Local notices and events across Lititz area
An automotive tag awaits a new owner at the office. Fremont Hollinger sold a West Lemon street house to Elvin Sheaffer. A heavy chain on North alley can be retrieved at 107 East Main. Miss Elsie Wagaman begins nursing training in Lancaster. Landisville to play Lititz Trap Factory Saturday. Plus local injuries, business dissolutions, poultry notes, and upcoming fairs in Neffsville and at the Lancaster Fair Grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont Hollinger
West Lemon Street
Elvin Sheaffer
North Alley
East Main Street
Miss Irene Roth Weds Christ Yerger in St Louis
Miss Irene Roth daughter of Mrs Minnie Roth and Christ Yerger son of N G Yerger, both of Lititz, were married in St Louis on Wednesday after meeting in Kansas City bound for housekeeping. Yerger works contractor in Kansas City while Roth plans to join him after the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene Roth
Christ Yerger
ST. Louis
Minnie Roth
N. G. Yerger
Lititz
Harrisburg
Elia
Kansas City
Rush
Linden Hall Trustees Met
The annual meeting of the trustees of Tanden Hall Seminary was held on Tuesday afternoon at the seminary. Attending were Rev. F. W. Stengel D. D principal Rev. Edward Woile of New York city president of the board Messrs IE J. Pierson G. L. Hepp E. L. Garber H. H. Beck of Lititz Judge Wa. Keller of Twaricaster Messrs Louis Eysenbach and Wor Vreeland of Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanden Hall Seminary
F. W. Stengel
D. D
Edward 8. Woile
New York City
Beatrd
Messrs
J. Pierson
G. L. Hepp
E. L. Garber
H. H. Beck
Lititz
Wa. Keller
Twaricaster
Louis Eysenbach
Wor Vreeland
Philadelphia
Wayne Fahnestock and Bernice Breneman Trip to Maine
Mr Wayne Fahnestock and Miss Bernice Breneman began a trip to Maine last Thursday and will stay until August 10. South Broad Street improvements include grading and removal of trolley tracks to the center for safety, with water main extension toward the borough limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Fahnestock
Maine
Fiancee
Bernice Breneman
South Broad Street
Stores Close Next Thursday For Lancaster Grocers Picnic
Merchants' Association votes to close stores all day next Thursday to join the Lancaster Grocers' picnic to Atlantic City. Round trip fare is 3.735 dollars. Train leaves Lancaster at 7:00 a.m. Anyone may accompany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assoiation
Lancaster Grocers
Atlantic City
Lancaster
Lititz Ice Cream Trade Drives $800 Weekly Sales
Four Lititz ice cream dealers average 531 gallons weekly and $800 in sales with six brands Marrows Enck's Graybill's Purity Longeneckers Nauman's. Ice cream wagons line the streets and picnic days boost demand at Spring grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Enck’s
Graybill’s
Purity
Longenecker's
Nauman’s
Rauch
Lititz Lodge Officers Named For Fraternal Aid Union
Reports list Lititz Lodge No. 1082 officers including Past President H. William Zeller and Worthy President Chas. A. Beck. The issue also notes potato glut at Warwick House sale with prices 40 to 65 cents per bushel, acreage tallies for Longenecker Gibbel and others, and local business updates on radio outfits and Arlington Cemetery visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Lititz Lodge
Lititz Lodge No
The
Fraternal Aid Union
H. William Zeller
Chas. A. Beck
Nathan D. Sturgis
L. A. Haines
Robert E. Pfautz
Clyde P. Keller
N. F. Sturgis
Frank H. Miller
Carl V. Reedy
C. Russell Peiffer
Ralph EF. Buch
Frank Burkholder
A. R. Keller
Warwick House
Amimon Longenecker
Willis Gibbel
Potato Growers Association
Mix-up over go cart leads to good natured swap
A Lititz man and a picnicker briefly disputed ownership of a go cart near Woltzhouse’s confectionery after a chase along the street. Explanations cleared the matter and the correct cart was found. Also notes Rev H R Gibbel hosted Prof J W Kauffman en route from St Peter Minn and a radio misunderstanding led to a phonograph joke. Dr D G Martin reunited with former teacher William Delp after a casual chat about water purity. Robert Russell on East Main paints his house with self-made scaffolding, a display of local handiwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Gibbel
J. W. Kauffman
Brickerville
St. Peter, Minn
Indiana
Gibbel
South Bend
Prof. Kauffman
D. G. Martin
Prof. Delp
West Chester
William 58
Delp
Wernersville
Robert Russell
East Main Street
Ignan
Advertisers Conundrum Contest Booklet Offer
A promo notes a contest booklet offering cash prizes totaling 25000 dollars. The text invites readers to learn why life is the great conundrum and mentions an item labeled Advertisers Conundrum Contest Booklet with a prize pool.
