Officers Installed by Odd Fellows in Lititz Lodge
The Odd Fellows Lititz Lodge 1050 installed its new officers led by Domity Grand Master J. D. Fissel of Mannheim. Roy Weaver became Noble Grand with Hart Singer as Vice Grand and a slate including Recording Secretary H. B. Workman and Financial Secretary C. Walter Miller. Other roles went to W. Martin Hess, Alvin Long, John Singer, Landis Herr, and Levi Yerger among others. A lunch of ice cream cake pretzels and coffee followed the ceremony.
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Lititz
Domity Grand
J. D. Fissel
Manheim
Cloward
H. GC. Reedy
Robert Russell
P.B. Farlow
A. R. Reist
Alvin Long
Noble Grand
John Singer
Otis Sturgis
Raymond Singer
Landis Herr
Charles Kyrick
B. G. Weir
Monroe Smith
Howard Bollinger
Harry Buchcreft
Levi Yerger
Traffic Through Suez Channel Specs
The Suez canal is 100 miles long and 40 feet deep with a 1T feet width. Ships pass under their own power and transit averages 46 hours 11 minutes. The maximum speed permitted is 512 nautical miles per hour with night vessels showing four lights and a strong searchlight beam 4000 feet ahead.
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Suez Canal
Despised Class In Roman Palestine Tax Collectors
The alien Palestinian government used epaculators to collect public revenue for their own gain. Though many were natives, Jews classified them with social outcasts and even with heathen outsiders, marking them as outside Israel.
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Palestine
Rome
Florods
Israel
Fredericksburg Remembrance of Mary Ball Washington
The mother of George Washington Mary Ball Washington did not live at Mount Vernon. She spent her last days in Fredericksburg Virginia near her daughter.
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Fredericksburg
George Washington
Mary Ball Washington
Mount Vernon
Prederiksburg
Lititz Community Show Opens Entries for 1928 Exhibits
The Lititz Community Show rules require exhibitors to live in Warwick, Penn, Clay, Ephrata, Elizabeth, West Lampeter, Manheim, Rapho and Hempfield townships and to show only articles grown or produced in 1928. Exhibits are entered free except poultry, must bear exhibitor name, and may not cross classes. Entries accepted Oct 24–25 at Lititz Springs Garage, with premiums listed for corn, grains, fruit, vegetables, canned goods, poultry, and special prize categories.
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Warwick
Penn, Clay
Ephrata
Elizabeth
West Nazi
Manheim
Rapho
Hast Hempfield
Lititz Springs
Lititz
Association Exhibits Best Display at Farm Show
Best display of farm garden and household products shown by agricultural societies and organizations must be owned or grown by members of the association. Admission $20 $15 $10. Show Thursday and Friday afternoon and evening Saturday all day.
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Association
Force Horse Insurance Company to Quit After 49 Years
Upper Perkiomen Valley reports the Pennsburg and Goschenhoppen Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company is in liquidation as horses decline with motor age. Once 800 to 1,000 horses were insured per company, now only about 200 remain, following a merger five years ago after both ran for about four decades. Appraisement days shrink to hours as farm horses dwindle.
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Force Horse Insurance Company
Perkiomen Valley
Horse
Montgomery County
Pennsburg and Goschenhoppen Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company
Pennsburg
Goschenhoppen
Eagles Prey on Lambs in Bighorn Mortality
Report notes high death toll among young bighorn sheep. Eagles target lambs, making them easy prey for birds of prey.
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