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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1926
Page
4
The Lititz Record lists R. E. Buch as editor and proprietor. Subscriptions are $1.40 per year. Entered at Lititz Pennsylvania post office as second class matter.
New officers have been elected by community and business groups. Election brings duty beyond prestige, urging work for useful causes. In Lititz, leaders should expand scope and energy to enlist support in changing times. Boys seek clubs and activities to channel restlessness into productive tasks away from home.
Pastor L. A. Werner welcomed two into church fellowship last Sunday evening. Fifty-eight Evangeli cal Sunday School members received diplomas and seals for perfect attendance in 1925. Recipients include H. V. Ruth, Sylvia Pierce, Althea Werner, George M. Gamber, Keylor Steffy, Howard Marr, Arlene Smith, Robert Bear, H. V. Ruth, Allen Bach, Adam Keller, Harold Royer, Clarence Bear, Luella Keller, Anna Getz, Lucy Keller, Mary Keller, J. W. Bach, Lawrence Long, Paul Getz, Sue F. Graybill, Mrs. W. F. Getz, etc. Mrs. Edwin Pierce injured a leg and is bedbound. A bouncing boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Luke Weidman last Friday. The P. Butter family plans Lancaster move and offers their home for private sale. Mr. Milton S. Sheaffer and family hosted cousins Owen Broner and William Bruner. Paul Eckert and families, Mrs. Sarah Smith, and Mrs. Agnes Dullabone attended the funeral of Mrs. J. F. Bechtal of Ephrata at Camp Church.
Miss Lizzie Sheaffer spends several days in Lititz this week. Mrs. C. B. Risser of Lititz visits Mrs. Selinda Williams. Measles patients recover steadily. P. B. Farlow and wife of Lititz spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Roth. Zion's Children's Revival at Pleasant View draws Brunnerville attendees. Mrs. Harry Binkley is seriously ill with dropsy. Mary Miley improves slowly.
Guests at the Ober home included Mr. and Mrs. Zartmann and Miss Florence Zartman of Lexington. Miss Lily L. Snyder and her sister visited S. B. Keller, with Lily L. Snyder also calling on Mrs. Lily W. Gerhart. C. B. Snyder visited Monday evening in Ephrata as Rufus Heisey and Mrs. Connelly hosted a White Oak duck dinner.
Akron notes list monthly gatherings at Mt Zion Evangelical Sunday school hosted by Mrs. Clara Heinsey and the Grace United Evangelical church Woman's Missionary Society. A Thursday evening event at Mrs J B Shirker's home is announced. Local families across Mechanicsburg Lititz Rothsville Manheim Ephrata Brunnerville Norristown Reading Shillington attend visits and returns.
A short note from the Boston Transcript encourages motorists to consider the consequences of errors while promoting the Record at a price of $1.50 annually. The quotation suggests that many people would remain unknown were it not for such missteps.
A prominent suburban speaker, famed for fraternal talks, traveled north to deliver a dedication. Hoarse on arrival, he tried Turkish baths, regained voice, and delivered a whispered speech to a rapt audience. He cited Professor Neff on articulation and the power of clear whispering.
A local column discusses the chronic worrier who fears every new event. It notes most fears never materialize, while real life problems go unaddressed. The piece warns worry wastes vitality, harms nerves and digestion, and yields no productive results.
The Virgin Islands in the Caribbean were bought from Denmark for 25 million dollars during World War I to block a German submarine base. Negotiations spanned half a century, beginning with Secretary Seward's Civil War era inquiries. The Danish king bid farewell as ratification failed in the Senate and again in parliament, with the price about 800 dollars per acre for land suitable for cultivation.
A columnist argues against restricting children to tables for play citing benefits of a dustless floor for building blocks and railroads. The piece urges a dedicated nursery with a clean floor and slippers to keep shoes off play areas.
A London suburb spinster reported shock at language from two men repairing telegraph lines near her home. The foreman’s account says he and Bill Fairweather were on the job. He claims a hot wire fell on Bill’s neck and Bill replied, You verily must be more careful, Harry.
Elsie Janis observes that Americans are not romantically inclined and notes modern perceptions of tragic lovers. She suggests trapper stereotypes misread Shakespeare with a humorous take on finding love versus dying for it. The piece contrasts enduring romance with contemporary cynicism.
In a whimsical item from the Louisville Courier Journal a character named Tootus chats with a tree on a trail. Willow Phame warns that talking to greas will lead people to think him quaint. Tootus insists he will not talk, the tree hands him a visiting card.
Paddling along Ghent’s canals we find a boathouse inviting a stay at the Royal Club Nautique and enter a nearby inn with leaded panes overlooking shops built into a Gothic church. A Flemish host explains the site dates to the thirteenth century but was never truly an inn, having housed a wealthy man, then the Grocers’ guild, and later private ownership before any inn claim.
The piece extols left-handed people from ancient to medieval times, claiming gods favored them and history shows leaders like Caesar and Alexander the Great were left-handed. It argues left-handed individuals possess superior brain power, supported by a schoolteacher's testimony, and asserts no left-handed boy is a fool.
Sir Arthur Keith argues jaw exercise affects vision not eye strain. He claims reduced chewing of soft foods is reshaping the face by lengthening eye sockets and elongating eyeballs, weakening sight, as reported by Popular Science Monthly.
The Youngstown Vindicator notes a constant clang of hammers signaling success as workers at the plant press on, affirming progress and achievement in the ongoing effort.
In heraldry the differences or cadency marks vary by generation. The eldest bears a label, second a crescent, third a mullet, fourth a mallet, fifth an amulet, sixth a fleur de lis, seventh a rose, eighth across Moline, ninth a double quatrefoil. Hamlet references rue worn by Ophelia and the queen, the queen having a difference denoting her status as the wife of Claudius.
A retiring philanthropist seeking no publicity offered a prize for the best hint to dispose of his property. Many replies arrived. one suggested funding ice for dumb parrots. He died laughing, collapsing from a burst blood vessel, and left his fortune to heirs, not the parrots.
The term sociology is traced to Comte as the study of mankind in social relations It advocates preventing national wars by arbitration and resolving class conflict by conciliation boards The English philosopher Herbert Spencer used the term in several major works including The Study of Sociology published in 1872
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