World War Hero Woodfill to Attend New Orleans Legion Meet
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill chosen by General Pershing as the war era hero will attend the American Legion National Convention in New Orleans despite furloughs and working as a carpenter to meet home payments. His wife noted the family will try to make the trip, hoping to recover lost pay. Woodfill is currently on a government dam project in Kentucky to raise funds. Also, the American Legion Auxiliary selects a cookie recipe for disabled soldiers after screening 400 entries, praising Mrs. Gehlman and Mrs. Marks for leading the process and naming an oatmeal cookie as best for convalescent troops with notes on alternate recipes and judges’ rankings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Woodfill
Pershing
American Legion
New Orleans
Heness
J. Semmes Walmsley
Woodfill
Silver Grove
America
American Legion Auxiliary
Frederick Gehlman
Springfield
Lina R. Marks
Indianapolis
Marks Modern
North New Jersey Street
Marks
Indianapolis judging class includes prominent local women
Cream the butter and sugar together, then the beaten eggs and milk, savering, sift in dry ingredients to stiffen dough, chill, roll out, cut and bake. Members of the judging class are young women from Indianapolis families Mrs. Herbert Pinnell Mrs. F Li Marr Mrs. Richard Madden Mrs. James Livingstone Thompson Miss Martha Louise Thompson Miss Jean Coffin Miss Natalie Coffin Miss Louise Geiger and Miss Dorothy Darmody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary B. Snodgrass
Highland Park
Michigan
Marks
Honeft
Mary E. Robinson
Pleasant Street
Walla Walla
Washington
Charles II, Wright
Fort Snelling
Minnesota
Indianapolis
Herbert Pinnell
F. Li. Marr
Richard Madden
James Livingstone Thompson
Martha Louise Thompson
Jean Coffin
Natalie Coffin
Louise Geiger
Dorothy Darmody
Farm Calendar Key Storage and Stocking Tips
Potatoes require dark well ventilated cellars kept near forty degrees with crates six feet wide for storage. Lift vegetables like carrots and turnips for winter keeping and leave salsify in ground till freeze. Apples should be cooled before bringing in to avoid warming storage. Buy cockerels now while prices are reasonable for next year. Succulent feed boosts dairy income. Beef should age one to three weeks in a cool near freezing cooler to improve flavor and tenderness.
How I Cleared the Mill of Rats
Night watchman touts RAT SNAP effectiveness claiming to have cleared a mill of rats in six weeks. He says dogs won’t approach, and he killed rats nightly. Ad notes prices 5c 65c and $1.25, with guaranteed sale by L N Moyer of Lititz and Fahnestock of Lexington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Tucker
R. Z
L. N. Moyer, Lititz
M. Fahnestock
Lexington
Bridge Rescue Sparks Night Heroine Signal
A passenger train averts disaster when a boy on a broken bridge signals with a lantern and halts the speedily moving train. The note recalls Doctor R V Pierce and his Golden Medical Discovery as a historic remedy promising vigor and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. V. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Fragments of a Chopin Sketch in a Winter Salon
Vivid scene of a Linden Hall salon with Chopin at an Erard grand piano as composers and artists like Cherubini Nourrit Lafont Bailloz Berlioz Scheffer and Ary Scheffer observe. The prose blends music history with portraits of Spiegler Frucauff and Bomne amid warm hearth light and a mood of longing and art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chopin
Herman T. Frucauff
Allentown
Clara
Spiegler
Linden Hall
Schaeberli
Ann Arbor
Hiller House
Teo
Erard
Hiller
Cherubini
Adolph Nourrit
Pylades
Gluck
Orestes
Berlioz
Ary Scheffer
Augustin
Monica
Paris
Jean Paul Ludwig Borne
Halls Catarrh Medicine Promises Deafness Relief
Catarrhal deafness stems from Eustachian tube inflammation with rumbling or muffled hearing. If inflammation persists, hearing could be destroyed. Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to treat catarrh and related deafness, with over forty years of use, sold by all druggists J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HALL
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Notable Aeronaut John N. Shearer of Reading Chronology
Reading resident John N. Shearer noted at an aeronaut event forty years ago with over 40 flights born 1843 in Bern township Berks county. He began ascensions in 1872 often rode at 12000 feet in balloons with his wife aboard using a basket once. A Chester county resident found a rye whiskey filled gallon jug while fishing on Pickering Creek last Friday night after a lucky throw in. The Odd Fellows Home of Pennsylvania received title to the Whitehall farm in Lower Swatara township at Harrisburg from Mr and Mrs 8 Cameron Young for 22356.25 dollars covering about 4 acres. Pennsylvania distributing bullfrogs from state hatcheries for propagation in streams and ponds with new strains noted for musical notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John N. Shearer
Reading
Bern Township
Berks County
Williams Corner
