This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
8
New York speaker Charles R Drum will lecture on Present Day Needs and The Boy Problem at Spring Grounds Sunday at 3 pm. He is noted for Y M C A work and praised by Fred B Smith. If rain, address moves to St Pauls Lutheran church.
Montages of guests arriving for Moravian picnic at Lititz and nearby towns. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sturgis, Miss Irene Mohler, Miss Catharine Madeira, and many Lancaster area families visiting relatives and attending festivities. Guests travel from Philadelphia Baltimore Kansas City and beyond to join locals at the Moravian gathering.
In a fourteenth inning page continuation, Bretzers surge with five first inning runs, Mellinger dominates until the ninth, Spickler and Meily make sharp plays, and Bretzels push ahead with walks and errors. Milley, Houck, and Zerphy contribute late in the rally but the score remains unsettled as final blows end without a decisive hit.
On Saturday Mt Joy hosts a game with Mountville hurting a 6 3 loss for Mount ville while Manheim wins 1 to 0 after Shenk no hitters Rising Sun of Reading. Ephrata edges New Holland 3 to 2 and has two wins in three matchups. Burleson announces August 15 parcel post changes raising weight limit to twenty pounds with rate cuts and a switch to individualized post office rate charts. Bell Telephone expands after borough moves poles and Landisville line gains 60 new subscribers.
Public notice states that Lititz Borough taxes may receive a 5 percent abatement for payments made by September 1 1913. Taxes unpaid by October 1 1913 incur an additional 5 percent charge. Tax collector Horace E Sturgis to collect at Isa hardware store on specified August dates.
Public sale of 35 head of choice cows at Hokes Hotel yards Penryn with heavy fresh springers and fat cows. W Biemesderfer will conduct the sale. Cows to be moved to White Oak Canveyane station for viewing.
Farmers offer mules for sale by Isaac Sarah of Penryn to John D. Bear. Prospective buyers may contact by postal card in Indiana or by Bell telephone.
The Bretzels nine defeated the New Holland Y M C A 7 to 3 at New Holland Saturday afternoon. New Holland led 3 0 through two innings before B R CResponse rallied with two runs in the third and two in the fifth to take the lead. Carpent er and Weaver starred at the plate while Yerger fielded and ran bases well.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.