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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1923
Page
4
Writor and Proprietor E. Buch offers subscriptions at $1.50 per year. Notice indicates the publication is entered at Wilitz, Pa., Post Office as second class matter.
Warwick House conducted a busy auction with 511 items sold and a large crowd. Pigs led the sale with 62 head reaching up to 17.75 dollars and 5.15 dollars, while chickens, apples, turnips, bologna, beans, apple butter, shoes, hose, brooms, sweaters, a bedstead, and cigars also crossed the block in varied sums.
A Camp Fire Girls meeting on Monday January 22 drew fifteen participants. Plans were made for a window exhibit of girl crafted articles during Camp Fire birthday week March 11 to 17, 1923. A ceremonial meeting awarded honors to Elizabeth Grube Thelma Russell and others and Grube and Russell were chosen to write the Count for February's ceremony.
Moravian Sunday School elects officers across departments including G J Hepp as superintendent Norman ary asst first sr Crosland asst Miss Viola Leib Apert Primary Miss Ella Buch 4 ant Miss Maggie Bricker Beginners chief Showers Ruth Heppants Violet Kepple Ethel Sturgis Mabel Leib Anna ark Bertha Geller Cecelia Mack Marile Kofroth A Virginia Grosh G L Tepp adult class sup Prof Snyder sup Young Peoples Hassler sup Intermediate Norman Showers sup Junior Moris Kaufman The list names multiple roles and committees for church youth and home departments.
The column surveys weather, farming, and daily life topics from early 1923. Topics include sugar decline and rain patterns, ice harvesting, Groundhog Day on February 2, auto business winter activity, junk men buying old paper, seed ads, garden chores, and humorous maxims about money, cooking, and battles.
The piece notes many chop wood during coal shortages, hints at rising costs from garages versus shoe repairs, and contrasts gendered grooming trends. It observes men seeking hair growth solutions, farmers focusing on value rather than yield, fashion cycles pushing last summer outfits forward, and some choosing jail over work.
Residents and families from Lititz Neffsville Manheim and Elizabethtown area visited at Lincoln and Waldeck on Sunday including Keiths Habeckers Miller and their wives Smiths and Ruhl Fulmer Kissinger and Heagy Fahnestock Groff and Lutz families Relations included a minor auto mishap near Lititz with steering failure but no injuries.
Mr and Mrs Sami 8 and Wiest and son Lemon hosted the Wiest family at Senoeneck. John Peiffer and family spent Saturday in Lancaster. Miss Emma Snyder visited Miss Mary Volzemuth in Mastersonville and will stay in Elizabethown. Laura Kline from Brunnerville visited Ellen Plautz. Saml Plautz and family hosted J K Prautz in Manheim. H Arlington Gerhart and Saml Burkaber families and others from Akron were guests of the Joe Gerhart family. Miss Almenara Gerhart visited Miss Lottie Nies at Lititz Sunday evening.
Mr and Mrs Benj Adair visited at Hopeland hosted by Mr and Mrs Wm Keller on Sunday. Elias Elluby bought a Ford last week. Harvey Metzler and four daughters from near Mr Joy visited Isaac W Singer on Sunday. Rev and Mrs F A Weichsel of Lititz visited J B Koehler home on Sunday. Joe Graybill and family of Shillington visited Seth Graybill and Rev and Mrs Linn Longenecker near Lititz on Sunday. Lizzie Bomberger and family visited Al Hoffer near Manheim. Mary Bruckhart, recently reported improved, relapsed again.
A series of meetings will begin at the Brethren church on W Main St Sunday evening January 28 in charge of Elder Michael Kurtz of Port Royal Lebanon County and will continue each evening for several weeks. Local residents note many social visits and family gatherings throughout the district with frequent mentions of relatives from Leola Lancaster Mânheim and Allentown.
Rev S A Heisey opened a series of revival meetings at the US E church last Sunday evening. West Earl Castle No 78 KG E will initiate candidates Monday evening Feb 12. Brownstown notes record a 25 to 14 basketball game where JH High School defeated Ephrata High. J W Buch purchased Paul Murray's property on private terms. Mrs G M Leicey was called to Philadelphia to care for her seriously ill five year old granddaughter with pneumonia and measles.
Do not forget thimble and worsted needle for Monday’s W C T A meeting at Mrs H E Grosh home Maple street. They meet at 2 30 p m to sew squares for an Afghan to send to League Island Mary Hospital. February 12 is Gift Day for Soldiers Hospitals and the Afghan must be finished to bring sunshine to disabled soldiers in hospitals. Big reductions at Frantz Bros Inventory Bale.
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