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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1924
Page
4
The Lititz Record lists an annual subscription rate of 150 dollars. R. E. Buch serves as editor and proprietor, with the publication entered in Lititz Pennsylvania post office as second class matter.
The article contrasts two teaching approaches as schools reopen. Most educators faithfully enforce requirements, guiding indifferent pupils. A rare type inspires higher ideals, interpreting lessons to foster admiration for the fine and noble, a service beyond price.
Autumn tests a person’s temperament and mood. Melancholy lovers focus on year’s decline and winter’s approach, while cheerful minds see autumn as the year’s peak with color, harvest, and nature’s glow. The psalmist’s praise closes the reflection.
Agnes Adams and Alvin Kock of Locust Street spent the weekend with Theodore Brubaker and L. H. Meily families along Potts town Road. The site operates a fruit farm eating house and service station with over 200 peach trees ready for picking. Adams also visited Neffsville Friday with her brother William Kauffman. J. J. Smith and Emma Eckert of Brunnerville joined Mrs Adams at her Locust Street home Sunday evening.
Neighborhood residents reported the Elser Oberlin Reunion at Lititz Springs Park with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Elser and Earl visiting H Arlington Gerhart in Manheim. Weekend gatherings included Miss Ellen Pfautz at DuPont Gardens and supper hosted by E K Zartman Lexington with several local families attending.
Daughter Mary of White Oak and daughter Marion of Weidmanville joined Mr and Mrs Raymond Eshleman Mr and Mrs Wm Baker of Kissel Hill Mr and Mrs Harry Ober and son Chester of East Petersburg for Sunday supper hosted by Mr and Mrs Lloyd Ober.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Lutheran Church plans a social on the church lawn Saturday evening September 13 with Neffsville orchestra providing music. Town visitors include families from Lititz Reading Gettysburg Harrisburg Lancaster and Camden among others.
The Woman's Missionary Society will hold a Sunday service with a mission program and offerings for missions. The Improvement Association plans a chicken corn soup supper on Saturday evening Sept 20 for the cement walk fund. Abram Foltz sold property to Levi Hoover for $5000 and L S Shirk sold to Eli Landis for $9000. L Carpenter sold his home to Samuel Horst for $5200. Tobacco farmers are busy housing crops. The Leroy and Clayton Wolf families spent Sunday at Leola.
A Sunday Harvest service at the Church of the Brethren drew strong attendance with ministers Phares Forney Walter Cocklin R P Bucher W N Zobler and Harvey Markley present. A 75 offering for the Brethren Orphanage at Neffsville was collected.
A sweep of visitors and relatives fills a long list of households from Ephrata to Reading and beyond. Families including the Benders, Deitrichs, Garners, Adams, Johnson, and Zwally host gatherings while pastors and friends attend services at Evangelical and United Zion churches.
Elmer Todd and family visited friends in Lancaster on Sunday. M. G. Shreiner and wife with Charles Rose and his two daughters visited friends in Lampeter. Elias Elmer and family visited Diston. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shreiner welcomed a daughter. Charles Rapp and wife of Lititz mentioned.
The Elser Oberlin reunion at Spring Grounds drew about一100 attendees with officers elected and program notes including invocations speeches and music. Other notices announce the Hoke and Longenecker family reunions, schedules and host families, inviting clan members to join gatherings and detailing meeting places and transport options.
The fragment notes Miraculous Brownson praising a marvelous force named Niggsuta during a holiday abroad. A wife’s limited speech is humorously mentioned in a brief quote from Tit-Bits. The item cites October magazines and Scott's Book Store as references.
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