Local industries show revival of business in Kinport factory expansion
Kinport Belgar factory undertakes a third story build out and cellar to garret renovations to become the town's most modern cigar plant. First floor stores tobacco, second houses rollers, third holds packers under skylight with new heating and lighting. Keath planing mill adds 1600 square feet with three new labor saving machines. Production rises by a third. some workers log evenings. Products ship by truck and rail to neighboring states. N. D. Sturgis Bretzel Bakery and Sturgis Haines plan night shifts as orders rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinport ¢Elgar
Garret
Keath
Foundation Started at New Springs Bank
The cellar of the New Springs Bank has become a stone quarry with foundation walls begun this week as a work crew blasts rock. A bank on such a solid foundation should never fail. Thirty five members of the Susquehanna Recreation Club visited Santioga Park near Potts town in seven cars. The park offers more amusements than Rocky Springs with boating and bathing in a stream, though water was not ideal for drinking. The trip participants included Arthur Evans Floyd Rader Victor Wagner Joe Doster Edwin Wissler Rufus Reist Paul Doster Herbert Huber Ralph Bowman Clayton Burkhart Jacob Brubaker Paul Good Paul Pfautz Warren Stark John Wagaman Harry Woodcraft Clarence Weir Luther Neidermyer Harry Stark Guy Reidenbach Leroy Pfautz Carl Reedy Elmer Haines Isaac Graybill Ray Stark Paul Birkenbine Chandler Ruhl Thomas J Furlow Abram Hershey Leon L Klaus Newton Hershey Miles Fasnacht John Fasnacht John Witmyer Theodore Ringer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susquehanna Recreation Club
Doster
Santioga Park
Pottstown
Rocky Springs
Canton Flass
Arthur Evans
Floyd Rader
Victor Wagner
Joe Doster
Edwin Wissler
Rufus
Warwick House Sale Attracts Large Crowd And Prices
Six hundred eighty two sales were made at Warwick House on Saturday with a big crowd. Cattle topped at $115 and $105, pigs sold up to $49, rabbits to 45 cents, potatoes per bushel from 35 cents to 1.00, apples 15 cents to 3 cents, shoes and shirts also sold, plus brooms and toys. Left for New Hampshire Paper Mill Galen Bulmer, of Lexington, to Hinsdale New Hampshire for work. Don’t miss Miller Habecker house dress sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keth
Cedar Street
Ind
Scott’s Book Store
Miller & Habecker
Warwick House
New Hampshire
Galen Bulmer
Lexington
Lititz
Hinsdale
Circus Day in Lititz Parade and Shows
Lititz hosts a circus parade at noon with a special train arriving morning. The Campbell Bailey Hutchinson troupe, Davenport Riders, Azuki Japs, and Rochetta headline a three hour program of aerial and ground feats plus 25 clowns and a Wild West act titled The Passing of the West. Two performances at 2 and 8 p.m. Doors open an hour early.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Crillian
Davenport
Campbell-Bailey-Hutchinson
Rochetta
Campbell-Bailey-Hutchinson Circus
Bomberger Family Auto Trip to Visit In Ohio and Lebanon
Mr and Mrs George Bomberger and Alfred Bomberger of Anderson Indiana and Mr and Mrs Paul E Bomberger of Defiance Ohio traveled by auto to stay two weeks with Mrs George Bombergers parents Mr and Mrs Henry Bomberger. They drove three days along the National highway stopping in Wheeling and Columbus. Alfred Bomberger is the father of George and Paul and will visit Lebanon county for a Bomberger reunion in August. He formerly clerked in the store now Miller and Habecker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Five Point
Bacher
Wambure
George Bomberger
Alfred Bomberger
Anderson
Ind
Paul E. Bomberger
Defiance, C
Henry Bomberger
Wheeling
Columbus
George
Paul
Lebanon County
Bomberger
Miller & Habecker
Getz Family Visits as College Plans Take Shape
