Relic of 1768 Unearthed from Lititz Stable Floor
The 18 inch diameter concrete like half lens marks an old tawery or weissgerberei used to produce white leather between 1768 and 1795 by Peter Christ. Located east of the Lititz congregation house, near Morris Frederick’s field, the artifact reflects a vanished industrial life alongside pipe organ building and nailsmithing during the Revolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weidler Bender
Abraham R. Beck
Peter Christ
Nazareth
Lititz
Harry Bender
Beck
Morris Frederick
East Main Street
Valley of the Giants at Paramount Theatre
The Valley of the Giants, Wallace Reid's Paramount Artcraft picture, shown at the Paramount Theatre next Saturday, transports viewers to northern California's giant redwoods. Reid stars as a young protector of a forest glade, with Colonel Pennington scheming to seize the property, amid a romance and thrilling incidents.
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Valley of the Giants
Wallace Reid
Paramount Artcraft
Paramount Theatre
Redwoods
California
Peter B. Kyne
Mr. Reid
Pennington
Mr Reid
James Craze
Frank Orson
Grace Dammond
A Novel Pavement At H J Pierson Residence
A new pavement is being laid in front of H J Pierson’s Broad street home. Bradford pressed bricks rest in a deep concrete base with cement-filled gaps and patterned alignment to replace the old brick sidewalk. Border grass spaces frame both street and yard paths.
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H.J. Pierson
Broad Street
Bradford
Spider Spinning Alphabet Spotted in Reading and Lititz
A spider in Reading and another in Lititz are weaving alphabet letters on their webs. Jacob Pfautz found one behind Godenauer's implement house. the spider spins capital letters M W N with no curves. Owner Willis Godenauser believes it may spell his name as bystanders watch without alarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Lititz
Jacob Pfautz
Godenauer
Willis Godenauer
Auction of Weitzel estate stock announced for next week
Remaining stock of the Wm. M. Weitzel estate will be sold at public auction on Friday and Saturday evenings of next week at 7 30. Further announcement next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. M. Weitzel
Springs Hotel and Sturgis House Play for Fire Company Benefit
A benefit baseball game between teams from Springs Hotel and Sturgis House draws interest with gate receipts donated to the Lititz Fire Company. Tickets are twenty cents with refunds if not worth the price. police will prevent trouble in a tied game as both pitchers deny runs. Lineups list Erb, Grim, Jones, Fleck, Brobst, Diehm, Stoudt, Grube, Halpern, Helman, Dr. Lane, McDonough for Springs and Gonder, George, Weidler, Kline, Seaman, Weaver, Krafft, New, J Weaver, Hammer, Mohn for Sturgis House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springs Hotel
Sturgis
Lititz Fire Company
Fire Company
Erb
Grim Cf
Jones
Fleck
Brobst P
Diehm If
Stoudt c
Grube
Halpern
Helman
Lane
McDonough
Sturgis House
Amos H Bomberger Leads Lancaster Fair Machinery Exhibit
Amos H Bomberger, Superintendent of Machinery and Automobiles, has run the farm machinery and auto exhibits since 1909 for the Lancaster Fair. The 1909-era organizer promises the largest county exhibit yet with 1921 automobile models on Automobile Row and a wide range of vehicles and equipment on display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos H. Bomberger
Lancaster
Bomberger
Doctor Bender Raises Jumbo Early Ohio Potatoes
Dr Bender displayed giant potatoes from his garden at C T Ritchies auto accessory store on Main Street. Two weighed a pound six ounces and another pair a pound eight ounces. A single tuber weighed thirty ounces making them the largest he ever raised. Seed came from Wallace Meiskey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Meiskey
C. T. Ritchie
Main Street
Travel notes of Lititz residents and visitors
Readers list forays of Lititz families and friends visiting Philadelphia Atlantic City Lancaster City and distant places. Names include Strouble Fass Fass Furlow Buch Grosh Jones Waltz Souders Brubaker Hacker Oswald Yoder Smith Miller and Sesseman with trips to Erie Trenton Chicago Aurora Seattle and California in recent weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Strouble
Reading
David Fass
Esther Fass
John
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Eugene Weidler
Eli
Delaware Water Gap
P. B. Furlow
H. B. Buch
Ephrata
C. Hassler
Warren George
Main Street
Martha
Mabel Waltz
Jacob Koch
Erie
Levi N. Brubaker
North Broad Street
Clarence Brubaker
Auto
Ruth Souders
Grosh
Washington, D. C
Bethlehem
H. H. Fisher
Lancaster
Chester Ritchie
Jean Griffith
Ritchie
Emil J. Bishop
Edmund Schwartze
Winston-Salem
N. C
Elmer Kautz
East Main Street
Absolom Yoder
Harry Long
South Broad Street
Long
Yoder
Reading Post Office
John Hacker
Lansdale
Eli K. [Hacker
Harry Sesseman
Hacker
Tractor demonstrations ignite farm interest near Lititz
The Iron Horse Demon week showcases Fordston and Samson tractors in field tests across Lititz area. Burkholder Bros and John Longenecker stage plowing, threshing, and multipacker trials while Willis Gochenour promotes International tractors. Dealers from surrounding counties attend and claim the tractor era is here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burkholder Bros
Fordstons
Elam Koch
John Longenecker
Willis Gochenour
International
Albert Schenk
Lititz
Fordston
Philadelphia
Lititz Motor Company
Farmers National Bank Pioneers Lititz Growth On 19th Anniversary
Lititz residents mark September 1 as the nineteenth anniversary of Farmers National Bank established in 1901 by local business leaders. The bank, led by President S. W. Buch Vice President H. S. Meiskey and Cashier J. H. Breitigan, notes a long record of local development and industry involvement with a board including J. Frank Buch E L Garber N B Seaman and others. The article highlights the bank's continued plan to aid Lititz and surrounding areas in future growth.
