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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1924
Page
4
The item lists subscription at $1.50 a year published by R Eb Buch editor and proprietor at Itz Pa post office. This record notes the rate and proprietorship in a brief newspaper notice.
The piece urges reciprocal recognition for diligent local workers who promote town causes. It argues neighbors often overlook sustained effort while harshly judging minor slips, and calls for generous acknowledgment to sustain public initiatives.
The article notes public sales among farmers will open soon as tobacco season ends. It describes motives for sales, from retirements to changing careers, and recalls wartime prices. It laments dwindling free dinners at sales and praises auctioneers as essential, skilled showmen who must read crowds and use humor.
Radio is about fifteen years old the telephone about forty years old and the telegraph about sixty all offer instantaneous communication yet none have displaced printing. The typewriter is fifty years old and the multigraph is younger both methods use paper to convey information.
The excerpt argues printing outlasts changes in transport and technology, remaining essential to art, science, industry, literature, and advertising. It notes four and a half centuries of method and craft evolution, yet emphasizes there is no substitute for real printing and its core role in human pursuit.
Henry Grayhill of Elin stayed with A. R. Roth for Friday and Saturday. Agnes Dulabohn remains ill at her son-in-law Paul Eckert’s home. Amos Metzler attended Mrs. Metzler’s funeral in Manheim on Monday. F B Bentz Rev A G Fahnestock and family and Miss Lizzie Shaeffer visited Landis Valley with Mr and Mrs W B Landis on Sunday. M S Sheaffer and wife hosted S N By and wife and Norman Baer and wife, all of Salunga, Sunday.
In Akron area notes, Seth Graybill is bedbound with illness. Numerous families from Creona Martinsville Lexington Lititz Hallville and nearby towns visited the Graybills over the weekend including Stauffers Wissler Spangler Weidman Bomberger Nestheroth and Yocum households. Evangelist Campbell arrives in Allentown and revival events proceed in Newmanstown as Weidman receives gifts.
Denver resident spent Sunday with his brother the John Shimp family along with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Royer and children of Denver. Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Wolf visited Frank Retten’s household. Leah Martin stayed several days at Elverson. W. B. Grube hosted Rev. C. A. Horner and family and Lizzie Grayhill of Brownstown, and William Zwaily and family of Akron. L Stewart of Fleck Cigar Factory remains ill at home.
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