Lititz town notes and listings from a busy week
A wide array of small items fills the page. A $20 bill was lost by a ex-serviceman with a $5 reward offered for return to 132 E Front St Lititz. William W. Riegel plans a tobacco warehouse on First Avenue after buying two lots from Hershey & Gibbel. A partridge flock visited the Moravian graveyard after snowfall. Several local meetings and events are announced, including a Lime Rock spelling bee on March 20 and a Lititz Auxiliary hospital meeting on February 16. William B. Snavely ships an Irish setter to Clarkesville GA. Thomas Steffy rents space to make cement blocks. Isaac B. Graybill plans a 3300-egg Mammoth incubator hatch next week. Howard Strickler wins poultry show prizes with Cochin Bantams and Anconas. An office dog Nellie, a fox terrier, dies. she was a daily office presence. Mrs. Annie Weitzel buys Broad Street lot for a bungalow. The American Fish Supply Co sells fish in front of Springs Hotel. ten kinds, 8–25 cents, fresh. Willis Godenour unloads four tractors. fourteen sold since December. Cup cheese sale Fridays and Saturdays at Gochenour’s store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Street
Kinport
Front St
Lititz
William W. Riegel
First Avenue
Hershey & Gibbel
American Legion
William B. Snavely
Clarkesville
Mr. Snavely
Thomas Steffy
Hershey & Seaman’s
Isaac B. Graybill
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island
Lime Rock
General Hospital
Sarah Jenkins
Young Men’s Business League
Howard Strickler
Fruitville Pike
Philadelphia
Strickler
Annie Weitzel
South Broad Street
Jacob Edberly
Brobst
Nellie
Ammon Weidman
Rush Cigar Factory
Weidman
Public Sale Notes at Warwick House March 6 23rd Anniversary
The yearly combination sale at Warwick House occurs Saturday March 6 marking its 23rd anniversary with dozens of horses cattle and pigs and a wide array of items to hammer. Auctioneer H H Snavely has led most semi monthly sales since inception. Another sale follows March 18 when landlord Badorf offers hotel goods including furniture and chinaware. A previous snow delay pushed J M Markley’s sale to February 16 and most sales forego free dinners due to high food costs. David S High will not hold the March 19 sale and Allen Hacker will conduct a Lititz sale March 27 featuring two buffalo robes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwick House
Monroe Shue
H. H. Snavely
Badorf
J. M. Markley
David S. High
Allen Hacker
Lititz
Lincoln and Washington Birthdays as National Holidays
Today marks Lincoln's birthday, one of two national holidays alongside Washington. Born in a one room cabin on the western frontier, Lincoln rose from scant schooling to self education through books like the Bible and Aesop's Fables. His plain upbringing bred strong character, humor, and a lasting fame rooted in his speeches and public papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Washington
Henry Clay
Lititz Springs Bank Seen Through Nebulous Glitter
The North American essay views the Lititz Springs National Bank ten years after its founding. It notes stock par was 100 dollars, now trades around 300, with 50 thousand capital and 100 thousand in surplus, while critics liken its stock to water and celebrate a homegrown, prudent financial culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz Springs National Bank
Lititz Soldier Weds Miss Elsie Crouse in Reading
Harry Weitzel and Elsie Crouse were married Tuesday evening at the groom’s parents’ home on East Main Street Lititz by Rev. William Pfautz. Weitzel, a former noncommissioned officer in the 89th division during World War I, will work at the paper box factory and live in Lititz with his wife after their marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Weitzel
Elsie. Crouse
Reading
John Weitzel
East Main Street
William Pfautz
89Th
Reverend Crosland to Tour World for World’s Sunday School Convention
Rev Edward Crosland pastor of the Lititz Moravian Church will tour the world as a delegate to the World's Sunday School Convention in Tokio during the first week of October. He plans to sail from San Francisco in early September and return mid December visiting Japan China India Egypt possibly the Holy Land and Europe over 25000 miles. The trip is endorsed by Landis secretary of the Sunday Schools of Pennsylvania and funded by friends. Crosland’s leave of absence was granted by the Moravian Church with pulpit coverage arranged. the venture marks the first Far East convention and is viewed as educational for Japan and missionary work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward
Crosland
Lititz Moravian Church
New York
Tokio
Japan
San Francisco
China
India
Egypt
Holy Land
Europe
Landis
Philadelphia
Sunday Schools of
Pennsylvania
Crossland
Far East
Lititz Pretzels in Pittsburgh
Harold Kissinger Lloyd Smith and William Butt residents of Pittsburgh will open a Lititz pretzel bakery in the Smokey City. Smith and Butt will run their printing business while Kissinger devotes full time to pretzel making. They secured a bakery with two ovens and are assured 24 cents a pound for all pretzels produced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Kissinger
Lloyd Smith
William Butt
Pittsburgh
Smokey City
Messrs. Smith
Butt
Mr. Kissinger
Wiliam Kissinger
Unusual Amount of Sickness in Local Notices
A long list of residents reported illnesses and injuries from falls and infections. Mrs. C. B. Brubaker is bedridden after an ice fall. Fila Stoltz broke her left arm by a fall. Lieut. Percy Dreifus is ill with pneumonia in a government hospital. Various others, including Christian Risser and E. A. Sturgis, are homebound or recovering, with related family health updates and travel. The note ends with continuing items on page 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Brubaker
