Local items mix of births, bans, and cars in Lititz
Weekly notices run from new Buick roadster buys and car sales to baptisms and wills. A Moravian church painting by Augustus Beck is shown in Rader's window. Community events include a Fourth of July meeting, a farm help ad, and trout season opening with rules.
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Paul Bomberger
Acme Sign Co
Walter Scott
Hagen
Samuel K. Snavaly
Spruce Streets
Joseph Asner
Rothsville
Jeff
Lothsville
Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
W. B. Oehme
Huber’s
William Henry Greek
Hen
Andrew Bruckart
Orange Street
Izaak Walton
F. C. Shirk
Mohnton
Coatesville
Chevrolet
Jacob . Landis
Ephrata
Monroe
Long & Co
Lititz
Lititz Lodge
Elizabethtown
McVey
Rader
Augustus Beck
Harrisburg
Beck
Abraham R. Beck
Moravian Church
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Old newspaper found from 1802 in Lancaster area
Carpenter Frank E Lehnerer found Philadelphia printed Paulson's American Daily Advertiser dated November 2 1802 in a Hartford County home. The paper describes stagecoach routes from Philadelphia to Lancaster and Harrisburg and an enslaved person for sale. It also includes a community cleanup appeal and local market prices for eggs and butter.
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Frank E. Lehnerer
Hershey Seaman Co
Jacob Hertzler
East Main Street
Philadelphia
Paulson
American Daily Advertiser
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Harrisburg
John Dunwoody
N. B
Haster
Death Notices and Local Court Dockets Update
William K. Furlow dies at 84 in Hopeland after illness. survived by wife Polly, son Daniel of Denver, three sisters, a brother, and four grandchildren. John F. Kurtz of Mitchell South Dakota dies at 59 after a fall and brain injury. County Superintendent Daniel Fleisher visits Borough schools with praise. Local illness and hospital updates include J A Miksch, Reuben Widders, Albert Gochenour, Mrs. Bomberger, Percy Furlow, and Cora Eckert with appendicitis or pneumonia concerns.
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William K. Furlow
Hopeland
Polly Furlow
Daniel
Denver
Lucetta
Lehn
Lititz
Rachael Rowland
Mary Furlow
Andrew Furlow
Lancaster
Mellinger’s Cemetery
John F. Kurtz
Mitchell
South Dakota
John Franklin Kurtz
Reuben
Catherine
Nee Hacker) Kurtz
Clay Township
Middle West
Susan Keller
Ephrata
Arthur
Frank
Elmer
Minnie
Alice
Adaline
Edwin
Keller
Nebraska
Jere Kurtz
Clara
A. F. Woomer
Reading
Agnes
Leman Furlow
Kate Dester
Lincoln
Miranda
Silas B. Bard
J. A. Miksch
Monroe Widders
Millway
Lancaster General Hospital
Albert H. Gochenour
Guy Bomberger
Adam B. Long
Percy B. Furlow
Cora Eckert
Park View
Glorious Easter in Lititz Churches and Schools
Easter Sunday in Lititz saw clear skies and large crowds across churches and Moravian Sunday school programs. The day featured a trombone choir procession, refined organ and orchestra works, and a Moravian school concert with 540 attendees. Funds raised support the Moravian foreign mission amid European war strains.
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Lititz
Resurrection of the Redeemer
Jever
Uhavian
Yerger
E. S. Hagen
Christ
Grament
Ture
Gadsby
Novello
Earla Garber
Haydn
Nathaniel Wolfe
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Mozart
Lambilette
Dressler
Mary Hagen
Prof. Myers
Gounod
Hall-Mack Co
Moravian Foreign Missionary Cause
ST. Paul’s
Horse dies from feed ball illness at Owl Hill
Michael of Owl Hill removed a horse from Reuben Fry last week after its death from a peculiar ailment. The injury involved 178 feed balls in the body, some as small as buckshot and others as large as apples, with the largest around six pounds, indicating feed clumped into hard masses rather than passing normally.
