Lititz Notes: Sales, Events and Local Changes
The Lititz Band will provide the Saturday concert. Wilson Hacker now heads the A. and P. store and will run North Broad Street property formerly David Pfautz's Cigar store at public sale Saturday. The Legion drive in Lititz raised 1230 toward disabled veterans and World War orphans. Lititz quota was 1000. Wallace Meiskey fell from a scaffold in Lancaster and sustained bruises. Fireworks sales and setting off will be allowed on July 2 4 and 8. Mrs E C Ritchie offers household goods at a Saturday sale on West Main. Rev A E Schwartze of Water town Wis preached here. The late Mrs Samuel Walter's South Broad Street home, offered last Saturday, was withdrawn at 6550. Borough police arrested two for reckless driving. Barber shops will stay open July 2 and close on July 4. A sledge hammer struck Clarence Wert injuring his left forearm at Diehm's new warehouse. Long brothers update from Allentown hospital. Vlad improving. Mrs Walter Ruch on South Broad stricken with paralysis but improving. Harry Bailey re-elected York M C A general secretary. Moravian choristras will escort to Elizabethtown Masonic Home Sunday. autos at 1 PM. G G Diehm begins two story warehouse on North Alley. 100 by 40 feet. Lititz spring east of the ice plant to be repaired. spring masonry to be restored by H J Pierson. The new storage will enhance the plot’s appearance. Read the Rebnd-8
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Broad Street
David Pfautz
Lititz
Mrs. Hayes
Saranac Lake
New York
W. H. Muth
Broad
Leroy Ptautz
Pittsburg
Armstrong Linoleum
Lancaster
Ephram Herr
Emory Wagner
Wison Baum
Gettysburg
Ruth and
Alice Hagen
Francis Hagen
Cornwall
Aldus Eshleman
Lewisburg
Harry Hall
Miriam Hall
J. Albert Hall
Philadelphia
Cecil Rhodes
Catharine Smith
Ralph Smith
Gretna
Penryn Park
Atwood Kreider
Robert
George Sheridan
Harold
Agnes Hensel
Isabel Groff
Litiz
Eagles’ Mere
Levi Erb
Song Zenas
Jacob
Harry Baker
Palmyra
Baker
Erb
Marion Biemesderfer
Kissel
State College
Rothsville
Z. G. Auber
Iinois
Milwaukee
Wis
Brunnerville
Margie Arndtz
Lansdowne
California visitor unable to attend wedding due to illness
Here From California Mrs. Douglas Cox of Huntington Beach is visiting her parents on Orange Street. She came to attend her brother Norman Brubaker’s wedding but cannot due to ill health and is confined to the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Cox
Huntingdon Beach
California
Mrs. Christ, Brubaker
Orange Street
Cox
Norman
Hikers Making Good Time On Trip
Paul Young and Eugene Mohn travel about 200 miles daily by lifts, keeping pace with a journey that has covered around 1200 miles and includes sightings of Swift and Company packing houses, Indian reservations, and towns affected by a recent Iowa storm. They sleep in beds occasionally, but sometimes rest in a hay mow or police station as they seek church meals and new places. Harvey Bachman and Russell Longenecker resumed their canoeing trip to Canada, reaching Quebec and planning onward travel. Horace Roth of Shelby, Ohio, visits Lititz after 36 years away, noting its rapid growth and updated shops and buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Young
Eugene Mohn
Howard Young
Ames
Iowa
Swift and Company
Anly
Geneva
Ill
Ames Fowa
Harvey Bachman
Russell Longenecker
Canada
Quebec
Wayne Longenecker
Horace Roth
Shelby
Ohio
Lititz
Mr. Roth
Horace
Ile
Nere
Chatter
STARTED MAKING STEEL TRAPS AT LOCAL FACTORY
The steel game trap department is in operation with six chain machines stamping parts and assembling traps. Five oil furnaces burn for hardening and tempering while punch presses shape components. The new department should reach full operation within two weeks. most work uses local staff with a few specialists. The mouse and rat divisions will pause June 29 to July 6 for annual vacations.
