Lititz Town Notes And Developments In April Events
Elmer Hammond plans a cement house 28 feet square on Main street. Linden Hall students resume regular classes after Monday return. High School commencement set for Wednesday May 24, with Class Day on May 23. Mrs. Goldthwaite travels to Pottstown for ill brother Charles Hornberger. Daylight Saving begins April 30 on the P and R Railroad. Local anglers report small Chesapeake catches. Moravian choir hosts parish party. A Lititz man owns 28 hens laying eggs in time for Easter demand. Magnolia trees bloom in Nathan Reist’s yard. Kline Manufacturing to rebuild after fire. Lititz and Lancaster considered for new site. Cohen’s real estate sale awaits date. Cohen absent since hurried exit. Kiddy Shoe plant digs a 160 by 40 foot brick and steel fireproof storehouse near Eby factory. Kiddy shipments by parcel post surge. business shows signs of pickup. Knights of Malta initiate new members. Black Trestle ceremony tonight with Lancaster degree team. Spring Committee adds Lititz and Ringgold bands. grounds upgrades planned. Fourth of July baseball expected. Lititz High School Alumni to stage A Regiment of Two on April 25. ticket chart at Scott’s on April 24. Coal deliveries drop to under carloads daily. current stocks last about a month. Notables visit Lititz: Wr. Newton Morey, Mrs. Elmer Snyder, Maude Hartsburg, and Mrs. Mary S. Buch among guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Hammond
Linden Hall
James Goldthwaite
Pottstown
Charles Hornberger
P. and R
Thomas Christ
Susquehanna River
Moravian Church Choir
Lititz
Nathan Reist
North Cedar Street
P. B. Busher
Havre-de- Grace
Chesapeake Bay
Ushers Association
Moravian Church
H. J. Kline
F. & M College
Kline Manufacturing Co
Lancaster
Joe Harris
Ephrata
Morris Cohen
Cohen
Kiddy Shoe Company
Eby
Ringgold
Lititz High School Alumni Association
Lititz High School
Scott’s
Newton Morey
Elmer Snyder
Reading
Maude Hartsburg
York
Mothers’ Assistance Fund
Mary 8. G. Buch
Franklin and
Adams County
Chambersburg
W. H
Eastertide Weddings Tie the Knot in Lancaster Area
Multiple spring weddings reported across New Danville Manheim and Lititz with Elizabeth Bechtold and Charles Miller, Walter Steely and Anna Way, Abram Grube and Esther Balmer, Robert Buch and Helen Hacker, plus W Cullen Carpenter and Edna Bushong. Attendants, church venues, and post ceremony dinners noted.
Couple and infant revived after coal gas incident
Mrs Sammel wife of Rev W R Sammel Lutheran pastor and her 9 month old child were overcome by coal gas at their home Monday evening Rev Sammel found them unconscious Dr M H Yoder and Mrs Sara Jenkins assisted in reviving them They have fully recovered
Warwick House Sale Shocks Crowd With Large Stock
A Warwick House sale drew a full house and recorded strong prices across many items. Fifty-six cows sold up to 108 dollars, fifty-seven pigs from 5.10 to 3.20, 34 chickens 90 cents to 1.60, beets and potatoes sold briskly, and other goods including 84 pairs of hose, 1200 cigars, 8 stoves, and 6 hatchers changed hands at notable sums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwick House
Builders Begin Homes On West Lincoln and Nearby Streets
Clayton Keller walls up a cellar for a brick house on West Lincoln avenue. Elmer Mathers and Wilson Gantz start excavation for a double frame house on West Orange street. Levi Landis of Neffsville begins a new house near State road. Clarence Dillman excavates a home at Marion and Spruce. Hiram Workman plans to start a new house across the street from that location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Keller
Lincoln Avenue
Elmer Mathers
Wilson Gantz
West Orange Street
Levi Landis
Neffsville
State Road
Clarence Dillman
Marion and
Spruce Streets
Hiram Workman
Lititz Band Uniforms Ready and Fundraising Drive
