German family learns to get ahead through thrift and hard work
The piece highlights German immigrants Adolph Merkel and his wife who arrived with little English and few resources. Through steady work as a cabinet maker and carpenter, thrift, and persistent effort they bought a Second Avenue lot, built a double house, and progressed to owning a car and home, illustrating successful adaptation in Lititz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Merkel
Daugher
Hershey-Seaman Co
Lititz
Ford
Second Avenue
Eli J. Barr Former Lititz Mill er Died at Marietta
Eli J. Barr a former Lititz miller died Tuesday morning at the home of his son in law Ezra B Engle in Marietta at age 89 after a year of poor health. He moved from New Danville to Lititz in 1872 and ran Barrs mill behind Front street until 1898 then moved to Lancaster and since 1904 lived in Marietta. He leaves a widow married 57 years and ten children in various states including Christian H Lancaster and Mrs G L Hepp Tititz. Funeral service will be held at the late home Thursday at 12 30 and at Mellingers church at 2 30. Interment in adjoining cemetery. Winters first real cold wave drops to five degrees and skating on Brubaker dam draws locals by auto and jitney. Ice five inches thick. Rudy dam will not be harvested.
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Sunshine
King's Daughters
Benj. F. Lutz
Cedars’reet
Monroe Davidson
Buck’s Mill
W. LB. Reidenbach
Birney Oehme
Penryn
East Main Street
Otis Pfantz
N. S. Myers
South Broad Street
Walter Landis
N. Lime Street
Lancaster
Landis
Otis Sturgis
A. S.or Pretzel Bakery
Greenleaf
Lititz
Frank Eby
St. Joseph’s Hospital
M. H. Yoder
F. E. Schnerer
Dr. Yoder
Squire Reidenbach
Francis Tielmar
Squire C. N. Derr
Edgar Kofreth
Helmar
Samuel R. Whitmyer
New Street
Linden Hall
Church
el J. Barr
Ezra B. Engle
Marietta
Barr
New Danville
Front Street
Randolph
C. G. Richards
Moylan
Thaddeus
Brubaker
Driving Horses Sell Cheap Amid Bad Roads and Swaps
The region shows low prices for driving horses due to slick roads and fear of travel. A fast pacing horse fetched 175 at a sale three years ago, then sold for 380 weeks later. A Wititz man got under 2 dollars for a 25 dollar work horse, others swap or euthanize rather than feed. Nearby talk shifts to a proposed connect between Chi and Lititz, with hopes for a faster mail route. Rev. Crosland praised a memorabilia lecture covering 1925 and world chronology. A hotel near Lititz installed a seven hundred dollar radio with a loud speaker, drawing evenings crowds including loyal locals who listen quietly to sermons, even from the barroom.
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Here
Wititz
Sumer
Lititz
Philadelphia
New York
Abraham
Isaac
Barak
Oliver
Ioe Baker
Muhlenberg Glee Club Concert Promises Finest Soloists
The Muhlenberg College Glee Club performs January 19 in the High School Auditorium under Garden Spot Post No 56 American Legion. Soloists include Paul Held pianist Elmer Richer bass Zieber tenor and Charles Barndt cornet with new violin features by Charles Bachman. Tickets fifty cents with reserved seating available January 17.
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Muhlenberg College Glee Club
Garden Spot Post No
American Legion
Paul Held
Held
Apnea
Liszt
Elmer Richer
Zieber
Tschaiko
Volga
Charles Barndt
Barndt
Charles Bachman
Bachman
Musical Club
Glee Club
Legion
Lancaster County Historical Society president reviews forgotten game history
Prof. H. H. Beck of Lititz delivers a paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society recounting the evolving history of games and sports in Lancaster County. He links many facts to old Lititz as the region’s pastimes fade from memory.
