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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1912
Page
1
Local notes report a ground hog supper at the Rome Hotel for the upcoming Saturday. Other items include a sale of twenty mules at Warwick House stables and various town happenings from weather to births and hospital visits.
Morning and evening train runs noted as H Reist Landis welcomed Thomas W Steffy and his crew with a chicken and waffle dinner on Tuesday. Steffy’s men are laying a concrete walk on Landis property at Broad and West Main, delightful to Landis. Elmer Bollinger Jr. set a beginner bowling record with 172 on his first attempt at a Lancaster alley. CO N Hershey uses his auto to saw wood and shell corn, jacking wheels and belt driving at twenty miles per hour.
After many years, Mr Martin W. B. Keller and his Philadelphia wife visited Lititz Monday. He is uncle to Grace Kelley and born in Lititz. A saddler by trade, he lost an arm in the Civil War and a leg later on the railroad. He served three years as Lancaster clerk of the orphan court before moving to Philadelphia.
Gunning Seaton Opens November Local nimrads are anxiously awaiting the dawn of Friday of next week for that day is the opening of the gunning season for rabbits quail pheasants and squirrels. Almost nightly the beagle hounds are taken to the fields to train them to follow rabbit trails. Rabbits are believed plentiful by some while others think numbers are similar to previous years. Quail, once rare, are slightly more plentiful than in recent years. A small covey was seen in gardens during the summer in a town area.
Frank Rader displays a large tame raccoon owned by Clayton Keller of Warwick, a recent gift from an Amishman. The creature, fond of candy and washing its food, drew hundreds, its winter fur thick and ringed tail on display. Also, Tryin Staver suffers a dislocated ankle and a broken foot after a football game mishap. Dr. M H Yoder treats him. A note ends with a local sale pitch for 4 and 10 cent dishes at Doster's.
Samuel Shue 42, of Fairland near Lititz, shot himself in the head Tuesday at 10 40 AM after fearing another jail spell due to drinking. He had previous suicide attempts and had recently returned to drinking despite church affiliation. He left a wife and four children and is survived by brothers in York county. Funeral today at 1 30 PM from his home and 2 PM at Longenecker’s meeting house. burial in the adjoining cemetery.
Charles Monroe McKinney, 11 o’clock on Tuesday, dies at home on Orange and Spruce. Typhoid fever blamed. Funeral Friday at 1 30 p.m. at home with burial in Machpelah cemetery led by Rev Geo D Clarke. Also Jacob E Hosler of Manheim dies at county hospital aged 64. survived by wife and several children and siblings. Edward Hipple learns of Jeremiah Hipple’s death in West Virginia, former Marietta resident and raft pilot. burial in Marietta.
Dr and Mrs E E Evans and family took a Packard auto trip to Nazareth visiting Raymond at Nazareth Hall Military Academy covering nearly two hundred miles without incident. Local market opened early with pork 16 to 20 cents a pound and vegetables plentiful. Prices listed: corn 10 12 cents a dozen, apples 10 12 cents a half peck, eggs 31 cents a dozen, butter 34 cents, dressed chickens 45 to 63 cents each. Charles F Harding of Chicago sent a Victor Victrola to Linden Hall with records. A Victrola entertainment in Linden Hall music room Friday at 7 pm benefits the athletic association admission 25 cents adults 10 cents children with parents. star course tickets $1 with reserved seats.
The pantry sale will be held Saturday afternoon and evening October 26 at the market house. The W T U offers cakes pies custards home baked bread sugar cakes baked beans candies for sale at reasonable prices to stock pantries with good foods.
Miss Louisa Graver visits Harrisburg while Mrs Dreifus spends days in Philadelphia. Rev I E Deer travels to Philadelphia on business. L B Nies and family from Reading visit town over Sunday. Many others, including Mr and Mrs George Hartman of Denver and Miss Hazel Conklin from Gordon Neb, are noted travelers and visitors around Lititz. The piece also highlights local fishing at Conewago and a lighthearted fisher story.
Lovers of basketball wonder if Lititz will field a town team besides the High School five. The High School squad will play several games with Ephrata and Manheim High School teams. At present the outlook for a town team is dubious though agitation on the subject may lead to organization.
A string of political gatherings is listed with planned Republican meetings in local market houses and Akron, a Socialist meeting on Lititz public square, and a Bull Moose event near Rothaville. Speakers include W H Keller and W C Freeman, with additional notes on weather contingency and nearby festivities amid village sales and local birthdays.
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