Lititz Weather and Local News From Saturday Events
The Lititz ball team will face All-Columbia at Janson Park in Columbia on Saturday. A public sale of Elmer Bender household goods on Front street has been canceled. W L Dienmn represents Lititz Lodge No. 253 at Grand Lodge sessions in York. Gwen Badorf plans to move to Oneida New York for work. A sinkhole appeared in Phares Malschnee’s garage and nearby alley after heavy rains. The trustee in bankruptcy of N S Myers will auction real estate Thursday at 1 o’clock in the former H Reist Landis building. The alley beside Hackman and Hornley’s factory is being concreted to prevent future water damage. Mrs Theodore Dussinger is August organist at St Paul’s Lutheran Church while Mrs Sammel is on vacation. The Lutheran Evangelical United Brethren and Reformed Sunday School superintendents decided not to schedule a union picnic date due to park conditions and unsettled weather. A Civil Service exam will be held at the local post office September 18 to establish a register and hire a substitute carrier. applicants aged 18 to 45 should apply by September 5. The Lititz Union picnic at Springs Grounds was interrupted by the severest rain and lightning in years. Three inches of rain fell, floods reached historic levels, benches and structures were swept away, and a drowned pig drifted down Lititz Creek. Traffic was disrupted as cars and coaches were moved, and several fires were reported from barns west of Lititz. Lightning damaged the Farmers National Bank flag staff and struck a chimney at the Fass home, injuring Mrs Grosh. An oil tank at Millway was ruined, and widespread damage occurred countywide. (Continued on Page 5).
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hackman & Hornley
Theodore Dussinger
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Sammel
Dussinger
Kenneth Witmyer
Lititz Creek
Euck
Lititz
Farmers National Bank
Business League
David Fass
Spruce Street
Public Schools to Open on August 30 in Lititzboro
Lititzboro public schools will begin on Monday August 30 for a nine month term. Students report to prior rooms. beginners six by Jan 1 1927 report to auditorium with vaccination certificate. Unaccompanied timid children urged to submit child details on paper. transfers and report cards required for returners. Parents asked to notify the principal of any physical ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititzboro
Lititz
Tax Collector's Notice for August Tax Collection
T. S. Grosh will collect August taxes at Fisher's store on August 20, Warwick House on August 21, Five Points Store on August 27, and Springs Hotel on August 28 from 2 to ? P. M. The locations provide the required windows for payment and redress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. S. Grosh
Fisher’s
Warwick House
Five Points
P. M
Springs Hotel
Lost in Baltimore Sightseeing Trip Ends in Confusion
Albert Hall Albert Godenaur Lloyd Rader George Sheridan and Clarence Kreider took a sight seeing trip to Washington D C during the week end. The most eventful moment of the trip was getting lost in Baltimore after dark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Hall
Albert Godenaur
Lloyd Rader
George Sheridan
Clarence Kreider
Washington, D. C
Baltimore
Family heads to Niagara Falls for weeklong trip
George Rentschler and family leaving Sunday night for Niagara Falls to spend a week there. They traveled by auto with Mrs. Ralph Weir and ‘ry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Rentschler
Ralph Weir
Niagara Falls
Lititz Hire Company Wins Second Prize at Oxford Parade
Lititz Hire Company arrived in a solid line from Lititz Chester county to parade at Oxford. Eighty Lititz men in uniform plus the Lititz band joined twenty-one other companies. Lititz earned second prize for best appearing company and for traveling the furthest distance, receiving a $50 coupler expander. Parkesburg with the Star Band won first prize and Lititz drew much applause along the parade route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz Hire Company
Oxford
Chester County
Litits
Lititz
Parkesburg Company
Principal Neiley Assumes New Duties at Cumberland Schools
Victor D. Heisey resigns as Rothsville principal to take charge of East Side Junior Senior High and Elementary Schools in Cumberland Maryland. About 1400 pupils and 45 teachers under his supervision. In Rothsville he expanded grades to one teacher per grade, added music and art, and built a modern Junior-Senior High building. High school enrollment grew from 56 to 180 in three years. Heisey is son of Rev. S A Heisey of Lititz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor D. Heisey
Rothsville
Cumberland
East Side
Heisey
Mr. Heisey
S.A. Heisey
Lititz
Bomberger Reunion A Success Despite Rain
The fifth annual Bomberger reunion drew a good crowd at Springs Park despite bad weather. Rev. Jacob Bomberger Landis led devotional services. Siram P. Bomberger of Lebanon spoke as president, with vocal and piano solos by John B. and Anna Bomberger. Pro fessor A G Seifert, C Martin Bomberger and Professor Herman T Frueauft spoke on the theme The Bam bergers as I Knew them in My Childhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bomberger
