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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
4
The Lititz Record lists E. Buch as editor and proprietor with subscription at $1.50 per year. It notes entry at Lititz Pennsylvania Post Office as second class matter.
A reflection on propaganda promising rewards for nothing. It argues most people, except heirs of the rich, do not gain without effort. It notes graduates quickly learn no seat is reserved in the bandwagon and that success comes from applying brains and muscles to needed work.
Automobile racing is praised as a fine sport yet warned against on public roads. The piece attacks fast road crowds who challenge others by weaving ahead then accelerating, risking collision with oncoming drivers and possible ditch outcomes. It urges racing only at public tracks.
The neighborhood notes record a Harvest meeting at Brethren Church on Sunday afternoon August 30 at 2 P M. Delegates from Akron charge led reports on the Waldheim Park school at Allentown and activities at United Evangelical and Lutheran churches. Activities included songs prayers Bible study and varied missions and youth programs led by local members.
Numerous families and friends spent Sunday visiting in various households. Attendees included Zwally Frymeyer Lutz Sweigart Landis and Albright families, Stover, Widmeyer, Gockley, Shirk, Hess, Ober, and Weidler households, plus readings of prayers and a shirt factory workers’ surprise visit to Reuben Hornberger’s family. Activities featured meals, programs, and a church class gathering.
Mr and Mrs Harry Showers hosted a Sunday gathering for the marriage of Mildren to Marvin Bowman and son Lester s birthday. Guests included Rev Earl Strickler and family from Gap Miss Erla May Buch of Oregon and Rev Jacob Landis with two children from Fleetwood Berks county. Fleetwood to boom says Rev Landis as Fisher Body buys old firm and plans a modern factory employing 2000 people.
A bronze tablet marking the birthplace of Indian Hannah, the last Lenni Lenape in Chester County, will be unveiled Saturday at 3 PM on Pierre S. du Pont’s Longwood estate. The marker, designed by Paul Cret, sits on a Pocopson Creek stone with an ancient forest backdrop and includes a poem by John Russel Hayes read at the ceremony.
Washington Letters recount a Lutheran pastor hosting a Sunday school parade crowd who borrow a $17 collection for a Akron church. A Washington Times piece notes Calvin Coolidge’s election and low odds of a third term, stating he has been elected only once and is favored to be nominated again.
Martin J Gallagher, a 99 year old White Haven shoemaker, returns to work after a month away claiming no plan to quit. He walks two miles daily to prepare for breakfast.
Holy Matrimony between Paul S. Buch of Oregon and Helen May Myer of Brownstown occurred Saturday at 11 am at Neffsville United Brethren parsonage Lancaster with Rev. Kauffman officiating. Attendants were Erla Buch and Lester Showers. The couple left for a wedding trip to Wilmington Delaware and Washington DC by car and will reside in Lancaster. Noah M. Hess and Laura B. Grayhill were married Saturday Aug 22 with att enants Titus Hess and Elva Mae Brubaker.
George Hart, who left the county eighteen years ago from his Mt. Nebo home, visits area friends. He settled in Shelby Mississippi where he runs a lumber business and notes a strong cotton crop with picking already begun. A Harrisburg to New York silk export train of nine baggage cars, guarded by U S secret service, carried over $1.5 million in fabric made in Japan. Families and neighbors gathered for a Sunday camp meeting and visiting relatives amid farmers thrashing and cutting tobacco locally.
A material from wild mulberry bark is beaten with wooden mallets and decorated with vegetable dyes. A Wanigella widow crawls to visit her husband’s grave, hidden from villagers by a canopy of tapa cloth.
A fragmentary note from Family Herald discusses beliefs that African tribes fatten nine year old girls to enhance bride value, contrasting with European fat figure findings from the ice age. It suggests a shared human interest in body size as social currency and references pastoral peoples and cultural practices.
A reflective piece on letting encounters with flowers and birds arise naturally through outdoor activities. The author likens botanical gains to friendships formed by walks, picnics, or camping trips, praising a slow, open-air approach to nature.
Public notice proclaims the Lancaster Court of Jail Delivery and General Quarter Sessions will convene on the second Monday in September 1925 at Lancaster Court House. Local officials, justices, coroners, and constables are urged to attend with rolls records examinations and inquiries to prosecute prisoners in the county jail. Dated August 24 1925 in Lancaster Pennsylvania.
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