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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1919
Page
1
A neighborhood business space once a late evening gathering place for a group of men has shut down. The widow handling the estate opened select evenings, replacing the usual male crowd with a dozen women. A familiar bachelor, once a frequent visitor, stopped by but felt out of place and departed.
A Lititz notary public was embarrassed when a woman asked for a license at his office. He began a dog license form and asked sex and other questions. The woman replied the license was for an automobile.
An agent recalls a Lititz post office incident where a woman asked for two cent post cards and then tried to pay one cent plus one cent more. The exchange amused the agent as the woman sent the cards.
A humorous wartime exchange centers on a private refusing to eat soup at camp. An officer challenges his duty while the private asserts he serves his country but not to eat it. The passage also includes an advertising line for Lititz Clothing & Store and a push for customers.
The Manor Mutual Fire Insurance Co. held its January 25, 1919 meeting at the Manhattan Hotel Lancaster electing directors A. N. Lehman Chas A Greider B. F. Greider Peter S Kraypill Benjamin F Charles Harry L Lefever B S Stauffer C H Frank H G Warfel M M Breneman. The board elected Lehman as president Greider as vice president Kraybill treasurer and Kendig as auditors.
Speaker Clark publicly advocates immediate return of every American soldier from France and Russia. He spoke before the veterans of the Army of the South urging rapid discharge and homecoming whenever possible.
The United States Marine Corps collaborated with Thomas A. Edigon and George Kleine on what is billed as the war’s greatest moving picture. The Unbeliever, based on The Three Things, follows Phil Landicutt who joins the Marines and discovers faith amid battle. Debuts Sat Feb 1 in Lititz with marine officers and men assisting.
Mrs J Milton Mensendick told the Twentieth Century Club in Pittsburg that corsets and faddish poses are causing women to lose muscles, becoming sway backed and knock kneed. She urged walking and exercise and warned that absent muscles will make a woman’s walk frightful.
A calf born to a cow on W. Spotts’s Marysville area farm is described as healthy except it lacks eyes and a tail. The event was witnessed on the Spotts property near Marysville.
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