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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1935
Page
9
A holiday editorial celebrating Christmas as the central theme of goodwill and peace and looking ahead to New Year hopes. It wishes readers a joyful season and a prosperous year, urging reverence for the Christmas gift and the universal reach of its spirit.
Streams were stocked and gray squirrels placed in the Park by the Lititz Sportsmen's Association. A squirrel named Jimmy who lived in Church Square was struck by an automobile and died, casting gloom in the east end. Visitors included Judge Eugene Bonniwell of Philadelphia and his athletic bride M S Hershey, founder of Hershey, with Dr A G Rau of Bethlehem and Judge Benj Lindemuth also noted.
A busy Christmas period with crowds at Warwick House featuring Citi zen's Band and Lancaster Orchestra, free lunch and roasted turkeys. Jacob Henry’s home near Lititz and Petersburg burned down Monday evening. Oysters lagged, Moravian Sunday School officer Mr. Wolfe honored with a chair. Holiday sales rose, four local sociables held, and Christmas Eve bellsnickers appeared amid quiet Christmas Day.
Obituaries mark deaths of Dr J K Hertz and Horace A Shelly. Local youth injury, poultry show entries, and council actions are reported. Ice harvests at Rudy's Dam and Millway, bakery cake records, purse theft and recovery, stage wagon debut, and Christmas services at Moravian Church and St Pauls Lutheran are documented with community news.
Connecticut visitors the Beverly Smiths tour for the American magazine. Humorous year end tales plus four goats wandering to the doors of the General Sutter. The town enjoys dinners dances card parties banquets at the General Sutter Hotel and many sewing knitting and bridge clubs. Lititz anticipates a thankful May 1936 year ahead.
Seven young explorers trapped in caverns beneath the Shawangunk Mountains survive after Edward Eiskamp’s flashlight sinks to the bottom of an eight foot pool. The glow returns as a rope and makeshift noose bring the light to the surface, ending a dangerous, hours long ordeal.
Brevities record Miss Winona Leed spending Christmas in Narberth with her sister and family. Mr and Mrs J M Leed hosted Lydia Leamar B McLeaman family and Stanley Biemesderfer in town and Lancaster on Christmas Day. Margaret Souders visited Harrisburg last Thursday. Mae Maurer and Clarence Dengley joined Earl Brian Manheim guests. Paul Frey and family of Mr Joy visited Robert Kling on Sunday.
The adjective secretive has a single pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable. It derives from secrete, meaning to remove from observation or to separate by secretion in biological terms, as noted in Literary Digest.
The U B Church program Sunday evening featured singing led by the School with Miss Katie Whitcraft on organ W B Oehme on cornet and Harry Wertsch on violin. A Sunday afternoon children’s entertainment and a purse presented to the pastor were part of the events.
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