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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
10
The article notes Pershing telling President Wilson that the last American soldier will be out of France by July 1. He indicated the army in the Rhine would move on schedule per War Department orders, with departure sequencing set by General Pershing. The item appears amid a scattered list of local notices and community updates.
Potatoes jumped in price as farmers holding the old stock sell at higher rates. Finest spuds sold at ninety cents a bushel recently, and last week fetched about double that, the season’s peak. Farmers are moving remaining stock to markets rapidly as the new crop nears.
Department of Agriculture reports seventeen year locusts appear across states east of the Mississippi but relief is tempered by concern over army worms in Texas. Entomologists say the worms can be controlled by burning infested grass or applying Paris green solution.
Baker Young, longtime Lancaster fixture known for selling Baer's Almanacs in the city streets, has joined the "prophets" in a move described as retirement from prophecy. Accused of editing the almanac, he is said to be innocent, with jokes and advice attributed to others, while he remained a steady seller near John Carter's Fulton Bank.
Returning from France where he was raised Russell McKimmon, colored, died in City Hospital. Unable to locate relatives, an appeal raised $115 in under an hour to fund a decent burial. The Grand Army post grants permission for interment in its City Cemetery lot with a military funeral.
William A Hambright of 837 First street Lancaster PA says forty eight years free of illness then a breakdown three years ago. After vain treatment he credits Tonall taken three weeks ago with restoring health and ease of work. His wife also reports improvement and he notes Tonall low cost at J E Charles Drug Store Lititz.
The Hotel Cocalico at Mpr hta sold to P. Hildebrand of Reading along with William H. Shimp and R. H. Garver from Reading. Built about 20 years ago at 95 000, the modern hotel has been well maintained. The price paid to Dr. B M Winters via Lancaster Real Estate Co. was 31 000, roughly one sixth of current construction value.
In Lyndell, Chester County, John J. Lewis found surface oil on the McClure farm after observing it float on Brandywine and collecting samples. An expert confirmed oil in the ground, prompting capital interest and three wells, though no paying quantities yet. Deeper drilling is hoped to yield a profitable flow.
Prominent delegates of Lancaster Classis of the Reformed Church convened in Robberstown and urged higher clerical pay. Rev. Howard Obald reported 52 congregations, 1,033 Sunday school officers and teachers, 10,896 scholars, 1,842 communicant members, and 5,627 families in the classis. The sustentation committee recommended stipends of 240 for Armstrong Valley, 300 for Trinity Mountville, 175 for Warwick, and 108 for Eden Church. the class granted these requests.
Lancaster Chief of Police Bushong cautions that men in uniform or posing as soldiers canvass for magazines and books, often under false pretenses. He notes complaints of unreveived subscriptions and suspects several canvassers in Lititz last week are part of the same fraudulent gang seeking cash for soldier funds or college courses.
Major Tomasella of Bagdad Florida led the 1st Gallathon with a captured one year old donkey from the Somme named Nassau. Nassau is praised as a perfect gas alarm able to smell gas ten minutes before arrival, reportedly waking a sleeping battalion just as a heavy attack began, likely saving many lives.
Forty or more foreign born families, with children up to ten years old, gathered at Lebanon station to ride to Melvin in Michigan. They were hired by the Michigan Sugar Beet Co. to settle 80,000 acres of beet fields. About 100 people boarded first class trains, each family receiving a snug home on 15 to 25 acre plots with outbuildings and shares for homesteading. Transportation and materials were supplied.
Milton Fisher admitted at a Lancaster hearing to having two wives and that a third woman he lived with carried a forged marriage certificate. He was alleged to have married Elma Hake at Wrightsville while already married to Blanche M. Mundorff of Delta, aged 14. He vanished after the second marriage, was said to have enlisted, and was arrested at McCall’s Ferry. Rosy Welsh posed as his Philadelphia wife.
The Oxford fair once drew crowds from nearby counties but never became financially successful. The grounds are now dismantled and the enterprise faded to memory. In earlier days a modest band and horse race marked a modest celebration, yet promoters clung on despite repeated losses until the fair’s end.
A wartime surge fuels American innovation across chemicals, steel, and dyes. Explosive compounds in gasoline spark debate over propulsion, while moss for medical use, fish skin leather, whale meat as food, and potash production rise as national industries.
From the smoke pouring from the cement mill stacks and iron foundry, the waste product from molasses manufacture now yields about $700,000 annually.
Hawking, a 75 year old man who posed as Mark Twain cousin, was arrested in Lancaster for carrying too much liquor. He sold a pamphlet titled Whisky Where Is Thy Place and recited a warlike poem in court before the magistrate discharged him.
Fyvle Knight, prize winner at the National Livestock Show, will attend the Paris peace dinner in person. An American packing firm bought him for 2.50 a pound, the highest price on record for beef. He was shipped to Paris in a refrigerator, specially dressed for the voyage. Knight is said to be the only tender thing offered to the Germans. A spring auto mystery shares the limelight with the tale of seven leaves found on an auto spring.
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