Local notes mix field sightings and holiday closures
A fox roams open fields on South Broad Street while local businesses adjust for Christmas and New Year. Births at Lancaster General Hospital, sales of toll property, and shop closures mark the holiday period with school vacation dates and community events noted.
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South Broad St
Frank Gantz
American Railway Express
Albert Pierson
Lancaster General Hospital
Elmer Yerger
Lititz
Lexington Turnpike
Rush
Bear's Almanac
Central
Garden Club Prizes Awarded At Brubaker Home
The Junior Garden Club met at J. C. Brubaker's home and awarded prizes funded by Lititz Community Show ten dollars, Lititz Banks five dollars each, and Ambrose Furlow two dollars. Awards listed include Troyd Sheaffer first place seventy three dollars and several minor prizes to Mary Brubaker Roy Bushong Herma Rickert Verona Rickert Arthur Moore and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Brubaker
Lititz
Ambrose Furlow
Troyd Sheaffer
Mary Brubaker
Roy Bushong
Jacob Bushong
Herma and Verona Rickert
Arthur Moore
Mrs Jenkins Comes Home From San Itartum For Christmas
Mrs Sara Jenkins who suffered a serious fall at the Community Show on October 30 has recovered and is spending Christmas in Lititz as a guest of Mr and Mrs P F Snyder. Her daughter Miss Dorothy Jenkins who teaches in Damrosch Institute of Musical Art in New York City will join for the holiday. Mrs Jenkins thanks friends for kindness shown during her illness.
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Timer Harding
Louis Haines
Elmer Bender
Lancaster General Hospital
Emanuel Dutaler
North Broad Street
Mac Hassler
U. of P. Hospital
Philadelphia
S. ©. Hassler
Lititz
Manheim Selah Lodge
Lititz Lodge
Horee D. Grube
F Lancaster
Grube
Associated Press
Lancaster
Emanuel Grube
Lilitz
Sara Jenkins
Natfield Sanitarium
Wagerville
Chester County
P. F. Snyder
Dorothy Jenkins
Damrosch
Institute of Musical Art
New York City
Jenkins
Messrs
John and
Benjamin Fass
David Fass
Christmas Tree at Legion Room Work of Art
A unique Christmas display by Harry Geltz of Lititz will be shown at Garden Spot Post 66 American Legion headquarters at 114 South Broad Street from Christmas Eve for two weeks. The miniature village of 32 paper pulp buildings includes European castles modern offices windmills and skyscrapers. The village, lit electrically, features 548 windows in one structure and a painted backdrop of mountains forests and streams, reflecting careful craftsmanship and festive community contribution.
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Post 66
American Legion
Post
South Broad Street
Harry Geltz
Lititz
Geltz
Students Home for Holidays At Area Colleges
Students return home for holidays include Harold Ebersole Elizabeth town College William Masnacht Penn State Paul Furlow F M Russell Longenecker Carnegie Tech Thelma Gross Helen Marble Hood College Marian Light Lebanon Valley Father Weber Bernice Dengler Lester Stark Millersville Normal Alvin Stoner Wagner College Staten Island Miss Kathryn Fasnacht Harvey Bachman State College Newton Hershey Carnegie Touch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trom College
Harold Ebersole
Elizabethtown College
William Masnacht
Penn State
Paul Furlow
Russell Longenecker
Carnegie Tech
Thelma Gross
Helen Marble
Hood College
Marian Light
Lebanon Valley
Father Weber
Bernice Dengler
Lester Stark
Millersville State Normal School
Alvin Stoner
Wagner Callene
Staten Island
Kathryn Fasnacht
Harvey Bachman
State College
Newton Hershey
Carnegie Touch
Local druggist wins prize for window display
L N Moyer, a local druggist, created a October window display for Kotex and, after brief persuasion from a traveling agent, submitted a photo to compete for a prize. He received a $25 check last week for placing 29th among 864 entrants. William Peacock and Ralph Gross visited the Ford plant in Detroit on a business trip, meeting Henry Ford and the chief engineer, noted for a salary of about a million dollars a year, and described the plant as efficient and spotless with hardwood floors in the machine room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. N. Moyer
Kotex
William Peacock
Ralph Gross
Ford
Detroit
Mich
Ilenry Ford
Gon
Moravian Christmas Programs in Lititz Pennsylvani a
Religious notices detail Moravian and St Pauls Lutheran Christmas programs in Lititz. Moravian events include Christmas Eve services at 5 80 and 7 30 P M with choir and orchestra, Christmas Day sermon and music at 10 A M, benevolence offering, and a Sunday School program with numerous musical and dramatic offerings led by Rev Crasland and Miss Miriam Russell. St Pauls Lutheran presents a Christmas Day program at 6 P M titled The Star of Hope with songs, readings, and prayers led by Rev Sammel and Elizabeth Mahare.
