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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1925
Page
4
In the Lititz Record, editor R. E. Buch notes the annual mud season delaying social life, urges expert road management for spring improvements, and recalls Washington's vow in 1774 to raise 1000 men to relieve Boston. The piece contrasts past wealth with present times and calls for modern generosity to solve national issues.
Neighborhood notes recount H Arlington Gerhart of Manheim visiting his mother Mrs J W Gerhart for Lincoln's Birthday. Gatherings at Samuel Nissley’s in Weidmansville included Mr and Mrs David Hshleman and Mr and Mrs Samuel W Elser at a chicken dinner. Almenara Gerhart visited Arlington and attended a wedding dinner for Mr and Mrs Herman Fry in Manheim. S W Elser listed as ill with lumbago late last week.
Saturday afternoon at the Ruppin Farm a meeting organized an auxiliary to Lancaster General Hospital with 14 members. Elected officers include President Mrs L Ruppin, Vice Presidents Mrs John Reitz and Mrs A Wolf, Secretary Mrs Robert Herr, and Treasurer Mary Royer. Attendees were Mrs Appel Miss Getz of Lancas ter Dr Mentzer and Miss Eberly of Ephrata.
A Spelling Bee hosted by the Akron Alumni Association is scheduled for Tuesday evening February 24 in the Hall with refreshments by alumni. Numerous social visits and dinners are noted across Lititz Ephrata Rothsville and surrounding towns, including weddings, birthdays, and a six week service at United Zion church. Many families hosted dinners, visits to relatives, and gatherings at homes of Reitz Brown Zwally and several others, reflecting a busy weekend of community life.
The Weidman family from New Holland and the Fred Weidman family visited their parents Mr. and Mrs Oscar Weidman in this place. Elray Weidman and his son Elray joined the gathering. The Harry Strohl family attended as part of the extended clan.
Miss Susie Bare, a nurse, is bedbound with a severe attack of tonsillitis while Floyd Rogers recovers from pleurisy and Wayne Cooper nets a 16 pound carp in the icebound meadow. Rev. L A Werner prepares a final conference sermon and heads to Pottsville for East Penn Evangelical sessions. Mrs Clayton Wolf’s funeral follows a Sunday service at the Evangelical church with interment in Brownstown cemetery. Mrs Katie Garner and Mrs E K Duck are noted as seriously ill and suffering rheumatism respectively.
A lament on speed eroding reading, courtesy, morality, and companionship. The piece notes two sales, two customers served in times past, and a world cheering speed from racing records to global flight, while lasting memories fade.
An editorial urges slowing the pace of travel to avoid deadly train crossings. It questions chasing time and urges reflection, leisure, and renewed values, contrasting with dangers of haste. Separate item reports Roy Smith, an 18-year-old self-described praying bandit, held in Columbus for a spree of shootings and robberies amid claims of Marine past and escape from reform school.
Last Friday evening Mrs F W J Stengel and Miss Myrtle Eckert entertained Linden Hall advanced music pupils in the school parlors. Mrs Raymond Samel sang arias from Mozart and Schubert songs, Miss Eckert played Schumann, Miss Wolf performed Polichinelle by Rachmaninoff, and dainty refreshments followed. Mrs Samel received spring flowers from the hostesses.
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