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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1937
Page
1
Lititz Sportsmen and volunteers plan a May 6 cleanup of Lititz Springs Park Creek from head to Broad Street Crossing. They will haul brown stone to create falls and ripples to boost flow, release hundreds of trout, and complete the project before the July Fourth celebration. about 100 helpers are hoped for, with coffee and sandwiches for workers.
North Broad Street dealer C. Zartman celebrates his 24th year in the store business this week.
A Warwick resident questions Daylight Saving Time in a letter, asking who sets the time, who benefits, and how farmers, factory workers, and local shopkeepers are affected. The writer notes farmers interact with Lititz residents and hints at a continuation on page 6.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Keath Milling Co. all mill and office staff will travel to Hershey on Saturday. The party of about sixty will tour the industrial school, enjoy lunch, and attend a theatre show after the visit.
Employees from the B. M. Leaman grocery stores toured Stauffer Bakery in York on Thursday afternoon to learn cake and cookie baking from start to finish.
Firemen responded to smoke from an old chimney pipe hole at the Eber Foltz cottage north of Lititz on Tuesday afternoon. Fire Chief Emory Wagner notes minor fires may have occurred before due to the pipe hole but were not discovered during prior checks.
Lititz high school glee clubs present The Gypsy Rover an operetta set in England. The three acts tell of Rob raised by gypsies who falls for nobility, is imprisoned, escapes becomes a composer, regains status and wins his love. Performances start at 8 tonight and tomorrow.
Charles K. Keath owner of the Lititz land along New Street near Locust issues a final warning to violators of refuse dumping on his property. He says further violations will lead to arrests and may employ a watchman to catch those littering the area.
A compact advertisement from Lutz offers meat orders with delivery. It lists pudding at 20 cents per pound and Hamburg at 18 cents, and provides a telephone contact 9181W for placing orders.
Missionaries Rev and Mrs G Gordon Parker Jr write from Liberia Africa to St Pauls Lutheran Church supporters. Mrs Parker is Evelyn Zimmerman of Lititz. They note mail from Lititz and local events, mention rains signaling busy planting season, and reference gardens to plant and pineapples to can with continued details on follow up in later pages.
MISS BELEN MacDONALD of Lititz High School will sing the lead in The Gypsy Rover tonight and tomorrow in the school auditorium. She won the state soprano solo division at Altoona on Saturday and becomes eligible for the national contest in Columbus next month.
Moravian choir members staged a classic singing school program in Fellowship Hall drawing 400 attendees and many requests to repeat the show on May 6. Miss Mary Huebener wrote the program and the male quartet of Carl Workman Joseph Zahm Louis Huehener and Raymond Runk received the night’s loudest applause as they sang The Old Ark's A Moyvin'.
Miss Dorothy Habecker presents a piano recital tomorrow evening in the social room of St Pauls Lutheran Church. Students include Ned Leaman Richard Leed Nancy Lutz S Ellis Dotterer Helen Rudy Dorothy Shenk James Herr John Leaman Thelma Lutz Miriam Oberholtzer Vivian Ranck Marion Summers Joan Snavely Mary Jane Bushong Norma Hershey Mark Leeking Pauline Hornley Betty Robert Herr Margaret Counts Mary Sue Brubaker John Enck Nancy Habecker Myrtle Bushong John Brubaker William Kneier. Recital begins at 7 30 D S T patrons and friends invited.
The Lititz Public Library Association holds its annual meeting Tuesday night at 8 in the High School auditorium. Reports on the library’s first year will be read and members urged to attend. nonmembers may join and pay 1987 dues of 1 dollar to vote. The Junior Band, 40 members aged 9 to 14, will perform.
Abram Beck of Beck Bros will depart for Los Angeles tomorrow to attend a wedding of a former Manheim man living on the West Coast. He will stay several days with his sister Mrs. Parker, then visit Kansas City on the return trip, planning to be away about a month.
SNOOPS recounts include Galen Mohler's daylight saving mishap when his clock ran backward after a Sunday night reset. A woman asks a washing machine price then dismisses a sales pitch. A salesman plans to tour with literature and an order book, then is invited to view a newly bought refrigerator in the kitchen.
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