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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
5
Provides a list of fire alarm bell taps by location and notes church services across Lititz areas. Includes Rev. Hagen at Lititz, Rev. Woehrie, Lutherans, Brethren, and Mennonite services with times and venues for Sunday.
Communion services will be held at St. Johns church Brickerville on Sunday May 12 at 10 A M with preparatory services the day before. Lititz Lodge No 1050 I O O F will attend the Moravian church service Sunday evening where Rev E Hagen will preach. Eight collectors are gathering subscriptions for rebuilding the Moravian church organ and for painting and carpeting.
The report recalls trials aboard the Titanic with passenger heroism and ship design failures. Survivors recount rows of lifeboats and brave acts as Carpathia rescues 745 people from 2,340 aboard. A committee states 1,585 deaths. Nearby, a Lititz Springs pool fish line is found hinting at big trout being fished out and local anglers blamed for past violations.
Death of Wayne S. Farlow in Lancaster County at 44 with several siblings surviving. Funeral held in Denver after residence at county hospital. Separate notices cover Harry S. Kauffman’s funeral with Moravian and Masonic rites, plus a court case where Union Trust Company sues Dr. E B Evans over a note. Easter program by United Brethren Sunday school in Brunnerville praised for recitations and music.
Prof W S Keeney of Manheim will lead a singing class at Brunnerville church this Thursday evening. Rain postponed the initial meeting last week. expected attendees are urged to join for a 13 week term of Thursday sessions.
Fire discovered Friday at 5 30 p m gutted a one and a half story frame house owned by John Gibble and tenanted by Howard Buch in Penn township near Manheim borough. A defective flue blamed for the blaze aided by strong winds. bucket brigades failed to save the structure. Grosh carriage works nearby.
Elder A. M. Hottenstein marries Miss Anna M. Miller at East Petersburg with a wedding dinner for relatives. In Columbia and Warwick township, Willis R. Knox contests votes with petitions for recounts alleging additional uncounted ballots, while official results show Diller and Pfautz leading in separate county races. Ballots will be examined in court Saturday.
Commissioners opened noon bids to reduce the main court room enlarge the law library and judges quarters. Bids from Peter N Wohlsen 21560 J P Breneman 820700 George Gesell 21567. No contract awarded. Manheim plans Old Home week in July including Hope Hose centennial celebration.
A nostalgic verse column bids farewell to Mister Oyster marking his retirement after long service. It blends light humor with reflections on May’s approach and seasonal woes while tossing in aphorisms about genius, weather, and heroic bands aboard the Titanic.
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