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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1926
Page
4
The Lititz Record notes editor E. Buch serving as proprietor with a subscription rate of 1.50 dollars per year and mail privileges as second class matter at the Lititz, Pennsylvania post office.
Thickly settled towns can lack open country wild beauty yet gain striking street appeal through shaded avenues. Paris exemplifies this with horse chestnut blooms, while American towns boast graceful elms and regional palms and eucalyptus. Each city could adopt a signature tree to define its identity.
The Woman's Missionary Society met at the parsonage with Mrs. H. F. Miller presiding and many members present. A street carnival by Akron Volunteer Fire Company is set for Saturday June 19 featuring the Winona Band of Shillington and a male quartet. Numerous social visits, dinners, and Bible school activities are noted across Ephrata, Lititz, Manheim, York, and surrounding towns, with families traveling to Cleveland and Louisville for two weeks of visiting relatives.
Sunday visits spread through Mt. Joy Shillington Bothaville Wernersville Womelsdorf Prescott Reading and Ephrata with numerous couples and children hosted by local families including the Eshieman Leid Royer and Burkhart groups and guests from Weidler Kilhefner Reitz Mohler Boether Dernback and others. The pattern shows a social network of weekend hospitality among area residents.
Verna Smith, two, of Mr and Mrs Clarence Smith, broke her arm at the wrist last week. Miss Esta Flory returned from Lancaster General Hospital after knee cap operation. Harvey Flory of Lancaster and Harry McCreary and family of Lititz visited on Sunday. Treary Bucher paints his house. Hart raft force of Lititz uses the brush. A G Fahnestock paints his porch and adds a business sign. Villagers trim weeds around premises. Agnes Dullabone learns sister Ada Meiskey ill in HoneLand. Rev Amos Martin of Millersville preached at the local church Sunday. Rumor of a two week woods meeting in the grove near here in July. Mrs J V Roth visited friends in Lititz. Mrs J V Roth and B F Eck and family of Manheim called at M S Shaeffer's Sunday.
Mr I W Singer spent last week at Allentown attending a synod meeting as a delegate of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania. Others from Lititz and nearby areas attended social events and a wedding dinner honoring Mr and Mrs Samuel Fass. Several residents visited relatives, and Irwin Smith nears home after treatment at Rittersville Sanitarium.
The Children's Day exercises held by the Evangelical S.8 last Sunday were well attended and the program ably rendered. The offering totaled $50.75. The U. E. Sunday School is rehearsing for their Children's Day program Sunday evening. Rev. L. A. Werner attended Schuylkill College commencement in Reading last week. Raymond Getz of Conestoga Bank Lancaster is on a two week vacation. Leon Moyer left for Harrisburg for a stenographer post. Miss Elva Zwally, nurse in a Philadelphia Hospital, visited her parental home for several days.
Akron and Philadelphia visitors greet local families including the Shaeffer, Duck, and Mellinger households. An attempted robbery near Akron was thwarted by Amos Weber and partners as they returned from Sphrata, with the bandits fleeing but the men keeping their homeward path.
Dr Paul Lowell renowned for tropical disease work and leadership in the Philippines Leper colony served in the Army in 1917 with the AEF to Siberia and later led the Russian Railroad service corps chief surgeon rank Major. Recently director of Rockefeller Foundation International Health Board in Siam arriving from Bangkok to Lancaster.
Reading Railway police arrested 17 year old John B Moyer of Spring township on alderman Cooney s warrant after five sticks of dynamite with caps and a fuse were found on the Reading and Columbia branch near Montello the fuse lit but failed to detonate an express train from Lancaster to Lititz was due about eight o clock last Thursday morning Moyer is held in jail in default of bail and faces malicious mischief charges while investigators pursue possible gang connections.
About 400 Stauffer descendants gathered at the Springs for the third annual reunion. Attendees came from Ohio, Kansas, Maryland, and Canada. Officers elected included president Clarence W. Hess of Akron and vice presidents Jacob A. Stauffer of Gup, John N. Wissler of Ephrata, and Levi Stauffer of Mt Joy. A. It. Stauffer of Atglen became secretary with John W. Stauffer of Willow Street as treasurer. Amos K. Stauffer of Lancaster named historian. The group planned to meet next year at Lititz on the second Saturday in June.
A fragmented program lists scripture reading and prayer by E. J. Hartman of Pomeroy and coronation hymn, with addresses by Rev. Shuey of Gallion and Rev. Phares Stauffer of Betterton. It includes solos by Gladys Hess and Helen Leed, a historian’s report by Amos K. Stauffer, vocal duets by Mrs. Jacob Leed and Mrs. Jacob Klein, and a memorial to the deceased of the year.
A compact opinion piece notes a town crowded with dogs good bad and indifferent. A prominent doctor warns against rubbing eyes as it will ruin them. The piece laments auto speeding and reckless drivers, Sabbath autoing, and the sparse hours when people are home. It comments on youths who seek to pull ahead facing friction.
A. C. Grove Boyer is associated with electric carpet sweepers and accessories, indicating a business or representation in the sector. The fragment notes him in connection with product lines and related items.
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