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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1923
Page
2
Over 200 Kane residents who bought American Plate Glass stock at $100 per share years ago receive about $750 per share via checks from Durant automobile interests now running the plant. Total checks reach $2,000,000 plus bonds and liens to settle the stock.
Citibone DeMonico from Allentown works as a hod carrier for contractor Joseph Durrin on a brick block for Joseph Mulhearn in Freeland. He earns about 100 dollars weekly, paid 1.35 dollars per hour, starting at 5 am and often working 12 hours a day for around 16.20 dollars daily. He is described as a handy worker who keeps regular hours and ample rest.
Improve butter quality to raise farm income. Pennsylvania ranks second in the nation with over 38 million pounds produced yearly. A 92 scoring butter could add about 2.4 million dollars to dairymen if the grade improves from 89. Guidance from the Pennsylvania State College is urged. Poultry care, grain bin readiness, raspberry disease control, and fruit spraying timing are also outlined for farmers.
Peter Burlington of Philadelphia, a Rocky Springs summer worker, is a bird charmer. His main pet is a flicker rescued after a mother resented three fledglings. Each morning at five the bird perches on a tree and whistles for a friend, then flies to Burlington’s shoulder for breakfast in the kitchen.
Irate Mt Gretna residents push to ban dogs at the Pennsylvania Chautauqua after several children were bitten. An overwhelming stockholders vote urged managers to remove dogs from the grounds. The board will take definite action this week.
A listing of upcoming reunions picnics and church events across Lancaster county from late July through August including Zem Zem Broad Street M E 8 Hershey Fishburn Brunnerville Ephrata Millport Ker parcels Pasnacht Mishler Mishler family reunion and multiple church related gatherings at Ephrata park Landisville Lititz Springs and Lebanon Fair dates and locations.
More than 40 percent of Millersville Normal School summer session enrolls from Lancaster city and county, totaling 267 of 652 students. The cohort includes 199 girls and 68 boys from Lancaster, with girls comprising 488 of the overall 652 students, and 164 boys. Students hail from York, Lebanon, Dauphin, Schuylkill, Juniata, Blair, Chester, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Bedford, Clearfield, Berks, and Bucks counties.
Farmers across Columbia county tackle labor shortages by cooperative help. Groups of four to five farmers rotate tasks from hay to grain, sharing chores. Women join in field work driving hay rakes and even three horses to binders, with one husband supplying transport to the binder.
Bass pulls a 10-year-old boy into the water at Kurts dam near Coatesville after a strong jerk. Stanley Kowalsky fights the 19 inch four pound fish in a long battle, ending with the boy winning. The display on Main street halts business briefly. Also, a bear rides Ward Casebeer’s car running board in Potter forests as a mother bear and cubs wander the road causing a near wreck.
Mrs. Mary Snyder, 60, died in Pottstown after gauze was left in her incision twenty-five years prior during a hospital operation. Doctors failed to diagnose the ailment. at a late operation before death it was found tissue had grown around the gauze, making removal impossible.
Dr. J. F. Mentzer of Ephrata has been appointed a trustee of the state insane asylum at Harrisburg. In Lancaster County, Mary Loudis aged 93 resident 17 years at Henry G. Long Home is among the oldest residents, with Mrs. Elizabeth Ressiel at 95 the only peer. A quarry blast at Quarryville Lime Cove used a ton of dynamite, yielding about 10,000 tons of stone. West Hempfield’s John K. Rover, 81, continues daily wood chores. Governor Pinchot vetoed a bridge bill for a Susquehanna River crossing, dampening York and Lancaster hopes for new bridge traffic relief. A turkey buzzard attacked Walter Jackson’s Andrews Bridge barnyard, but was driven off by a dog as youngsters nurse four found baby rabbits. George W. Young, 88, Columbia’s oldest G. A. R. man, remains active. Work continues seven days a week on extending the Ephrata line of the L. M. N. electric railway through Akron.
Paul Burkholder of Ephrata was elected principal at a recent school board meeting. A 1916 Ephrata High School alum, he taught five years and spent two years at Millersville Normal and F and M College, graduating this year.
The Bellfonte Watchman editor observed a two foot long cannibal trout with a second trout in its mouth drifting past High street bridge. A crowd watched as a stone forced the larger fish to release its catch. the smaller trout escaped, its scales peeled off.
A Lancaster gathering of the County Publishers Association approved auditors’ notes on the secretary treasurer’s accounts and a strong balance. Governor Pinchot was praised for vetoing measures weakening divorce action and county expenditure oversight. A resolution urged publishers to attend Washington representation and boycott unfavorable exhibitions unless space is paid for. Ben Zellner of Allentown, Civil War veteran, reported an X-ray showing a bullet lodged in his hip from Cedar Creek, misattributed to a bayonet thrust.
In run down condition catarrh worsens, proving it is influenced by constitutional health. Hall's Catarrh Medicine combines an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic to improve general health. Sold by druggists for over 40 years, J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Philadelphia November 10 1884 profile of John Rickert a prominent teacher and early educator praised for his mastery in mathematics chemistry natural philosophy history and languages. The piece lauds his teaching skill and versatility and promises future exploration of his personal life and character.
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