Edith Weaver News Today

Double E Auction Service, of Bird-in-Hand, conducted a public sale of real estate May 4 for Daren and Michelle Good at 25 Buch Mill Road, Lititz. A three-bedroom rancher with storage shed on 0.52 acres sold for $310,000 to Daniel and Fannie King. Martin & Rutt Auctioneers, of New Holland, conducted a public sale of real estate May 8 for Edward and Lydia Good, of Leola, at 167 Jenny Lane, McAlisterville. A ranch-style hunting cabin on 1 acre sold for $120,000 to Lamar and Edith Weaver, of Leola....

In the pre-dawn hours of a Saturday morning in 1937, 24-year-old Victor Weaver and his wife, Edith, loaded 17 dressed chickens into the trunk of their 1936 Hudson Terraplane. They had prepared the chickens the prior afternoon in their small farmhouse kitchen in Blue Ball, Pennsylvania. They took their cargo to the Sharon Hill Farmers Market, near Philadelphia. They returned to Blue Ball with an empty trunk, a little bit of cash and plans for weekly runs to Sharon Hill. In the short space of a f...