Chester County
Pickering Creek
Odd Fellows’ Home of
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Whitehall Farm
Lower
Swatara Township
Cameron Young
Pennsylvania Producing Certified Potatoes This Year
Pennsylvania plans 60 000 bushels of certified seed potatoes this year with seed from Cambria and Potter counties. Secretary Rasmussen says the crop equals the best in the country and follows last year’s 25 000 bushels as the program expands for next season planting within the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture
Rasmussen
Cambria
Potter Counties
Hunters urged to seek unusual minerals this fall
Dr. George H. Ashley head of Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey urges hunters to seek odd rings and minerals during fall hunts. He notes bog iron ore deposits may be found in woods hillsides bottom lands or swamps. In McKean county a truck carrying nitroglycerine cans wrecked. driver Parnel Bales survived with a fractured arm and internal injuries after a half hour rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Ashley
Ashley
Duke Centre
McKean County
Poaching Probe Shifts to Elizabethtown Rural Roads
State police from Troop E Lancaster have been assigned to Elizabethtown to patrol rural roads in search of poachers. In ten days $10 000 worth of frit was reported stolen from the Masonic Home farm. Thieves used a truck to move loot, and farmers have struggled to catch them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troop E
Lancaster
Elizabethtown
Masonic Home
Pastors and Local News From Lancaster Area
Rev Dr Josef Henregh, a 29 year old pastor from Budapest with a 100000 member Hungarian Reformed congregation, arrives in Lancaster to study theology. Ephrata approves a 30000 loan for a filter plant with a December 0 special election. A cistern accident injures Mrs Lutz and Elsie but only bruises result. Sam Lee accuses Lee Hong of stealing 420 dollars to start a York laundry. Ephrata utility plant sold for 18400 dollars to new owners. In Colerain township, a dog is shot after chasing a rooster. Alderman Doebler handles the case. Evans fined for cruelty to animals. Chant held for trial for peace violation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theological Seminary
Lancaster
Josef Henregh
Budapest
New York
Lee Hong
Sam Lee
Sam Awherewith
York
Sam
Lee
Lre
Harry Chant
Morris Reinhart
Colerain Township
Albert Evans
Denver Schoolboy Catches Long String of Fish
Robert Shimp, a Denver schoolboy, played truancy and returned with a notable catch including a sucker measuring 1644 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robably
Robert Shimp
Denver
State Sunday School Convention and County Events Schedule
A schedule lists events including the State Sunday School Convention in Lancaster on Oct 11 12. County Redmen Convention in Quarryville on Oct 12. Farmers' Days at Sphrata Oct 14 18. Electrical show in the Arcade Garage Lancaster Oct 18 to 21. Community days at Manheim Nov 27 to Dec 2. and the Annual Poultry and Pigeon Exhibit at Mohnton Berks county Dec 20 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Redmen
Quarryville
Sphrata
Manheim
Mohnton
Berks County
Soldier Carries Lucky Shoe From Terre Hill Expert Blacksmith
John J. Martin of Terre Hill, famed as a scientific horseshoer, displayed 44 hand forged nickel plated shoes in his living room to illustrate how shoes correct gait faults. Raymond Hurst, a Terre Hill veteran with six decorations, wore a miniature forged horseshoe as a lucky talisman from France and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Martin
Terre Hill
Horsemen of
America
Lancaster County
Mr. Martin
Terre Hilt
Raymond Hurst
Mr. Hurst
Hurst
Coblenz
Martin
France
Germany
A Wife for Seven Pigs in New Guinea Lore
A fragment describes wives in New Guinea valued highly with payments up to seven pigs. It notes wives are often poorly treated and expelled for minor offenses, and remarks on local customs and perceptions of bride offerings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Guinea
It Looked Like a Battlefield in Europe Says Mr Dunster
Mr C Dunster described a Pennsylvania visit waking to a stable scene with a pile of dead rats the night before. He compared it to a battlefield in Europe during a morning outing to hire a buggy. Rat Snap products priced 5c 65c and 1 25 sold by Tu Moyer Lititz and S M Fahnestock Lexington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Europe
Tu. N. Moyer
Lititz
S. M. Fahnestock
Lexington
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Clothing & Gent’s Furnishings
Brunner Woolens
W. H. Buch
Lititz Pa
American Legion News
Pennsylvania State College
Gude
OGR Musical Kwadeks
Beck
Keystone Exchanges
Aeronaut
Odd Fellows
Mennonite Children’s Home
Millersville
Benjamin Weaver
Levi Lauder
John H. Mellinger
East Lampeter
S. S. Kraybill
West Donegal
A. K. Mann
Hungary
Ephrata
Levi Lutz
Elsie
Lutz
Chinaman
Utility Feed Machine Co
RADIO
Ralf
Emily
RTT
Jack Wilson
Melkine Newnes
Henry Maust
Zack Wicon
Terre Hill Man
Scientificlacksmith
Mr. C. Dunster
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