Lititz Scenes and Notices of Local Trade and Travel
Community notes report George Evans cutting 249 Christmas trees near Hopeland and fast-selling bundles. A lost package found at the post office can be claimed via Mrs. Wilson Macker. Census takers for Lititz set to begin Monday. Local sales of cows, timber, and government goods are detailed along with church and charitable activities. Cross seals drive proceeds against tuberculosis. Lititz reports overfilled quotas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Evans
Hopeland
Ofice
Wilson Macker
Mom
Sonfervs Ad Rey
Lititz
William Kier
N. G Yerger
William Sturwis
Wiliam A
Pottstown
William Traute
Robert Kennedy
Hamty Martin
Tim
Fim
Huebener
String Beans, Inc
Lowe
Ford
Oxford
Mary
Menno Drubsker
Amos Sersenich
Sunny Provida
St. Peteraluary
Manatees County
Orange District
Brabskar
Mr. Sensenich
Wannwiel
Badorf
Noah Horning
Noah
Membr Rt
J. A. Az
Fugeoe
Alemaf
Mt. Jay
RECORD Will Be Issued Wednesday
Wednesday issue of RECORD will feature notes on local events and community updates. Unclear text references a Thursday mention and possible reminders for readers to recall prior information.
Family Suffered From Coal Gas in Paris Home
The Snyder family on South Spruce Street faced coal gas exposure after Mrs Ziehler suffered a stroke. Their extended household including a baby and a month-old child fell ill from the gas. a physician was summoned and prompt care prevented serious harm. The incident prompted concern that later exposure could have been fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Mythial Lion Seen Near Rothsville Sparks Wild Oxidation
Rumor claims a mythical lion escaped Hershey Park and roams near Lititz and Rothsville. Local readers are urged to ignore the tale as unsubstantiated. experts advise calm, and offer a nonlethal method to deter an animal if encountered.
Farmers Plan Meeting For Lancaster County Farm Loan Assn
Lancaster County Farm Loan Association officers will meet at Lutts on Saturday afternoon December 27 to discuss sustaining the merits and advantages of federal farm loans. Warwick and neighboring townships residents are urged to attend. details will be announced in the RECORD. Among the sick, Laws remains ill and two Furrow children recover from illness. John Kiles injured at Lebanon boiler works. Nathan Seaber returning home after nosebleed. Inhaf�f daughter dislocated her ankle on Main Street. A play titled The Real King will be presented New Year’s Day January 1, 1929 at the Lindon Hall by The Doreas Daughters with orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County Farm Loan
Luttts
Metits
Wederal Farm
Warwick
Laws
Prack
iTing
Elwood Furrow
Ressel Thelma
Robert
John Kiles
Lebanon Boiler Works
Lee
Park View
N. B. Keaser
Nathan Seaber
Seaber Crienic
Daniel Inhaff
New York
A& Tts
Lindon
Audi
Frank McKinney Seventy Five Plays Violin At Dance
Frank McKinney, seventy five, demonstrates endurance by working all day and playing violin at a country dance half the night. He led the Me K orchestra, known for old hoedown style, and has long supported the Republican ticket. Also noted for excavation work and handling dynamite charges with calm timing and precision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank McKinney
Frank
Harvey Royer Discontinues Marketing at Lancaster Market
Harvey Royer, the Orange street butcher, will discontinue selling meat at the Lancaster market after January 1 after fifteen years. Market stalls rise in rent, with one trader paying about fifty dollars per year last year but over 400 this year. Another butcher can retain his stand at the old price of 25 with no bid. Royer displayed a plain American flag at his stall and stated the flag’s presence stands for his decision. A patriotic veteran reaction followed with a shout of approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Royer
Orange Street
Lancaster
Market House
Roger
Daetriotic
Open House at Local High School Christmas Exhibits
Open house at the local high school Tuesday evening December 23 from 7 to 9. Pupils’ work on display with rooms decorated for Christmas. Parents and friends invited to attend and meet teachers. Christmas exercises held in rooms Wednesday after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miler
Sdanil
Jary
AL Witnace
Moravian and Other Christmas Programs At Local Churches
Christmas programs fill Sunday school spaces across Moravian and other churches. Moravian plans a Dec 21 service with choir, Dec 24 decorations, and a 10 AM Christmas morning service. Evangelical and St Pauls groups present concerts and pageants with orchestras, recitations, and solos. U B and Kissel Hill schools schedule evening exercises, while St Luke’s Lititz and Penryn hold services on Christmas Eve and Day with thematic titles and ensembles. Special note on sugar in Latin bowls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beart
Tulian Meredith
Rossini
Tobani
Meyerbeer
Evangelical
Tullar-Meredith
Evangelical Sunday School
St. Pauls Lutheran
St.Paul’s Lutheran Sunday School
Kissel Titlle
Kissel Hill
Lorenz Pubishing Co
St. Euke’s Reformed S
St. Luke's Reformed
Lititz
Penryn
Navy Life of Barton Swarr Amid Mines And Mutinies
Barton Swarr, after two years and eight months in the navy, received an honorable discharge. He served six weeks in the North Sea with a squadron nicknamed death by own action, aboard the Quail, aiding merchant ships and claiming to have sunk an enemy submarine. He describes near Atlantic Coast raft rescues, mine removals, and close escapes. Swarr visits grandfather Benjamin Hertzler. brother Carl Swart works as a wireless operator. He recalls Shetland ponies, small cattle, and life in the Orkney Islands where locals had rarely left their homes despite being near Scotland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barton Swarr
