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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1926
Page
4
The Lititz Record announces editor and proprietor Buch offers subscription at 1.50 dollars per year. It is entered at Lititz Pennsylvania Post Office as second class matter.
The nation offers warm sympathy to Florida in distress. States unite to aid, pledging funds as needed for calamities. Florida, noted for modern development, suffers unforeseeable damage to its finest centers. After such disasters, recovery often leads to stronger growth and reform.
Readers learn of a Stage Arts attraction by Grace Fr Faust's students from Reading, a 20 girl cast, with music by the Ephrata Band. Harvest Home services were held at Zion Evangelical Church led by Rev. Sinclair. Dozens of local families and visitors are listed for weekend visits and gatherings across Lancaster area towns.
A sequence of visits unfolds as Vera Snader and siblings travel to Manheim to see the Ralph Snavely family. Brubaker households host Brubaker daughters from Denver. Knoll and Roether clan members visit relatives in West Lawn Lititz and Millport. Weist and Harmais host others near Manheim and Ephrata with multiple family members joining in.
The Brownstown township school board met last Saturday to pay teachers’ salaries for the first month. U E Sunday School plans Rally Day with a full program. Harvest Home services are set for Sunday evening. W M B of the Evangelical Church to hold their monthly meeting Thursday evening. Numerous social visits and family gatherings are noted, including trips to Lebanon, Lititz, Akron, Reading, and Ephrata. A public sale for Jacob Getz is scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
The Fifteenth Annual Kings Daughters Convention for Lancaster County will meet Thursday October 14 at the Reformed Church in New Holland Lititz circle preparing a playlet Our Order Clinic speakers include Mrs. Derby Pennsylvania State President and Mrs A D Thaeler State Board member Members urged to report attendance and circle leaders to confirm numbers Car owners willing to transport attendees should notify organizers J F Longenecker and W H Muth
The Love One Another Circle will meet next Tuesday evening October 12 at 7 30 and discuss a playlet to be presented at the convention by members. They will adjourn to the young ladies class room for a social hour hosted by leaders Mrs Beckler and Mrs Miksch and all members are urged to attend.
Principal M C Demmy announces a first month attendance rate of 98 percent with 882 pupils enrolled, 363 tardies, 647 absence sessions, and 23 unlawful absences. Millersville track meet elimination contests list winners in spelling elocution and oratory. Local visitors include Edna Mohler and others. Plantz Bros. advertises window shades and Armstrong linoleum.
Denver and Ephrata Telephone and Telegraph Co took over the Penn State exchanges at Ephrata and Lititz on October 1, uniting the systems so subscribers can talk across locations. Four switchboards serve about 1,000 Ephrata telephones, nine operators are needed there and the Lititz board needs the same. The firm began in 1911 with 200 telephones, two operators, and two maintenance men, and now owns its own buildings in both towns.
Halfville Charles Rose and family visited his brother at Refton last Sunday. E. D. Todd and family visited friends at Lancaster on Sunday. Amos Frey and wife called on friends at Silver Springs Sunday evening. M. G. Shreiner and wife visited friends at Lincoln over Sunday. Rev. F. E. Druckenbrod will move to White Horse around the 15th of this month. I. K. Zartman is filling his silo this week.
The ladies of St Luke's Reformer church invite the public to a Baked Ham Supper on Saturday evening October 16 1926 in the church basement. Menu includes baked ham filling potatoes bread and butter apple sauce coffee cakes candy and Buck's ice cream with sales of dessert items.
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