Charies Zariman Leads Old Glory Store and Local Events
Local notes report Charies Zariman in charge of Old Glory store since Monday. Louis Tuebener plans a garage at his Main street home. The Faust Coatesville nine will play intua on the home diamond Saturday. Kevin G. Bachman spoke on Life Insurance at the Rotary Tuesday. An excursion is planned from Reading to Atlantic City and Willow Grove on Sunday July 22. Mrs Fannie Weidmanill at her daughter Frantz Keller’s home. Lititz High School band to perform Saturday evening. Moving pictures again on East Main street. Weather notes mention rain on St Swithin's day. Mrs Mary Folly Heltex celebrated 92nd birthday Tuesday. Omar Bushone reported five salmon and a bass at Falmouth. Muddy water blocks bass fishing. Southeast Pennsylvania Firemen’s Association meets Thursday at Lititz Fire Company HQ. Spotlight Day by Ephrata merchants impresses attendees. Mr and Mrs Jere Bowman plan public sale Aug 4 and will move to Delaware after auto trip to Texas. A young girl entered a cigar stove seeking souvenir Lititz cigars. Lititz brand by Wilson Scheneberger noted. Lititz Union picnic features games, music by Lititz High School Band, and a Lititz vs Lancaster Black Sox game with free coffee. A two-year-old horse owned by Clayton Rudy won $300 at York races. offered $1000 for the animal later. Richard Graybill found eleven rattlesnake eggs in Perry county and will incubate them. A cannon ball was found in the mouth of a nearby cannon near Exide service by Doc Howard Hvans. Subscriptions continue with many readers paying. annual cost around $2.00 or more depending on Western week.
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Sue
Wilson Scheneberger
Petley
Lititz
Litiz Union
Litsiz High School
Lancaster Blacksox
Clayton Rudy
York Races
Lancaster Fair Grounds
Perry County
Richard Graybill
Tie
Kreider
Howard Hvans
Employment Bureau For Lititz Planned By Chamber
At a Lititz Chamber of Commerce meeting a plan to establish an employment bureau for Lititz and surrounding area was approved. A committee including H. H. Diehm E. E. Habecker Charles Keath and Frank Keller will develop details with W. G. Fahne stock serving as bureau secretary. Members noted labor market confusion and urged better outreach to match workers with harvest time needs.
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Lititz
Edelweiss Gift to Friends in Lititz
Mr and Mrs Phillip Zeppi of Lititz visit Austria after 38 years away. They sent Edelweiss to friends in Lititz and plan to spend the summer in the Tyrol before returning to Lancaster County. Zeppi, a successful farmer here, recalls old country roots and Alpine scenery.
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Phillip Zeppi
Jneap Lititz
Austria
Alps
Tyrol
Zeppi
Edelweiss
Miz
Wholesale Arrests For Speeding In Lititz Borough
Borough policemen Kreider and Carpenter arrested Stanley Myer Mearl Weaver Clyde Keller Abraham Markley Carl Grosh for speeding and reckless driving in Lititz. Residents say cars sped through town at sixty, some racing. one driver forced onto the pavement to avoid a collision. Police vow further wholesale arrests with fines to curb the dangerous practice before a fatal accident occurs.
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Kreider and
Carpenter
Stanley £. Myer
Lititz
Mearl H. Weaver
Clyde F. Keller
Manheim
Abraham L. Markley
Carl Grosh
Altoona Speedway
Tititz
Money Schemers for Probe at Lititz Chamber Meeting
Lititz chamber meeting drew State and National chamber reps for a broad discussion on financial schemes in town. Attendees debated charity collectors, stock promoters, and dubious advertising, with plans to form a Vigilance Committee to pursue investigations. New members were added and dues totaled $837.00 with $146.51 dispersed, leaving about $690.99.
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Luita
M. H. Yoder
S. BR. Posey
A. BE. Keller
Baby Parade at Firemen's Picnic for Kiddies
A Fire Co parade feature for town kiddies at the picnic on Wednesday July 25. The event starts after 6 PM in the park with a baby parade for children under two, prizes for the best decorated go cart, souvenirs for entrants, and games including tug of war, clothes pin race, balloon blowing, aviation meet, and blindfold pace with prizes for winners.
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Fire Co
Towa
Lititz Town Notes Highlight Local Tales and Anecdotes
A quirky Lititz column recalls a NY man unable to pay at a restaurant with a hat left as security only to discover it was his own. Other items praise audience applause for a Philadelphia band, mention local antiques rooms at Moravian S. S. chapel, and report huge snapper turtles caught near Lititz.
Vacation Address Record Keeps Papers Safe
A notice encourages readers to arrange paper delivery to a vacation address. It promotes using the paper’s records to track home affairs while travelers are away, ensuring letters and notices reach the correct destination. It emphasizes staying connected to the home town no matter the distance.
Warwick Boys Catch Trout Near Lititz Streams
Warwick boys Charles Bricker Clarence and Tahlown Brubaker fished several streams near Maytown and Lititz on Tuesday, catching trout with the largest at 13½ inches from a stream less than four miles from Lititz. Old timers recall Lititz Springs Creek once teeming with trout as anglers from distant points gathered there. Today few nearby streams offer good trout fishing and the big ones are rare.
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Charles Bricker
Clarence
Tahlown
Brubaker
Maytown
Lititz
Lititz Springs
Hvans Brothers Buy Malta Street Confectionery Firm
Raymond and Arthur Evens purchased the confectionery and dry cleaning business run by J. Albert Hall in the Malta Building on Bas Street. They plan renovations and a rear room for a crean and Tight lunch with a public opening around July 28 and will announce details to patrons.
