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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
5
The notice explains fire alarm taps for readers unfamiliar with the signaling system. It lists locations such as Hose Houre No. 2 with two taps and Fishers store No. 4 with four taps, along with Linden Hall opposite and other intersections at N. Cedar, Front streets, Spruce, Orange, Broad and Lemon streets.
A dense roster of Moravian Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed church services for Sunday and weekly evangelistic events. It lists pastors, service times, Sunday schools, and upcoming meetings across Lititz Rothsville Akron Brickerville Myerstown and Neffsville with notes on special services and a women’s prayer gathering.
Missionary Temperance Institute interest grows as residents plan to attend the institute in Harrisburg on Thursday of next week under the State Sabbath School Association. Notable speakers Mrs M J Baldwin of Philadelphia Mr E Gill of Pittsburg and Mr W A Brown of Chicago will appear. The Zion Lutheran church on Fourth street hosts the all day program. Pfantz Bros offer free $1 worth of 5 H Green trading stamps next Tuesday and Wednesday.
A Lancaster county effort to establish a farm demonstration agency seeks public funds and local leadership. A meeting at 1:30 PM on January 27 in the Lancaster chamber of commerce will explain aims and seek citizens from farming, business, and consumer sectors to form a farm betterment association and oversee funds and administration. George A. Billings and M. S. McDowell will present the program, stressing farmer involvement for higher crop profits and broader community benefits.
In Quarter Sessions Dr J W Pratt of Coatesville was found guilty of false pretense in a case that traced down how the Corporation Funding and Finance Company of Reading was led to collapse. Dr Thaddeus S Irwin of Christiana prosecuted, charging Pratt with inducing him to buy 100 shares for 2000 dollars. Irwin alleged false promises of solid dividends and earnings. The verdict signals possible prosecutions of company officers as hundreds in Eastern Pennsylvania lost large sums buying stock on misleading representations.
Pleasant View Penn township Literary Society presents a Friday January 24 program at 1 30 P M with music recitations duets questions and a general debate on whether the western continent was more richly prepared by nature for human use than the eastern. The event ends with adjournment and a note that the society will meet bi weekly.Mary B WESEER Teacher
Lititz beat Manheim 8 0 87 in a two-team box ball series and hosted a high-scoring night led by Ellis Butzer as captain. Edward Hall delivered a 164 high score while Chester Hiker posted the best average at 133 as both towns fielded strong teams before a good crowd. On Saturday Lititz travelled to East Petersburg for a 25 to 15 defeat in a rough contest with star Atwood Kreider scoring five baskets.
Fragment from a columnist notes a discarded Christmas tree on the dump, its bare branches evoking fading grandeur and winter’s thin season. The piece then catalogs pithy maxims about credit, manners, weather, and love, with wry observations on behavior and timing as the year turns.
A twice told record of weddings at Broad and Orange streets Lititz Moravian and United Evangelical parsonages with un attended ceremonies. Also a Lancaster contractor Jacob O Buckwalter dies by self inflicted gunshot at his North Lime street home after a family disturbance. Survived by parents two brothers and five sisters.
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