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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1933
Page
4
The Clarion of New Holland announces subscription terms for one year at 1.25, six months at 70 cents, three months at 40 cents, all payable in advance. Single copies are 3 cents. Mail should be sent to The Clarion, New Holland, PA. Editor R. E. Whitmore, Associate Editor H. E. Ressler. Entered as second class mail matter.
Fragmented OCR text reports a church meeting of a local group, mentioning congratulations and routine discussions. Names, dates, and locations are unclear due to unreadable letters, but the item signals a community gathering with standard church business.
Obituaries and notices recounting a township fire’s destruction of a diary shop and a community event led by Rev. C. M. Layton and Col. John M. Groff. Entries name Mary Clemson Mrs Mary Winnan and William F. Diller among others, with burials listed in Zion Lutheran Caernarvon and Woodward Hill cemeteries.
A diary-like note from June 26 1933 at CAMP CHICKAGAMI near Sweet Arrow Lake mourns a white heron shot and killed during vesper services. Counsellors found the bird’s floating body with wings spread, a loss described as a sad salute.
Bridgeville Evangelical Congregational and Cedar Grove Presbyterian list Sunday School services preaching schedules and midweek Bible studies for Bridgeville Mt Airy Pequea Leacock and New Holland Ranck's Church School worship times and prayer meetings with notices of no July vesper service and various Mennonite and Welsh Mountain Mission locations.
Rev C G Bachman of St Stephen leads worship at 7 00 p m with Rev Ira S Mann of Lancaster preaching Zeltenreich holds service at 10 15 a m in the New Holland Reform ed charge notices listing clergy and times for worship services.
Intercourse Bible School at 9 15 a m and prayer service Thursday at 7 30 p m. Mt Tabor Bible School 9 30 a m morning worship 10 30 a m communion at Methodist Episcopal church Rev S L Rhoads and Rev R H Comly listed. Leola Summer Communion 10 30 a m. Trinity Lutheran Chief Service 10 30 a m no vesper in summer. Ladies Aid missionary society Tuesday 7 30 p m vestry Wednesday 7 30 p m.
Annual events calendar notes the Twelfth festival on July 15 at Hillard's Pleasant View Meadows White Horse and the August 19 fireworks and festival sponsored by Conestoga Post No 662 American Legion at New Holland Ball Park.
A government plan invites Pennsylvania tobacco growers to reduce the 1933 crop by half of base acreage to improve supply demand. Growers choosing base options receive two payments per acre reduced, with $24 per acre initial payment and a second payment tied to 1933 crop value, ensuring minimum earnings. The option may extend to 1934 and 1935 with adjusted payments. total Pennsylvania reductions could trigger up to a million or more dollars in payments.
Roy Coates, 33, was struck by a lightning bolt traveling from a barn lightning rod down a ground wire and into his body as he milking a cow. The cow was unharmed and the barn did not ignite. Norman Coates, his father, carried him to the house while two doctors tried to revive him for two hours. Curley Green, colored of Lancaster, linked to an illegal still on John A. McSparran farm in Drumore township, faces a 7:30 hearing today.
Mrs. D. M. Warner of Fivepointville was admitted to Lancaster General Hospital with severe forehead lacerations and a possible right arm fracture after an auto crash in Ephrata. She rode with nephew Parke A. Hess of New York, who halted for a stop sign and braked as another car neared, shattering the windshield.
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