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Phares Michael
Owl Hill
Reuben Fry
Thumb Injury From Barn Accident
Paris Neidermyer of Rome fell in a barn accident last Friday and broke the thumb of his right hand. He stepped on hidden hay causing him to fall. Dr. S. R. Posey reduced the fracture and treated the injury.
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Paris
Travel notes of Lititz residents Easter travelers
Lititz letters list neighbors and relatives visiting from Reading Baltimore Harrisburg and Philadelphia over Easter. Local families hosted guests from Camp Hill Lebanon Allentown York and Mohnton while several residents spent the holiday with kin in Elizabethtown Lancaster and Lititz. A Reading telegraph official and a West Chester rider share brief mentions as weather disrupts a trolley line with a derailed car near Chester county.
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Addison Wilson
Kutztown
Clara Weidman
Reading
Frank Woodington
Orwigsburg
D. A. Cobick
Nazareth
Harry Zook
Camp Hill
Cumberland County
Lititz
Hannah Oehme
Baltimore
H. S. Meiskey
Joseph Ebersole
Hollwood
John Troutwine
Wm. Campbell
Lebanon
H. A. Cuppy
Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Company
George
G. Herman Goetz
Harrisburg
M. Huber
Frank Sturgis
Lansford
N. D. Sturgis
Mary Hershey
Elizabethtown College
Paul Smith
Reuben Diehm
Paul Schmuck
Annville
C. B. Schmuck
Solomon Spangler
Bismark
Lebanon County
Michael Spangler
E. Burd Adams
Elizabethtown
Chas. H. Kreider
Joseph Graul
Beatrice
Nettie
Leonard Taubert
Allentown
Daniel Graul
Margaret Potts
New York
Miss Potts
Linden Hall
Mohnton
Haap
Philadelphia
Luke Grosh
Paul Evang
Percy Kofroth
Barton Swarr
Elmer Reidenbach
Robert Grosh
Irvin Staver
Alice Patterson
Swathmore
Olive Stoner
Millersville Normal
J. F. Stoner
Sallie
Lizzie Hartranft
T. Jeff, Hartranft
Ezra Hartranft
Hasterday
Lancaster
Charles B. Sturgis
Helen
George Smith
Harry Reinhold
Irvin Miller
Agnes Todd
Ada Bushong
Daniel E. Light
Ella
Pasadena
Cal
A. S. Miller
H. W. Kreibel
Miller
Lititz Station
Howard Hollinger
West Chester
Freemont Hollinger
Chester County
Dust problem discussed by Lititz business men
About 35 merchants met in the council chamber to consider oiling streets or using tarvia to control dust. They urged borough authorities to pay and to raise taxes from one to two mills to cover costs, while council planned more information before action. Several councilmen attended and welcomed citizen input.
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Lititz
Retail Merchants Association
Council Chamber
Council
Wake Up Lititz Fire Laddies Urged to Attend Meetings
A Lititz fire company leader laments skipped meetings since December due to quorum issues. He warns faithful members may quit and urges attendance, noting a strawberry festival set for Saturday June 6 and a special meeting next Wednesday to address business. George Bender survived a Monday dawn car collision near Mountville with injuries and horse losses.
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Lititz
Visitor from Elgin revisits Lititz Academy alumni memory
Samuel Garber of Elgin Nebraska aged 81 visited the Record office recalling his 65 years since attending John Beck's Lititz Academy. He boarded on East Main with John Conn, was born near Mechanicsburg, later moved to Iowa and Nebraska, built a cattle ranch, and barely recognized Lititz when back.
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Samuel Garber
Elgin
Nebraska
John Beck
Lititz
East Main Street
John Conn
Garber
Mechanicsburg
Iowa
Lancaster High Team to Meet Lititz High Here Saturday
Lititz High announces a home game against Lancaster High on Saturday evening. If Lititz wins they will likely be crowned county champions, with a large crowd expected to attend.
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Lititz High
Lancaster High Five
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Burgess Marks
Daniel Fleisher
Fleisher
Geo. D. Clarke
George Bender
Bender
York
Mountville
General Hospital
Lancaster High
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