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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1922
Page
1
A Jan 9 Odd Fellows session will initiate two candidates. Frantz Wagaman joined the Moravian church at Sunday’s communion service. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Hart Frederick of East Main street.
The Lancaster Tobacco Growers Association plans a January 9 meeting schedule at Stevens House Lancaster with a 2 PM business meeting and officer election, 4 PM tobacco show in the Sample Room, and a 6 PM banquet led by Toast Master John F Weaver. Rev S G Zerfaes of Ephrata and Warren T Metzger will lead singing and speak.
Among the sick, Mrs Agnes McCormack, who became suddenly ill last week, is convalescing at her daughter Mrs Herman Johannsen home and is improving. Mr Frank Reland is confined to bed at his S Broad Street home after taking sick last week.
Keystone Knitting Mill re elected officers for the ensuing year with John H. Wipple as vice president A R Bear as secretary and treasurer G Diehm as director and D W Buckwalter Levi K Ziegter named as other directors.
Tobacco growers of Warwick and nearby townships will meet Saturday January 7 at 7 p m in Lititz Rooms of the Young Men's Business League opposite Springs Hotel Broad street. Mt Joy Company leaders will explain formation and operation of their cooperative. The meeting aims to secure better prices, with no paid experts. All growers urged to attend rain or shine and bring neighbors.
A rear brick wall at 21 East Main Street during excavations for the Harris building fell Wednesday night, startling residents. Six sticks of dynamite and debris dropped to the cellar. boys from a nearby club escaped to a porch roof, and china in Mrs. Anna R Kreider’s home shattered.
Wires from high tension lines sparked fires at the homes of Elmer Eberly and H. C. Seldomridge on Thursday morning December 29. The Eberly residence sustained minimal damage while Seldomridge faced several hundred dollars in loss. Florence Seldomridge escaped via a balcony ladder as smoke choked the stairway. firefighters used chemicals to combat the blazes.
Early Wednesday evening a fire started in a cellar box containing ashes at the Sturgis house. Frank Badorf used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames.
A small fire broke out on the roof of Homer Minnich's tobacco shed near town recently. It was extinguished before significant damage occurred. The blaze was caused by a defective terracotta pipe leading from a stove in the cellar.
Mr Wayne Fahnestock leaves tomorrow for the Pacific Coast stopping in Seattle and San Francisco to visit the Riessner family and Clayton Shreiner. He plans to return in March traveling through the southern states and into Texas, touching the extreme south.
Series of accidents report Mr Amos Gochenaur nearly severing a finger while cutting corn fodder and Mr Samuel Hacker injuring a toe. Dr Harry Bender, renowned veterinary surgeon, traveled to Philadelphia Saturday to address the Philadelphia Veterinary Club at Pennsylvania University.
Lancaster County Farm Sales Agency records Saturday deals including Pfantz Bros store property in Lititz sold to Amos W. Dierich and Madison Dietrich with April 1 possession, a Lititz Main Locust brick house to Madison Dietrich for 4560, Locust street Lancaster brick house to Jacob C. Smith for 5800, a 33 acre Brecknock farm to Allen Keller for 8500, a Halfville village frame house to Henry Fry, a Millcreek 112 acre farm to John Heineman on private terms.
Levi Bucher of the southern county sold a double two story house on Leaman Street in this borough to Abram Hackman of Front Street for 1800 dollars. N B Leaman sold a two story brick house opposite Garber's creamery to Ira Good on private terms.
Lititz High School's basketball team aims for the state tournament after section winners are decided in March. The four top teams will compete at State College on March 31 and April 1 for the state title. Team members include John Fasnacht, Newton Hershey, Abram Hershey, Howard Hackman, and Henry Gibbel.
Garden Spot Post faces Reading Walnuts Friday evening in Lititz as the fast Reading squad returns for a past-season clash. Lititz High meets Marietta and its girls in a double Saturday tilt. Akron tangles with Rothsville at 8 PM with Rothsville reserves meeting Akron in the preliminary.
