Vast Riches at Home Waiting to Be Developed
Thousands of tons of surface granite lie near Hoaks hotel between Lebanon and Lancaster counties, six miles from Lititz. The stone rivals New England granite and could yield monuments and building stone. A New York chemist and state geologists hailed its high grade. Charles Matthews of Lititz discovered the deposit and local investors financed development with a shed and pneumatic tools ordered for a modern quarry. The Lititz ridge area may become a buzzing industrial center.
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Hoak’s
Lebanon
Lancaster County
Lititz
New England
New York State
Pennsylvania
New York
Charles Matthews
New England States
Local Notices Chronicle Town Happenings and Changes
Borough Policeman Kreider now has an unlisted telephone number. The safe works laid off ten workers but plan quick reemployment. Within a week all pretzel bakeries will be screened. Fidler & Messner opened a new garage and are busy. Spring committee meets next Tuesday at the Parish House. United Brethren juniors plan an outing to Sheiby’s Grove Saturday leaving the church at 3 a.m. A son Dwight Bear Martin Jr. was born June 14 at Lancaster General. Tri Mus boys club led by Rev Crosland outing to Ephrata Cloister by auto with lunches. June 21 marked the longest day and start of summer. Daylight hours experiments by Stiffel-Lreeman Soft Works and Vaper Box failed. they revert to regular hours. Clayton Shhreiner shared a California paper on Colombian firemen. Lease amusement carnival arrives next Tuesday for a week on Dr E E Evans’ lot with a new organ and merrygoround. Allen S Plaines resigns from railroad station job to study in Iowa. wishes success. Minchoff of Lititz leaves for Pottsville to relocate millinery to 298 Broad Street under Annie L Shhreiner. A large show window is being built and store room renovated. Minchoff will run an up-to-date millinery store. See Frautz Bros electric washer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren Church
Sheibley’s Grove
California
Columbian
Columbia Laddies
E. E. Evans
Allen $. Plaines
Louixity
Iowa
Iowa, State Automobile and Tractor Co
Minchoff
Lititz
Pottsville
Broad Street
Annie L. Shhreiner
Miss Minchoff
Moravian Missionary From Thibet Here
The Rev. H. B. Marx a missionary and physician from Poe Thibet preached a sermon at the Moravian church Sunday morning. He spoke in Sunday school and showed many curios from the mission station where he and his wife labored sixteen years. An illustrated lecture in the evening described the hardships of reaching Himalayan stations where Moravian missionaries have served sixty six years. Marx and family are on furlough in the states. He donated Tibetan curios to the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The Lititz fire company was called twice with no action needed as smoke and small fires broke out in two homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Marx
Poe
Thibet
Ile
Marx
Himalaya
Metropolitan Museum of New York
Lititz
New Street
Levi Heck
Small Fire at Owl Hill Damages Limited Roof
A kitchen roof caught fire on Tuesday at the home of Harry Pfautz at Owl Hill. Flames broke out but neighbor assistance helped extinguish the blaze before significant damage occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Pfautz
Owl Hill
Kerosene Price Cut By Atlantic Refining Co
Atlantic Refining Co announces another kerosene price drop reducing tank wagon price to 12 cents per gallon. The 40 percent cut since February significantly eases fuel costs for farmers in Pennsylvania and Delaware where tractors dominate farms, possibly reviving horse use and brightening farmers households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Refining Company
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Special Chautauqua visit and Lititz ties noted
The Swarthmore Chautauqua Association plans a special event during Chautauqua week July 30 to August 5. Dr. Paul M. Pearson, a prominent director, will visit Lititz as part of the town’s ten year member status. Also featured is Batton Swart, Lititz native and former merchant seaman whose travels include Spain, Egypt, Australia, and Hamburg, and who is visiting his grandfather and relatives after a world voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chautauqua
Swathmore Chautauqua Association
Paul M. Pearson
Lititz
Swathmore
Pearson
Batton Swart
Uncle Sam
Manya Lad
Bart
Spain
Egypt
Australia
Benj
Hertzler
South America
Hamburg
Germany
Eschbach Receives Diploma Among Chicago Nurses
Horace Eschbach reports receiving a diploma after fourteen nurses graduated in Chicago. He made a cake and provided flowers for decoration. The hospital’s superintendent said an elderly nurse with twenty six years of service also earned a diploma, inscribed to certify H. Eschbach of Lititz, Pennsylvania as a graduate of cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Eschbach
Chicago
H. Eschbach
Lititz
Cheer
Lititz and Neffsville Students Win Wickersham Scholarship
Neffsville resident Mabel H Funk, a Lititz High School graduate from the class of 1920, earns the Wickersham Scholarship at Millersville for 1921 and 1922. As a Millersville junior among 130, she posted the highest average. The award covers her senior year expenses. Funk lives in Neffsville and is the second Lititz girl to win the honor, after Miss Frances Lefever from Neffsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neffsville
Mabel H. Funk
Lititz
Wickersham
Millersville
Miss Funk
Nefsville
Frances Lefever
Houses Rising on New Street by B F Grosh
Three double brick houses are under construction on New Street by B F Grosh with one roofed. Each unit features six rooms and a bath and will include modern conveniences. Interior brick and much heavy lumber sourced from the Rome distillery. Grosh plans to sell the houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Street
B. F. Grosh
Rome
Mr. Grosh
Groff Stevenson announce wartime marriage in Lititz
Emerson Ralph Groff son of Mr and Mrs Elam Groff and Miss Ethel Slarper Stevenson of Biltmore North Carolina were married June 15 at Biltmore. The couple reside at U S P 1 5 Hospital No 45 where Groff serves in hospital service. He served overseas in X Ray Department during the war.
