Public Meeting On Library Project In Town
Three local groups express interest in a public library and a meeting for anyone to attend will be held Tuesday at 7 PM in the General Sutter Hotel dining room after the Rotary Club luncheon. Miss Dorothy Critchfield of Lancaster, librarian of the A Herr Smith Memorial Library, will outline needs, books, and operations. Continues on page 12.
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General Sutter Hotel
Rotary Club
Dorothy Critchfield
Lancaster
A. Herr Smith Memorial
Duke Street
Critchifield
Twelfth Birthday Party for Lorraine Hess
Lorraine Hess celebrated her twelfth birthday at a party in Luita R D 4 entertaining many friends. Guests included Elizabeth Nixsley Jane Furlow Bernice Grube Mary Jane Bushong Ruth Gainer Elizabeth Ditzler Violet Mijey Elsie Spinner Helen Bowman Vivian Habecker Reba Keath Betty Herr Gladys Browz Hilda Carvel Betty Cammand Julia Moore Beatrice Reidenbach Fay Carpenter. Prizes in games awarded to Bernice Grube Julia Moore and Beatrice Reidenbach.
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Elizabeth Nixsley
Jane Furlow
Bernice Grube
Mary Jane Bushong
Ruth Gainer
Elizabeth Ditzler
Violet Mijey
Elsie Spinner
Helen Bowman
Vivian Habecker
Reba Keath
Betty Herr
Gladys Browz
Hilda Carvel
Betty Cammand
Julia Moore
Beatrice Reidenbach
Fay Carpenter
Misses Grube
Moore
Reidenbach
Night Safe Installed At Lititz Springs National Bank
The Lititz Springs National Bank installs a night depository on the Main Street wall. The wall opening gadget is supplied by York Safe and Lock Works of York. D. B. Warfel of Lancaster mans the installation as builder. Patrons may deposit money at night using furnished keys to open the outside door.
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Lititz Springs National Bank
York Safe and Lock Works
York
D. 8
Warfel
Lancaster
Esquire writer E J Vogeler to contribute again
E J Vogeler of Cissel Hill will have another story in Esquire's September issue titled A port for the Vanderbilts. He will write several more pieces for the magazine later in the fall.
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Esquire
E. J. Vogeler
Cissel Hill
Lutz Pool Set to Open on Evening Hours
Lutz Pool will be open on arm evenings with 10¢ and 16¢ admission options.
Local Notes From Lititz Townsfolk And Upcoming Events
Friends of Charles Pfantz and Homer Hackman share travel cards from western states including Catalina Islands as they tour via Charlie's Ford. The new American store plans to open soon with shelving and counters nearly done. A muddy car incident near Numidia involved a tow to Schuylkill Haven after a gas line clog. The Garden Spot Post notes 12 ambulance calls in July and 48 for the year. The All-Lititz softball team hosts Lancaster Ninth Ward at Lutz field at 7 pm with Reading Clowns potential.
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Charles Pfantz
Broad Street
Homer Hackman
Lititz High
Catalina Islands
California
Charlie’s” Ford
Guy Calvert
East New St
Guy
Numidia
Columbia County
Schuylkill Haven
Calvert
F. A. Weichsel
Orange Street
Garden Spot Post
American Legion
Legion Community
Lancaster Ninth Ward
Lutz Field
Lancaster
Reading Clowns
Groshs to Mark Golden Wedding Fifty Years Married
Horace E. Grosh and Lizzie K Huber Grosh of Maple Street will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on Tuesday August 20. natives of Lititz the couple married in the Moravian Church with Rev C L Reinke officiating. Their four children Esther Francis Robert and Anna survive. Esther remains local while Francis resides in Washington DC Robert in Trenton New Jersey and Anna lives in Wyncote.
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Horace E. Grosh
Maple Street
Lillie
Local People Enjoy 5 Day Trip Into New England
Mr. and Mrs. Guy E. Brubaker and children Wilma and Nelda and Mrs. Clayton M. Brubaker completed a five day 1500 mile tour of eight states. They traveled north to New York and Maine Portland and returned via Connecticut and New Jersey stopping in Chester New Hampshire on the way home. They were joined by Mrs. L. R. Rand and children Nancy and Robert visiting Mrs. Rand's mother Mrs. Heidler at Pleasant View.
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Guy E. Brubaker
Wilma
Nelda
Clayton M. Brubaker
New England
New York State
Portland
Maine
Connecticut
New Jersey
Chester
N. H
L. R. Rand
Nancy
Robert
Post Office Hours Change After Federal Inspector Visit
Local post office adopts new hours 7 A.M. to 7 P.M. on weekdays and 7 A.M. to noon Saturdays, with special hours 7 A.M. to 1 A.M. on holidays. Money order department closes 30 minutes before the office on weekdays.
Miss Grace Keller Honored For 50 Years Phone Service
Grace Keller marked fifty years with the Lititz telephone exchange and is praised as national champion in years of service, years in one place, and calls answered. Denver and Ephrata Telephone Co officials say no one in the country rivals her records due to dial phones and retirement rules. The 1926 transition from Bell Company to the D and E Company is noted as a turning point in her lengthy tenure.
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Grace Keller
Lititz
Ada Bomberger
Miss Keller
United States
Denver and Ephrata Telephone Company
Grace
Bell Co
Lititz Theatre's Cool Comfort Draws Town Crowd
Town residents report near universal attendance at the Lititz Theatre last month driven by air conditioning and engaging films. Journal notes praise the cinema’s picture selection and the Cadet Band’s performance of a movement from the Unfinished Symphony as families admire old parish photos sold by Trinity Sunday School children to preserve local history.
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Lititz Theatre
Lancaster
Flollywood
New York
Cadet
Trinity Evangelical Congregational Sunday School
Sue
Trinity Sunday School
United Brethren Church
Lititz Springs
Lititz
Trinity Evangelical Church to Lay Cornerstone August 18
The Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church will lay its cornerstone Sunday afternoon August 18 at 2 o clock with Rev. C D Huber delivering the address and assisting Rev D P Langsdorf. The building is to be dedicated the first Sunday in December and former pastor Rev S A Heisey will return to preach both services.
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Trinity Evangelical Congregational ‘Church
C. D. Huber
D. P. Langsdorf
Longsdorf
Lititz Snoops and a Young Financier in the Making
A Lititz boy shows thrift and ambition by repeatedly exchanging defective rubber life preservers and proudly returning the refunded price. The town sees more youths earning from collecting old paper and rags at back doors as parents back a plan to curb vacation mishaps. A local joke references filling the RECORD, inviting more Snooper boners to share.
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Lorraine
W. Martin Hess
Luita R. D. 4
Mr. Grosh
Samuel and
Amanda Kramer Grosh
Tshudy
Israel H. Doster
East Main Street
Mrs. Grosh
Lizzie KH. Huber
John and
Susan Weidler Huber
Huber
J. Clayton Brubaker
Lititz R. D
Trinity
Snoops
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