Funeral Home Opens On Monday To Public Inspection
The Spacht Funeral Home near Main Street opens Monday and Tuesday for public inspection. It occupies part of the former furniture store with a Louis XVI vestibule, a 150 seat auditorium, Colonial styled, air conditioned and soundproof. The rear family room and slumber room feature knotty pine and Early American décor while a black and white prep area offers chromium fixtures. A canopy provides dry parking and a casket display awaits visitors. R M Spacht, from Philadelphia, invites the public to tour and receive a souvenir.
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Spacht Funeral Home
R. M. Spacht
Oliver Bear
Philadelphia
Enck
Rudy
Former Local Man Describes Eastbound Streamlined Flyer
Mr and Mrs Grover Hoff of Pittsburg California visited Lititz after spending the holiday season with his mother and sister He traveled east on the Southern Route streamline flyer an all steel 18 car train that reaches 75 to 100 mph and completes the Chicago run in 39 4 hours The train carries radios air conditioning and stewards and carries a 10 extra fare Hoff supervises a US Steel Corp plant in San Francisco and noted local building changes since his departure
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Grover Hoff
Pittsburg
Calif
Lititz
Margaret Wentworth
Beverly Counts
Chas. Hoff
Plains
Rockies
San Francisco
Chicago
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Ogden
Utah
Hoff
United States ‘Steel Corp
Post Office Yale Business Sets All‑Time Holiday Record
Christmas business at the Yale Post Office was the largest ever recorded with a 10 percent rise from last year. Between pre Christmas sales of 168000 stamps, up 10000 from previous year, parcel post also rose about 10 percent while staff added only three clerks to handle the load.
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Yale
Robert E. Pfautz
Seaber Treats U B Church Choir With Pie Supper
Mr and Mrs James Seaber entertained the U B Church Choir at a baked chicken corn pie supper in the church basement. Dinner was served by the Ladies Aid with many attendees listed including Rev J C H Light and Mrs Light along with several couples and single guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Seaber
U B
Ellis Spickler
Wm. Oehme
J. C. H. Light
H. R. Wertsch
Ira Eberly
Victor Wagner
Roy Myers
Benjamin Weir
Ed Ranck
Myr
Seather
Ethel Earhart
Walter Clair
Frank Spickler
Samuel Getz
Wm. Stauffer
Larry Stauffer
Robert Adams
Clair Weber
Chester Ruth
Robert Myers
Erma Gaynor
Winifred Shaeffer
Jane DeRocco
Hazel Eslinger
Anna Laser
Irene Witcraft
Ethel Wike
Lillian McCreary
Helen Farrand
Dorothy Spickler
St. Pauls Congregational Meeting Date Change Notice
St Pauls Lutheran Church posts schedule updates with a congregational meeting moved from Monday to Wednesday the 6th. A Liberian Mission field slide show shifts to Sunday night. A covered dish supper and fellowship night is set for Tuesday at 6 o clock. Holiday Market operates today Thursday from 2 to 10 at LUTZ MARKET HOUSE.
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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Lutz Market House
Lititz Obituaries and Social Roundup Over Christmas
Christmas week and weekend brought many visitors and family gatherings in Lititz. Residents from Baltimore Lancaster Philadelphia and Bethlehem joined locals for meals dances and church events as neighbors hosted kin on Front Street East Main Street and surrounding routes.
Star Farmer Clayton Hackman to Speak at Lititz Rotary
Clayton Hackman of Schaeffers Town named Star Farmer of the U S by the Future Farmers of America will address the Lititz Rotary Club at the General Sutter Hotel Tuesday evening at 6 46 o clock. The club invites farmers and farm boys to attend free of charge with no admission.
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Clayton Hackman
Schaefferstown
U.S
Future Farmers of America
Lititz
Council Transacts Routine Business At Dec. Meeting
Borough Council covered routine matters at the December session. An appropriation of 225 dollars was approved for the Board of Health and D. P. Bricker was reelected to a five year term on the board. Burgess Breneman reported 50 lodgers in the lock-up for the month.
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Board of Health
D. P. Bricker
Burgess Breneman
Watch Night Service Planned at Church of the Brethren
A watch night service will be held tonight in the Church of the Brethren beginning at 11. Willis W. Gibbes serves as committee chairman guiding the program. An invitation goes to all who lack such a service in their own churches.
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Church of the Brethren
Willis W. Gibbes
Christmas misadventure and small town duties
SNOOPS Ben Lutz bought a plane trip with Colonel Clarence Chamberlain at Lancaster Airport. Bob Turner attends the absent minded professor class. A man forgets his suit coat in Lititz Springs Barber Shop after leaving home. Children miss sleds and skates while Monroe Wonder’s four year old son battles annual pneumonia with hopes for recovery and healthier holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Lutz
Clarence Chamberlain
Lancaster
Ben
Chamberlain
Bob Turner
Lititz Springs
Monroe Wonder
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Spacht
James Seaber Treat
U. B
St. Paul’s
Mathers
Jean
Baltimore
Howard Bushong
Doris
Lloyd Smith
Owen Hershey
Margaret Ann
Hershey
W. W. Lehman
Dixon, Ill
Henry B. Gibbel
A. B. Church
R. V. Owen, Jr
New Street
Richmond
Carrie Hornberger
Neffsville
Adam Hornberger
Ruby McCauley
East Stroudsboro
Thalia Hershey
Spruce Street
Frances Hagen
Louis Hepp
New York
Elizabeth Hepp
East Main Street
Charles Garder
Helen
Emma Grosh
Plainsfield
N. J
C. Wm. Grosh
Walter Nooney
Tom Lovett
Morgan Paper Company
Springfield
Mass
C. E. Hermstaedt
Bricker
North Broad Street
Bethlehem
Harry Neidermyer
Front Street
M. W. Hess
Lititz R. D. 4
Joanne Innes
Staten Island
Jane Keith
Howard Keener
Cynthia
Jacob Keener
Roger Weaver
McKee Weaver
Jacob Ruhl
Front &I
Ada Hauck
Betty
Lois
Dorothy
Rhoda Hauck
George Keith
Linco Avenue
Elizabeth Keith
Nathan Hahn
Manheim
Willis Gochnauer
Mildred Keith
Morrison and Son
Lizzie Krumbine
Elmer Getz
The
Poconos
Henry Stoner
Lititz R. D. 2
Charles Regennas
Harry Regennas
Grace Keller
Susan Shreiner
A. M. Shissler
May
Ruth
Henry Shissler
Homer Hackman
Luther Ruhl
Hackman
Third Avenue
Harvey Bachman
California
John Mattis
Newville
Russel Longenecker
Guy Hershey
Evelyn Pfautz
Paul Bachman
Henry Seaman
Mauch Chunk
Myra Brookmyer
Palmerton
D. P. Longsdorf
Norman Hahecker
Society of Farm Women No. 1
John Nekman
J. L. Hertz
Star Farmer
Council
Watch Night Service
Snoops
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