Smoketown High School Opens as County News Flits Various Items
Paradise florist Harry H. Girvin declares bankruptcy while Lancaster’s George B. Wilson guides the county’s trees. Smoketown dedicates a $9000 high school building. A wandering “detective” Graves stays free at a county hotel. John F Tweed receives a letter for the jailed man. Abram Eberly and wife mark their 66th wedding anniversary, the county’s oldest married couple, with seven children visiting.
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Harry H. Girvin
Elizabethtown
George B. Wilson
Lancaster
Smoketown
East Lampeter
Graves
John F. Tweed
Abram Eberly
Quarryville
Who Can Fill the Vacancy at Lancaster County Schools
With the retirement of M J Brecht from the county superintendency of public schools there is strong interest in his successor. Directors name the superintendent, not politicians, and the fill will be difficult given high expectations for efficiency and integrity. Brecht’s long service is universally regretted. The Rucorp contains all the latest news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Brecht
Lancaster County
Milton J. Brecht
Oddities and small-town tales from early 1910
A patchwork of short notes from Blair and surrounding counties describes a foreign woman jailed for shotgun possession, indemnity payments to farmers for sheep losses, recovered heirlooms, a possum roast tale, a sleigh fire scare, a widow caring for a dying repairman who later left $700, and local curiosities from Catawissa and Harrisburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair County
Charlotte Morad
Harrisburg
J. K
Shirt Sleeves Report From Mexico Trip Ends Abruptly
Philadelphia North American notes chaperoned travelers returning from Mexico call the trip pleasant and describes investments as risky. It recalls a Dakota editor quip about delayed subs and a subscriber asking if bread can be kneaded with gloves, with a sharp reply about settling dues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Mexic
Adam
A Well Known Pedagogue Nath a Reist of Warwick
A portrait of Nath a Reist Lancaster County's famed teacher at Warwick near East Front Street. For 38 years he has led the grammar school with near perfect attendance and runs a 2500 volume library for pupils and the public. His natural history collections include beetles butterflies minerals and plants in a three story rear building and he remains an active conservation educator.
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Nath
An EE Reist
Lancaste
East Front Street
Warwick
Reist
Hhis
Publi School
Altoona
Java
Philippine Islands
New Zealand
Reiata
Brecht
Mr. Reist
Lancaster County Natural Science Club
Reiss
Interments in 1910 Steeped in Brickerville and Area Cemeteries
Record lists numerous interments in 1910 from Brickerville and nearby towns including Brickerville Lebanon Lititz Ephrata Weidmanville Brubaker Lexington Mt Airy and Johnstown. Dates span February to December with ages from newborn to 82 years and 11 months. Mrs Elizabeth Steiner John Zellers and Dr John Hertz among the longer-lived deceased.
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E. Schaerer
Brickerville
Daniel
John
Ida Whitcraft
Sugar Burgess
Cornwall
Samuel
Eewin
Lizzie West
Brunnerville
Elizabeth Steiner
Lebanon
John Zellers
Clay
Cyrus Goshert
Johnstown
Jacob Goshert
George Steinmetz
Ephrata
Fianna Zartmian
Weidmanville
John Blantz
Near Brubaker
Henry Daub
Lincoln
John Miller
Lexington
Johan Edwards
Israel Weidman
Lititz
Katie Mae Enck
Mt. Airy
John K. Hertz
St. John’s
Wisie B
Anna Sonders
Vera Catharine
Henry
Mabel Fasnacht
Irene Nessinger
Mt Airy
Reformed
Margie M
Lizzie Singer
Different From a Mountain and Faith That Moves Mountains
A Philadelphia minister and a registered physician discuss faith versus medicine. The doctor notes a swollen jaw from toothache as the skeptic scientist claims faith can move mountains, but the minister admits the cavity proves otherwise.
Persian ruler tests tale of French in Spain
Bard Belton recounts a Morocco sultan story where a dentist wife plays a piano piece titled the March on Cadiz. The sultan learns the Spaniards defeated about 200,000 French in Spain and then quietly asks for the piece to be played again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bard Belton
Morocco
Cadiz
Spain
Sultan
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W. H. Buch
Clothier and Gents’ Furnisher Record Building
Lititz, PA
Rucorp
DuBois
MacConnellsburg
The
Catawissa Courier
Mary Stroessel
Nathan EE. Reist
Nathan E. Reist
United States
Huffalo
Pitsburg
New York World
New York
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Moscow
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
Heinitsch
Heinitsh
S. Queen St
Oliver Bros
Oliver
Hoffmeier Bros
King Street
W. W. Apple & Son
North Queen Street
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