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H. H. Beck
Lititz
Lancaster County Historical Society
Lancaster County
Boro Council Reorganized After 1924 Meeting
Boro Council met on January 7 1924 and reorganized at 8 00 p m retiring members were H H Bomberger and Dr S R Posey E B Webber and Dr Posey succeeded themselves new officers included H J Pierson president J Z Herr secretary Jos B Wissler solicitor C Walter Miller water superintendent RH Brenemen assistant C R Kreider boro police H H Diehm treasurer Salaries fixed Burgess 50 secretary 200 solicitor 50 treasurer 5 water 115 assistant 85 police 80 Also notes on 1924 vehicle registrations licenses and operator license requirements with 1924 tags and certificates valid into 1924 February 1 1924.
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Boro
H.H. Bomberger
S. R. Posey
E. B. Webber
Second Ward
H. H. Bomberger
History and the sportsman witness in Lancaster County
A Lancaster County sketch argues history must be written by qualified observers with deep subject knowledge. The author recounts lifelong immersion in local rural sports from snipe to fox hunts, asserting field sports shaped regional history and deserve historian attention before older pleasures fade. The fragment notes ongoing discussion of immigrant settlement religion education industry society and politics as interconnected themes.
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Lancaster County
Frank Forrester
Martie
Elizabeth
Legion Basketball Team Strengthened For York Game
Reading Man to Jump Center Kinsley to play after an accident, Weise to center for Lititz. All original Lititz players recalled as the re organized squad meets the York professionals on home floor Saturday. Tremont game awaits Lititz tonight as their fast team seeks big crowds. Farm Sales Agency reports Lititz real estate transfers including a South Centre Street house and a Lancaster fruit farm with possession dates. Society of Farm Women No 1 ships a Christmas box to the Good Shepherd Home in Allentown after a regular meeting and varied performances.
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Lititz
Legion
York
Millersville
Kinsley
Weise
Reading Y. M. C. A
Reading
Litite
Tremont
Lancaster County Farm Sales Agency
M. M. Garman
Prop
Lancaster
BD. A. Long
East Centre Street
John H. Hornberger
James G. Hahn
Pequea Township
Margie Titus
Lula M. Weidler
Madison and
Marshall Streets
Hi. N. Blemesderfer
Society of Farm Women
Society of Farm Women No. 1
W. Martin Tess
Society
Good Shephart
Allen
Travel News Notes From Lititz Area Social Roundup
Mrs Morris Rosenberg of Hartford Conn visits poorly with Mrs Joseph Dreifus while many locals host relatives and attend family events. Miss Miriam Rudy leaves for Harrisburg to join the Telephone Operators Convention. N S Myers buys Evans mansion and plans April move. A chicken and waffle supper at St Luke s Church. Lititz High to face Ephrata and Manor this weekend in hard games.
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Tietric & Con
Kcians
Scott’s
Merkel
Germany
Ro’ Enowitzh
U. S
Mrs. Merkel
America
Eli J. Barr
Ephrata-Lebanon
Trancaster
Chi
Lencast
E. S. Crosland
Muhlenberg Glee Club
Boro Council
E. E B. Webber
Herbert H. Beck
Morris Rosenberg
Hartford
Kate Fissel
Boiling Springs
Cumberland County
John Carpenter
Anna Druckenbrod
Anna Brookmyer
John Bonney
Brooklyn
Bopp
Lloyd Brookmyer
Springfield
Mass
Ada Diehm
Emma Murr
Adam. Sheaffer
Charles Diehm
Daniel Bauer
Boyertown
Miriam Rudy
Penn State Telephone Company
Penn-Saring
Harrisburg
Chas. &. Grant
Indianapolis
Ind
Minnie Knight
Plainfield
Graul
Sadie Mae Allen
Ohio
Linden Wall Seminary
Lawrence Donahue
New Rochelle
N. Y
Kissel Hill
Charles Bechtel
N.S. Myers
Evans
B. E. Evans
S. Cedar and
Juniper Alley
K. Myers
St. Luke's Reformed Church
Ady
Lititz High
Lititz High School
Ephrata
Manor High
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