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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1936
Page
1
Linden Hall has completed a major renovation with every room refurnished in Early American maple. The Castle dormitories on the third floor and two girl living areas on the first and second floors now feature Colonial styling under Dr. F W Stengel. The basement lounge, a wide Colonial stairway, and a Grandfather clock highlight the updated Moravian building built in 1760.
Miss Dorothy Habecker will join the Lancaster Musical Arts Society five piano ensemble at the Octave Music Club annual concert in Norristown tonight. The group will also perform at the Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs state convention in Wilkes-Barre next week, with Carolyn Miller Marie Gast Ray B. Hall and Stanley Burrows among the members.
Herbert E. Longenecker of Loysville and formerly of town earns National Research Council fellowship to study at the University of Liverpool England next year. He now teaches biological chemistry at Penn State College and will receive his Doctorate in Biological Chemistry this summer.
Local trade notice for G L Calvert offering plumbing heating and sheet metal work. Free engineering department service, contact via 317 East New Street office and phone 252W.
Lancaster attorneys Richard Harr and W Hensel Brown will address the Lititz Republican Club in the Enck Building Monday at 8 PM. Nearly 200 attended the Jeffersonian Dinner by the Lititz Democratic Club at Lutz Hall with speakers Ullman Bender and Nuss. The Gard Party is planned for Malta Hall this evening and the Sportsmen's Association election is set for Monday night at Park View Hotel to elect officers.
The senior choir of St Pauls Lutheran Church will repeat the cantata From Olivet to Calvary on Sunday evening at 7. First staged on Palm Sunday, it is being repeated due to popular demand.
Mrs J Harold Mumper of town will address the Children s Division Workers Institute of the Lancaster County Sunday School Association in Lancaster at the First Presbyterian Church on Saturday afternoon. She will speak and lead a discussion on The Leader s Growth and Increasing Skill Studying Her Opportunities and Finding Guidance.
Town meeting in the Five House on Tuesday night at 3 will assemble merchants, factory owners and real estate holders to revive Lititz’s Chamber of Commerce. Local directors present will discuss the need for the body and an election may follow to name new directors and expand membership.
Mrs Donald Heath of New York City spent Friday with Miss Anna K Miller. Several families from Aberdeen Maryland Lansdowne and Waterloo Ontario visited Lititz and Lincoln Avenue. Easter weekend and Monday notes include Miss Helen Hershey in Philadelphia and Horne district meeting plans.
About 40 youngsters swarmed Lititz Public Library on opening day as books could be checked out for the first time. Many students without cards received authorization blanks for parents to sign. Miss Bernice Iscovitz led the room and the library will be open Thursday and Saturday with hours from 2 to 5 PM and 6 to 8 30 PM. Charles Sammet of East Orange Street was first to borrow a book, a large 1864 atlas of Lancaster County.
Mr and Mrs David A Zimmerman announce the engagement of daughter Evalyn to Rev G Gordon Parker Jr son of Rev and Mrs George G Parker of Manly Town Easter Sunday They plan a June wedding at St Pauls Lutheran Church and then a mission assignment in Liberia Africa They sail July 22 from New York Miss Zimmerman is a Gettysburg College student Lititz High School class of 35 Mr Parker is a senior at Gettysburg Seminary
Veal pork lamb and beef offer sausage 24c pudding 18c ham burger 18c delivery available by phone 148 at LUTZ MEAT MARKET with contact ad details.
The Lititz Rotary Club elected Rev. Byron K. Horne Rev. J Harold Mumper Kenneth Witmyer Paul H Bomberger T T Dusinger and Walter G Nooney as directors for the new Rotary year starting July 1 The Penn Glee Club guest dinner sang a dozen numbers and a double quartet performed They toured Linden Hall Allentown Hershey and nearby towns during their three day stay with 34 members in the group and host guests listed by name.
Solomon Strohm of Kissel Hill was awakened by Al Gochenaur and Vic Wagner for a 1:30 arrival to the Moravian Church Easter service. Vic yelled an Indian war cry to the town. Strohm wore a black suit and derby at the cemetery service while Walter Light rushed in to find seats as ushers were missing.
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