Lititz Event Roundup and Local Notices Debrief
Lititz items report John D Helter building a Lincoln Avenue garage and a found boy’s sweater awaiting owner at 129 Lincoln. Wilson Gibbes to start as Lititz public schools janitor. Real estate sales soon. band concert Sept 9 at Main Street Frank Burkholder building. Fire drill planned on Spring Diamond. Numerous posts on hospital stays, school staffing, farm women meeting, and excursions to Atlantic City and Willow Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Helter
Lincoln Avenues
Lincoln Avenue
James Goldthwait
New Springs Bank
Frank Burkholder
Main Street
Plante Bros
Lititz
Ephrata
Terre Hill
Eden
Bank of
Fred Habecker Awarded Medal at Camp Meade
Frederick Habecker, son of E E Habecker, returned from a month at Camp Meade Md where he won a Red Medal for the best all around one year man in drilling. Brig Gen Charles H Martin conveyed that the honor merits local recognition. Eight companies received high Red Medals among about ninety to one hundred men per company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Habecker
E. E. Habecker
Citizen’s
Camp Meade
Citizens Military Training Camp Association of the
United States
Charles H. Martin
Burgess Badorf
Whabecker
Lititz Family Heads West by Cadillac for California
O brien Miller wife and two children depart Lititz Tuesday bound for the Pacific coast. They travel in a Cadillac with a camp stove and provisions for self feeding. They plan hotels at night and will follow the Lincoln Highway via Pittsburgh Chicago and Missouri Valley Iowa to visit William Kennort, once of Lititz, who runs a bread bakery and confectionery in Missouri Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O’brien Miller
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Ill
Missouri Valley
Iowa
William Kennort
Lititz
Prank Burkholder to Market the New Star Line
Frank Burkholder, local agent for the Durant car, will market the Star line in Lititz and vicinity. After W. C. Durant announced a sub $400 car last spring, the Star drew wide attention with 27,000 visitors in Washington and 59,000 in New York. The Star will be shown at LeBanon and Lancaster fairs this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Burkholder
Durant Car
Lititz
W. C. Durant
General Motors
Washington
New York
Broadway
LeBanon
Lancaster
Brubaker Reunion Draws Clan to Virginia
The Brubaker clan from Lancaster and Lebanon counties heads to near Luray Cave Virginia for the annual reunion this Saturday. An auto party left Lititz Thursday morning including Menno Brubaker who organized the first reunion, Jd Clayton Brubaker and wife, Aaron Brubaker and wife, and Rev J E Brubaker and wife of Lancaster. They expect to return Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brubaker
Lancaster
Lebanon
Luray Cave
Lititz
Menno Brubaker
Clayton Brubaker
Aaron Brubaker
J. E. Brubaker
Trenton Teacher Hosts Visits From Lititz Friends
Mr. O. J. Oswald of Trenton New Jersey and his wife with two children visited Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Buch from Saturday to Tuesday. They traveled by auto. Oswald and late Warren S. Buch were college mates and lifelong friends since Warren’s passing over four years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. J. Oswald
Trenton
N. J
W. H. Buch
Mr. Oswald
Warren S. Buch
Warren
Graybill
Willow Grove
Ira Reidenbach
Pittsburgh
A.B. Reidenbach
J. Frank Buch
Theodore
Berks
Schuylkill
John Fass
New York
David Fass
E. J. Bishop
Bethlehem
Marguerite Bishop
Carlisle
Lititz
Libbie Buch
Reading
Charles Bentz
Andrew Conrad
New Street
Frances Imboden
Eber Foltz
Hazel
Carl
Franklin County
Mamie Vigo
Harriette Lehn
Philadelphia
John Lehn
Mary Habecker
Downingtown
Eflen Kantz
Leon Lutz
Hollandale
Hettie Habecker
South Broad Street
Bella Wantz
York
Herman Fisher
Maud Kreiter
Lincoln Avenue
Fruitville
Mary S. G. Buch
Chambersburg
Henry Pretz
Allentown
C. Schmucker
Pretz
Schmucker
Harry Adams
Harry Herr
Ellis Kauffman
Addison Showers
Fruitville Pike
Roy Todd
Michael Keath
Front Street
Todd
D. E. Young
Louis Qehme
U. B. Church
Mary Young
Manheim
W. E. Nields
Coatesville
Henry Harrap
Phoenixville
Sara Pyle
Henry Ostrom
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Ill