Mrs G Herman Getz and son Richard of Harrisburg visited Lititz guests of Mrs Jay Evans. Richard will enter FP and M College Lancaster for fall term, while Getz attends a Susquehanna College summer course aiming for full degrees. Also notes large eel and several fish catches at local river. Swarthmore Chautauqua arrives with 1200-seat tent and schedule from today to August 2 with 8 pm programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Herman Getz
Richard
Harrisburg
J. B. Hertzler
Spruce Street
Jay Evans
Lititz
Fp, & M. College
Lancaster
Susquehanna College
Arthur Southwick
Evans
Christ Snyder Apple Harvest Sparks Local Market Talk
Clean apples in the streets at 20 cents a half peck attract buyers. Tilman Stauffer near Kissel Hill reports a big crop but later varieties may be scarce. C. B. Snyder near Clay plans an exceptionally large yield across most varieties after thinning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilman Stauffer
Kissel Hill
C. B. Snyder
Clay
Trucks for Mt Gretna Camp Meeting Sunday Aug 6
Yorger's trucks run to Mt Gretna camp meeting on Sunday August 6 with round trip fare to be announced. Notify Theodore Stauffer at 65 East Main Street Ind phone 32 L no later than Saturday August 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorger
Mt. Gretna
T.c
Theodore Stauffer
E. Main St
Ind
Travelers Near and Far in Lititz and Nearby Areas
A Lititz column lists residents and guests on weekend trips and travels to Atlantic City Philadelphia Nazareth Mount Gretna and other destinations. It notes brief plans and arrivals including Miss Anna Meiskey Mr Horace Eschbach Mr and Mrs Aaron Ulrich Mrs Hertz and son John and several local families with camps and picnics at the Moravian Springs and surrounding spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Meiskey
Atlantic City
N. J
Horace Eschbach
Aaron Ulrich
Palmyra
B. F. Grosh
Hertz
J. L. Hertz
John
Washington, D. C
Gee
Knoxville
Rey
H. R. Gibbel
William Miller
S. C. E. Beckler
Reamstown
Mt. Gretna
George Hepp
Hess
Wilson Grube
David
Lebanon
J. F Longenecker
Chautauqua Inn
Lancaster
Jacob A. Buch
Reading
H. B
F. B. Buch
Joseph Bollinger
Walter Smith
Harry Smith
Nazareth
Crosland
Caro
Lititz
Ocean City
Oak Lane
Philadelphia
Ralph Gross
Albert C. Sturgis
Bert
Samuel Miller
Harrisburg
A. W. Miller
Park View
Clara Breneman Howard
Gideon Kahl
Clarence Eberman
Mazie Shultz
Nat. Wolfe
Harry Flory
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Elsie Wagaman
St. Joseph’s Hospital
T. CG. Heath
Jeffersonville
Ralph Walters
John Hartranft
Central
Mr. Hartranft
David H. Snavely
Front Street
Samuel Wittnyer
Kiddy Shoe Company
Harry Snavily
Rome
Claver
Lancaster County Berkshire Association
Lancaster Fair Grounds
Berkshire
Maud
D. Wal. Evans
William Ochme
Neffsville
Neffsville Community Fire Company
Mt. Joy
Manheim
Jacob Landis
Rothsville
Llen Martin
Millerstown
Landis
Millersville State Normal School
For Sporting
Oods
Scott's Book Store
Bride
Pomona Grange
Lancaster County
Bart Grange
Jackson's Grove
Nine Points
Barth Township
Warwick Grange
Grange
Clarence Dillman
United Evangelical Church
Pequea Creek
Strasberg
Charles Dussinger
Yeon Meek
Paul Dillman
Clarence Weller
Edward Mathers
Harvey Runuk
Raymond Reedy
Charles Getz
Willard Harper
Linden Hall
Coatesville
Linn
Kemper
Coatesville Golf Club
George Bender
Flint
Mich
John Bender
Arlington Cemetery
Valentine Brobst
Waeshington
D. C
Washington
Kinport
N. D. Sturgis Bretzel
N. D. Sturgis Bakery
Sturgis & Haines
New Springs Bank
Warwick
Miller & Habecker’s
Bomberger’s
Getz
John Madlem
Rotheville
Brownstown
Lincoln Gable
Susquehanna
Monroe Smith
Lewis Sturgis
Benjamin Weir
Christ Snyder
Big Apple
Joseph Dreifus
Jonah Bernheimer
Charles Baum
Ida Bau
Allen Greiner
Mary Shreiner
Greiner
Luits
Rev
Eugene P. Greiner
Samuel Keller
Fast Main Street
Martha Hitnier
Elizabethtown
Middle Town
Brunnerville
Mary
Carrie Tschudy
Kate Roland
Harry Tschudy
Trenton
Princeton
Asbury Park
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