All-Lititz Hop to Be Held at Lancaster Gumning Club
Local items report an All-Lititz hop to be held at the Lancaster Gumning Club on Saturday June 18. Also noted are a Reading to New York excursion on Sunday and the first home-raised strawberries arriving in town at about 20 cents a box amid a slow fruit season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eby Shoe Company
David Kreider
South Broad Street
Ralph Kauffman
Victor Singley
Reading
New York
Hudson
Lancaster
C. EB. Marble
Fifth Avenue
Spruce Street
Clarence Dillman
Leon Schmuck
Lancaster General Hospital
Lutz Brothers
Advent Lutheran Church
Laurel
Wayne Zartman
Lititz
Wayne
Burgess Norman Badorf
Claytor
Keith
Samuel Wonder
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Irwin Stroh
General Hospital
Longeneccer
Joshua Rollman
Brunswick
Burkholder’s
Lancaster Teacher Attends Thomas Marks Funeral
D W Dietrich of Lancaster traveled to town Monday for the funeral of Thomas Marks. He taught Mr Marks and served as his late capacity for his two children.
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D. W. Dietrich
Lancaster
Thomas Marks
Lititz Firemen’s Festival Seeks Record Chickens
Lititz firemen canvass for festival chickens with Devil ed clams Moravian sugar cake and chicken sandwiches on the menu. The Ladies Auxiliary assists as the Pumper and chemical engine display aims to break records led by the Lititz High School band drawing locals to a full turnout.
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Lititz
Lititz i
Talking Doll to Be Given Away at Fire Company Festival
A large talking doll received by Lititz Fire Company from W. B. Hornberger will be given away at the festival Saturday. It will be displayed in W. H. Buch's window until then. The doll can sing and recite verses, with a genuine human voice, and is described as large and lifelike.
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Lititz
W. B. Hornberger
Philadelphia Record
W. H. Buch
Fishermen Report Big Chesapeake Haul On Weekend
Charles Fink returned from the Susquehanna with twenty one cars averaging nine pounds each. A Lititz group including Charles Butzer and Captain Greenhawk plus Lancaster and Columbia anglers caught 400 fish weighing 609 pounds in Chesapeake Bay. N. D. Sturgis and Dr. Long landed ten sea trout five to eight pounds in Virginia waters. The Lititz party praised southern hospitality and Bowers Beach as superior to other spots.
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Charles Fink
Susquehanna
Charles Butzer
Lititz
Charles Grill
Edward Todd
William Litch
Dave McHenry
Lancaster
Clarence Miller
Columbia
Captain Greenhawk
Oxford
Chesapeake Bay
N. D. Sturgis
D. A. Long
Virginia
Bowers Beach
Hitching Post Out of Commission After Early Collision
Early Monday John Fleishman swerved to miss Yerger's truck on Main Street and struck a hitching post near Hensel's Drug Store. The impact damaged a mailbox and caused glass noise, but only a broken wheel and bent axle in the car. Fleishman escaped unharmed.
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John Fleishman
Cedar Street
Hensel
Yerger
Main Street
Mr. Fleishman
Visit marks first hometown trip in twenty one years
Mr and Mrs David Dunback and daughter Margaret of Oakland California arrived by car to visit Bear relatives staying with Mr and Mrs Sherman Steffy on Lincon Avenue. They drove 8400 miles in 17½ days via the southern route crossing a flooded Mississippi with receding water and workmen in demand. Dunback, raised at Owl Hill, left 31 years ago at 17 and has not returned until now. He works in lumber.
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David Dunback
Margaret
Oakland
Calif
Sherman Steffy
Lincon Avenue
Mississippi
Dunbach
Owl Hill
California
Lititz Proposes To Enter League With Four-Town Circuit
Lititz and nearby towns consider joining a four team Lancaster Lebanon County League with Lancaster Lebanon Manheim and Lititz. A 24 game schedule starts June 12 with home and away fixtures and Sunday play limited by location. Managers include Rube Andes A J Haag Robert Fry and A Fleckenstein.
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Luitty
Lancaster
Public Utilities
Lancaster Industrial League
Ephrata
Manheim
Lancaster- Lebanon
Lebanon
Lititz
Co. J. Haag
Rossmere Ball Park
Rube” Andes
A. J. Haag
Robert Fry
A. ©. Fleckenstein
Jack Martin
John Swank
TeRoy Albert
Ralph Buch
Marty Trout
Tehanon
Seitzinger Faces Further Charge In Auto Theft Case
Adams Seitzinger, once a Lititz resident now jailed awaiting trial, faces an additional charge beyond alleged auto tire theft. Police traced his car’s tags to Elmer Tleighey’s wrecked vehicle, linked to the Hershey family railroad disaster. Leitzinger ownership is under review.
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Adams Seitzinger
Lititz
Anyower
Elmer Tleighey
Hershey
Leitzinger
Improving the Appearance of The Band Stand
A Lititz music lover hired a painter to whitewash the band stand beside the fire house. He believes the musicians in white uniforms will stand out better with the fresh coat of paint. Scott's Book Store advertises an all round film service including developing printing and enlarging on schedule.
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Lititz
Scott’s
Local dam near Owl Hill drains. memories of Lititz pond and town tales
A leak in Rudy's Owl Hill dam has drained most water, likely from illegal dynamite fishing. The dam once hosted many black bass and ice harvesting, with summers for swimming. Old Lititz residents recall the dam, past aquatic legends, and a jailed local. Minnesota comparisons and pride surface in broader observations. The piece ends noting the Lititz Wire men’s festival and Emma Long’s chicken corn soup, with a continuation on Page 4.