Ocean City
Schenectady
Ostrom
E. G. Diehm
Youngstown
Ohio
Elizabethtown
Oliver Diehm
Elm
Diehm
Ebner Hammond
Evelyn Sturgis
Jacob Graybill
Agnes Adams
Alvin Kochel
Frank Myers
Charles. Myers
Magie Buch
Rothsville
Hershey
Wilson Scheneberger
Samuel Walters
William Miller
Henry Heiserman
Wayne Seldomridge
Henry Buch
Ephrata
Red Letter Day for Mr Eschbach at Lititz church
Horace Eschbach attended Sunday services in Lititz and hosted Lancaster and Fast Petersburg friends for the afternoon visit. Visitors toured the Moravian Home and were impressed. George Hallacher of Reading, a retired cigar maker, stayed with B B Hertzler after a sixty year old school friendship from Millport. S M Sarah sues $115 against the executors of H H Moore of Lancaster on an overdue note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Eschbach
Lititz
Lancaster
Petersburg
George Hallacher
Reading
B. B. Hertzler
Millport
Mr. Hallacher
Rothsville
S. M. Sarah
H. H. Moore
Lancaster City
Prautz Bros Open New Store With Bright, Modern Layout
Prautz Bros commence business in a new building with a 27 by 90 foot main room and a 100 foot length of show windows. Glass cases run the length of the store with grocery and notions on opposite sides and a rear shoe department. The second floor holds rugs, linoleum, queensware and apparel, with a lavatory and planned rest room. The store is praised as neat and attractive as a 1922 silver dollar and ready to serve the town. Earlier the brothers, Robert and Roy Pfautz, began in the business twelve years ago and expanded from a small shop to their new quarters. Roy is thirty six, the elder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prautz Bros
Grocery
the Nations
Shoe
Robert
Roy Pfautz
Roy
Knights of Golden Eagle Convention at Lititz
Lancaster county Knights of the Golden Eagle hold a Lititz convention on Saturday Sept. 16 with morning, afternoon and evening sessions. S Hassler of Lititz delivers welcome, Morris McCloud presides, and a male chorus with Victor Wagner performs. Officers listed include M C McCloud president and several guardsmen. The column also notes Meldor knitting rails discontinued and workers reassigned, a Sunday trip to Penryn Park with 15 locals, fishing forbidden, and Warwick Grange planning October meetings to recruit new members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Hassler
M. C. McCloud
Knights of the Golden Eagle
Lancaster County
Lititz
S. ©. Hassler
Morris McCloud
J. K. Mathers
E. P. Wagner
B. G. Wier
H. H. Sesseman
V. Wagner
Victor Wagner
J. Harry Graybill
Centerville
John B. Graybill
East Petersburg
H. G. Ruth
Terre Hill
Chester Boohar
Charles Schlossman
Lancaster
Harry K. Books
New Providence
Warwick Grange
Jokes and watches and ads in a Lititz page
A Lititz man endures a crude backstage joke at the Colonial Theatre while a comedian performs to applause. The column then explains watch mainsprings, their delicate parts and ticking, then discusses a new ad deadline policy for Lancaster papers and the benefits of early ad copy. It ends with a Lititz resident washing his car at a fountain, saving water use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Theatre
Lancaster
Lititz
Philadelphia Industry May Locate In Lititz
Two representatives of a Philadelphia paper bag maker visited Lititz seeking a site for a new plant. Franklin Paper Bag Manufacturing Company, founded by W. E. Browning in 1915, reported last year’s profit of 8705.95 and could hire about fifty workers. A $75 000 local raise and Lititz directors are sought to relocate from Philadelphia. The current plant, capable of 400 000 bags daily, would gain new machinery after funding. N B Leaman showed them around town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Philadelphia
Franklin Paper Bag Manufacturing Company
W. E. Browning
Niew
Delaware
N.B. Leaman
Stolen Car Recovered Near Rothsville Station
A Sprecher and Ganns coupe from Lancaster was found wrecked near Rothsville railroad station by State Police early Sunday. G. G. Landis, an employee, said he parked it by the stands on Saturday evening amid carnival crowding. by the time he returned, others had left and the car was missing. Police towed the damaged vehicle to the Rothsville garage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sprecher & Ganns