Navy
North Sea
Quail
Barton
Atlantic
Benjamin
Hertzler
Carl Swart
Ibe
Girkney Islands
Shetland
Shetland Islands
Catile
Barten
Orkney
Lancaster
Scotland
Funeral of A. B. Reidenbach
Services for A. B. Reidenbach were held Saturday afternoon with four sons and three daughters present. Sara Reidenbach of Philadelphia attended, as did Pauline Milchsack of Washington DC. Clement Hoops of Philadelphia, once a pupil forty seven years ago, traveled to pay tribute. Floral tributes from relatives and friends adorned the service. Hoop's remembrance was roses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Reidenbach
Sara Reidenbach
Philadelphia
Pauline Milchsack
Washington, D. C
Clement Hoops
Reidenbach
Old Tatity Academy
Death of Mrs Anos Risser at Lincoln home aged
Mrs Susan Risser wife of Amos Risser died at her Lincoln home, aged several years. Survived by husband and children, funeral planned for Saturday at Hanmer Creek House at 10 o'clock with help from late husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan
Risser
Amos Usser
Hey
Lincoln Clay
Tmeinty Sr
Childoryn
Hanmer Creek
Pretzels Sent to White House
Lititz pretzels reach the White House for the first time as a gift to the president's daughter. The packaging is noted as carefully done and salt used may aid appetite, with a story about Dr Hertz who earned the nickname Pretzel for a sick officer turning hungry. Luke Grosh of Philadelphia ships Lititz pretzels as Christmas gifts to friends in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Washington
Blanche Nevin
Lancaster
N. D
Wilson
Br. J. L. Hertz
Hez Man
Iferlz
Quan
Dr. Hertz
Lititz
Luke Grosh
Philadelph
Ader E Friends
Pittsburgh
Maine
Baltimore
Skating at Lutz Dam Becomes Popular Winter Spot
The dam east of town lights electric and an arc light on a willow tree. A warm room, weed stove heat, and a large safe ice surface attract about 200 skaters after the first hard freeze. Bru Baker’s dam was the previous ice site three miles away. Lutz’s dam freezes early and offers easy ice access. Admission is fifteen to twenty cents, and residents can call Mr. Lutz at 48-L to check ice conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lutz’s Dam
Brubaker
Hopeland constable found guilty of aggravated assault
James McCloud, constable at Hopeland in Lancaster County, was convicted of aggravated assault and battery and wanton discharging in the arm, and acquitted of shooting with intent to maim, by the county court at Lebanon before Judge V. Henry D. He was arrested after a custody dispute at Schaefferstown. He posted $25 and resigned his position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McCloud
Hopeland
Lancaster County
Lebanon
V. Henry d
Schaefferstown
McClud
McCloud
Chacters
Bardwn
Les Lane
Travelers Visitations and Local Social Notes in Rome and Nearby
Mrs Howard Seitz of Lancair visits Rome to see Benjamin Grosh. Mr and Mrs Jacob Hershey and son from Reading stay with William Saitzin. John Mead and family visit East Main Street, Miss Laura Miller from Akron visits Joseph Miller’s family. Nurse Mabel Beshune at West Chester Hospital spends time with Winter parents. Roy Hess of Stevens visits parents, Fern Kauffman of Ephrata visits grandparents on Orange Street. Ed Lander and Helen Jones of Lancaster join Mary Snavgely for a Sunday. Lander heads a Lancaster Woolworth store leadership. George Trego and family from Hahnetown visit J H Bausman’s home where Frank Trego and wife reside. Clifford Nickelson of Midland Ontario visits Harvey Reiber. snowshoeing party of forty, coast watercraft service in war. Libbie Buch and Anna Plautz attend Moravian Church anniversary in Reading. Rev W N Schwartze preaches. Lovervasi service, choir led by Mrs Raymon Leas and Mr Bowtger. William Seiverline of Locust Valley, Long Island, spends a day in town. estate manager with over 300 acres, landscape gardening, dwarf trees bearing full-sized pears and apples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Seitz
Lancair
Benjamin Grosh
Rome
Jacob Hershey
Reading
William Saitzin
John Mead
John Weitzel
East Main Street
Laura Miller
Akron
Joseph Miller
Marrey
Mabel Beshune
West Chester Hospital
Wnter
Din
E. Bushong
Roy Hess
Stevens
Walter S. Hess
Fern Kauffman
Ephrata
Jacob Kauffman
Orange Street
Libbie Buch
Anna Plautz
Moravian Church
W. N. Schwartze
Moravian College and Theological Seminary
Bethlchem
Lovervasi
Raymon Leas
Rothsville
Bowtger
Lexington
William Seiverline
Locust Valley
Long Island
William
Lawsuit seeks receiver and stock transfer in Lititz chocolate firm
Hazlitt A Cuppy through S R Zimmerman and Frank R Saridge file equity bill in Common Pleas Court against Artemus Ward Charles K Atkinson William B Nesbitt William N Muth George M Clark and Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Company of Lititz. Cuppy is deposed as president and manager and asks court to order Ward to transfer 49 percent of capital stock and appoint a receiver to restore him as manager and president. The filing recounts prior agreement to buy stock at 114 a share with Ward advancing 825 000 and Cuppy 25 000 and details stock allotments and management salary arrangements. The suit implicates undistributed earnings and investment history through 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazlitt A- Cuppy
S. R. Zimmerman
Frank R. Saridge
Common Pleas
Artemus
Bil
Cuppy
Puritan Pure Food Company
Ward
Ideal Chocolate Company
Guppy
Cisscolate Cg
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Iteais
Paris Snyder
Itershey
Etershey Park
Matheim
Rethsville
Hershey
The
Zion
Will Remem
Kings
Evan Elveles
Main Street
Little Babe of Bethlehem
United Brethren S
U. B
Nfall-Mack
Anos
Chocolate Company
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