Lititz Community Snapshot Of News And Plans
Benj F Lutz buys a Seaman street lot from Andrew Goch enour. Christmas store displays appear. Ida Miller seeks hospital care in Lancaster. Benjamin Bucher converts stable to broom factory. John Wommert reports a large snake. local views on open winter. Lititz teachers change. hand injury at Sanitary milk plant. Rev H B Marx visits from Tibet. Moravian church address in Lancaster. Local trades shift as Orange street butcher rents out. trombone choir visits Lancaster for love feast. Real estate transfers on Lincoln avenue. turkeys planned for Christmas sales in Virginia. Deacon Dubbs From West Virginia to be staged again at Manheim. Hackman’s Orchestra plays. Mission society sends boxes to Orphan’s Home and Monroe Mission. Eschbach visits Lititz. cigar makers move to Manheim, Rothsville. Eisenlohr factory busy in Manheim. some local factories reducing output. N H Fisher buys J C Carpenter house for 5000. move to Lititz planned. Public meeting about new trolley line set for Thursday at 7 30 pm. Reading line directors to attend. King’s Naighters annual sale nets 414 receipts, 580 cleared. charity circles support Christmas work. Lititz and vicinity urged to turnout. Heinz demonstration at Pfantz Bros this Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benj. F. Lutz
Seaman Street
Andrew Gochenour
William Mumma
North Cedar Street
Ida Miller
Spruce Street
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Lancaster
Benjamin Bucher
Bucher
John Wommert
William Crouse
Schoeneck
Brickerville
Amos Eshleman
Paradise
Sanitary Milk
Wallace Meiskey
H. B. Marx
Poo
Tibet
Lititz
H. H. Roger
Orange Street
Clarence Caumauff
Melinton
Perre Adams
Lincoln Avenue
William Zeil
William Engle
Ray Link
Toms Creek
Deacon Dubbs
West Virginia
Manheim
Hackman
Women’s Missionary Society of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Lionsvile Orphans
Monroe
Washington, D. C
Horace Eschbach
Benjamin Hershey
Hershey
Eschbach
Rothsville
Eisenlohr
N. H. Fisher
J. C. Carpenter
S. Broadstreet
Hershey & Gibbes
Fisher
Tire House
George
Naighters
Butchering Season News From Local Hog Growers
Local residents report a busy butchering period with multiple hogs killed weighing 274 to 878 pounds. Notable producers include William Snavely, Ellis Spickler, Harry Anspach, Aaron Kahler, Christ Yerger, Jacob Hertzler, and Harry Showers whose burnt pretzel feed boosts hog growth. Thomas Steffy shares a string of large kills reaching 448 pounds as his family tradition continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Snavely
Rome
Ellis Spickler
Harry Anspach
Aaron Kahler
Christ Yerger
Jacob Hertzler
Locust Street
Jacob
Harry Showers
Harry
Thomas Steffy
Tom
Arias Steffy
High School Plans Excellent Christmas Program in Borough
The borough schools will host Christmas themed events. A musical on the evening of the 21st invites all parents and patrons with a 15 cent fee for extra music department equipment. Open house is set for the 28th from 7 to 9 pm, and a Christmas lyceum will be held on the 24th at 1 15 in the afternoon. Miss Olive Herr introduced a writing program for grades 1 through 8 with manuals provided to pupils. Fire drills occur monthly. in a recent test all pupils evacuated in under two minutes. Water plugs are manned by students to ready for hose deployment if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Herr
Pahner Co
New York
Birthday Dinner for Mr John Badorf and Family
Mr John Badorf celebrated his 57th birthday with his sister Mrs Frank Bentz who was 63 on December 8. A birthday duck dinner was hosted by Mr and Mrs Bentz at Brunnerville. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Walter Landis of Landis Valley and the families of the Badorf and Bentz households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Badorf
Frank Bentz
Bentz
Brunnerville
Walter Landis
Landis Valley
Badorf
Bakers Cut Prices on Bread and Cakes in Lititz
The Lancaster County Bakers Association approved a price drop. 8 S. C. Hassler lowers loaves from 15 to 13 cents and 11 cent loaves to 10 cents while 10 cent loaves fall to 9 cents. A. R. Keller posts 18 cent former 20 cent loaves and other cuts. Buns and sugar cake also reduced. Keller expects losses due to remaining high-priced flour. Keller belongs to the association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Monady
C. Hassler
A. R. Keller
Keller
Lancaster
County Bakers Association
Deer hunting report from Mt Joy club and area
Shot Two Deer Eugene Long and Dr. D A Long of the Mt Joy gun ning club report two fine deer taken by a twelve member camp in Franklin County near South Mountain. Lititz men failed to bag any, though Dr Long fired a shot. Wayne Zartman and Mr and Mrs Frank Boucher hunted Centre County and shot pheasants and rabbits. Lititz youths in Cumberland County had no deer yet. Tom Furlow missed a shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Long
