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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1919
Page
2
Liquor license fee payments for July spark confusion among hotel operators who should settle by June 39 to stay safe. Receipts will be issued with refunds if the country goes dry on January 1. Meanwhile, Grantville bear reports continue as two bears appear near farms in Dauphin County, frightening a 10 year old watching cows.
The West Taft Township School Board at Brownstown appointed Alvin P. Wenger as principal and assigned assistant roles to N Lee Klopp W E Pierce Katie Startman Fiona Martin James W Klopp Neilson P Harple Alma Carpenter Earl Wolf Levi Mull Ibelen Bishop Metzler Edwin E Getz Jitter's John Mink for an eight month term.
A humorous exchange shows a sailor upset at being assigned to the bakery department. The captain quips about doughboys and bread, ending with encouragement that the sailor’s path can still be favorable, noting the secretary of war and the poetic use of bread imagery.
A collage of short items from the county: Rededication of the Rawlinsville camp meeting with twenty nine preachers slated. B Schwartz ships 100 cases of tobacco cuttings to Europe. Mrs Columbus Sands finds an 1858 gold dollar while gardening. Civil War veteran Jacob Miller returns after 57 years to Lancaster for a G A R convention. Deeds note 96 acres to Hackman in Clay Twp. Milk wagon venture rumored. New apartment house planned on Steinmetz property North Duke St. Family misfortunes report multiple fractures in a Blossburg household. Miss Marie Stauffer of Columbia marries G F Vey Jr in Columbia Episcopal Church. new home in Philadelphia. Mr and Mrs Hershey of Silver Spring celebrate 50th wedding anniversary. Hersheys’ Civil War service noted. Rev Samuel Swigart leaves for Winona Lake and Elgin to visit daughters Rhoda and Carrie. marks 50th ministry anniversary with no prior vacation.
The item compiles short local curios: Emma Leisenring regains a lost gold ring found by Nelson Kingston in her yard. James Miller marks fifty years as secretary treasurer of an Elizabethville insurance firm at 84. Jeanne Tieryast arrives as Allentown’s first French bride of an American serviceman. Also notes a 1815 photograph of John C. Bowden’s Philadelphia butcher shop, relics from last Pennsylvania panthers exhibited in Williamsport, and the hunt for the Mesopotamian-like “Gross Oaiks” estate.
The annual director election was held Saturday at the Lancaster office on South Duke Street. Results list Martin Royer, Hlmer K. Brubaker, Eugene Brubaker, John Musser, Co. M. Sheriz and Samuel Weaver as elected directors.
An Irish spectator asks about a kangaroo as a guard explains the animal is native to Australia. The exchange ends with the Irishman recalling a family connection to an Australian.
Howard Ulrich of Lititz Pennsylvania describes severe influenza symptoms and says Tonall restored his health. He claims Tonall is worth five dollars a bottle and would pay five dollars rather than miss it. The product is sold at J. E. Charles Drug Store in Lititz.
In Earl township near New Holland lies a spring in a 30 by 20 foot cement basin feeding a three foot deep stream. The three hundred acre farm, famed for its primeval oak forest, is owned by Isaac Martin who is distinguished in records as Isaac Martin (Spring). His bank requires the name in parentheses on checks and property deals.
The Postoffice Department announces the sale of two cent postal cards and three cent stamped envelopes will end after June 30. People may redeem held stamped paper at full value at the wholesale stamp window. First class mail remains two cents per ounce. postal cards at one cent each regardless of destination.
Sergeant Yingst at the Army Recruiting Station in Lancaster advertises one year enlistments in the U S Army Air Service Tank Corps or Motor Transport Corps. The program promises training and earnings growth, with opportunities in aviation gasoline work tractor operation and heavy motor equipment upkeep. Regular army life is a benefit and information is available from Sergeant Yingst.
Pastor Brown questions why Rastus quits church. Rastus explains he used to pass the collection basket but Brother Green took the job after returning from oversea service, apparently as recognition for losing a hand.
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