Lititz School Board Discusses Treasury Balance
July meeting at Lititz High School covered routine matters. Directors Hunter Hershey Posey Snyder and Herr attended. Beck is at camp, Demmy at Columbia summer school. The bank bond was approved. treasury balance stood at 11 474 with 661 tuition from Penn Township.
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Lititz
Frank M. Hunter
John G. Hershey
8. R. Posey
P. J. Snyder
J. B. Herr
N. H. Beck
New Hampshire
M. C. Demmy
Columbia, University
Farmers National Bank
Penn Township
Torpedoes Fall From Shelf Burn Woman in Store Accident
Mrs. Jerry Adams suffered burns on both legs when a box of torpedoes fell from a shelf in her husband’s store on WN Cedar Street and exploded as they hit the floor Saturday. The burns were treated by a physician and she is able to be about. The incident produced smoke and considerable noise.
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Jerry Adams
Cedar Street
Adams
Water Pipe Line Test Under Way on S Broad Street
A long section of the new water pipe line on S Broad Street was tested Tuesday and declared satisfactory. Work aimed at testing the final segment to the new standpipe continued yesterday. The pipeline project nears completion with three small jobs left and standpipe construction expected to begin within two weeks using the contractor's own power plant.
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S. Broad Street
Broad Street
Lancaster County Grocers Picnic Attendees Reach Atlantic City
Mr and Mrs Amos W Dietrich and Mr and Mrs Ed Coldren left yesterday for Atlantic City. They plan to attend the annual Lancaster County Grocers Picnic today and return this evening. Several other local merchants are also attending.
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Amos W. Dietrich
Ed Coldren
Atlantic City
Lancaster County Grocers
Local residents take short trips and visit kin across towns
Akron, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Reading visitors feature repeatedly as townsfolk travel. Families such as Battels and Glenn, Martin and Adair, and Kis singer share weeks away and day trips, with several returning to home in Lancaster County areas amid visits to Harrisburg, New Jersey, and Camp Woodmere.
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Harry Battels
Akron
Ohio
Wm. Glenn
I. T. Martin
Baltimore
John
Christiana
Eugene Brubaker
Dorothy Garman
Philadelphia
Route of Parade Through City Streets
The parade will travel east on Front Street to Locust then south to Main. It continues east to Frey's Garage, returns to Locust, then goes west on Main to Broad and south to Marion. It moves west to Spruce north to Main east to Broad and north to the Post Home to form.
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Front Street
Locust
Main
Frey’s
Broad
Marion
Spruce
Post Hume
New York Children Arrive for Two-Week Country Visit
Twenty three children from New York tenevents arrived Tuesday afternoon in Lancaster to spend two weeks in the country. They were met by Louis Huebener and local committee members and arrived by car. They will return to New York on August 2.
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N. Y
New York
Lancaster
Louis Huebener
Ushers' Picnic Planned at Penryn Grove Next Thursday
The Ushers' Association of St Pauls Lutheran Church will hold its annual picnic next Thursday in Penryn Picnic Grove. Attendees can expect baseball and other sports plus corn soup, making it a bigger event than in past years.
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Ushers’ Association of
Firefighters Battle Field Blaze Near Lime Rock Farm
The Litttg Fire Company responded to a grass fire at Ed Longenecker’s farm near Lime Rock on Saturday around 2 PM. A mowed wheat field used to burn Canada Thistle got out of control. firemen deployed a chemical tank to extinguish the blaze.
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Litttg Fire Company
Ed. Longenecker
Lime Rock
Harris and Co Suit Sale at Lititz Store
Harris and Co on East Main Street Lititz offers large discounts on men’s and young men’s suits for Thursday Friday and Saturday. Limited stock available at radically reduced prices.
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Harris & CO
East Main Street
Lititz
Pand
Largest Union Sunday School Picnic Draws 2000 at Springs Park
An estimated crowd of more than two thousand attended the 1282 Union Sunday School Picnic at Springs Park on Thursday. The day featured perfect weather, crowded tables, many games, a strong Cadet Band concert, and notable praise for the performers. Moravian beat the Reformed in baseball as part of the day’s events.
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Union
S. 8
Springs Park
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1463 to Install Officers
A parade of local and nearby veterans organizations precedes the public installation of VFW Post 1463 officers on the Post Home grounds at 108 North Broad Street. The procession includes Lititz High School Band, multiple drum corps, and bands from Lancaster Harrisburg Lebanon Reading Columbia York, with taps on the Revolutionary soldiers plot and flags along the route. Officers named: Commander James Maize. senior vice commander James M. Goldthwait. junior vice commander Harry B. Adams. chaplain Edward Ranch. officer of the day Thomas Smith. quartermaster Clarence Shaub. trustees Adam Showers E J Nugent R M Spacht. adjutant J Laux.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Post
North
Broa Street
Lititz High School
Lancaster
Harrisburg
Lebanon
Reading
Columbia
York
Garden Spot Post
American Legion
Post Home
Zartman’s
Firemen’s Association
Colored Nine To Play Here And Also Hold Barn Dance
The colored Soft Ball team of Lancaster will play Cedar Street on the diamond across from the Trap factory tomorrow evening. After the game they will hold an old fashioned barn dance in Lutz Hall with their own orchestra and the public is invited free of charge.
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Lancaster
Cedar Street
Trap Factory
Lutz Hall
Kling Store Moves to Front Street in City
Jacob Kling and Son relocate their radio and electrical appliance store from 208 Broad Street to the home of Jacob Kling on Front Street. Mr and Mrs Arthur Kling move from the old store to their new home farther out South Broad Street.
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Jacob Kling and Son
Broad St
Jacob Kling
Front Street
Arthur Kling
S. Broad Street
Great Reduction Sale at Buchs Clothier Lititz
The Great Reduction Sale of men's and boys' clothing runs July 22 to July 30 at W H Buchs Clothier and Gents Furnisher in Lititz. The sale promises payoffs through marked-down coats suits and furnishings for men and boys.
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W. H. Buch’s
Gents
Lititz
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Grocers
W. B. Light
K. E. Wolfe
Donegal
Mt. Gretna
Matilda Barr
George Elderton
Went
Jean Elizabeth Walters
N. D. Sturgis
M. L. Steiner
A. R. Keller
Irwin Hull
Esther Nethermyer
Camp Woodmere
Parade
N. J
Kate Roland
New Holland
Ralph Roland
Richard
Mary
Carrie Tshudy
C. William Grosh
Charles Gardner
Elizabeth Paul
Leinbach
Quakertown
Nelson Teinbach
Main Street
Ma. C. H. Startman and Family
Shelton
J. T. Mertz
Wilson
Wayne Gantz
Warwick House
Kling
Front St
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