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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1922
Page
2
The Kreider Shay Co plans a two story brisk factory in Lebanon to manufacture children's ten shoes. A dawn of local notices includes a range of civic and personal items from ministers, prison costs, to a dog saving a Wyano family from fire.
In Reading, Pennsylvania, an odd notice offers a so called cure and medical advice. The ad promises a “prescription” in tablets or liquid from a Dr. at a Buffalo hotel for free medical guidance. It quotes Marie Braun and provides a Buttonwood Street address.
The public sale at Falmouth featured two mules that brought 450 dollars as part of a shift in local commerce. Ephrata Fire Company plans to build a large town hall once a deed is secured for the East Main street lot. Art Joy businessmen form a development company to build housing amid high rents. Mountville farmers form a cooperative tobacco marketing association spreading countywide. The Ephrata Cooperative Farmers Protective Association rents the Usner warehouse at Schoeneck with Janice Becker as manager and promises sizable tobacco commitments. Quarryville sheds its old lockup as the borough shows no need for detention facilities in years.
Prof Hulbert at the American Historical Association meeting argued Pennsylvania limestone soils shaped wheat, transport, and migration. He said Conestoga horses and wagons, Lancaster Pike, canals and steamboats emerged from that region, altering U.S. expansion and Kentucky exploration. The talk contrasts Boone with surveyors who opened Kentucky.
William Te. Wounterly secretary of the Berks County Rod and Gun Association says the group is not dumping fish but planting minnows and other life in streams to support bass and protect fry. He notes federal and state help, plans to stock perch trout and bass across multiple streams, and cites local efforts aided by Congressman Gernerd and Assemblyman Parish.
Hollidaysburg businessman Chares A. Marks uses a small bell on a gobbler at his Roose's Station summer cottage to deter mice minks weasels and rats from raiding coops. Each gobbler movement rings the bell and scares the pests away.
Col. Robert C. Davis will assume the post on April 1 after Major General Peter Hattis retires. Davis, a West Point 1898 graduate and former A E F adjutant general, earned Distinguished Service Medals from the U S France Britain Belgium and Italy.
Isaac and Uasper Kassab of Philipsburg married on October 20 1920 in a double wedding with brides who are cousins. Their twins arrived within three hours of each other a girl and a boy. A separate note reports a man nicknamed John Smith from Virginia found buried up to his neck in a potato carload. he survived three days. County records show 11 300 dog licenses issued and 700 fishing licenses issued.
An advertisement touts Gude's Pepto Mangan as a "wonderfully efficient" iron tonic to relieve dyspepsia and headaches, restore appetite and color, and strengthen weak blood with both liquid and tablet forms.
Dutch makers of wooden shoes plan to bring them to this country as a practical option in damp weather. They are preferred to feather shoes for garden work and are even worn in Switzerland during rain. Lititz residents are asked who will adopt the shoes first for garden use.
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