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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1920
Page
2
Stripping operates at a lively pace in the county tobacco cellars. Damp weather let Brewers harvest enough weed to keep busy. deliveries rise as bundles lead, fetching ten to eleven cents early and thirteen to sixteen later. Farmers sold wrappers for twenty five cents and fillers for twelve, while many plan for similar acreage next year despite market shifts.
The Franklin Sugar Refining Co announces future sales at 15 cents per pound after delivering one car sold at nine cents. Walter Thomas notes Earl D. Babst’s claim that no sugar has sold above nine cents in sixteen months. Retail prices in Lancaster range from 17 to 29 cents, with most stores above 17 cents.
Charles Roth aged 15 a pupil at the Tenth Ward Continuation School Allentown is seriously wounded at Sacred Heart Hospital after a captured German rifle discharged. The gun belonged to his brother and was shown to teachers and pupils when it fired striking his thigh and entering his body.
Government owned assets once tied to a wartime wagon and dump wagon contract fetched roughly two thousand from a Kane Manufacturing sale to a local junk dealer in McKean County. The deal follows wartime stock and chains left unused after armistice.
An effort to train former service men as expert farmers will be conducted at Honeybrook Vocational School with E. M. Byers as principal. About thirty to forty applications have been received for scholarships offered free to veterans.
Sixteen firms operate under Glidden Company. A Hagse now to establish the first vicepresident will locate there. The A Wilhelm Paint Company plant has been absorbed in the consolidation.
Richard Haughton of Paoli has spent years experimenting and has partially trained a flock of wild ducks. They now nest regularly along Chester Creek and about twenty ducks visit Great Valley Mills in Paoli each morning for breakfast.
A USDA specialist argues that an acre of ice from ponds could be worth about 2478 dollars at 34 dollars per ton, enough to cool milk and cream for summer shipment. He urges farmers to harvest ice during off-season when farming is light to prevent spoilage of dairy products.
An advance news item says improved market conditions for the 1920 tobacco crop will be presented at Heimenz Auditorium in Lancaster next Monday morning February 2 at 10 o'clock. Tobacco growers are urged to attend for reports on public sales floors and the world’s largest floor operation. Free lunch at 11:30 will be reserved by mail by Friday morning January 29 for attendees.
A comely black and white cow named Tilly Alcartra attended a Portland hotel crystal room luncheon to honor her extraordinary industry. In six years she produced 156,776.1 lb of milk yielding 6,146.36 lb of butter. she is seven years old. The scene is pictured in January Mechanics Magazine.
Chief's Best a spotted Poland China hog sold for $35000 in Noblesville Indiana setting a new record price. The animal owned by Prank Wise was bought by Wycoff and Simpson for an Iowa state breeders association.
A poultry theft spree hit Martic and Drumore townships with several farmers robbed. Herbert Graybill’s farm lost 100 chickens, while L. Arobler and John Barley suffered heavy losses. David Carroll fired a shotgun, claiming to wound one thief as the bandits escaped with a team.
David Briar and John Langley of London are in Lancaster as guests of Jas. P. Martin of the Lancaster Iron Works. They placed an order for several complete clay working machinery outfits to be built and shipped abroad once filled. Blair and Langley are noted as London contractors.
Miss Edna Graybill of Talmage leaves for Chicago to serve in a hospital and help combat the influenza epidemic. She is Lancaster county’s first woman to answer the Chicago call for nurses, after previously earning distinction as a United States army nurse overseas.
At a village meeting in Millersville a decision was made to buy a new fire engine costing 4000 dollars. The department currently has a truck a small engine and a ladder truck and the Ford propelled engine can pump water from any cistern well or stream when arriving at a fire scene.
A shipment of rabbits arrived at the northwestern Lancaster County area and was released by game warden A. B. Dietrich of East Petersburg from state gate preserves. The exact number was not learned but a liberal supply was implied. A mad bull escaped from Albert Brill of Elizabethtown and was tracked into nearby clearings near Furnace Hill before Guy Gochnauer shot it with a high power rifle, marking his first such experience.
Henry G. Lipp, Lancaster's oldest man, born in Germany in 1825, came to Lancaster in 1838 as a boy of 13. He and his wife celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary last October.
John Suter steps in as instructor for a new band in Quarryville after years guiding groups in New York and Florida. He understands the business and plans to lead rehearsals for several years.
J. H. Hostetter of Manor raised 68 crops of tobacco and won first prize in Class One with his exhibit at the State Farm Products Show held in Harrisburg last week.
Four Bulgarian Orthodox bathers in Harrisburg dive into the 12 F river on a frozen Susquehanna to recover a gilded cross cast into the water by the rector. Each man kisses the cross before tossing it back as spectators cheer during the annual Baptism of Christ commemoration.
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