Springs Park
Jacob Bomberger Landis
Siram P. Bomberger
Lebanon
John B
Anna Bomberger
A. G. Seifert
C. Martin Bomberger
Herman T. Frueanff
Bambergers
State offers $60,000 for the Lititz Pike
The State and County Com missions bid $60 000 for the Lititz turnpike amid a pending 9.99 year lease by Conestoga Traction. Stockholders must receive 30 days notice before action. The road from Lexington to Brickerville was to be built by the State to connect with the state highway. D M Grayhill of Lititz heads the Lititz Pike Company and hopes for a quick resolution benefiting local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Lexington
Brickerville
Conestoga Traction Company
Traction Company
D. M. Grayhill
Lititzard
Scout Jot Itdown Says Something
The finest of the Scout Laws is mistrustworthy voice but the text emphasizes trustworthiness. It declares the Scout’s honor the highest prize and asserts that lying cheating or betraying trust harms honor and that fulfilling a task when trusted is commendable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Patrol
Reverend Crosland Receives Moravian Call in Bethlehem
Reverend E. L. Crosland received a call to serve at the First Moravian church in Bethlehem and has not announced his decision. He has led the Lancaster church for ten years after coming from Winston-Salem. Joseph B. Doster took a buyer position at Leinbach & Co. in Lancaster for domestic and bedware items and will live at Pleasure Road and Rose Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crosland
Bethlehem
Winston-Salem
Joseph B. Doster
Leinbach & Co
Lancaster
Mrs. Doster
Pleasure Road
Rose Avenue
Antique treasures and oddities in Christiana
In Christiana editor visits an antique storage run by William Fieles from Lititz. The three story Christiana Hotel, an old church and shed house a vast collection of chairs candlesticks lamps and more. Visitors from across the county tour the curious shop as locals recall Jordan River water used in baptism and a tale of a bottle breaking at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christiana
William Fieles
Fieles
Lititz
William
N. D. Sturgis
John Carvell in Trouble Again in Ephrata Case
John M. Carvell, missing from his Ephrata home for about five weeks, was brought from Reading by Chief James McCloud and jailed overnight pending investigation. He faces charges of fraudulent conversion of an automobile filed by the Ephrata Motor Company. Carvell’s movements included trips to Reading and Downingtown after allegedly buying the car from the prosecutor, with prior residence in Oregon and Lititz. He has been seen in the area multiple times and is described as repeatedly getting into trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Carvell
Ephrata
Reading
James McCloud
Bore
Carvell
Ephrata Motor Company
Carvel
Downingtown
Oregon
Lititz
Bankruptcy Patmon by H K Fry of Rothsville
Harry B. Fry a Rothsville garage keeper filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the U S District Court in Philadelphia. Liabilities are listed at 9251 dollars with assets of 297 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. K. Fry
Rothsville
Harry B. Fry
United States District Court
Philadelphia
Canada to Honor County Mennonites Memorial Tower Unveiling
The Lancaster County Mennonites who migrated to Waterloo County Ontario will be honored August 28 with a memorial tower. Unofficially represented by A G Seyfert the former U S consul to Canada. D B Betzner of Kitchener urges contributions to fund the tablet and tower. The 75 foot stone tower will hold historic mementos including the wagon wheels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo County
Lancaster
Lancaster County
Canada
Ontario
Waterloo Co
Montgomery Counties
Pennsylvania
A. G. Seyfert
United States
Mountain Roads Have No Fear for This Man
Adam Walters is a prosperous farmer and dairyman in the northern Clay township near Reinholds. He drives to Lititz weekly for pleasure, braves dark mountain roads, owns eighty acres of land and sixty of meadow near Big Swamp, milks twenty Holstein cows with his wife and four daughters, and enjoys occasional sea fishing trips to Bowers Beach Delaware with Lititz groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Walters
Clay Township
Lebanon County
Reinholds
Kleinfeltersville
Walters
Lititz
Farmer Walters
Campaign in Lancaster County Led by Breitigan for Elizabethtown College
J H Breitigan of the Farmers National Bank Lititz and C L Martin of Lancaster head a county drive for an Elizabethtown College gymnasium fund launching August 28. The campaign unites alumni from twenty districts across the country under a joint leadership of men and women. Breitigan started at the Lititz bank after studying at Elizabethtown College and rising to cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown College
