Local Notices Spark Town with Lost Goods and Outings
Wheat turns to brown and sweet cherries scarce while sour varieties flourish. A gold cuff button and a gold turquoise bracelet are found or lost with rewards at the RECORD office. Watermelons arrive Florida grown and crimson ramblers bloom brightly. A purse containing 140 dollars is reported missing by Aaron Weidman with liberal reward offered. Local events include concerts, a six coach special train for Sunday schools, and a car show display. An 18 karat gold ring with initials is found on a school yard and can be claimed with proof of ownership. A group travels to Boston for Standard Oil work, while a milliner plans fall openings in Lancaster. Bass fishing is hampered by muddy streams after rains. A social party and multiple insurance actions also appear in this week’s notes. A slot machine front is damaged by a thief leaving behind a pipe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Record Office
Florida
Aaron Weidman
Rothsville
Heck
Harry S. Becker
Brunnerville
Weymouth
Mass
John F. Longenecker
Lancaster
Landisville
Salunga
Jefferson Wagner
Hiram Helman
Akron
Midlway and
Boston
Standard Oil Company
Price
Main Street
Florence Seldomridge
South Broad Street
Neffsville
D. W. Dietrich
Sick and Accident Insurance Company
Philadelphia
David B. Huber
Fruitville
Nathaniel K. Brubaker
Lititz
Tvan
M. Rohrer
H. M. Bemesderfer
Manheim
M. B. Rohrer
Strasburg
Artist Siddons Sketches for Ten Cents at East Main Storeroom
Frank M. Siddons of Syracuse New York visited the East Main street storeroom on Monday and Tuesday drawing crayon portraits for ten cents each. The 6 foot 11 inch, 330 pound sketch artist has toured the world with Forepaugh Sells Bros. circus and worked as a newspaper cartoonist. He drew many profiles in minutes and drew a large crowd at the Spring grounds on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benj. F. Lutz
East Main Street
Frank M. Siddons
Syracuse
N. Y
Siddons
Forepaugh & Sells Bros.’ Circus
Large Lutherans Reunion Draws Thousands to Spring Grounds
The reunion of Lutherans from Lebanon Dauphin Berks and Lancaster counties on the Spring grounds attracted about 2500 people. Mass meetings in the pavilion featured Rev J B Whittelker and Rev B F Alleman with music from Emanuel's Lutheran junior choir. Baseball and tennis accompanied the event, as visitors enjoyed the town and park during the special railroad rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
Dauphin
Berks
Lancaster
Columbia
Reading
The
Conestoga Traction Company
Bretzel Bakeries
Ephrata
J. EB. Whittelker
D. D
B. F. Alleman
Emanuel’s Lutheran Church
Doremus
Keppel to Join Allentown Band for Atlantic City Run
Coronetist Harry Keppel accepted a four day engagement with the famous Allentown Band led by Prof. Klinger. The dates are July 11 through 14 in Atlantic City. Klinger has long sought Keppel for the group and made multiple offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Keppel
Prof. Klinger
Allentown
Atlantic City
Prof
Klinger
Mr. Keppel
Rural Telephone Line Connects Farmers on Penn Warwick Line
Between this place and Manheim farmers Hiram Minnich Tomer Minnich Abram Minnich and Hiram Longenecker live along the Penn Warwick rural line and have been connected by Bell telephone. Farmers realize the value of home telephones and more rural lines are being considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram Minnich
Tomer Minnich
Abram Minnich
Hiram Longenecker
Manheim
Bell Telephone
Penn
Arrest of 17 year old for concealed revolver
Aaron Leed son of John Leed was arrested this morning by Constable Hacker for carrying concealed deadly weapons. He will have a hearing before Justice of the Peace C. N. Derr after being nabbed on the Spring grounds by Policeman Greek who took him to the Justice who swore out the warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aaron Leed
John Leed
Hacker
Justice of the Peace
C. N. Derr
Greek
Death notices: Samuel Grube 74 in town
Samuel Grube died at 6 15 PM Tuesday at his North Broad Street home after two years of ill health. He was 74 years seven months and 24 days old, a carpenter and former planer mill partner of Seaber & Grube. Survived by wife Susan Minnich, children Cuvier, Wilson, Catharine, and a brother Emmanuel. Funeral Saturday at his house then Moravian church with Rev. H. S. Hagen officiating. Interment Moravian cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Grube
North Broad Street
Mr. Grube
Emanuel and Catharine Grube
Kissel Hill
Warwick Township
Samuel Seaber
Seaber
Wilson
Shoeman
Catharine
Harry E. Shaeffer
Emanuel
H. S. Hagen
Death of Lewis Buck at Warwick on Orange Street
