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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1924
Page
4
A Lititz Record note laments changes in home life as youths flee the home circle for autos, movies, clubs, and other diversions. It urges parents to provide home facilities and affordable comforts like radios and musical instruments to keep young people content and connected to home, warning of later estrangement.
The Lancaster and Ephrata turnpike and Plankroad were purchased by the county, as toll roads gradually disappear. Lititz faces continued tolls that hurt business, while other routes suffer from neglect. The Lititz-Rothsville pike remains in poor condition, and the old pike to Manheim is also deplorable. Residents hope time will bring improvements, with some favoring longer routes via Neffsville to avoid rough shorter crossings.
Neighborhood news reports Rev B S Toppes opening rivial meetings last Sunday for an indeterminate run. Funeral for Henry L Cooper of Rothsville held Thursday with burial at Browns Town cemetery. Public sales announced for Susan D Hoover estates on Nov 18 and S L Carpenter with L B Shirk on Nov 22. Drought worsens water shortage as cisterns and wells run low. Families Zwally Kreier Moyer Leisey and others noted as visiting.
Sunday November 16 at 6 PM a Love Feast will be held at United Zion Children church on South 10th Street. The Loyal Workers class met Tuesday at Mrs. Morris Reigel’s home with teacher Mrs. Sallie Buch and many members. A reception honored Alverta M Lausch and David B Lausch of Ephrata. The Gehman building market opened Friday and drew a large crowd. Funeral services for Catherine Roland were held at the Lutheran church with interment in the local cemetery. Numerous local families and guests from Lancaster, Ephrata, Manheim and Reading were mentioned visiting, hosting and attending various social and religious events over the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Peter R Landis of Landis Valley celebrated fifty years of marriage with a 5 pm dinner for 80 guests The event featured vocal and instrumental music by local performers and a decorated table centered by a real wedding cake Gifts included 850 in gold from their four children The couple aged 71 and 69 have deep roots in Landis Valley with ties to Brubaker and Miller families The gathering honored H Reist Landis of Lititz and Henry Miller whose wives would have marked similar milestones recently
The Department of Agriculture declares honey a vegetable product because it comes from flowers, and though bees add enzymes that affect sugar content, the final product remains classified as a vegetable.
A fragment describes an ancient baking method in northern New England. A hole in the ground is lined with stones and heated by a fire to bake foods, a rustic cooking technique carried through generations.
Special services commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Middle Creek Meeting House of West Conestoga Congregation Church of the Brethren were held all day. Elder J H Longenecker led German sermons and song services, with English addresses by J W G Hershey and others, a historical report by Rev H R Gibbel, and a homespun recollection by Aaron Gibbel.
The column notes letters to Gur Town residents from a deceased recipient, warning postmasters nationwide to beware of old moving letter scams. It recalls a Lititz memory of a high wheeled bicycle, the velocipede era, and tracks the first bike owner in town in 1870 1872, with names like Pfautz Wolfe Ochs Snavely Beatty and Gormley.
Pfantz Bros. received agency for the Armstrong Radio outfit promising a coast to coast rollout. The text claims a wood substitute from corn cobs is produced into a hard material by pulping, binding, and hydraulic compaction, whittlable in a lathe without chipping.
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