Lancaster County News In Brief From The County
Congressman Greist wins war department funds for Masonic Home at Elizabethtown and soldier plots at Manheim and Terre Hill. Farm Agent Bucher notes increased lime use for crops in Lancaster County this spring. Fairview school sees 17 Fishers and 12 Kings among six family names. German singing nearly daily. Harry and Mrs. Breneman head to Texas then California for two expos. Open safety pin removed from 4 month old Richard Eves at Columbia Hospital. Charles Wagner, 65, found dead in stable yard near Georgetown after wagon accident. Aphthous fever outbreak reported in Manheim and East Lampeter with risk to Union stock yards. Samuel M Long wills $500 to Trinity United Evangelical Church, income used for minister salary. Large oak felled near Union School after 150 years, yielding eight to nine cords of wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greist
War Department
Elizabethtown
Manheim
Terre Hill
Lancaster County
F. S. Bucher
Fairview
East Lampeter
Harry K. Breneman
Lancaster
San Antonio
Texas
California
San Diego
San Francisco
Columbia Hospital
Richard Eves
Harry Eves
Charles Wagner
Georgetown
Quarryville
Union Stock Yards
Samuel M. Long
Trinity United Evangelical Church
Long
S. L. Hoffman
Mount Joy and
Marietta
Union School House
Hoffman
Souvenir Spoons Offer For Sunday Record Readers
The Sunday Record invites readers to collect a complete set of State Seal Souvenir Spoons by clipping a weekly coupon from the newspaper and paying 15 cents at designated stations. Each week a new state spoon is released, with Maryland on March 7 and Delaware likely on March 14. mail orders cost 18 cents plus coupon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. A. Rogers & Son AA
Wm. A. Rogers & Son
Maryland
Delaware
International
Fourth Ave
New York City
Lititz as an Early Musical Center in Lancaster County
The piece traces Lancaster County music origins in Ephrata and Lititz, detailing Conrad Beissel’s 1739 system and Beissel’s hymns, plus Grubé’s 1765 Lititz orchestra, its gear, and practices. It notes archival sources, the community’s discipline, and Kipling’s ties to Tobias Hirte while describing local instruments and performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
County
Ephrata
Lititz
Chronikon Ephratensis
Moravian Church
Ephrata Cloister
Julius Sachse
Pennsylvania German Society
Conrad Beissel
America
Beissel
Wiord
Cacalico
Bengel
Abraham R. Beck
Bernhard Adam Grubé
Gruhé
Lancaster County
Feek Meel
Mendelsohn
St. Paul
Tobias Hirte
Rudyard Kipling
Square-Toes
Kipling
Hirte
Brandywine
Allison
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W. H. Bueldottier
Nrritz, Pa
Philadelphia Sunday Record
Herbert H. Beck
Lancaster County Historical Society
Bell Telephone
Bell Telephone Co
R. E. Smith
Orange Street
Lewis N. Mover
Farmers National Bank
Penna
Lancaster, PA
Appel
Appel Optical Department
Queen St.nworth
Afppel
Loptivians
Lulu
Bugs
W. A
Fry
Chas. H. Frey
East King St
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