Real Estate Sales Lead County Market Figures
Henry Mentzer sold 6 to 4 acres with improvements in Bareville to Samuel Nolt for 6590 dollars. Harry W. Haines sold 37 acres in Ephrata township to Harry ZB. Myers. A 34 acre farm near Farmersville sold to Jonathan Gehman at 355 dollars per acre. Heirs of Weaver Musselman sold 93 acres near New Holland to Jacob Hoover at 221.25 per acre. Benj Brubaker estate sold 50 acres east of New Holland at 450 per acre. JH Leaman sold his Manheim corner building to Willis Retten who will run a general store.
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Henry Mentzer
Bareville
Samuel Nolt
Murrell
Ephrata Township
Harry W. Haines
Harry ZB. Myers
Mechanicsburg
Samuel Warner
Farmersville
Jonathan Gehman
Weaver Musselman
New Holland
Jacob Hoover
Benj. Brubaker
JH. D. Leaman
North Main
Fast Wieh Streets
Manheim
Willis M. Retten
Giant sunflower grows in Quarryville garden
Ww. A. Sensel of Quarryville reports a sunflower stalk 14 percent feet tall with a 14 inch flower. The plant weighed 60 pounds without roots, which would add about 14 pounds. The seed is small for its size, making the plant popular for chicken raisers who grow its seed for profit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ww. A. Sensel
Quarryville
Visiting His Old Home
Cecil Ferguson of Albany Illinois visits Drumore County and recalls his father Benjamin Ferguson a well known farmer. He farms near the Mississippi River focusing on hogs and dairy while reporting a fair wheat crop this season his field yielding 27 bushels per acre and oats strong with corn on par.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Ferguson
Albany, Il
Benjamin Ferguson
Drumore
Cecil
Mississippi River
American Housing Methods for Rebuilding France
France faces a housing challenge in restoring devastated areas and studies Hog Island style group construction used in wartime housing. A visiting French commission of architects and engineers reviews these methods as applicable to reconstruction efforts.
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France
Hog Island
Popular
Mehanics
Happenings Across the Garden Spot Area Notes and Oddities
The report covers 65 an acre tobacco in Chestnut Level, theft at Manheim hosiery, a triple dahlia graft, Frank Weinhold’s plantings, a San Francisco visitor to Columbia, a two pound potato basket in Elizabethtown, and the Columbia branch of United Sportsmen receiving yellow bass for Susquehanna planting. It notes a writ in replevin over wood valued at 315 dollars, a Texas gas-plant manager visiting Elizabethtown, a giant yellow tomato stalk at Mrs. Schreiner’s, 118 tomatoes on one plant, 61 October divorce filings, a turnpike closure affecting toll collector Jennie Hendricks, and local parade and baseball events in Terre Hill. Also reported are long-distance travel for auctioned wagons, Hiram Peoples’ 92-acre New Providence farm sale for 20 thousand dollars to his daughter, and local incidents including two auto accidents near Elizabethtown with injuries. The county’s almshouse, asylum, hospital, jail, and children’s home counts are listed.
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Cub
Manheim
Frank S. Weinhold
Wphrata
Thomas Bennett
San Francisco
Columbia
J. B. Ulrich
Elizabethtown
United Sportsmen
Susquehanna
Charles J. Lebzelter
Lancaster
Frank Tuckman
Manheim Township
Howard Hollinger
Trouston
Texas
Elizabeth Schreiner
Marietta
Baltimore
New Providence
Lancaster County
Hiram Peoples
H. L. Stager
Columbia and
State Highway Department
Jennie Hendricks
Chickies Gate
Local notes on pumpkins bears and bank liquidations
A six foot circumference pumpkin was grown on William Moser's farm near Pottstown. The North Penn bank liquidation will pay 26 to 40 cents on the dollar to 15 thousand depositors, per Col. Fred Taylor Hussey. A robbery at Williamsport Park Hotel involved a jewel safe seized by a mysterious visitor registered as W BR Morse of Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Noskoviak
Mt. Carmel
Jesse Shewell
Glen Rock
York County
Shewell
North Penn Bank
Philadelphia
Fred Taylor Hussey
Col
Hussey
Claude Fastman
DuBois
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Eastman
War Board
Williamsport
D. A. Howe
Park Hotel
W. BR. Morse
Boston
Mass
Pathfinder Editor Praises Linden Hall Link Near Washington
Washington editor reacts to The Pathfinder tribute and notes Linden Hall connections through Mrs Wilhelmina Hardt and former faculty. The Pathfinder program to cut living costs by matching producers and consumers draws attention nationwide. ARMIN DHPONNETEUN.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. D. Mitchell
the Pathfinder
Washington, D. C
Pathfinder
Lititz
Linden Hall
Lititz Moravian Seminary
Wilhelmina Hardt
Wellsboro
Brickenstein
Mary
Lucy
Washington
Annis Luckenbach
Lancaster Grocers Form Milling Company to Run Pugh’s Mill
Lancaster county grocers unite to form the Lancaster Milling Company with 25000 capital and plan to produce high grade flour for member stores only. Pugh's Mill on Mill Creek two miles south of Lancaster, sold by S J Pugh to the company, will start operations January 1 with a 28 barrel daily capacity. The mill, long known as Herr's Mill, passed to Isaac Groff before Pugh, who bought it twenty eight years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster City
Lancaster Milling Company
Pugh
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Lititz, PA
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Erre Hill
Spring Garden
Ephrata
Denver
Terre Hill
Reading
William B. Baum
Baum
Ralph Hershey
Irondale
Wash
Mt. Rainier
HE. K. Hershey
Hphrata
Swatara Hill
Harrisburg
William Moser
Pottstown
Reading Chamber of Commerce
Neversink Mountain Railroad
Martin G. Brimbaugh
Huntingdon
Ellies
College Hill
Juniata College
Samuel Ferry
Blainsport
Berks
Lebanon
George Stokes
Bellwood
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rossiter Junction
Linden
Old Linden Hall Seminary
Bis Moravian School
George D. Mitchell
Stengel
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Has. H. Frey’s Shoe Store
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Lancaster, Pa
Wingert & Haas Hat Store
John A. Haas
Queen St
England
Heinitsch’s
W. A. Heinitsh
S. Queen St
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