D. A. Long
Mt. Joy
Frank Boucher
Centre County
Cumberland County
Tom Furlow
From Lititz to Virginia: brings peanuts and holly for Christmas
Elmer Hollinger and Philip Fenstermacher, residents near Lititz, returned from Wayne Carpenter in Waverly Virginia with 2300 pounds of peanuts sweet potatoes yams and holly. They plan wreaths to sell at Christmas. The Virginia yams are noted as especially large and sweet. Fenstermacher grew some last year but say they lack the Virginia sweetness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Hollinger
Philip Fenster-macher
Lititz
Wayne Carpenter
Waverly
Sussex County
Mr. Fenstermacher
Old
Virginia
Petition Seeks Pardon for Richard Sturgis Case
A petition circulated to the Board of Pardon requests release for Richard Sturgis of this place who is serving six years at Twancaster for assault and battery with attempt to rape. It argues evidence did not sustain the verdict. Prison Reaper Obetz favors his release. The board will hear the case on the 15th of this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Pardon
Richard Sturgis
Twancaster
Obetz
Farmers Bank Christmas Checks Total Over Twenty Seven Thousand
Farmers Bank paid out 27254.25 in Christmas savings checks yesterday. The Christmas Club began nine years ago with half the members being women. The duplicate card system is used. Payments for next year start Wednesday December 22 and run weekly for fifty weeks. Deposits range from 25 cents to 5 dollars weekly with progressive and reducing tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers Bank
Hear Mr. Howard Clinton N Howard in Wititz January 3
The National Red Cross hails Howard as a premier speaker and promises substantial benefit. He addresses "The New Today the Better Tomorrow" for one night only in Wititz. Also, the late Susan Risser's household articles go to public sale Saturday December 18 at Front and Cedar streets corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton N. Howard
Wititz
National Red Cross
Howard
America
Susan Risser
Saale
Front
Cedar Streets
New Lodge Forming To Organize In Lititz
Dr A A Cohen of Reading visited to aid the Knights of Friendship in forming a new temple in Lititz with organizers William F Kessler and son. The lodge will meet at Rudy's Hall on Tuesday night December 21. New members are joining rapidly as the group highlights a sickness and accident benefit of seven dollars weekly. Chapters are planned for Ephrata and Columbia. Cohen, director general, praised progress and cited his immigrant success story from Russia to Reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Cohen
Reading
Lititz
Knights of Friendship
William F. Kessler and Son
Rudy’s Hall
Dr. Cohen
Supreme Organization Department
Ephrata
Columbia
Cohen
Russia
Reading Preparatory
Western College
Philadelphia School of Scientific Research
Pageant plans ahead for Linden Hall birthday
Mrs J Upton Myers of Bethlehem visits Lititz to organize a historical pageant at Linden Hall Seminary for its 175th birthday next June. She is Linden Hall class of 1886 alumna Elizabeth Lehman and will lead with Miss M Potts assistance. Her Moravian Sisters book published two years ago sold well. Her Bethlehem father Bernard Lehman helped persuade George Dixon to build the Mary Dixon Memorial Chapel in Lititz and was a Linden Hall friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Upton Myers
Bethlehem
Linden Hall Seminary
Linden Hall
Myers
Elizabeth Lehman
M. Potts
Lititz Notables Debates in Gubernatorial Contest
Honored Lititz woman and longtime resident Benjamin Lutz dies after a stroke at 80. A jury of ten conferees from the county and Lebanon will pick a replacement for the late Senator Haldeman at the Harrisburg capitol meeting, with Cleon Berntheizer seen as a favored candidate amid Lebanon’s protest forecasts against Gabe Moyer and William Coleman. Henry Werner, immigrant from Aix-la-Chapelle, dies at 78 after a peripatetic career in railroads and farming, remembered as a well read, sociable figure in the Wissler mill area. Public funeral planned Thursday at 2 PM with Moravian cemetery interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. G. Dichm
Bessie Gingrich
Lebanon
Senator Haldeman
Harrisburg
Cleon Berntheizer
Columbia
Gabe Moyer
William Coleman
Furnace Hills Furnish Greens for Lititz
Three hundred Christmas trees will be found in Lititz homes this year. Trees come from hills in the county’s north and sell for about seventy five cents each. Elab orate displays are out. trees now fit in corners to please children. Jerusalem moss and crow's foot greens grow in nearby hills. holly is rare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Jerusalem
