Events Concisely Told From Lititz News Items
A miscellany of town notes including glasses left at an office, requested records, apples sold cheap, George Lauch entering the drag business, Lititz postmaster commission, Wayne Zartman opening an auto repair shop, and Grosh’s coach shop. Christmas hours noted, Marietta High School basketball game, tobacco prices to a town packer, moving picture house closed, Serjeant Jim ticket sales, several births, coffee demo, and Empey serial in the Record. Local farm society meeting, social purity talk, letters and Miss Carrie Dielhm address list, and church fairs slated with menus and sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Bueher
George Lauch
James Huehener
Lititz
Wayne Zartman
Jim
Abram Hornley
Air
Warren Buck
Guy Buch
Rey Buch
Oliver Reed
Mack
Lancaster
Frantz Bros
Jayvans
Mt. Yeager
San Domingo
Farm Women's Society
Adamy Long
Sarah Jenking
Eve
Geo
BE. Boimberger
Anerson
Ind
Herard
Ladies' Sewing Society
Moravian Church
Tuesaday
Teeaders
Empey
France
Ltarry Gorten
Stitfel & Freeman Company
Philadelphia
U. S. Arsenal
Suishing
Willis HB. Gochnauer
Broad Street
International
Gochnauer
Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Youthful thief Pat Dellinger arraigned at Park View Hotel
Patrick Dellinger aged 18, known as Pat, was arrested for theft at the Park View Hotel and appeared before Alderman Tlevnitsh in Lancaster on Wednesday. He confessed, admitted stealing from rooms at the hotel, and the gold watch and a sum of £1.25 were recovered and returned. He was jailed to await trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Dellinger
Pat
Park View
Tlevnitsh
Lancaster
Park View Hotel
Eluer Mellinger
Lititz
O'brian Miller
Tesseye
Tie
Mysterious man stalks Keystone alley in dark chases
An unknown man, seen after dark, pursues women and children along the Keystone knitting alley. A married woman and her son escaped to Spruce street, while a local boy tailed by the stranger broke away. Dozens of men waited last Friday, but the molester did not appear. If caught, he would be treated roughly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keystone Knitting
Hame
Spruce Street
Moravian Church Seeks Land for Freight Depot
A Moravian church council will meet Monday evening to consider granting a parcel to the Philadelphia and Heading Railroad Company for a freight depot adjacent to the passenger depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moravian Church Council
Philadelphia and Heading Railroad Company
Rabbit Trapping Causes Townwide Hunt for Pet Dog
A dog with a trap on its paw was seen around town as several tried to catch the frightened animal. A hunter reports his dog captured a trap recently and legal rabbit traps are being set with fines possible for trap owners. Henry Hershey from Farmers National Bank returned from a deer hunt near Chambersburg with an out of town friend and a two day mountain trip resulted in a 1.5 pound six prong buck. Henry kept half the carcass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collis Tyne
Tlenry Hershey
Farmers National Bank
Chambersburg
Pranklin
Fley
Henry
Pretzel Bakeries See Surge in War Busy Years
Pretzel bakeries report strong demand during and after the war. Enrolling machines operate in four bakeries but demand exceeds supply. A buyer seeking 1000 pounds daily for a store chain visited all plants but could not be accommodated. Sales dipped briefly near Christmas before remaining brisk.
