News: Items from the Adams County Independent, December 16, 1921, Littlestown, Adams County, PA

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Items from the Adams County Independent, Dec. 16, 1921, Littlestown

Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Stock, of North Queen street, and son Dr. Roy Stock, and Mr. 
J. C. Derr, of Delta; Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Eline and children Catherine and John, 
Mr. James Keefer, Misses Myrtle and Kathryn Staley, Pauline Sherman and Pauline 
Ebaugh, spent Sunday with Mrs. Stock’s sister, Mrs. A. B. Lehman, and family, of 
Fayetteville.


WEEK’S HAPPENINGS FROM YORK SPRINGS

Mr. Willis Myers has purchased the farm of Wm. Haar, near the Two Churches, in 
Latimore township, for $1400.  It contains about 50 acres.

Mr. Edward Keefer, of this place, had a valuable hunting dog stolen last week by 
Harrisburg hunters, but by getting right on the job he recovered the animal.

Mr. E. Kenton Gardner is another victim of the sneak thief who is stealing 
things from the vehicles of person while in York Springs, having recently lost a 
lantern and buggy whip in this manner.

Mr. John Prosser, living with his son-in-law, Mr. Harry Junkins, in Latimore 
township, became ill last Friday night, the use of his right arm and his speech 
being affected.

Mr. Edward Lerew, of this place, who has worked in corn fields ever since he was 
“knee-high to a grasshopper”, and who has grown corn in the best of soil, 
steadfastly refused to accept the truth of the statement that Mr. Jacob Eckert, 
of Hampton, had an ear of corn measuring 18 inches.  Jake’s recent breakdown and 
confession that the big ear was due to his and the local blacksmith’s handiwork, 
confirms Mr. Lerew’s contention and he now takes his position at the head of the 
class.

The recent hunting season and its experiences has brought some of our old-timers 
to the fore.  Mr. Milton Berry, of Latimore township, tells us of the days when 
his father was a young man and bear hunting was conducted somewhat different 
from the present.  A pointed stick and a hatchet were the weapons often used in 
fighting bears, the stick being shoved into the mouth of the animal, and when 
thus halted, the hatchet coming into play.  In one instance when attacked his 
father’s hatchet was caught by an overhanging limb, whereupon a hand-to-paw 
tussle ensued, where his father succeeded in drowning the bear by holding its 
head under water.

Our old friend, Mr. George Guise, who reads the signs of the heavens and nature 
like an open book and who knows the almanac from cover to cover, tells us that 
when he was a young man the story was often told of two men who were operating a 
saw mill in the mountain.  They were attacked by a monster bear and took refuge 
in the shanty, whereupon the bear crawled astride the moving log that was 
nearing the saw and was cut in two by it.

Mr. Paul Mummert, who has been working in Hanover, was unfortunate to have his 
hand smashed in a machine and blood poison has set in.


FAIRFIELD ITEMS

Fairfield, Dec. 15. – A very enjoyable surprise party was given Herbert Cluck, 
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cluck, at their home last Wednesday evening.  Those 
present were:  Bernice Sanders, Frances Snyder, Amanda and Harry Riley, Mildred 
Reindollar, Alta McCleaf, Catherine Allison, Reita Hahn; and Herbert Cluck, 
Clare and Clyde Kittinger, Edgar McCleaf, John and Robert Reindollar, Charles 
Weikert, Lewis Polley, Ellis Musselman, Harvey Sanders, Harold Brown, Donald 
Baltzley.

Clarence Seabrook, an electrician, while enroute from Williamsport, Pa., to a 
point in South Carolina, stopped off for a few days visit to his parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. E. A. Seabrook.

Alfred Peters, of Baltimore, spent Sunday with his father, John F. Peters.

Mrs. Curtin McGlaughlin, of McKnightstown, spent a day recently with her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peters.