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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1935
Page
1
Almost 400 Lititz area residents pledged to upgrade their homes this year under the Better Housing Campaign. A contractors meeting will review completed work and plan how to contact the 400 prospects to advance improvements across trades.
The Legion basketball team schedules a high school gym exhibition with the renowned St. Louis Girls team tomorrow night. The visitors recently beat Brownstown 38 to 21 and edged Columbia 27 to 25, drawing large crowds. A 7 30 p.m. start and admission of 35 and 20 cents are listed.
Lititz prepares a new 108 North Broad Street bakery for its Pretzel Company with a large rotary oven and improved storage deck. The old South Broad Street plant ceased operations last week as the new facility, partly used from veterans offices, ramps up production to triple output in eight hours.
Alexander F. Stadel a former White Army captain will speak at the Moravian Ushers Association meeting Monday night. His topic is From Russia to the U. S. A. with 50 Cents. The meeting begins at 7 30 and ushers are asked to bring wives and friends.
The Valentine card party of the Knights of Malta will be held Saturday evening at 8 30 in the Malta Temple East Main Street. Valentine favors will be given to everyone attending and there will be door and score prizes awarded. Three and four handed pinochle and 500 will be played. Admission is 35 cents.
Prayer services ongoing this week will continue through Sunday with Dr. Chas L. Goodell of New York, radio Shepard of the Air, delivering sermons at Moravian Church tonight Evangelical Church tomorrow St. Pauls Lutheran Church on Saturday and United Brethren Church Sunday at 2 PM. The final service returns to Moravian Church at 7:15 PM.
Dr Charles L Goodell of New York spoke Tuesday evening at the General Sutter Hotel on What Is Your Business to a Lititz Rotary Club meeting attended by 82 of 85 members. Visiting Rotarians Ralph W Goho Jr and L J Vandergrift of Lancaster joined Rev J C H Light and Rev D P Longsdorf as guests of Rev Byron K Horne.
The Men’s Work Committee of the Church of the Brethren will hold the first mass meeting on March 3 instead of February 24. Dr. C. C. Ellis, president of Juniata College, Huntingdon, will be the speaker.
Miss Marion Fisher and Herbert T. Hurrie of the Wilbur-Suchard Company will be married in Ephrata this afternoon at 4. They moved here from Philadelphia with the company offices and will reside at 3 Broad Street for the present.
Five local men from Wilbur-Suchard Co offices spent the night in a Hershey farmhouse kitchen after their car was driven into a heavy snow drift on the way home from a hockey game. They traveled from Fruitville Pike and navigated several piles before becoming stranded, enduring hours of cold until morning.
The 1934 Board of Health report notes Lititz growth and a total of 42 deaths, 56 white births, and 149 communicable disease cases. Measles lead with 66 cases, followed by mumps 27, chicken pox 37, and scarlet fever 24. whooping cough listed as present. J. W. Ruhl filed the report for the January Town Hall meeting.
A frozen kitchen water pipe in a well known local man’s house caused a man to heat the line with a blow torch. His wife, unaware of the danger, dumped wash water into the hole to put out the fire, soaking her husband.
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