Mount Joy Church Groundbreaking and County News Briefs
News notes from Lancaster county report heavy losses among mutual fire insurers with one company near fifty thousand dollars. Mount Joy AME Church breaks ground for a new building. London lights: Edison contract awarded for 114 fourty candlepower and seven eighty candlepower street lights at set prices. Local coal oil price war ends with discovery of enemy oil source. Rural Transportation Company plans hourly service between Denver and Reamstown. Columbia to form Twenty Thousand Club to reach 1920 population goal. October receipts for the ninth revenue district rise by over eighteen thousand. cigar production up, signaling industry health. Hatchery fish consignments arrive for Columbia and port road transfer to Susquehanna River. A cabbage head in Quarryville weighs eighteen pounds. Edith Swisher exhibits a second crop with a multi-head stalk and a prior ten-pound head from the same plant.
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Mutual Fire Insurance Companies
Lancaster County
Mount Joy
Denver
Reamstown
Rural Transportation Company
Columbia
Torresdale
Pequea
Susquehanna River
Quarryville
Charles Lefever
Edith R. Swisher
Eden Township
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation by President Wilson
President Wilson designates Thursday November 27 as Thanksgiving Day and urges the nation to assemble in their churches to give thanks to Almighty God for the year's blessings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
God
Lancaster Farmers Institutes Dates This Year
Lancaster county farmers will host a series of institutes at Maytown Mechanicsville Lititz Ephrata Lampeter Paradise Millersville and Blue Ball with instructors from elsewhere to discuss agricultural topics. The meetings are free and open to all. Dr S C Schmucker urged country pride and better rural education noting city living harms country youth. Mayor Frank McClain reported Lancaster stock yards receipts up sharply, predicting a record year for cattle. Leaves enrich soil and should not be burned, instead composted to fertilize gardens and trees. The agriculture department plans farmer wife education, rural sanitation and potential home economics work with loans and better equipment sought.
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Lancaster County
Maytown
Mechanicsville
Lititz
Ephrata
Lampeter
Paradise
Millersville
Blue Ball
8. C. Schmucker
West Chester Normal School
Delaware County Teachers’ Institute
Dr. Schmucker
New York
Schmucker
Frank McClain
Lancaster
Lancaster Union Stock Yards
Department of Agriculture
Houston
Oysters Food, Season, and a State Crusade Against Water Adds
Oysters feed by filtering water within and excrete impurities, with flavor tied to locality and season. A state crusade, led by Special Agent H L Banzoff and Food Commissioner Faust, targets dealers adding water or ice to oyster vessels and prohibiting display without protection from germs. A Wisconsin study highlights a Virginia Wren devouring pests, consuming diverse prey across two days, while noting sanitation and artistry concerns over facial whisker growth.
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Rockaway
Cotuit
H. L. Banzoff
State Dairy and Food Department
Faust
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. H. Buch
Clothier and Gent's Furnisher
Record
Mentor Union
Knox
Clothind W. H. Buch
Gents’ Furnisher
Lititz, PA
Farmers’ Institute
Virginia Wren
University of Wisconsin
A. R. Cahn
Zoological
Pittsburg
f.C.b. Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Waverly Oil Works Co
Pittsburg, Pa
Joseph Dreifus
Philadelphia
N. Broad St
Oysters Imhoff’s Restaurant
Marrow
Daniel Imhoff
East Main St
Ind
Yale
Farmers National Bank
Silverwareland Sentiment
North
Queen Stre
Lancaster, PA
Wingert & Haas
N. Queen St
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
East King St
Davenport
W. A
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