Community Reunion Schedule From Moravian Ushers to Lebanon Fair
A long list of June and July events outlines numerous family reunions and religious group gatherings in Lancaster, Ephrata, Lititz, Manheim, and surrounding towns. Notable dates include Moravian Ushers picnic in Womelsdorf, various family reunions at Ephrata park, and the Lebanon Fair later in July.
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Womelsdorf
Miller
To Park
Little Springs Park
Withers
Ephrata P
Reading
Wed
Covenant U. B
Lancaster
Thurs
Columbia Union &. S. Sat
Aleace Tauberan
Readig
Mohler
Ephrata Park
Broad St. M. E
Mechanicsburg Union
Lititz Moravian
Hemanuel Lutheran
S. of
Zem Zem
K. of M
Lancaster County
Madlem-Stawalter
Brunnerville U. B. S
Braunnerville
Ephrata Band
Mishler
Millersville
Luke Lutheran
Rupp
St. Luke's Reformed S
Taylor
Culp
Eph
Rata Park
Salma U. B
Colunthia
Brownstown Union S
Cicada Arrival Seen Across Several States in 1940
The 17 year cicada is due and will appear in Georgia Illinois Indiana Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Ohio Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia. The insect lays eggs on young twigs leaving marks that can injure trees especially fruit and young trees. Females dig straight-line slits, then lay eggs and larvae hatch to burrow underground for 17 years before a brief above ground life.
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New York Times
Georgia
Ilinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Honeymoon Misadventure Ends With Reunion In Altoona
A Snyder County couple touring to Altoona on their honeymoon stopped at the bride’s sister’s home. The groom’s car broke down and he drove to Sunbury for repairs, later realizing he forgot his bride. Police traced the bride to her sister’s home and reassured her she had not been deserted.
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Snyder County
Altoona
Sunbury
Altoon
Honest Coal Strikers Repaid $7000 Credit With Gold Watch
In 1922 George B Hoover of Woodbury Pa extended $7000 in credit to coal miners during a strike. The miller received flour and no security beyond their word. After workers returned, payments continued in sums of 500 to 1000 until a delegation presented an 83000 check and a gold watch as thanks.
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George B. Hoover
Woodbury
Hoover
Toover
Pastor Sends Bill For Marriage In Berwick Union
The Rev S S Hughes of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Bloomsburg officiated at the marriage of John Williams and Rosie Brown of Berwick. Williams, reportedly without funds, arranged payment via an order on his pay from his employer American Car and Foundry. A few days later the minister received a bill reading To marrying man and woman five dollars please remit. The minister kept the check when it arrived.
America's Marvels Natural and Otherwise
The Chicago Drainage Canal ranks among great engineering feats. Built to purify Chicago’s water and reverse the river’s flow to Des Plaines and the Mississippi, it spans about forty miles with a 22-foot depth and up to 309 feet width. Initial fears of epidemics and lake- navigation harm proved unfounded. health benefits countrywide are clear as locks and bridges modernize for increased barge traffic toward New Orleans.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Des Phiines
Trepois
Whittwatel
Health Department
Des Plaines
Sinois
Mississippi River
Fize
New Orleans
Western Newspaper Union
Lost purse recovered by farmer in Lancaster area
John Beyer of Bart recovered a purse containing 150 dollars lost last March. He found it last week in a weed he plowed while planting tobacco, the item covered with ashes but intact. The tale links local crops, roads, and property moves across Lancaster and Elizabethtown areas.
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John Beyer
White Turkey Gobbler Becomes Foster Mother on Reamstown Farm
On Benjamin Auker’s farm near Reamstown a white turkey gobbler drove a chicken hen from her nest and sat on the eggs. Only one chick hatched. The gobbler, named Tom, seems undeterred by the lone birth and is caring for the foster chick.
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Benjamin Auker
Reamstown
THIS BEATS FARMING John H Sowers and Prof H K Ober Fruit Farm
John H Sowers and Prof H K Ober formerly president of Elizabethtown College operate a 14 acre berry farm in Rapho township. They planted 1400 fruit trees and 24 000 strawberry plants last year and 12 000 strawberry plants this year. They also grow raspberries and blackberries and employ 10 pickers. The 1923 crop is valued at 12 000 quarts and the plot lies near the Chicques meeting house.
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John H. Sowers
H. K. Ober
Elizabethtown College
Rapho Township
Chicques
Albright College Fight Heads Toward Court Challenge
A legal battle looms over Albright College in Myers town as six anti-member United Evangelical trustees were refused seats. The college is under Evangelical church control with pro merger factions opposing them. Rev. J. S. Heisler of Reading says the United Evangelicals retain the charter and court action may follow to alter decisive charter decisions.
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Albright College
Myerstown
United Evangelical
Evangelical Church
United Evangelical Church
Koes
Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
J. S. Heisler
Reading
United Evangelicals
Hale's Catarrh Medicine Ad Promotes Quick Relief
An old ad explains cold in the head as nasal catarrh, notes frequent colds leave one run down, and promotes Hale's Catarrh Medicine with an ointment for local use and a tonic that works through the blood to strengthen the system, reducing susceptibility to colds. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hat Industry in Adamstown Grows With Flapper Demand
Lancaster County's wool-felt hat makers, centered in Adamstown and Denver, expand beyond traditional male styles to sport hats driven by flapper fashion. George W. Bollman leads a multi‑generational firm, with three sons poised to continue. Adamstown produces about 500,000 hats annually, serving Lancaster County and beyond.
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Adamstown
Denver
Lancaster County
George W. Bollman
Bollman
Levi T Hendel
Hendel
George W. Bollman Co
Bees Swarm Home For Brownstown Family
A Brownstown resident, Irwin Weaver, reports a swarm of bees moved into his living room after entering through a weather board crack and attic spaces. Despite attempts to remove them, the bees occupy the first and second floor spaces forcing the family to evacuate the home.
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Irwin Weaver
Brownstown
Weaver
Lititz Sketch of Francis Lennert A Noted Local Figure
The article remembers Francis L Lennert, a Lititz native and craftsman, highlighting his early life as a webmaker and jeweler, training at Nazareth Hall and Bethlehem, and a later decline into poverty. It notes his eccentric charm, love of canaries, flirtations, and a bachelor status while detailing his shop near the upper frame building site and his eventual death, leaving readers with a reflective portrait of a colorful, flawed local character.
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Francis L. Lennert
Lititz
Yall
Weiter
Pfautz
Ephrata
Lincoln
Akron
Rothsville
Brickerville
Lisitz
Mazareth Hall
Jedediah i Weiss
Bethlehem
Nazareth
Willian
Ferdinand
Prat
Beck
Himslf
David Bricker
Jacob B. Tshudy
Samuel Lichtenthaeier
Eugene A. Frueauff
Lennert
William Evans
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Athletic Union
Munsing
Cooper
Lopkis
W.H. Buch
Lititz, Pa
uGu
Neath Reunion
Mon
Frymeyer
Oberlin
America
the County
John M. McGulley
Red Men
Me McCulley
The
Great Council
Metamora Lodge
Queen Weh
Conestoga ‘Traction Co
Monitor
Mew Tobacco
Quarryville
Ploch Brothers of
iChurch
John Herr
Church of the Brethren
Elizabethtown
Lampeter
Edwin Landis
Tampeter-Lancaster Road
Prince Street
Lemon
Rapho
Flapper
J. N. Moyer
Lititz and
George R. Barr
Cipid
Zarither
Misey
Canaries
Anwilling
Franz
Shaub
Queen St
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