Local notes on cars, stunts and Fourth of July plans
Milton Grove resident B F Grosh shows off in car stunts while Marietta pike roads are set to be abolished. East Earl steers die in barn mishap. neighbors help Galen McKinley of East Dremore harvest his fields. Gehman of Ephrata wins UPenn classics fellowship worth 500 dollars for 1911 12. Lancaster to celebrate Independence Day. snakes shot while planting corn. Wheat rising. county timber 58,302 acres. cleared land 511,150 acres. county real estate value 103,707,951 with 9,355,000 tax exempt.
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Squire B. F. Grosh
Milton Grove
Marietta Pike
Rohrerstown
Silver Springs
Sarah A. Gait
East Earl
Galen McKinley
East Dremore
Henry S. Gehman
Ephrata
Graduate School
University of Pennsylvania
Lancaster
McClain
C. B. Hollinger
William Lied
Reamstown
United States
Brecknock
Indian Skulls Found at Bainbridge Quarries
Workmen at the Princess quarries in Bainbridge unearthed two perfect Indian skulls along with arrows bones of animals and other artifacts. The skull shapes indicate ancient inhabitants of the region. This marks the second such discovery in the area following skeletons found last summer during cellar excavation in Bainbridge.
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Princess Quarries
Bainbridge
Lutheran Reunion at Lititz to draw Lutheran counties crowd
The Lutheran Reunion for Lancaster and Lebanon counties will be held in Lititz on Wednesday June 21. It is expected to be the largest gathering of the denomination in the area with a full day program including old hymns addresses music and games. A 600 voice choir led by Wm H Mearig will lead singing and a large orchestra led by H R Shirk will accompany. Special trains will run from Reading Lebanon and Columbia to Lititz for the event with return service.
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Lutheran Reunion
Lancaster
Lebanon
Lititz
Lutheran Church
Wm. H. Mearig
New Holland
Lancaster City
H. R. Shirk
Reading
Columbia
Clock Artist Delights Visitors With Odd Inmate Creations
William Isaac, once a jeweler’s employee in West Chester, now a resident of Chester County Insane Hospital, creates remarkable clockwork pieces from discarded boxes and odds ends. His latest large clock features forty movements and a sequence of figures that perform when a penny is dropped, including a hat-tipping man, dancers, a soldier, and a monkey, all appearing within fifteen minutes.
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William Isaac
West Chester
Chester County Insane Hospital
Isaac
Progress in Pennsylvania Apple Growing Across Counties
The State's Division of Zoology notes Pennsylvania rapidly advances as a fruit producing state with all 67 counties adapted to profitable apple growing. Experts say success hinges on site choice, proper varieties, tree care including planting, pruning, spraying, fertilizing, cultivating, thinning, picking, packing, and pest control. The 1,200 model orchards show practical lessons for beginners and advanced growers as dormant spraying ends and spring spraying plans are prepared.
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Division of Zoology of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
H. A. Surface
Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania Senate
Surface
Division of Zoology
Department of Agriculculture
Millionaire Moravian church worker dies at 87 in Brooklyn
Charles A. Zoebisch of Brooklyn aged 87 dies after a 35 year Moravian Church career. He helped organize the Board of Church Extension in 1875 and served as treasurer and in advisory finance roles, later chairing the Moravian Seminary board and supporting a $50 000 church extension fund. He led the First Moravian church of New York trustees and was a longtime finance figure in New York. He attended the last Moravian Synod in Lititz.
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Charles A. Zoebisch
Brooklyn
Moravian Church
Board of Church Extension
Moravian Seminary For Young Ladies
Bethlehem
First Moravian Church of
New York City
Zoebish
New York
Lititz
SOME TIMBER FIGURES
Last year over 55,900,000,000 feet of timber were cut in the United States. More than 18,000 acres of timber are cut every working day. At the present rate the desirable timber will be exhausted in 25 to 85 years. For a year of Chicago Tribune paper over 2,000 acres are required. We consume 7,300,000 cubic feet of cedar annually for lead pencils. Timber consumption grows faster than population. Panama Canal may cut freight costs. There is no other great staple as indispensable to civilization as timber, while supply diminishes.
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United States
Chicago Tribune
Panama Canal
Pacific
Atlantic
Lancaster Church marks sesqui centennial cornerstone event
The 150th anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church Lancaster was celebrated last Thursday with a platform for speakers and invited guests behind the chancel. Mayor McClain and W A Hensel spoke, Justice J Hay Brown presided, and music by the Fourth Regiment Band accompanied the service. Trinity Church is the mother of ten Lutheran churches in Lancaster.
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Trinity Lutheran Church of Lancaster
The
Historical Society
Mifflin Street
J. E. Whittaker
Supreme Court
J. Hay Brown
Lancaster
McClain
W. A. Hensel
William H. Staake
Common Pleas Court
No. 5
Philadelphia
Lewis S. Mudge
Ministerial Association
Fourth Regiment
Linda C. Peiper
John F. Schnerer
William Z. Sener
Trinity Church
Mule Kills Grizzly With Iron Hooves in Sierra Bust
A Californian with a mule and a mute named Billy faced a grizzly in the Sierra Nevadas. The mule, tethered near a feed area, suddenly sprang as the bear approached, delivering a rapid volley of hoof strikes that ended the bear’s threat. Billy then calmly returned to feeding, leaving the man unharmed.
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Sierra Nevadas
Billy
Chicago Record-Herald
Smuggling In Italy Across Swiss Frontier
Italy enforces harsh smuggling laws with armed frontier guards authorized to shoot. A pound of contraband tobacco brings two years in prison plus heavy fines, yet profits lure peasants to risk theft by evading taxes. System officers cannot guard every point as locals report movements, all in league against officials.
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Italy
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W. H. Buch
Clothier and Gents’ Furnisher Record Building
Lititz, PA
Lititz Springs
Chester County
Lancaster Church
Wingert & Haas
QueEn ST
Lancaster, PA
the North Star
North Stars
Indiana
Hoffmeier Bros
King Street
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
East
King St
White Mountain
U.S
Heinitsch’s
Heinitsh's
S. Queen St
Reader
N. B
North Queen Stret Langaster, PA
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