Local items and notices from a Lancaster area page
A collection of brief notices including real estate transfers, social events, church meetings, lost and found items, weather remarks, and minor community happenings. Topics mention a stable conversion, tobacco shipments, a Chevrolet roadster, lodge degrees, a month of bad weather, and school closures due to rain. The piece notes local commerce, charity, and transit disruptions amid wet winter conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. BR. Bamberger
East Orange Street
Jacob H. Bamberger
Lancaster
O. N. Romig
Schoeneck
John F. Longenecker
Paul B. Kauffman
C. Wie
Grosh
Bethlehem
Board of Church Extension
The
Moravian Church
E. S. Hagen
Sturgeon Bay
Wisconsin
Samuel Groenfeldt
Sunshine Circle of
King’s Daughters
William Sturgis
Studenroth
Front Street
Hershey & Gibbes
Second Avenue
South Broad Street
Jacob Fenstermacher
Lititz Lodge
Garfield Castle No
Henry R.eric
Warwick
David M. Graybill
Erb
Board of Public Charities
United Zion Home
Warwick House
M. E. Hacker
Morning Mail
Philadelphia Daily
Geogre Bliss
Weather Bureau
Philadelphia
Tmes
Lititz Bakers Reduce Bread Size Due To Flour Price Surge
Lititz bakers cut loaf weight from one pound to 15 ounces amid rising flour costs tied to soaring wheat prices. They faced loss if prices rose further and expect possible future actions if flour prices keep climbing. Sturgis & Co. dissolves partnership with Frank B. Buch leaving N. D. Sturgis to operate the bretzel business. Bomberger's Hardware Store sells to William M. Amer. transfer effective April 1. store, oldest in town, long run by Bomberger & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Sturgis & Company
Bomberger
A. R. Bomberger & Co
South Broad Street
William M. Amer
John W. Hollinger
Bomberger & Co
Amer
Will Lititz Be Terminus of Another Trolley Line
A mortgage filed at Reading records the Lancaster and Berks Railway Company securing a 250000 mortgage from Farmers Trust Company of Lebanon to build a trolley line from Newmanstown Lebanon County to Lititz. Thirty year gold bonds at 5 percent will back the loan for rights of way through Newmanstown Zieglerstown Kleinfeltersville Clay Brickerville Brunnerville and Lititz. The board approved July 28 1914 and funds will finance improvements. The project is viewed as a likely profitable extension into a thickly settled area and could be completed in a few years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recorder of Deeds
Reading
Lancaster and Berks Railway Company
Newmanstown
Lebanon County
Farmers Trust Company of Lebanon
Zieglerstown
Kieinfeltersville
Clay
Brickerville
Brunnerville
Lititz
Reproduction of Gen. Sutter's Old Mill at Exposition
The Panama exposition in San Francisco features a $50,000 Gold Mine Amusement Company attraction recreating General John A. Sutter's old mill. J W Marshall found California gold in the mill tail race in 1848, starting the rush that cost Sutter 100000 acres. Sutter later moved east in 1871 and died in 1880 in Washington DC while pursuing claims for damages. His Moravian cemetery burial site is a town historic spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Gold Mine Amusement Company
General John A. Sutter
J. W. Marshall
California
Gen. Sutter
General Sutter
Washington, D. C
Congress
Moravian Cemetery
Death notices spread across borough births and deaths
Obituaries report J Morgan Fry death at 24 following tuberculosis with details of family church membership and funeral at Moravian church. Also listed are deaths of Mrs Sarah M Adams 87, Priscilla P Weaver 60, Peter Riley Bricker and Isaac Walters with funeral notes and survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Morgan Fry
Hiram P
Sarah Fry
East Main
Cedar Streets
Pharmacy
Temple University
Philadelphia
Moravian Church
Garfield Castle
Knights of the Golden Eagle
Gertrude Rupp
Ruth
Morris
Hagen
Sarah M. Adams
Samuel Stauffer
Akron
Methodist Evangelical Church
Rebecca Stantfer
Sibina Smith
John Smith
William
New Ringgold
Isaac
Terre Hill
P&ares
Reading
John Strigel
Ephrata
Rothsville Lutheran Church
Wheat Prices Rise as Demand Surges
Wheat continues to climb prompting questions on where it will stop. The text notes last yesterday B K Zartman of Lexington paid 140 dollars per bushel for the sought grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. K. Zartman
Lexington
Evangelistic Services Continue in Lititz Churches
