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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1937
Page
1
Gratifying reports of work accomplished were given at the Lititz Sportsmen's Association fourth annual meeting in the Park View Hotel marking the close of the most successful season in the organization's history. The membership reached 239 last year and the group is one of the state’s most active.
Postmaster Robert E. Pfantz and other county postmasters shook hands with Postmaster General James A. Farley during a brief Lancaster visit on Tuesday at the local post office.
The annual Father and Son Banquet of St. Pauls Lutheran Church is scheduled for this evening at 6 30 in the church social rooms. The Rev. R H Whiston of Quarryville will be the main speaker.
Members of the Lititz Lodge of Odd Fellows will attend the evening service at St. Paul s Lutheran Church. Pastor Rev. J Harold Mumper will preach a special sermon marking the 118th anniversary of the order in America. The lodge will meet at the Malta Temple at 6 30 and go to the church together.
Lititz High School glee clubs rehearse The Gypsy Rover an operetta with costumed performances next Thursday and Friday. Joseph W Sheckard directs assisted by Floy Schlosser with Helen MacDonald and Quentin Keath in lead roles.
Franklin and Marshall College glee club and symphony orchestra present a varied concert Monday at 8 pm in Linden Hall. Public welcome, tickets 35 cents. The 70-member group is a well known East coast college musical organization with recent concerts and radio appearances.
Announcement reports the engagement of Luella Fogelsanger of Kutztown State Teachers College staff to James H. Breitigan, Farmers National Bank vice-president and trust officer. Fogelsanger has ten years on the college English and handwriting staff, with degrees from Eastman Commercial College Palmer School Juniata College and Columbia University, and prior teaching in Elizabethtown Huntingdon and Holyoke.
The Lititz Machine Co formerly at 300.5 Main and Lincoln & I is relocating to the Lincoln Avenue Garage Building. Both firms under separate management will collaborate on various jobs. Lititz will keep selling farm equipment including the Massey Harris line and the Centaur tractor.
Lititz High School soprano solo winner Helen MacDonald heads to Altoona for Saturday state finals of the Penna Music and Fore League eliminations. Cornwall High School faculty member Miss Mary Leidich will accompany a Cornwall student in the voice contest.
Pudding 20 cents per pound Hamburg 18 cents per pound delivered to your door. Call for meat orders. Phone 9181W LUTZ.
A serious crash at the Brickerville Brubaker Valley road intersection injured five people. Miss Phyllis King, 17, remained unconscious, among the injured, as responders treated others for less severe injuries.
Miss Phyllis King, who sought to join a concert bene fit Patron List, said she might one day need the ambulance. She was later seriously injured in a Sunday car crash and taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Yesterday afternoon at Lancaster General Hospital a woman recovering from a fore head injury after a collision on Brickerville road with Mr. and Mrs. Nevin Danner. Mr. Danner publisher of the Express, and the other car was driven by A. M. Martin of Manheim. Martin and Charles A. Kline of Manheim were bruised. Continued on Page 3.
The Lititz Chamber of Commerce announced pledges near $1000 to fund Lititz Park improvements including a bandshell two new toilet buildings and landscaping. Over 500 was pledged at a April meeting and more contributions followed with plans to expand the drive until the project is fully funded.
Lititz will begin Daylight Saving Time this Sunday night delaying clocks to advance time. Local schedules will shift for stores businesses schools banks and transportation from Monday through September end. Physicians will hold no office hours Thursday or Sunday except mornings or by appointment.
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