Elected Officers of Stevens Post 517 G A R
At Sunday meeting Stevens Post 517 G A R elected officers Commander Allen Hacker Sr C om Arias Adams Jr Com William Mathers Quarter Master J C Orall Chaplain Israel Bear Officer of the Day John Carpenter Sergeant Wen G Smith Officer Guard Hiram Demmy Delegate to Encampment 1919 Joan C Crall Edwin Sturgis named Adjutant in place of Samuel Seaber
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevens
Grand Army of the Republic
Allen Hacker
Sr. C
Arias Adams
Win. Mathers
J. C Orall
Israel Bear
John, Carpenter
Wen. G. Smith
Hiram Demmy
Joan C. Crall
Edwin Sturgis
Samuel Seaber
Obituary notices from Lititz for Shoemaker Buch Frempt and kin
Rolandus Shoemaker dies at 42 after stroke lingering since November 3. Widow Eva Krohn survives with son Barnest. funeral Monday at 2 P M at home with Macpelah Cemetery interment. Oliva Buch dies at 112 E Main Lititz after paralysis. Moravian Church member with extensive Gospels Union ties. funeral 2 PM at home then church. Anna Frempt dies at 77 after gastritis. Moravian Church active in many societies. funeral Monday at home and Moravian Church with interment Moravian Cemetery. Reverend E S Crosland officiates all services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolandus K
Rulauuts K
Lingoln Avenue
Pennville
Lititz
Eva S. Krohn
Ephrata
Oliva Buch
E. Main Street
Lexington
Edwin Knock
Isaac
Elias
Joseph Buch
Moravian Church
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
E. S. Crosland
Anna Mahala Frempt
Orange Street
Lincoln
Ladies’ Mite Society
Worms Missionary Society
W. CG. T. UL
Ladies’ Sewing Society
William Longenecker
Guy
France
Anna
Crosland
Death of Mrs. Frank T. Elliott in Hagerstown
Alice, wife of Frank T. Elliott, died at her home in Hagerstown Maryland on Monday evening after a period of declining health. The notice notes her long illness and mentions the continuation of the obituary on page 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank T. Elliott
Alice
Hagerstown
F. B. Webber
Thomas J. Feick
Strausstown
Berks County
N. A. Long
Allison Webber
Kissel Hii
Charles Shaub
Influenza outbreaks hit Lititz area schools and districts
Influenza spreads west of Lititz with new cases reported. At Fairview School a teacher and forty five of sixty pupils are ill. West Park School near Manheim is closed. Noah Warning and Arthur Meiskey plan a deer hunting trip by auto for a week or ten days in Center county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Noah Warning
Arthur Meiskey
Hopeland
Phrate
Center County
Norman Badorf Named for Burgess in Lititz
Norman Badorf, son of J Badorf, 30, of the Second Ward Lititz, is named to succeed G Grayhill Diehm as Chief Burgess. The petition filed with the court may be affirmed if no objections arise. Badorf, a Lititz High School and Lancaster Business College graduate, has ten years at Eby Shoe Co and helped drive wartime efforts locally. He emphasizes duty and civic service, aiming to continue the town’s progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Badorf
Lititz
G. Grayhill Diehm
Badorf
J. 8. Badorf
Litus
Rabbit Hoax at Bakery Ends With Empty Shotgun
A bread shop's joking about shooting rabbits was foiled when a patron staged a harmless rabbit dummy in the yard. The prankster, in a hurry and thinking danger, grabbed a gun and fired, then fled after a boy retrieved the imitation rabbit. No real rabbit was harmed.
Sergeant Jim of the U S Marines to Be Repeated
The home talent play Sergeant Jim of the U S Marines was repeated this evening by request for charity. The Thanksgiving performance sold every seat and many were turned away. Proceeds benefit the Dorcas Circle of Kings Daughters. Music by Heachinans quartet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
U. S. Marinnes
Benfit
Doreas
King's Daughters
Heachinans Qtuléstra
Lancaster Farmers Institute Opens in Local High School
The Lancaster County Farmers Institute opened in the local high school auditorium on Friday afternoon. A vivid display of home grown apples highlighted the event along with a strong showing from the Farm Women's Association featuring jellies canned and dried garden products. Speakers praised the apple exhibit and practical points were promised by institute leaders. Theodore W. Wittman spoke on chickens noting war related feeding changes and urging care with feed. Advice on feeding boiled oats and other rations for poultry was given as part of the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County Farmers’ Institute
United States
Northwest
Commonwealth
J. &. Harper
J. W. Bruckart
Theodore W. Wittman
Allentown
Keaper
Mr. Wittman
Travel notes share losses and remembrances from wartime France
A broad column lists local residents and visitors with travels by train, trolley, and car, noting Thanksgiving gatherings, relocations, and funerals. It records deaths from France including Raymond I. Webley and William Drummond, wartime service details, and mutual aid between families in Lititz, Ephrata, and Kissel Hill amid postwar reflections.
