Lititz civic events and incidents in a Sunday town page
Omitted union picnic for U B Sunday School. Earl Steffy’s Chalmers burned beyond repair at Keller hill. Mohnton band to give a concert Saturday. Local campers and town crowds reported. Plantz Bros sale starts Friday the 18th with value offers in shoes and home goods. Auto collisions near Lititz. two drivers injured or vehicle damaged. Carden Spot Post plans Lake Grubb picnic. attendees urged to bring companions. Dry laws fund drive nets thirty dollars across Sunday Schools. Everett Loercher recovering from cannon injury. eye unaffected. A buggy accident near Tensel's drug store startles a young couple. no injuries reported. Agron Bershey improving after surgery at Lancaster General Hospital. Rev J W G Hershey and wife voyage on Pacific coast. delayed by heavy rain and floods. Chimney sparks cause Leon Carpenter’s shop roof to flare. quick extinguish by Lititz Fire Company. New Dr D C Martin cottage at Mt Gretna nearly finished. Twin Oaks planned. regular hours mostly in Lititz except Tue Thu after 9. Lititz Moravian Sunday School picnic planned with large crowd and free coffee. Lititz band engaged. G G Diehm met Governor Pinchot in Harrisburg about a proposed state road linking Lancaster and Horse Shoe Pike via Vitita. governor favorable on financing and budget guidance. Six pieces Cream Laundry Soap offered by Miller & Habecker.
DIVER FAILED YESTER DAY IN RECOVERING BODY OF PAUL MARPLE
Divers sought the body of Paul Marple of Lancaster in ninety feet of spring water at Lake Grubb. Jackson of Philadelphia attempted the dive but stayed briefly due to cold water. recovery efforts to resume next day. Marple, a former Atlantic City lifeguard, worked for Lancaster Sanitary Milk Co. Garber of Lititz drives ongoing search. Local anglers reported catches at the river and Conewingo Bridge with bass and salmon sizes to 17 inches.
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Lititz
Lake Grubb
Diver Jackson
Philadelphia
Paul Marple
Lancaster
Marple
Atlantic City
Lancaster Sanitary Milk Co
BE. L. Garber
Road north of town reopening after repairs
The road north of town from the state road to the borough limits, closed for several weeks for repairs, will be opened today. It has been in very poor condition and the repairs will ease travel to the state road, serving as the main access route north.
Acme Metal Ships Safes to Many Nations
The Acme Metal Products Co. received a large government order for the new style safe. The shipments will be sent to American Consulates in Germany Greece Italy Rio de Janeiro Brazil Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua Guatemala Spain and Cuba.
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Acme Metal Products Co
Germany
Greece
Italy
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Costa Rica
Chile
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Spain
Cuba
Early Potatoes Falter in Dry Weather Crop
Farmers report early potatoes failing due to dry weather. Stalks dieing and potatoes marble sized. digging not profitable. John Hess near town has new potatoes of fair size from very early planting. The crop overall may improve with rain.
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John Hess
Shoemaking Pioneer Henry Miller Visited Lititz After 53 Years
Henry Miller of Philadelphia, who learned the shoemaking trade in Lititz fifty three years ago with the late Jacob Withers, spent Friday through Sunday in town with his brother Joseph Miller of East Main street. They recalled apprenticing under the late Daniel Bowman and learning to make a complete hand cut shoe.
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Henry Miller
Philadelphia
Jacob Withers
Joseph Miller
East Main Street
Daniel Bowman
Warwick House Sale Totals Seven Hundred Dollars In Items
At the Warwick House sale on Saturday buyers purchased five hundred sixty seven lots. Thirty nine people bought items with the top bid at 22 and 86 cents. Other sales included rabbits chickens pigeons a boiler a lawn mower sewing machine stove paint and various farm goods with prices ranging from pennies to several dollars.
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Warick House
Camped Along the Conestoga by Oneida Factory Boys
A group of younger workers from the Oneida factory spent a week camping along the Conestoga river. They set up six tents with Frank Martin in charge. Camp participants included Charles Bear Walter Hoffman Lester Adams Lester Hackman Arthur Hackman Clarence Sturgis Eli Wolf Robert Sturgis Richard Scheneberger Edward Rudy Vernon Shreiner and Alton Gable. Read the Record. $1.50 a year.
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Oneida
Frank Martin
Charles Bear
Walter Hoffman
Lester Adams
Lester Hackman
Arthur Hackman
Clarence Sturgis
Eli Wolf
Robert Sturgis
Richard Scheneberger
Edward Rudy
Vernon Shreiner
Alton Gable
Treasure Trove In Missing Word Contest
Daily feature invites readers to find missing words in ads. A farmer fable explains treasure as the hidden word, with weekly clues and a note on submitting answers to the Contest Manager. The upcoming word starts with y and ends with u, growing harder each week.
