judge F. G. Bean awarding twelve silver cups, cash prizes, and other premiums for best displays and breeds. Weather reduced attendance but exhibitors earned honors across multiple classes including Light Brahmas Leghorns Orpingtons Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association
Linden Hall Gymnasium
F. G. Bean
Collegeville
Mountain Orchard Poultry Farm
Narvon
E. J. Stiles
Red Lion
Mountain Orchard Poultry Farms
W. K. Snavely & Son
Lititz
Leisey & Waommert
Dr. Bitzer
W. E. Fasnacht
Plymouth Rocks
Litita Springs
Wyandottes
Howard Strickler
H. R. Gordon
Anconas
National Bantam Association
E.H. Witmer & Son
Neffsville
Hess Bros
Lencaster
Wm. Rapp
E. W. Garber
Mr. Joy
Newton Bitzer
B. C Thornton
Norton
W. EB. Fasnacht
Snavely & Son
EB. J. Stiles
Howard
B. J. Stiles
Elmer Eby
J. W.bruckart & Son
Amos W. Aungst
Lancaster
Lititz Springs
Plymouth Rock
E. D. Broadt
Best Display
Rhode Island Reds
J.m.druma
O. M. Romig
Schoereck
W. H. Muth & Co
Robert Yerger
W. H.muth & Co
Jos. D. Whitehead
Vandergrift
Memorable Compendium of Church Membership and Finance
Abstract of the membership statement reports 841 total members including communicants non communicants and children with a net gain of 19 communicants and 21 total membership. Baptisms marriages deaths and other movements listed. financial statement shows Synod ordered collections plus numerous society contributions totaling 5678.26 for benevolent church causes with 1556.63 for missionary causes split between foreign and home missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Synod
Men’s Missionary Society
Women’s Missionary Society
Ladies’ Missionary Society
Ladies’ Sewing Society
C. B
Circles of
King’s Daughters
Board of Elders
Home Missions
Winter Bird Census in Lancaster County Report
On December 26 observers Elmer Kautz and Herbert Beck documented bird species and counts along Hammer Creek and surrounding woods for Bird Lore. The tally lists 21 species with totals including crows about 435, and smaller totals for ruffed grouse two to 120 for the junco, totaling 335 individuals excluding crows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Kautz
Herbert Beck
Lancaster County
United States
Canada
Bird Lore
Hammer Creek
Speedwell Woods
Forge Hill
Lititz
Parrots from Panama Sheltered by Local Family
Mr and Mrs Charles K Rodgers recently arrived from Panama bringing tropical curios including four pretty parakeets kept by Mr and Mrs David Shenk, Rodgers sister in law. The green birds with gold tinges are easily tamed and once flew in flocks of up to fifty in Panama, shining brightly in sunlight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles K. Rodgers
Panama
Tropics
David Shenk
Rodgers
Local Base Ball Team To Hold Fair
The local baseball team under Ellis Butzer plans a fair in the band hall starting Saturday February 1 to raise funds to fix up the diamond, which has fallen behind in years. Citizens are urged to support this effort by the town’s baseball nine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis Butzer
Rural Carriers Remembered With Holiday Gifts
Six rural mail carriers at the local post office were remembered for Christmas by patrons, receiving a variety of tokens including poultry, soups, cash, and other items over several days. The note praises the kindness and gratitude of the senders and the carriers’ appreciation.
Extraordinary 42 inch tobacco leaf found in Warwick
John Yerger Jr of Warwick found a tobacco leaf on Wednesday that stretched a tape to 42 inches. The leaf is not very broad, but Yerger seeks information on any longer leaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Yerger, Jr
Warwick
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Qian
Geo. L. Hepp
Warwick House
Isaac Sarah
H. E. Grosh
Maple’ Street
W. H. Greek
Reedy
Spruce St
John Sesseman
C. W. Souders
D. W. Withers
John Nissley
David Helman
Gunning Club
Blue Rocks
W. K. Snavely
Rome
Paul Seaber
Eason
H. W. Kriebel
West Orange Street
Earl Grosh
F. and
M. Academy
Harry Reidenbach
Linden Hall
Ralph Buch
Chester
Spickler
Norman Badorf
Morris Frederick
Mr. Eckert
Custer
Dreamland Moving Picture Show
Burgess Steiner
Leib
Badorf
Baum
Miksech
Schnerer
Neidermyer
Water Street
M. G. Schaeffer
M. G. Schaeffer, Esq
C. N. Derr
Jacob B. Young
Wm. H. Greek
Walter Miller
Litiiz Springs National Bank
B. Young
Tom R. Gibbes
Stone
M. J. Steiner
Will Burgess
G. D. Schreier
W. H. Muth
Frank McKinney
M. G. Schborough
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Hershey, Seaman & Co
H. M. Fendersmith
Bear & Long
Our Boys
Ernest Hagen
Raymond Evans
Nazareth Hall Military Academy
Frankie Houck
Leo Houck
Strirz
M.G. C. Hagen
Groff
Shott
Kofroth
Kellers
Weitzel
Herr
Metzgar
Houck
P. Brown
Ay Evans
Groff L Shott
Zellers
Eman É
Hassler
Fred. Wheeler
Springs Hotel
Floyd Stark
Souderton
Howard Evans
Harry Wagaman
Ephrata
J. S. Reinhold
Ross Hoffman
Columbia
Mary Evans
A. $. Longenecker
Susan Buch
Elizabethtown
Janet Buch
T. R. Kreider
Gettysburg
Israel G. Erb
Samas
L. N.moyer
Grace
Reading
Robesonia
J. B. Haag
Shillington
Berks County
J. A. Kerchner
J. E. Keene
Harry Brubaker
Christian Imhoff
Lottie Duchman
Philadelphia
Ella Eshleman
Laura Fass
City
Charles Clewell
Nazareth
D. A. Ceohick
Ella
Edith Dyer
New Brunswick
N. J
Edwin Sturgis
Charlotte
Jesse Craig
Welsh Run
Franklin County
Charlotte Hacker
Jacob Weidner
U.S. S
Connecticut
New York
Benjamin Weidner
Charles Rodgers
Tampa
Florida
Catharine Reinhold
Jacob Hagey
Oliver Roaser
York
Jere Bowman
Chandler Hagey
Fred. Wollrath
Miriam
Mabelle
A. M. Kreider
Mildred
Verna
Edna Drew F
Mary Tshudy
Isa
Leah Spera
East Main Street
John E. Fleischman
Carl
Mber Feltz
Meiskey
Spruce Street
Moravian Congregation
Birds
Champion Tobacco Leaf
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