Mill Creek School Board Faces Loss of State Aid
The Mill Creek township school board in Erie county allegedly failed to enforce compulsory vaccination, causing the state to suspend a $13 000 appropriation. Auditors charged the amount to board members and have taken the matter to court with State Superintendent Thomas E Finegan indicating the state will prosecute. If the court upholds the auditors, board members could be liable for the full sum and costs.
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Mill Creek Township
Erie County
Finegan
Beaver Beavers Flourish In State Game Preserves
J J Slutterbach state game warden gathered county game protectors at Lewistown to review fall enforcement of game laws. Four beavers settled in Licking Creek preserves have built three dams signaling mating plans. A pair in Centre county crossed Paddy mountain and Laurel run dam built near Pat Gherrity farm.
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J. J. Slutterbach
State Game Commission
Mifflin
Huntingdon
Juniata
Snyder
Union
Northumberland
Montour
Lewistown
Licking Creek
Centre County
Paddy Mountain
Laurel Run
Pat Gherrity
Farm Relic Dig on Roswell Carrer Farm Reveals Indian Past
Roswell Carrer of Hebron township Potter county has found arrowheads flint chips and broken pottery while plowing. Artifacts belong to Algonquin Iroquois and other Five Nations. Burned earth and stones suggest a former village on the site. Further excavations planned to uncover more relics.
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Roswell Carrer
Hebron Township
Potter County
Schaefferstown’s Oldest Resident Dies at 93
Isaac Shiner aged 93, the village’s oldest resident, died after seven weeks of illness from senile debility. Born in Lancaster County he lived with strangers after his father’s death at age six. He left three children nine grandchildren nine great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. His wife predeceased him by 24 years. He served 24 years as the U.S. mail carrier from Schaefferstown to Richland and was a popular stage driver.
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Isaac Shiner
Schaefferstown
Lancaster County
U.S
Richland
State Owns Much Land in Potter County
The State purchased 16 440 acres of forest land near Coudersport Potter County now holds one eighth of the state's forest lands. Total Potter forest acreage reaches 153 820 acres with the recent $27 770 purchase at 1 75 per acre, bringing development costs in the county near 390 000 for land alone. Nearby: 18 inch alligator seen along Nescopeck Creek near Berwick, possibly the Lititz escapee. Also: York County potato price 90 cents per bushel at Turnpike, lowest wartime level, harming farmers. Mrs. Daniel Gherst of Akron Ohio visiting Lebanon with family, last east visit 51 years ago.
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Coudersport
Potter County
York County
Turnpike
Baltimore
York
Daniel Gherst
Akron
Ohio
Lebanon
Gherst
West
East
Bee causes chaos at Elizabethtown Chroncle apartments
A bee tangled in the Water Spaniel’s hair triggered a wild pursuit through the building. The dog ran upstairs then leaped from a balcony after repeatedly entering rooms, suffering fatal injuries and being shot.
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Elizabethtown Chroncle Apartments
Reamstown Firemen's Carnival Planned Ahead of Labor Day
Reamstown Fire Company announces a carnival from Friday September 3 to Labor Day with booths games and other attractions plus a big dance in the fire hall. Denver band provides music. A street parade is set for Saturday afternoon September 4. Miss Myri Yeager of Manheim reported a frightening encounter when a snake wound around her legs in Elizabethtown but she was not injured.
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Reamstown Fire Company
Fire Company
Denver Band
Myri Yeager
Manheim
Elizabethtown
Old Stone Quarry at Chickies Recedes From Past
The Baker quarries at Chickies are a bygone era as the large iron stack, 104 feet high and five feet in diameter, has been removed and the machinery dismantled. Other notes mention hog farm disputes, new hires at Reamstown school, a potato harvest oddity, road macadamizing in Paradise Township, delegates to a World Sunday School convention, brewery conversion plans, Ephrata foundry expansion, Mt Joy building sale, a hornets nest incident, and a planned P R R bridge replacement with a cost of about 124 008.