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Lititz Springs National Bank
Real Estate Sales Report by Lancaster County Firm
Real Estate Sales from Lancaster County Farm Sales Agency report transfers for Jacob H. Rohrer Providence township Lititz to Charles Hammer Lititz on private terms a bungalow planned. H C Huber Lampeter 70 acre farm near LamPeter to Harry S Graver Millersville on private terms with possession October 1.
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Lancaster County Farm Sales Agency
M. M. Garman
E. King Street
Lancaster
Lititz
Jacob H. Rohrer
Providence Township
Charles Hammer
H. C. Huber
Lampeter
Harry 5. Graver
Millersville
Mr. Graver
Kils-Em-Al Contest For Word Building Prizes
A local contest offers a challenge to form words from Kils-Em-Al with insect names like flies roaches water bugs ants and moths. Each can costs 25 cents two cans for 4he with an e card. Present the card at Moyer's Drug Store to enter. Existing purchasers may join. bring a list of words. Contest ends Saturday with prizes.
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Moyer’s Drug Store
Moyer’s
Lititz Band to Play at Spring Grounds Thursday Evening
The Lititz band performs a hand concert this Thursday at Spring Grounds between 7 45 and 9 45. Additional weekday concerts are planned during warm weather. A collection will be taken to cover the final payment on band uniforms.
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Lititz
Polly Weachter recalled as a humble saint in faith
The poem remembers Polly Weachter as a plain, hard worker whose life filled with domestic toil and small-town gossip. Her devotion to family, faith, and care for her blind mother is celebrated as her quiet virtue. The piece ends with faith that both mother and daughter rest together beyond earthly sorrows.
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Polly Weachter
Loganberry Bush in East Main Sees Thriving Growth
Has Logan Berry Bush on East Main Street producing fruit as anticipation grows for tasting ripe berries. Loganberries sold as jams and preserves in stores. grown commercially in Washington with limited success in the east. The Lititz plant is healthy and thriving. berries are blackberry sized and red, possibly a blackberry raspberry cross.
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East Main Street
Washington
Lititz
George L. Keith Appointed Deputy Recorder of Lancaster
George L. Keith of Lititz becomes Lancaster county deputy recorder succeeding the late Morris Cooper who died June 20. Keith has served in the recorder’s office for nearly 12 years as a clerk and is familiar with duties. Previously he was a justice of the peace in Warwick township for years.
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George L. Keith
Lancaster County
Dees
Lititz
Keith
Morris Cooper
Recorder’s Office
Recorders Office
Warwick Township
Auto Trip Through Canada by Dengate Party
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dengate with two children and Miss A. Marie McPoland of Millway undertook a 2300 mile auto trip to Canada. They left June 22 and returned this week, reporting good roads and little trouble. Their route included Oneida Lake George Saratoga Springs Plattsburg Montreal Quebec and St. Anne De Beaupre. Mrs. Dengate and the children stayed at Niagara Falls for a month visiting relatives.
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Frank Dengate
A. Marie McPoland
Millway
Canada
Oneida
Lake George
Saratoga Springs
Plattsburg
Montreal
Quebec
St. Anne DeBeaupre
Thousand Isles
Lititz Boy Scouts Camp at Lake Grubb
Five Lititz boys members of the local Boy Scouts camped with the county scouts at Lake Grubb. They did not witness the drowning accident on Sunday. Names listed: Arthur Melzer Paul Fourlow Carl Feitz Charles Plautz Earl Reist.
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Lititz
Boy Scouts
Lake Grubb
Arthur Melzer
Paul Fourlow
Carl Feitz
Charles Plautz
Earl Reist
Fire scare on East Main street ends in kitchen blaze
A scent of smoke near East Main Street at 9 PM Sunday sparked a crowd to search for a fire. Investigators found a kitchen furnace in use to heat water for Monday wash day, not a structure fire.
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Second Square
East Main Street
Doctor lands three big fish at Lititz river scene
Dr D A Long hauled three large carp from a receded river near a power station using two hooks and a stout line. The first weighed ten pounds, the second eight, the third fifteen and a half, totaling thirty three and a half pounds. He gave them to three fishermen to show in their hometown. locals remark on Lancaster County scenery and town sayings while a bull chases off a Lititz fishing party.
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D. A. Long
Lititz
Leagues Formed At Lititz Public Grounds
Lititz youths attend the public play grounds under Howard Hackman in the morning and S R Taylor in the afternoon. A four team basketball league and a four team baseball league will start. Any town youngster may join by giving his name to the instructors, with supervision all day.
