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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1912
Page
1
Santa season in Lititz brought ideal weather and a full town. Moravian and other church services celebrated Christmas with music, gifts, and a large Sunday school program. Obituaries mark the passings of Aaron Habecker of Lititz and Nathaniel S. Groff of Shreiner's Corner, with funeral details and remembrances.
The United Evangelical Church held Christmas exercises titled The King Wonderful featuring recitations choruses duets motion acts and an address by Rev J W Woehrley. Primary children with a cradle sang a cradle song while nine boys formed messengers and four girls followed with Send out the Messengers. Candies oranges and festive decorations complemented the event.
The eighth annual Lancaster County Poultry Pigeon and Pet Stock Association exhibition opens at Linden Hall gymnasium. Despite fewer entries than last year, the 1200 birds are displayed in wide aisles with light, creating a lively, high quality show known as Pennsylvania's Quality Show. Judges James Glasgow and F. G. Bean award prizes across many breeds, with bantams and chickens drawing keen interest. the event runs through Saturday and supports a worthy cause.
A Lititz notes column lists numerous visits and travels of residents and relatives across Pennsylvania and New Jersey, detailing homecomings from Philadelphia Bethlehem Nutley Newark and York. It notes students home for holidays and a move of Miss Elizabeth Grosh to sales for the Ideal Chocolate Co. plus a nocturnal owl incident at Dr Brobst’s sanitarium and a football accident injuring Esther Andrews.
Members of Manheim Lodge 507 attended the annual lodge banquet in Manheim on Monday evening with a large party traveling by bus. Nearby, Elam P. Althouse’s Pleasant View home narrowly escaped a fire caused by a four year old playing with matches. the blaze damaged a door, window, porch ceiling and kitchen area, with an estimated loss around $100 covered by insurance.
The local market saw weak attendance from farmers and buyers on Saturday. Dressed chickens ranged 40 to 70 cents, guineas around 50 cents, celery 5 to 10 cents a bunch, apples 15 to 18 cents a half peck, cabbage 3 to 5 cents a head. Eggs 31 cents a dozen, butter 36 cents a pound. A day-before-Christmas market drew few shoppers as a snowstorm hindered sales.
A fox chase planned for December 19 from the Keystone Hotel at Rothsville was postponed due to the fox not being available and rescheduled to take place at the same hostelry on New Year’s Day at 3 o'clock. The animal is described as a large red fox and is expected to provide an exciting chase.
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