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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1908
Page
8
The town promotes a lively slate from the Paradise Glee Club in Hess Hall to local poetry and music tonight. April showers arrive as fruit trees bloom, while residents tidy properties and businesses advertise calendars and services. Doerr's offers fresh produce and Doerr’s ice cream as Wright & Bro. serve ice.
Religious notices list church services across congregations including Trinity Lutheran New Holland Epworth League and Mesonine Weaverland conferences. Details cover Sunday schools times preaching at varied hours and prayer meetings with several locations such as Leola New Holland Conestoga Bridgeville Zion Mechanicsburg Cedar Grove Terre Hill and other circuit churches.
Barn on the Nolt Mohler property in Farmersville burned early Wednesday. The blaze, likely incendiary, destroyed the structure and some contents but neighbors formed a bucket brigade and saved a horse and other outbuildings. Several hundred people gathered to assist as fire spread was checked.
The pastor and congregation plan a full week of observances from Sunday May 17 to Sunday May 24 marking the 106th anniversary. A detailed program will be published in the Cuarron.
Meadow Brook reports snipes and dan dalion on the meadows with few trout in the brook. Farmers like Aaron Snyder and John Kr. Single sold fat cattle. others such as David Blank and Jerry Seldomridge have not sold yet. John R. Seigle planted ten acres of potatoes and uses his planter daily. tobacco acreage is rising with earlier plantings. century lettuce, from Swiss seed, is grown by Mrs. David H. Weaver.
The Eastern District Baptist Brethren Church holds its annual meeting at Mohler's meeting house near Ephrata on Wednesday and Thursday next week. Delegates exceed a hundred with many visitors expected to attend to discuss church matters of importance.
On Saturday May 16 an examination for rural free mail delivery carriers will be held in Lancaster. Applicants must reside within their applied territory be aged seventeen to fifty five and file their applications by May 8. A local ad mentions DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills and a tobacco seed order to Baroda, India.
The Saturday May 2 sale lists household furniture and utensils at Ranch’s Church vicinity by Lizzie Amons and Sarah Ranek with A. H. Hershey. On Thursday May 7 a carload of Kansas horses and livestock is advertised by Blackburn, Diller & Son at the Blue Ball stables with Rebman and Kling as auctioneers.
Visiting brothers are welcome as Elars Lopase No 413 I O F meets Thursdays in Oda Fellows Hall. J F Seldomridge New Horuann Castis No 157 Knights of the Golden Eagle meet Tuesdays in Odd Fellows Hall. P H Shaub Master of Records. Washington Camp No 40 P O B S of A meets Mondays in P O S of A Hall G S Townsley Recording Secretary.
Gallagher charged by game warden with having trout under legal size. Justus Altmiller, superintendent of the Diamond Coal Land Company, fined $65 by Justice Williams of Weatherly. Altmiller said the front shrunk after being caught and paid the fine under protest.
A product called Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is described as not constipating yet acting as a gentle laxative. The text notes that children like it.
A copper cent swallowed sixty years earlier by James Huckins near Laport Ind. remained in his stomach lining until last week when an abscess formed and stomach acidity dissolved the coin, causing poisoning and death at age sixty seven.
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