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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1928
Page
4
The piece celebrates spring’s revival of hope and energy for all ages in Lititz. It quotes Longfellow on spring’s magic, notes renewed love and activity, garden and sport plans, and the uplift felt as birds and warm sun return, lifting spirits and confidence throughout the community.
Neighborhood News reports Abram Hershey a secondary school teacher from Lititz hospitalized with pneumonia. Mrs Slair fills in as substitute. Two autos collide at Schreiner's Garage injuring occupants. Measles outbreak affects local school children. Several residents relocate or change households and travel plans noted.
Community notes from Pine Hill mention the engagement or social event involving Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lute with brief details readable in the public notices. The fragment suggests a local society item highlighting a couple's event.
The article lists numerous local dinners and social visits. Mentions include Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Forney and relatives from Lincoln and Lititz, Mrs. Voss hosting a dinner for the Forneys, LeRoy Wentling at a Mohler-Weaver wedding, and multiple families visiting or hosting in Millway Farmersville Sporting Hill and Brunnerville.
On Tuesday evening Rev. O. Leidich met at Samuel Iser's home for cateches meal while Brickerville residents Mr. and Mrs. Whiteraft visited daughter Mrs. Elmer Rock in Ephrata on Sunday. Numerous neighbors from Ephrata and Lebanon joined meals and dinners at the Zartman home and with the Weist and Balmer families. A juror from Piser served in Lancaster. Clay School hosted a farm meeting as Superintendent Mylin and the directors toured the school. St John’s Brickerville held its monthly church council with Zacharias Ferry hosting.
Elias M. Hitnier and family visited friends in Penryn on Sunday. M. G. Shreiner and wife visited Mrs. Shreiner's brother in Rothsville who is sick, and another brother in Lititz who is not well. E B Todd, Galen Balmer and families toured Lancaster, Mt Gretna, Colebrook and Lebanon. Farmers delivered their last tobacco on Monday. The sale at Rev Israel B Gray bill's was well attended. Thursday Charles Shreiner and family attended the funeral of his father last Friday. Rev F E Druckenbroad and family...
Eva Otto of Lititz visited her parents over the weekend while the family of White Horse continued visits with relatives. Herbert Mann and family and Chas Rose were in Lancaster Monday afternoon. Farmers in the area sell potatoes at 1.00 per ... Samuel Frey Sr bought an Essex sedan from J C Garman last week. Samuel C Frey plans to move to his father’s Hallville home from Pleasant View on Saturday.
Last week the stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Boyer, delivering a son. Several residents hosted visitors over Sunday including Mr. and Mrs. John Shreiner and son Lloyd in Refton, Rev. F. A. Weichsel of Lititz with the Koehlers, and many more at Willow Street Mastersonville and Roseville. A local man, Irvin H. Smith, on a two week sick list, shows slow improvement.
The Akron area reports numerous social visits and gatherings. The Women's Missionary Society met at Les Steiner's home, and the Luther an Sunday School class planned a spelling bee. Many families from Lancaster, Lititz, Brownstown, and York visited friends and relatives in Akron over the weekend, including exchanges among the Mohn, Knoll, Shirk, and Hess families and trips to New York City.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dietrich spent Sunday with the Dietrichs’ son at Columbia. H B Malschnee and wife visited Frank Malschnee and family at Manheim. John Lengel and spouse called on Elwood Keath at Lititz. Rev Wesley Martin and daughter Esther visited Amos Wentworth at Murrell. Clarence Sweigart called on Samuel Garman at Fiphrata.
A Moravian traveler describes four rainy days in Zürich, Switzerland, noting the city’s history, university, and status as a cultural center. He details church visits, a birthday on September 17, a stained glass interior at St. Anne, and misadventures with a taxi while visiting Moravian contacts. The trip spans Luzern, Geneva, Bern, and across the Swiss Lake District, with reflections on Swiss tales and notable sites.
A note states that you can rent the latest books from Scots Book Store at 8 cents per day, highlighting a unique soul-person viewpoint on Yale’s world.
The Lancaster County Firemen's Association holds its fourth annual banquet Saturday at Odd Fellow Hall starting 6 PM. Over 350 firemen expected. committee plans for 400. Philadelphia entertainers, Fulton players, and a turkey-centered menu under toastmaster H. E. Trout of Manheim. A 124 page souvenir fire book to be issued. Guests from Philadelphia, Coatesville, Norristown, Jenkintown, Malvern, Wilmington, Parkesburg, Pottstown, Reading, Lebanon, Harrisburg, Wayne and Shamokin expected.
After years of costly efforts to quell Summit Hill mine fire, Lehigh Coal and Navigation plans a new campaign using surface removal to expose top coal and vent the blaze. Engineers aim to locate fire depth and force flames upward for easier control, a path pursued since 1857 with shifting strategies.
The 1926 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company stripping method aims to reclaim about 10 million tons of anthracite as a fire rages below Summit Hill. Engineers say heat has turned surrounding rock to ash while coal remains solid. Summit Hill fire drew over 1,000,000 visitors in two decades, with flames visible along a mile long expanse and underground vents creating steam and roaring gas.
Fragmentary note from Mentor Magazine claims Napoleon Bonaparte stood about five feet six and a half inches in death and likely taller in youth. The text discusses rumors of unusually short stature and references a supposed “Anton marehi” as a related figure.
Lisvrell, rendiien: ga psi describes a troubled figure named TNT Tiyas not Phorsughiy sipeere, involved in a deal with Mimself and facing a choice between sacrifice or self furthering a project. The passage focuses on personal resolve and the high stakes of the arrangement.
A twelve year old boy near Portland England was saved when his pet goat kept him from falling 40 feet into a quarry. The boy tripped over the edge while tethered to the goat and the rope twisted around his wrist. The goat kept the boy suspended until rescuers arrived, heroically preventing a fatal plunge.
The piece extols the common barn yard hen as the most practical utilitarian bird. It claims she lays 720 eggs every second, a sensational statement about mass poultry production in the country. The Savannah News endorses the notion as a defining citizen’s animal.
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