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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1921
Page
4
Lilite, Pa. Post Office celebrates the Record's forty fifth year as a town paper. The editorial piece reflects on changes from coal oil to electric lights, municipal water, and industrial growth. It credits readers, subscribers, and editors for the paper's role in promoting town progress and asks citizens to help improve the paper.
Master Marvin Strauss nurses a sore foot after a nail injury. Ladies' Aid meets at Trs Maggie Fassnacht home preparing for a later sale. Several residents on the sick list suffer summer rheumatism and illness. Sunday School delegates visited Neffsville for Sept 24 convention actions. Emanuel Lutherans cancel afternoon services for 150th anniversary events. Coleman chapel Sunday School picnic set with the Hitle boys band from Potts.
Allentown Fair runs September 19 to 24 with races totaling 21 500 purses and 40 000 in prizes. The extravaganza features May Wirth and Company and other acts plus auto races on September 24. Nearby residents attend Elser Oberlin reunion and local visits noted.
Mrs. Samuel M. Huber of Lititz died six hours after a stroke in Moravian Cemetery while with family at age 49. She lived on East Main Street, Lititz, was active in Moravian church work and missionary societies, and survived by her husband and six children. funeral services were held at home and at Moravian Church. Also, Rev. Spencer S. Beaver, longtime Church of the Brethren pastor, died at Neffsville Brethren Home at age 70 after a career across Berks and Lancaster counties. he is survived by children and a widow. Interments followed in local cemeteries.
Nathaniel B. Hollinger of Lititz died Saturday at 7 PM from indigestion and liver trouble after a weeks long illness. He was 41 years, 10 months, 9 days, husband of Anna Caslow Hollinger. Funeral services were held at Longenecker's meeting house with Rev. Hershey, Linn Longenecker, and Hiram Eberly officiating. Also noted are the deaths of Mrs. Logia A. Hamaker of Manheim at age 68 and Mrs. Fannie H. Keiser of East Petersburg with private services and Mennonite church burial. Surviving relatives listed include spouses, parents, and a large extended family. Continuous obituary notes continued on page 5.
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