Fire Alarm Coding and Local Church Notices
Fire alarm blasts detail the signals for hose houses and street blocks. The column lists church services, sermons, lectures, meetings, and recent membership admissions across U B, Lutheran, Brethren, Mennonite, and Reformed congregations in Lititz and nearby areas with dates and speakers.
Army and Navy Notes Continues From Page One
Letter from Dr. Percy Dreifus describes service in the West Indies and life abroad. He reports duck hunting successes, fishing for tarpon, and local fruit prices while noting a promotion to Senior Lieutenant and sharing memories of Columbus era swords and a historic church legend.
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Percy Dreifus
West Indies
Joseph Dreifus
Springs Hotel
Lititz
Florida
U.S
Santa Cereo
New World
Santa Cerra
Columbus’ Brother
Columbus
Had Thrilling Experience on Mexican Border Veteran Visits Home
Joseph Brown, sergeant in the U S cavalry honorably discharged for disability, spent Sunday in town visiting his parents at the United Zion Home. He recalls Mexican border battles where bullets pierced his hat and his horse fell beneath him. Brown traveled from here to Montgomery county, where he once resided, and recounts a cordial reception from a stranger who learned of his service. Provost Marshal Crowder ordered 95 000 drafted men to report March 29 for five days, Iowa and Minnesota excluded. Pennsylvania to supply 7 928 men including this locality’s quota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Brown
U. S. Cavalry
United Zion Home
Brown
Montgomery County
Harrisburg
Marshall Crowder
Washington, D. C
Union
Iowa
Minnesota
Agricultural Notes Of Interest From Lancaster Area
Col. Bob Leeds, after dinner speaker at the Lancaster Automobile Club dinner, urges being called a farmer. Anecdotes about calves miscalled cowlets spark humor. Twelve Poland China hogs near Neffsville average 530 pounds, produced twelve 50-pound cans of lard. Elder I W Taylor runs the Church of the Brethren Home hog operation. Jacob Kirk extols horse intelligence. Erb praised as a top local horse trainer. Bacon shifts from cheap farm staple to luxury. packing house bacon costly, country cured scarcer. John K Stoner offers two years of farm products in exchange for cleaning a tract southwest of Lititz on the old Burkholder dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob” Leeds
Lancaster Automobile Club
Brunswick
Lancaster
Leeds
Chicago
Illinois
Church of the Brethren Home
Neffsville
L. G. Forney
I. W. Taylor
John K. Stoner
Burkholder Dam
Lititz
Stoner
Test Your Seed Corn Now
All farmers who expect to plant corn this year should test their seed corn immediately for germination. Many farmers relying on their own corn are surprised by current test results. Corn that tested well last Thanksgiving may test poorly after this severe winter weather.
Local resident shoots four foot six inch chicken hawk
Harvey Hess of Clay Township shot a large chicken hawk on Tuesday. The bird measured four feet six inches from wing tip to wing tip and, though there have been several of these prowlers nearby, no chickens have been eaten so far.
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Harvey Hess
Clay Township
Horace Eschbach and the Flower Man Return Home
A letter from Horace L. Eschbach recounts nine days in Chicago distributing 5000 flowers to hospitals and friends as he continued his annualFlower Man mission. He visited Miss Mary Hershey in Chicago and spent a week with sister Emily in Woodstock Illinois.
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Horace L. Eschbach
North Dakota
Mr. Eschbach
Chicago
Horace
Eschbach
Mary Hershey
East Main Street
Woodstock
111
Emily
Lititz
Free Highways Coming Soon in Lancaster County
State Highway Commissioner J Denny O'Neil announced at the Lancaster Auto Club banquet on March 6 that at least two main toll roads in Lancaster County will be made free highways soon. The Lancaster and Williamstown and the Lancaster and Elizabethtown turnpikes are set to be freed, with a possibility of freeing the Lancaster and Susquehanna and Lancaster and Manheim turnpikes as part of a broader road system.