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Lititz
Emerson Ralph Groff
Elam Groff
Ethel Slarper Stevenson
Biltmore
North Carolina
Hospital No. 45
Groff
Local notes tease Broad street tarvia favors and small-town quirks
Residents along Broad street enjoy tarvia funded by borough taxpayers while other streets require direct payment. Raspberries are unusually scarce, blackberry crops are in doubt, and daylight saving debates spark chatter. A Lititz youth chases mischief, a barber sharpens speed, and a street scene ends with a confrontation over a buggy whip.
Daylight Saving Confusion Across a Busy Lititz Family
A reader laments daylight saving disruption as a Lititz family endures early trains from Lancaster, breakfast preparations before dawn, two dinners for workers, and doubled electric bills. The column highlights morning chaos, household tasks pushed to afternoon, and the overall cost of the time change.
Summer travel notes from a busy social page
A flurry of visits and trips listed from Pittsburgh to Seacliffe Long Island with many Pennsylvanians visiting relatives, attending weddings, and spending summers at Hessdale Mt Gretna Paradise and other local enclaves. Notable mentions include Laura Peters, Eliza Van Vleck, Joe Hammer, Miss Helen Weigandt, Miss Cara Crosland, and the Bartholomew wedding in New York.
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Laura Peters
Pittsburgh
Eliza van Vleck
Joseph Hammer
Manayunk
Helen Weigandt
Seacliffe
Long Island
Cara Crosland
Blanche Smeltzer
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
N. J
Ephrata
Will H. Dellinger
Lancaster
Isaac Walter
H. C. Miller
BE. S. Crosland
D. H. Kreider
Harry
Elizabeth Bartholomew
New York City
F. W. Stengel
Linden Hall
Mt. Gretna
B. A Tietze
Margaret George
Poughkeepsie
J. M. Walters
Elizabeth
Bertha Eck
Shamokin
Mary Geitner
Hickory
Martha Derr
Jacob Eshleman
Paradise
Harvey Gast
Ilenry Weaver
Bass and frog seasons set. trout closing dates noted
Lititz anglers await bass and frog seasons with trout still hookable. Bass opens July 1 and runs to February 31, matching 1920. Frogs may be caught July 2 and run to October 31. Trout season closes July 31.
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Lititz
Kiddies Took Hike From Home Prompting Neighborhood Search
Three children aged six to seven left for a hike to Vopeland with no parental or adult supervision. Edith Wertsch Tommy Rose and Jeanore Johannsen vanished prompting a neighborhood search that ended late in the afternoon when they were found with the grandmother of one child.
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Edith Wertsch
Tommy Rose
Jeanore Johannsen
Vopeland
Lititz Market Urged to Grow Like Neighboring Towns
Citizens critique Lititz weekly market urging longer Saturday hours and immediate opening. They compare to Ephrata, Lancaster, and Reading, propose visiting successful markets, forming a committee, and adopting a plan to attract more truckers and townspeople. The goal is a thriving market that serves the whole town.
Lititz Joins County Firemen's Association
A Lititz Fourth of July program at Lititz Springs Park features Tyrone Band with a noted woman soloist and Paine’s fireworks. Reamstown and Lititz will play baseball, with trains to Manheim and Reading. A County Firemen's Association formed in Manheim with delegates from multiple towns and fire companies. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz Springs Park
Tyrone
Lititz
Paine
Reamstown
Manheim
Lancaster Dunation
Reading
State Awakening to Importance of Music
State education leaders outline a statewide push to make music a required subject in all schools. Dr Hollis Dann of Cornell University will direct Pennsylvania music efforts from Harrisburg, with normal schools reorganized to train teachers and disseminate music across 13 state normal schools and then all public schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul KE. Beck
State Normal School
Clarion
Beck
Record
Hollis Dann
Cornell University
America
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Thomas E. Vinegan
Music Bulletin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hoke’s Hotel
Kreider
Ind
Fidler & Messner
Frautz Bros
New York Metro
Politan Museum
Dr. Pearson
Sailor Boy
MR. Eschbach
Lititz High School
Broail Street
Dark Dempsey
Clayton Adams
Agnes Adams
Alvin Kochel
Laura. Huncberger
H. P. Martin
Akron
Henry Graybill
Marie Bergstresser
York
Louella Habecker
Martha Thuma
Pauline Kreider
Middletown
Mary Snavely
Annie Silknitter
Honey Brook
Downingtown
Clarence Brubaker
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Taggert
Samuel Turner
Marietta
Roy Yeiser
Leila Yeiser
P. Yeiser
South Broad Street
Yeiser
Couty Firemen'’s Association
Council Chamber
Pubic
H. H. Shenck
WB. Gable
Pierse
Columbia
CG E. Grove
Susquehanna
Amos R. Bachman
Shawnee
John Guntel
Hook and Ladder
A. L
Campbell
Fry
Paul E. Beck
H. A. Bailey
Rothsville
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