Mrs Charlotte Thome Grube wife of Wilson M Grube died at home in Lititz on New Year’s Eve after kidney illness aged 56 years 1 month 25 days. She taught in Durlach and Lititz schools eight years and was deeply active in Moravian church W C T U and civic affairs. Funeral held at home and Moravian church with extensive attendance from Lancaster Manheim Ephrata Lincoln and surrounding areas.
The five year old son of Mr and Mrs Hiram Minnich living near town died Tuesday evening at 5 from a year long illness due to complications. He leaves six sisters and one brother among his survivors. Funeral will be private at 1 30 Saturday afternoon at the house with interment in Long Neckers burying ground.
P B Kofrath, seeking his 1922 auto license, would hold his 18th consecutive permit since his first in 1905. County authorities issued the permit with a personal tag costing 12 percent and $4, and all previous tags are kept on display at C T Ritchie’s auto accessory store window.
William Femplin of Reading, a former conductor on the R. and C. branch of the Reading railway, died last week at age 80. After retiring from rail service he worked as a building contractor and is remembered by many in the region.
The piece notes a growing housing move to Lititz with thirty five out of town families taking new homes on April 1. It also highlights a quirky water trick by Hon G G Diehm using a washing machine under a spigot to keep minnows alive for local fishing, while tadpoles lose tails ahead of next year’s bass season.
A Lititz town improvement note promotes Morris Cohen advertising on page 8. It urges readers to share ideas to make Lititz more lively and awake and invites written submissions for publication.
The Moravian Church notes 789 communicants, 76 non communicants, 126 children, and a total of 1001. Eight deaths and 698 Sunday School attendees. Total receipts for all purposes $19 665.36, including cash for the Larger Life Movement, marking the best year in the congregation’s history. New Year dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Willard Hershey with guests from Denver, Lancaster, and Philadelphia.
Lititz Borough reorganized on Tuesday evening with newly elected councilmen H. J. Pierson and Levi H. Rudy and Burgess Norman Barloff taking oaths. Other members present included H. H. Bomberger, Dr. B. R. Posey and J. D. Helter. Committees laid out include Street with Rudy Pierson Bomberger. Fire and Water with Pierson Helter Posey. Light with Pierson Posey Helter. Ordinance with Posey Rudy Bomberger. Grading with Pierson Rudy Bomberger. Finance with Pierson Posey Bomberger. Regular meeting set for late January to review past year.
Mrs D B Betzner moves from Kitchener Ontario to Leesburg Florida on Jan 8 and voices affection for the Record as a link to home. The Seaman family and Elmer Weidman of Arkansas renew, noting weather, harvest, and a tornado as current events, with Rev Haydn Seather praising the paper.
William Oehme raises forty capon chickens including Plymouth Rock Brahma and Jersey Giant varieties. Birds weigh up to nine pounds with the oldest eight months. Jersey Giants, a new and possibly original black Plymouth Rock, are taller than Brahmas and weigh 14 to 16 pounds for stock. capons reach 24 pounds. Oehme built a modern house for 500 chicks alongside heavy breeds and White Leghorns.
At the Birney Oehme home Mr and Mrs William Ruth aged 84 and 83 attended with 18 grandchildren for a holiday capon dinner. Three capon chickens graced the table as youngsters enjoyed the feast, a ritual recurring annually.
Reported are multiple local and regional travel and visit notes. Esther Bach spent last week with friends at Shamokin Pennsylvania. Several locals hosted or joined guests in Leola Philadelphia Atlantic City and St Petersburg Florida. Some relatives and students planned study and nurse training in Philadelphia Lankanan Hospital and Millersville State Normal School.
A surprise party for Sylvester Furlow was held Saturday evening at his Lititz home with forty guests. Music provided by John Ely Harry Wike and Wayne Hackman. Furlow received numerous presents. Refreshments served at 9 o clock as guests departed wishing him many happy returns.
Isaac Weidman of Brickerville sold five Bronze turkeys totaling 961 pounds and earned 52 dollars. Norman Bomberger of Lexington sold a 21 pound hen raised this season in Lancaster for 11 dollars and 55 cents.
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