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Rudy
Owl Hill
Lititz
Emma Long
County Farm Boy Wins Honors In West
West Lancaster County farm boys gain notice for long Prairie public school team success. Willard Maland, Nestor Pontius and Raymond Adams win first in dairy judging and head to Memphis to represent Minnesota. Ezra Reineke wins second in pig judging. J W Kauffman earns top beef cattle judging and third in horse judging among instructors.
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Lancaster County
J. W. Kauffman
Brickerville
Rell
Long Prairie
Vocational Agriculture Department
Willard Maland
Nestor Pontius
Raymond Adams
Memphis
Tenn
Ezra Reineke
Kauffman
Todd County
Christiana and Lititz Set for Weekend Showdowns
Christiana, led by Jebbs in goal, visits Lititz on Saturday in a county championship bid and seeks a repeat of last year. Sunday Lititz hosts West Lebanon at Lebanon, a strong rival that gave Lancaster’s Eighth Ward hard games. Large Lebanon crowds expected.
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Christiana
Jebbs
Lititz
West Lebanon
Lebanon
Lancaster
Kiddies Study Bible Summer Bible School in Lititz
The five Lititz churches conduct a Summer Bible School for ages five to fourteen with fourteen grades. About 275 pupils enrolled. classes run 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. daily from June 6 to June 24, with several substitute teachers stepping in during the first two days. Visitors are welcome each morning.
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Lititz
Reformed
United Evangelical
Moravian
United Brethren
Lutheran
Dorothy Jenkins
Caro Crosland
Helen Yerger
Mary Hess
Elizabeth Workman
Mary Sturgis
A. Virginia Grosh
Laura Rudy
Agnes Hetsel
Kathryn Gantz
Kathryn Sturgis
Isabell Groff
N. G. Bachman
J. C. H. Light
Anna Noll
Bernice Dengler
Maybelle Steffy
Lightning Kills Horse at Rome Barn
A bolt struck the barn of Joseph Long in Rome on Sunday afternoon, killing a horse. The gable end splintered but the blaze did not start. Long reports a prior break in weeks earlier when $40 was taken from his home during an absence.
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Joseph Long
Rome
Mr. Long
Rain Spoiled Firemen's Parade at Manheim
The Lititz Fire Company and Lititz High School band traveled to Manheim on Saturday but did not parade due to heavy rain. Some groups marched anyway and were caught in the downpour. The Lititz High Band performed inside the T. O. O. F. Hall and later on the street once rain stopped, drawing a crowd. The weather spoiled the county firemen’s day after much planning.
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Lititz
Manheim
Birthday cake honors Charles Zarbman at district meeting
At the Lancaster County Sunday School Association Third Anniversary Council meeting of District No 9 Young People Charles Zarbman was memorialized with a birthday cake and candies. He was greeted with a birthday song revealing his birthday fell on Sunday and noting his faithful membership.
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Lancaster County Sunday School Association
Charles Zarbman
Native Lititz native to married in Washington DC today
Theodore Grosh of Lancaster and Adele Zuberno will wed in Washington DC today. Grosh is a Lititz native, son of the late Lawrence Grosh. His mother Mrs. Catherine Grosh left Lancaster on Sunday to attend the ceremony.
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Guy L. Calvert
Kathryn Calvert
Philadelphia
Linneaus Nies
Inwin Showers
Readjing
John Fasnacht
F. W. Stengel
Winston-Salem
N. G
James
Samuel Graybill
Ellen Kantz
Mary
du Pont Gardens
Wilmington
West Chester
Kathryn Sturgis
Kathryn Gantz
Millersville State Normal School
George Zimmele
Ideal Chocolate Company
Boston
Zimmele
Harry Stoner
Cora. Albright
Akron
Arthur Guiney
Elmer Eby
Hillsboro
Michigan
Carrie
Mary Tshudy
Lititz
Cincinnati
Harry Tshudy
F. A. We
Ministerium of
Pennsylvania
Lancaster
John Lenger
OC. F. Steiner
Fred S. Habecker
Military Academy
Annapolis
Robert E. Pfantz
Washington, D. C
J. Theodore Grosh
Pffantz Bros
Pfantz
Earl
Reed Hospital
Washington
Joseph Dreifus
Percy Dreifus
Orwigsburg
Schuylkill County
Dreifus
T. I. Brubaker
Bryn Mawr
Brubaker
Bankers Baseball League
Karl L. Wolf
New Holland Ave
Karl, Jr
Wolf
Elizabeth Keller
Alvin Keller
Theodore Grosh
Adele Zuberno
Lawrence Grosh
Catherine Grosh
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Seitzinger
Minnesota
Reading Railroad
Girard Estate
Bethlehem Steel Company
Penmsylvania
West
J W. Kauffman
Minn
Co-Operative Livestock Shipping Association
Mota
iWin
Remington Portable
Scott’s Book Store
Charles Zartman
Lititz High School
Wm. Glenn
Ohio
Big Springs
Perry
Curtis Hensel
Sayre
Bernard Coles
Bernice
Hazel Meiskey
Ada Meiskey
Guy Bomberger
Long & Co
Wilkesbarre
Washington, D.C
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