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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1908
Page
5
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for lame back uric acid and Bright's disease claiming hospital and private practice success. It offers a free sample bottle and a booklet by mail with the address in Binghamton New York and notes the product is available through druggists.
Stray items report sunfish and bass collected by the Lancaster County Fish Protective Society and placed in the county. Mrs. Orrville Coates of Andrews Bridge shows citron yields with 19, 17, and 15 pound examples. A rear door burglary nets eleven dollars from a Lancaster fashion millinery. James W. Madison of near Delta, York county injured by exploding gun while hunting a rabbit. barrel fragments injure him. Joseph T. Evans Esquire and Oliver L. Evans encounter stray shot near Limerick Centre. legs peppered, bullets hard to remove. Lancaster County Agricultural Fair Association forms committee H. S. Williamson, GC. Swarr, M. L. Chadman, J. X. Miller, I. C. Arnold. stock subscriptions reach about $12,000 with solicitors to raise the rest.
Mrs. Frances Dunn wife of William Dunn high constable of Ephrata died Tuesday night from neuralgia of the heart aged seventy four. She was born near Terre Hill daughter of Samuel and Mary Davidson. Her first husband was Jacob Stick. One daughter Mary wife of Frank McGallicher survives from the second marriage: Daniel Rendiare Samuel and Isa living at Ephrata.
Mrs M D Leed and Mrs Martin C Weaver visited Irwin Weaver in Lancaster. G H Markley and wife, Lancaster, spend week with Clinton Fritz. Israel and Mrs Bair visited son Clayton at Goodville. Mrs Bair spent week with daughter in Lancaster. Mrs Mary A Grege Harrisburg visiting daughter Mrs Weider Bensinger. Mrs William Barstler and son William, Glen Moore, visited Miss Cornelia Barstler. Jacob Hertzler Lititz and Miss Mamie Good Honeybrook visited friends. Jacob Zimmerman and Scott Frankfort with families, Murrell, visited J D Bowers. Miss Lillian M Rutter in Philadelphia and Palmyra NJ. Mrs Kate Rutter and daughter Lillie with Miss Alta Diller and Bessia Gillian in Lebanon for Woman's Missionary Convention. Amos Diller spent Sunday in Reading. Mrs J D Warfel and grandchildren Raymond and Helen Rutledge visited farmer's daughter in Manheim. Mr and Mrs John P D Skiles and son John of Lancaster and Mrs Elizabeth Treher North Wales visited at Blef. Alderfer's A W Snader attended water works convention Atlantic City this week. Misses Kathryn and Elizabeth Showalter and Miss Lillian Ruteer attended wedding of Miss Lida Townsley in Philadelphia. Jacob Singley and wife visited Rothsville friends Sunday.
Tuesday James Beiler sold about 60 acres to John Kurtz for 175.10 per acre at public sale. Wednesday Moses Hershey sold 40 acres near Gordonville to Meano Fisher for 2182 per acre at private sale. The Intercourse bank aims to attract a shirt factory while local interest grows. Mrs Henry K Hershey raised a 58 pound turnip. Master Lloyd Hershey lost his watch at school.
In Lancaster county many clubs prepare for the upcoming parade with uniforms from Foster and Cochran. Quarriesville, Manor Township Rough Riders, and numerous marching clubs have contracts for 75 to 250 uniforms. Also noted are California onion seed mentions and a pile remedy ad at the end.
Invitations go out for the fifty second anniversary of the Normal Literary Society of the State Normal School at Millersville. The event is scheduled for Friday evening October 30 at 7:30.
J A Hershey of Lititz will deliver a sermon at the Welsh Mountain Mission on Tuesday evening October 27 at 7 30 o clock. The public is cordially invited.
Communion services will be held in the Weaverland Church Lancaster Conference tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Administrators of John B. Sensenig deceased will offer Tracts 1 2 and 3 totaling 22 acres in Brecknock near Bowmanaville Churchtown for timber and building material. Also 500 chestnut rails 250 posts and 40 cords of wood. Auction at 2 pm October 29 1908 by Ezra Reuben and Isaac Sensenig with M W Taylor as auctioneer. Berks County.
Ernest Hathaway allegedly cashed 318 50 checks by forging Geo W Kinzer’s name for William Redeau of Terre Hill and later repeated the scheme at Foster Cochran. A resident saw Hathaway on a Terre Hill car at the turnout east of the borough and notified Kinzer. Hathaway remained at large at press time.
Mahlon W. Martin of Nesy Holland and Miss Elsie V. Harnish of Browns town were married Thursday at Bishop Benjamin Weaver’s residence near Spring Grove. Attendants included Walter Weaver Martindale Minnie Martin New Holland Mary N Harnish Browns town and Clinton Kauffman Browns town. May their wedded life be happy.
A leather pocket book containing seven dollars was lost on a Saturday evening in New Holland. The finder should return it to the Channox office for a reward. Also an advertisement offers top cash market prices for calves on Thursdays at West Main street New Holland and Friday mornings at the New Holland depot with fifty cents extra for home delivery.
On and after November 12 a uniform bill of lading becomes standard for the Pennsylvania Railroad and all U S railroads. It must be signed via a ship ping receipt before goods can be shipped. Mothers Bread by B R Wright & Bro remains a market leader with rising sales and strong customer use. The average New York City person consumes two eggs daily.
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