Lititz Community News Briefs From Local notes and events
A baby boy arrived for Emanuel Ditzler and another for Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Seaman. Local groups schedule drills and excursions including a Reading road trip to Atlantic City and Willow Grove. Fire company happenings, a tobacco warehouse project, ads by Milton Bushong, and various tax and public works items are reported. Fishermen, car repairs, hospital update, and a creek pollution chart headline community life with notes on deliveries and peaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emanuel Ditzler
Benjamin Seaman
Harrisburg
Lititz
F. S. Becker
Harrington
Del
Delaware
Becker
Biggest Picnic of the Season Draws Thousands to Springs Park
The Tadmore Siesta of Reading No 77 hosted the annual picnic at Springs Park drawing over 3000 attendees. Special trains and autos ferried visitors as 1800 quarts of ice cream, 37 hundred prearranged guests, and 33 barrels of coffee fueled a day of revelry with a 77 band and a afternoon baseball game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tadmore Siesta
No. 77
Princes of Bagdad
Reading
Springs Park
Siesta
Harry M. Guldin
Sturgis & Haines
Trimmer’s
The Missing Word Contest Returns With An Early Hint
This week marks the tenth installment of the missing word contest with the clue that the answer starts with e and ends with s. The previous week’s word was habit and appeared in a Farmers National Bank ad about thrift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers National Bank
Former Lititz Resident Visits Boyhood Friend in Earl Sampsel
The article notes a former Lititz resident now living in Denning New Mexico visits Emory Wegner after twenty three years away. He previously worked farming land that required irrigation and expects new irrigation projects could boost value amid nearby oil prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Sampsel
Rev. Sampsel
United Evangelical Church
Emory Wegner
Denning
New Mexico
Building Service Station Over San Domingo
A two story building rises on North Cedar street at Cedar street and incom avenue, by Jerre Adams. Part will be a dwelling, part a restaurant and auto display. Two gasoline pumps planned on Cedar street and Lincoln avenue. Located over San Domingo creek on Engle’s former lot, once no man’s land then gardened by Michael Engle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Street
Incom Avenue
Jerre Adams
Michael Engle
Former Lititz Boy Leaves for Switzerland
Elmer Hobst, a Lititz native now heading the Hoffman La Roche Chemical Works in New York, will leave Saturday for Basle Switzerland to visit the sub plant. He refused another New York chemical firm offer and was made business adviser with stock and a high salary. He is about forty and a Lititz High School graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Hobst
Hoffman-La- Roche Chemical Works
New York
Basle
Switzerland
Elmer
New York Chemical Company
Litit2a High School
Auntie Jenkins Honored for Civic Nursing Service
A tribute extols Auntie Jenkins for decades of civic nursing in the town. She cared for the sick in homes day and night, resisted material rewards, and inspired charity among friends to purchase her a car. The piece frames her as a minister of God in service to those in need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenkins
Lord
Pistol Sprayer Paints Fast for Homes and Barns
A portable paint sprayer powered by a gasoline engine can cover ten times the area of brushes with a crew of one. Norman Brubaker’s rig uses compressed air to drive paint through a mouthpiece on a pistol, allowing controlled widths and no overlapping marks. Mounted on a truck, it can paint houses or barns rapidly and even interior spaces like B. W. Grosh's barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Brubaker
Brubaker
B. W. Grosh
Public suspected boot shop and booze debate letter
A hostile anonymous letter targeted Mr Earl Mumma of the Progressive Shoe Repair Shop accuses bootlegging and sins, urging the public judgment. The writer claims ties to booze and hides behind cowardice, promptingContinued on Page 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Mumma
Two youths canoe from Lancaster to New Orleans plan
John L Hess and Edward Patton of Lancaster began a Susquehanna voyage upriver to Cairo and the Mississippi then toward New Orleans, aiming to cover about a thousand miles more in a seventeen foot boat weighing seventy five pounds. The journey passes low water, river hospitality, and colorful river life with many boats and curiosities along the way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Hess
