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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1922
Page
1
Tobacco prices remain buoyant with no expected drop this season. Farmers rely on buyers rather than packing their own drops, a shift from last year. Abram Lipp sold eight acres of leaf recently for 1942 cents to Morris Levy.
Jacob Eberly and his wife departed Saturday for St. Petersburg, Florida in a Chevrolet sedan. Their car carried camping gear including a tent, cooking outfit, and extra clothing for an extended winter stay in Florida where they plan to work during the season.
Mushrooms appear frequently on the Springs Hotel menu due to a mushroom bed in the cellar. The bed measures ten by three feet and, in two weeks, has yielded fifteen pounds, with potential to bear all winter. Stable refuse heats after wetting, forming a bed up to a foot deep. spawn is planted at 84 degrees. Mr. Brobst, informed by Weachter, plans multiple beds as demand grows. wholesale price is about seventy cents per pound.
The Quarterly Conference in East Orange street on Saturday evening voted unanimously that Trinity United Evangelical Church will not join the United Evangelical Association. It will remain as the United Evangelical Church under its 26 year old charter granted by Judge Brubaker. The church has more than 300 members.
John F. Longenecker, Lititz Chevrolet dealer, has a busy week as he catalogs 1923 model cars including a sedan, utility coupe, a 499 sedan, and two 490 touring cars. He returned from New York with several vehicles, helped unload ten more in Lancaster, then planned another trip to fetch ten additional machines and attend the Lancaster County Automobile Association meeting at his garage Friday evening.
Rev. E. S. Crosland and Mrs. Crosland depart Wednesday to conduct evangelistic work in Wisconsin at Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay. He will be away four weeks and Moravian church pul pit duties will be covered by visiting ministers. Next Sunday Rev. Charles Nagel will preach and conduct communion assisted by Rev. Fr. W. Stengel. On Sunday November 26 Bishop J. T. Hamilton will preach and bring students to address the Sunday School.
Births and birthdays mark the week with Prof Herbert H Beck turning 47 and Horace L Eschbach and Grace Keller celebrating today. William Smith a civil war veteran reached 85 on Tuesday while Nazareth residents Jacob Stark and LeRoy visited Lititz for the funeral of Mrs. Rolandus Kauffman of W Neffsville buried Monday. A birthday dinner gathered relatives and visitors. Scott's Book Store teases 10 percent Bible discounts through December 1.
The Moravian Woman's Missionary Society marked the 160th anniversary with a Sunday program led by Rev. E. S. Hagen of New Dorp and Rev. Paul de Schweinitz. They discussed the Italian Mission on Staten Island and the Sumu Indians missions in Nicaragua and Honduras. Members elected officers and committees as 46 new members joined, bringing total to 233.
The Lancaster Auto Club will meet Friday evening in Longenecker's garage on North Broad street Lititz. About 100 members from various parts of the county will attend. Several addresses are booked and reports on road conditions will be made. A sour krout luncheon will be served in the garage.
Thirty eight years past, Taylor Sharp left Brickerville where he was born and trained in butchering. He later served six years as a wrestler, then became Stewart the hotel meat buyer. He has toured the northeast, will visit Miami, and holds land in Florida’s Everglades bought for five dollars an acre. A railroad tale recalls an elderly man named Metzear in Warren Pa., who lost both legs at different times yet travels well on the Pennsylvanian system. A Sturgis letter hints at a patent matter from a late father’s invention. A Lititz paper hanger once used a toothbrush as a paste brush when missing a brush for a job.
Ezra F Habecker died suddenly at his home on South Cedar street yesterday afternoon from acute indigestion. He was 59 years old, a cigarmaker by trade, and previously ran a bread delivery route. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at his home and 2 p.m. at the Moravian church with interment in the Moravian cemetery. Eleven Camp Fire Girls led by Mrs. Landis Herr completed a fifteen mile hike that day, traveling via Rothsville and Neffsville, with plans to hike every four months.
Wellington Plantz, Robert Pfantz, Guy Brubaker and Hiram Workman toured Chester County on Sunday afternoon to see the Glen Gables Guernsey farm spanning 972 acres. The estate was recently bought by 8. N. Root of Landisville, noted cattle breeder. The cow barn, built of hollow tile, will house 240 cattle. A large reservoir provides water and a modern fire protection system.
Jerusalem Reformed Christian Endeavor Society at Penryn presents a Sunday program on November 19 featuring a song service silent prayer opening hymn Scripture reading prayer business session male quartet from Manheim W Russell McCauley Frank L Diehm Abram Young Alvin Young violin solo Willoughby Litzenberger instrumental duet Mary and Margis White sermon The Meaning of Church Membership by Rev Geo W Richards D D L L D president of Theological Seminary Lancaster offering announcements closing hymn prayer benediction
Agust Ahrens, a New York lecturer and community builder, visits town this week with T. E. Hite to form a class and lecture on leadership and influence. The effort aims to set forth success principles applicable across endeavors and to impart the vision realized. Read the Record, $1.50 a year.
A showman kept a two headed calf and a four legged chicken at Charles Rosenberg’s Front street premises in Lititz. The calf, twelve weeks old, has two heads three eyes two mouths and two tongues with one neck. One mouth is useless the other mouth’s teeth protrude. It drinks about thirteen quarts of milk daily and is blind despite three eyes. The chicken has two normal legs and feet plus an extra pair behind it. the extra limbs do not hinder movement. The calf is male. John Rosenberg traveled to Philadelphia to help display the animals in a vacant store building where they will be exhibited after leaving the fairs.
Lan caster County Farm Sales Agency reports weeklong transfers. Elmer Meek sells a 2 1 2 story brick house at 407 West Lemon Street to Harry H. Bender for 4000 dollars. Various farms and houses change hands to buyers in New York City, East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, and other local townships for amounts ranging from 1200 to 6500 dollars. Mr Benner to take possession April 1.
A Saturday sale at Warwick House drew a large crowd with 987 sales recorded. Twenty three items ranged from cows at over $100 to various farm produce and goods including pigs rabbits chickens potatoes apples beans turnips sweet potatoes squashes shell barks soap hose brooms blankets and more. Pfautz Bros Store advertised a large assortment of new Fall Dry Goods.
Dr. John K. Bear and family of Reading visit Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Buch. Numerous friends and relatives from Philadelphia, Kutztown, Lancaster, and neighboring towns spend Sundays with Lititz families. Guests attend events, travel to New York and Philadelphia, and family members travel for illnesses, vacations, or official duties.
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