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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1922
Page
1
The itemized notes describe Good Friday closures, Easter plans with a Moravian trombone choir, and Linden Hall Easter recess. Other news covers a C. B. Risser birthday, hunting and fishing updates, Forester’s Hall dedication in Columbia, motorists and trains aiding Linden Hall pupils, plus various local relocations and business reopenings.
In the Knights of Malta Temple last Thursday evening about 500 attended the fifth anniversary celebration of Zen Ziesta No. 77 Princes of Bagdad. E J Sterner presided as sultan and Mr Walters as scratcher with speeches, stories, music and a large Malta widow distress collection. Guests from Lancaster and across the county enjoyed a luncheon and chocolate eggs engraved S S 77.
Four lambs born to a Lititz area ewe, two died, leaving about twenty-seven lambs on farm of J. C. Brubaker. Brubaker sells lambs at 18 to 20 cents a pound and expects wool prices to rise. Elam H. Bomberger and Miss Anna E. Young wed at Rev. J. W. G. Hershey's home on East Main Street with fifty guests from Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Lititz.
The Senior Class of S H 8 presents The Spy on Thursday April 20 with a cast including Mrs Haywood Esther Seaman Susan Haywood Jean Russell Dorothy Johnson and others. A sketch When Polly Put the Pepper in the Tea will follow with a second cast. Tickets are 35 cents with reserved seating April 18.
Easter observances fill town churches and Sunday schools from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday with services, Holy Communion, choir music, sunrise service, and special programs. The United Evangelical S S conducts Life and Light with primary and junior presentations, recitations, musical numbers, and an illuminated cross drill. Proceeds support Foreign Missions. Great Sabbath Lovefeast tickets limited to today at local stores.
St Pauls Lutheran Church sets new service hours for Easter with a 10 o clock processional by the Junior Vested Choir singing Low In the Grave He Lives and Christ The Lord Is Risen Today. The Senior choir performs pieces, many catechumens and new members to be received, large communion anticipated, floral decorations planned by the Men s Bible Class, and a 6 80 Sunday School service of song The Meaning of Easter with a 12 piece orchestra recitations and an address.
The Easter service Victory prepared by Walter A. Shanker will be used by the U B church Sunday School at 6 pm featuring songs recitations readings and primary department exercises. St Juke's Reformed S S uses He Giveth Life at 6 pm with songs responsive readings children’s exercises and an address by the pastor plus a special offering and music.
The Catholic church on Front and Water streets holds a 10 a.m. Sunday High Mass. The public sale of the late Nathaniel K. Brubaker’s personal effects drew many attendees including buyers from Ephrata Reading Lancaster and Elizabethtown. Old china and glassware sold well with prices for a walnut handmade bedroom suite at 54 dollars and a pewter dish at 7.50. A lost baby slipper between Eby’s Mill and N Water street requests return to the Record Office.
The oldest Easter egg in the state belongs to Mr and Mrs David Fass of South Spruce street. It turns one hundred years old this Easter and remains crack free. Once owned by Jacob Gingrich and later Benjamin Gingrich, it bears J G and the year 1822 scratched on its dyed brown shell. The cup that holds it is 94 years old. The Fass family also boasts another egg aged 72 years.
Tahlmar I Brubaker of Philadelphia, head of the Philadelphia Financial Bowling League, capped the season with a banquet at Kuglers Fifteenth above Cherry Street, where over 200 attended and more than 100 prizes for season records were given. Brubaker also chairs the Financial Building and Loan Association and leads leagues in baseball and soccer while enjoying golf across city clubs.
Three road viewers met yesterday afternoon to assess widening a two mile stretch in Elizabeth township past Menno Brubaker's farm. The viewers were Sawyer Kendig of Lancaster Amos Hamaker of Manheim and Horace Koser of Landisville. Their evidence will be presented to court for final action.
A Lititz businessman discovered a dusty tile jug in his garret that contained a quart of whiskey. He recalled buying a gallon over thirty years ago for six dollars and using it for mince pies and medical purposes before forgetting it. The item was kept, not discarded, for decades.
Due to severe blight last year home grown potatoes were unfit for planting, prompting higher imports. Local farmers may increase acreage with several planning ten acres and Amos Longenecker nineteen acres. John Hess received about eight carloads of Maine seed for local use and five carloads will be distributed by the Potato Growers Association while a Philadelphia man found ready sale for two carloads.
A public meeting will be held soon in Lititz to discuss freeing toll roads in the county. Lititz has three toll roads entering the area and organizers expect a large turnout for the session.
Mr GC J Claus and Hitle daughter visited Bethlehem over Sunday while Ralph Fry of Nazareth called in Lititz. Nurses, students, teachers and visiting family from Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Atlantic City converge for Easter. Ancient locals greet returning neighbors as Lititz eyes Easter with plans and a feature in Ladies Home Journal.
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