Dissolution of South Mountain Lumber Company
The South Mountain Lumber Company filed dissolution papers after thirteen years in business. It operated mills in Ligbanou, Lancaster, Dauphin, Jiumiats and Berks counties with five mills at times, capital stock rising from 15000 to 50000 dollars. Labor scarcity and timber shortages ended the enterprise. a theft of forty chickens occurred during a lovefeast at Rapho township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Mountain Amber Company
Ligbanou
Lancaster
Dauphin
Jiumiats
New Morrisburg Auto Theft Law Imposes Heavy Penalties
A new Morrisburg law targets auto theft and related offenses, imposing fines up to 5000 dollars or up to 100 years in solitary confinement, or both, on thieves, accessories, or receivers of stolen vehicles. The measure aims to curb the ongoing car theft and resale cycle across the state. Maria Herr, oldest resident of Lower Lancaster County, celebrated her 101st birthday at Collins with a large turnout, health otherwise good aside from failing eyesight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrisburg
Maria Herr
Lancaster County
Collins
Clay and Hinkletown turnpike to be freed this month
County sources report the Clay and Hinkletown turnpike will be freed from toil this month. Various local notes include new ice plant operations at Quarryville creamer y, a divorce case in Nellsville, and plans for cadetship appointments at West Point. Local farms shift to corn, shipments to Newark, and signs of war signals amid odd discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay
Hinkletown
Harald Givler
Ephrata
Quarryville Farmers Creamery
Virginia Lee Grosh
Nellsville
William W. Grosh
Harry Tome
Unicorn
Clyde M. Swart
Landisville
West Point
Military Academy
E. S. Metzler
West Earl
Newark
N. J
John Suter
Quarryville
Florida
Bainbridge
Daniel Peifer
Martin B. Ressler
Pequea Township
Lancaster
Jielen Taft
Taft
Williamson
Tonall Promises Restored Energy and Health
Jonas Yorty of Jonestown Lebanon County Pa reports a tired feeling from stomach trouble eased by one Tonall bottle. He says limbs strengthened stomach improved and overall health enhanced, recommending Tonall as a safe system builder sold at J E Charles Drug Store Lititz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonas Yorty
Jonestown
Lebanon County
Tonah
J. E. Charles’ Drug Store
Lititz
Town notes list passes and incidents across Lebanon region
The report covers a 22 pound water turtle captured by Samuel Kipp near Lebanon, the Mt. Gretna cottage sale to Andrew T. B. of Lancaster for 84200, ongoing piers trouble on the Susquehanna bridge above Nowenna, Goll & Co plans big repairs, Campbelltown to get a bank with 25000 capital, and incorporators including Kreider Brandt Wagner Peters Lenich Moyer and others. It also mentions Joseph Wolfe’s war experience in France, a Baltimore restaurant in Uniontown closed for roosters and Belgian hares, the new state bounty law to start next Monday with changes to payment through the State Game Commission, and bear encounters frightening two oil field workers from Dahesga as captured by a hair-raising scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Kipp
Lebanon
Mt. Gretna
Alicea M. Batt
Andrew TB
Rete
Lancaster
Susquehanna
Nowenna
Goll & Co
Campbelltown
Henry K. Kreider
Phraim M. Brandt
Edwargs. Wagner
William N. Peters
Charles A. Lenich
Paul L. Moyer
Harry McCurdy
John Moyer
Joseph Wolfe
George Wolfe
St. Clair
State Game Commission
Auditor General
Auditor General’s Department
David Jones
McKean County
Jones
James Seiger
Dahesga
Krain
Seiger
Newmanstown Musician Brought Mas cot Home From France
Serjeant John Reed of Newmanstown Pa returned a French puppy named Beaucoup with the 316th Infantry Regimental Band aboard the Texan. The dog was smuggled from Shippes where the regiment quartered, carried in a glass horn strapped to the sergeant’s back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
316Th Infantry
Beaucoup
John Reed
Newmanstown
Sergi. Reed
Shippes
America
Pennsylvania mother sets record with third twin set in three years
Mrs. Annie Cholick, 24, at Shamokin State Hospital, becomes state’s champion mother by delivering six children in three years. The first twins, two boys, arrived in 1916, the second pair, a boy and a girl, in 1917, and the latest twins are two boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Cholick
Pennsylvania
Shamokin State Hospital
Ephrata Warts 10 Develop Talking Machine Business
J. K. Mohler of Ephrata has begun making talking machines and envisions a local factory to meet demand. Current output runs well below demand at about 90 percent of needed levels, while Lititz operates a plant with 40 to 50 workers and plans to raise output to around three thousand ninety machines. A new building is planned due to rapid business growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. K. Mohler
Ephrata
Mr. Mohler
Lititz
Deadly Lewisite poison showcased at Washington exposition
A tiny vial on display at the Interior Department exposition in Washington, D C, exhibits Lewisite, a highly lethal American-developed poison. Described as capable of wiping out vast populations, it was created by Prof W Lee Lewis and produced near Cleveland. Officials say experts doubt anyone would steal the sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Germany
United States
Berlin
Manhattan Island
France
Lewissle
Bureau of Mines
W. Lee Lewis
Northwestern University
Evanston
Cleveland
Bureau of Nines
Flanders
Exposition Scholar Avoids Secretary Lane’s Department
A terse account notes the exposition's stance toward Secretary Lane’s department, highlighting deliberate avoidance of engagement and minimal interaction with official operations. The text emphasizes neutral distance and nonparticipation as a policy.
Daylight Saving Debate Intensifies in Congress
Southern members of Congress push repeal as daylight saving faces resistance. More than twenty bills and resolutions are introduced, and the measure is planned as a rider to the large Agricultural bill currently under drafting by a subcommittee.
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Munsing
Cooper
Wilson Baum
W. H. Buch
Record Building
Clothier Litit2
South Mountain Lumber Company
Samuel Gibbes
Rapho Township
Jas
Hank
Pete
HERC
Bach
oOmmcEe
Navy
BY Ken Kling
Luke
Dee
Ul's. Penture Service, Ine N.Y
Tonall
U. S
Wingert & Haas Hat
New
John A. Haas
N. Queen St. Lancaster, FA
Chas. H. Frey
East
King St
W. A
Longman & Martinez, Makers
Lane
Congress
W. W. Appel & Son
North
Queen Street
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