Fila
John Stoltz
B. Buch
Stoltz
Joseph Dreifus
Washington
Percy Dreifus
Government Hospital
Charles Pfantz
Eliza van Vleck
Christian Risser
E. A. Sturgis
Jacob Roland
Emma
William Amer
Frank B. Keller
Orange Street
James Dassinger
Jerrie Adams
Lancaster
Adams
Thomas Marks
Reading
Willis
Anne Weitzel
Manheim
Cameron
Michael Keith
Blanche
Population estimate and local birthday notes from early 1900s borough paper
Census enumeration results will reveal the borough population, estimated at 8,500, with little growth due to few building operations. Expected figure near 4,000? Local birthdays listed for February include Levi Brubaker, Adam Long, George Frederick, H. Meiskey, Rev. J. W. G. Hershey, F. L. Garber, and P. B. Bucher. P. B. Kofroth features auto tag archive from 1905 showing 16 years of saved licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi N. Brubaker
Adam B. Long
George Frederick
Meiskey
J. W. G. Hershey
F. L. Garber
P. B. Bucher
Kofroth
Death of Harry Graul at Landisville after stroke
Harry Graul died yesterday at 2 PM at his brother Daniel Graul's home in Landisville after a stroke. A Reading native, he was 69 years old and had lived with his brother for 33 years, joining the Moravian Church in youth. Funeral services are planned Saturday at 1 PM at the family home and 2:30 PM at the Moravian Church in Lititz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Graul
Daniel D. Graul
Landisvile
Frederick and
Sophia Graut
Reading
Daniel
White Oak
Elwood Furlow
Lititz
David L. Miller
East Petersburg
Mennonite Church
Abner B
Abner Risser
Brunnerville
John Brubaker
Neffsville
Lititz Boy Makes Good at Pottstown Oliver Lititz Man Shines
William Sturgis, who runs Hotel Shuler at Pottstown, drew praise from both Lititz and Pottstown papers for the hotel’s new ownership and a banquet for 275 Masons. The event showcased improved rooms, fine service led by Nick Paletterio and Harold LeFevre, and a well received menu as locals praised the host’s initiative and commitment to excellent service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Sturgis
Shuler
Pottstown
Lititz
Sturgis
Nick Paletterio
Harold LeFevre
Walter Scott’s Sister Dead at Abbington Il
Walter Scott arrived Sunday to Abbington for his sister Lillian Nelson’s illness but she died that morning of pneumonia. Funeral and burial followed on Feb 4. He is the sole brother with three sisters surviving. Mrs Nelson married seven years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Scott
Abbington
Lillian
Charles Nelson
Walter
Nelson
Lititz
Wiliam
Scott
Mary R
Frank Andes
Ume
Diamond Station
Ephrata
Franklin Ray
Edna Grace
Elizabeth B
N. L. Bechtel
Perkasie
Brownstown
Stella
Warwick Township Man Invented Still of 1834
Henry Becker of Pine Hill Warwick township invented a still in 1834 that improved speed and cut costs, earning patent letters before the patent office burned. He never profited as rivals rushed filings, and his idea shaped later distilling methods. Becker, born 1788, died 1854, was a miller distiller and blacksmith with a long walking route to trade routes. An old Becker distillery building remains on his land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. Becker
Pine Hill
Warwick Township
Becker
Henry Becker
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Lancaster
Columbia
Madel
Penns
Travelers Near and Far In Local and Regional Visits
A long travel notes list visits and journeys among Reading, Harrisburg, Chester, Akron, Lansdale, Ephrata, Manheim, Lincoln, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Ontario, and Florida. Residents and guests including Misses Lutz Holtzhouse Hacker Meiskey and the Fahnestock family are mentioned along with local ties to Crall Birkenbine Keller Snave ly and Crosland. The item records social calls, a Philadelphia wedding, and a chocolate business owner's Florida trek with delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Eaches
Reading
Bessie Lutz
Harrisbore
Marian Holtzhouse
Chester
Lucy Weinhold
Harry Crall
Mabel Spickler
Raymond
Akron
Daniel Graut
Landisville
Elwood Furlow
Rothsville
I. G. Keller
Christian Snavely
Philadelphia
H. H. Snavely
Harlow Couch Accepts New Superintendent Post
Harlow Couch, longtime superintendent of the Lititz and Eden paper mills, will assume a similar role at Little Falls New York in mid March and move by April 1. The Little Falls mill operates three machines producing high quality tissue paper and offers a larger output. Couch, native to New York, came to Lititz twelve years ago and helped make the local mill profitable. Frank Burkholder and Bro. hold exclusive Fordston tractor agency in the county and plan demonstrations as Ford tractors gain popularity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlow Couch
Lititz
Eden
Little Falls
Coach
Fulton
N. Y
New York State
Frank Burkholder & Bro
Henry Ford
Fassnacht Social at United Brethren Church Basement
Fassnacht Social held Tuesday evening at the basement of the United Brethren Church by the Ladies Aid Society. Fassnacht and coffee will be served along with sandwiches, ice cream and cakes. Orders taken for Fassnacht cakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren Church
Ladies Aid Society
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gochenour
Broad Street
Rev. Crosland
Lititz Pretzels
Pillsbury
Leaman & Leed
Oliver
Vermont
William
Elizabeth Helt
Elizabeth W. Helt
Henry
Levi Showers
Henry Helt
Isaac Wedger
Fatent
Anna Meiskey
Ada Freemantle
Edward Crosland
E. S. Crosland
Wayne Fahnestock
Palm Beach
Florida
Bermuda
Fahnestock
Ernest Schaeberle
Ann Arbor
Mich
J. F. Schaeberle
Schaeberles
Harry
Fassnacht Social
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