Local notices share town events and daily life
Lancaster area news highlights daily chores and happenings. Common pleasurers Harry Weidman and Ellis Butzer entertain. stores begin early closings. a two story house rises near Dr. Bender. William Stauffer runs a market. Mrs. Remy relocates from Chicago. Edna Longenecker loses a gold necklace on Orange Street Warwick. Nathaniel Shenk injured motorcycle crash due to a rut. Mother’s Day observed. St Paul’s Lutheran Ladies hold a festival with food and drinks. Moravian Home annual meeting announced for May 12. Bisker family moves into new East Main Street home. Dietrich promoted to Philanthropic Mutual Life Insurance, Lancaster office. Arthur Melzer undergoes abscess operation at home. Dussinger to aid Gettysburg crowds. Seaber, Sturgis, Long veterans mark 50th anniversary of Chancellorsville clash. Pfantz Bros to remodel store with party and stamps. street grading advances, rock blasts cause window damage repaired quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Weidman
Ellis Butzer
Lancaster
W. K. Bender
Harry Bender
William Stauffer
E. W. Remy
Chicago
Remy
Lititz
Stella McCreary
Edna Longenecker
John F. Longeneecker
Orange Street
Warwick
Nathaniel Shenk
Moravian Home For Aged Women Association
Moravian Home
Martin Bisker
Red Lion
York County
Fry's Drug Store
East Main Street
Bisker
D. W. Dietrich
Philanthropic Mutual Life Insurance Co
Philadelphia
Dietrich
Arthur
R. O. Melzer
Broad
Marion Streets
Edwin Sturgis
John Long
Chancellorsville
Regt
P. V
Pfantz Bros
Hackman
Chocolate Factory
Lititz Girl Seriously Injured In Buggy Collision
Elizabeth Rudy daughter of Mr and Mrs Levi Rudy of East Main street was seriously injured when a buggy collided with another vehicle near the Neffsville power house. She was knocked unconscious landing head first on stones eight stitches above the left eye. Ridden to her home she improves under care. Jacob Hostetter suffered a bruised finger and soreness. Yeeker and son were unhurt, though their vehicle was destroyed. The crash blamed on blinding light from the power house during a racing moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Rudy
Levi H. Rudy
East Main Street
Neffsville
Hostetter
Dusalm Yeeker
Charles
Amos Sheaffer
Locher Farm
Miss Rudy
Rudy
George Graver
E. H. Witmer
Uecker
Yeeker
Graduated With Honors At Princeton Theological Seminary
Francis Hagen son of Rev and Mrs EH Hagen of this place earned a Bachelor of Divinity with honors as one of four in a class of fifty four at the seminary's first annual commencement. He will lead a Presbyterian congregation in York County soon after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Hagen
EH. &. Hagen
Princeton Theological Seminary
York County
Deaths and Linden Hall notes amid Lancaster county life
A Lancaster County page reports multiple deaths including Jacob Kline near Neffsville, Edwin Kline in Yonkers, Grant Ulysses Ditzler age four, and Mrs. Weinhold of Schoeneck. It covers Linden Hall Seminary trustees meeting results, finances, and gifts, plus community social notes and school visits around Lititz and surrounding towns.
