Becks Concert Band plans summer series in Lititz
The Becks Concert Band announces a free summer series to outdo prior efforts. First show on Saturday May 22 with bi weekly follow ups depending on outside funding. Notable solo chairs named and a rich music library including new marches by Althouse. Special thanks to John Badorf for providing the rehearsal hall. Jacob Grossman writes from Virginia after leaving town abruptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tam
Lititz
Keppel
Ibach
H. Myers
F. Uhlig
Emory Godenaur
Schaeffer
H. Hackman
Althouse
Berks
John Badorf
Pam E. Beck
Warwick Roads Day Seeks 200 Volunteers for Gochenaur Hill Work
Warwick township and Lititz borough residents are urged to gather May 26 with pickaxes and shovels to grade the hill along Gochenaur's ice dam near Kissel Hill. Henry Hess plans to bring a six mule team, while Squire Derr will assist surveying. A traveling family from York County, skilled in basket making, camps near town and trades goods to locals. The effort aims to link to the macadamized road to Landis Valley and Lancaster, with the community promising a day of labor and a hearty return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwick
Gochenaur’s
Kissel Hill
Landis Valley
Lancaster
Lititzborough
Henry Hess
Squire Derr
Death notices from Lititz area claim Elsie Adams at 23
Death of Miss Elsie Adams a lifelong Lititz resident aged 23 years 3 months and 13 days after a three week nervous illness. She was a bookkeeper for Lancaster Candy Co and a Church of the Brethren member. Survived by mother Mrs Ella Shreiner Adams and sisters Jennie and Edna. Funeral at Longenecker's meeting house. Interment in adjoining cemetery. Also reports Harvey Smith of Akron died aged 38 from lung trouble. Survived by wife Margie Messner Smith and children Susie and Salinda with siblings Amos Samuel William Susanna Mary and Serena. Funeral at Steinmetz meeting house. Interment in adjoining cemetery. Mary A Raezer wife of Mathias Raezer of Brownstown died after fourteen weeks illness from paralysis aged 64. Survived by husband and children including Eliza. CONTINUED ON PAGE &
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Elsie Adams
Lititz
Lancaster County Hospital
Ella Shreiner Adams
John Adams
Lancaster
Lancaster Candy Company
Church of the Brethren
Jennie
Edna
Longenecker’s Meeting House
Harvey Smith
Akron
Mary A. Raezer
Mathias Raezer
Brownstown
Chicken theft hits Buck and neighbors on New Street
Thieves raided Quinton Buck's hennery on New Street last Friday night, taking all ten chickens. Nearby Rev. Hass's home suffered three raids with eleven chickens stolen. Neighbor Ephraim Eby was robbed of six chickens. Buck hopes detective work will uncover the culprits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quinton Buck
New Street
Mr. Huck
G. Hass
Ephraim Eby
Death probe sought in former Lititzite Elsie Adams case
Miss Elsie Adams died May 7 in Lancaster County hospital with bruises and blood matted areas on body and alleged pinch marks on arms. Her mother, living in Lancaster, plans an investigation with Dr Sultzbach and may pursue Dr Roop for explanation.
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Elsie Adams
Lancaster News Journal
Miss Elsie Adams
Lancaster County Hospital
Miss Adams
Lancaster
News Journal
Sultzbach
Dr. Sultzbach
Adams
Suitzbach
Big Public Sale At Warwick House Nets Townwide Buzz
The eighteenth anniversary public sale drew hundreds to Warwick House last Saturday with autos lining streets and a constant crowd. Auctioneers Hacker and Snavely sold livestock, furniture, potatoes, and more. 76 buyers listed on sale with 1113 total transactions, while mules and mulefoot pigs attracted attention though some bids were declined. Later, Popular Colored Nine prepared to face Harrisburg Giants, in a game billed as a key test for the town’s team, with high hopes and notable expense behind the event. Clayton Stedman reports a three times weekly mushroom harvest from a fifty square foot bed planted after Christmas, yielding a cheap table delicacy.
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Warwick House
H. T. Hacker
H. H. Snavely
Henry Keller
Millway
Hacker
Clayton Stedman
East Main Street
Stehman
Warwick Township road work and local notices
Warwick township road supervisors plan widening and macadamizing the Brunnerville to Clay township line. They warn no rubbish dumping in ditches but no objection to sinkholes. H H Bomberger moved from the farm to Evans property on North Broad Street. new home ready for bricklayers. No action on changing polling place at Warwick House meeting. few voters attended.
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Warwick Township
Brunnerville
Clay Township
H. H. Bomberger
Evans
North Broad Street
Warwick House
Lost cuff link and brooch near Rothsville and Lititz
A reward of one dollar is offered for the return of a glass studded gold cuff link lost between Rothsville and Lititz. An old style brooch is also missing somewhere about town. Return to Lemon Neidermyer. Special for Saturday at Dosters shredded coconut, 2 lbs for 26 cents.
