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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1924
Page
2
Federal examiners found a 140 000 shortage at Parkesburg National Bank tying up funds of 1 800 depositors and affecting the borough council school board Visiting Nurse Association and other groups using the bank as depository. Borough and school board have loaned to meet the emergency.
Edwin B. Worthen president of the Lexington Historical Society praises D W Griffiths America for precise historical battle scenes from Lexington Concord and Bunker Hill. He aided by lending relics including drums flintlocks powder horns and other items used in the Lexington fighting.
O H Shenk of Ridgeway erects a desirable bungalow for A R Sheaffer of Mountville and breaks ground on a second Donerville bungalow. He has a permit for six brick houses on Laurel street between Union and Fremont. In Lancaster, Goldfish boiled in an overflow incident leads to a suit between H E Cooke and D Reese Davis. County Agent W H Davis reports Cannon with a history: a Continental Army abandoned cannon used as a hitching post, later claimed by Ringwall’s Jackson Rifles unit after a maneuver at Armistice Day.
The Lancaster County Farm Bureau Commodity Division will buy certified disease free seed stock for potato crops. New sources include North Dakota Cobblers and White Rural seed from Michigan with two carloads each. Vermont Cobblers and Russet seed from southern Michigan will also be available. Prices run about $1.65 per bushel.
The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania will launch a rotation billing plan in Lancaster starting November 1. Central office groups will be billed on differing dates each month, with Lancaster dates on the 11th and out-of-town accounts billed up to date. The plan aims to spread accounting work, save time and money, and clarify out-of-town charges on bills.
Nearby sales of property include the Kreider farm near Weidmannville sold privately to George M. Zimmerman for 15000 dollars. A 40 acre Weaverland farm sold by Moses Shirk heirs to Joseph Shirk for 275 dollars. Hannah Mellinger of Brickerville sold her home at public sale to Ellis Rettew for 1400 dollars.
Frost killed vines and now potatoes are being lifted. Crop turns out fine in size and quality. Planting was extensive this season and an abundance will reach markets. Growers favor sandy soil for New Jersey or Southern quality results.
The Catholic Encyclopedia notes immersion was the original baptism method and prevailed regularly until around the twelfth century. In some locales individual churches continued immersion baptisms for several centuries more.
Between 1847 and 1857 expeditions probed Arctic seas to locate Sir John Franklin who headed toward the North Pole in 1845. The most recent search recovered relics from Franklin's ill fated voyage.
The oldest university in the New World is claimed as the University of San Marcos in Lima Peru founded in 1951 and noted as a major school in South America.
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