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Lititz
Farmers National Bank
S. W. Buch
H. S. Meiskey
J. H. Breitigan
J. Frank Buch
E. L. Garber
N. B. Seaman
J. G. Usner
C. B. Risser
H. H. Reitfsnyder
J. W. G. Hershey
S. R. Posey
M D
Stork Drops Off Baby During Sale At New Street Home
At John Habecker’s New Street home a stork visited during an auction by C. Hassler. The bird left a baby inside the house after Hassler finished selling goods outside. Hassler was unaware of the arrival until afterward and noted he often uses strong language during sales.
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C. Hassler
John Habecker
New Street
Hassler
Weather and school tuition figures reveal local issues
Rain spoiled a planned Saturday concert with no band secured while Hon Diehm faces criticism and praise for weather forecasting and arrangement. The Lititz School Board sets 1920 21 tuition rates: High School five dollars monthly, 8th Grade four twenty five, 7th Grade three fifty, and 6th to 1st grades three dollars monthly.
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Diehm
Lititz
Tobacco Accident Injures Lititz Farm Worker
U S Delp suffered a 14 foot fall from a tobacco scaffold at a Lititz area farm. He tore a tendon in his left ankle and was bruised but returned to the outdoors after a day in bed, aided by two canes. The fall occurred when the log failed beneath four feet below the beams, sending him into the wagon ladder.
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U. S. Delp
Lititz
Fence Endures Half Century Near Moravian Church
Amos Burkholder of Lincoln Avenue preserves a 66 foot wooden fence once bounding the Moravian church square for 36 years. Bought for 4.24, used eighteen years, the locust posts and hand-sawed white oak panels show no decay. Henry Seather recalls helping with the work. the fence remains well painted aiding longevity.
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Amos Burkholder
Lincoln Avenue
Moravian Church Square
Burkholder
Henry Seather
Oldest Woman in Town Faces Decision to Vote
Emma Greider, nearly 95 and the town’s oldest woman, has not made a firm choice about voting on November 2. In good health yet using a wheelchair, she considers the novelty of the ballot and may vote. She has lived here sixty years after time in Ohio and recently chatted with neighbor Joseph Bollinger, 84, during a town tour with her grandson J. J. Huebener.
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Emma Greider
Lititz Pretzels Targeted for Export to Cuba in 1920
A 1920 letter from Bluebird Packing Company asks if Lititz pretzels can be packed for export to Cuba. The Cuban agent inquires about weekly or monthly quantities and F. O. B. New York pricing, with samples to be sent for shipment in good condition.
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Cuba
WN. D. Sturgis
N. D. Sturgis
New York
New York City
Bluebird Packing Company Inc
Lititz Public Schools Open With New Principal Mumert
The Lititz public schools opened Monday with Prof. I C Mumert as the new principal. He comes from Williamstown Dauphin County. His wife and two children remain in Maryland awaiting a house. New teacher Ray Grube will handle athletics joined by music teacher H L Marr. Grade enrollments total 738 with 134 beginners and a high school count of 133.
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Lititz
I. C. Mummert
Williamstown
Dauphin County
H. L. Marr
Mrs Fianna Eberly Sweigert Finds New California Home
Mrs Fianna Eberly Sweigert, formerly of Lititz, writes from Upland California after her marriage. She reports ten neighbors who want Lititz pretzels, praises her neat home with orange trees grapes and flowers, and notes a seaside dip about forty miles from the Pacific.
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Fianna Eberly Sweigert
California
P. R. Sweigert
Fianna Eberly
Upland
Calif
Pacific Coast
Lost items and reward notices in Lititz classified
A list of small lost items includes a Masonic charm with a fifteen dollar reward for its return to the office, a boy's coat left in I H Doster's garage, a found watch chain on Orange street, and a child's coat sweater lost on the road between Lititz and Landisville with Dr H E Bender asked to be notified.
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Adv
I. H. Doster
Orange Street
Lititz
Landisville
Fast Cigarmakers at Rush Factory Challenge Records
Charles Collins of Manheim claims to have rolled 1775 cigars in a day at the Rush factory, among the county’s fastest workers. Teammate Mrs. Hershey from Manheim rolled 1300 cigars in a single day earlier this week.
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Charles Collins
Manheim
Mrs. Hershey
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Leyi Longenecker
Lancaster General Hospital
Sons of Veterans
Malta Temple
Clement E. Mohler
Schaefferstown
Paris Snyder
Snyder
Rome
Benjamin Grosh
William Eshleman
Harry Kepple
Kepple
Reamstown Fire Company
Susie Diehm
Grace Sampsel
Miss Sampsel
John L. Peiffer
Tinonium
Center Street
Adam Albright
Walter Light
Ideal
Nissley Bros
Florin
Charles R. Kissinger
Pittsburgh
Sarah Hornberger
Cleveland
Ohio
Martin Oberholtzer
Millersville
Daniel Wolf
Lancas
Wesley Brown
Lin- Elmer Rilhefner
New Holland
S. Miller
Stauffer
Daniel Overholtzer
Ellis Heinsey
A. J. Heirwey
Albright Business College
Gonder
George P
Weidler
Kline
Seaman
Weaver
Krafft Lf
New Cf
Weaver Rf
Hammer
Mohn
Ossie Oswald
Eugene
Trenton
N. J
Walter H. Buch
Oswald
Warren 8. Buch
Albright College
Fredericksburg
Lebanon County
Harry Smith
Chicago
Aurora
Pittsburg
Lloyd Smith
Seattle
Washington
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Detroit
Paul
Golden State
Iron Horse
U.S. Delp
Eoost
Lititz Clothing & Shoe Store
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