Travel notes and visits in Lititz and nearby towns
Travelers near and far include Mrs Margie Dissinger aiding milliner Mrs Burkholder in Ephrata. Reading residents Mr and Mrs Nathan Althouse visited the Zellers in Lititz. Nathaniel Trollinger and daughter attended the funeral of Albert Cassow of Elizabethtown, aged 40. Marybelle Feagley of Lancaster, a nurse at the front for eleven months, visited Lititz with Anna K Miller. Feagley talked with General Pershing and praised him. Rev Robert Pilgrim of Lancaster and Fred Pilgrim of Oakmont visited, their father once lived here as a Lutheran preacher. The Pilgrims bought Lititz pretzels before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margie Dissinger
J. P. Burkholder
Ephrata
Nathan Althouse
Reading
Theodore Zeller
Nathaniel Trollinger
Sollinger
Albert Cassow
Elizabethtown
Misa Marybelle Feagley
Lancaster
Anna K. Miller
Miss Feagley
General Pershing
Robert Pilgrim
Fred Pilgrim
Oakmont
Dan Wetherby's Prize staged at Linden Hall
Lititz prepares a three act comedy Dan Wetherbys Prize to be staged next Thursday March 27 in the Linden Hall Auditorium. Twenty five local young men and women perform with Hackmans orchestra. Presented by the Ladies Aid Society of St Pauls Lutheran Church. Admission 25 cents, reserved seats 10 cents extra. Tickets at Moyer's drug store and Scott's bookstore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Linden Hall
Dan Wetherby
Hackman
Army and Navy Notes Highlight WWI Veterans
Harold Weidman sent an iron cross home to his brother amid German restrictions on sale. Avon Kofroth, a U. S. sailor, is home before overseas transport duty. Private Henry Witmyer, who enlisted in 1917, returned safely from France and disembarked at Newport News. Isaac Brumbach, home from the Fifth Division, suffered a foot wound just before the armistice, after tough fighting. Clinton Hand, aboard the Prometheus on leave, visited the United Brethren parsonage. he and Emory Neidermyer were among returning servicemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Weidman
Avon
Kofroth
U. S
P. B. Kofroth
Henry Witmyer
N. H. Witmyer
Penryn
France
Newport News
Virginia
Witmyer
New York
Maine
Newport
R. I
Isaac Brumbach
Morris Brumbach
Lititz
Ca. G
11Th Infantry
Brest
Clinton A. Hand
United States
Prometheus
United Brethren Parsonage
North Cedar Street
Emory Neidermyer
Lititz Marine Captured a German Captain in War Letters
Arlington F. Hackman of Lititz, 449 Co 5th Regiment U S Marines, writes home from Europe with bold actions on the Meuse and at Bayonville and Vauquois. He details capturing a German battery captain, daily fighting near the front, billeting in towns in Luxembourg and Germany, and vivid scenes of war from no man’s land to postwar reflections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington F. Hackman
Floyd
U. S
North Sea
Arlington
5Th Regiment
U. & Marine Corps
Bayonville
Vauk
Meuse
Alice Hackman
New Street
Hallowe'en
Hallowe’en
No Man's Land
Pvt
Firefighters clash with Lititz council over front room access
A Lititz citizen denounces council for restricting the Fire Company, urging fair play and backing the firemen’s continued use of the front room. He warns municipal stagnation if a few men control decisions, and pledges support for the fire department’s traditional service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council
Also Mentioned on This Page
Farmers Nation’s Bank
Penna
Campbell’s
Wagner’s
Seaman & Leed
N. Broad St
Front & Cedar Sts
Lititz Clothing and Shoe Store
S. Broad Street
Home Talent Entertainment
U. 5. Service
Penn Esther
A. M. Kreider & Son
E. Main Street
Harry B. Herr
Bear
S. Broad St
Lititz, PA
A. Lititz Marine
Arlington Hackman
Oberzessen
Germany
Luxemburg
Neiderbreitbach
Ilinie
Hindenburg
Lititz Council
The
Lititz Springs
D. M. Graybill
H. H. Diehm
Pfautz Bros
Spruce Street
Grocery and Nation
Silkene
Coote
Cope
Hershey
L. K. Furlow
Spruce
Donovan
Victor
Columbia
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