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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
2
Neighbors noticed lights burning at the Grant street home of Mrs. A. R. Shearer in Ephrata. Relatives in Lancaster forced entry and found severe damage from a burst bathroom pipe flooding the house. Carpets, furniture, and fixtures saturated. water froze on surfaces and ruined many household items.
Flooding north of Reading has blocked the Schuylkill canal with mud and culm. Dams are clogged, channels closed, and locks damaged, endangering summer boating from the coal regions to Reading. The Schuylkill Navigation Company may lose boating business though power plants will continue income. Congress action urged to save the canal amid reduced civilian use.
Paramount movie adaptation of The Mystery Girl based on Green Fancy by George Barr McCutcheon features Princess Ted an ambulance driver in France and an American captain. The story follows the couple as war brings them closer before returning to battlefields. Marion Fairfax adapted it and Willian De Mille directed. See the film at Paramount Theatre next Wednesday.
A large school for boys is planned by the Masons on land adjoining the Masonic Home in Elizabeth town. George B. Wilson’s 120 acre farm was purchased for the project with two million dollars available. Trustees include Andrew H. Hershey of Lancaster and Harry C. Schock of Mount Joy. Plans for the institution are being drawn.
The Rheems Cope Brothers of West Donegal plan to evaporate 100 acres of sweet corn next summer. John W. Wiker, who moved from Wheatland Mills to Lancaster last week, has never been away from his old home for more than five days in his 71 years.
Lancaster faces plans for a permanent tabernacle seating at least 8,000 for religious campaigns and community meetings. The project would also host conventions and gatherings as part of the Lancaster Evangelistic Chorus effort. In a separate incident, Nelson Springer of Lancaster nearly drowned while attempting to save a dog on an ice pan during the river ice jam breakup near Columbia.
At a Franklin and Marshall College alumni meeting trustee S. R. Zimmerman announced a $40,000 gift from an unrevealed donor to the college. The gift will support the fund for improving athletic facilities. Also noted, G. C. E. Goss, longtime Coney township teacher, will retire and join the teacher’s pension fund after selling his farm and moving to Elizabethown. KE. R. Haffelfinger & Co.’s wall paper factory burned, with losses over $100,000, fully insured, cause likely a cigarette or match in the basement.
Elizabethtown faced a bread famine and J. K. Frymyer, a local baker, quickly supplied 430 loaves at 2.90 P. Galley Two. A second batch ran 4.30 P. M. to 8.45 P. M, leaving only seventy five families unsupplied. The home baker is praised for his sanitary high powered bakery and modern equipment.
Residents along streams profited from stranded fish as high floods subsided. An Eden township farmer netted 100 fish including catfish and eels on Big Beaver Creek. A Martic township resident gathered 80 fish. Similar reports circulated countywide. New Holland Fire Company cleared 1100 after four Saturdays of fairs. Mail carrier James R. Lanahan barely escaped as Conewago Creek surged, horse and wagon swept away, driver pulled to safety by a truck driver.
The state game commission reports Mexican quail released near Weatherly have all perished due to the severe winter. In Adams county many apple trees are girdled by field mice amid melting snows, prompting bridge grafting efforts to save the orchards. Victor Simon recalls early April ice crossings on the Susquehanna, while Gifford Pinchot pledges vigorous forest restoration with governor backing.
Rev A Sellars of Broadville resigns after three years as pastor of the Evangeli cal church Saylorsburg to enter tombstone trade. Walter Ray Jr 14 of Ambler sleeps 12 days. doctors say he will recover though weight loss and partial paralysis persist. Robert W McMinn Altoona WWI veteran admitted to Altoona Hospital with hip infection and suspected shrapnel fragment seen on X-ray.
Miss Hilda Davis a telegraph operator for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Masontown Pennsylvania reports a puzzled state after a stock deal. Ten months ago she bought gas stock for 33 dollars and last Saturday a stranger offered 900 dollars for the stock and the sale closed. Now she is unsure whether she profited or lost. Bath Portland Cement Co stockholders voted to increase capital from 700000 to 2500000 dollars to fund a new plant near Easton.
Harry Martin of Uniontown told George Hall a funny tale that caused a jaw dislocation and a sharp uppercut to reset it. They agreed not to tell the story again. Henry A. Brown of Wyandanch in Chester county born April 9 1835 describes aging milestones from 50 to 85 including duties as justice of the peace farmer supervisor notary public and school trustee.
The State Department of Agriculture reports 560 sheep in Lehigh county and notes no losses to dogs in the past year. Eastern Pennsylvania shows small flocks with Berks 749, Carbon 89, Northampton 1,406, Schuylkill 491. Western counties host larger flocks, Washington 210,000 and Greene 176,000.
Eight year old Helen Slonaker of Glen Rock was injured when a leghorn rooster attacked her near the right eye as she went to the chicken house to gather eggs. She fled and is under a doctor's care for a deep facial wound.
Game Protector Charles F. Fenstermaker of Reading urged feeding wild birds and prompted a local farmer in northwestern Berks County to place food on his farm. Soon 80 wild turkeys and many smaller birds gathered daily, a scene unseen before.
A. Shaffer, keeper of Camer on county game preserve on Hicks Run West Branch, shipped two wildcats. He spotted a big deer on the mountain, found a flock of 30 pheasants, trapped during winter, and took a 52 inch prize catch on Christmas. He plans a neckpiece for Mrs Shaffer and also captured two foxes and 13 weasels.
Sails from New York aboard a Ward Line steamer bound for Porto Blanco on the Gulf of Mexico. Edgar F. Groman of Emaus, recently discharged from the U S Navy, will join Island Oil Corporation as a diver at 225 dollars per month including board and lodging. He will dive to 38 feet to lay and construct new oil lines.
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