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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
2
Controversy at Manheim over Principal D. J. Keener salary as instructors receive raises. Keener resigns from the high school faculty, citing being overlooked amid board tensions. Students and townsmen push for the principal’s salary increase amid board opposition.
A rich man declines lending his friend $50 saying it is better to settle matters legally now. The friend accuses him of betrayal, but the wealthy man insists they must resolve the dispute through law and bids good morning.
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Hart's new Artcraft drama Wagon Tracks arrives at the Paramount Theatre with Jane Novak and Robert McKim in key roles. C Gardner Sullivan wrote the story, Lambert Hillyer directed, and a band of real Indians appears in a dramatic desert ambush scene. The film follows a guide through a perilous journey from Kansas toward the Santa Fe trail, portraying a red blooded, honorable frontier hero.
Under Farm Agent Bucher Lancaster county sheep raisers will pool this year’s wool for open sale by bid. Last summer the pool yielded 48 cents per pound for some and 30 cents for others. The wool sold to a Boston manufacturer for 65 pounds in a prior sale. Receiving stations will be at the Lancaster office Quarryville and Ephrata. Bucher urged 150 men to prepare wool for market in July.
In Kelton Chester county Lavina Slack 98 moves through her garden solo often working half a day. The Myerstown High School tax stands at 25 mills with a $5 poll tax. The state owes the borough for three appropriations. A 3000 ton blast at U S Cranmer quarries Lebanon tore loose stone and will require months to clear. Sixteen deer perished this winter on the Seven Mountains showing weakness in the herd. Hershey Corporation plans 180 additional houses near Hershey this summer after 100 previously approved and 31 finished already occupied by plant workers.
State officials weigh plans for a summer encampment for provisional brigades at Mount Gretna in July and August as early completion of regiments suggests a militia expansion may be possible.
John Devardo of Eddystone confronted a pickpocket who tried to steal his wallet containing $100 last Friday. Devardo struck the thief in the jaw, who fell with the wallet in hand. He held the man until police arrived and arrested him. The suspect gave the name Harry Green of Tenth and Green Streets Philadelphia.
Something to guard Harry B Chapin of Benton and La Rue Hess of Waller were appointed last week to guard the bonded warehouse of the Rohr McHenry Distilling company in Benton where more than 100000 dollars worth of ten year whisky is stored. They will receive 125 dollars monthly from the government and must be on duty day and night. Recent thefts of eleven barrels from this place prompted their assignment. Lincoln's Son declines Memorial Day invite
The Queen City Silk Company begins construction of a Manheim mill sized 50 by 150 feet and two stories high, employing about 100 workers once complete.
The Columbia Pretzel Company filled an order of 32 percent tons of pretzels all destined for Philadelphia. M M Seeman of Mt Joy had 500 thriving chicks two weeks ago. white diarrhoea killed 370 in days. Mt Joy school board set teacher salaries from 90 to 110 per month.
B. R. Hollinger of Manheim sold to 8. S. Becker of Millersville a pair of young Belgian bay horses for 760 dollars. The animals were purchased a year ago as colts.
Ephraim Wenger, son of John A Wenger, after army service in France, stayed with parents at Mt Hope then left last week for Carlisle Wyoming to manage an 820 acre farm.
Walter Herr of Mt. Joy township has already contracted for the sale of his expected crop of pears. The report notes strong outlook for cherry, pear and peach trees with high yields anticipated.
W. W. Dudley, former superintendent of Hamilton Watch Co., is organizing another watch company in Lancaster. Current offices are in the Conestoga National Bank building.
Mr and Mrs Howard Cover visiting at the home of Mrs Cover's parents W L Hershey and wife in Landisville. They eight years ago went to India to engage in missionary work and are now back briefly for a visit.
The arranging committee met and planned the 1920 Gibble Family Reunion to be held in Hershey Pennsylvania on Saturday August 7th.
The Lancaster Admr Reynolds G A R post for aged boys has 18 members aged 80 or more. Newest members include Ernest Brown, who joined last week at 98, and Jesse Nye at 81.
Prospects for a large berry crop look favorable across varieties. Earlier fears of winter damage from severe cold and ice have eased as no harm to plants is evident and harvests appear promising.
Mrs Henry Loraw of N Barbara Street set two hens and after ten days the nests were abandoned. She placed the eggs in a basket on the stove shelf and was rewarded with thirteen healthy peeps.
Health Officer Jacob Phalm of Manheim, formerly head of the county prison weaving department, takes the post in Penn and Rapho townships. He fills the vacancy created by R. J. Phalm, who resigns to join the State Highway Department.
A Lancaster dealer received a check for over $2,000 for a carload of potatoes he shipped to the coal region. The payment reflects a sizable sale and showcases ongoing distribution from Lancaster.
Regions report farmers realizing higher sums for stored potatoes while buyers bid aggressively. The veteran seller notes he never received so much for similar work in his many years in business, and dealers scramble to secure supplies.
A steam pipe burst at Eden mill of Consumers' Box Board and Paper Company in Westnes day afternoon burning Earl Martin an employee near the pipe. He was taken to General Hospital for several days of treatment. No other damage occurred and the pipe was quickly repaired.
Harry Miller unearthed a well preserved Indian skeleton in Washingtonboro graveyard. Alongside were sixty beads in good condition a trade knife a broken tomahawk and twenty broken beads. Nearby a rock bears four sundials likely carved by Indians.
M G Sheaffer attorney for Charles Pennebacker of Reinhold's Station sues H E Fetter of Brickerville for 1500 damages in Common Pleas Court. Fetter claimed Pennebacker tied his wife to a bed-post and restrained her liberty. Plaintiff says he is innocent. Mrs Pennybacker is non compos mentis and in an asylum.
The 68th annual session at St John’s Reformed Church Harrisburg reports 31 congregations in Lancaster County and southern Dauphin County with 12 000 members and 41 ministers. It notes $24 000 for benevolences and over $35 000 for congregational needs plus more than $300 000 for the Inter-Church world drive amid steady growth. Warwick charge highlights include the Penryn congregation paying off a $400 debt on a $10 000 edifice and increased benevolence giving. Brickerville nears full obligations with greater benevolences. Lititz reports best rent expenses and debt reduction with $15 17 per member for average giving and $2 per member for benevolences.
The church tracing its beginnings to Ulrich Zwingli in Zurich now numbers about 750,000 members in the United States. It oversees 18 institutions, 3 seminaries, 5 orphanages, 3 homes for the aged, 2 hospitals, and conducts 200 missions including work among southern African Americans and northwest Indians. Warwick charge ranks second in classis for communion rate, with 8 percent of communicants. Elder A Y Keath served as lay delegate alongside Rev Geo B Raezer.
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