Rev. Thomas Needham leads nightly evangelistic services in the Moravian chapel with numerous conversions. Prof. Henry E. Litchfield, once an opera singer, assists as soloist and conductor, praised for his renditions of Ninety and Nine and The Holy City. Revival also progresses in United Brethren and United Evangelical churches with many conversions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Needham
Needham
Christ
Linden Hall Seminary
Henry E. Litchfield
Litchfield
Rev
Lititz
Rev. Needham
Prof
Ira D. Sankey
Holy City
Haas
United Brethren Church
United Evangelical Church
Brocious
Moravian Chapel Evokes Gifts and Board Updates
During Monday evening services at the Moravian chapel Miss Marjorie Thropp of Linden Hall Seminary presented bouquets of sixty carnations to Prof. Litchfield and Rev. Needham. The flowers came from J. W. Bruckart's greenhouse. The Moravian church trustees met and organized committees for Land repairs Finance Square and Graveyard and Spring committee representatives were chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litchfield
Holy City
Linden Hall Seminary
Marjorie Thropp
Needham
Portland
Maine
Collingswood
N. J
J. W. Bruckart
The
Moravian Church
Geo. L. Hepp
E. E. Kautz
J. G. Zook
D. P. Bricker
C. D. Kreider
G. L. Hepp
W. M. Grube
C.D. Kreider
H. N. Miksch
H. N. Mikseh
G. J. Hepp
C. Wm. Grosh
Travels of Residents and Neighbors Feature Local Notes
The column tracks movements of residents and visitors, listing many names and towns. It records visits to Lititz and nearby communities, travel to Goshen Indiana, Nazareth, Elkton MD, and Philadelphia, plus local illnesses and incidents. It notes a elopement case involving Ralph Smith and Hazel Deichman and a persistent pursuit by the bride’s mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Smith
Nazareth
Smith
Elkton
Hazel Deichman
Lititz
Dile Motor Co Investigation Reported for Lititz Meeting
Young Men's Business League appointees visit Reading to study the Dile Motor Co. The group will report at Friday's monthly meeting. The firm seeks 15 000 dollars for 6 percent first mortgage bonds to move into Water street starch building. The Dile car sells for 485 dollars and is praised as best value. Also Lititz residents form Lasko Manufacturing Co to build radiators with Lancaster partners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men's Business League
Dile Motor Co
Messrs. H. J. Pierson
U. S. Delp
J. H. Breitigan
R. Melzer
Young Men’s Business League
Reading
Board of Trade and Merchants
Ase’n
Water Street
Dile Motor Company
Dile
Lititz
Jacob B. Wiss Jer
C. M. Snavely
Lancaster
H. A. Lasko
Lasko Manufacturing Co
Local Notables Celebrate Birthdays and Poultry Pioneer
Town residents mark birthdays for Adam Long George Frederick Mary Meiskey Reverend Hershey and Squire Reidenbach. Abram S Huber installs a 3000 egg Candee hot water incubator at Hope Poultry Farm near Brubaker's crossroads, boosting flock size to 1200 White Leghorns and weekly egg output around 1800.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram S. Huber
Hope Poultry Farm
Brubaker
Hope Farm
Huber
Wild Ducks Seen Signal Early Spring Hints
Flocks of wild ducks gathered over creeks fuel rumors of an early spring as observers cite a tradition of milder weather following northward duck migrations. Hunters report no hunting due to the closed game season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Exposition
Priscilla P. Weaver
Manheim
Jefferson Weaver
Lancaster General Hospital
Jacob P. Boyd
John Bender
Jacob S. Bender
Sun Hill
Penn Township
Jacob Stedman
Mt. Joy
Mennonite Church
East Petersburg
Ohio
Peter Riley Bricker
Shelby
Isaac Walters
Bowmansville
H. V. Walters
Rothsville
A. V. Walters
Brownstown
Charles Walters
Bowmansyville
J. Wayne Hollinger
Jacob B. Weaver
Lancaster County
Fin Martindale
Louis N. Moyer
Robesonia
Harvey Retten
Isaac Yost
Samuel Shreiber
Benjamin Shultz
Adam Ulrich
Charles Fry
Myr
Allen Hacker
Elwood K. Shollenberger
Esther Buch
Wm. BR. Fieles
Samuel K. Snavely
T. W. Harper
Christiana
W. K. Bender
Frank Foltz
Landis Herr
Pennsylvania State College
James Sesseman
Mercersburg
Roy
Academy
Susan Haldeman
William Smith
Martin 8. Wolf
Clayton H. Bomberger
Frank Peters
Elizabeth Township
B. B. Snavely’s Mill
Goshen
Ind
John
Fred. Myers
Middletown
Harry Rudy
Fred. Sammiet, Jr
Frank Gantz
Pine Hill
Hiram Holtzhouse
Henry Heiserman
Sam’s K. Snavely
Spruce Street
Grant Buchter
Blanche Kling
Adam B. Long
George Prederick
Mary
H. S. Meiskey
J. W. G. Hershey
Squire A. B. Reidenbach
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