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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
2
An officer notes farmers often rely on partial insurance coverage which leaves many facing large losses after fires. He argues insurance rates in the region are low and urges fair coverage to prevent ruin when fires strike, citing recent local cases and recurring financial hardship.
A juvenile appeal invites young ladies to write to sailors at the Naval Training Station Hampton Roads Virginia. The drive asks for sympathetic letters and attractive photos to support the men stationed there, encouraging morale during long weeks away from home.
Thousands of Mexican quail are being imported by the state game commission to control potato bugs. Despite shipments of 1 000 to 12 000 quail, demand from farmers statewide may not be fully met. Quail are released across numerous counties, excluding the northern tier, and tend to travel south when released. The commission also sends 30 000 ring neck pheasant eyes to wardens.
The Department of Agriculture reports buttermilk containing more than half of 1 percent alcohol ceases to be butter milk. Chemists in Louis and a Missouri congressman heard the issue. Enforcement would require testing farms and dairy operations. A note adds the dollar’s value has fallen.
A collage of early Pennsylvania notes outlines Carlisle's 1751 layout and 1784 borough incorporation, Dickinson College founding in 1783, a Coatesville High School trip to Washington, wills and inheritances including General Sarsfield's vast Irish estates, a lightning struck automobile injuring the Dunlaps, a fox family in Locust Grove, a 1874 sleigh ride amid snow near Upper Black Eddy, and a classroom joke about halves reflecting 19th century era miscellany.
P. E. Walgemuth of East Donegal township reports a total of 35,000 chicks hatched in the year. From a recent hatch he produced 6,324 peeps from 9,157 eggs.
The R. F. Keppel and Brother Candy Co. of Lancaster has purchased two tobacco warehouses adjacent to the candy factory to enlarge the operation. The expansion signals increased production capacity and local economic impact for Lancaster.
The Musselman Concrete Pipe Co of New Holland markets concrete fence posts that accept nails as readily as locust or chestnut. Lancaster and Columbia ice cream makers have raised prices to 60 cents per quart, with the five cent sandwich and five cent coffee vanishing. Five hundred pine trees, 8 to 12 feet tall, were delivered to Mt. Gretna Park last week from the Masonic Home nursery at Elizabethtown.
Jacob Ressler of Elizabethtown dressed a mill board at the Grubb flour mill at Conowago station fifty four years ago and redressed the same stone last week for Allen Gantz who bought it from the Alexander estate to make chop.
Akron industry readies to operate the Sani-Tite Cap Manufacturing Company as machinery is set and awaiting a first car of material from New York to Akron. A Virginia goat shipped to Lancaster stockyards drew interest as the first of its kind in years. McCall’s Ferry landing is amid mud and rubbish after February freshets, with no nearby bridge except Conowingo and Columbia about 15 miles away.
Frank W. Roberts of Elizabethtown was awarded the Carnegie Hero Fund silver medal for rescuing two young women when a small boat overturned in a lake near the Masonic Home in 1918. He remains modest, saying he did his duty.
The Lancaster Oxford and Southern Railroad, after months in court, will be dismantled this week with ties and rails lifted and shipped and all bridges removed. The line was never profitable but served the lower end of the county and will be greatly missed.
The Lancaster County Farm Bureau shifts to a paid membership of five dollars a year. A May 29 meeting will complete the reorganization with temporary officers guiding a county wide membership drive. The goals include cost studies of farm production, expanded bureau activities, and a Farm Bureau Building to accommodate growing operations.
Ninety two new cattle sheds under construction at the Union Stock Yards in Lancaster are expected to be completed around August 1. Each shed holds one carload of cattle, features concrete floors and running water, and the alleys will have electric lighting. The facilities are described as equal to any in the country.
The Penn Van ia Department of Labor and Industry sets aside Saturdays as Farm Labor Day at each office to connect farmers with workers. The Bureau of Employment facilitates hires for the season and hundreds of high school boys will be placed on farms during summer vacation.
Officials from the Bureau of Employment plan to place boys in country work during June July and August. The program promises wholesome food healthful environments good wages and instructive experience.
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