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Chickies
Moravian Society for Propagating the Gospel a Missionary Call
At Central Moravian church Bethlehem last Sunday the annual meeting of the S P G was led by Bishop Moench with Dr Paul de Schweinitz reporting on the year’s work and debt needs for Alaska. John Taylor Van Vleck spoke on Moravian stations in Santo Domingo and urged more missionaries as Alaska and Nicaragua convert hundreds. He urged every church to support at least one foreign missionary and keep the S P G spirit alive since 1745.
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United States
Count Zinzendorf
Bethlehem
Central Moravian Church
Moench
Paul de Schweinitz
Moravian Church
Alaska
Mission Board
Nicaraugua
Germany
John Taylor van Vleck
Henry van Vleck
Santo Domingo
van Vieck
Kingdom of Christ
Romance Ends As Harrisburg Pair Are Arrested
A 16 year old Mary Jones and 19 year old Paul Shandler from Harrisburg were picked up wandering toward Lancaster after a poverty ruse. Shandler faced larceny charges, exposing the romance begun at Pastime Park. They were found by a motorist and later returned to Harrisburg.
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Lancaster
Harrisburg
Lebanon
Mary Jones
Paul Shandler
Shandler
Pastime Park
Mary
United Charity Society
Columbia Pike
Car buyer misjudgment leads to purchase
A salesman at an automobile agency explains he misjudged a rough looking customer. The manager doubted showing a $6,000 car to a man of low status. The buyer, labelled as a wage earner by grime and hair, ultimately bought the car.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Hypodermic Vaccination Reported by Major Goodall
Maj. J. R. Goodall of the Canadian army states he has vaccinated 6 000 soldiers and children using a hypodermic syringe injection of the virus with no accidents. He claims the wound remains uninfected no dressings are needed more takes occur the reaction is milder and the operation is faster.
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J. R. Goodall
Milk Price Increase Approved by Lancaster Dealers and Producers
Twenty milk dealers and an equal number of producers in Lancaster county voted to raise milk prices by two cents per quart and one cent per pint, effective Monday September 6, with a fifty fifty cost split. Quart prices rise to 14 cents and pints to 7 cents from 12 and 7 respectively.
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Lancaster
Lancaster County
H. C. Reimhold
No Tramps in York County July Report
Oscar Alland records 102 inmates at York County Home for July and notes no tramps sought lodging or meals that month. The inmate census lists 64 white males 31 white females one white child three black males and three black females.
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York County
Oscar Alland
Blind Johnny of Lancaster Center Square marks 54 years
A Lancaster blind accordionist known as Blind Johnny has played at finish's corner North Queen Street and Penn Square for 54 years. John Pastor, born in Lancaster, lost his sight in his childhood and has lived with his aunt at 110 Dorwart Street while earning a precarious livelihood through music.
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Finish’s Corner
North Queen Street
Penn Square
Lancaster
John Pastor
Johnny
Hirsh
Susan Snyder
Dorwart Street
Irish talk on street ends with union man drowning joke
Two Irishmen meet on the street strike up a chat about a drowning. Reilly notes Pat was drowned yesterday and Fitzpatrick asks if he could swim. Reilly replies yes but he was a union man and swam for eight hours then quit.
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Reilly
Pat
Fitzpatrick
Good Reasons Johnny-What Makes Baby Cry So Much
Dialogue from a child care scene contrasts a baby’s crying with humorous adult reflection. Tommy responds about discomfort and vulnerability, noting crying could be natural under lost teeth hair or weak legs.
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Johnny
Tommy
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Firemen’s Carnival
Chickes
H. C. Reinhold
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C. H. Breahm
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Lampeter
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Mt.Joy
LaPierre House
Will
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Seamon Place
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Jai North
Queen Street
Lamncaster. PA
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Seid
WM. M. Amer
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Straw
Panama
Wingert & Haas Hat Store
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N. Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Chas. H. Frey
East King St
England
Heinitsch’s
W. A. Heinitsh
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