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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1921
Page
1
Evans concisely reports progress on a community playground for Lititz. The note quotes local leaders praising support for the project and urges the school board to approve recess and a playground, citing health and happiness of children and public demand.
The thirteenth Lancaster County Sunday School Association convention will be held at St. Paula M E church Lancaster on October 19 and 20. Plans include delegate registration an afternoon conference a superintendents session and a Tokyo Convention impressions address plus program notes on service production religious education and winning the world for Christ by named speakers.
Neidermyer and Est were married Thursday by Rev. J. W. G. Hershey. The bride is a daughter of John I. Peiffer of Spruce Street. the couple live with Mr. and Mrs. Varig Neidermyer. Pot Cheese will be on sale Friday at W Gochenaur's Broad Street store after last year’s hit.
Boro School notes invite parents to join next week as Home and School Week, urging visits to classrooms and the administration office to support children's progress. An entertainment program includes songs, recitations, and a lantern slide show “Tour of the United States.” The Speak No Evil Circle of King's Daughters organized with officers elected: President Mrs. E. S. Crosland, VP Miss Sophie Bricker, Secretary Miss Grace E. Keller, Assistant Secretary Mrs. Harry Gorton, Treasurer Mrs. Anna Kreider.
Charlie Matthews works on a granite deposit near Hope's Hotel and reports improving grade as deeper digging progresses. Large blocks are finished on site and the rock quality exceeds expectations with future finishing planned in Lebanon. A New York chemist conducts tests and Simon Meek, now in Mt. Hope, assists.
Mr William Strohl of Lincoln avenue, raised by Mrs Eva Shoemaker, in his 87th year after two months away in the county's eastern section. A former shoemaker turned cattleman, he seeks visits with friends and plans a trip to Urbana Ohio before cold weather. He is in hale health with many welcoming friends.
The Faith Reformed church of Lancaster held its monthly consistory and trustees meeting last week at Jere A Adams home in Lititz. Attendees included Elder Arthur W Weaver deacons John E Bortzfeld Fred Schoenherzer George L H Dommell Charles W Painter William J Shiffer Samuel N Kaihler William H Henschke Benjamin R Landis David K Waser trustees Samuel B Good George W Cornelius Jere A Adams and pastor Rev D G Glass.
D. G. Witmyer and James Breitigan visited Stewartstown in York County to see Mr. Alloway, a prominent Plymouth Rock breeder. Alloway offers numerous varieties beyond standard Barred, White, Partridge, Penciled, Blue, Columbian and Buff rocks and attributes his success to health reasons driving his shift to poultry breeding.
David Hilton sustained serious injuries at a chocolate factory yesterday morning after his clothing or body was drawn into a fixing machine roller weighing over a ton. He suffered a broken collar bone and extensive lacerations to the face and arm before the machine was halted. He is the son of John Twilten of Lexmeton. A curious aside mentions a lonely oyster in festival soup.
The piece notes low sugar prices and cheap wheat as bread costs fall, praising Ephrata residents for energetic community events in Hoeburg. It mentions wild apples, home wine, and an amusing barber chair vibrator claim, plus Miller and Habecker baking prize offers and a seasonal menu shift.
The alumni star course lists five acts: Elizabethan Players on Oct 26, Dixie Trio on Nov 39, Dr. W T Culp on Jan 12, Kauffmann Male Quartette on Mar 30, and Louis Williams on Apr . Individual admission 50 cents for opening show and 35 cents for others. season tickets cost $1.50. Town canvassing forthcoming.
A party including Mrs. Clarence Grosh and relatives left for the Pocono mountains by auto Sunday. Mrs Grosh became ill on the way and was taken to a hospital in Scranton where the party remained for the time being.
The second annual Lititz Community Show is expected to surpass last year with larger premiums thanks to generous local contributions. Premium lists are available from listed Lititz volunteers and officials across several districts with chairmen for corn fruit vegetables potatoes canned goods poultry flowers and more.
A. H. Christener started the Pennsylvania Novelty Co making metal toy soldiers in various nation uniforms. They are neatly painted and sold rapidly, with shipments to New York in thousands. The text notes a shift from imported toys before the war to a growing American industry.
Mrs. Mary Virginia Hawthorne Steinmetz widow of Jacob L. Steinmetz a Lancaster bar figure and former People's National Bank president was found dead in her 184 East Chestnut street home with apoplexy after a period of poor health. Survived by her son James Hawthorne Steinmetz and active in Daughters of the American Revolution Iris Club and Moravian church she traveled Europe and was mourned by many friends.
Julius Roth, a Lititz stamp dealer, receives a Hussite stamp from Czecho-Slovakia honoring John Huss. The two color stamp, black and violet, shows a Hussite in monastic gown with a chalice and may rise in value as a historic link to Lititz Moravian history.
Mr. John Gable and wife of Lincoln avenue spent Sunday at Paradise. Various locals from Lititz note visits to relatives in Wiconisco Akron Easton Pottsville and Allentown with church and family events. A birthday surprise and a nurse called to Strasburg accompany the busy social week.
Have Big County Patronage M T Garvin and Co the Lancaster department store are celebrating their seventy fifth anniversary. The up-to-date store is filled with desirable goods from basement to top floor. Crowds attending sales proof of attractions worthwhile. Festive store, easily reached from all city and county. Management advertises liberally with immense crowds. Printers in a back of honest values draw crowds.
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