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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1928
Page
8
Rothsville will play the Public Utility team of Lancaster at the former place on Sunday at 2 30 P M.
The third annual Risser family reunion occurred Wednesday at Henry L. Risser’s Lititz home. Morning and afternoon sessions featured a chorus, invocations, and addresses by Abner Risser and Rev. Christian Lehman. Recitations by Fern Zimmerman and Leah C. Risser followed, with Elam H. Risser reading the Hammer Creek Branch history and C R Longenecker giving the benediction.
Lititz fell 8 to 7 after fourteen innings to Hopeland in a tense matchup at Hopeland. Fetter pitched superbly for Lititz with fourteen strikeouts. Keller contributed three two-baggers. Runk handled second base with ten chances without an error. Lititz travels to Columbia on Sunday after no game this Saturday due to New Holland celebration.
Ephrata Chryslers defeated Rothsville Red Sox 8 to 4 at Ephrata on Saturday. Rothsville led 3 0 after the first. Ephrata answered with four runs in the second and three more in the sixth to seal the win. Ike Roussey starred at short and Barton contributed at the plate for Ephrata, while Birkenbine led Rothsville with the bat.
A collage of cotidiano notes from Lititz praising June blooms and farming tasks while warning about locusts and heat. Mentions June brides and open bass season, urban traffic on Main Street, and public safety tips. Includes quips about Wall Street and civic manners and a playful jab at traffic cops.
Dr A S Warthin and Dr E A Pohle at University of Michigan studied rats and rabbits to assess heart injury from short wave X rays used to treat tumors beneath the surface. No visible injury or postmortem damage observed in most cases. microscopic rat heart changes suggested dosages may be too high. Overall, a single exposure to the heart area at typical doses does not cause definite heart muscle injury.
Continued list of awardees and honors includes Hwa Shissler Myrtle Kling Grace Lehn Bertha Herr Amy Buchter Esther Furlow Miriam Hall Marlin Lauver Marian Wertsch Mildred Hoover Kathryn Birkenbine Agnes Grass Bronze pin and Underwood typewriter honors Dorothy Longenecker Kathryn Lehn certificates Eva Shissler Amy Buchter Esther Furlow Dorothy Spacht Miriam Hall Richard Mc Cloud
London theatre staff adjust programs bouquets and a chocolate gift box for a royal visit at a veteran artists benefit. Despite multiple staff rearrangements the queen did not notice the candy, which remained on the railing as the king and queen bowed good night to a cheering audience.
Two elderly women remain on the pension rolls as dependent mothers of Civil War soldiers. Samantha Button, 96, of West McHenry NL, is mother to Clinton D. Rover of the 8th Illinois cavalry who died in 1864. Samantha Farrer, 100 plus, of Athens, Alabama, is mother to Marry Farrer, a private in the 110th Colored Infantry who died in Confederate prison in 1865.
A reflective quotation on how today appears dull to the thoughtless yet forms the core of all great deeds. The speaker notes that meaningful acts arise from the everyday, uniform experience of the present day.
Spain adopts a new levy requiring personal licenses for owning lighters, joining licenses for cars, dogs, and guns. Licenses last two years and are sold at cigar stores of the tobacco monopoly. Three classes apply: 25 pesetas for gold lighters, 15 pesetas for silver, and five pesetas for other lighters. Carrying without a license carries a fine.
A Popular Science Monthly survey highlights electricity powering odd aims from freezing butter in Virginia to killing insects in a Pennsylvania mushroom cellar. Arlington radio station melts ice with electric currents. Sandy Hook guns rise and fire by electricity. Maryland potato sorting uses the same current.
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