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Raymond
Arthur Evens
J. Albert Hall
Malta
Bas Street
Reunion of Virginians at Hiedings Park Aug Friday
A reunion of Virginians will be held at Hiedings Park on Friday August from morning until evening. Music will be provided by the Lititz High School band with sixty four instruments. The program includes addresses and other items of interest. Those interested are urged to attend and to have a good time.
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Heidings Park
Ature
Lititz Iligh Schnool
Family Man Leaves Behind Farewell After Accident
Charles Scheneberger, 25, vanished after a July accident at the Square in Jititz. He told his wife he was leaving for good, gave his children change, and said to pursue him. he drained his bank account and disappeared to an undefinable state. Mrs Scheneberger and their children stay with her parents, with the state police alerted.
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Charles Scheneberger
Jititz
Tie
Sheteberger
Samuel Goetz
Front Street
Lititz Man Joins Army for Service in Hawaii
Private Lloyd W. Hackman, son of Mrs. Emma Hackman of Lititz Pennsylvania, enlisted in the Coast Artillery of the Regular Army and shipped from New York aboard the United States Army Transport Gaimbrai to Honolulu. He will join units in the Hawaiian Islands for about two years, enjoying recreation camps and visits to Waikiki and Haleiwa, with a ten thousand dollar outing including Panama and San Francisco funded by Uncle Sam before discharge.
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Lloyd W. Hackman
Emma Hackman
Lititz
Coast Artillery Branch
Regular Army
Hawaii
New York City
United States Army
Gaimbrai
Honolulu
Trackman
Tmnits
Hawaiian Islands
Tema Daty
Eithin
Waikiki
Haleiwa
Hackman
United States
Panama
San Francisco
Uncle Sant
Fourteenth Gibble family reunion set for August 4
The Gibble families plan their fourteenth annual reunion on Saturday August 4 at the Longneckers House Brethren Church near Lititz with lunch to be brought by attendees.
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Gibble
Longenecker House
Church of the Brethren
Lititz
Kreider-Kreider
Littiz Springs
Kreiders
Brubaker
Grantham
Big Variety of Goods Sold at Warwick House Sale
A Warwick house sale offered a wide range of items. Prices ranged from young pigs at 7.55 to bananas at 1.15, pineapples 3 for 20 cents, brooms 50 to 60 cents, shirts 80 cents to 1.00, and suits from 6.50 to 8.00, with many everyday household goods and groceries listed.
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Warwick House
New Piano Store Rented by John B Herr Company
The John B Herr Company of Lancaster has rented the former Hepp Jewelry Store room for a manufacturer sale of pianos.
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John B. Herr Company of
Lancaster
Hepp Jewelry
Serious injury case linked to Wert and Wike family
Seriously Ti nged Henry Wike who resides with his daughter Mrs William Stauffer is critically if Clarence Wert is suffering with an infected right hand caused by a slight scratch.
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Nged
Henry Wike
William Stauffer
Clarence Wert
Balloon fish delight Cape May trip readers
Letter from Lititz Record reader describes Tri-Mius boys fishing at Cape May with perfect weather and a superb catch. The writer corrects a misconception about balloon fish roe and praises their meat, noting the fish have no bones aside from a central spine, fry well, and deserve attention from fishermen who discard them.
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Lititz
Tri-Mius
Cape May
Tam
Unusual Hotel Visit Near Blue Mountains
A group of Lititz men visited Garry Wolf's hotel along the old Pine Grove road but found the huckleberry crop green and two weeks from ripe. The hotel proprietor lacks ice, a water meter, and a paid water bill, yet supplies fresh gravity-fed water from mountain pipes to the first and second floors, with a large stone trough at the front. he resides in Schuylkill County though thirty miles from the county seat.
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Lititz
Blue Mountains
Garry Wolf
Pine Grove
Tie
Berks County
Schuylkill County
Litita Men In Target Shoot at Lancaster
A. Furlow of Litite was high scorer at the invitation shoot Saturday at the P. R. BR. traps in Rossmere, breaking 48 of 50. C. M. Bowers of Ephrata and Fred Hardy of Lancaster followed with 47 each. In the 25 target shoot, L. A. Furlow led with 21, others posted 20 or 19, Foltz and W. L. Longenecker both 22 in the 25 target events.
Lease's Carnival Amusements Open On Main Street
Lease's Amusements Carnival is in full swing on the north side of a street main, downtown location. The ill illuminated approach guides visitors with ease and the fair may run up to three weeks if business warrants it.
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St Main
Circus Coming to Town with Barlow and Wison Show
Advance agents toured town for the Barlow and Wison Circus and Wild West Show slated to perform Saturday August 11 in morning and afternoon. The circus, last here in 1921 on N K Buch land, drew a large crowd with a parade and overflow attendance. Management says the show is better than ever with six large elephants featured.
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Barlow and Wison
N. K. Buch’s
Travel and visiting many local families noted
Mrs Laura R Rutter of New Holland and many neighbors are visiting relatives and friends across towns. Visitors from Downingtown Reading Schaefferstown Drexel Hill and Atlantic City are named along with travel by auto and a trip to Kansas City.
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Laura R. Rutter
New Holland
A. B. Keller
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Folly) Heltex
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Delaware
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Aly
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New York
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Scranton
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Schaefferstown
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Ruth
Sherrill, N.Y
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Chagvin Falls, C
Lydia Grazer
Charles Hberly
Florence
Reamstown
W. B. Buch
Lucile Yerger
Drexel Hill
Guy Buch
Virginia
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Lois Jones
Stockton, Md
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W. B. Hernberger
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Swarthmore
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Leegport
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Miss LaRue
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W. H. Muth
Mt. Gretna
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Easton
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