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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1927
Page
1
A local prize of 85 dollars was awarded at the Lesher gasoline station. The report notes the event location and confirms the prize amount and venue details.
The piece recalls spring cleaning as a household battle with carpets, dust, and germs. It contrasts housewife diligence with male chaos, noting the labor of tacking down carpets and the quiet toil behind home cleanliness in Lititz.
The notice asks readers to check the date on the subscription label, indicates new animal statements are being sent, and requests cooperation to avoid any mistakes in updating dates.
At the regular meeting of Legion Post 56 a resolution was passed to extend the use of Legion rooms to Civil War veterans in the area. Adjacent Hunter was instructed to write to the Reading Railroad Company requesting them to guard the Water and Locust street railroad crossings.
A historical report recalls near collisions at Broad Street and Water Street crossings. Autoists misjudged signal reliability, moments before trains passed. Police officer Kreider often signaled drivers to stop, yet some ignored him, narrowly avoiding disaster.
Mr and Mrs Harry R Myers entertained fourteen members of the Lititz High School Band at their home. Guests included Harry Kepple B F Lutz Kreider of Manheim and Miss Jz of Ephrata. Boys brought instruments and performed with Kepple and Lutz. Excellent refreshments were served.
Fewer large farm sales than last year but higher prices for stock and implements noted. Daniel Kreiner sale near Ore gon Monday sold six cows from 44 to 106, 12 steers average 74, bull 79, four horses 27 to 127.50, mule 20, 50 Rhode Island chickens 27 to 2544 cents per pound. Binder 157, plows 5 to 5.25, drill 23, reeller 26, harrows 4 to 10, corn 50 to 85 cents a bushel. H H Snavely auctioneer, clerks Roy Himmelberger and H B Workman. Six hucksters present.
John Myers a Lititz resident escaped from a jail cell in the Lititz firehouse basement Sunday after beating his wife. He yanked an iron bar from a meat chopper stand and left through the damaged cell, while two lodgers slept. He was arrested around 3 30 pm and faces assault and battery charges. He had prior DUI and jail escape history in Manheim.
White Cove Commandery No. 532 installed officers on Thursday evening March 3. Deputy Grand Commander W. J. Hepler officiated. New officers include J. Albert Hall as Commander and J. Arthur E Brackart as Grand. Harry W. Stormfeltz as Captain General. Clarence E. Regennas as Prelate. Charles H. Zartman as Recorder. C. Earl Brian as Assistant Recorder. Alvin Y. Young as Treasurer. David R. Bowman as Senior Warden. Adam S. Schaeffer as Junior Warden. Samuel O. Treisley as Sword Bearer. Charles W. Rapp as Standard Bearer. William H. Zartman as Warden. Lester K. Showers as First Guard. W. Cullen Carpenter as Second Guard. Roy M. Weaver as Trustee.
Mrs. Albert W. Smith nee Carria Haisch, a Lititz native age 45, died of a stroke in San Bernardino, California. She was a Moravian church member, a graduate of the American Stomach Hospital in Philadelphia, married in 1918, and survived by her husband, two sons Albert and Kenneth, and brother Thomas of Bethlehem. Burial was in San Bernardino. Also, Men Schloss Bros. announce a spring display at Pfantz Bros. store Friday and Saturday.
Knew Better Than to Argue With Judge Harl Reist, a Lititz youth on the local basketball team, paid 11.25 in Reading police court after a Sunday trolley car incident on Bingeman Street. The driver testified no one was seriously hurt as the rider was accompanied by his parents and Chester Wertsch. The magistrate insisted on the fine and the Lititz party left, believing the punishment unfair but cheaper than contesting.
The local American Legion Post plans an elimination marble shooting contest to spark schoolboys interest. The column muses on marble lore, changing home layouts, adrenal glands, and how new experiences refresh vigor, concluding that change indeed excites the glands and uplifts people.
Seven Lititz business men met to organize a local ball squad using town players except for one pitcher. Nelson Mearig was chosen field manager to contact an out of town pitcher. Doc McMullen and three other veterans were found in town. Twilight Thursday games are proposed to attract shoppers and workers. County League participation is declined. Attending members include R. D. Detweiler, Augustus Fleckenstein, Charles Brobst, Eugene Long, J. W. Ford, Nelson Mearig, and R. E. Buch.
