Lititz Roundup Highlights Local Happenings And Notices
Lititz residents report gun owners secured permits to shoot does and barber shops will close for Christmas and New Year with evening openings. John K. Carper turns fifty with a public open house. An ash elevator is installed in public schools. Christmas Eve love forecast tickets are sold by Carper. Clarence Kreider and Rob Buch win silver cups at Lebanon Poultry Show. Mrs. Catherine Zwally undergoes cataract surgery in Philadelphia Eye Hospital. Local eateries relocate. Chautauqua events planned with guarantors. high speed drivers near town on Sunday. Post office to close all day Christmas for first time. urging early mailing and careful packaging to avoid delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
John K. Carper
J. K. Carper
Clarence Kreider
Lebanon
Bull Rocks
Rob Buch
Rhode Island Reds
Catherine Zwally
East Main Street
Will’s Eye Hospital
Philadelphia
Grabriel Hoffmaster
South Broad Street
C. S. Loeffler
St. Petersburg
Fla
Gulf Coast
Fort Myer
Eugene Keller
West Chestnut Street
Lancaster
St. Joseph Hospital
William
Holmesburg
Hermit Shooster Zimmerman Dwells Near Elm in Speedwell
A local correspondent describes Albert Zimmerman known as Shooster living in a rudimentary hut near Speedwell and Elm. Born in Bohemia, he cobbles occasionally, speaks German and English, tames a kangaroo mouse, and survives winters in a simple shelter with a lone fire for cooking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speedwell
Freeman Estate
Elm
Albert Zimmerman
Bohemia
Chicago
Busines
Arrests Made for Reckless Driving and Disorderly Conduct
Constable John Carpenter arrested an autoist for reckless driving and fined him ten dollars plus costs before Squire Co. N. Derr. Borough policeman Co R. Kreider jailed two young men for drunken and disorderly conduct and they were fined three dollars and sixty two cents each after a hearing before Squire Derr on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Carpenter
Squire Co. N. Derr
R. Kreider
Squire Derr
Road in Lancaster County Merits Complaint Between Towns
A reader laments the rough road from Manheim to Lititz in Lancaster County. The author notes deep holes and rough patches especially at night and contrasts the lack of intertown visitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manheim
Lititz
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Wild Steer Shot in Furnace Hills After Month at Large
A wild steer roamed Furnace Hills for over a month before Homer White of Lime Rock shot it near the Lebanon Pumping Station using a Springfield rifle. After wounding the 800 pound animal twice, it fell and was hauled to Frank Fasnacht's Brickerville butcher shop. White kept a quarter of the meat on legal advice amid a dispute over rewards. The steer, owned by Twoover and Son of the Union Stock Yards Lancaster, had been consigned to George Zartman near Clay but escaped before delivery. Lincoln drover Doster arranged the sale, stirring local tensions as children feared it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Furnace Hills
Homer White
Lime Rock
Lebanon
Springefield
Frank Fasnacht
Brickerville
White
Imal
Twoover
Union Stock Yards
Lancaster
George Zartman
Clay
Doster
Lincoln
Lititz 1912 Football Team Roster Captured
Rear row shows Emory Neidermyer Elmer Bollinger Jay Saunders Howard Weaver Harry Reidenbach Centre row includes Roy Weaver Wayne Longenecker Ralph Piehm Ellis Butzer Clarence Carpenter Front row lists Chauncey Sturgis Thomas Fralich John Felker and David Hoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emory Neidermyer
Elmer Bollinger
Jay Saunders
Howard Weaver
Harry Reidenbach
Roy Weaver
Wayne Longenecker
Ralph Piehm
Ellis Butzer
Clarence Carpenter
Chauncey Sturgis
Thomas Fralich
John Felker
David Hoke
Immigrant Couple Wed After Move From Germany
Frank Linz and Elizabeth Schmacker plan to wed in Lititz after meeting in New York. Linz, a skilled bricklayer for Hershey-Seaman Co., arrived from Germany with limited English and soon arranged for his bride to join him. A wedding is set after a marriage at Ephrata next week with plans to live on Second Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Linz
Lititz
Germany
Hershey-Seaman & Co
Elizabeth Sehmacker
Hamburg
Cleveland
New York
Ellis Island
Litvia
Adolph Merkel
Yershey-Seaman Co
Ephrata
Sina
Bride
Second Avenue
Hershey Leaman Co
Jacob Hershey
Fire destroys a double dwelling on Albert Shenk farm
A Sunday afternoon fire gutted a stone house on the Albert Shenk farm on the Manheim Lititz road known as the Johnson Miller place. The structure valued at £8000 and partly insured housed Amos Witmer and Clarence Sholly families who fled with little saved. Fire teams from Lititz and Manheim contained flames, safeguarding the barn and tobacco shed, while residents sought shelter with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Shenk
Manheim-Lititz
Johnson Miller
Amos Witmer
Clarence Sholly
Shelly
Lititz and
Manheim
Witmer
Mrs. Witmer
One Penny Doubled Daily to Wealth in Thirty Days
A chart shows doubling one cent each day for thirty days grows to 10 734 418.23 dollars with no catch. By day ten the total is 10.23 dollars and by day twenty it reaches 4 242.88 dollars, rising toward a grand total by day thirty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
United States Mint
Soecal
Young Woman Swallowed Bone at Dinner
Gladys Tulloch of this place swallowed a sharp beef bone at the dinner table on Friday and suffered pain until the object was removed at Lancaster General Hospital on Saturday. X rays located the bone near the stomach entrance and Dr Paul Roebuck extracted it with a special instrument. The bone had partially lacerated the passage. Miss Tulloch is recovering. Her parents came from Altoona Saturday. She works at the trap factory office and lives with Emory Wagner. Property sales reported by Lancaster County farms Sales Agency include a Lititz frame dwelling on Front Street sold to Jacob D Getz and a Lititz frame dwelling on Front Street sold to Paul Brubaker with April 1 possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Tulloch
Lancaster General Hospital
Paul Roebuck
Miss Tulloch
Altodna
Emory Wagner
Lancaster
E. Front St
Lititz
Paul Brubaker
Mr. Brubaker
Lititz To Sponsor Community Tree At Square
Borough Council will sponsor a community tree at the Square as part of the Christmas program. A turkey shooting match using twelve gauge guns will be held near the water works on Saturday starting at 7 38 P.M. Birds will be provided by the Bucher farm and a separate live bird shooting match will occur on Christmas afternoon at the same location.
