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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
2
Advertises the International Tailoring Co and the Imperial offering made to measure services. Promises to take measurements and present at least five hundred samples to choose from. Invites customers to inspect stock and assures attractive prices.
County-wide notes report 18 of 100 Columbia old home week organizers dead over two years. Intercourse Lea cock Presbyterian church pastors gathered for centennial October 7. Martha S. Carvin resigns Columbia hospital post effective December 1. Elizabethtown starts Masonic Lodge No. 682 with 42 candidates. Grand Lodge officials attend. H B Mowrey of New Holland to Porto Rico after exam. Valparaiso graduate. 79th Regiment reunion planned October 8 in Lancaster. Edward Edgerley dies. Joseph M. Stafford replaced by John W. Fields as district grand secretary. Old deeds found in estate papers. Cassel returns from Idaho reports Charles Cassel’s 30-acre fruit farm with 20 carloads apples expected. Eldest Brethren Home residents listed.
Obituaries note the deaths of Harnish, 98, Benjamin Crist, 91, E. E. Kidd, Matilda Loux, and Sarah Graybill, all around 90. A Marietta home accident saw a large picture fall from above a mantle after the town clock struck, tied to a memory of Col. H. D. Roath who died eight years ago. Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel Co announces a gas price cut to 90 cents per thousand cubic feet effective December 1, with Scranton at 95 cents and Lebanon at 1.50 dollars as the state’s highest.
The Lancaster County area maintains 134 post offices with 76 rural routes, expanding communication over a five mile radius. Towns like Manheim Lititz Elizabeth Town Ephrata Mt Joy and New Holland rely on routes, while a Texas paper warns that businesses must advertise to stay alive, or risk obsolescence.
A newly finished barn on H. C. Harn er’s Lancaster farm along the Harrisburg turnpike near Mount Joy spans 120 feet in length and 50 feet in width with 18 foot plates. It features seven by twelve inch by fifty foot silos, posts of seven by ten inches, girders eight by ten inches, and 124 foot perline weighing about two tons. The structure includes three mows, three drive floors, a corn barn, five stables, three entries, a basement chopping cellar, weather-boarded beaded pine siding, slate roof, a 43 by 17 1/2 foot wagon shed, and a 30 by 30 foot horsepower shed attached to the end.
The editor tours Point Loma near San Diego noting its 200 acre tract and famed Lomaland. Mme Katherine Tingley founded the International Theosophical Headquarters and Raja Yoga College in 1900, turning sagebrush into a garden of paradise and building a famous Greek Theater. The piece outlines Blavatsky’s role and the movement's early history leading to the Parliament of Peace in 1915.
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