J. H. Breitigan
Farmers National Bank
Lititz
C. L. Martin
Lancaster
Lancaster County
Breitigan
Lititz Bank
Quarryville Band to Play Saturday in Square
The Quarryville Band will furnish the weekly concert at the square amid rain stoppages. Weather forced two week hiatus and the Rohrerstown Band played from the Park View Hotel balcony with a collection taken for the Quarryville group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quarryville
Rohrerstown
Park View Hotel
Miss Dorothy Evans Party at Spring Grounds
Miss Dorothy Evans celebrated her eighth birthday with a party at the Spring Grounds on Monday afternoon for a group of her young friends. Refreshments were served, gifts were received, and the hostess is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Evans. Attendees included Nancy Habecker Elizabeth Pfautz Dorothy Erb Evelyn Pfautz Mildred Young Ruth Smith Mary Mellinger Margaret Longenecker Arline Demmy Betty Ann Graybill Teresa Klunk Winifred Schaeffer Sylvia George Loraine Unbecker and Jane Burkholder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Evans
Howard Evans
Nancy Habecker
Elizabeth Pfautz
Dorothy Erb
Evelyn Pfautz
Mildred Young
Ruth Smith
Mary Mellinger
Margaret Longenecker
Arline Demmy
Betty Ann Graybill
Teresa
Second Talk On Banking Deposit at WGAT
The talk by P F Snyder on Making the deposit will be broadcast Friday morning from WGAT. Faris Snyder treasurer of Agricultural Trust Company will explain types of bank accounts and how to fill out deposit slips for each one. He will also discuss why deposit tickets are filled out by each depositor and this is the second of three talks on Banking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WGAT
Faris Snyder
the Agricultural Trust Company
Snyder
Lancaster Insurance Meeting Hosts Underwriters Leader
Nevin G. Bachman attended a banquet at Hotel Brunswick Lancaster with Lancaster County Underwriters Association members. J. G. Murray, president of the Central Pennsylvania Association, delivered a talk on a scientific program to meet the insurance needs of the average business man. Bachman is a charter member of the Lancaster County Underwriters Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevin G. Bachman
Brunswick
Lancaster
Lancaster County Underwriters Association
J. G. Murray
Central Pennsylvania Association
Bachman
Lancaster County Underwriter's Association
Real estate sales reported by M M Garman agency
M M Garman real estate sales list multiple transactions across Lancaster and Lititz offices. John K Eslinger sells a 12 acre farm in Warwick Township near Brunnerville to Christ M Imhoff with possession March 1. Harvey B Weber sells a 22 acre farm in Rapho Township to Mrs Kathryn Ruth with possession April 1. Francis S Paxson sells a 4 acre tract with brick mansion along the LA highway to Francis Schroeder of Cape May New Jersey. James M Goldthwait sells property to J Edward Buch as reported previously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M. Garman
Lancaster
Lititz
John K. Eslinger
Warwick Township
Brunnerville
Christ M. Imhoff
Harvey B. Weber
Rapho Township
Kathryn Ruth
Francis S. Paxson
Coatesville
la Highway
Francis Schroeder
Cape May
N. J
James M. Goldthwait
J. Edward Buch
Travelers Near and Far Column Highlights Weekend Visits
A litany of social travel notes from Lititz and nearby towns. Mrs. G L Calvert and Miss Ruth Weichsel spent the weekend at Mt Gretna while others visit Ocean City Atlantic City and Kutztown. Names include Bomberger Sturgis Weichsel Pfautz and many more with trips to Baltimore Philadelphia Perkasie and Niagara region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. L. Calvert
Ruth Weichsel
Mt. Gretna
Philadelphia
Perkasie
Amelia Weichzel
Also Mentioned on This Page
Janson Park
Columbia
Elmer Bender
Front Street
W. 8. Dienmn
York
Qwen Badorf
East Main Street
Oneida
N. Y
Phares Malschnee
N. 8. Myers
H. Reist Landis
Lutheran, Evangelical, United Brethren and Reformed Sunday Schools
Lititz Union
Springs Grounds
Neiley
Lititz Pike
D. M. Graybill
Pike Co
Victor
Riviera
Scott’s Beak
Jordan
Itory Land
Kate Wales
Holy Land
John Carvell
Betzner
D. B. Betzner
North
Cameron Street
Kitchner
Hammer Creek
Quarryville Band
P. F. Snyder
WGAL
Margie Arntz
Ruth
Ocean City
Lillian Miksch
Nathan Wolfe
Guy D. Bomberger
Atlantic City
Hotel
Iroquois
Albert QO. Sturgis
Nazareth
Herman Reedy
Herman Fisher
Ellen Bard
Fianna Pfautz
Ruth Keehn
George Keehn
Kutztown
Roy Todd
Michael Keith
Rev
S. E. Hermstaedt
Elizabeth, N. J
Mrs. Hermstaedt
Anna Bricker
N. Broad Street
F. A. Weichsel
J. 8. Mathers
Frank Grosh
Denver
Timothy Grosh
Warren Enck
Biglersville
Adams County
John Enck
William Odgen
Charles Wampole
Perkasie, Pa
M. L. Steiner
Joseph Dreifus
Isaac Pfautz
W. M. Pfautz
Mr. Pfautz
D. C
C. Hassler
E. J. O’hernen
Pauline
Francis Sandusky
Claude C. Miller
South Broad
Philip Wiseman
Wiseman
West Orange Street
M. E. Dengate
Frank Ryan
Elyria
Ohio
Frank Dengate
Lincoln Highway
Buffalo
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