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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
4
A count-class matter was entered at the Lititz Pennsylvania Post Office. The filing records place the action within standard postal handling categories at the local facility. No further details are provided in the fragment.
Obituaries from Reamstown and nearby areas list the deaths of several residents. Sallade family ties in Reamstown noted, with burial at Cedar Hill. Elias B. Ruhl, a longtime Mannheim implement dealer, died at 68 with services at U B Church and Fairview cemetery. Harry L Hess, farmer near Oregon, died at 65 from a stroke. funeral in Landisville Mennonite church. Amos E Martin of Millway, 57, died after long illness. interment at Landisville cemetery with Mennonite services. Survivors including spouses and children are named.
Rothsville High notes a boys’ basketball showing against Strong Millersville Varsity Five with coach Granger sticking to his lineup late. The Olio Literary Society plans a December 19 1919 Dickens Christmas Carol dramatization with thirty three roles and music. Reserved seats go on sale December 12 at the High School for 25 cents. Also noted: Senior class elected a poet prophet and historian and chose a handbook dedicatee. Wallace Zook, 19, returns as a Rothsville post graduate from Elizabethtown College. now five post graduates.
A rare musical program will be offered in Linden Hall Gymnasium on Friday evening. Anicka Nemuth, soprano born in Reading to Czech Slovak parents, shows early social and linguistic talents and musical promise. She will be assisted by violinist Carolyn Hutton Grigst, a Cincinnati College of Music graduate. The piece also notes upcoming Lancaster degree work at the White Cove Commandery Knights of Malta and a new class starting after the next ceremony due to a waiting list.
Washington Camp No 559 P O A opens a four Saturday fair at Kieffer's Hall starting January 8 1929 with music and attractions to follow. Lutheran Sunday School to present an Xmas program Peace by Tuller Meredith on Christmas evening. Stella Leeking visited Reading Saturday. Charles Bowman leaves for Reading to work in Narrow S ab Mills. Mrs Elias Vogel of Neffsville visits town. Martha Mertzler and family visit. Nathan Carvell family moved into Henry Carvell home. Carvell employed by N J Long as butcher.
Neighbors Mr and Mrs L B Wiest hosted a grand wedding dinner for their son and Miss Carrie G Steely with many relatives present including Mr and Mrs Stephen Steely. Esther Weitzel from Lincoln visited the scribe’s home and mourners attended funerals for Mrs Susan Schweitzer and Carl Shiffer. The Reifsnyder family from Lancaster joined the guests at the event.
Lexington residents including Mr and Mrs Wayne Stauffer and children with Mrs Linzie Bollinger and others visited the de G Fahnestock family near Lincoln on Sunday. Other travelers from Lancaster Rothsville Millport and Lincoln area called on Markley families. David Rickert attends the Pittsburgh Grange convention as Rothville Grange representative.
On Friday December 12 1919 the undersigned will sell at public sale at the West End hotel Mechanicsburg four choice lots of
A Sunday morning blaze at the United States Asbestos Company plant in Manheim caused losses over 40 000 dollars. The fire started in the finishing ovens due to defective wiring and the Lancaster fire department responded. The explosion was heard as far away as Lititz.
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