Christmas In Lititz Features Games And Notices
The Lititz RECORD notes Santa's overtime in town without strikes. Lost items include a small black purse and a 2x4 inch car chain. Christmas games include Titiin High vs Memorial Presbyterian and Sparrows Point visits. Public sale announces farm goods and house items. Local editorials praise hope and subscribe to the RECORD. Partridge, road, and winter hazards are covered along with a car crash on King and Duke Streets.
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Santa
Lititz
Pisco
Millport
Doster
Titiin High
Memorial Presbyterian
Sparrows Point
Erminiot Larcher
Ofear Hallville
Page
Hope
Livlier
Lavner Lititz
Beck
Landis
John Bomberger
Elm
Hackman
Akron
Keith Planing Mill
Linden Hall
Thought World Ends Scare Hits East End Woman
Mrs. Harry Roger of the East End felt a sudden shock when the kitchen ceiling plastering collapsed without warning. She rushed to the window to check worldly doomsday, found outside normal, and slowly recovered from the fright with no injuries or clear cause given.
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Harry Roger
East End
Lititz Packer Buys Connecticut Tobacco Crop
Walter Bare and Jaco Roland retired from Connecticut after purchasing between 60 and 90 acres of tobacco. Bare spent a month in the state, renting packing rooms and employing a large workforce to handle sun grown tobacco. Buyers were aggressive, at times breaking church gatherings to secure crops as tobacco belt soils favored sandy ground and heavy fertilizer use.
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Walter Bare
Jaco Roland
Connecticut
Mr. Bare
Bare
Connecticut Tobacco
Roland
New Knit Underwear Plant Opens in Lititz Former Tobacco Warehouse
Melcher Snitting Company begins operation in Lititz in a remodeled building formerly used by A S Meiskey. Fourteen knitting machines run with foreman William G Stoudt of Reading planning to move his family here. Full operation expected by mid January with fifty workers possible and room for more machines.
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Kititz
Melcher Snitting Company
A. S. Meiskey
William G. Stoudt
Reading
Clarge
Secur House
Secon
Harry Gingrich
Lititz
Shipping Flowers For Christmas By C. Loaffler
C. 8. Loaffler ships all flowers his greenhouses can supply for the Christmas trade in cities. Demand is high for carnations, snapdragons and tol edulas. Sunlight was scarce in November delaying blossoms. Carnations may reach near $3 a dozen. the highest price Loaffler recalls. No loss occurred during cold weather, but furnace care was required at nights.
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Loaffler
Loedler
G G Diehm to Help Close Game Seasons in Lancaster Lebanon
Hon G G Diehm of this place serves on the Harrisburg game committee and has been asked to push closing seasons for ringneck pheasants in Lancaster County and for deer in Lebanon County. A petition with 200 signers is required, and Diehm will coordinate actions to advance the measure.
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G. G. Miehm
Harrisburg
Ringneck
Lancaster County
Lebanon County
Diehm
Furnace Hills
Here
Paul L. Lehmach
Schmuch
G. G. Diehm
Sturgis Opens Hotel Schuyler in Pottstown
William A. Sturgis takes charge of the Hotel Schuyler a large ad joined property in Pottstown. The mirror dining room and electric lights highlight a planned first class hotel in a growing town. Sturgis relies on advertising and invites Lititz residents to visit, while his brother in law C Leslie Smith runs the day to day operations.
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Willam A. Sturgis
Pottstown
Sturgis
Pottetown
Lititz
C. Leslie Smith
Federation of Labor
Harrisburg
Hagen Named Pastor at Cornwall on the Hudson
Rev J F Haren recently discharged from the U S Navy accepts a call to Cornwall on the Hudson to lead the Prjan congregation and serve as chaplain to the York Military Academy. The academy enrolls about 500 boys and is under government control. Hagen receives 2500 dollars yearly and a parsonage, starting at the year's end.
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Hagen
J. F. Haren
U. S. Navy
Cornwall
Hudson
Pr Jan
WY York Military Academy
Me. Jiagen
Lyman Abbott
Barn Fire Destroys Penryn Farm Barn and Contents
A large barn on Nathan Ruhl’s Penryn farm near Hiram Demmy’s tenancy burned Tuesday after an overheated box sparked the blaze. Firefighters saved cattle and a nearby corn barn. barn valued at 4000 dollars, implements 1500, hay and straw 1500, total loss about 7000 dollars. The fire drew hundreds of onlookers and autos. the barn was insured.
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Nathan Ruhl
Hiram Demmy
Penryn
Penryn Fire Company
Community Christmas tree planned in Lititz with ceremony
Lititz will light a community Christmas tree at the fountain after a trip to the mountains for evergreens. The tree will be decorated with electrical ornaments and a Christmas Eve ceremony with chorals is expected after church services. Local helpers Jas Goldthwait and Robert Russei are thanked for gathering the trees and starting the setup.
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Lititz
Christmas Exercises Across Local Churches
Christmas programs are planned across multiple congregations. St Pauls Lutheran and several other churches schedule services at 6:00 or 6:30 PM on Christmas night and Dec 26, with themes including The Old Old Story Peace and The Infant King. Mennonites will hold evening preaching on Christmas Day.
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Evangelical Church
Walled Brethren Church
Kissel Hill
Penryn
Lutheran S. &. of
S. 8
Rothsville
Brickerville Luttheran 8. S
Church of the Brethren
Mutinous Crew on Transport American Hold Sailors
Lititz sailor Harry Miller, son of Joseph Miller, is expected home for Christmas. He serves on the transport American amid a mutiny with eleven crew members jailed. The ship faced a rising rebellion since November, restraining shore leave and prompting clashes as officers fired warning shots to bar a shore exit.
