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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
2
A Keystone exchanges item notes the York fair managers will set admission at 50 cents next fall. In a separate obituary, Joseph B. Cassell of Center Point formerly of Lansdale, left a $3900 estate and required attendance at his funeral or forfeit part of the bequest, prompting relatives to attend.
Dr. J. M. Fleming of Huntingdon recovered a long misplaced luggage item returned last week in good condition. Fleming served as a surgeon in the First Battalion 321st Field Artillery with rank of first lieutenant.
Jere L. Rice has resigned as secretary of the P. R. M. C. at Reading to become chief fire inspector on the Reading system. Rice formerly attended Lititz with the P. R. M. C. baseball team.
Dr. C. E. Milson of Catasauqua hooked a 27 inch trout at Bogerts Bridge on the Little Lehigh Creek two miles west of Allentown. The fish measured 7 inches wide and weighed 9 pounds 10 ounces after a 15 minute battle, taken on a split bamboo red weighing five and a half ounces.
Eugene McDonald traveled from Philadelphia to Scranton with his mother for services honoring fallen soldiers. He heard his own name read as killed in action and later saw it inscribed on the bronze tablet, reflecting his service with a unit not specified.
A wounded veteran was left for dead after a charge of the Sixty-ninth Regiment during the war. He was rescued by a comrade, but the official record still marks him as killed in action.
Samuel Neal a theological student entered Independence Pennsylvania and delivered a sermon in a Presbyterian church before realizing he had preached in the Methodist church. He announced hymns, preached to a mystified congregation, and apologized after being corrected.
Harold MacGrath's best selling The Luck of the Irish is adapted into a photodrama by Allan Dwan and shown at the Paramount Theatre Friday and Saturday. Filmed across New York Gibraltar Venice Naples Cairo and Singapore the story follows a world traveling Irishman protecting a mysterious female companion. James Kirkwood stars as William Grogan with Anna Q Nilsson as Ruth Warren.
Capt. Kermit Roosevelt will address the Lancaster Travel Club next fall on "Brazil and the River of Doubt." A Bon auto truck delivered a tow load of fishing tackle from the Pequea factory to Philadelphia.
Stevens will host bicycle races on June 19 open to the public with prizes ranging from a bronze medal to a gold watch. The event promises free admission and event details.
A local resident killed four weasels in a single day, with the final act ending the fourth animal’s life after discovering it in the yard. The incident reflects a sequence of humane, though drastic, pest control by a private individual.
Electricians H. A. Delong and Milton Enck of Ephrata left for Miami to pursue their trades. The 1500 mile trip in Delong's 1911 model car is expected to take about ten days.
Lancaster music teacher Elwood W. Bear and his wife travel to the Pacific Coast in a custom built automobile with beds and life necessities installed. Andrew Heisey of Elizabeth town returns from Sebring Florida after fruit picking season ending May 13. Heisey tours Moorehaven Fort Myers Arcadia Bradenton St Petersburg Tampa Plant City Haines City to Sebring on vacation.
The school directors of Penn township appointed teachers for the coming year with each school listing a specific educator. Salaries range from 65 to 100 dollars per month and depend on the teacher’s marks and certificates held.
John E. Ulrich a cigar maker in Elizabethtown displayed two earless rabbits in his window one with no ears and one with a single ear. Born 1883 died 1920. The Christiana Ledger suspends publication due to rising costs and static subscriptions. Pretzel Bakery Runs Day and Night in Elizabethtown A F Ricker adds night shift to meet high pretzel demand due to booming business.
Thirty five workers idle due to material shortage tied up by railroad freight congestion forces Tauber Lipton & Co to shut the Mountville shirt factory for two weeks. The firm also operates a Lititz plant and reports more than 1500 cases of goods stuck somewhere.
Flowers mark a grave for Amy Treichler a trained nurse who died in the south while in service. Her father Dr. A C Treichler was a ball pitcher at Lititz years ago. Ephrata Foundry owner E B Andes plans to revive the foundry at Ephrata creating many jobs and light castings. In Lancaster Wesley Burd reports poultry losses from weasels with his wife Mrs Burd and a neighbor responding by shooting the first weasel and later killing another from beneath a woodpile.
Richard M. Stockton a Lancaster musician noted as a leading young organist. He served as organist and assistant at multiple churches from age 11, later to the Moravian and St. Marks churches. A motion picture organist since his teens, he has been the Grand Theatre organist since February 1915.
Mr Stockton has taught music for eleven years and educated many pupils including Helen Zook at Grace Lutheran, Viela Leib at Moravian Lititz, and Irvine McHose at Franklin and Marshall. A Lancaster native, he graduated in 1911 and 1915 from Franklin and Marshall, left college to lead at the Grand Theatre, composed popular waltzes and church anthems, sang in glee clubs, and helped grow the Lancaster Organist Association since 1917.
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