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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1913
Page
5
Fire alarm taps listed for various blocks and stores. Local church notices cover Moravian, United Evangelical, Lutheran and Mennonite services, plus St Pauls Lutheran rally day with 258 attendees and remarks on Rev. Hagen’s twelve years as pastor including 371 baptisms and 78 marriages.
The East Pennsy lvania Conference of the U B church met in Allentown and assigned pastors for the year. Rev J E Keene is sent back to Lititz for a fifth year, with other pickups including W E Shoop Neilsville S G Kauffman Manheim H J Bebney Ephrata J M Walters and others. The Bull Moose party in Lancaster plans a mass meeting at Lancaster Court House on October 23 with prominent speakers. In Congress today Senator Moses E Clapp and Representative M Clyde Kelly are noted.
St. Pauls Lutheran Sunday school superintendent attends a Sunday-school convention in Williamsport as a delegate. Mt. Joy and Leaman relatives vacationing six months in Pasadena. Dyer family from New Brunswick and Philadelphia attend Mrs Kate Miller’s funeral. Numerous guests celebrate Mrs Yeiser’s fiftieth birthday. Philadelphia son Hoopes revisits Lititz old brothers house. Adrien Conn. Mary Stewart visits Dr. and Mrs. Cuppy. Illinois philanthropy leader Joergen-Dahl joins convention in Atlantic City after Lititz stop.
A burglary at Morris Cohn’s clothing store in Manheim on Monday night saw 128 suits plus overcoats sweaters hats and shoes stolen. Cars are believed to have waited in an alley to take the plunder. A $50 reward is offered. The Lancaster B R C football team opened the season with a 6 0 victory over Lafayette of Lancaster and will face Conestoga next.
The ninth district reports over 83 million cigars produced last month, the peak since merging the ninth and twelfth districts. Six counties show busy factories and rising employment as United Cigar Company plants run at capacity, with demand rising nationwide and nickel twofers fading from salable goods.
Markets opened at 7 A M following a 6 to 7 change while readers who missed the notice at last week's RECORD found baskets at the doors. Green corn and dressed chickens topped shelves with prices listed for many staples including sweet and white potatoes beans eggplants apples tomatoes corn honey chestnuts butter and eggs.
Mrs. Ella Becker of Akron died when a passenger train started as she reboarded at Denver after wrongly alighting at Reinhold's station. Investigators ruled the death accidental. The obituary section continues with deaths of Mrs. Elizabeth Buch of Rothsville and Mrs. Mary McQueeny of Millersville, detailing ages, survivors, and funeral plans.
Two wedding notices appear with Rev Geo B Baezer performing a marriage at Broad and Orange streets between Harvey K Kline and Stella A Boyd and Rev L W Taylor uniting Adam B Redcay and Gertrude M Doster at the Brethren Home. A Warwick sale closes with John Heil farm 40 acres selling to S B Miller for 6000. S R Hess estate farm 20 acres sells to David L Burkholder for 9000.
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