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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1913
Page
4
Dr. Dixon warns Pennsylvania faces disease risk from poor water supply and urges filtration adoption. Typhoid deaths decline only with cleaner water as reform follows tuberculosis battle.
A Washington DC Bureau of Education bulletin reports that public school education is in the hands of unskilled instructors. Investigators say not more than one in five teachers are properly trained, with rural teachers needing additional courses in science, agriculture, domestic economy, sanitation, and rural sociology.
Miss Webber’s absence did not stop school as her father stepped in. The Penn pedagogue bees begin March with required financial accounts and property restoration. A mad dog scare, a fire drill accident at the Black Horse Hotel, musical benefit for the fire company, and a wedding reception at Mrs. Landis’s home mark a busy week along with visits among local families and church services in the U B church scheduled for Sunday evening.
Keystone hall hosted a large crowd last Saturday for a fair with Mr. Airy band planned for next Saturday. Local residents and visitors from Akron East Petersburg Rothsville Lititz Middle Creek Talmage Brockton and Lexington attended dinners birthdays and family gatherings over the weekend. Camp 178 P S of A received new uniforms for degree work from Philadelphia.
Revival meetings conclude at Mt Zion church and continued pro tracted services begin at Zion Brethren church. Ill health affects Elias Wolf Jr and Andrew Kulp and Aaron Buch family. Stauffer family's Philadelphia trip for son John E. Stauffer’s pneumonia. Simon B Landis to preach at Metzler’s Mennonite church. Large Blue Ball horse sale nets over 200000 with 1284 horses and 128 mules sold, 600 western head. Doan’s Lancaster theater to adopt new policy February 10 with Kinemacolor motion pictures and five vaudeville acts. matinees 5 10 cents, evenings 5 10 20 cents.
In Brownstown and vicinity revival services at the Evangelical church report thirty converts with two more seeking. Pastors and U E members assist in the gospel message. A lace curtain fire at Adam Hoover’s upstairs home was stopped by John K. Wolf with about five buckets. The Brownstown high school basketball team defeated Akron 24 to 22. Ebenezer Bible class anniversary services planned at U E Church with Rev G W Hangen as speaker. Maud Grebill and Baldwin, nurses from West Chester hospital, visited relatives. John M. Zook of Talmage to auction on February 15. Sixty residents welcomed Dr and Mrs M W Hurst back from a four month trip to California and Arizona.
F B Kieffer of the electric light company suffered a painful accident while lowering an electric motor. The chain hoist slipped, injuring his right little finger and bruising the next finger. Dr Hershey treated the injury. In other news, Mrs Charles Young and children visited Lititz relatives, and Philadelphia residents Mr and Mrs Jacob Eberly spent time with Chas Dalton.
Reports at the Lancaster Tobacco Growers meeting show about twenty percent of 1912 leaf held by farmers with April 1 settlements looming. Local packers report full warehouses of old tobacco worth around five million dollars, limiting 1912 purchases. The Pennsylvania Railroad issues a rule forbidding agents from addressing passengers by terms like friend or neighbor, requiring sir or madam instead.
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