Large Modern Paper Mill Plant To Open Monday Manager Named
A new hotel project on the Square by the Lititz Community Hotel Company hires William H. A. Mills, formerly of Tatnton, Mass., as manager starting August 1. Mills brings extensive hotel experience, will supervise furnishing and equipment until the hotel opens, and aims for a November completion with hopeful plans drawing praise from local merchants and salesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
William H. A. Mills
Tatmton
Mass
Hotel Company
Mills
Hockenbury
Keath Planing Mill Co
Birthdays Marked With Dinner At Lewis Maines Home
Mr and Mrs Lewis Maines entertained on Saturday and Sunday for the 42nd birthday of the former and the 28th birthday of their son Elmer A luncheon with an orchestra was held Saturday evening Dinner on Sunday included J Howard Hoover and family plus many visitors from Lancaste r Norris town Lititz and other nearby towns The gathering featured numerous invitations and familial guests among them Mr and Mrs Elmer L Haines and daughter Romaine and Mr and Mrs Homer Sturgis and daughter Sarah among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Maines
Elmer
J. Howard Hoover
Mildred
Nancy
Betty
James
Jerry T. Hoover
Harriet , Herrand
Ralph Deckert
Lancaster
Elmer L. Haines
Romaine
Norristown
Homer F. Sturgis
Sarah
Sadie Meiley
Leroy
Leon Meiley
Walter Smith
Minerva
Addison Harding
Elmer Harding
Robert
Gladys
Samuel Weaver
May Bowers
Lititz
Summers Welcome Fresh Air Children in Clifton Springs
Spend Summers Here Victoria Pyrtko of Clifton Springs New Jersey arrives as a fresh air child from New York City spending her fifth summer with Mr and Mrs J H Breitigan on South Broad Street She is twelve years old Grace Collins of New York City also visits for the third consecutive summer hosted by Mr and Mrs Louis Huebener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria Pyrtko
Clifton Springs
N. J
New York City
J. H. Breitigan
S. Broad St
Louis Huebener
Grace Collins
W. R. Sammel
Bedford
Camp Kanesatake
Spruce Creek
Niagara Falls
Montreal
Gettysburg
Roberta Brown
New Park
Kathryn Zimmerman
Clarence Dengler
William
Harrisburg
Margaret Sauders
New Cumberland
William Smith
Lloyd Smith
South Broad Street
Smith
Congoleum Company
Oklahoma City
Kearney
Lancaster
Reed Grayhill
East Petersburg
Ployd Stark
I. L. E Brookmyer
Baltimore
Lititz
Ida Kocher
Wrightsville
Miles Orth, Jr
Mary Frances Orth
Misa Blanche Smeltzer
Ella Smeltzer
John Smeltzer
Silver Springs
Washington
Elizabeth Carper
Philadelphia
Lydia Huber
Sara Huber
Canada
Bertha Hollinger
Vera
California
Elam Bollinger
Robert Brown
York County
Kathryne Zimmerman
Theodore Dussinger
Builders Work On Miniature Golf On Bollinger Lot
Atwood Kreider and Webster Keath are building a miniature golf course on the Bollinger estate lot along Juniper Alley. Also note Scott's Book Store in Lititz selling Victor Records at 4 for $1.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atwood
Woodie
Kreider and
Webster
Web
Keath
Juniper Alley
Bollinger
Victor Records
Scott’s Book Store
Lititz
Local residents host visitors from multiple states this weekend
Mrs. David Kurtz and Mrs. Henry Zug of Westover Md visited friends in town. Several Philadelphia Baltimore and New Jersey natives including Herman Reedy Elmer Reidenbach and Mary Saunders spent weekends with relatives. The Sammels plan two week trips ending with Gettysburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Kurtz
Henry Zug
Westover, Md
Jacob Carper
Lydia Seaman
J. E. Hodgkinson
Chester
Annie Beck Parker
Los Angeles
H. M. Eberly
Conewago
George Bashore
Mary
Baltimore
Mary Kissinger
May
Emily Frame
Philadelphia
M. L. Steiner
Mary Wecht
Beck
Herman Reedy
Elmer Reidenbach
Ernest Sonders
Mary Saunders
Pittsburgh
Monroe M. Sonders
Roderick Light
New
Abram TB Bruckart
Elm
Mary Bruckhart
Lititz Briefs Highlight Local Fires and Births
Brevities recount a fire at a rubbish pile behind Larry Miller’s home, quickly extinguished with no damage. Other items note roof painting at Aarwwian store, a finger injury at a Rome worker’s culvert project, rail crossing repairs, and several births and social notices from Lititz and surrounding areas.
