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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1924
Page
4
Published every Thursday morning. R. E. Buch serves as editor and proprietor. The paper is entered at the Lititz Pennsylvania post office as second class matter.
Gardening, though seen as toil, rewards enthusiasts when their patch yields. Fresh produce eaten the same day offers triumph over soil and climate, with vibrant colors from yellow corn to red beets. A basket of garden trophies becomes a small symphony of personal achievement.
A Lititz observer urges workers to give more than the minimum. Fair measure and extra effort build good will, spark promotions, and improve skills. The piece compares labor ethic to farming honesty and workshop diligence, underscoring merit over mere clock watching.
Neighborhood items report a harvest meeting at Brethren Church on Sunday Sept 7 at 2 PM. Members attended the District Sunday School meeting of the Eastern Penn Southern Section at Mechanics Grove Church near Quarryville. Also noted are a T U meeting at Mrs. William Zwally’s home and a Lancaster County Firemen’s Association gathering with postsession refreshments. A Sunday supper honored Mr and Mrs Stan ton Rudy with extended family including Emma Rudy Alta Rudy Amos Rudy Clarence Rudy Elam Rudy Miss Davis of Akron and Phares Leaman of Leaman.
A long roster of visits and social calls includes Place Fahne of Manheim Hess of Middle Creek Romig of Ephrata Wenger Rudy and families from several towns, plus Isaac and Lowell Huber visiting relatives. Travel by car to York Harrisburg Hershey Womelsdorf and Bowers Beach appears, with school openings and upcoming Rothsville Grand Festival and bat awareness by the Lititz Concert Band.
The Cammauf family reunion took place Monday in Martins meadow near the old Cam mauf homestead with nearly one hundred attendees. An elegant dinner followed by an afternoon program marked a pleasant gathering. Sue and Anna Grebill visited Bangor, while Eugene Zwally and Raymond Getz spent the day in Philadelphia. Many Lancaster visitors joined Labor Day festivities along Conestoga creek for fishing and bathing. William F. Getz and wife attended the Frymyer reunion at Lititz Springs on Labor Day.
Rothsville High School in Warwick Township opened on Labor Day with a total attendance of 301 pupils. The first day enrollment marks an increase over the same day last year. High school enrollment was 87 under Principal Victor D. Heisey with Miss Marie McPol as assistant principal and Miss Marion Biemesderfer and Chester N. Adams as assistants. Intermediates
About 1,000 Brubaker family members gathered for their sixth annual reunion at Spruce Villa Farm north of Lititz. Officers included Mennon. Brubaker as honorary president and Adam B. Brubaker as president. Program featured historical talks by Sem Brubaker and notes on the family’s Swiss origin and 1710 immigration.
The Moravian Church choir from Reading with Rev Andrew Stoltz Dillman Bomberger Henry Stocker Adam Hafer and organist Margaret Merkel performed. The group decided to meet at Elizabeth town College next year and to start a fund to preserve family records in the United States Switzerland and Germany. Photographer Koser captured the clan photo before the afternoon program. Meetings took place in a large barn with tables in other farm buildings and attendees enjoyed a lawn picnic with free coffee.
About one hundred Frymyer family members from Lancaster County attended the sixth annual reunion on the Spring grounds Monday. Officers elected included President Jacob Bowers and Vice President Harry Frymyer. secretary Mrs Abner Eberly. treasurer Harry Correl. pianist Luella Frymyer. historian John E Bruckhart. Oldest attendee M M Getz nearly 78, won an umbrella. youngest Myrtle Irene Conynham, 20 months, won a dollar. The program featured hymns, recitations, solos, and talks, with closing prayers by M M Getz. It was decided to meet next year on Labor Day at Lititz.
The Realto family held its sixth annual reunion at the prings on Saturday with about 250 members present. A. Y. Realto of Penryn served as president, with John Henry Realto of Harrisburg as vice president and Michael Realto of Lititz as treasurer. Others included David Realto of Penryn, Charles Beard of Lancaster, Edritz of Quarryville, Elwood Realto of Lititz as secretary, E. B. Weber of Lititz as assistant, and Howard Beard of Lancaster as historian. The group planned to meet again next year.
The Erb reunion at Kleinfeltersville on Sunday August 31 drew nearly six hundred members from across Eastern Pennsylvania. New officers for the coming year were elected including President J Z Erb Lorane Pa first vice president Harry Erb Kleinfeltersville secretary R E Grube Hummelstown treasurer Ephraim Hrb Sheridan historian Mrs Martin Hess Manheim.
The twentieth Forry reunion took place on Labor Day at Zacherias Forry’s home near Clay with about 260 attendees. A roster of attendees will be printed in the next issue.
In parts of England and Scotland absent from modern practice, pews in parish churches were sold at auction. East coast Scotland once featured ads for bottom breadths in pews, with pews treated as freehold and taxed like dwellings. Records recall notices claiming annu al income free of rates and taxes and a “good position” that drew regular payments.
Readable fragments note a pen sale involving Howardung 38 KE and an orange item. Details are sparse and dates or authorities are not visible.
In a 17th century fashion among Charles IT era church people, children bore Scripture inspired names often phrased as verses. One child was named Who Com forteth Us in Al Gur Tribulation That We May Be Able to Comfort Them Which Are in Any Trouble With the Comfort Wherewith We Our selves Are Comforted. At school he was nicknamed Trib.
A schoolgirl observing birds reports a frog prey on a blackbird nest. She found two eggs one with a hole and later saw the frog flicking its tongue in and out of the hole. The eggs later disappeared. The tale notes frogs have teeth unlike toads and are not usually eye thieves.
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