Local Outing Highlights Ideal Chocolate Crew and Borough News
More than 60 Ideal Chocolate Company workers enjoyed a Saturday outing to Milway with games and lunch. Three baseball games surfaced during the trip aboard hay wagons. The Saturday market drew crowds with new potatoes priced at 8 10 and 12 cents per half peck and corn at 18 a dozen ears. Gas was demonstrated in Hershey and Gibbel’s office marking a borough first. Bear Long expanded coal chutes while Mrs. J A Miksch marked her 50th birthday. Beck's Band will provide music for the Moravian picnic next Wednesday. Isaac Buch and Walter H Buch, father and son linked to the RECORD, died. Mr Buch was 81 after a long illness. A moving picture show was announced for Saturday night. A Gochnauer cow died after falling into a hole near a new S Broad Street building. York Male Chorus gave a large crowd a Sunday afternoon concert on the springs grounds. Lititz beat Newmanstown 3 1 in a one hour game. Cornwall Lebanon R A embargo on beer to Mt Gretna camp prompted the state to train soldiers elsewhere. The Moravian Church organ was cleaned and tuned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ideal Chocolate Company
Milway
Hershey and
Gibbel
Bear & Long
J. A. Miksch
Beck
Isaac Buch
The
Record
Walter H. Buch
Buch
Andrew Gochnauer
S. Broad Street
York
Springs Grounds
Lititz
Longeneckers Brethren Church Services and Activities Summary
Services were held at Longeneckers Brethren Church west of Lititz with Rev. Christian Gibbel and Rev. Charles Cassel preaching. The church was freshly painted and whitewashed. a harvest meeting was planned and an August 4 council meeting set for 2 PM. Sunday School had 121 pupils and raised $5.09. other community visits and gatherings occurred, including a men’s chorus at the Elizabeth Town Brethren Church and programs at the Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longenecker’s Brethren Church
Lititz
Christian Gibbel
Charles Cassel
Longeneckers Church
Basehore
Carlisle
Harvey Metzler
Ephrata
John H. Kreider
Fruitville Pike
Linn B. Longeneeker
Levi Fahnestock
Elizabeth
Nathan Fahn
Lititz News Snips and Local Fun From 50 Years Ago
Fifty years ago July 21 notes long since that Seth Thomas Regulator kept precise time and a water proof movement ran in a jar. A scarecrow tactic failed as robins nested in its pocket. Reapers and binders began work on Daniel Lefever’s farm below New Haven. A goat frightened a rider in Lititz, smashing a wagon. Nathan Sturgis’ 43rd birthday drew a surprise party. Road surveyors marked the Lititz Brubaker’s Mill route. Local visits span Lititz, Rothville and Elizabethtown households with many friends gathering for dinners and a Minnich wedding reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milchsack
Seth Thomas
I. G. Pfautz
Daniel Lefever
New Haven
Danny Shelly
Lititz
Nathan O. Sturgis
Lititz-Brubaker's Mill
Carter's Little Liver Pills Advertising Copy 1931
An old advertisement extols Carter's Little Liver Pills as the remedy to stimulate two pounds of bile flow from the liver, relieving sour feelings, foul breath, and digestion issues. It warns against laxatives and mineral waters and highlights the red labeled bottle at 25 cents from 1931.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
C.m.ca
Stolen Car Recovered After Hold Up on Lititz Pike
J I Luttenberger of R D 3 reported a masked robber forced him from his car along the Lititz Pike and took the machine. Constable George Perley found the car near the holdup spot and is seeking the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. I. Luttenberger
Lancaster
Lititz Pike
George Perley
Luttenberger
Immortal Speech Tincoln Contiths Gettysburg Speech
Fragmentary OCR notes claim Abraham Lincoln delivered a Gettysburg Address of 268 words with 106 one syllable words 42 two syllable words and 20 words with more than two syllables. The text appears garbled and may mix counts with misread digits and names.
Wheat Yields Low and Pests Hit Tobacco Fields
Early threshings indicate a low wheat yield due to fly, rust and mild winter weather. Straw is heavy from a robust crop stand, with yields around 20 to 30 bushels per acre. Fleas infest tobacco fields causing great damage to young plants. spraying and dusting are being used. Fields remain very dry and rain is badly needed.
Lien Notice in Lancaster County Mortgage Satisfaction Petition
In the Court of Common Pleas Lancaster County a petition seeks release of a 1861 mortgage held by Philip H. Goepp on Jacob Diehm for 1563 dollars covering 33 acres in Lititz. All interested must appear July 30 1982 at 10 AM to contest or the lien may be released. Sheriff and attorney signatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Diehm
Philip H. Goepp
Court of Common Pleas
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Recorder's Office
Borough of
Lititz
Recorder’s Office
Morris G. Frederick
Plum Street
Recorder of Deeds
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Newmanstown
Cornwall & Lebanon R.A
Mt. Gretna
Robert Hevener
White Oak Church
Tin S. Longenecker
M& Toy
Miller Kreider
I Q. O. A. Lodge
Myerstown
Elizabeth Weaver
John WH. Kreider
Noute 3
Elizabeth Gish
Brethren Home
Harvey Buck
Elizabethtown
Maria Buck
Rufus Bucher
Quaryville
Tlizabathtown
East Fairview
Mer- Foy
Elev
Ben. Zug
Harrisburg
Myr
Marry C. Landis
Chester Landis
Charles Livingood
Samuel Hertzler
Milton
Lincoln Stauffer
Rothaville
George Boyd
Monroe Boyd
Clarence Rhoads
Route 2
John Dittman
Samuel Young
Elmer Bomberger
Mrs. Young
Philadelphia
Peggy Snyder
Martha
Sara Snyder
Clayton Kulp
Walter Landis
Raymond Kulp
Ellen Kulp
Fannie Hauck
Neffsville
Hiram G. Minnich
John B. Minnich
John Minnich
Charles Booz
Mhenry Gottschall
Souderton
Milton Styer
Harley’s Pike
A. C. Baugher
T. &. Beck
Elmer Beck
Manheim
Dorothy Freeman
Howard Minnich
Mt. Greta
Lien
D. KF. Shuman
Joseph B. Wissler Sheriff
Shaum’s
Brownstown
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