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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
9
Forty three parties bought items at the Warwick House sale held last Saturday. Potatoes, livestock, clothing, and household goods sold at varied prices, with totals including 400 plus items and numerous small lots such as shirts, stockings, shoes, and records.
Klein's Kisses salt water kisses and 60 cent chocolates announce a big sale. Cosmo buttermilk soap three for 20 cents. Galvanized pails discounted. TRIMMER'S outings today as United Brethren Bible Class spends day at Weidler's with chicken corn soup. United Evangelical Ushers picnic at the Yellow Barn along the Conestoga.
Home raised watermelons are coming on the market as a fine crop with larger fruit and strong quality. Several growers are listed including Binkley of Kleinfeltersville Eckert between the Elizabeth farms and Waldeck and Emanuel Eckert with prolific yields. A theft of ripe melons occurred and a peddler claimed William Ecker's melons. Local notes also mention Isaac Sharp of Cocalico selling musk melons.
A collage of aphorisms notes camping meals money and marriage. The speaker catalogs lines on appetite flattery wealth illness and happiness with satirical bite. The list contrasts money burning seconds of thought and the minister versus divorce lawyer view of marriage as a knot.
A Monday evening reception hosted by the W C T U honored new members from the year at the Moravan Parish House basement. Miss A Virginia Grosh led, with devotions by Mrs Morris Kauffman. Reports from Elizabethtown convention, campaign literature, toasts, and musical duets filled the program as 33 attendees enjoyed light refreshments. Sixty three countywide members were gained, Lititz adding 23, amid reflections on the convention speakers and banquet.
Sunday services unite Mrs Susan Hichelberger of Oregon and her brother John Gable at his Lincoln avenue home. Mrs Echil berger, toll gate keeper at Oregon for forty years, turned 78 that day as family and grandchildren arranged the affair with dinner and supper for a good number of attendees.
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