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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1930
Page
4
Lititz Record Issued weekly by The Record Printing Co editors and publishers E D Fulweiler and J R Johnson. Entered at Lititz Pa post office as second class matter. Address communications to 9 South Broad Street Lititz Pa. Subscription $1.50 a year.
Figures from November close show Americans deposited more in savings banks than ever before, reaching twenty eight billion dollars on deposit and paying over eight hundred million in interest this month on Christmas Savings accounts. The piece notes that hard times seem to spur saving behavior across the nation.
A Christmas program was rendered at the vesper service in the Mary Dixon Memorial Chapel at Linden Hall on Sunday evening. Dr. F. W. Stengel delivered a Christmas appropriate address. Christmas carols were sung and students marched with lighted tapers during the proessional and recessional amid candlelit trees and candlelit auditorium lighting.
The text notes sandals as the first footwear form and references oranges originally being pear shaped, about the size of a cherry. It also mentions Orange development themes without specific dates or names.
The High School football season awards letters to players Howard Burkhart Henry Lutz John Lehn Frank Wonder Claire Weber Paul Bachman Robert Getz Paul McCloud Robert Posey Wm Gibson Robert Neidermyer Elvin Geltz Lloyd Schaeffer Fred Pfautz and other recipients.
Gabriel Weaver Richard Zartman and Elwood Cochran share a remedy advising for a wreck that won’t go to clean with a small sponge soaked in kerosene placed at the bottom of the works. The fumes rise and aid cleaning while not touching the workings.
Prof Herbert H Heck of Franklin and Marshall College was renominated without opposition for his eighth straight year as president of the Lancaster County Historical Society. The meeting occurred on North Duke Street in Lancaster.
The only state retaining a bank deposit guarantee law is Nebraska. In 1925 several states including Oklahoma Kansas Missouri South Dakota and Washington operated under such laws but all have repealed them except Nebraska.
An article notes 22 Lancashire bells can be dated before 1550 with the oldest at Claughton from 1296. Five or six bells are from the 1300s, another similar number from the 1400s, six from 1600 to 1460, showing a wide range of early church bronze.
The Post Office reports United States mail first carried by railroad on August 25, 1885. A railway link between Washington D C and Baltimore inaugurated the mail service on that day.
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