Army Attracts Ambitious Men With Training Promise
Colonel J B Kemper, Army Recruiting Officer, cites fresh recruits as the cleanest, most ambitious group yet. Three Chambersburg volunteers explain their motives: Charles Henry seeks advancement and travel, Joseph White aims to enter motor transport and later a garage business, and Irvin Dawson praises army pay and life abroad. Kemper says thousands have answered the 49,000 volunteers call for overseas service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Kemper
Market Street
Harrisburg
Chambersburg
America
Charles A. Henry
France
Joseph F. White
Flis
Motor Transport Corps
Irvin Dawson
Kemper
Mylin Reaches New York From France After Recovery
Taeiberant verelt K Mylin chief officer of the Seventy-ninth on coach of the divisional football team widely known as the greatest football player Franklin and Marshall College ever produced arrived Wednesday of last week from Brest fully recovered from wounds. After his recovery he was made divisional athletic officer and assigned to the general staff. When the Seventy-ninth division returned some weeks ago Lieutenant Mylin was left behind to complete his work. Mylin played baseball for the local team several years ago and is well known here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taeiberant Verelt
K. Mylin
Seventy-ninth
Franklin and Marshall College
Brest
Mylin
Lancaster county items fall into weeklong events and injuries
A collage of local notices reports Edward Rendler suffering arm injuries from a fall from a Columbia cherry tree. Lancaster merchants discuss Saturday shop closings in July and August. Harry J. Smith crafts a clock bookshelf wardrobe hybrid. J. D. Denlinger shows June 17 tomatoes. Harry Eby Shoe Co. runs overtime to meet orders. Wheat crop near harvest could be worth about ten million dollars to farmers. New Holland Sunday Schools plan a Maple Grove Park picnic August 6 featuring a swimming pool. Local chicken houses in Eph rata raided and thefts noted. Lancaster High School anticipates 81 girls and 44 boys graduating next Sunday, with Lititz boasting a large relative class size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Edward Rendler
Lancaster
Harry J. Smith
TH. D. Denlinger
Strasburg
Harry Eby
Ephrata
Lancaster County
New Holland
Maple Grove Park
Jesse Pannehecker
Unusual Animal Tales And Local Civic Notes From Pennsylvania
Details include Harvey L. Iry's encounter with a 5 foot 3 inch black snake near Red Run, Carroll Regar’s appointment as Reading water bureau chemist at 180 dollars monthly, and a monster twenty pound turtle captured by Judge Cummings at Penns Creek. A Weatherly school health report covers 219 pupils with 62 eyesight issues and others. Middletown votes five thousand toward a Rescue Hose Company truck. a doe visits DuBois and a York county house is struck twice by lightning.
Four Sons in Service from Columbia Family
Mr and Mrs P C Sheekart of Columbia report four sons in service overseas. John recently returned home honorably discharged after thirteen months overseas with Company KF 326th Infantry 82d Division without injury. Charles and Grover, discharged months ago, served six months overseas with minor wounds and gas exposure. Raymond remains abroad with the military police 2d Division, wounded in six places and now in a hospital, expected to be sent home soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. C. Sheekart
Columbia
John
326Th Infantry
82D Division
Charles
Grover
Raymond
Military Police
Tasial
Youngest Lancaster Soldier Enlists Before Fifteen
Toward Hanlon Jr of Elizabethtown, son of Mr and Mrs Toward A I Hanlon, is the county’s youngest overseas duty soldier now convalescing at Carlisle Hospital. He enlisted before 15, served in France, wounded in the left foot by shell fragments. The same shell killed their major and others in the ambulance company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Hanlon, Jr
A. I Hanlon
Elizabethtown
Carlisle Hospital
Hanlen
Hig
Young Hanlen
Tig
Dyspepsia cured after Tonall use, Lititz remedy
I K Eshlemen, a Safe Harbor farmer in Lancaster PA, says after taking Tonall for a year his dyspepsia vanished and he can eat heartily with no stomach pain. He began using Tonall over a year ago and has had no return of dyspepsia since. Testimonial dated January 15, 1919, Tonall sold at J E Charles Drug Store Lititz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. K. Eshlemen
Safe Harbor
Lancaster County
Farmers Buying Autos in the Lean Years to Today
The piece notes a shift for farmers from purchasing cheap low quality gear to buying durable equipment. It says autos have become standard farm equipment with top makes common on country roads. Farmers are portrayed as discerning, self reliant buyers who know what they want and seek long term value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alo
New President Named for F. W. Woolworth Co
Hubert T. Parson, previously vice president and treasurer, elected president succeeding Frank W. Woolworth. William W. Woolworth takes honorary chair, a new board role. Parson vows no policy change, keeps price points 5 and 10 cents east of the Missouri and 5 10 and 15 cents west and in Canada. Company vows expansion with 1,056 stores now operating and 32 more sites under lease slated to open this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Woolworth Company
Hubert T. Parson
Frank W. Woolworth
Woolworth
Parson
Influenza Epidemic Warned By Doctor At New York Meet
Dr. Charles H. Duncan warned the Allied Medical Association of America in New York that a larger influenza epidemic is likely this year. He said the germ was brought to the United States through the navy, spread through army camps, then to civilians, and he disagreed with claims that nothing can be done to combat influenza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Duncan
Allied Medical Association of America
New York
Duncan
Miss Fannie Coleman To Christen Victory Ship
Miss Fannie Coleman of Lebanon has been chosen to christen the Victory ship named Lebanon after the county’s top drive. The ceremony is expected within a week to ten days, with Miss Coleman a frequent visitor to Elizabeth Farms at Brickerville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
Fannie Coleman
When Your Liver is Out of Order
A health alert promotes Blue Pills as a quick remedy for liver and stomach distress. It claims a few doses stimulate the liver regulate bowels and improve general feeling, urging immediate use to feel better quickly.
Quarryville Methodist Church to Begin At Quarryville
Plans call for starting work at the Will Be Fine Church in the Methodist Church at Quarryville soon. The estimated cost is 59000 dollars for a native limestone structure, touted as one of the county’s finest of its kind. Nearby, several building lots have sold in town, signaling possible new dwellings later this season.
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Quarryville
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Munsing
Cooper
Wilson Baum
W. H. Buch the Record Building Clothier
Lititz, PA
Captain Light Returns
Lititz
Lanter Intelligencer
Harvey L. Iry
Hahnstown
Red Run
Mr. Ivy
Carroll Regar
Denver
Reading
H. W. Cummings
Northumberland County
Penn’s Creek
O. A. Summers
Milton
Weatherly
Middletown
DuBois
Spring Avenue
Bantzengster
Locust Grove
Abbottstown
York County
J. E. Charles’ Drug Store
FW. Woolworth CO
F. W. Woolworth
Hank and
Pete
By Ken Kling
U.S. Peasure Service, Inc
Novic
Wingert & Haas Hat
New
John A. Haas
N. Queen St. Lancaster, PA
Chas. H. Frey’s Shoe Store
East King St
Lancaster, Pa
Jtar
W. A. Heinitsh
S. Queen St
S& M
Longman & Martinez, Makers
N. V
W. W. Appel & Son Jewelers & Opticians
Queen Street
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