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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1926
Page
4
The Lititz Record notes G. E. Buch as editor and proprietor. Subscription is priced at $1.50 per year. The paper is entered at Lititz Pa post office as second class matter.
The second half of the school year is underway with students urged to deepen study despite temptations for pleasure. The article notes some bright Lititz students settle for passing marks, risking future results and asset value in the world beyond school.
The text reflects on how weather records vary yearly yet average out over time, echoing Genesis seedtime and harvest and a fixed natural order. This reliability lets people plan indefinitely, unlike the unpredictable nature of human behavior which hinders progress.
Members of the Penns ylvania Society of Farm Women in Lancaster County met at Mrs. Anson Hinsey s home with Mr Nissley of the State College Horticulture Department discussing Gardens A social hour followed with refreshments The grammar school plans a February 24 play Patty Saves the Day and pantomime Columbia leading roles Kathryn Snader Arthur Romig The Women s Missionary Society met at Mrs Cora Albright Rev L C Updegrave attends conference in Reating Mrs Mary Elizabeth Palmer of Oak Lane Philadelphia dies at Maple Farm Home Undertaker Bair to Philadelphia Mr and Mrs Arthur Guiney and daughters Lois and Julian of Lititz spent Sunday with Mrs Cora Albright
Local families from Brownstown and Lancaster are listed as visiting relatives and friends. Florence and Esther Yost, Lizzie Grayhill, Catherine Sechrist, Ruth Raezer, Doris Herzog, Tru man Herr, Sarah Herr, and others traveled to spend Sunday with kin such as the Mohn, Miller, Raezer, Garner, and Stoltzfus households in the region around Lancaster and Shillington.
Kenneth Wolf sustained a broken right arm after a fall from a wagon. Dr. A Y Walter treated the injury. Samuel Hoover suffered a severe nose injury in an auto crash, attended by Dr. Russell at Ephrata. The Evangelical Sunday School class taught by Mrs. G M Lesey holds a Friday meeting at Miss Emma Brown's home. Rev L A Werner attends the Reading annual conference. The Big Five basketball team beat Reading National Bank 32 to 27 at Akron. Emma Brown visited Akron and Columbia. Isaac Leopold of Akron visited Lawrence Longer. Mrs A W Weber visited Strasburg Sunday.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes unpublished Shelley's poems and letters found in a Harvard library notebook. It suggests a long neglected scholarly prize in a volume once owned by the poet, with Shelley's modest lifetime earnings cited as context.
The passage notes how a poet once lacking public recognition has gained posthumous glory. His manuscripts now attract eager competition among bibliophiles, highlighting the shift from obscurity to lasting literary prominence.
Carl Van Doren, in Century Magazine, wonders who originators witty sayings and naughty tales are and how they travel so fast. He notes stories spread from clubs and lunchrooms in New York to Columbia and Chicago, often arriving before the author can share them.
A playful musing argues telegraph operators spend their nights spreading news. The piece imagines wit types whispering over wires while others sleep, likening the country to a sleeping person carrying unconscious messages.
The Oregon historical society attempted to replace modern names like Smith's Crossing and South Paris with native terms such as Shikel daptikh and Nayakkhachikh but backed away from the plan without a puncture.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Keath on February 18. R. L. Keath visited his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Keath at Manheim on Saturday. J. V. Roth and wife spent Sunday at Lititz. J. V. Roth visited Daniel Weachter and the family of Harvey Kline. Jacob Hackman Jr. has recovered from diphtheria. Rev. A G Fahnestock is recuperating from surgery. Mrs. J W Roth visited D G Weachter and called on Mrs. Irwin Martin and Mrs. Wayne Hackman. Mrs. Agnes Dullahone has recovered from illness. The next Circle meeting will be at Miss Herma Rickert’s in Lexington on March 5.
Inspecting cards and plugs on Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania switchboards. These inspections are made frequently to allow repairs or replacements of worn equipment to be made immediately.
Remark on a London pupil who wrote that an unclean spirit in a dirty devil during entrance tests. Then ad copy touts Raezer's Pulmonie a lung remedy for sale at Moyer's Drug Store Lititz Pa urging trial before pneumonia or lung disease attacks.
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