Local notices and community happenings in Lititz area
A Lititz Ledger snippet highlights events from March 26 to April 7, including St Patrick celebrations, an initiatory degree for Lititz Lodge No. 1050, and local social updates. It notes weather, garden blooms, a Sanitary soda fountain upgrade, land purchases, auctions, trout season prep, a Philippine cigar parcel, and various local arrivals, sales, and notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baxter
Linden Hall
Lititz Lodge No
W. B. Gehme
P. J. Roebuck
W. L. Longenecker
Deckinger Co
Altentown
A. O. Sturgis
Nazareth
Geo. Whitefield
John Greenfield
Brooklyn
Hawaiian Islands
Levi H. Yerger
Lancaster
Stough
Tabernacle Grounds
Frank Rader
Joe Hess
Rothsville
Flory Brothers
East King Street
Hackman
Lititz
Paradise
Lyceum at Lititz High School Debates World War Question
The last Lyceum of the term at Lititz High School drew a large audience. The debate on whether Allies should win the European war featured Ira Landis and Elsie Balmer for the affirmative and John Hershey Jr and Alice Lefevre for the negative. Judges Wm. H. Muth E. K. By and S. C. Hassler favored the affirmative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz High School
Ira Landis
Elsie Balmer
John Hershey, Jr
Alice Lefevre
Messrs. Wm. H. Muth
E. K. Bby
8. C. Hassler
Death of a Child in Marietta Family Tragedy
John F Stultz two and a half year old son of John and Erla Stultz died at his grandparents Broad Street Marietta from tubercular peritonitis after weeks of illness. Survived by parents a sister Mabelle and relatives. Short funeral at home then Marietta services and burial. Bearers listed. families thank friends for kindnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F.stultz
John
Erla M. Stultz
Marietta
Frank B. Buch
Broad Street
Mabelle
Geo. D. Clarke
Arthur Richards
Lititz
Martin Good
Theodore Dussinger
Harry Weidman
Frank Longenecker
Akron widow dies at ninety one in front street home
Eliza Hufford, 91, died Friday at her Akron residence after months of illness. Born Sheaffer in Akron, she lived mainly there with brief Farmersville years. Survived by two daughters Lizzie Zwally and Susan Eichelberger, twelve grandchildren, several great grandchildren. second marriage produced no children. Funeral Sunday at 2 pm from daughter Hichelberger’s Main Street home. Lutheran cemetery interment. Rev J W Smith officiated. Also noted: Martha Long, widow of Philip Long, died last Thursday in Manheim at nearly 79 after pneumonia. survived by multiple children and services held at Mennonite church with interment at Kauffman’s cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza
John Hufford
Front Street
Akron
Sheaffer
Farmersville
John Leib
Lizzie Zwally
Lancaster
Susan Eichelberger
Hichelberger
Main Street
J. W. Smith
Lutheran Church
Ephrata
Martha Long
Philip Long
John Graybill
Manheim
Amanda
John
Wasser
Silver Springs
Lizzie
Peoria
Ilinois
Phares
Ellen
Abraham Eshelman
Joy
Anna
York
Amas
Philadelphia
John Grayhill
Mennonite
Kauff Iman’s
Levina Steinmetz Dies After Stroke in Ephrata at 71
Levina Steinmetz wife of Samuel Steinmetz died at her Ephrata home Saturday morning at 11 o'clock after a stroke suffered weeks earlier. She was 71, a longtime Lutheran, and survived by her husband and two daughters Sue B. and Mary B., both at home, plus brother Henry Powl of Lancaster. Funeral held Thursday at 1 30 P M from the home, Bowman's cemetery interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levina
Samuel Steinmetz
Ephrata
Lutheran Church
Sue B
Mary B
Henry Powl
Lancaster
Bowman’s Cemetery
Harrisburg Composer Harold Lewars Dies at 32
Harold S Lewars of Harrisburg died at his father in law Prof J A Singmasters Gettysburg home after months of heart illness. A Lititz resident 1886 89 he was a musician and hymn composer who edited Hymns and Songs for the Sunday school He married Elsie Singmaster writer known for magazine stories surviving are his mother Mrs Valeria and brothers Ralph and Charles Lewars
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold S. Lewars
Harrisburg
Valeria
William H. Lewars
J. A. Sing‘master
Gettysburg Theological Seminary
Lititz
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Elsie Singmaster
Ralph
Charles Lewars
Death Notices in East Main Street Borough
Mrs. Mary R. Hoover 41 died at Lancaster General Hospital after diabetes and appendicitis led to surgery. Widow of Clayton Hoover, she leaves six children and several siblings. Funeral plans pending with interment at Browns Town. Also notes the death of Eugene Steiger, 66, of Switzerland origin, of Reading, with funeral and burial at Charles Evans Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Hoover
Mary R. Hoover
Grawford & Saylor
Hoover
West Wale Township
David Bender
Akron
Brownstown
P. T. Brocious
Theatrical Life Proves Too Strenuous for Youth Star
Elwood Ritz played the boot black in The Old New Hampshire Home at Linden Hall gymnasium last Saturday but nightly rehearsals kept him up till past midnight. He slept through his cue, woke alone in darkness, escaped the locked gym by leaping a window, and hurried home to startled parents as Scotch Collie dogs watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elwood Ritz
Bootblack
Old
New Hampshire
Linden Hall
Elwood
Young Ritz
Ritz
Dreamland
Alumni Players Make Big Hit In Three Act Melodrama
The High School Alumni Association staged The Old New Hampshire Home in Linden Hall gym on Saturday to a large audience. Under Miss Carrie Tshudy’s coaching the cast, led by A. B. Brubaker as a rugged farmer, Viola Leib as Mabel Winthrop, David Bricker as the Hebrew detective, and Mary Zellers as Muffins, delivered strong performances with Hackman’s orchestra providing music. Receipts totaled 110 dollars with an estimated 75 dollars after expenses to fund school improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire
High School
Linden Hall
Carrie Tshudy
Hackman
A. B. Brubaker
Viola Leib
Mabel Winthrop
David Bricker
Mary Zellers
Travelers Weigh and Far Move In Local Notices
A long list of weekend visits and travel among Lititz residents and nearby towns. Names include Roy Wissler, Daniel and W. H. Apple, Maurice Kauffman, N. D. Sturgis, Miss Marie Haag, Miss Anna Bucher, and many others. Nearby sales at Warwick House auction noted with aphthous fever affecting livestock.