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Borough Council
Bucher
Watermelon on Christmas Noted by Local Grower
Enos Miller near this place stored away several watermelons that will keep until mid winter and sampled on Christmas. The fruit resembles a honeydew outside with red tasty flesh. The Record mailed 3000 extra color covered copies to Lititz and area, boosting Christmas advertising. December 24 will be the last 1925 issue with no paper on December 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enos Miller
Lititz
Record
Lititz High School Banquet Honors Athletes and Leader Elects
In the Lititz High School Gym a banquet honored the football team with about 100 guests including the Board of Education and business community. Coach W Mayser spoke on Character Building. Jim Mummert was named next year's captain after the squad elected him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Lititz
M. C. Demmy
E. §. Crosland
W. Mayser
Franklin and Marshall
Demmy
M. H. Yoder
S. €. Hassler
Hunter
W. R. Sammel
Jimmy Mummert
Jimmy
Altho
David Zook’s cattle gain large profits in 1998 purchases
David Zook of Lititz bought a steer from L. D. Himmelberger on August 26 weighing 865 pounds. It sold December 9 at 1210 pounds, a 345 pound gain. He later bought two feeders on October 17 weighing 920 and 890 pounds and sold them December 8 at 1050 and 1030 pounds, gains of 130 and 140 pounds per animal in 46 days.
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David Zook
David G. Zook
R. D
Lititz
L. D. Himmelberger
Louis Huebener Wins Ledger Prize for Illustration
Louis Huebener of this place supplied the title Spending the night with relatives which appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. He received 100 dollars as first prize from the Ledger. details appeared in last week's Record. The Ledger duplicate is acknowledged. contest remains open.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Huebener
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Huebener
The
Ledger
Travelers Near and Far in Lititz Family Notes
Mr and Mrs Charles Miller of Lancaster spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Elmer Mathers. John Leed returned home after a week with his son in Hershey. Elwood Shollenberger of Reading visited J Frank Buchs family. Miss Dorothy Jenkins of Woodstock Va expected home for Christmas. Several Ontario couples on a wedding trip visited H Reist Landis and daughter.
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Charles Miller
Lancaster
Elmer Mathers
John Leed
Hershey
Howard Hollinger
Reading
Oxford
Christ Yerger
Kansas City
N. G. Yerger
James McKichnie
Monongahela
Elwood Furlow
Spruce Stree
Elwood Shollenberger
Reading Railroad Telegraph Service
J. Frank Buch
Dorothy Jenkins
Boys Military School
Woodstock
Harry Reidenbach
Second Ave
Ohio
Emily Eschbach
Lititz
Horace Exsehbach
Fred Snyder
Waterloo
Ontario
Canada
Abram R Beck Celebrates 92nd Birthday in Lititz
Abram R Beck educator and musician of Lititz celebrated his 92nd birthday at his Broad Street home. A longtime school head he remains healthy and engaged with town life, with old students visiting and appreciating his place in local history. A memoir recalls a decades old charity auction when he moved to Broad Street and sold items to neighborhood boys without money or price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram R. Beck
Broad Street
Prof. Beck
Beck
Luits
Main Street
Broad St
Lititz
Harry W. Seeber
Palmyra
N. J
Dee
Rare Pearl Found in Oyster at Lincoln
A pearl disposed of for $875.50 was found by S. Horton of Lincoln while eating oysters. Horton claimed ownership, Samuel Frazier who paid for the oysters also claimed it. Mr. Fair the restaurant proprietor said he sold the oysters not the pearl. Leon Rubenstein of Philadelphia offered to buy it and the money was divided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Horton
Lincoln
Horton
Samuel Frazer
Mr. Fair
Leon Rubenstein
Philadelphia
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Middle Creek
Brunnerville
Scutt
Elmer Snavely
Lexington
Elwood Shoemaker
Jeeman
Frank Spickler
Mayser
Redes
Charley
the Springs Hotel
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