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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
8
Rates listed for various advertisement durations and sizes with quarterly and yearly schemes. Transient ads payable in advance. Advertisements to ensure immediate insertion must be handed in by Wednesday. Job work of all kinds done neatly and promptly at short notice. Communications addressed to RECORD OFFICE, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Thanksgiving football at Lititz ends in a scoreless draw with Columbia All-Scholastics. Muddy ankle‑deep field slows play as Spickler returns a 50 yard kick and Diehm nearly breaks through for a TD. Roy Todd stars for Lititz while weather and jinx hinder scoring. Also: thefts during Thanksgiving dinner visits as a shutter is pried and items stolen in Manheim and near Lancaster Pike.
Mrs. Tobias Buchter of Ephrata and Mrs. Harry Whitmyer of Penryn survive. George W. Gross Sr. of Eph rata, a Clay Lodge Odd Fellows member for 83 years, is noted. Funeral services were held from his home with Bethany Reformed Church rites by Rev. A S Meek. Interment followed at Gross cemetery beside the Lutheran Church.
Obituaries report Ellen R. Fieles of Christiana died at home from heart failure aged 82 after years of illness. She had lived in Baltimore and Lititz before moving to the Christiana hotel 25 years ago. she leaves three children, with services at Leacock church. Also noted is the death of Martin H. Wittel of Manheim from pleuro-pneumonia at 68, Civil War veteran, interred at Fairview cemetery after funeral at Salem AB church. Additional notice: Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman, 74, died at county hospital after years of illness. previously lived in Lititz and Ephrata. funeral at Ephrata U B church. Endnote mentions another case of Eiderdown remnants at Miller's store.
On the fifteenth day of Tanry 1912 twenty five residents petition the Laneast County Court of Quarter Sessions to condemn the Lillie and Rothsville Turnpike within the county. They seek the road become a public road free of tolls and toll gates and request a five citizen jury to assess damages due to conversion under the 1887 act. John E Malone is solicitor for petitioners.
On Saturday December 16 190L at 7 30 PM a public sale will occur at Saring's Hotel the old homestead in Lititv borough near Moravian church containing about 7 pieces of land with dwelling house and outbuildings. Remit terms on premises. Desirable building site advertised.
A list shows sales with bills printed at the RECORD Office and unadvertised notices. Auctions include Gebers Sale and Exchange Stables in Ephrata, Geo. S. Demimy in Ephrata, H N Wolt & Sons near Akron, and multiple farm auctions in Lititz and Warwick townships with dates from December to March, featuring horses, cattle, stock, farm implements, and household goods.
The undersigned offers a residence on the west side of South Broad Street at Marion street corner, a 44 by 200 feet lot with five rooms and modern conveniences. Hardwood finish, papered rooms, rear stable and shop, built five years ago, suitable as a residence. Terms by application.
Isaac Sarah of Penryn buys all kinds of horses and ships weekly. Write or call him by Indiana phone No 70 or Bell phone No 193.
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