The Lititz band orders 22 black and yellow silk trim uniforms from Stockley Co. Philadelphia with matching caps and a forthcoming central town concert plan. Subscriptions will be asked in town to cover costs as a platform is arranged near the fountain or Springs Hotel yard and uniforms arrive within a week. The Lancaster County Farm Sales Agency lists two real estate sales: a 37 1/2 acre Salisbury township farm sold to John C. Martin and an 84 acre Mill Creek township home with a brick mansion sold to James Lesley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Stockley Co
Philadelphia
Springs Hotel
Lancaster County Farm Sales Agency
N. S. Myers, Prop
Franklin F. Lively
Salisbury Township
John C. Martin
Pequea Township
Benjamin Seibert
Tiorseshoe Pike
Mill Creek Township
James Lesley
Newark
N. J
Mount Joy Social Visit and Local Improvements Noted
Mrs Mary Snavely and other Philadelphia visitors motored to Mount Joy on Sunday and called on Mrs Metesker, with Mrs Snavely praised for driving. Pfantz Bros begin alterations on the old Sutter building to create a 29 by 100 foot main store room. Frank Burkholder reworks the Sturgis House interior with new show windows and two rooms planned, one as a restaurant. B F Lutz to upgrade the eastern borough swimming pool with an electric shower bath, orchestra nights planned, and a bungalow caretaker residence to be built at Front and Locust streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Snavely
Emma Heiserman
Corrie Darraugh
Florence Krisk
Helen Trippie
Philadelphia
Joy
Metesker
Pfantz Bros
Sutter
Frank Burkholder
Sturgis
B. F. Lutz
Ben
Front
Locust Streets
Mrs Naomi Bomberger Returns from 65 Day Europe Trip
Mrs Naomi Bomberger returned to Lititz after a 65 day journey covering about 17000 miles. She traveled through the Madeira Islands Spain Gibraltar France Italy the Independent State of Fiume Greece Turkey Palestine and Egypt and came home delighted with the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naomi Bomberger
Lititz
Madeira Islands
Spain
Gibraltar
France
Italy
Independent State of
Fiume
Greece
Turkey
Palestine
Egypt
Pickings and Finds On A Lititz Street
An urgent washer was secured at a Ford service station for the linotype, saving machinist time. A Broad street youth’s alarm clock failed at 3 AM warning of a Trout Creek trip cancellation. A farmer recovered Frank Rader’s gold wristwatch, found on Israel Bomberger’s farm, still running. Federal juror M. Pfantz of Lititz, a Democrat and former secretary to the Lancaster County Democratic Committee, attends to party duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linotype
Ford
N. Broad Street
Frank Rader
Israel Bomberger
Lititz
W. M. Pfantz
Philadelpha Record
M. Pfantz
Lancaster County
Democratic County Committee
Iste
W. A. Hensel
Tobacco experiments in Chester County farms by DuPont
DuPont Powder Co selected Harry Ansbach to experiment with growing tobacco on its Doe Run farm near Coatesville. Ansbach will manage ten acres this spring, with a plan to guide other DuPont farms if results are favorable. A large tobacco shed will be built on sandy loam soil. last year a five acre trial failed as the farmer burned up costs. Observers note warehouse processing and flavor remain uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DuPont Powder Co
Doe Run
Coatesville
Lancaster County
Harry Ansbach
Clayton Brubaker
Lititz
DuPont
Ansbach
John Ely
Harry Herr
Nathaniel Schenk
Mr. Ansbach
Ralph Walters
Abram Huber's Big Bull Shot After Rampage Near Lititz
Abram Huber owned a Holstein bull that weighed about 1542 pounds live and an estimated ton and a quarter at slaughter. The five year old animal turned violent after injuring David Risser, tearing a nose ring chain and threatening to break its stall. A high powered rifle shot killed it last Friday. half the carcass was sold for meat and the rest used for products. The bull had notable pedigree and breeding value with ties to record butter producers, and its death will be noted by the Holstein Breeders Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram Huber
Lititz
David Risser
Delp
Horace Walters
Benjamin Kauffman
Lancaster
Huber
E C Brill
New Jersey
California
Holstein Breeder's Association
Brunnerville
Mrs Habecker Breaks Bone in Foot
Mrs BE E Habecker suffered a break to a small bone in her foot in the latter part of last week.
