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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1922
Page
3
A statue of Andrew Gregg Curtin Civil War Governor of Pennsylvania was unveiled at Harrisburg on the site of Camp Curtin. The event occurred in the presence of G A R members and veterans from the Spanish American and World War eras.
Half a million bluegills from Torresdale Hatcheries stocked the Conestoga, Pequea and Mill Creek this fall. Manheim township farmer John Landis recovered at Lancaster General Hospital after a bed confinement. Twenty seven workers husked corn and hauled fodder for a day at a local residence. Levi and Mrs Raezer of Talmage celebrated their golden wedding at age seventy three and sixty nine with six grown children. Paul Hess of New Holland converted an ice house into a cold storage depot with baskets of apples stored. State College News notes Masonic Home Farm Elizabeth town earned a second prize of 411 bushels per acre in a state contest for potato yield. S R Zug travels to Indiana to purchase Hampshire hogs for local breeders with plans for a public sale on arrival in early November.
A new corporation for the manufacture of plumbers supplies is formed by Eph rata business men. Named Eph rata Manufacturing Co with J E Workman of York Pa as head of the plant. It will provide employment to a large number of men. Read the Record.
Lancaster area notes a decade long disappearance of Henry H Snyder. His wife and children hope he may return if alive after embezzling from Hisenlohr & Brother. Estate, now at about $10,000 balance, may avert action. he possibly fled to Cuba. director of Guaranty Trust Co. was trustee of his estate.
The Conestoga Traction Company announced plans to build a trolley line from Denver to Ephrata. Engineers will begin surveying the proposed road in the coming days. The line will benefit the community and extend service to every borough in the county.
Mrs. Emily Shaw reports RAT-SNAP outperformed rival traps by catching 12 rats in a week after buying 65 cent box. she notes her husband bought a $2 trap and she would not raise chicks without RAT-SNAP. The product comes in cakes in three sizes 35c 65c and $1.25 sold by L. N. Moyer Lititz and S. M. Fahnestock Lexington.
A historical note on ginseng used by Chinese people as both food and medicine. The text suggests the root resembles the human body and is believed to have certain virtues. It states that neither form of ginseng is a proven medicine according to scientists, and the medical value remains unproven.
Edward McElroy of Marietta and his wife toured Leesburg Virginia the old Confederate jail he was confined in fifty eight years earlier during the Civil War. McElroy served with the 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment on the Southern expedition.
A farmer recalls suffering years with rats after using rat poison that harmed a watchdog. A neighbor recommended RAT-SNAP as a safe, sure killer. Three sizes priced 35¢ 65¢ and $1.25, sold and guaranteed by L. N. Moyer of Lititz and S. M. Fahmestock of Lexington.
Samuel Walborn of West Carpenter Avenue Myerstown had a long sore leg. While examining the wound he pulled out a fully formed strawberry leaf with stem. The leaf was hard and smaller than a normal leaf, and how it got there remains a mystery.
Fumigate grain with carbon bisulphide in tight bins using one pound per 100 cu ft, repeat every ten days for three cycles. Celery quality hinges on October cultivation and late storage in a cool, ventilated place. Clean and whitewash the fruit cellar if possible. Bald hens shed feathers as oil is lost. Breeding sow preparation needed for March litters. feed generously before breeding. The Bach Choir from Bethlehem will perform in Philadelphia November 4 with soloists. Penn State sends White Leghorn chickens to Egypt as a gift for missionary work, housed in a special coop and escorted by 150 pounds of feed.
An army officer reports a congressman from a distant southern district asked for a spare statue to honor local War World I dead. The officer said the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds had no available statues, and the representative suggested shipping one to his town.
The piece traces snuff use from its heyday in the eighteenth century to its waning with Queen Victoria. It notes royal gift exchanges of jeweled snuffboxes, ceremonial rituals, and snuff’s social reach from kings to beggars, ending with the mull as a symbol of hospitality.
Field crickets prefer mushrooms and vegetation and will scavenge decaying matter. When two are boxed together one often becomes cannibal, eating the other.
Harry Levering of Delair New Jersey landed a record size freshwater eel in Pensauken Creek using a No 5 hook and worms. The eel weighed about 8 pounds and measured 14 1 4 inches in girth and 4 1 2 inches thick after a long struggle. Elijah Payne of Glen Richey Pennsylvania reported a 21 1 2 inch brown trout weighing four pounds from Slate Run Lycoming County using a four ounce bamboo rod.
An advertorial note defines cold in the head as nasal catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine with an ointment and a blood-acting tonic. It also mentions Ohio's first public employment bureau as a pioneer in free public job services in the United States, tracing origins to France in 1828.
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