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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1929
Page
9
Eight Lititz girls travel to Kepler Lodge near Pequea for a week long camp. Names listed include Dorothy Owen Edith Dichm Jean Pfautz Evelyn Pfautz Catherine Rollman Ruth Girvin Alverta Dussinger and Cleo Himmelberger. Record reads one dollar fifty cents per year.
Lancaster county farmers report a wheat harvest valued around 2,000,000 dollars from 108,000 acres yielding an average 21 bushels per acre, about six bushels above the 1928 state average. County Agent F S Bucher notes no acreage increase and that some potato growers reduced wheat plantings while others quit wheat. Weather from the west forecast yields and prices, with drought in Canada and the Dakotas easing price expectations.
The M. T. Garvin Department Store plans a publicity stunt by distributing new one, two, and five dollar bills just released by banks. They will release ten toy balloons daily from the store roof in Lancaster, each attached with a tag redeemable for one dollar pill at the store. Balloons are released daily at noon.
Guessers in Lititz are invited to estimate the yardage of a giant Plantz Brothers overalls suit shown in the store window. The winner, whose guess is exact or closest, receives a free suit. The garment stretches from ground to storefront awning, as featured in the classifieds.
The cigar store philosopher Cash Miller notes that happiness often arrives unplanned like jury duty or a fall on ice. He warns that happiness can come wearing false whiskers and a disguise, recognizable only too late, reflecting Thrift Magazine style.
A sailor warns that apples, though harmless to most, emit dangerous gases in confined ship holds. In a cargo hold, the gases can suffocate and fatally affect anyone trapped there, turning a seemingly innocent fruit into a deadly risk for sailors aboard.
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