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Brust
Warry
Youble Birthday Dinner for Mr and Mrs Carper
Mr and Mrs John K Carper celebrated joint birthdays with a dinner for a number of relatives. Mr Carper’s birthday fell on the 20th and Mrs Carper’s on the 15th. Attending were Rev and Mrs Z, Mr and Mrs G L Uapp, Mrs C Beckler, Mr and Mrs Robertian and daughters Thelma and others, Mr and Mrs William Smith, and Mrs Eugene Kreider.
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Youble
John K. Carper
Mr. Carper
P Ant
G. L. Uapp
C. ’ Beckler
Robertian
Thelma
Wiliam Smith
Eugene Kreider
Christmas Bonuses At Chocolate Factory For All Staff
Workers at the factory will receive year end bonuses of three percent for a full year, two percent for six months to a year, and one percent for less than six months. At Halpern Walter’s cigar factory employees surprised Mrs. Imhoff with a bench full of gifts including fruit, candy, money, and provisions. Foreman Monroe Meily and Superintendent Marty Gorton received tokens of goodwill, including a purse of money and a turkey, from the staff.
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Ideal Chocolate Factory
ATL
Eigar
Halpern & Walters
William Imhoff
McQuate
Marty Gorton
Safe Works Sentation
Christmas in Army Camps Across Front Lines
Local soldiers abroad will spend Christmas with the American Army in Coblenz and Vladivostok while the War Department plans a memorable holiday. The S S Mercury carried 36,000 pounds of turkey and 80,000 pounds of chicken for meals along with other supplies for American troops in France Germany and Siberia. Red Cross packages include socks chocolate cigarettes and personal care items as part of a broad effort to bring home holiday cheer.
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Elam
P. P. Bucher
Coblenz
Germany
Flyod
Buchter
Rothsville
Vladivostok
Siberia
American Expeditionary Forces
War Department
Uncle Sam
Aman
S. S. Mercury
New York
Antwerp
Red Cross
France
American Red Cross
Army
Iran
Fatal accident in Ohio claimed Balt ic brother of Lititz man
News from Reading telegram dated December 17 reports John f Baltic Sehnerer died by falling from a plank at the Willard Storage Battery plant in Cleveland. He was 62, born in Brickerville, worked as a tinsmith, and left Lititz for Ohio in 1880. Survived by widow and two sons of Baltic, with brothers and sisters in Canton Reading Philadelphia Ephrata and Lititz.
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I. Sehnerer
John F Baltic
Reading
Willard Storage Bat Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Baltic
Brickerville
John
Sarah Sehnerer
Oliver W
Canton
Kate
Henry Woll
Lizzie
Charlie Binkley
Philadelphia
George
Ephrata
Madison
Tititz
Farmers Meeting on Federal Loan Bank at Lititz
A farmers meeting is set for Saturday afternoon December 27 at 1 30 in the Young Men's Business League rooms on Broad Street Lititz. Cyrus H Good a prominent farmer of Rapho Township will speak and farmers who have loans with the bank will share experiences and answer questions. Bring neighbors and spread word.
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Lititz
Federal Loan Bank
Travel Notes of Visitors to Lititz for Holiday Season
Local column lists numerous visitors and residents spending Christmas in Lititz with relatives and friends. Names include Mrs. Mary S. G. Buch Philadelphia Mrs. Clayton Schmuck Annville Benjamin Badorf Aros Elmer Reidenbach Philadelphia Clara Binkley Coatesville Luke Grash Philadelphia Raymond Barr Reading Caroline Grosh family Howard Kauffman Philadelphia Laura Kauffman Garber Reading Elizabeth Tage New Dorp and family Charles A. Smith Reading Victor Singles Coatesville George Smith Philadelphia Dr H A Cuppy City Club New York Clara Lewis Ormond Beach Florida Toronto Canada Menno Brubaker Arcos Rensenich Florida Lemon Purson Ralph Ball Jacksonville Florida Jaco Burkholder Main Street gallery painter mentions.
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Mary S. G. Buch
Phailadelphia
Clayton Schmuck
Annville
Benjamin Badorf
Aros
Elmer Reidenbach
Philadelphia
Lititz
Clara Binkley
Coatesville
Henry Seaber
Luke Grash
Raymond Barr
Reading
Caroline Grosh
Howard Kauffman
Laura Kauffman
Mary Tagen
New Dorp
Spruce Street
City Club
New York City
Clara Lewis
Ormond Beach
Florida
Toronto
Canada
Thomas Marks
Auemer
Laveis
Menno Brubaker
Arcos Rensenich
Flordia
Mn Braker
Ezra
St. Petersburg
Flo Lemon Purson
Ralph
Jaco Burkholder
Xvery
Main Street
Abe
Patures
Ho ys Will Be Boys Front Street Jokers Delight Town
Two old Front Street men play tricks on each other and neighbors. One keeps a flock of chickens producing eggs daily, and a playful joker alternates removing and returning the eggs, eliciting smiles at every egg report.
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Front Street
Che
Stron
Christmas Wedding at Elizabethtown College in Music Hall
A quiet Christmas Eve ceremony will take place at 4 20 PM in the Music Hall of Elizabethtown College. Mary Hershey will wed F Merton Crouthamiel of Sondex ton Pennsylvania with Professor B Ober officiating. Attendants are close family and friends.
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Music Hall
Elizabethtown College
Mary
J. W. G. Hershey
F. Merton Crouthamiel
Sondexton
Pennsylvania
B . Ober
Crouthamiel
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Ira Zartman
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Frank Leann
Albert Bruckart
Martin Muth
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Charles Kreider
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Wharton School of Finance
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Joe Doster
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Charles Stengel
Nazareth Hall
Joh Hershey
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Church of the Brethren Meeting House
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