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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1915
Page
4
Public notice detailing press schedule every Thursday morning and deadline for submissions. Rates listed: obituary five cents per line, notices one cent per word for first insertion and one and a half cents for later insertions. Changes of address require old and new details. Subscription rates: one year in advance one dollar, delayed payments one dollar twenty five cents.
Notices indicate the Lititz Pennsylvania post office is designated as second class matter, reflecting standard mailing designation for the publication or material processed there.
City council meets for monthly session with Burgess and six councilmen present. Philadelphia firm representative backs slag for road making as cheaper and superior to limestone. Bills approved for labor, materials, and services. street lighting sought for New Street. various public works, ditching, and water system projects noted.
A Raspberry Festival will be held on the playgrounds beside A. E. Binkley’s residence on Saturday evening July 3 to benefit the Playground Association. It plans tennis court repairs and three sets of quoits with refreshments and various amusements.
Hopeland residents share weekend visits with neighbors from Waldeck Lebanon and Lititz. A large Hopeland Home lodge picnic drew 90 members by special car from Lebanon. Local improvement includes eight new apprentices at Kmport’s cigar factory and a two story frame dwelling rising on Front street.
Brunnerville notes honor visits from Manheim and Akron families. Local children suffer a leg injury in a runaway accident. Dull is back from a 30 day ship furlough. I H Witmer Jr visits his uncle in Bareville. Lititz residents attend gatherings at Geyer and Roth homes. Typhoid symptoms appear in tenant Geib. Haymaking and cherries abundant this season.
John J. Krepp, formerly of Heidelberg township, died here. Funeral Thursday morning. Services at the house and burial in local cemetery. He was a Lutheran Church member. Widow and three children survive. John H. Hickerwell visited relatives at Millbach and Rehrersburg. Childrens day exercises held at Lutheran church with Sunday school joining the congregation. A fine program was presented. Local school board elected Clifford Strauss as teacher of Kleinfeltersville grammar school. Reformed church will host a seaqui centennial celebration on Sunday July 4 with three services.
A government parcel post auto on a Sunday ride to the country collided with a railroad bridge near Lancaster injuring seven occupants. Abraham Ditzler died from a broken neck and Adam Demmell suffered probable fatal injuries. seven riders were aboard with Hiam E. Root driving. The post office department is investigating the crash.
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