Local notes from Lancaster County and beyond
Veterans gifts flags to Methodist Sunday school in Marietta while 34 year treasurer plans for festival at Schoeneck park. Onions slump as market glut hurts farmers and tobacco rust raises county concerns. Chief Justice Brown boasts orchard yield of Jeffries apples. Ex-Sheriff Hershey creates a game preserve with fenced land and growing wildlife. Lancaster’s singing dog Bobby joins tenor Samuel Lentz on high notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David H. Mattis
Marietta
Mattis
Washington
Schoeneck Baseball Club
Schoeneck Park
Seaman Place
J. Hay Brown
Jeffries
Andrew H. Hershey
Mountville
Caruso
Mr. Hershey
Lancaster
Samuel ©. Lentz
Mr. Lentz
Bobby
Right Way is to Stand by One's Convictions
Editor John E. Cooke recalls ingratitude from a once faithful citizen who cut his paper after a political dispute in Milam County. The Commercial notes such misplaced friendship happen in journalism, recounting past cases where support and loans were repaid with hostility. It argues the essential path is to act honestly and fearlessly, regardless of others’ reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Cooke
Rockdale
Milam County
Citizen
Cooke
John
Potatoes Yield Six and Half Bushels at Lancaster Garden
A small plot measuring sixteen by twenty two feet yielded six and a half bushels of Irish Cobbler potatoes. Planted March 17, the ground was mulched with fine stable manure in Dr. Prizer's summer residence garden at Lancaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prizer
Lancaster
Farmer's Experiment Raises 12000 English Walnut Trees
J L Jones on a 20 acre Lampeter farm along Willow Street grows grafted English walnuts on black walnut stock. He markets trees nationwide, with visitors and interest from horticulturists. The article notes his partnership with John Rush, a top walnut expert, and highlights the niche as a profitable, low-competition venture in Lancaster County. It also mentions the 63rd Northampton County Fair at Nazareth, with logistics and pricing details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willow Street
Lampeter
J. L. Jones
Stauffers
New Orleans
Mr. Jones
Jones
Missouri
Louisiana
Florida
John Rush
West Willow
Rush
Jones Nursery
United States
California
Oregon
New Jersey
Indiana
Lancaster County
Jones Farm
Davenport
Mississippi
Grand View
Ind
Wabash
Rio Grande
America
The Legend of the Rosefield Moravian Tale Told by a Bohemian Student
A Bohemian student recounts a legend of Moravian Brethren from Litomysie who fled persecution after the 1620 conquest. In a forest meadow a golden chalice was buried and roses grew from tears. The meadow, once larger, now sits fenced with a cross amid rising roses. The tale promises seven kings meeting at the center for lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Bohemia
John Hus
Bohemian
Moravia
Silesia
Upper
Lower
Lusatia
Litomysie
Also Mentioned on This Page
W.H. Buch Clothier
Latitz, Re
Lewis N. Moyer
Nazareth
Northampton County Agricultural Society
Leomaland, Cal
Farmers National Bank
Lititz
Penna
Panama
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Walthams
Elgins
Hamiltons
St.wor
W. A
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
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