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Henry Keller
Rothsville
Lititz
Travel prompts of Lancaster families during Sunday visits
A roundup of county residents and relatives visiting, traveling, or staying with kin across several towns. Names include Ella Lacy, C S Loefiter, Hassler, Sturgis, Siegel, Zellers, Grossman, Grube, Steiner, Barr, Kurtz, Ruhl, Miksch, Stoltz, Brainerd Miller, Caroline Rock, Hark, Dreifus, Ibach, Bart hold, Bricker, McKinny, Eliza Sturgis, Fasnacht, Leed, Clarke, Rudy, Brookmyer, Worrel, Wester, Spickler, and Morning Star Temple members.
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Ella Lacy
Millway
C. S. Loefiter
Reading
Jacob Ruhl
J. A. Miksch
Philadelphia
Arthur Keller
John Stoltz
Marietta
F. B. Buch
Brainerd Miller
William Sesseman
Caroline Rock
Ephrata
Emma Miller
South Broad Street
J. Max Hark
Lebanon
Hessler
C. D. Fuller
Boston
Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Co
Charles Brown
5. C. Seaber
New York
Bessie Lutz
Harrisburg
Joseph Dreifus
Orwigsburg
Gus. Samuels
Dreifus
Bertha Ibach
Helen Barthold
Manheim
Lillie
Spencer Leed
Hershey
George D. Clarke
Stewartstown
York County
Clarke
Miriam Rudy
Edna Brookmyer
German Hospital
Myra Brookmyer
Edna
Memorial Day Plans by Stevens Post G A R
Stevens Post No 517 G A R will meet at headquarters Sunday evening May 30 at 630 to march to Trinity United Evangelical church for the annual memorial sermon by Rev P T Brockus. All civil and Spanish American war veterans and sons of veterans invited. Monday noon May 31 march from Rudys hall to Kissel Hill Machpelah and United Evangelical cemeteries to decorate graves. Cars at 115 PM. 5 PM assemble for Moravian cemetery led by Lutz family band. Public school children and civic societies invited to join. Memorial Day address by Hon William C Freeman of Lebanon. LincolnGettysburg address to be read. Patriotic ladies urged to furnish flowers. By order of A K Hacker Com 8 C Szaser Adjt.
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Stevens
Trinity United Evangelical Church
P. T. Brockus
Sons of Veterans
Rudy’s Hall
Kissel Hill
Machpelak
United Evangelical
Moravian
Lutz
Wm. C. Freeman
Lebanon
Lincoln
A. K. Hacker
C. Szaser
Adjt
Rev E Hagen Receives Moravian Church Call
Rev Hagen of Lititz Moravian has been offered a post at Canal Dover Ohio through the P E C to replace Rev F W Stengle who moves to Linden Hall Seminary next July. Hagen awaits decision, this being his third call.
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Hagen
Lititz
Canal Dover
Ohio
F. W. Stengle
Linden Hall Seminary
John Ely Remembered on Fortieth Birthday by Moravian Friends
John Ely of East Front Street was surprised Friday evening by twenty eight Moravian church members who sang birthday hymns and welcomed him on his porch. S. C. Hassler gave a brief address, presented a shirt sewn by congregants, and announced a $20 gift for a suit at Buch’s store. A Bishop Moerich letter praised his decision for Christ at evangelistic services in Lititz. Mrs. Maurice Kauffman entered Lancaster General Hospital for treatment. Mrs. Amanda Hornberger, recently ill, joined Dr. Martin’s auto trip to Lancaster to stay with her daughter Annie.
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Lititz
K. of P
Horace Keller
Tamaqua
King’ Daughters Convention
Charles H Brobst
Canada
Daniel Imhoff
Zartman’s
Sturgis Bretzen
Herman Fisher
Thomas H. Steffy
James A. Heitler
Rothsville
John Hoover
United Zion
Heitler
Washington, D. C
Philadelphia and
Reading
Harry Birkenbine
Louisa Paim
Centre Street
Warwick
Frank Rader
Frank
West Lemon Street
C. Z. Meishey
Clement Badorf
East Main Street
Lebanon
Lancaster
J. F. Longenecker
Martin Cope
East Petersburg
Samuel Kile
John H. Gast
Warwick House
Keith Planing Mill Company
Myeratown
Quarryville
Gloucester
N. J
John Ely
Abram Carpenter
East Front Street
John
Moravian Church
S. C. Hassler
C. L. Moerich
Bethlehem
Christ
Rev. Needham
Maurice Kauffman
Lancaster General Hospital
Amanda Hornberger
Martin
Annie
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Beck
Jacob Grossman
Virginia
Miller's Woods
Miller’s Woods
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg Giants
Giants
H. C. Worrel
Springfield
Mass
San Francisco
G. D. Bitzer
C.E. Wester
Bitzer
Chester G. Spickler
Garfield Castle
Knights of the Golden Eagle
M. J. Steiner
Morning Star Temple
Ladies of the Golden Eagle
Sir Knights
Rev. Hagen
Harry
Charles Miller
Young Miller
Young Men’s Business League
Stiffel-Freeman Company
Stiffel-Freeman Co
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