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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1922
Page
2
News notes reveal crowds at Bellefonte viewing over a hundred trout netted from the stream while visitors fed them. Also reports 1000 Sharon women delinquent on 1921 taxes with notices to pay by July 1.
Dr Harvey Bassler of Myerstown after six weeks in the states and two years in Bolivia Argentina and Peru sails for South America. He lands at Para Brazil and plans to ascend the Amazon to Tani tos Ecuador and explore directions. He expects to go 1500 miles further from Iquitos by river for geological observation for a large oil corporation. He is related to Mrs J Frank Hizeh of Lititz.
A garbled Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt recalls a discussion on voter enlightenment and public life. The cryptic quote links a voter’s fervor to a political fate, hinting at themes of tenure and the obscurity of civic power.
The report says crops of raspberries and blackberries will be large this year. Ross Rohiter of Camargo reports four cows supply the family with all milk and cream and 44 pounds of butter weekly. Auctioneer F B Aldinger found a perfect Indian tomahawk on his premises in Elizabethtown. T W Railly runs an 18 passenger auto bus between Denver and the county seat via Mechanicsburg Talmage Brownstown Akron Ephrata and Stevens. Miller Resler of Eden township lost a purse with about $640 last summer. a girl found it in a field and a local bank helped redeem the money from Uncle Sam.
Gonveyancer M N Brubaker of Mt Joy aged 86 or 87 in good health visited last week the grave of his great grandmother in Lititz whom he attended at her funeral 78 years ago. She had been a widow for 51 years her husband dying in 1793 of yellow fever contracted in Philadelphia while a Conestoga wagon teamster.
Apple scale and blister beetles threaten crops with ongoing wet weather. Apply extra spray and Bordeaux mixture as needed. Cut worms surge in northwest counties. use poison bait from the county Farm Bureau. Plan succession by replacing early crops with later plantings. Calving requires careful pasture inspection and isolation of any at risk cows. Plant rape for forage in corn fields for sheep or swine.
The Mt Gretna infantry camp runs from July 22 to August 19 with unit rotations. From July 22 to August 5 the 28th Division Headquarters 56th Infantry Brigade 52nd Cavalry Brigade 218th Artillery and 109th Motor Transport Company train. From August 5 to 19 the formations shift to 28th Division Headquarters 28th Division trains 55th Infantry Brigade 103rd Engineers Company A 132nd Engineers and 13th Medical Regiment.
Old Susquehanna fishermen blame coal dust for shrinking shad runs and fish kills along the river. Farmers near Kane report bears as a major nuisance with 85 sheep killed this spring and calls for an open season. A West Chester strawberry grower unveils a giant human-form fruit that astonishes markets. An asylum visit ends in comic misunderstanding when a caregiver is revealed as the medical superintendent.
Mountville resident Gertrude M. Weaver departs for Coblenz Germany to join the American army hospital corps She has served as an army nurse since the outbreak of the war beginning at Fort Meade and now sails for overseas duty
A local note recalls the humorous question What day of the month does the Fourth of July come on and reflects on a resident who lived in McPherson Georgia then Fort Myer Virginia and since 1929 at Walter Reed hospital in Washington.
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