At the annual dues meeting of the W C T U the five reel motion picture Lest We Forget by James K Shields will be shown Monday evening March 14 at St Pauls Lutheran church. It portrays the tragedies once common in old saloons in a realistic dramatic light.
Miss Mabelle Steffy entertained a number of her friends at her home on North Broad street Tuesday evening. Refreshments were served to Miss Erma Keath, Miss Violet Slelter, Miss Thelma Pfautz, Miss Dorothy Hoover, Miss Elizabeth Krumbine, Miss Laura Rudy, Miss Sadie Leitsinger, Miss Dora Better, Miss Alma Brookmyer all of Lititz and Miss Lottie Kiehl of Ephrata. Cards and games were played.
Prof Warry Baughey of Neffsville has organized an old time singing class at Brunnerville schoolhouse meeting every Tuesday at 8 o clock sharp. All ages are invited to join to revive the old time community singing. Current enrollment is sixty. Baughey previously held successful sessions at East Petersburg.
Mr and Mrs Guy Hershey announce a boy born at St Joseph Hospital yesterday. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Frank Hunter on Monday. Frank Dengate on Monday March Ammon Shelly last week. Frank Gantz of Pine Hill visited and met his great grandchild.
Income Tax Service Manager Earl B E Kolbach from Reading will be at Farmers National Bank through March 12 to assist patrons with income tax filing. Call at the bank to receive his services gratis.
Eugene Stauffer made his fifth trip to Philadelphia on Monday regarding an auto accident nearly a year ago. He drove a car for Mrs. Woodington, whose insurance and a casualty company defend the case. The victim left hospital after two days but seeks large damages. The case has been postponed many times in court.
Three ministers presided over the joint funeral of Elmer G Hershey and his sons Eugene and Wilbur after a grade crossing accident in Lititz. Four thousand spectators filled the church and around two thousand entered, with a large crowd outside. sixteen pallbearers lowered four caskets into a single grave as a simple ritual concluded.
Among the sick Jacob Snyder of South Broad street is confined to bed with grippe. Mrs Henry Weaver has been confined to her home with sickness for three weeks. Mrs S W Buch of Kissel Hill, ill ten days, is much improved.
The Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion Post 56 will hold a pantry sale at the Post Home on Saturday March 12 in the afternoon and evening. Items for sale include chicken corn soup baked beans deviled clams sandwiches cakes pies and coffee.
Abram B. Eshleman sued Andrew F Gochenour and N S Myers in Equity Court at Lancaster for $7 785 on a frame stucco house contract. Eshleman paid 1 785 to Myers, with 6 000 due on completion. Myers claims Eshleman ordered no build and kept funds. Godenour denied involvement beyond a verbal farm plot sale. Referee in Bankruptcy Redmund Conyngham testified Myers filed May 1926, with insufficient funds to satisfy claims.
The Women’s Missionary Society of the Moravian church will meet at Mrs. William Zartman’s home on East Main Street on Thursday afternoon March 17 at 2 30 P M.
A collection of local social notes records Mrs. William A. Sturgis visiting Wyomissing, Mrs. Mary Miksch with relatives at Manheim, Wayne Hartranft seeing Ralph in Reading, Frank B. Buch family in York, Genevieve Herr visiting Agnes Hensel, Leonard Conrad visiting Andrew Conrad in Reading, Paul Birkenbine returning to Lititz, Betty Weicksel in the Weicksel home, Calvert and Weicksel families with Mathers, and R. J. Holdsworth and Harry Gorton in Chicago for Stiffel-Freeman Safe business. Mrs. Pauli Shultz and family joined by Mrs. John Shultz visited the Pfautz family. Nora Hottenstein moves from Grand View Home to East Petersburg amid past employment at local plants and banks.
The General Cigar factory at this location has closed with no plans to reopen. Ninety workers were employed at the plant prior to its shutdown.
EphrataPost Office employees including Paul Seaber Edwin Bear Guy Hershey Herbert Weitzel Morris McCloud Harry Sesseman Harry D Hacker Hiram Meek Paul Bushong Jacob Fenstmacher and George Ruhl attended a banquet Tuesday at the Community Mall. Third assistant postmaster general R S Regar was the evening’s main speaker. Pfantz Bros advertise Double Stamp Week on page 5.
Spring mud makes rural roads impassable as vehicles sink into sloughs and cut neighborhoods off from town centers. Improved road building over the years has eased conditions, but complaints persist. Pennsylvania aims to provide each rural area with a hard, all season outlet to the town center.
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