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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1912
Page
5
A list explains fire alarm bell taps with locations and numbers for a local district. Also announced are Sunday services and events for Evangelical, Lutheran, Reformed, Brethren, and Mennonite churches, plus a marriage near Front Street and a tetanus death in Akron. The Family Theatre in Lancaster promotes value shows and the Mannahattan's Comedy Four as this weeks feature.
Mrs. Carrie T. Doon, Decker & Son agent in Cleveland, reports selling thirty two pianos to relatives of E. A. Bradley, including a Style F and a Decker grand once owned by Caroline Hudson Alexander. J. B. Young & Son handle the local Decker line at 38 E. Orange St Lititz. Also two packages Shredded Wheat Biscuits offered at Doster's.
Rev. Charles D. Kreider will resign as Linden Hall Seminary principal effective July 1 after fifteen years in the post. Rev. E. S. Hagen, pastor of the Lititz Moravian congregation, will succeed and serve as principal while remaining pastor. Hagen plans to devote more time to the seminary and seek an assistant once appointed.
Rev. C. Haman of Reading was hosted in Lititz from Saturday evening to Monday. He preached in German and English at Trinity United Evangelical church and spoke to teachers and Sunday school. On March 15 he marked his 80th birthday, having preached 9,720 sermons across 58 years with only 18 Sundays missed. He is the oldest pastor in the conference, last serving Shillington, and the son of Moravian parents born at Nazareth. He recalled early salaries and circuit assignments on his long career.
Tonight the first team faces the F M Freshmen in a rematch of a close win on the 8th. The Reserves meet Lancaster High School second team in a matched contest. Lancaster cannot host a return game as Harrisburg leads the state championship series with game two at Lancaster Saturday and a possible rubber on neutral ground.
The notice lists weather notes and seasonal signs including rain, ice melting, budding sprigs, and streets in need of sprinkling. It mentions Easter approaching, moving day ahead, equal day and night, coal demand rising, and a new postmaster making good progress. Marble play signals spring, muddy roads persist, and last Sunday's fair weather drew strolling crowds.
Bolster Bros Granite and Marble Works of Ephrata advertise twenty carloads of stock offered at special prices. Nothing better nothing finer nothing cheaper. Call early and secure bargains ta25.
A Saturday fire destroyed a 30 by 50 foot barn and an 82 by 40 foot tobacco shed on Benjamin Landis 32 acre farm between Landis Valley and Nesquecker s Mill. Tenant Harvey Mellinger and family saved the house and auto. Losses: Landis about 900. Mellinger 225 insured. Funk 250 uninsured.
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