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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1925
Page
4
The Lititz Record credits R. E. Buch as editor and proprietor. Subscription is 1.50 dollars per year. The paper is entered at Lititz, Pennsylvania post office as second class matter.
The article notes young people feel a strong urge to explore the nation during vacations by taking distant jobs or long hiking trips. It warns many must beg or borrow funds, and urges securing steady local work first to build money for travel later.
The passage contrasts two traveler types: hotel and entertainment focused vacationers who return unchanged, and curious explorers who absorb new understandings. It suggests a lecture topic for a Lititz Men’s club or Ladies’ Aid Society to start the fall season with fresh ideas from travel experiences.
The Loyal Workers Sunday School class met at Mrs Sallie Buch's home with Mrs Laura Roland and others present. After the program refreshments were served. A union picnic is planned for Saturday July 18 at Rocky Springs Lancaster.
Mink and family from Farmersville host visits from Zwallys in New Hellam and Albert, with many Lancaster County households welcoming relatives and friends. Clara Roger from Lancaster stays with W. H. Oberholtzer. Numerous trips include Malschneese, Moyer, Stranahan, Zellers, and Bollinger families visiting kin in Lititz, Akron, Reading, Brunerville, Neffsville, Elizabethtown, and Mohnton.
The Men's Bible class of the Evan gelical Sunday school plans a picnic Saturday in Ira Wengers meadow by the Cocalico creek near Oregon. Thomas Steffy and Lititz men will lay concrete walks here next week. Levi Kreider of Philadelphia visits his mother. J. W. Buch and family spent Sunday in Philadelphia. The single men beat married men 13 to 2 in seven innings on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs T K Helms and son Jay of Rockingham NC visiting relatives here. Many from here attended lawn services at Akron last Sunday.
The Bucher family hosted a Sunday gathering with numerous relatives and friends from Witmer Eden Cocalico New Holland Lititz Manheim and Lititz plus Emma Snyder of St Josephs hospital Lancaster visiting her father C B Snyder. Other residents noted include Miss Eva Hurst Myrtle Bucher and Mrs J W Gerhart as well as Mrs Noah Hurst and Kathryn visiting Lancaster.
Advertisement urges painting services for houses barns and garages and provides contact W S Fry at 106 8 Broad Street for prompt work.
In a New York Times discussion on boys upbringing two paths clash. One trains a future man with boxing lessons and discipline while the other pushes music and dance for heirs more inclined to frivolity. A wealthy Fifth Avenue home hosts a ten year old boy enduring daylong jazz dance sessions in gloves.
The piece notes that military bands aim to lift marching spirit and speed, while an industrial magnate found bands doubled output during dancing versus dirge. It claims Jazz and ragtime trace to rapid rhythms from cotton plantations where pickers were restricted to rising, galloping music, with ragtime arising from negro choirs and plantation rhythms.
The custom of knighthood used the Christian or real name as the title Sir John once raised, while surnames appeared later for distinction. Surnames were not the formal title at knighthood, and the Christian name remained the real identifier in church and ceremony contexts.
Thomas Scott, described as Sir Walter Scott’s favorite brother, arrived in Canada in 1814 as paymaster of the Seventieth regiment. He aided in Quebec, was confirmed in 1817 by Lord Palmerston, and was rumored to be the real author of the Waverley novels. He died in 1858 leaving three daughters, Jessie Ann and Eliza.
The article notes elderly people recalling childhood scenes and cites a Bible entry from a New England family. It records Mary Anne Taylor born January 10 1782, written in a trembling hand on a page dated 1855. The piece illustrates memory’s reach across generations.
Executor sees Letters testamentary granted for David R. Buch and administrator for Raymond L. Webber both in Lititz Pa. Creditors are asked to present claims for settlement and debtors to make immediate payment to the undersigned in Lititz Pa. Administrator Alfred L. Couple listed as attorney.
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