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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1911
Page
5
The notice lists fire alarm bell taps for local buildings and outlines Sunday services across multiple churches including English and German services, Sunday schools, and special events. It mentions translations, upcoming sermons, and gatherings plus social notes on editors, local candidates filing petitions, and community updates such as attendance, ballots, and school and tobacco activity.
A pretty morning ceremony at the Bricker mansion on North Broad Street united Miss Anna M Bricker and Rev. Conrad K Hermstaedt of New York City with Rev E S Hagen officiating. Attendants included Miss Altise Emma Bricker and Rev Victor G Flinn. The couple left for a honeymoon in the mountains of New York state. The groom is set to lead a ministry in New York City. Separately in Manheim borough, Miss Susan H Dunlap wed John W Bucher of Lewisburg with 400 guests at St Pauls Episcopal church followed by a reception on South Prussian Street. The marriages coincide with the Dunlaps 30th wedding anniversary. Several estate sales and transfers were also reported across Ephrata and surrounding townships with farms and lands selling to various buyers.
Isaac Sarah of Penryn offers mules for sale to John D. Bear. Prospective buyers may contact by postal card or Bell phone in Indiana.
Miss Ada Zellers celebrated her twenty second birthday at the Zellers home on Centre street with about thirty guests. Games and prizes, a luncheon, and indoor festivities due to cool weather followed elegant Japanese lanterns. Miss Ellen Landis hosted a Wednesday evening at W Main and Broad with seventeen couples enjoying games and luncheon. Congressman W W Griest announced Lancaster county earns two Annapolis Naval Academy vacancies in 1912, with eight names to be certified. entrants must be Lancaster residents aged sixteen to twenty on April 16 1912 and pass mental and physical exams.
Mrs May Price runs a millinery at 34 East Main Street and invites women to inspect the new fall models during a grand opening Saturday. The shop has been renovated and pricing for labor is mentioned as farmers harvest tobacco with help scarce offering up to two dollars a day plus board.
Charles Stohler twenty of Ephrata lies in critical condition at General Hospital after a Sunday afternoon crash near Lincoln. He, with Frank Sharp of Ephrata and John Wolf of Hopeland, were speeding to Lincoln when a turn caused loss of control and the car plunged down a roadside embankment. Sharp and Wolf sustained minor injuries. Stohler suffered a severe brain concussion and facial and neck cuts. Local residents, including Mr and Mrs Samuel Bare and Mr and Mrs Howard Bollinger, aided at the scene.
A whimsical poem of aphorisms and satirical lines compares summer vigor to social pretensions. It riffs on aging, manners, and human folly with quips about dentists, smiles, respectability, and the folly of fools. Read as a dated humor page item from a periodical.
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