Elizabethtown notes gas accident and local items
Rhersole, Elizabethtown Gas Company superintendent, fainted from gas. revived by a doctor. Lancaster and county news include aging resident Jane Brady 98, G Reed Alexander promoted to lieutenant, and teaching counts. Other notes cover municipal water plan, a 50th anniversary, State College graduation speaker, and local civic developments.
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Ip i. Rhersole
Elizabethtown
BR. O. Scheidt
Franklin and Marshall College
University of Kentucky
Guy Gochenour
Jane Brady
Colraine Township
Lancaster County
Union ,Presbyterian Church
G Reed Alexander
Lancaster
France
Mexico
Wiss Hisie Miller
Quarayville
Philadelphia
Directat
Prankford Hospital
Candy makers meet as costs stay high and wage standards urged
National Confectioners' Association president Robert R. Cleeland of Springfield Mass asserts costs of manufacture and raw materials will stay high with no relief from wage cuts. The group discusses national prohibition potential benefits. A hermit, William Tink, 76, was found dead of natural causes in the mountains near Ephrata after arriving in 1870, with no relatives here. In a moral education passage, a long exhortation urges teaching hard work, honesty, and independence to a child, linking labor with virtue and success.
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Robert R. Cleeland
Springfield
Mass
National Confectioners’ Association
William Tink
Myhrata
Hahnstown
Christian KK. Gehman
John Sweger
H. RK. Miller
Faphrata
Ile
Ephrata
Prohibition Repeal Bill Tabled by Gallivan in Congress
Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts plans a bill to repeal the war time prohibition law at the opening of Congress. A similar measure was previously introduced but remained in committee when the last session ended.
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Representative Gallivan
Mass
Gallivan
To Erect $24,000 Home for Salvation Army
Lancaster county Salvation Army drive aims to raise $40,000 starting next Monday as veterans in khaki with war stories and decorations recount the need. Of the total subscriptions, $25,000 will go toward building a Salvation Army Home in Lancaster to continue work begun in wartime.
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The
Chuarch of the Brethren
Pennsylvania
Kummel
Somerset
County
Via People's Home
Salvation Army
Twancaster
Lancaster City
Lancaster
Tonall Helped Windsor Man With Indigestion
John Chilias of Windsor Pa says years of stomach trouble and weight loss vanished after taking Tonall. He reports restored appetite weight gain renewed strength and calmer nerves. Tonall sold at J E Charles Drug Store Lititz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Chillas
Windsor
J. E. Charles’ Drug Store
Lititz
Historic Cloister Building at Ephrata First Sunday School
The Ephrata Cloister is described as hosting America’s first Sunday School by the Seventh Day Baptists led by Ludwig Hacker or Obed. It notes printing began circa 1745, the Saxon English German press, and the famous Martyrs Mirror. The article recounts the Saal and Sisters’ House, early printing, celibacy ideals, love feasts, and the spatial layout of Kammern. It also mentions Revolutionary War era activity including printing and books seized before Germantown.
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Ephrata
Ephrata Review
America
Seventh Day Baptists
Robert Raikes
Gloucester
England
Ludwig Hacker
Obed
Brandywine
Laracsa
Continental Congress
Lancaster
York
Continental
Germantown
Indians at Denver Visit Ends With Warm Letter Of Introduction
Two Indians, Wolf Kapatchky and Roy Kapatchky, staying in Denver after traveling from Mineola New York to Arizona, charmed locals with fluent English and songs in English and their native tongue. Wolf, 52, educated at an Indian school in Virginia, warned civilized life suits him, while Roy showed his draft registration. Residents kept lights on all night out of fear of the unknown, and the pair left with an invitation to visit later on their reservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Burges Mellinger
Wolf Kapatchky
Roy Kapatchky
Mineola
N. Y
Arizona
Wolf
Wampton
Roy
Educainn
Hanting
Brethren Minister Chosen for Elizabeth Town Church
John A. Buffenmoyer of Elizabeth town was chosen to the ministry at the bi monthly Church of the Brethren meeting in Elizabethtown. He said he felt called to the ministry for years and pledged to devote his life to the sacred calling. For years he has been superintendent of the Brethren Sunday school at Stephens Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Buffenmoyer
Elizabethtown
Church of the Brethren
Buffenmoyer
Brethren Sunday School
Stephens Hill
Sullfrog Weather Prophet Predicts Warm Breezes
Drumore township resident Simon Snyder, known for forecasting, says warm weather is here to stay as the bullfrog in his spring has emerged and lingered. He notes the frog has appeared several times, then returned to its winter quarters, signaling a seasonal shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon “Snyder
Drumore Township
Balloon raid injures naval officers near Baden
Pennsylvania state constabulary and city detectives hunt suspects after a balloon carrying two U S naval officers with high powered rifles was shot down near Baden Pennsylvania Sunday. The pilots Lieutenant Robert Howarth and Ensign Wm White from Akron Ohio Navy Reserve Training Station survived by landing after a fusillade and safety valves opened.
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Pennsylvania State Constabulary
Allegheny
Beaverconn- Hag
Pittsburgh
United States Naval
Baden
Robert Howarth
Wm. White
Akron, Ohio
Naval Reserve
Akron
Atlantic Cos
Beaver
Ensign White
Farmer Uses Dynamite to Dig Tree Holes near Elizabethtown
A farmer followed horticulturist guidance and used dynamite to dig holes for apple trees. He placed several sticks, creating large holes that nearly filled the orchard. He spent about half a day filling and planting the first tree,后 noting the blast worked faster than a pick and shovel and that he escaped injury by luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown
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Z. F. Reker
Reading
Italy
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Pennsylvania State College
Margaret M. Delwater
Altoona
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Queen St. Lancaster, PA
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East
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