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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
4
The Lititz Record lists R. E. Buch as editor and proprietor with subscription at $1.50 a year. It notes the paper is entered at Lititz Pennsylvania Post Office as second class matter.
A town remarks on the mass departure of young people this fall to colleges and technical schools. It notes education is common now, warns some students may learn unhelpful things, urges balance with home lessons, and emphasizes service, initiative, and fidelity to ideals as the true path to conquering the world.
Neighborhood notes report a missionary jubilee at Mt Zion Evangelical Church with services at 10 A M and 7 80 P M. The Woman's Missionary Society and Mission Band will present the program led by Rev Updegrove. A grand carnival is planned for Oct 8 by local VFW, Star Band of Coatesville, and Italian fireworks. Local social and family events are listed.
A long list records residents visiting relatives across York, Lancaster, Lititz and Browns town with occasions from birthdays to weddings. Real estate sales in Brownstown include multiple properties changing hands at public sale led by auctioneer H. T. Hacker. Pickpocket steals $40 near Rothsville bridge as Miss Dorothy Garner marks her 12th birthday with friends in Gamber area. Rev. L. A. Werner attends Mt Joy conference. J Luke Stauffer Mary Wolf wed in E town. local outings include Gettysburg and Reading trips.
A large local effort cut and stored eight acres of tobacco for Mrs. Ted Sammet aided by neighbors and teams. The crop was fine and the group included Willis and Walter Hackman, Frank Bowman, Ivan Frank, Bertha and Theodore Sammet, and many others. Mr Mundorf thanks supporters for the kindness shown after his misfortunes and the railroad death of Mr Sammet.
At the Warwick House sale on Saturday fifty six persons sold and one thousand eighty one sales were made. Items included twenty five pigs selling from 1.60 to 5.60 dollars and various livestock produce with prices for rabbits geese ducks chickens bantams pigeons potatoes turnips pears tomatoes grapes blankets guns clocks furniture and appliances.
Time to renew insurance policies as county mutual companies issue notices. Lititz Agricultural assessment set at 221 percent on an 8100 insured. Lancaster County Mutual 64 percent of premium, Old Guard 5 percent. A Sunday school rally at Moravian chapel next Sunday at 6 am with Junior orchestra, Preparatory department exercises, slogan 100 per cent classes. A blue and red airship contest aims to boost membership. All invited.
Warwick Grange held a well attended Rothsville school meeting planning fruit and vegetable exhibits for the Lititz annual community show in late October. The evening featured a literary program led by Mrs. John Bruckhart with musical numbers, a silo question, and a Grange paper by J. W. Bruckhart. The next meeting on October 12 will host Manor Grange and a new piano for the Rothsville school orchestra.
Tangaster's annual fat cattle show will be discontinued amid protest by John Hooker vice president of the Lancaster Live Stock Exchange. Cattlemen say the exhibition was largely controlled by commission men who took 89 percent of the exhibits over five shows while farmers supplied the rest. Packing concerns back farmers but oppose bidding against each other if profits go to commission men.
The Feast of Weeks or Shaboath recalls the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai and marks a harvest festival. It begins seven weeks after Passover and spans grain ripening from the turkey harvest to the wheat harvest ending the festival.
An illustrated lecture on Egypt titled Egypt the Land of Mystery will be given by Rev. J F Knittle of Mannheim Pa at Salem Lutheran Church Thursday evening Oct 1 at 730 PM Slides from Knittle personal trips show native life the pyramids Sphinx Luxor Karnak Thebes Tutankhamuns tomb and more A silver offering at end supports a Sunday School class Remember the time place and plan to attend.
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