Edward Patton
Lancaster
Susquehanna
Ohio
Cairo
Mississippi
New Orleans
California
Arkansas
Duck Dinner on Sunday at Burk Holder's Restaurant
A duck dinner event is planned for Sunday at Burk Holder's Restaurant inviting patrons to enjoy a featured menu item and socialize with locals at the venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burkholder’s
Chevrolet Picnic Headlines Lititz Park Aug 30
Readiness for the Chevrolet day picnic at Lititz Springs Park on Thursday August 30 with a parade from Lancaster to Lititz and races with merchandise prizes plus 108 dollars for parade participants. Also Republican candidates listed for Lititz borough offices and notes on local political figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititzi Springs Park
Chevrolet
King ‘Street
Lancaster
East Petersburg
Lititz
Springs ‘Park
Lititz Band
Travelers Near and Far Holiday Movement Across Counties
A sprawling itinerary of local residents and guests is recorded with trips to Chicago Easton Pa Ocean City N J and Gettysburg. Notable names include Keller Godenaur Loeffler Staley Sturgis Haines and the Kreiders. The notes mention attendance at the Grand Lodge session in Warren Pa and a Chicago University course in interior decorating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Diehin
Warren, Pa
Lititz Lodge No
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Joe Doster
Chicago
Chicago University
Twenty five years since visit brings Lititz man back
Monroe Miller, who left Lititz twenty five years ago, returns on a first visit stopping at Springs Hotel. He is brother to Joe Miller of Lincoln Avenue and to Mrs. Harry Neidemeyer of Rothsville. A Spanish American War veteran, he worked with farmers, later in Baltimore with a light and gas company, and traveled by car to Lititz to see relatives before returning. He was born in Lexington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe Miller
Springs Hotel
Joe Miller
Lincoln Avenue
Harry Neidermyer
Rothsville
Baltimore
la Light and Gas Company
Lititz
Lexington
Hosiery Firms Swap Spruce and Maple Mill
The Century Knitting Corporation building at Spruce and Maple, Pottsown headquarters, was sold to Lititz Spring Hosiery Mill owners. Hosiery fabrication will begin there around September 1, with the price reported at 18,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spruce and
Maple Streets
Century Knitting Corporation
Pottsown
Lititz Spring Hosiery Mills
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lititz Five Co
Lancaster County Firemen’s Association
Lititz Fire Company
Ephrata
Trenver
Samuel Graybill
East Main Street
BF. Lutz
Milton Bushong
Front Street
Harry Erb
M. H. Yoder
Reading Road
Atlantic City
Willow Grove
Wayne Longenecker
Sate Harbor
Russel
Behmer
Aaron Hershey
Lancaster General Hospital
WY. Stevens Grosh
H. Flisher
Warwick House
Larry Gingrich
Paper Box Factory
Ideal
Maarig
Owen Hershey
Joe Boltinger
Springs
G. Lepp
Kodak Co
Kodak
Mr. Hepp
San Domingo
Auntie
True-Reart
Lye
Uncle Sam
Dudley
Pye
Josh
Zoo
Riley
Mary
Dehlia
Taft
Brownstown
A. D. Hummer
Manheim
Chester L. Leicey
Linden Street
Long & Co
Leicey
The
New York Life Insurance Co
Bill Johnson
Bill
Toronto
Canada
Pittsburgh
Dare Devil Dusty
Boro
C. R. Kreider
E. E. Hatecker
B. F. Lutz
Herbert H. Beck
Jacob Singley
Samuel Bowers
R. Posey
William Eshleman
C. E. Mohler
H. C. Hiller
John Carpenter
John Heller
Ed. Webber
Andrew Shissler
Paul Bomberger
Clarence Brubaker
Graybill Minnich
Adatitz
Coalition
Minnich
J. B.wissler
Wissler
Ife
Mrs. A. R. Keller
Charles Hacker
Sweeney Auto School
Kansas City, Mo
Mrs. Albert Hall
Philadelphia
Mr. Hall
C S. Loeffler
Naomi Gundrum
Ocean City,n.j
Anto
Harry Bomberger
Burlington, N. J
J. C. Staley
Shepherdsitown
E.S. Young
Frances Habecker
Betty
Clair
Richland
Jacob Eberly
Liberty Street
Lake Butt
N. J
Evelyn and
Aileen Euck
Richard
Cincinnati
Elizabeth Sesseman
C. C. Grim
Zartman
Wayne Zartman
Gee
Keelin
Ruth and
George
Wyomissig
Chauncey Sturgis
Andrew Rote
Wellington Pfaute
Guy Brobaker
Atwood Kreider
A. M. Kreider
Morris
Robert
Gettysboro
Abram Hershey
W. M. Grube
Elizabeth
Anna Craig
Hannah
Carrie Zoller
George Zoller
Doster
Newton Mowery
Elmer Snyder
W. H. Bueh
Harold Shick
Louis Ernst
Kitchener
Ont
Henry Musser
St Jacobs
H.reist Landis
Reist
Landisville
Ralph Haines
Behmer Motor Service
Lewistown
Mrs. Haines
Scotland
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