Strange tailless catlike creature spotted near Lancaster
Report from McGrath farm near Lancaster describes a large tailless catlike animal with long hind legs and no tail. Farmer Frank Demmy notes it is wary and elusive, with many rabbit skins found nearby and attempts to shoot it failing. Tracks may be followed to a woods lair once snow covers ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGrath
Lancaster
Frank Demmy
Died on Ship En Route to France in World War I
A telegraph from Camp Upton reports Norman W. Eberly died aboard a ship bound for France on October 14 from pneumonia. He was 22, a medical corps member from Hopeland who lived in Lititz with his parents and sister Mabel. He left Camp Greenleaf September 5 and had prior ties to a chocolate factory job in Lancaster and Manheim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raynoud
Webley
FB. Weather
Spruce Street
France
Mets
Go. H
140Th Infantry
Reading
Standard Box
Camp Lee
Jie
Allison Webber
Kissel Hill
Charles Webber
Townsend
Tenn
Edwin Webber
Centerville
Kate
Samuel Adams
Ephrata
Minnie
Samuel Wurst
Lancaster
Nora
Charles Shaub
Neffsville
Fila
John Knier
Sporting Till
Luke Biemesderfer
Camp Dix
Willian Drummmond
Edward Drummond
Manheim
Drummond
Lititz
Roy.k Wissler
Herbert Weitzel Sy
Cane Me
Russia
Samuel Shenk
Fred Muth
Army of State College
Guy J. Bard
Ephrata Borousl
Kaiser Wilhelm
Wineland
Qari
Meiskey
Renecke
Jeret
Apau Kau
Cratk
31 Infantry
Avan Kau
Philadelphia
Avan
Camp Meade
Oue
Lieut
Abram. Bribaker
Norman W. Eberly
David B. Eberly
South Broad Street
Camp Greenleaf
Pfon
N. Y
Hopeland
Tie
Elmer
Ritchie son found safe after missing report causes relief
Millier C. and wife of this town rejoice as Jetter message confirms Elmer Lloyd Ritchie of B Company 315 Infantry is safe. The Nov 12 letter arrives after armistice. confusion over another similarly named soldier persists and families recall a Lebanon incident involving Robert Coleman. War ends bring cheers from the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Elmer Lloyd Ritchie
Millier C. Ritchie
Jetter
B, 315 Infantry
Ritchie
Hyme
Lebanon
Robert Coleman
Tennesse
Jon Tloyd Ritchie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carrie Mae Dielhm
Elizabeth Ilaldenman
Lizzie Landis
Mary Martin
Anna H. Lauder
Ezra Ancker
William Butener
Nathan Boffenmeyer
Vigna Conti
Warren F. Ferguson
Addison Longenecker
Ira Sweigers
Walry Asner
John K. Weaver
Mysterious Woman
Chaser
Tegal
G. AJ
Eliza Buch
Miss Mahala Frempt
Burgess
U.S. Marines
Farmers’ Institute
State College
Lititz High School
H. I. McCallant
Wernersville
Raymond Webber
U. S
Reuben F. Hackman
Akron
John K. Wissler
James Goldswaidh
Hull
Loncester
Nathan O. Sturgis
Edgar Sturgis
Pretzel Bakery
New York State
Hazel Render
George
Carneys Point
N. d
Laura Sturgis
John L
F. QR. Dissinger
Campbelltown
Lebanon County
Elmer Ritchie
Martin Bomberger
Olay
Adam Burkholder
Front Street
W. K. Fleck
St. Paul’s Luttheran Church
Hast Penna, Synod
Fternton
N. J
Frank Kapp
Dover
Ohio
Caroline Adams
Harry Weiman
FB. Webber
Wm. Glenn
Louisa Buch
Glenn
Frank Gantz
Vine Hill
Aus Kauffman
John
Norman
Benjamin Hvans
Fruitville
Graybill Minnien
Jacob Minnich
Near Town
Christian Habecke
Mia
Ellen Leib
Mabel
Viola
Hiram H Wherly
Ebner Mimnich
Annville
Paul
Gsoen
Eititz Clothing and Boe
Deepaced
Upton, N
Blakets
Jack Henry
York
Brother Elmer
Oralan
Camp Upton
Jacob Gehuley
Opeland
E. Lloyd Ritchie
Blois
Dad
Bandant Druim Corps
Amer- Z
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