Rail and trade notes highlight ICCLehigh Valley ruling and shipping shifts
The Interstate Commerce Commission orders Lehigh Valley Railroad to reimburse shippers harmed by discriminatory rates, signaling industrywide scrutiny. While praising refrigeration advances and New Zealand butter exports, the piece also critiques Pennsylvania’s Legislature and governance, noting governorate costs and future royal standards. Local market reports show seasonable produce, with beans, peas, berries, apples, beets, potatoes, chickens, eggs and butter prices recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Lehigh
STRICTLY PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LITITZ AND AREA
Local society notes recount visits and travels of residents and guests from Reading Pittsburg Erie Kirksville and Nazareth. Highlights include J C Jenkins trip with family to Kansas City and Los Angeles. Jennie Grosh at Penn Alto Chautauqua Mount Gretna. many former Lititz residents visiting for the Fourth. and annual summer culture mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gibble
Reading
J. C. Jenkins
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Cal
Winifred Armstrong
Pittsburg
G. K. Sembower
Charles M. Pfautz
Mildred Carson
Pfautz
Cohick
Jacob Herring
Erie
Jacob
Frank Baird
Mary Fides
Kirksville
Lititz
Christiana
Elizabeth Gormley
Mary Reidenbach
Frederick
Linden Hall
Wm. Gormley
Lititz Academy
W. R. Stephens
Chicago
Harry Snavely
Horace Yerger
Charles Zartman
Morris Seaber
Elsia Huber
Thomas Haisch
Allan Roth
Harvey Wagner
Lititz Springs Sunday School Picnics and Local Concerts
A dense list of summer church and civic events across Lititz and surrounding towns runs through July and August. Included are Sunday school picnics at Lititz Springs hosted by multiple denominations and occasional concerts by Beck’s and Back’s Concert Bands, with reunions and camp meetings noted for various families and churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puesday
Lancaster M
Lititz Springs
Lancaster Bethany NV
Jay
Lititz
Beck
Covenant A. B
Lancaster
Paula Reformed
School of Lancaster
United Evangelical Sunday
School of Litita
Brunnervills U. S
Hess' Grove
Mt. Andrews Reformed Sunday School of Lancaster
Ephrata Union
Mt. Calvary Sunday School of Lancaster
Beox’s
St Mark’s Lutheran Sunday School of Lancaster
A. B
St. John's Lutheran
Brickerville
Lancaster Memorial Presbyterian
Litite Springs
Lancaster Gorman Reformed
Lancaster St. Luke's Reformed
St. Paul's M.E
of Lancaster
Muddy Creek Church Union
Little St. Paul's Lutheran
Lit
Lutheran League of Trinity Lutheran Church of Lancaster
Akroh
Buch
Hottest Weather Wave Rules The Week
An excessive heat wave grips the region with temperatures reaching and exceeding 100 degrees since last Sunday. The heat remains intense day and night, causing numerous prostrations and delaying Northern Central train service in Columbia due to warped rails. Breaks are emerging as cooling westerlies move in, though no major thunderstorms have appeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Northern Central Railroad
Lehigh Graduates Buch Family Reunion Planned
Lehigh University mentions two Buchs Newton Wayne Buch of Newcastle Pennsylvania class of 1901 and Jose Anthony Bueh of Santiago Cuba class of 1906. A Buch reunion is set for Thursday August 17 at Lititz Springs with hopes they attend or provide pedigree. If Jose writes in Spanish, Herman J. Prueauff of Bethlehem may translate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehigh University
Buch
Lititz Springs
Newton Wayne Buch
A. C
Edison Avenue
Newcastle
Jose Anthony Bueh
C. E
Sagarra Alta
Santiago
Cuba
Jose
Herman J. Prueauff
Bethlehem
Practised Fishing in His Back Yard
Billy, a devoted fisherman, worries he has lost the art of scientific fishing as he repeatedly casts into a tub of water in his back yard. Passersby find his attempts amusing, yet he remains hopeful for better results next time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy
Returns Without a Husband in Ephrata Tale
Mary King who left Ephrata to wed Chas Browser of Cape May Court House NJ returned home without a husband. The announced wedding in Philadelphia was postponed and then broken off after the pair met. Mary traveled via Philadelphia to Cape May Court House and Rio Grande NJ while her parents insisted on the course after the engagement failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary King
Ephrata
Chas
Browser
Cape May Court House
N. J
Mary
Spangler Avenue
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Rio Grande
N.J
Wm. Horn, Jr
Stella State
Miss King
Lexington Doings News Briefs and Local Notes
Local items report the death of George Mearig struck by a train near Lancaster, a note on wheat harvest heat, the Dillman factory moving to Henry Enck’s shop with ownership transfer to Tauber Ryttenberg & Co, and residents Robert Russel family planning to move to Lititz. School vacancy filled by Jennie B. Carpenter, visits by John William Dunkelberger, improvements at Brownstown hotel, and a joint Ebenezer Immanuel Sunday School picnic set for July 22 with New Holland band providing music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Here
George Mearig
Lancaster
D. H. Snavely
Dillman
Henry Enck
Mr. Dillman
Messrs. Tauber
Ryttenberg
Farmersville
Jennie B. Carpenter
John William Dunkelberger
Bernville
James W. Klopp
Brownstown
Ebenezer United Evangelical
Immanuel Evangelical Association
Brownstown Camp Grove
New Holland
Lightning Rods Offered by Local Sub-Agent
The undersigned acts as sub-agent for A. R. Kochel of Leola and can take orders for scientifically proper lightning rods. Kochel, an authority on rod construction, and his crew promise rapid service, noting the many rods already installed in the region as proof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Kochel
Leola
Kochel
Akron Notes: Kemper Family Visit and Local Activities
Mr and Mrs George A Kemper spent three days with the Gibble family in Oxford. A Saturday baseball festival at which the Denver band played was a success. Akron shoe factory workers are on a ten day Fourth of July vacation. Wayne R Bender and family travel to Hamilton New Jersey to stay with Mrs Werntz family. Cigarmaking remains dull. Large standpipe material has arrived and work will start soon under supervisor Mr Stires. Steam shovel apparatus has arrived and trenching for pipes will begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Kemper
Gibble
Oxford
Denver
Akron Shoe Factory
Wayne R. Bender
Hamilton
N. J
Stires
Philipsburg
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. F. Buch
Lititz, Pa
Post Office
Australasian
New Zealand
Great Britain
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Thien
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Capitol
Treasury
Lebanon
Cocalico
William R. Brinton
Ella Butzer
Manheim
Henry Wissler
Lexington Doings
Brownstown and Vicinity
Benj. F. Lutz
Ind
Cedar ST
Lititz’ Pa
B. B. Leaman
N. Broad St
Akron Notes
Litliz
D. E. Light
Penna
Felker’s Store
J. C. Felker
S. Sprace St. Lititz, PA
Watt & Shand
New York State
Corner Square
East King Street
Leinbach
Batiste
H. Green
Leinbach & Co
Queen St
Lancaster’s New Hardware Store
Tool and Cutlery Store
I. P. Reese
King St
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