Former High School Teacher To Be Principal Here
Jd Laurence Strickler, once an English teacher at Lititz High School, will return to join the faculty next year. A Lancaster High School and Millersville graduate, he finished at the University of Pennsylvania in two years, earning a secretary role in the Kappa Phi Kappa honor society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurence Strickler
Lititz
Strickler
Lancaster High School
Millersville State Normal School
University of Pennsylvania
Penn
Kappa Phi Kappa
Fire in Rear of Harris Building
A Tuesday afternoon blaze broke out in a frame shed attached to the Harris Building on West Main Street. Fire damaged the warehouse goods and required plaster removal to extinguish flames in the wall. a concrete block fire door prevented spread to the main store. Two seven year old youths Marcus Hartranft and Daniel Painter confessed to starting the fire while playing with matches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taftemon
Harris
West Main Street
Marcus Hartranft
John Hartranft
Daniel Painter
John Painter
Kreider
Fire Company Festival a Success Amid Festivities
The annual Fire Company festival drew strong support with eatables vastly outstripping prior years. By 8 o'clock the chicken soup was sold out and receipts reached about $900, with a projected net around $600. The Manheim band provided expert music for the event. Mr. Trimmer, new owner of the KE Habecker Broad Street Department Store, plans remodels, added goods, and a giant stock reduction sale to make way for a new line of woods. Watch this paper for further announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Company
Manheim Band
Trimmer
KE. E. Habecker Broad Street
Walter Scott attends mother Emma Scott funeral in Peoria
Walter Scott traveled to Peoria Illinois to attend the funeral of his mother Mrs Emma Scott who died on Sunday at age 78 and had been bedfast since shortly before. She was buried on Wednesday after a period of illness that began about two months ago when Mr Scott was summoned to her bedside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Scott
Peoria
Ill
Emma Scott
Scott
Revered Imboden Preaches Funeral in York County
Rev. and Mrs. Imboden of Emaus visited last week. Heisey succeeded him as pastor here. Imboden preached the funeral sermon of Miss Mary Kissinger on Friday. Mrs. Norman Habecker and daughter Vivian, and Viola Bisker and sister, are visiting in Red Lion York County. Miss Bisker trains at Reading Hospital and is on vacation due to illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imboden
Emaus
United Evangelical Church
Heisey
Mary Kissinger
Norman Habecker
Vivian
Red Lion
York County
Viola Bisker
Miss Bisker
Reading Hospital
Old swimming holes and poems in Verger’s era
The piece recalls once familiar swimming spots near Cordy Verger’s trap factory and Rudy’s dam now replaced by modern sites like Zook’s mill and Buck’s dam reachable by car. It contrasts simple shade trees with new blue ray pools, and notes a humorous scene where two store superintendents knelt on Main Street after a dropped quarter was retrieved from a crack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verger
Rudy
Notice for working certificates for youths
Children aged 14 to 16 may obtain working certificates from J. R. Herr. All youths who wish to work in the summer and are not over 16 should address the matter promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Herr
Meeting of Telephone Pioneers Opens in Mt Pocono
Grace Keller of the Bell exchange attended the 4th Annual Meeting of Central Pennsylvania Chapter District No 7 Telephone Pioneers of America held at Mt Pocono Hotel on June 20 21. The event drew 163 pioneers with 20 or more years in service and included a banquet and dance. Grace said she had a fine time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Keller
Bell Telephone Exchange
Pensylvania
Telephone Pioneers of America
Mt. Pocono
Grace
Bandmen Injured As Car Overturns Near Lititz