Great Revival at U B Church in Lititz Ends
A week long revival conducted by Rev S G Haas at the United Brethren Church in Lititz concludes with 102 conversions, 100 joining the church, and near doubling of church membership. The campaign boosted Sunday school enrollment and drew large crowds nightly. Personal outreach by church members alongside Haas sermons contributed to the revival’s success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren Church
Lititz
S. G. Haas
U. B
Haas
Letter from Ontario reader notes lingering March sleighing
From Mrs D B Betzner of Berlin Ontario a record subscriber writes March 8 about ongoing sleighing since December with about two feet of snow on the level, gunshiny weather, and winter still shaping Lancaster county readers and a hope the Record continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. B. Betzner
Berlin
Ontario
Canada
Lancaster County
Near Misses From Rural Night Incidents
Ed Zellers and Gurtis Leiser, returning from Rothsville, crashed a speed contest wagon into a pole north of town. Both were tossed, suffering minor cuts as the wagon wheel broke. Paul Graver narrowly escaped eye injury when a BB shot from an air rifle nearly struck him. Dr S R Posey treated his eye soreness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zellers
Gurtis Leiser
Rothsville
Leiser
Paul
George Graver
Neffsville
Clarence
Baker A. R. Keller
South Spruce Street
Young Graver
Keller
S. R. Posey
Mrs Rev H E Semmel Moved To Friends Hospital
Mrs Rev H E Semmel of Alentown has suffered mind trouble for over six months and was moved to Friends Hospital in Philadelphia on Monday. Rev Semmel formerly lived in Lititz and was pastor at Brickerville White Oak Akron and Heoths ville Lutheran churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Semmel
Alentown
Friends Hospital
Philada
Ill and hospitalized residents mentioned in Lancaster notes
Among the sick Mrs. Israel Bear of South Broad street endures neuralgia of the neck and shoulder. Dr M H Yoder took Mrs Matilda Mellinger to Lancaster General Hospital last Thursday for treatment of internal trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel Bear
South Broad Street
M. H. Yoder
Matilda Mellinger
Lancaster General Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Albert Godenowr
Noah Trimmer
Farmers National Bank
King’s Daughters
Eliza van Vleck
W.L. Woerner
Michael Grazer
Elsie Huber
Honolulu
Hauratah
Huber Sisters
Mr. Grazer
Warwick
D. L. Bowman
West Orange Street
Oliver Reed
Bear & Long
Lyceum
Mrs
Eugene Steiger
Switzerland
Reading
Ephraim Haas
Seidel
Charles Evans Cemetery
Roy Wissler
Mercersburg Academy
Daniel Grant
Richland
Lebanon County
W. H. Apple
Allentown
Maurice Kauffman
Victor Sturgis
N. D. Sturgis
W. A. Ensminger
Harry Marks
Columbia
Frank Marks
Anna Bucher
Abram Bucher
Maude Baker
Paul Seaber
Thomas Haisch
M. Huber
Harry Hartman
Cornwall
John Sesseman
Charles H. Kreider
Elizabethtown
D. A. Long
Mertztown
Berks County
Marie Haag
Bryn Mawr
W. B. Hubbs
New York City
Agnes Adams
Atlee Burkholder
Amos Burkholder
Howard Hollinger
West Chester
Fremont Hollinger
Daniel Herr
Griffith Shott
Walter Trumbar
Wm. Stoneback
Easton
B. Gochenour
Christian Longenecker
Amatda
Monroe Longenecker
Denver
Peter Killian
Newville
Perry County
Katie Hertzler
J. B. Hertzler
Joseph Kauffman
Albright College
Myerstown
Howard S. Young
William Sturgis
Federation of Labor
Harry Kemper
Matilda Bear
Sarah
G. Spickler
Raymond
Elmer E. Kauffman
Fred Sammet
Millport
Frank Gantz
Pine Hill
Frank Druckenmiller
Gantz
Warwick House
U. B. Church
S G. Haas
Caseda
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