Mt Joy Tax Cut and Local Happenings Show Rural Life
County notes report Mt Joy borough reducing its tax rate from six to five mills and Lancaster recruiting an aviation corps with multi trade roles. Other items include school attendance moves for Rapho’s Sporting Hill, a Mechanic Grove pig birth surge, a slander suit in Akron, Kinderhook church replacement, a large Valley View Holstein sale, land gifted to Lancaster’s Williamson Park, a rejected army engineer candidate from Columbia, cattle deaths due to bale wire, a Western state death with a $40,000 estate, and a bank joke about a man named Zeno later revealed as Aaron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Sporting Hill
Rapho
Harry B. Baughey
Manheim
Galen McKinney
Hensel and Fritz
Mechanic Grove
Charles E. Workman
Lemon M. Wenger
Akron
Viola Wenger
Court of Common Pleas
Kinderhook
United Evangelical Denomination
Mt. Joy
Valley View
Edgar A. Engle
H. S. Williamson
City of
Williamson Park
Army Engineer Corps
Vancouver
Washington
Christian Sheaffer
Donegal Township
Allison Garrett
Coyle & Keller
Lancaster City
Garrett
Elizabeth Township Iron Heritage in Lancaster County
Elizabeth township once part of Warwick, named for Elizabeth Queen of England. Early iron industry thrived with a furnace named Elizabeth and two forges. Robert Old, early iron master and great grandfather of G Dawson Coleman of Lebanon, gave the township its name. Middle Creek divides it from Clay township. Hammer Creek runs southeast with historic forge hammers. The township, though small, spans about 25 000 acres and contains notable iron works sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Elizabeth
England
Elizabeth Township
Warwick
Robert Old
Old
G. Dawson Coleman
Lebanon
Clay Township
Elizabeth Township History and Landmarks Highlight
The article recalls Elizabeth township’s early industrial prominence with furnaces and forges, notes the Coleman heirs’ wooded reservation and hunting grounds, mentions a nearby large stock-breeding farm now abandoned but cultivated, and describes the James Coleman Memorial Chapel and small nearby congregation amid dwindling residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coleman
Elizabeth Township
James Coleman
Schoeneck’s name tied to crossroads tale and local growth
The piece traces Schoeneck in Lancaster County from its 1780 naming by Henry Hyple to the 1880 postal merger of Schoen Eck into a single word. It notes the hotel era beginning 1792, multiple postmasters, storehouses built by Dr. Samuel Wiest, and current merchants. It also mentions the nearby mining furnace and a Saxony fire tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Lancaster Inquirer
I. K. Witmer
Schoeneck
Schoen Eck
Cocalico
Ephrata
Hast
West Cocalico
Schoen Eek
Jacob Hagg
Jacob Shirk
Samuel Shower
Henry Apple
John W. Mentzer
Daniel Mishler
Henry Wechter
Frank Wechter
Jacob E. Lutz
W. F. Stuber
Daniel Brunner
Edwin Kerlin
Eling Stober
W. H. Crouse
M. Kinport
Dr. Pierce’s Anure Tablets Said To Cure Kidney Trouble
Andrew Surrx of Fam Horr Pa claims kidney pain and weight loss improved after taking Dr. Pierce’s Anure Tablets and credits the medicine with restoring his health. Annie Wise of Fair Hope Pa says many medicines failed but Anuric helped her kidney trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tannen Hath
Dr. Pierce
Andrew OC
Fam Horr
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gur Merchant Tailoring
Detmer, Mason and Hanson
Wilson Baum
W. H. Buch
the Record Building Clothier
Lititz, PA
the County
James W. Gladfelter
Columbia
Zeno
Zeno Nothin
Darkey
Aaron
Federal Trade Commission
Swift & Company
Food Administration
Council of National Defense
United States Food Administration
U.S. Army
Navy
The
Trade Commission
United States
U.S.A
Berkshire Electric Company
Pennsylvania
J.N. Schroeder & CO
Pneumonia
Cascara
Moncey
Mr. Hill
Schoeneck Was
Zwickau
Saxony
Wingert & Haas Hat
John A. Haas
Queen St. Lancaster, PA
W. A
Our
Has. H. Frey’s Shoe Store
East King St
Lancaster, Pa
Br. Hertz
E. Main Street
Ind
B. F. Lutz
W. W. Appel & Son Jewelers & Mpticia
Athens
Waltham, Elgin
Hamilton
Howard Ilinois
Springfield
Appel & Son
Igi
Queen Street
Daniel
Dayeler
Lititz
Lancaster, Co
George
Daveler
Anna B. Roland
Lit
Frank Filieman
Frank BR. Roland
Lititzer Brunnerville
WM. HW
Roland Lititz
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