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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1937
Page
1
Borough officials heard plans for a basement comfort station in town hall and learned state approval is required before construction. The 1987 budget totals are $24,712.60 in expenditures and $30,068.66 in receipts, leaving $5,856.06 on hand. Council set the annual tax rate at 3 mills, unchanged for years.
Mrs D L Neff entertained her card club at a Valentine Party on East Main Street last Tuesday evening. Attendees included Misses Millie Wagner Mary Sturgis Marie Zeller Mrs Walter Fryberger Mrs Victor Wagner Miss Ethel Groff of East Petersburg and Mrs John Petticoffer of Eph rata. Decorations followed the Valentine motif.
McCreary prints 1200 tickets for Growing Pains a drama by 13 Lititz juniors to be staged March 4 and 5 for an expected crowd over 1000. The show explores adolescence and love with tempestuous themes priced at 35 cents as students and locals watch rising talent.
The Elizabethtown College A Cappella Chorus will give a sacred concert at the Church of the Brethren Centre Street Sunday at 7 pm. The group of 32 voices is directed by Prof. E G Meyer and includes Lititz natives Miss Margaret Miller and Miss Mary Moore.
A skate service station opens Saturday in front of Maurice Kreider’s hardware store on East Main Street. It is a metal stand with tool compartments and a skate key chained to it, allowing skaters to adjust and repair their skates for free.
Mrs Mary EB Weicksel wife of Rev F A Weicksel pastor of Brickerville Parish died suddenly at her West Orange Street home Thursday. Funeral services were conducted at St Pauls Lutheran Church Monday afternoon drawing hundreds from four congregations and the town as Lititz ministers and others attended.
To occupy new homes Mr and Mrs David Nagle of Ephrata will move into Mrs Elizabeth Keener's apartment on New Street Saturday. Mr and Mrs Howard Steinman of Linesin Avenue will move into their new home in New Holland in the near future.
Miss Ruth R Hackman presents piano pupils in a Chapel recital at Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church tomorrow evening at 7 30. Participants include Lorraine Hess Ruth Ann Hunter Helen June Groff Peggy Buch Wilda Beth Stengel Kathryn Helman Richard Grube Jean Green Lorraine Eckert Gladys Fry Lois Adams Betty Snavely Cleo Runk Grace Snavely Marion Nelson Norma Steely Naomi Snavely Julia Moore and the senior and junior rhythm bands.
Mr and Mrs Eric Buckley will relocate Thursday from Cedar Street to a newly purchased addition on South Spruce Street. The house was bought from Hershey Leaman Co.
Pudding 20¢ per th. Hamburg 18¢ per th. We deliver. Phone your meat orders at 9181W LUTZ.
The temporary injunction stopping W. H. Muth from building a garage and service station on South Broad Street between Second and Third Avenues was made permanent by Judges Atlee and Shaeffer in Equity Court at Lancaster. The decree followed residents William W. Riegel H. William Zeller and D. W. Withers filing to halt the project claiming nuisance and devaluation of their property.
The Women's Missionary Society of St. Paul's Lutheran Church announces a four part series on the American Negro in Lititz. The first session is Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the church with monthly follow ups and notices to be given in all churches.
William Templeton a former local boy now with the State Highway Patrol helped search for clues in the Moyer case in Chester County last week. The Moyer youth who confessed on Saturday is the same lad who three years ago shot two girls.
Women of Lititz and vicinity are invited to a free cooking school at Roy S. Reidenbaugh Electrical Store on 95 S Broad Street next Wednesday afternoon and evening. Prizes will be awarded. Mrs. Hill of Westinghouse and Helen E. Scott of PA Power and Light co lead the sessions. Afternoon session starts at 2, evening at 7 30. First in a series of Westinghouse appliance demonstrations by Mr. Reidenbaugh.
Russell E. Tomlinson of Rising Sun Maryland a coal truck driver was arrested Tuesday evening on a speeding charge on North Broad Street. He faces a hearing before Squire A M Shissler next week as part of a town police drive against speeding ignoring stop signs and wrong way parking. Chief Kreider led the arrest and warned more arrests would follow.
Walter G Nooney manager of Morgan Paper Co reports a weekend news reel from a Springfield Massachusetts theatre showing tests of a new single blade airplane propeller made by Sensenich Bros Lititz R D 8. The caption reads Jesse Jones of the Lititz Pa airport tests new propeller.
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