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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
9
The Lititz Record lists publishers The Record Printing Co. B D Falweiler and J H Johnson. It notes Lititz Pa post office second class matter and provides address on South Broad Street with subscription at $1.50 per year and advertising rates on request.
The report notes intense heat and dry weather slowing Fall shopping while wholesale markets stay ahead of last year. Furniture demand remains strong though Fair goods show tapering enthusiasm. Eastern and Pacific Coast cities fared better. droughts in Minneapolis hurt crops. Dallas reports heat halting cotton picking and unemployment absorbed.
The piece reflects on school bells and wisdom while humorously noting old bachelors amusing babies. It warns that flattery precedes questions from a curious child and hints that interesting local news appears on every page of today’s Record.
Local notices report Mrs Anna Leopold of Orange Street celebrated her 50th birthday with fifty friends and gifts on Saturday. Nearby items note weights at Lititz bakery totaling 1180 pounds across six women and 204 pounds as the heaviest, plus local happenings from burglaries to school openings and a church cornerstone delay.
Twenty five years ago Paul E Beck, longtime supervisor of music and art in Lititz and Ephgata schools, will fill the same role in Manheim borough for the coming term. The public schools open Monday as the town’s students anticipate progress under his guidance. A Buchanan carriage is being dismantled to supply a delivery wagon frame for EB Bushong, east of town. The carriage once belonged to Andrew Godhenaur after sale by undertaker John Long forty years ago. Local residents CG Meiskey George Kling and others joined a Philadelphia group for deep sea fishing and returned with about 25 pounds of fish each.
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