Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-31
READY FOR MEETING
OF.LUTHER LEAGUE
Program of Exercises at Twentieth
Annual Session at Ephrata
Next Saturday
TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED
Widow and Daughter of Former
Ephrata Resident in Want
in England
TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED
Bp Seeeial Corrffbondenc.

Ephrata, Pa. Oct. 31.-On Saturday
November Z, the twentieth annual con-
vention of the Lancaster District Luz
ther League will be held in Trinity
held morning, afternoon and evening.
An interesting program has been ar
ranged for the convention, the gen.
eral tpoic for discussion being 1.-The
Luther Leaguer's Duty in His Relation
to Various Features of Church Service
and Social Service Work" Addresses
will be made on the several subtopics
by representatives of the leagues, in
cluding delegations from Harrisburg,
Mechanicsburg, Lebanon, Lancaster,
and other places throughout Cumber-
land, Dauphin, Lebanon and Lancas-
ter counties. At the evening session of
the convention the Rev. M. L. Zweigig,
of Reading, will deliver an address on
Church Loyalty Sunday last
Mrs ]. p. Burkholder and Misses Alice
Kraatz, Florence Miller. Edna Brown,
Gertrude Bishop and Clara Brubak-
er, members of Mrs. Burkholder's class
in the United Brethren Sunday school
with o. L. Won Media as chauffeur,
made an auto trip to Oberlin, Dauphin
county, where they attended the
United Brethren Sunday school and
church service, listening to a sermon
by the Rev. c. T.. Boughter, former
pastor of the Ephrata United Breth-
rem Church. In the afternoon the
party visited points of interest in Har-
risburg-The work of placing poles
for the overhead electric system of the
Ephrata and Lebanon railway has pro-
gressed all the way from Lebanon to
Clay, a distance of eighteen miles,
with the exception of gap of several
hundred yards between Clay and
Hopeland. The work of placing poles
between Clay and Ephrata, distance
of five miles, will soon be completed.
B. Frank Lutz and Miss Ida j.
Sperow, both of Rothsville, were
united in marriage in their newly fur
nished home in that village on Sat
urday evening last, by the Rev. II. j.
Kline, of Akron. The groom former
ly resided in Ephrata.-The Rev. M
w. Schweitzer, for some years pastor
of the Reformed congregation at Union
Bridge and Baust, Nd, has been re-
leased by the Maryland classis, pre-
paratory to his finally accepting the
call extended to him early last summer
by the Muddy Creek charge, compris-
ing the Reformed congregation al
Ephrata (first), Lincoln, Swamp and
Muddy Creek, which with Adamstown
were served by his father, the Rev
S. Schweitzer, A. M, whose death
occurred last April; he had been pas
tor of the charge for forty-six years
Last Sunday afternoon q delegation
of members of Ephrata lodge, No.
665, Free and Accepted Masons, with
their families, visited the Masonic
Home at Elizabethtown. A service
was held by members of Ephrata lodge
and representatives of their families
the program including scripture read
ing and prayer by the Rev. ]. M. Wal
ters, pastor of the Ephrata United
Brethren Church. who is a member OF
Lodge, No. 166, Baltimire, Md, and a
sermon by the Rev. J. w. Smith, pas
| tor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Eph-
rata, and a member of Ephrata lodge
Miss Ella Wise, of Philadelphia, Is
! visiting relatives in Ephrata.-Harry
Withers and family. of Steelton, spent
several days in Ephrata.-F. s. AL
bright, of Tamaqua, was the guest ot
Frank S. Weaver.-Mrs. H. c. Dore-
mus, of Ephrata, received a letter this
week from her sister, Mrs. Emily Dev-
enyus, informing her of the death OF
husband, Benjamin Devenyus, in Eng
land, on September 80. The Deven.
yus family were wealthy residents oi
Antwerp, who lost all their property
when that city fell to the Germans and
now the wife and daughter are In
want in England.