Free Day at Lutz Pool Draws Large Crowd
Hundreds of school children jammed the Lutz pool for a free day funded by Farmers National Bank with a promise of a bigger turnout tomorrow for the RECORD event. A parachute jump from the high diving board is planned at 8 PM by a New York performer, weather permitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lutz
Farmers National Bank
Lutz Swimming Pool
High Diving Board
New York
Tracks To Be Filled In On Lititz Lancaster Pike
Work began yesterday to fill in and raise trolley tracks on the Lititz Lancaster Pike edge of town. Crushed stone will be placed in the center to level a several inch drop that has endangered motorists. County crews handle the project, not Conestoga Traction, which retains the road right of way via the Jefferson Usner estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Corcrete
New Lititz
Lancaster Pike
Conestoga Traction Company
Jefferson Usner
Mrs Meiskey dies at home in Hopeland aged 67
Mrs Abraham Meiskey 67 wife of Abraham Meiskey died at her Hopeland home Monday evening at 9 30 from a complication of diseases. Survived by husband and children Harry Arthur Joan Emma Lititz Annie Wechter Erb's Corner Edna Fittler Hopeland. Services this afternoon at 1 30 from home and 2 at St John Lutheran Brickerville with interment in adjacent cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Meiskey
Abraham Meiskey
Hopeland
Welock
Harry
Arthur
Joan
Emma
Harry Wertsch
Lititz
Annie
George Wechter
Erb’s Corner
Edna
Raymond Fitler
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Brickerville
Third Hillside Service Held by Lancaster County youth group
The third Hillside service by the District No 9 Lancaster County Sunday School Association was held on the Moravian Sunday School Chapel lawn at 6 pm. Miss Margaret Sauders gave the address Knowing Oneself and led the singing. Bert Kauffman led, Miss Rhetta Fry played the organ, Warren Diehm read scripture, Irma Gantz led campers prayers, Mildred Ganger sang If You Take Time. Next service will be at Rothsville next Sunday evening with Miss Anna Moore and Howard Minnich in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young People’s Council of
Lancaster County Sunday School Association
Moravian Sunday School
Margaret Sauders
Bert Kauffman
Rhetta Fry
Warren Diehm
Irma Gantz
Mildred Gangner
Rothsville
Anna Moore
Howard Minnich
Rotary honors Br Yoder at Lititz luncheon
Lititz Rotary Club members heard C. K. Bushong of the Reading Company discuss The Future of Transportation at Park View Hotel Tuesday evening. Dr. M. H. Yoder, who retired as Club President earlier, received a Past President’s emblem from James H. Breitigan as a summary of the year’s accomplishments, with visitors from Lancaster in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Cadet Band Concert In Springs Park Tonight
The Cadet Band conducts a park concert in Springs Park this evening under John W. Keehn. The event runs from early evening to 9 o clock, featuring a program led by Keehn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springs Park
John W. Keehn
Lititz Builds Massive Converting Plant on Cedar Street
Morgan Paper Company Division of United States Envelope Company will start operations Monday at its Lititz plant on Cedar Street. Initial small force to grow to about 125 as full operation begins, with machinery moved from Springfield Mass and new equipment arriving. Local hiring prioritized, with key Springfield staff training new Lititz workforce. Plant will produce toilet tissues and interfold papers, aligning with modern bathroom trends. Construction runs along North Cedar Street from North Alley to Reading tracks, extending toward North Alley for about a half block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Morgan Paper Company
United States Envelope Company
Cedar Street
Springfield
Mass
Morgan Company
Consumers Boxboard and Paper Company
King Line
104th Cavalry Band to Play Here On Saturday Evening
The 104th Cavalry Band, then in camp at Mt. Gretna, will give a Saturday night concert on West Main Street in Lititz. The group is renowned in service and locally for previous performances. Furniture dealer R. M. Spacht helped bring them and played with the band seven years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
104Th Cavalry
Mt. Gretna
Lititz
West Main Street
R. M. Spacht
Elizabethville
Mr. Spacht
Young People Head to Camps for Leadership Training
