Card Party at Rothsville a 1928 fundraiser event
Rothsville Fire Company hosts a card party at the P O S A Hall and Swan Hotel on Wednesday Feb 29 1928 with prizes for pinochle five hundred and haus machen games. Games start 830 pm with refreshments by the Ladies Auxiliary. Everyone invited. Also library readers noted from Scott's Book Store.
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Rothsville Fire Company
P.O. S
A. Hall
Swan Hotel
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Fire Co
Ephrata Tops Lititz to Seize Class A League Lead
Ephrata defeated Lititz High School 40 to 19 to take first place in the Lancaster County High School Class A basketball league. The Mountaineers jumped to an early lead and extended it to 19 9 at halftime. Lititz struggled with a loose defense and slow execution as Ephrata pulled away in the final period. A crowd of 800 witnessed the win, earning the Ephrata players two turkey dinners. The same night West Lampeter beat Manheim 50 28 and Manor beat Elizabeth town 42 31.
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Aphrata
Lancaster County High School
Lititz Iigh School
Ephrata
Lititz
Mountaineers
West Lampeter
Manheim
Manor
Elizabethtown
Weathered talk and social quips from a late newspaper page
The page rattles with opinions on Lent and weather trust, water drinking, prices, and mobility. It lampoons politicians, echoes old sayings, and notes shifts in daily life from autos to radio music. It ends with a casual jab about college life and youth.
Rothsville All-Scholastics to Play Mt Penn
Rothsville All-Scholastics host Mt Penn on their high school court in a Berks County clash led by Fish Herring. Preliminary game features Paradise High versus Rothsville High Reserves. Games start at 7 30 P M.
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Rothsville
MT. Penn
Lititz All Scholastics to face Ephrata Big Five
On February 25 the Lititz All Scholastics meet Ephrata Big Five in a key early series game. The Ephrata lineup includes Bill Doremus Stretch Zernfass Brunner Dick Beck Wolf and Albright. A second game will follow at Ephrata with a preliminary between Lititz Second team and Rothsville Derby Club. Referee is Al Boyer. Penny Easter Candies 10 cents a dozen at Trimmer's.
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Lititz
Ephrata Big Five
Bill Doremus
Stretch Zerfass
Brunner
Dick Beck
Wolf
Albright
Ephrata
Rothsville Derby
Lititz Olivers
al Boyer
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Trimmer
Scott’s Book Store
Bi Bread Supreme
Asco
California
Gorton
del Monte
Kirkman’s
Kirkman
Peam
PG. Ephrata
Litite
Colunthia
BIB Manor
Columbia High
Lititz High
Columbia
Rothsville High
Rothsville High School
West York High School
West Yorkers
Red Lion
York
Gerhart
Walters
Kinch
P — Risser
Kershner
Dissinger
Foultz
Goehenaar
Pacific Northwest
Philadelphia Inquirer
United States
Washington
Lincoln
BIG Five
Zartman’s
A. C
Raytheon
the Electric Shop
Orange and Spruce Sts
James M. Goldthwait
B. F. Lutz
Long’s Pressing Parlor
North Broad Street
Finklestein
Roy H. Long
W. M. Zook & Sons
C. Musselman
Hozel and
Ferdinand
Manheim, Penna
Victrola
E. K. Adams
N. Broad St. Lititz
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