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Lititz
Howard Hackman
S. R. Taylor
Lancaster
Reverend Crosland Improving After Nervous Breakdown
The Moravian church pastor Reverend E. S. Crosland shows improvement from a nervous breakdown. He will take several months of rest and is allowed occasional moderate automobile rides. He welcomes callers and remains interested in his congregation and the town.
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E. S. Crosland
Moravian Church
Acre of Roses Seen on Springfield Trip
Saw an acre of roses in a Hartford park as Mrs Phares Maischnee Sr and Mrs Harry Adams returned from a week long auto trip to Springield and beyond. They crossed the Mohawk trail via the Delaware Water Gap and noted a fireworks display costing several nd dollars. They left Springfield at 5 AM and reached Lititz at 8 PM after 150 miles.
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Phares Maischnee
Harry Adams
Spring Seld
Mass
Delaware Water Gap
Hartford
Conn
Springfield
Lititz
Lititz Notes on Nixdorf Visit and Local Events
Mrs Sue Nixdorf of Pittsburgh visits daughter Lizzie Wagner for summer. Her son Benjamin of New York, back after secretarial wartime service, runs a big theatre and has stage experience including Lancaster venues. Fourth of July receipts totaled 2709.40 from 10 340 tickets. Springs Committee freed from war tax. A Lititz boundary family suffered illness after eating beans sprayed with strong chemical.
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Sue Nixdorf
Pittsburgh
Lizzie Wagner
Springs Committee
Moravian 8 8S Orchestra to Play at Mt Gretna
The Moravian 8 8S orchestra of twenty five members led by G. L. Hepp will play for the Mt Gretna men's bible class on Sunday at 3 PM. The interdenominational class has about 390 members and will be transported by automobiles.
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Mt. Gretna
Travelers Near and Far Brightens Lititz Social Circuit
A long list of local residents and guests report weekend and weeklong travels to cities and resorts including Harrisburg Philadelphia Atlantic City and Mt. Gretna. People visit relatives, cottage stays at Pequea and Welsh Run, and several plan trips to Atlantic City with family groups and friends.
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John McCloud
Philadelphia
Harry
Ellis Spickler
Birney Dehme
Mt. Gretna
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U. B
Chalmers
Earl Steffy
Keller's Hill
Mohnton Band
Phares Kofroth
Ellis Kauffman
Zook
William Kissinger
Harry Snavely
Rome
Carden
American Legion
Pinechot
Everett Loercher
Tensel
Agron Bershey
Lancaster General Hospital
All Stawe
J. W. G. Hershey
Pacific Coast
Puget Sound
Seattle
California
Leon Carpenter
Spruce Street
Lititz Fire Company
Chemical
D. C. Martin
Yale Avenue
Twin Oaks
Dr. Martin
G. G. Diehm
Harrisburg
Pinchot
Brickerville
Vitita
Miller & Habecker’s
Daniel Tmhuff
N. D. Sturgis
Sherman Steffy
Harry Showers
Victor Wagner
Arvil Rader
Floyd Rader
George Evans
Wagner
Herbert Cooper
Edward Bear
Frank Rader
Eugene Weidler
Conewingo Bridge
Maryland
Warwick
Jesus
Logan
Boyertown
Berks County
Trien
Spangler’s Rock
Ask “Mauney
Crosland
Moravian
Agnes Adams
Alvin Kochel
David Voy
Bedford County
William Wood
Elmer Eberly
Penn Yan
Niagara Falls
EB. A. Sturgis
Estelle
Victor Stark
Read Grayhill
Pequea
Harvey Royer
KE. R. Mohler
Lewistown
Edwin Sturgis
L. A. Weitzel
I.E Mauer
Mt. Holly Springs
Lloyd Weaver
H. J. Pierson
Mary
Margaret. Potts
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Oliver Wise
Florence Herr
Earl Erb
John Purdy
Gertrude
William Amey
M. H. Bnck
Albert Davenport
Elizabeth Sesseman
W. M. Grube
Elizabeth
Welsh
Auto
Carrie Craig
Franklin George
Camden, N. J
Balthouser
Glenside
Harry Gorton
Centre Street
Albert Long
Willis Leitzinger
Littta
Reed Graybill
Petersburg
Mr. Graybill
D. W. Withers
S. E. Lane
Phares B. Bucher
Ira Bucher
New York State
Harry Weitzel
Reading
John Weitzel
East Mainstreet
Philip Wiseman
Jacob Bachman
Strasburg
Vernon Good
Lester Good
Harry Herr
Lester Fleishman
George Ford
Lester
Joseph Dreifus
Philadllphia Hospital
Sara Jenkins
Derrie Adams
Harry Sheire
Manheim
Martha Reese
Quarryville
M Elmer Shelly
East Petersburg
Jacop Springer and
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