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O'Neil
Auto Club
Lancaster County
J Denny O’neil
Lancaster Automobile Club
Lancaster
O’neil
Lancaster and
Williamstown
Red Rose City
Quaker City
Elizabethtown
Susquehanna
Manheim
State Highway Department
Atleen
Boyer
Washington, D. C
Bob
Leeds
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Gor
N. Cedar and
Frontals
Aartman's
Post Ofice
Orange Stg
Moravian
Crosland, Pestor
Untrep
Eyangelica L
Harper
S. S
F. A. Weichsel
Rothaville
Akron
Warwick
Reformed Church
U. S
George B. iRaezer
White Oak
Brickervill
Azula Jones
Church OF the Brethren
Lexington
Erb’s
Landis Valley
Crosland
Jerusalem
Front Street
John Weaver
U. B
Mary E. Sturgis
Bertha Eck
Kathryn M. Sturgis
Helen M. Wertsch
Kathryn M. Gibble
Sarah M. Weidman
Nathan A. Sturgis
Chester L. Wertsch
Eugene W. Stauffer
C. 8. Miller
St. Luke’s Reformed Church
Otterbein Guild
U.B
Malinda Meduate
Beulah Sturgis
Laura Sturgis
Myrtle Gibbes
Jennie Pfautz
Jas. Seaber
Annus
Reading
Malinda McQuate
Women's Missionary Association of the U. S. Church
D. M. Weidman
Beck
E.G. Geyer
Edith Shue
Asn’t
H. R. Wertsch
Trens
W. Gibbie
Ass’t
Mary Weidman
Ellis Spickier
Amanda Habecker
N. D. Sturgis
C. Beck
George Swift
Philadelphia
O. T. Deever
Dayton
Ohio
Christian Endeavor
Young People’s Societies
John Barleycorn
Sam
Mrs. Jones
Eloge
E. W. Gaylord
Elizabeth Farms
Brickerville
Wiliam Charles Smith
St. Paul, Minn
Bessie Mabel Spencer
Dr. Smith
Dissinger’s
Army and Navy Notes
Aldus H. Kauffman
Emer S. Kauffman
Herman
Willis
Alberta
Elmer
Ada
Petersburg Mennonite
Alice Erb
Harry Erb
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Amos Erb
South Broad Street
Louisa Stump
Harry K. Stump
Ephrata
Clarence
Centre Square
Brownstown
Martin
Milford
Annie
Lyte Adams
Harry
Lincoln Cemetery
Samuel
Samuel Austin
Austin
Jacob Kirk
Mr. Erb
Milton Swart
East Petersburg
Swarr
Milton
N. B. Leaman
Hiram E. Steinmetz
Lancaster General Hospital
Ephrata United Brethren Church
Lebanon Valley College
Annville
Brickerville Lutheran Cemetery
Sammie
France
Mary
Uncle Lance
Rover
C. H. Kreider
E. Main St
Tnd
ER. J. Hlammond Dim
Spruce St
Ei Record Office
Rickert Mott
Brunnerville
Bargatn
Sturgis
Mimik Samuel Hertzler
Welper
Jeff Wagner
Lam-Tr
Orange St
J.W.T
Main St
Kistel Bepee H. M
Ititz
Brand St. Bell
Bret Lass
High Hullville
Akotf
South Cedar Street
Ella Evans
Marek Limy
Scott’s
Frank Rader
Henry Nibs
Willow
Lincoln
Roctetf
AM Manufacturing
Worach Keller S. Sproco
Bacycle Bicycles
United States
Goodrich
Pennsylvania
Vacuum Firestone
Lititz Bookstore
W. M. Scott, Propr
Michelin Universal
Lititz Tire Hospital
Cedar St
Spring Home
Bob White
Pfautz Bros
Gibraltar
Children’s Union
Ladies Union
Grocery Dept
Mascot
C. R. Miller’s Department Store
Sun Shine
Eastman Kodaks
THE
Lititz Jeweler
Hetail Merchanta Association
New York State
R. N. Wolfe
Main Street
E. K. Zartman
Brubaker Roller Flour Mills