River Hills
Blue Mountains
Eighteen Pound Capons Sub for Turkey, Rome Farmer Says
Henry J. Snavely of Rome raises five Light Brahma cockerels for the table. He expects each capon to reach eighteen pounds, noting caponizing increases weight by about a third and that the flesh rivals turkey in tenderness and flavor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry J. Snavely
Rome
Turkey
Golde Victorious In Lancaster A Fast Game Win 30 to 21
The Golde team of Lancaster defeated Lititz 30 to 21 in a fast hard game played last evening here. Lititz will host a return game in Lancaster next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golde
Lancaster
Lititz
Three Trucks Pull House to New Site
Robert Yerger moved his office opposite the Solotone factory to land east of the trap factory for a spring building project a talking machine factory. The twelve to fourteen ton office slid on logs front on wheels pulled by three large auto trucks, with poles moved in the alley and a coal bucket beside the stove remaining in place during the move a photo was taken of the three trucks pulling the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Yerger
Solotone
Travel notices from Lititz area readers
Community notes list Ida Zartman Ida Jacoby Minnie Brian and others visiting relatives in Manheim Schoeneck Terre Hill and Reading. Mentions of Moravian Home residents, church figures, poultry show judge Daniel Witmyer at Rochester, and a Moravian Sewing Society supper planned for Saturday January 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Zartman
Manheim
Ida Jacoby
Schoeneck
Minnie Brian
Terre Hill
Harry Long
Lancaster
T. I. Brubaker
Philadelphia
N. Broad Street
C. William Grosh
Nathaniel Hollinger
Harrison Gibbel
Fairland
R. GO. Melzer
New York
Ideal Chocolate Factory
L. S. Reedy
John
Stricklerstown
Lebanon County
Martha Huebener
Witmer
Lawrence Brink
Belle Young
Susan Young
Mary Elliott
Hagerstown
Wilson Grube
Wm. Vogler
Lititz Moravian
Andrew Stoltz
Reading
Daniel Witmyer
Frank Rader
Wernersville
Pfohl
Lancaster Moravian Church
George Ford
Atlantic City
Ford
John Fleishman
Traymore
Elmer, Shelly
Refton
Jacob Springer
Landigville
Harry Shire
Lancaster Junction
Jeremiah Adams
Agnes Adams
Alvin Cochel
Elmer Shelly
Henry L. Risser
R. D
Lititz
Geo Shreiner
Eli K. Zartman
Edna
Ferry
Frank R. Diehm
Paul
Anna
Mary
Lois
Landis Huber
Landis and
Elmer
Anna Young
Edna Bushong
Margie Smith
Indian visitors at White River Mission welcome event in 1802
In March 1802 six Indians including Chief Little Turtle visited the White River Mission near Lancaster. Reverends Herbst Miller Reich and others hosted a procession from Zum Anker tavern to the SistersHouse chapel with music, cakes, wine, and gifts for the guests. Their interpreter was ill, so few could understand the program. The party departed by omnibus to Lancaster after a late afternoon farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Turtle
Philadelphia
John Peter Kluge
White River
Indiana
Lancaster
Brethren Herbst
Miller
Sccarcely
Abraham R. Beck
Lititz High Loses Closely to Manheim High in Tight Game
Lititz High basketball team fell 4 to 32 to Manheim High in a hard fought contest last Saturday evening. Helter led Lititz with strong scoring, while Gibbel added an aggressive effort and drew fouls. The Lititz squad is set to host Trivers five of Lancaster this Saturday with a pregame Lititz Boy Scout showcase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litite High
Manheim High
Helter
Lititz
Gibbel
Trivers
Five of
Lancaster
Manheim
Parkesburg High
Explosion Damages Manheim Plant. Five Injured
Repair work began on the asbestos plant in Manheim after a Saturday explosion that injured five men and heavily damaged the building. The blast, caused by an overheated gas oven, happened at 10 30 in the morning and was heard in Lititz. About three hundred employees were in the plant. Estimated loss runs to about 125 000 dollars. This marks the second explosion there in a year. Moss for sale by Herman Stark, 411 East Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manheim
Lititz
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H. J. ‘Heinz
Pfantz Bros
Uititz Boy
Mr. Howard
New Lodge
Twelfth Lodge
Benjamin Lutz
Wiss Bessie Gingrich
Benjamin H. Lutz
Elizabeth Township
White Oak
Lutz
Moravian Church
Selah Lodge
Henry Werner
Enry Werner
Ile
Aix-la- Chapelle
France
Auchen
Dar Auchener
New Jersey
Delaware
New York State
West Earl
Clay Townships
David Nelt
Wissler Mill
Furnace Hills
Solotone Factory
Moravian Sewing Society
Little Sisters
Mary Penry
Margie
H. Hackman
Grosh
Mei
Gochenour
Grayhill
Witmyer
Hummer
Hostetter
Moss
Herman Stark
East Main Street
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