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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1930
Page
8
The Kling family holds its eighth annual reunion at Springs Park with officers listed for Intercourse Litiz and surrounding areas. The Kreider family hosts its annual reunion at Springs Park with officers, committees and genealogy notes, plus a Groff family reunion next Sunday at Millport grove with lunch and a 2:15 PM program.
The body of Charles Beck, initially buried in Potters Field at Tancaster, was disinterred and moved to Lititz by Funeral Director Mellinger of Denver. Beck, son of John and Anna Beck, had lived in Lititz, Ephrata, and Manheim, remarried after his first wife Mamie Eckert died, and passed away in the County Hospital after treatment. Relatives of his first wife arranged the reinterment in Beck’s Lititz lot. a single prayer by Horace L. Eschbach was offered at the service.
The seventieth annual Muddy Creek Church Sunday School festival will be held Saturday at Hartman's Grove in East Cocalico Township. Dr. H. M. J. Kline of Franklin and Marshall College will deliver the day’s address, with Rev. A. W. Leibensperger also speaking. The program starts at two o’clock and features music by the Ringgold Band of Reading and the Perseverance Band of Lebanon, each with 30 men. A joint 60-man program closes the afternoon. The grove lies a few hundred yards south of Swartzville along the Conestoga Traction lines.
During a tense match in a covered Essen court, firemen arrived asking about a fire. A stray tennis ball had struck a glass fire alarm box, breaking it and triggering the alarm, halting play.
A line from Sir John Harringtons 1608 London translation of a Latin medical poem, dedicated by the Salerno school of medicine to Robert son of William the Conqueror, mentions joy temperance and repose closing the doctors nose.
Mrs Angelina Grambling Marks 67 widow of Adam Marks died at her daughter Mrs Charles Hain Shillington Saturday morning from a complication of diseases. She was a Muddy Creek Reformed Church member. Surviving are children from a previous marriage to Jeremiah Weinhold Walter Weinhold Lizzie wife of Charles Hain John J Weinhold Harry Weinhold Ralph Weinhold Charles Weinhold and Helen wife of Charles Grendie with brothers Charles Grimbling Elam and John. Services were held Tuesday at 9:30 at the Hain residence followed by church services and interment in the adjacent Muddy Creek cemetery.
Jerome L Baker 72 died from a complication of diseases at his son William Y Baker’s Kissel Hill home early Saturday. Survived by son William, a sister Mrs William Amer Lititz, a brother Monroe Lititz four grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services held 10 am Tuesday at Kissel Hill Church with interment in Macpelah Cemetery Lititz. R M Spacht director.
Seventh Day Baptists at Ephrata won a temporary injunction from Judge Landis halting M. B. Hacker's bid to seize cloister relics over back taxes. Attorney K L Shirk outlined four reasons why action should not proceed. Hacker had posted notices of levy for 258.30 and threatened to sell church property to collect payment.
J C Brubaker a noted county farmer resigned as president of the Pennsylvania State Farm Bureau at a Harrisburg board meeting due to ill health and business pressure. The vacancy was not filled and the board praised his long service from the bureau’s founding while hoping for continued influence as a board member.
The Church of the Brethren starts a two week Daily Vacation Bible School on Monday for all denominations with sessions from 8:30 to 11:30 am for children aged 4 to 16. Miss Mary Snyder directs, Grace Miller secretary, John Hershey gives morning devotional talks, and Mrs. Florence Gibbes teaches the Mission study to Juniors.
Intermediates Mrs Harry Reiden bach and Miss Naomi Peiffer supervise the Primary classes Mrs Owen Hershey and Mrs Reit the Beginners Miss Edna Mohler the Juniors and Miss Mary Snyder the Intermediate girls per the registrar.
Miss Gladys Floreta Turner daughter of Mr and Mrs Thome Turner of Ephrata elopes from a Fassnacl reunion in the Park with Ira M Sheaffer of New Holland. After securing a license they were married by Rev Minor in Elkton and returned home to reside with the bridegroom's parents.
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