Local sports and harvest notes from Lancaster County
Trappers report twenty polecats trapped this fall by John and Wayne Byers. Architect C Emien Urban caught a six pound bass in the Susquehanna at Peach Bottom. Pennsylvania managers reportedly plan double tracking lines to Columbia Port Deposit and York to connect with Baltimore. Persimmons are abundant on Conewago hills. Wesley Shank moved an eight thousand four hundred pound corn load near Mount Joy using a six horse team. Five Lancaster fishermen at McCall's Ferry landed a wall-eyed pike and salmon weighing 119 pounds. Water runs coal dirty and few fish lately. Lower End hunts favored as Narrow Gauge Railroad carries hunters dogs and game. Quarryville sees 816 rabbits aboard one car. a squirrel hunter claims nineteen grays. Game plentiful this season despite some farmers banning hunting and trespass notices being ignored.
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John
Wayne Byers
Port Deposit
York
Baltimore
Conewago Hills
Mastersonville
Wesley Shank
Madeira Farm
Mount Joy
Shank
Lancaster
McCall’s Ferry
Susquehanna River
Quarryville
Blind students enrolled at Cornell join four year arts and science pair
Three blind students register for four year courses at Cornell University this year. Two study in the college of arts and sciences and one in agriculture. The entry is linked to W. Moore of Brooklyn, a senior in the arts college, whose success with a reader inspired the others. Moore has completed all required work and earned good marks.
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Cornell University
College of Arts and Science
College of Agriculture
W. €. Moore
Brooklyn
Thearts College
Moore
Ephrata Exchange Opens With 250 Subscribers
The Denver and Ephrata Telephone Company begins with about 250 subscribers and plans rapid installs. The network spans 500 miles of wire over 3,000 poles connecting Linco New Holland Terre Hill Denver and many towns. Rural lines expand as Terre Hill and Denver exchanges are built and connect to Bell facilities.
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Denver
Martindale
Red Run
Terre Hill
Weaverland
Reamstown
Stevens
Blue Bail
Adamstown
Brickerville
Lexington
Brunnerville
Lititz
Bell Company
Some Hints for the Bridegroom
A judge advises on marriage conduct with cautions about privacy manners and public behavior. The piece humorously warns the groom to avoid overfamiliarity to his wife and to refrain from drawing attention or mixed signals in social settings. It emphasizes discretion in greetings hotel registration and speaking styles.
Mayor to Sell Pork Next in City Market
Indianapolis mayor Shank reports success with potato and pear sales at cost to curb living costs and fight commission merchants. He plans similar low price sales for apples and pork after talking with farmers about hogs and middleman profits.
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Commission
Shank
Indianapolis
Ind
Heinz Farm Discontinued Between Middletown and Highspire
The H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh will discontinue farming the Kunkel farm between Middletown and Highspire at season's end due to high freight costs. Crops, including melons and pickles, are shipped to western factories, with farming implements to be moved to a Pittsburgh-area farm around January 1, 1912. Between 75 and 150 local workers were employed seasonally, and J. R. Bringer managed the farm for several years.
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H. J. Heinz Company
Pittsburg
Middletown
J. R. Bringer
Fall Planting: Benefits and Best Practices for Trees
Fall planting yields finer stock and more planning time. Cut any broken root ends cleanly, form a raised earth mound to protect from mice and stabilize the tree, then level and mulch in spring. Prune heavily in spring to balance roots and top as growth restarts. Planting can continue into December if ground remains unfrozen.
Coffee Not Deleterious, Physicians Say
At a College of Physicians of Philadelphia symposium, experiments challenged the idea that caffeine harms health. Psychologists and physiologists reported caffeine stimulates muscles nerves and mental work without triggering a low mood, and Dr. H C Wood Jr described how caffeine did not adversely affect muscular or circulatory systems.
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College of Physicians of Philadelphia
H.C. Wood, Jr
Dr. Wood
Iceman’s Quiet Patience Catches Boy’s Eye
A boy, Johnnie, praises the iceman for not reacting when a large piece of ice dropped on his toes. Instead, the iceman calmly sat in the gutter and talked with God, leaving Johnnie’s mother amused and puzzled by the gentleness.
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Johnnie
Mama
Ephrata High School Hike Reaches Home After 200 Mile Trek
Ephrata High School pupils Roy Krouse Samuel Zug and William Shimp left on the 10th for a hiking trip to Langhorne near Philadelphia. They visited relatives then went to Bristol Philadelphia Chester and Wilmington before returning home Saturday. They walked the over 200 mile distance.
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Roy Krouse
Samuel Zug
William Shimp
Ephrata High School
Langhorne
Philadelphia
Bristol
Chester
Wilmington
Oldest House in Lancaster County Stands Since 1719
The old stone house erected by Hans Herr in 1719 near Willow Street and the Mennonite church in West Lampeter township is the county’s oldest dwelling. Built ten years before Lancaster County formed and over fifty before the Revolutionary War, it has weathered many winters and still stands, likely for decades more, with few if any older homes in Pennsylvania.
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Lancaster County
Hans Herr
Willow Street
West Lampeter Township
David H. Huber
Pennsylvania
Guard Rail Fatality At Lancaster Plant
Joseph Hitter aged 45 an employee of Rote Structural Iron Works Lancaster was killed last week at the Armstrong Cork Company linoleum plant. He fell from the sixth floor through broken skeleton floors to the first story after a breast drill broke in the act of setting a guard rail, dying within minutes.
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Joseph Hitter
Rote Structural Iron Works Company
Lancaster
Armstrong Cork Company
New 150 Foot Steel Bridge Span Arrives Near Marietta
The Conestoga Traction Company delivered a 150 foot steel bridge span to Chickies near Marietta last week. It will be placed in position soon to replace the long wooden trestle crossing the meadow, with a fill planned at the crossing site.
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Chickies Creek
Marietta
Conestoga Traction Company
Chickies
Aged Hunter Heads to Pine Grove for Bear and Deer
Mountville residents George Morrison and Walter Swords set out on a gunning trip to Pine Grove to hunt bear and deer. Morrison, eighty four, born near Abbotstown in Adams county, makes his forty sixth mountain hunt, with fourteen deer and one bear previously bagged. He has lived in Mountville sixty years and expects a deer or bear on return.
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Messrs
George Morrison
Walter Swords
Mountville
Pine Grove
Mr. Morrison
Adams County
Abbotstown
Beloved Man Comforts Woman In Quiet Road Conversation
A bashful man and a woman drive along when she confesses feeling blue and unloved. He reassures her that God and her mother love her and tells her to sit on her hands, offering gentle consolation.
Brick for Weight Makes Good Road Material in Erie County
Erie county leads New York in road maintenance says H K Bishop deputy highway commissioner. Brick roads suit Buffalo area heavy wagon and auto traffic, despite higher initial cost, providing long term durability over macadam under heavy usage.
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Erie County
H. K. Bishop
Westchester County
New York
Bishop
Buffalo
Porter Overdraws Account Prompts White House Call
John Addison Porter once overdrew his Treasury account while on vacation. Comptroller Tracewell disallowed the advance to protect public funds. Porter told President McKinley about it and the president summoned Tracewell to the White House to explain his refusal.
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John Addison Porter
Tracewell
Porter
Washington
McKinley
White House
Treasury
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
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India
W. H. Buch
Haberdasher
Record
Broad St. Lititz, PA
Ephrata
Heinz Farm
Maine
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
Heinitsh
BIG Furniture and Carpet
S. Queen St
Lititz, PA
N. Queen St
North Queen
Tre
M. M. Souders
OUR
Crystal Spring Farm
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