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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1911
Page
4
The item notes Colonee Roosevelt’s cautious denial of another run for president. It also reports on William Shanks’s diversified business plans, a well attended Lyceum program at the high school with music, recitations, and debates, plus local deaths and accidents in Rheems and Lancaster, including Isaac Wealand’s fatal fall and Edward Bochman’s fatal fall.
The local leaf tobacco market shows quiet activity for old goods with some 1910 sales and inquiries for 1909 lots. Limited 1911 tobacco sold at rural packers for 10 to 11 cents while city packers stay away. Cigar factories remain busy with brisk business.
Hager & Bro. of Lancaster gave a complimentary musical program at Linden Hall gymnasium under the piano and music department. Nat Sturgis and Wilbur Meiskey each caught seven salmon at Mc Call's Ferry while fishing on the Susquehanna. Emanuel Hall’s carpenters roof the new Lutheran church at Broad and Orange, towers rising, work halting by cold days. Rev. J W G Hershey’s left leg amputation recovery falters but then improves. his mother Mrs Susan Brubaker stays by him. Mary A Zahm corrects an earlier Lititz Band memory, noting Peter F Regennas’s long life after his 85th birthday. Secretary Knox secures Mexican permission to move Dr Samuel T Davis remains to the United States with other details pending.
Congressman W. W. Griest proposes a comprehensive federal program to fund construction and improvement of post roads for rural delivery and star route mail carriers. The plan would allocate at least fifty percent of funds to dirt road improvements used in interstate commerce, with dragging methods emphasized.
Thanksgiving services will be held in the Reformed church on Thursday afternoon November 30 at 2. Eggs sell for 86 cents a dozen and butter 34 cents per pound. Miss Jennie Ream and Ida Bobb travel to Reading for work. Mr and Mrs Hacker move to Hopeland. the Hackers’ old house will be taken by Mr and Mrs Thomas Mack. Thomas Brendle owns a four three year old colt weighing 1700 pounds. Mrs Albert Bachman visits Lebanon. Mrs Albert Hain departs for Wernersville for the winter.
A large Wednesday market in Lancaster featured abundant poultry with many buyers scarce for live turkeys. Prices opened at 22 cents and fell to 20, while dressed birds sold around 25 to 38 cents per pound. Notable flock from Elizabeth farms near Strickerville under S H Imboden showcased 60 Bronze turkeys, with some gobblers weighing 21 to 23 pounds.
Friday into Saturday reports note a Dec 2 public sale by David Kurtz for his truck farm. Cyrus Reed of Ephrata visited with Simon Meek over weekend. Harry Erhart family returns to Warwick township from Virginia. John Smith and J Y Roth toured Waldeck with Henry Rhoads family and viewed trolley building sights in Hopeland. M F Sheaffer and wife in Reading with Jeff Hartranft family. Andrew F Shultz improving health. E K Weir’s eye improving but unable to fill his F B Bentz foundry position. F Hoffer currently filling. Rev G Z Hunter delivered a German sermon at U B church. next service Sunday evening Dec 3. James George hosted the Reverend after services.
Mrs. Harry McCreary and daughter Esta of Lititz visited the Florys. Lillian May Nessinger aged six months died from convulsions on Wednesday. Funeral held Saturday at Hope Land with Rev. Brenneman officiating. Pallbearers were Lillie Eitnier Amma Eitnier Irene Nissley Elmira Hess. John Habecker and wife of Parsons, Luzerne County, visited. Mary Meiley called on Lititz relatives midweek.
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