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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
4
Advertisers and others are advised the paper goes to press regularly every Thursday morning and cannot guarantee insertion of material after Wednesday afternoon. Communications must be authenticated by the writer’s name and address, not necessarily for publication, as a guarantee of good faith.
Notice announces obituary and society resolutions pricing for notices and entertainments, urging prompt renewal and highlighting address changes. It requests old and new addresses, and advises notifying if not received regularly regarding paper delivery and subscription terms.
Entry recorded at Lititz Pennsylvania Post Office as se class matter in the official notice.
The Brickerville charge of the Lutheran church held its first Sunday schools convention at St James Lutheran Church in the borough. Representatives from Brickerville Akron Rothsville Penryn and the town attended. The event featured a program led by Rev F A Weichsel and Rev P H G Schmeider with topics on the Lutheran conception of the Sunday school and home department. The convention plans semi annual meetings at different charge churches.
At Union stockyards Lancaster on Monday receipts totaled 150 ears. The market was slow with light attendance. While some good cattle appeared, the majority were light weight and not attractive to Lancaster County farmers.
Wayne R Hess and wife visited the Hess family at Kissel Hill on Sunday. Mrs J B Russell Smith and two sons from Baltimore visited her parents Mr and Mrs Geo Schreiner. Local farm folk are busy cutting leaf tobacco. Edgar Miley and wife visited Addison Miley. M G Schreiner offers Sure Head cabbage for sale by the dozen or hundred. Amos Baker’s funeral drew a large crowd. Local improvements update H K Funk’s house. The local baseball team lost 9 to 3 at Oregon. Petersburg visits next with high hopes. Ralph Sensenich’s home is quarantined for whooping cough. Cabbage wilts with cool winds. farmers await warm sun. Bell Telephone crews trim trees near wires. Isabelle Shenk from Lancaster visited Catharine Reinhold. Kopp and Reid enbach attended a K G E convention at Ephrata. Emanuel Diehm sold much 1913 leaf tobacco packing. A baby boy born to William Long on the Abram Balmer farm. Em Diehm resumes cattle business. Isaac Diehm loses two head. Browstown notes typhoid fever in Mrs C G S Wenger. Primary election yields 114 votes. results pending. Rev H C Lilly and wife from Allentown visiting. rally days planned for U K Sunday school and Immanuel Evangelical Sunday school. Quarryville and local teams to clash with festival at night with Akron band. Lancaster North American correspondent notes Farmers National Bank Lititz placed on roll of honor with surplus equal to capital and $22,500 paid in dividends since founding. Silver chests in Appel & Son window offer contest. fifty-word entries for Alvin silver prizes due October 30.
Charles L. Zerbe made a business trip to Hopeland while George P. Miller, longtime packer for T. T. Zerbe & Bro., begins cigar manufacturing. Camp 105 entertained Newmanstown camp. Rev T Royce Brendle and family visited then left for Sumneytown. Rex R. Griswold of Philadelphia visited town. School board paid first month’s salaries. Visitors J S Steinmetz and wife and others from Richland traveled by their car. George Ressler, witness in Reading murder trial, also visited. Mrs Annie Rhine and family moved to Lebanon. A park picnic is set for Saturday Sept 25 with music by the Schaeffers town band.
Misses Iva Miller and Pauline Del linger of Brickerville were entertained by Mr and Mrs David Rickert on Sunday. Warren Enck of South Orange NJ spent from last Thursday to Sunday here with his parents. William and Lizzie Buel of Reading spent Sunday with their sister Hila. Charles Seigel and family and Mrs J A Miksch of Lititz were guests of M W Phillipps and family. Wr Todd and family near Kissel Hill spent Sunday with Abram Metz lers. Norman Grayhill residents near Hallville visited Harry Keuffman and wife. C B Dillman and wife entertained Mr and Mrs Louis Simcox of Kinderhook on Wednesday.
In a Baltimore trial this week the wife filing for divorce claims her husband refused to bathe during 26 years of marriage and slept in the cellar by a coal bin in summer 1914. She argues these grounds warrant granting the divorce.
A veteran financial adviser emphasizes living within means, seeking safe investments yielding 5 to 6 percent, and relying on bankers for guidance. He cautions against sentimental schemes, urges bank-backed, secure securities, and stresses common sense in investment decisions.
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet quotes Rata the compiler of best sellers arguing against rereading Thackeray. He says readers finish one of his novels and another is ready at a dollar fifty, illustrating brisk turnover and value in publishing.
Results show party wins across county offices including Sheriff Garber and Comptroller Fralch, with Mentzer securing Treasurer and Hooker leading Clerk of Quarter Sessions. County Commissioners, Directors of the Poor, Prison Inspectors, Borough Council, School Directors, and other posts listed with vote tallies and party designations.
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