Hometown News Honors Albert Slade and Local Shoemaker Record
Within the county, Albert M Slade celebrated 40 years with the Lancaster New Era at a testimonial dinner on June 4 1884 at the Hotel Brunswick. Henry Rupp of Chestnut Hill Brecknock township, 88, has been a shoemaker since age 17, a 71-year career. A new type of prison at Rockview Penitentiary plans to replace locks with broader freedom, featuring a five story Bastile style cell block built with prisoner labor. Warden John O Stutzman aims to reduce bars and locks, letting inmates supervise the 6500 acre prison farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert M. Shade
Lancaster
New Era
Slade
Brunswick
Henry Rupp
Chestnut Hill
Brecknock Tnp
Rupp
Rockview Penitentiary
John O. Stutzman
Stutzman
Penitentiary
Power project at Hawley to boost county employment
Pennsylvania Power and Light starts an 8 million dollar project in Hawley Wayne county to build a dam and power house creating a 51 mile circumference lake and employing over two thousand workers for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company
Hazleton
Hawley
Wayne County
Coming Events and Community Gatherings Calendar
A long list of summer schedules for churches reunions fairs and festivals across Lancaster County from June through November. Items include Fire Co Festivals Lititz Springs Park events Mohler and Hornberger reunions plus many Sunday School picnics and county fairs. A letter asks a game warden to help curb rabbits feeding on a Honey Brook garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Co
Stevens
Lititz Springs
Miller Reunion
Ephrata Park
Evangelical
S. S
Reading
Lititz
Springs
First Reformed S. S
Lancaster
Salem
Alsace Lutheran
Litita Springs
Covenant U. 5
B. S
Barerville
Mishler
Knights of Malta
Bitzer
Keath
Erie Co
Reamstown
West Chester
Pottsville
Allentown
Trenton
York
Doylestown
Lancaster County
Lutheran Church
Manheim
Atlantic City
Nod
Honey Brook
Pittsburgh Post Pays Tribute to W C T U Fiftieth Anniversary
A Pittsburgh Post tribute marks the fifty year milestone of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The piece lauds the group as a vigorous fighter for temperance and a long trusted ally in communities, noting its festival work and steady campaign that aided the push to frame prohibition in law. The editorial stresses the W C T U’s steady, weekly labor across regions and the respect it earned among both supporters and opponents.
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Pittsburgh Post
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Prohibition Party
Anti- Saloon League
Prisoner Spangler Chooses Jail Over Kiss at Home
Albert Spangler, a recent inmate in York police court, told Mayor E. Hugentagler he would rather serve forty years in jail than return home to kiss his wife. Arrested for fighting his wife, the mayor offered release if he reconciled, which Spangler declined. He received a suspended sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Spangler
York
E. 8. Hugentagler
Spangler
Spanglre
Houseworker Applicants Fail to Appear in Wake of Ad
A Washington housewife advertised for a general houseworker. Eleven applicants answered the next day and were all separately engaged, each promising to come the following morning. Not one of them showed up.
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Washington
Also Mentioned on This Page
the County
Keystone Exchanges
Abraham Epstein
Commission
Ebenezer Lookinghill
West End
Schuylkill County
Yeager
Lookingball
State Constabulary
Shrewbury
York County
Cotesville
Chester County Historical Society
Delchester Farms
Thomas G. Ashton
Philadelphia
Delaware River
Edward S. Hart
Lafayette College
American Chemical Society
Uniontown
George Baily
Marysville
Perry County
Violet
Baileys
Big Valley
Fire House
Lititz, Pa
Andes Reunion
Lancaster Moravian S. S
St. Luke's Reformed S. S
Steffy Reunion
Kemper
Adamstown
Wenger
Oberholtzer
Stuber
Witmer
Gantz
Brussels
Velvet Brussels
Belding- Hall, Simmons and Leonard Brand
Hackman & Hornley
Lloyd Brand
Ralph M. Spacht
Tomamaman
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