Lewis Buck died at his home on Orange Street Warwick on Tuesday afternoon. He had suffered illness for a year and died of kidney trouble just before his eighty first birthday. Born in Würtemberg Germany he came to the United States at fourteen and settled in Warwick. He worked as a day laborer and was married in 1871 to Mrs. Martin Eck who survives him. He belonged to the Moravian church. The funeral will be Friday at 130 PM at the house and 2 0 clock at the Moravian church with Rev. E S Hagen officiating and burial in the Moravian cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Buck
Orange Street
Warwick
Mr. Buck
Wurtemburg
Germany
Martin Eck
Moravian Church
Hagen
Death of Mrs. Daniel F. McCloud at Brownstown
Mrs. Sarah Rickart McCloud died suddenly at home in Brownstown last Saturday from congestion of the biliary tubes in her forty ninth year. She left a husband Daniel F. McCloud and six children Lillian Mamie Chester Sadie Lena Mildred. Surviving siblings Harvey of Ephrata Mary Hertzoz of Ephrata and Francis Ernst of Cleveland. Funeral Tuesday at Brownstown Evangelical Church with Rev N Bechtel officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah
Nee Rickart) McCloud
Daniel F. McCloud
Brownstown
McCloud
Lillian
Philadelphia
Mamie
Chester
Waynesboro
Sadie
Lena
Mildred
Harvey
Ephrata
Mary Hertzoz
Francis Ernst
Cleveland
Brownstown Evangelical Church
N. Bechtel
Death at Manheim Claims German Native Aged 89
George Gramlech died at H M Ensminger’s residence in Manheim on Friday night at age eighty nine from a complication of diseases. A native of Germany he moved to Lancaster about sixty years ago and worked in a total brewery before turning to farming in Penn township. He was the last of his family. The funeral was from his home Monday with burial at Kauffman’s burying ground south of Manheim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gramlech
H. M. Ensminger
Manheim
Germany
Lancaster
Penn Township
Kauffman
Mrs Hannah Merkel Dies After Months Illness
Mrs Hannah Merkel widow of John Merkel died at her son in law Clayton Gibble’s home in Manheim on Sunday after a five month illness from grip. She was seventy nine years old. She is survived by two children Annie wife of Clayton Gibble and J H Merkel Read ing also two brothers Josiah High St Louis Mo and Madry High of Oley Berks county. Funeral from the home Wednesday at 2 pm with interment in Fairview cemetery south of Manheim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah Merkel
John Merkel
Clayton Gibble
Manheim
Grip
Funeral of Abraham F Hostetter Esq in Lancaster County
The funeral of Abraham F. Hostetter, Esq., who died in Lancaster on Thursday, 15th inst., drew a large crowd. Services were held at his brother Henry E. Hostetter’s Oregon residence and at Millport Union Meeting House with noted ministers. Interment followed in the adjacent cemetery. Hostetter rose from Lititz Academy to a distinguished legal career in Detroit before returning home to Lancaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Hostetter
Abraham F. Hostetter
Lancaster
Henry E. Hostetter
Oregon
Jacob Lehman
Chambersburg
Union
Millport
L. 5. Mudge
Dr. School
Baltimore
J. E. Keene
Lititz
A. G. Bowman
A. W. Moyer
Redmond Conyngham
B. Frank Kready
David McMullen
N. Milton Woods
Fourth of July Celebration Plans At Lititz
The Lititz Fourth of July committee reports strong support and several attractions for the town celebration. A grand illumination and fireworks display, two top Eastern Pennsylvania bands Burger's Fourth Regiment and Beck's Concert, an afternoon oratorical contest, and morning and afternoon baseball between Lititz and New Holland are planned. Special trains and trolley cars every fifteen minutes will aid travel, with automobile accommodations also arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tée
Nmade
Jupiter Pluvius
Eastern Pennsylvania
Burger
4Th Reg’t
Beck
Lititz
New Holland
Springs Committee
Bicycle Stolen From Evans Home On Cedar Street
Last Thursday night a bicycle belonging to Raymond Evans son of Dr HE E Evans was stolen from the porch in the rear of the Evans home on Cedar street. The thief appeared familiar with the premises and the bicycle had been kept there for years without disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond
HE. E. Evans
Evans
Cedar Street
Personal Travel Notices Fill Warm Month Schedule
Local notices list numerous residents and visitors from Lititz and nearby towns spending Sundays and weekends in towns like Reading Ephrata Hazleton and Philadelphia. Names include Alvin Mumma Henry Rollman Ada Diehm Beulah Stauffer and many others as they visit relatives attend events or seek employment across Pennsylvania Delaware and New Jersey.