Watch Chevrolet lead sparks Lancaster auto shipment
J F Longenecker Lancaster county Chevrolet distributor says a full trainload of 100 Chevrolet cars will arrive this weekend and be unloaded at Penn Freight Station Lancaster Pa. The cars will be paraded through Lancaster streets in what is billed as the largest one make shipment to a single county between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The record is credited to Longenecker his nine sub dealers and two salesmen along with the car's road performance and low price tag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chevrolet
J. F. Longenecker
Lancaster County
Penn
Lancaster
Lancaster City
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
J. F., Longenecker
Travelers Near and Far Endlessly Visiting Lititz Friends
A long list of visitors and guests arrive in Lititz for Easter week and spring holidays. Pottsville residents Mr and Mrs William Ditzler, Read ing hosts John Felker, Easter nurse Alice Grosh, and many others from Reading Lancaster Philadelphia and New York stay with local families or attend Moravian services. Attendees include Helen Albright Camp Hill, Elmer Muth Reading, and Albert Bruckart Philadelphia among numerous relatives and students visiting Linden Hall and the Moravian parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ditzler
Pottsville
John Felker
Reading
Michael Grazer
Alice Grosh
Wm. Grosh
Martha Deibo
Edwin Sturgis
Lloyd Kauffman
Franklin
Ohio
Hiram Holtz
Helen Albright
Camp Hill
John Heiserman
William Zellers
Myerstown
Henry Bellman
Lititz
Douglas Stengel
Princeton
F. W. Stengel
Linden Hall
Albert Bruckart
Philadelphia
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Fruitland Farms
James Stengel
Spangh
Moravian College
Bethlehem
Winston-Salem
N. C
Elmer Muhf
Eleanor Muth
College
Illinois
Kathryn, Martin
Florin
Wm. Muth
H. E. McCreary
Mildred Meiskey
Sarah Elizabeth Meiskey
Ezra Habecker
Jennie Kurr
E. K. , Fisher
Elmer Breidenbach
Mary Focht
Albert Christener
W. S. Kauffman
C. M. Bassford
East Port
Louise Crosland
New York City
Dell Norsket
Edward Crosland, Jr
Pennsylvania University
Ben Fass
Charles Kreider
State College
Roland Good
New Holland
Nat Wolfe
Lancaster
Theodore Wolfe
Akron
Peter Ammon
Clara Howard
Christ Barr
Charles Sturgis
Helen
Edmund Oerter
E. A. Oerter
Dover, C
H. C. Miller
A. R. Beck
Gordon Crowell
North Carolina
Springs Hotel
Also Mentioned on This Page
Knights of Malta
Miller—Bechtold
Elizabeth F. Bechtold
New Danville
Charles F. Miller
Manheim Township
C. E. Rice
John S Bechtold
Ursula B. Myer
Steely—Way
Walter C. Steely
Anna M. Way
Ephrata United Brethren Church
C. A. Lynch
Earl Good
Wayne Grube
N. Seaman Farm
Ruch—Hacker
Robert Buch
Helen Irene Hacker
M. B. Hacker
Lincoln
J. W. Smith
Trinity Lutheran Church
Laura Hacker
Emma Hacker
Nathan Buch
New York
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Washington
Frederick
Hanover
Tatitz
Blue Ball
Ephrata High School
Lancaster Business College
Merchant’s Guarantee Company
N. K. Buch
West of
Carpenter—Bushong
W. Cullen Carpenter
Grace Bushong
Alfred Douple
Jacob Bushong
P. P. Bushong
J. K. Bushong
Alverta Bushong
Landisville
Real Estate News
Mount Joy
Europe
Chester County
Harry Ansback
du Pont Powder Co
N.S. Myers
N. S. Myers
Adam Stump
Elizabethtown
Louis Sturgis
Lebanon County
Louis
Daniel Imhof
Isaac Pfautza
Furnace Hill
Independent Telephone Exchange
John Bixler
Noah Boll
Raymond Dalebach
Jacob Carper
Dietrich Bros
Alvin Enck
S. M. Fahnestock
Lexington Store
Jonas Fry
Lexington
Landis Herr
Aaron Hoffer
Sam’l Keller
Keystone Auto Gas and O Co
Atwood Kreider
Graybill Lausch
Rothsville
Frank Lutz
Wentz Martin
Phares K. Miller
Rome
Wai. Miksch
Frank Myers
Elmer Rock
Clay Garage
Phares West
Clay
Norman Showers
John White
Howard Young
M. R. Bushong
Wm. A. Freymyer
Hershey
P. B. Kofroth
Mary
East Main Street
A. Edward Kofroth
Maude Kofroth
Mary Graeff
Wm. Kopp
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