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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1923
Page
4
The notice proclaims a weekly Thursday publication with a yearly subscription of one dollar fifty cents. It identifies R E Buch as editor and proprietor and notes entry at Lititz Pennsylvania post office as second class matter.
A wise teacher’s idea of letting the best pupil lead and others drop behind is paralleled to town progress. Competition stirs snoozy residents when rivals show results, urging support for improvement measures. Lectures highlighting other communities’ achievements can mobilize sleepy locals to push their town forward.
The Lutheran church choir presented a well received musical program Sunday evening to a large crowd. weekend visitors included Mrs Annie Seiverling and daughter Kathryn and son John from Reading. Jaco Myers of FL M Academy Lancaster spent Thanksgiving at home. Lucy Witmyer visited Ephratea, and Miss Dorothy Carpenter Lancaster visited grandmother Mrs Susan Carpenter. Several families from Akron Coatesville and Lincoln area were guests or attended weddings and banquets. The ex-High basketball team and P O S of A No 559 planned a season, with early lineup and opening win noted against Browntown.
Millersville and the P. O. S. of A. will play the Lancaster Rovers in the high school auditorium.
In Akron on a Saturday afternoon 2 o'clock Rev 8 A Heisey united William M Zeller and Hattie M Meiser both of Newmanstown in marriage. Attending were Mr and Mrs Benjamin Kegerreis and Miriam Zeller. Revival services began Sunday evening at the Brethren church on W Main Street led by Rev J W G Vershey of Lititz. Local social notes describe numerous visits and gatherings, including birthday celebrations and family connections across Ephrata Lititz Lancaster and Norristown, with updates on hospitality and a baby arrival at the Snader home.
Browstown notes revival meetings at the U K church draw growing interest as more seekers come to the alter. A funeral for Hia Brown, wife of P P Brown, drew a large crowd with services at the Evangelical church and burial at the Reform ed Mennonite cemetery. Pallbearers included R B Getz and others. The San Telmo cigar factory here closed abruptly, with workers seeking jobs elsewhere, while Davis Shirk and Magon may relocate here after New Year. Fred Duck caught a ten pound carp in the Conestoga while fishing for suckers. Rev C W Woaver will begin revival meetings at Rothsville on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs J B Marxen hosted a wedding dinner for Mr and Mrs Ralph Keith of Brunnerville. they married Saturday and will live in Brunnerville. Mr and Mrs Carl Hoff and children visited from Linwood, N J, with Edwin W Pierce from Thursday to Sunday. Mrs Eliza Brandes of Lancaster and Walter Zook of Leington spent the weekend there.
A Sunday Dec 2 goose dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Abe Balmer's home drew many locals from Manheim Lititz Ephrata Lancaster and surrounding areas. Guests included Jennie Sarah Brunnerville Minnie Ruhl Velma Lichty Helen Frey Kathryn Groff Esther Graybill Hilda Zug Lizzie Wiest Ruth Fieger Pearl Subher Meriam Raffensberger Anna Mae Will Mary Dohner Mabel McFalls Lydia Bishop Katie Moyer and others. The event featured tables decorated with fruit and flowers and a lavish feast. Additional gatherings included a birthday surprise for Mrs L R Koehler organized by J M Bomberger with many attendees from Penryn Manheim and Lititz.
Sunday visitors included Annie Pfautz and Laura Kline near Brunnerville plus Verna Shaub of Vintage and Leroy Futer Omar Futer Clayton Burkholder of Lancaster. Duck dinner hosted by E K Zartman near Lexington. Sam Keller and ten daughters Helen and Grace of Lexington guests of Sam Elser. Miss Gerhart of Millersville S N S on Thanksgiving. Ebner Snyder and Elizabeth Town College student Mary Snyder visiting. Public sale Saturday at Simon Landis home for the personal property of Elizabeth and Lavin Snyder and Mr Wm Roether.
The Brunnerville area hosted a sequence of weekend visits. Harry M. Meiley and wife of Lititz stayed with Mary Meily’s family. Mrs. Jacob Singley and Grace from Lititz visited Mrs. Alice Young. R L Keith and family entertained Mrs. Rebecca Althouse Lizzi Althouse and H Clay Breitigram of Ephrata. Laura Flory and Mr Wargo of Scranton visited P W Flory’s family. A local man joined the benedicts Saturday night and Sunday was spent at Mrs Keith’s aunt and uncle’s home.
Thursday last R D and others called on Mrs Maria Grabill at Lime Rock where she lives with the Harl Rohrer family Mrs Grabill is blind. Harry Landis moved his family to F B Bentz home and Mrs Alice Young now occupies the Metzler home. Weather mild for December. A grasshopper was seen on December 8 and a bat was found in a cellar. A birthday package arrived for Mrs Victor B Buchter. The revival at A B church closed with no additions. The communion service is set for December 16. The Male Chorus of Lexington and Lancaster attended Seeley. John Applebach and his organist from Lancaster performed. Vocalists listed include Edgar B Meily Ralph Paul Scott Meily H M Roth and Miss Mary R Slackman. Miss Tizzie Gibbel taught near Manheim. Mrs Selinda Williams and Isaac Nessinger ill at home. Several others spent Sunday at Clay with G M Weachter’s family.
Mrs. Clara Weidman hosted a large Thanksgiving dinner with multiple families including Trubbard Bru baker Huber Werbert Frank Spangler and others in Lancaster and Mannheim. Separately observers report turkeys plentiful across York County with large flocks on farms and favorable butchering and hatching seasons noted by travelers and farmers.
The 1923 York county turkey crop is reported as the largest in two decades, with Adams county also noting a normal crop. Analysts say prices should be cheaper than last year’s 60 cents per pound retail level, arguing profiteering would fall on others rather than farmers.
The body of Michael Lynch, three years old, was found at Lime Rock Stone Quarries two miles west of Lititz by workers resuming after Thanksgiving. Authorities say he likely died by suicide, with Deputy Coroner Lehnerer and Dr. M. H. Yoder confirming death. Burial occurred at Machpelah Cemetery after a Christian service. A sister in Elmira, New York, is mentioned but not reachable.
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