Twenty two Lancaster area youths depart Tuesday for Lutheran and leadership camps. Betty Martin and others join girls to Camp Kanesatake Spruce Creek Pa while Elgie Myer Verna Hill Ruth Long Erma Mellinger and others travel to the Biglerville Adams County camp for two weeks. Richard Zartman returns from Biglerville camp as two groups later come home from Spruce Creek that Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kanesatake
Spruce Creek
Betty Martin
Margaret Kofroth
Kathryne Godenaar
Arlene Beck
Lorraine Habecker
Lancaster
Vicinity
Elgie Myer
Verna Hill
Ruth Long
Erma Mellinger
Erma McFarland
Maribelle Reist
Mabelle Helter
Rheta Frey
Valeria Habecker
Theora Keath
Margaret Ditzler
Ruth God
Evelyn Ptartz
Ruth Girvin
Esther Miksch
Ethel Miller
Fahnestock Opens New Filling Station with Trade-In Sale
Brumerville merchant A. G. Fahnestock opens a filling and service station beside his store. It will supply gas oil greasing tires and will stock Goodrich tires. A big trade-in sale is set for Saturday with an oil meter offered for every five gallons of gasoline purchased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Fahnestock
Brumerville
Jand
Goodrich
Knights of Malta Picnic and Birthday Outing
The Malta orders Lititz and Hopeland commanderies plan a combined picnic in Brickerville Grove on Saturday with a picnic lunch by Jacob and Mary Carper and a program by the Lancaster Malta Band. Attendees include Myrtle and Lloyd Bucher and their children, plus Jacob Carper and his family and Christ Moseman and relatives from Ephrata.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Hopeland
Knights of Malta
Brickerville Grove
Jacob Carper
Broad Street
Lancaster Malta Band
Myrtle
Lloyd Bucher
Bucher
Lloyd
Roy
Paul
Clay
Dorothy
Eugene
Richard
Marguerite
Ephrata
Christ Moseman
Earl
Verna
Grace and
Christ
Union Sunday School Picnic Draws 1000 Plus Attendees
A crowd estimated above a thousand gathered last Thursday at Springs Park for the Union Sunday School picnic. Perfect weather blessed activities for children and adults with games, a Cadet Band program, and a devotional service, while Fulton A. C. of Lancaster beat Millersville 8 to 0 on the ball field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Springs Park
Fulton A. C
Lancaster
Millersville
Lutheran
Moravian
Reformed
United Brethren
Evangelical Congregational
Gavel party rounds out Lititz auxiliary meeting
Paradise and Epi- Legion Auxiliary members join Lititz Auxiliary at the Post home for a gavel party. Lititz will turn over the gavel to Ephrata, a recent gift from Paradise, with a prepared program by the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paradise and
Epi- Legion Auxiliary
Lititz
Litits
Ephrata
Paradise
Camp Harmony leaders Edna Monler and Mary Snyder return
Edna Monler and Mary Snyder return from a three weeks stay at Camp Harmony in the western part of the state. They served as camp leaders for the Church of the Brethren program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Monler
Mary Snyder
Camp Harmony
Church of the Brethren
Parents Celebrate Marian Wertsch Graduation in Philadelphia
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Wertsch and their daughter Marian were in Philadelphia on Tuesday as Marian graduated at the Preston Retreat maternity hospital and returned home with her parents for a week’s vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Wertsch
Philadelphia
Marian
Preston Retreat
Moravian Sunday School Class Picnic to Carlisle
Mrs. R. E. Worley led her Moravian Sunday School class and guests on a Carlisle picnic Saturday. Attendees included Charles Regennas Wilbur Miller Fred Rader John Huber Carl Worley and Melton Worley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Worley
Moravian Sunday School
Carlisle
Charles Regennas
Wilbur Mileler
Fred Rader
John Huber
Carl Worley
Melton Worley
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. H., A. Mills
Mark
Lititz Fire Company
Tlarry Miller
Javol Tenstesmacher
Rome
Reading Company
St. Paul's Lutheran Ushers
Penryn
Steven Grambling
Town
Ford Agency
Lititz Motor Sales
Lloyd Buechter
Kissel Hill
John Baller
Lime Rock
Sylvia
Arthur Rosenberg
Landis Huber
W. Martin Tess
Idamae E
Oneida
Utica
Syracuse
N. Y
L. Reichter
Kansas
Ohio
H. J. Wynn
Gibble-Gipple
Fairview Church
Stoner
Ly Tox
Tanglafoot
Moltzhouse’s.cut Rate Store
Adv
Br. Yoder
Malta
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