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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
5
A notice explains the fire alarm bell taps for Fisher's store and other stops. It lists Sunday services and Sunday school times for United Evangelical United Brethren Lutheran Reformed and Mennonite churches with pastors and locations in Lititz and surrounding areas.
The third annual Sunday school convention for district 9 including Lititz borough Warwick Elizabeth and Manheim townships is set for Saturday January 13 at the United Brethren church. Afternoon session features devotion reports discussions and a lesson prep segment then an evening program with song service addresses missions and music followed by benediction. List of officers includes Jas A Seather Bertha Diehm W M Keller Lydia Keener FE W Gaylord A S Longenecker Frank Andrews N D Sturgis.
The Lititz Moravian Church reports 1911 membership 611 communicants and 30 net change with 16 deaths and 22 funerals. Financials show total benevolent and mission contributions $3,393.48 including foreign missions $850.03 and home missions $777.25. various societies listed with specific sums.
Lititz defeats Harrisburg 30 to 24 after Jerry Stark scores seven field goals and Books adds four as Lititz overturns a 17 9 halftime deficit. Coach Hayes of F and M College begins guiding Lititz to stronger teamwork amid a lively crowd.
A series of wedding notices from Lancaster area churches and families. Claude M W Shelley and Helen E Smith wed at Evan Lutheran parsonage with no attendants. Linnaeus Roth and Mabel Adams married in Reading at Zion U B parsonage. Eli N Zimmerman and Annie N Stauffer married at Neffsville home with two attendants. Mary G Vogel and Jacob W Miller wed at the bride’s parents home in Manheim with only immediate family present. Ray Reese and Irene Lawrence united at East Petersburg residence with no attendants.
The engagement of Ruth Hess of Fleetwood to Walter Sheaffer of Alerio Ohio is announced by her parents Rey and Mrs C E Hess. Sheaffer is a rising young man and superintendent of an automobile factory. The Stauffer family is noted in the community.
A sardonic review of turning to a new year with pithy jests on bills, coal prices, and social quirks. Bits poke at insurance, fashion, vanity, and gender satire while noting lingering winter and a year’s end mood.
Notice is given that a stockholders meeting of the Hby Shee Company will be held at their office on Friday January 1 1912 from 2 to 4 PM to elect nine directors. Secretary Lal Miller signs the notice.
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