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Moravian
Crasland
Kathryn Rollman
Randolph Bricker
Fred Rader
Margaret Kofroth
Betty Martin
Ruth Seaber
Romaine Long
Bethlehem
Mae Hassler
Mildred Young
Mary Brender
Mary Showers
Lillian Herr
Ruth Dissinger
Helen Showers
Ruth Girvin
Charles Showers
John Hertz
Abram Miller
Charles Regennas
Roy Badorf
Miriam Russell
Ella Buch
Harry Kepgle
St. Paul's Lutheran
St. Paul’s Lutheran Sunday School
Star of Hope
Rev
Sammel
Elizabeth Mahare
Farmer buys two small pigs at public sale
A nearby farmer purchased two pigs for twelve dollars each at a public sale without ample inspection. He hoped to fatten them with steers, but the pigs proved too small to pen with cattle, leaving him unsure what to do next. The piece then shifts to a practical note on Alaska reindeer and Moravian missions.
Christmas Past and Present In Lititz Pa
Miss L A Weitzel recalls Moravian church music in Lititz with German roots and shifts to English during war. The Christmas Eve service featured coffee and streisters, lighted candles, and two crowded services at 6:30 and 7:30, now sometimes three.
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L. A. Weitzel
Philadelphia
A. R. Beck
H.H. Beck
No Record Published Next Week in Local Paper
The publication will skip next week as part of an annual stock take while all job work remains on schedule. The note thanks patrons readers and advertisers, extends Christmas wishes, and expresses goodwill for the new year in the town.
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iNo Record
Record
Christmas Carols at White House in Washington
The First Congregational Church choir of Washington will sing Christmas carols on the White House north porch at 9 o clock Christmas Eve with the Marine Band. President and Mrs Coolidge invite the event which draws several thousand annually. The nationwide broadcast links over 20 million people with Rev Dr S Parkes Cadman and Dr Harry Rowe Shelly directing. The concert runs 10 30 PM to 12 00.
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First Congregational Church
Washington, D. C
White House
Coolidge
Marine Band
Paul DeLong Gable
J. B. Gable
S. Parkes Cadman
Brooklyn
Harry Rowe Shelly
New York City
St. Cadman
Lost finger incident in Clay township story
Evans Wolf, a well known Clay township citizen, lost a finger while helping neighbor Squire Tarry Wealand, Hopeland Secondary Schools teacher, extract a car from a roadside ditch. The skid caused the wheels to catch his hand, severing a finger in the incident last week.
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Evans
Wolf
Clay Township
Squire Tarry Wealand
Hopeland
Moravian Christmas Cantata Postponed at Church
Due to the choir directress Miss Bessie Gingrich, the Moravian church postpones the Christmas cantata though practice continues. A Sunday program includes Star of the Orient, Arise Shine, Shout the Glad Tidings, There were Shepherds, Jesu Bambino, with solo by Clarence Maharg.
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Bessie Gingrich
Shelly
Adams
Avery
Vincent
Jesu Banbino
Petro Yon
Clarence Maharg
Christmas Program at High School Likely Thursday Afternoon
The high school will present a Christmas program Thursday afternoon at 1 o clock featuring Christmas Carols, the Boy's Glee Club, readings, piano solos by Romaine Long and Dorothy Mikech, fife and piano pieces, poems, recitations, a sophomore sketch, and critic remarks. Notable participants include Helen Eby, Cleo Hosler, Marion May, Robert Gibble, Katherine Fleishman, and Anna Moore. The public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy's Glee Club
Romaine Long
Dorothy Mikech
St. Nicholas
Markc Evans
Fife
Helen Eby
Cleo Hosler
Ocette
Glee Club
Marion May
Robert Gibble
Sophmore
Clarence Kissinger
Katherine Fleishman
Anna Moore
Christmas Travel Visits Across Town and Beyond
A column of holiday movements lists Miss Mary Reidenbach spending Christmas in Bethlehem with her sister, relatives hosting visitors from York and Reading, and numerous families traveling from Philadelphia and New York toLititz. Others attend conventions or visit relatives in Harrisonburg and other towns, with Belgium Consulate secretary Martha Christener noted among those home for holidays.
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Mary Reidenbach
Bethlehem
Martha Christener
Belgium
New York
Inlaw
Albert Christener
George Young Starts Job with Lancaster Funeral Director
George N. Young of Lititz, a recent Eckel's Embalming School graduate, has joined Fred S. Groff at 234 West Orange Street, Lancaster. Groff, a leading Lancaster funeral director with a modern establishment, gains a promising young hire noted for four years with Mr. Spacht during schooling.
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George N. Young
Lititz
Eckel’s Embalmiing School
Philadelphia
Fred S. Groff
West Orange Street
Lancaster
Groff
Spacht
Tobacco prices and crop quality drop in local markets
Local tobacco is selling at two and a half cents per pound as crops fail and rust in fields. Old packings from 1923 and 1924 are bought back by local packers at 15 to 20 cents per pound, often at a loss. Names of packers and farmers appear, with reports of poor yields and misfit wrappers.
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Baker and Pfaut2
Meiskey Estate
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