Aaron B Adams Dies at North Queen Street House Lancaster
Aaron B Adams proprietor of the New Keystone House on North Queen street Lancaster died Sunday night at 11 from Brights disease aged fifty five. Born in Rothsville he moved to Lancaster thirty years ago and worked at Rohrers liquor store before running the Oregon Hotel and the Sorrel Horse Hotel. He later retired briefly then ran the New Keystone House. He belonged to Trinity Lutheran church Lancaster Castle Knights of the Mystic Chain and Knights of the Golden Eagle. Survived by wife Harriet Weidman and children George W Ivan W and Harriet W Adams along with brothers Jeremiah and Israel and sister Mrs Henry Cooper. The late William Adams died in Rome ten years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aaron B. Adams
Keystone House
North Queen Street
Lancaster
Bright’s
Rothsville
Mr. Adams
Rohrer’s
Oregon Hotel
Harriet W. Adams
Jeremiah A. Adams
Israel Adams
Barberton, O
Henry Cooper
Wm. Adams
Rome
Zartman Family Reunion Plans and Local News
The notes detail a Zartman relatives meeting at Emanuel Lutheran Brickerville to plan an August 14 reunion and monument for Alexander and Annie Zartman, with committees formed. Other items report policeman Frank J. White acquitted in the Sharon shooting, a Lititz land damages verdict, a rooster vs dog fight, and upcoming Lititz High School graduation events at Linden Hall gymnasium with Dr. Krebs as speaker and alumnae meetings and banquet planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zartmans
Emanuel Lutheran Church
Brickerville
Alexander Zartman
Annie Catharine
Rufus C. Zartman
Philadelphia
Zartman
Aaron Z. Weidman
America
Calvin Steiner
Samuel Keath
Addison Zartman
Martin Zartman
David J. Zartman
Wm. Seibert
Monroe Zartman
Wayne Zartman
Wm. Weidman
Phares Zartman
Weidler Seibert
Harvey Y. Steiner
Committee On Entertainment
Clayton S. Zartman
Lititz
Eli Zartman
Wilson Gantz
Curtis Fry
Aaron Z. Zartman
Harry L. Zartman
John H. Seibert
Ezra G. Zartman
Samuel R. Zartman
Dan’l von Neida
Walter P. Beamesderfer
Harrison Z. Enck
John EB. Zartman
Frank J. White
Lloyd Hoff
Sharon
Hoff
White
Linden Hall Gymnasium
Stanley LeFevre Krebs
A. 8
Longenecker
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Conestoga Traction Company
Traction Company
Litch
A. T. Litch
Linden Hall Trustees
Jacob Kline
Church of the Brethren
Kline
Lancaster County
New York
Edwin K. Martin
Millersville
Yonkers
N. Y
Lancaster City
Samuel Ditzler
Grant Ulysses
Samuel
Fianna Ditzler
Hopeland
Paradise U. B. Church
W. W. Fridinger
Schoeneck
H. D. Miller
Kreseler
Linden Hall Seminary
C. L. Moench
Bethlehem
P. BE. C
B.S. Wolfe
Louis Eysenbach
Heckel
Fanny B. Stauffer
Goucher College
Baltimore
Edna Mitchell
Blanche Chapman
Olean
Linden Hall
Morgan Smith
York
Frank Raub
Phila
Wm. H. Muth
Bernice Harding
Alumnae Association
Synod
Lancaster Trust Co
Paterson
N. J
Patterson
Board of Trade
Helen Becker
Manheim
William Weaver
Reading
L. N. Moyer
Robesonia
H. S. Meiskey
Phares Bollinger
Maytown
Fannie Greif
New Providence
Warren
Buch
Elizabeth S. Colbert
Easton
C. Wm. Grosh
Harry Ditzler
Addison Harding
Stevens
A. F. Killian
William Brock
Thomas Kissinger
A. M. Sampsel
Trinity U. E. Church
Caroline Rock
Ephrata
Emma Miller
South Broad Street
E. G. Witters
Harrington, del
Mary Hershey
Brother Owen
Elizabethtown College
Jennie Grosh
Coatesville
Charles Peters
H. A. Cuppy
Ideal Chocolate Co
Frances M. Seymour
Boston
Mass
A. W. Hoover
Momence
Ill
W. R. Stephens
Laura Raches
Edna Gross
Lester Eaches
John F. Longenecker
Edna
Denver
Monroe Longenecker
Helen Albright
Sparrows Point
John Heiserman
Georgia
E. Spencer Fasnacht
Shillington
John B. Fasnacht
James Drybread
Preston Helman
Hiram B. Steinmetz
Clay
United Zion Home
Steinmetz
Emma Grosh
Millersville State Normal School
Naomi Dreshman
Ashland
Ethel Gardner
Youngstown
Ohio
W. Buch
Kissel Hill
Fianna Kline
Laura
Hettie Habecker
Phares Rudy
Manheim Township
Ella Hart
Mollie Swartz
Mollie Nagle
Mazie Shultz
John Brock
Benj. Shultz
G. Yeagley
Henry Brubaker
Caroline E. Lawali
North Dakota
Indianapolis
Washington
Brooklyn
Nazareth
Daniel Fleisher
Fleisher
Catharine Smith
Spruce Street
THE
Common Pleas Court
S. K. Snavely
Rooster
Dog
J. F. Stoner
Luther McCarty
William Weitzel
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