Lancaster
Rothsville
G. G. Landis
Ephrata
Real Estate Sales Reported by Lancaster County Agency
The Lancaster County Farm Sales Agency reports several transfers: Elam Nolt sells a nine room brick house in Neffsville to a private party. Daniel Butter sells a 12 room double house in Rothsville to Frank Myers on private terms. Benjamin Witmer sells a 19 acre Manor township farm near Millersville to Christian Shoff for 6500. Cyrus G. Fiseman sells a 132% acre Lebanon township farm to S. S. Sheibler for 16800. Also notes tax law on non arrest of women for non payment of taxes and local public notices of accidents and community events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County Farm Sales Agency
N. S. Myers, Prop
Lititz
Lancaster
Elam Nolt
East Lampeter
Neffsville
Daniel Butter
Rothsville
Frank Myers
Warwick Township
Benjamin Witmer
Manor Township
Millersville
Christian S. Shohf
Tor Cyrus G. Fiseman
Lebanon Township
Lebanon County
S. S. Sheibler
Washington, D. GC
Trap Factory Picnic Draws 150 Attendees at Millway Grounds
Employees of the Oneida trap factory and families, about 150 people, enjoyed a Saturday picnic at the old ecamp meeting grounds in Millway. Attendees were transported by auto and track. free coffee ice cream and soft drinks were served. Prizes awarded in running water drinking bag bottle kicking and other contests. large quantities of peanuts and beverages given away. A Lititz party left Sunday for a Fortescue New Jersey fishing trip returning Monday with 147 croakers weak fish and black bass weighing up to six pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oneida
Ecamp
Millway
James Seaber
Charles Carpenter
Paul Seaber
Russel Enck
Dorothy Stark
M. C. McCloud
Ralph Habecker
Paul Spickler
Ruth Spickler
Winfield Buchter
Esther Lehn
Eve Leaber
Arthur Badorf
Paul McCloud
Lester Stark
Julia Stark
Wm. Oehme, Jr
Esther McCreary
John Lehn
McCreary
Ella Wood
Madlem
David Voy
Bertha Eck
Eve Seaber
Frank Martin
Viola Bisker
Russell Enck
Lititz
Fortescue
N. J
Ralph Walters
Robert Behmer
C. B. Mohler
Melvin Hoover
Miss Kling
Brownstown Agent Attends Harrisburg Club Convention
Brownstown insurance agent George M Leiccy, a leading representative of New York Life’s Harrisburg Branch, spends a week or more at the 200000 Club convention at Manoir Riche lieu in Murray Bay Canada. He thanks friends for their business and expects to return by September 5. The September Magazines are here Scott's Book Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Leiccy
Brownstown
Harrisburg
New York Life Insurance Company
Manoir Richelieu
Murry Bay
St. Lawrence
Civer
Canada
Travelers Hear and Far in Lititz and Beyond
A parade of visits and travels unfolds from Lititz to Berks and Schuylkill counties, with Pittsburgh, Bethlehem, Reading, York, Philadelphia, and New York connections. Talks of relatives, long summers, and evangelistic stops appear alongside local shop promotions and a Moravian Home visit.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wilson Gibbes
P. B. Leaman
Lawrence Kling
Goncaster General Hospital
Thalia Hershey
Juniata College
Atlantic City
Litttg Fire Company
Manheim Band
Reamstown
Columbia
J. H. Gill
Callie Magazine
Beck's Academy
Clayton Bucher
Jacob Musser
Lancaster General Hospital
Society of Farm Women
J. C. Brubaker
Anna Forbes
State College
Park View
Springs Hotel
Miller
O'brien
California
Central Pennsylvania
Quarryville
David Meily
Leon
LeRoy
Vermont Meily
Floyd
Tlenry Buchter
Roy Uhlig
Frederick Uhlig
Rosa Uhlig
John Meily
Camden
Fred. Habecker
Lititz Merchant
Most Apt
O'brien Miller
Prank Burkholder
New Star
Virginia
Mr. Eschbach
Knights OF Golden Eagle
Meldor Knitting Mill
Meldor
Campe Corporation
Harry Gingrich
Old Penryn Park
Penryn Park
Allen Putt
George Evans
Arlie Rader
Jacob Dissinger
Ask
Sprecher
Ganns
Pennsylvania
Quarry
Israel
Ammon Weidman
Erb
Aaron Long
Rome
J. Fred Essig
F.C. Shirk
Louetta Weitzel
Hazel and
Mary, Miller
Harry Singer
Buchanan Park
Young People’s
Lancaster County Sunday School Association
Victor
Scott’s Book Store
Trap Factory
Ida
Scott’s. Book Store
Jardinieres
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