Lancaster Residents Abroad and Local Family News
Mrs Wm DeHaven of Lancaster visits her brother H Kauffman and plans an European tour with other Lancastrians. Wm Smith and Mrs Carper visit Spring City with J Edward Diehm. Miss Florence Buch returns from Bryn Mawr to Atlantic City. Trene Light arrives home from California with May Erb pausing in Chicago. Tina Speck leaves Linden Hall for Maine. Louise de Schwenitz and Martha Derr vacation in Bethlehem. Emily Tietze heads west for the summer. Daniel Witmyer from Goshen Ind arrives in town to meet his brother John after forty five years away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin Mumma
Ranks
Henry Rollman
Ephrata
Zach Wike
Reading
Ada Diehm
White Oak
William Weaver
Esther, Wolfe
Chicago
C. D. Kreider
Philadelphia
Harold Stark
Ellsmere
Del
Frank, Grosh
Rheems
Jennie Grosh
John Enek
Lexington
Beulah Stauffer
New York
Maurice Kauffman
Paul Smith
Lebanon
Norman Lacy
Aaron Brubaker
Elizabethtown
J. H. Luker
Enos Baker
James Sesseman
Lancaster
John Sesseman
Henry Snyder
Wm. D. Fichthorn
L. N. Moyer
Robesonia
Moyer
B. F. Grosh
J. B. Lincoln
Margaret of Lancaster
Lititz
Wallace Meiskey
Hazle‘ton
Jacob Keener
Phares Malschnee
Daniel Burkholder
Horace Keller
Spruce Street
P. D. Miller
Columbia
John Miley
Camden
N. J
Bretzel
J. C. Brebst
Sue Dohner
Schuylkill Seminary
Jacob A. Buch
F. B. Buch
Joseph Bollinger
Samuel Weaver
Charles Minde
Christian Herr
Lewis Haines
Louis Seaber
Swarthmore
Delaware County
Seather
Paul Lacy
State College
Covington
Miles Murr
Cleveland
Mary Stewart
Pittsburg
Linden Hall
Mary M. Buch
Kissel Hill
Griffith Schott
Bismarck
Lebanon County
Thomas Eiscadden
Schott
James A. Sturgis
Ira Nies
Hannah Eichelberger
Adam Hershey
Lillian
Eliza Hershey
Susan Dietrich
East Petersburg
J. D. Roland
Abraham Dreitus
Joseph
Shaefferstown
Neck of the Woods
Wm. DeHaven
H. §. Kauffman
W. K. Bender
Lickdale
Jonestown
Spring City
Chester County
J. Edward Diehm
Florence Buch
Louisa Buch
Bryn Mawr
Sothern
Atlantic City
Trene Light
California
D.E. Light
May Erb
Pacific Coast
Miss Light
Tina Speck
Maine
Louise de Schwenitz
Bethlehem
Martha Derr
Emily Tietze
Daniel Witmyer
Goshen
Ind
John
West
Warwick Township
Enterprizing Young Men at Ocean City
Clarence Brubaker and Percy Driefus, two local youths, started a poultry and egg business at Ocean City New Jersey. They report steady success and their enterprise and thrift are covering their expenses at the popular seaside resort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Brubaker
Percy Driefus
Ocean City
N. J
Elser Family Reunion Attendees Plan Three Week Buckeye Trip
Mrs. Hannah O. Mellinger of Bricker ville and Miss Lizzie E. Eberly of Weid manville depart today for Columbiana Ohio to attend the Elser reunion at Youngstown park on Saturday. They will visit other Buckeye state areas and stay about three weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah O. Mellinger
Brickerville
Lizzie E. Eberly
Weidmanville
Columbiana, O
Elser
Youngstown Park
Buckeye
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Gowan
LOGAL
Lebanon, Berks
Lancaster Counties
Wil
Deata
Hostetter
Lititz Academy
John Beck
Abraham
Eugene A. Frueauff
Frucauff
Mr. Hostetter
Ann Arbor
Mich
Detroit
Rev. Musser
J. B. Musser
St. Luke Reformed Church
St. John Reformed Church
Orwigsburg
Schuylkill County
Musser
St. John
Theological Seminary
Rudy
John H. Yerger
Mr. Yerger
Jacob Bomberger
M. H. Yoder
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