County events span plannned comfort station and more
County notes detail Elizabethtown plans for a proposed $4000 comfort station on Center Square by the Chamber of Commerce. Other items include Quarryville band instruction for 45 youths, Lancaster Automobile Club leadership, gas tax case in Columbia, boxing hall collapse near Elizabethtown, Will Leber sales of Illinois horses, and an excavation hire for Susquehanna relics with Donald A. Cadzow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown
Center Square
Chamber of Commerce
J Jacob N. Osweiler
Josal C. of
Lancaster
Edward Gable
Lancaster Automobile Club
Odd Fellows Hall
West Chestnut Street
Gable
Ephrata
Will Leber Sales
Illinois
Joe Baker
Community Social Roundup Near Lititz and Lancaster
Local families and relatives visit patients, host gatherings, and welcome guests across Lititz, Neffsville, Brunnerville, Fivepointville, and Farmersville. Notable events include Miss Anna Fahnestock entering Lancaster General Hospital as a student nurse and Marguerite Carpenter remaining at St Joseph’s Hospital in Lancaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Carpenter
Pauline
Isaac Weidman
Marguerite Carpenter
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Lancaster
S. M. Fahnestock
Landis Balmer
Clay
Clinton Fahnestock
Leroy Layser
Manheim
Iryn Zook
Millport
Kathryn Rehrer
Lit
Pauline Carpenter
Harvey Markley
Willis Hackman
Hiram Minnich
Near Lititz
Harry Kramer
Pine Hill
Rolandus Martin
Voganville
Naomi Snader
Milton Martin
Harry Landis
Samuel Burkholder
William
Ada
Elmira
Farmersville
Henry Mease
Wilson Spangler
H. Reist Landis
Ella
Lititz
Peter Landis
Bessie Landis
Landis Valley
Heitzie Eberly
Paul
Harry Kiehelberger
Melvin
Brunnerville
Grace Mease
Elmira Burkholder
Ireeman Becker
Amanda Pfautz
Ephrata
Elam Shelley
Kenneth
Abram Metzler
Anna Fahnestock
Rothsville High School
Lancaster General Hospital
Trip to Gold Fellows Home Concluded 1929 Report
In 1929 the Home welcomed 17 000 visitors with 686 on the busiest Sunday. Farm stock valued at 4 584 25 includes ten cows one bull four horses one mule 1000 chickens eighty nine hogs and six steers. The 180 bed facility plus 40 rooms house kitchen laundry fridges reading lounges offices chapel and more. An infirmary cares for forty two sick guests under two trained nurses with doctors Swartz George and Rhodes of Middletown on staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. H. Swartz
H. W. George
H. H. Rhodes
Middletown
Aged Home Offers Comforts Welfare and Chapel Service
The article describes a Middletown aged home with a 200 seat chapel used for Sunday worship led by Rev. Jonas Martin. It notes a cemetery for deceased guests, 36 deaths in the past year, a modern laundry processing 2700 pieces weekly, a daylight sanitary kitchen with gas ovens and electrical machines, and electricity powered refrigeration. Mr and Mrs Schultz welcome visitors, and Hull-Houghton Drug Co plans a new Lancaster store adjacent to City Hall on West King Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
TOV
Haines Shoe
Hull, Drug Company
Adjoi City Hall
West King Street
Hull
Lloyd Diehm
Lititz
Also Mentioned on This Page
Orornon
Quarryville
E. A. List
Stevens
Columbia
Dewey Fritz
Fritz
Justice of the Peace
J. Hoffman Garber
South Market Street
Lexington
Gold Fellows Home
Oldsmobile
Be Luxe
Rioney
Blore
Jerry K. Adams
Cedar Streets
Lititz, PA
Jonas Martin
Church of God
Schultz
Hull-Houghton Drug Company
Stedman Building
Roy B. Kneeburg
Suite
Manheim Building and Loan Association
Bayard Oldknow
West High Street
North Broad Street
New Idea, Farquhar, Emerson, McCormick-Deering
W. B. Gochnauer
H. H. Snavely
Isaac Kauffman
Workman and Hauenstein
Kern & Katz, Inc
Queen and
Walnut Streets
Lancaster, PA
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