Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio • 3

A ri THE LANCASTER, EAGLE-GAZETTE. Thursday, June 1955 REPEATS SERVICE FATHER GAVE 67 YEARS AGO (7 PlEMEY'S ULaAPOPularGuy O' nil) 01?) 0f hi- Deserves the Best C03 Pennty's Father of the Year! 0 1 i in. r.p r.y -m ivM UMt hrri TXrjJT Stock up en men's fine' combed cotton handker chiefs. They're in white V. end to always right.

Extra full, too. A big in sixe. TfTTn ih si ANCIENT CLOCK REPAIRED BY Theodore Marion Stein 67 years ago has been cleaned and adjusted by his son 67-year-old Lloyd Wesley Stein of Lancaster, the man who winds the City Hall clock. In photo, Stein points to his father's signature and the date (Nov. 1, 1888) that indicates when work was first done on the timepiece.

Clock is owned by Simon F. Sheets, 81, of Sugar Grove. He says he purchased the clock for "less than $5 at an auction. 4J1 a mm A V'- Km mil ii ml Finds Father's Name, Date Of 1888 In Clock He Repairs The ancient clock repaired first by Theodore Marion Stein 67 years ago has been cleaned and checked over by his son, 67-year old Lloyd Wesley Stein of Lancaster, the man who winds the clock in the City Hall tower. Made in Bristol, the antique eight-day clock somehow found its way to an auction near Revenge in Fairfield County, for that's where the present owner, Simon F.

Sheets of nearby Sugar Grove says he purchased the timepiece. others fine quality TowncraftS1 ties in the season's most wanted colors. Prints, wovens, every conceivable pattern he'd wear! 4 I 1 i ort point EXTRA SPECIAL DURING ELECTRIC SERVANTS FAIR I a i 1 98Cand I4' For less than the 84-year-old man remembers, He recalls the auction took TOWNCRAFT JEWELRY Give 'POP' a set of cuff links with tie pin from Pcnney's large selection of men's jew place in 1925, W. H. Creager, a elry.

1 50 O50 plus that his father repaired the clock some 40 years before Sheets purchased it. Stein, who resides with his wife, Irene, at 319 N. Cherry (their five daughters are "all grown and married), paused to figure he was nine months old when his father first worked on the clock. Fed. Tax I I 'v blunt-spread x' 1 I I 1 I 7 rw I I Reg.

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Stein used 'to come visit me on Sundays and when he seen this old clock broken he wanted to fix it up and I let him. He says that for the nearly 30 years since, the timepiece has run steadily and correct to the minute in the living room. Unfortunately, there is no date on the piece to tell when it was made by the Birge, Mal-lory Co. of Bristol. Time for cleaning and "some minor adjustments," the clock was carried to Stein's shop, a frame building at 849 E.

Main Uoyd Stein, like his father and grandfather, Daniel F. Stein (who also built barns and homes) is a watch and clock repairman, located in the same shop for 55 years. For that many years a small gas lamp in the shop has been burning day and night Finds Father's Name Another of Stein's jobs is the City Hall clock. Once a week for the last 30 years he has wound Lancaster's "Big Ben." Stein opened the door of the old clock and behind the door he found written in pencil, but still legible, the one signature M. Stein, Nov.

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