Five Manheim band members suffer minor injuries when their vehicle leaves the road south of Lutz and overturns. Pinkerton, pinned by the car track, was rescued and taken to Lancaster General Hospital. The accident follows a concert return from Neffsville as the group travels toward Lititz. Seaman & Leed install a new Hysaman cold storage showcase in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manheim
Lancaster General Hospital
Neffsville
Lutz
Pinkerton
Whch
Martin
Seaman & Leed
Hysaman
Brubaker and Miss Meinger Wed in Denver Lutheran Church
Brubaker Brubaker and Miss Mary Metlinger wed at Ream Lutheran church in Denver with Rev. Kneer officiating. The couple, daughter of Mr and Mrs L M Metlinger of Denver, planned an extended trip through the west following the ceremony. Special notice appears for Pfautz and Oxfords offering ladies slippers at $1.00 pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Meinger
Homecoming note on Oregon student athlete John Fasnacht
John Fasnacht of Salem Oregon is home for summer vacation after completing his junior year in college. He has one year left to finish his course and is described as an all around athlete who was a basketball star at Lititz High School several years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
John Fasnacht
Salem
John
Lititz High
Theodore B. Bush
J. Eyank Buch
Pitater
Honolulu
T. H. Te
Penna
Chicago
Missouri Pacific Railroad
San Francisco
Woman Hangs Self in Attic Near East Petersburg
Despondency over financial difficulties believed to drove Mrs. Ella H. Root age 50 to kill herself in the garret of her Mechanicsville home Tuesday afternoon. Found by husband at 5 o clock after he and the children were away. Survived by husband four children a sister and three brothers. Funeral Friday at 2 pm at the home and burial in Exust Petersburg cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella H. Root
Abram Root
Mechanicsville
East Petersburg
Root
Public Program at St Pauls Lutheran Next Thursday Evening
The Usher's Association of St Pauls Lutheran church will host the first winter public program July 2 at 8 o'clock with invocation, congregational singing, and an address by Rev Harry A Schwartz of Mt Joy. The group aims to bring nationally prominent speakers for monthly programs this winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Usher’s Association
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Speci
Irma Keath
Russel
Penryn
Harry A. Schwartz
Mt. Joy
Vocal Legion Post
St. Paul’s
Usher's Association
Travelers Near and Far Attend Weekend Visits
Lancaster readers note a flurry of weekend trips and visits. Naomi Bomberger of Lancaster toured Lititz while J E Lewis of Coatesville visited relatives. many Lancaster residents traveled to Atlantic City Buffalo Niagara Falls Philadelphia and Chambersburg with family friends and colleagues.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wilson Hacker
Mr. Hacker
Wallace Meiskey
A. E. Schwartze
Watertown
Samuel Walter
South Broad Street
Clarence A. Wert
G. G. Diehms New Warehouse
Tvan Long
Allentown Hospital
Roy Long
Walter Tl. Ruch
Harry A. Bailey
York
Mr. Bailey
Yititz
Moravian Sunday School
Moravian Trombone Choir
Elizabethtown Masonic Home
E. S. Crosland
G. G. Diehm
Lititz Springs
H. J. Pierson
Lititaz
G. G. Diehman
Obersons
Fire Company Festival
Itis
Illinois
Iting
Main Street
Brethren Homse
Wm. . Brady
Charles D. Taylor
Tititz
Brady
Philadelphia Press
Taylor
United States
Pennsylvania
Lebanon
Make Ag
Oliver Smith
the Sun
Sara Jenkins
Dorothy
Berkshire Hills
Twin Lakes
Conn
Miss Gault
Chautauqua
Lindet
Synod of
Northern
Providence
Bethlehem
Linden Hall Seminary
Brubaker—Melinger
Pfautz
DuPont Gardens
Paul Dillman
Charles Getz
Clarence Keller
William Diehm
Howard Keener
Alton Gable
Anna Kemper
Jeanette Weaver
Ruth Eshleman
Helen Greenly
Springville
Beatrice Kemper
Marguerite Dussinger
Addison Harding
Samuel Bowers
Percey Furlow
Co. S. Landis
Richard
Grumbine
John Leisey
Roy Keller
Joe Reed
Lyman Hornley
Wahl
Mae
Elvin Shaefffer
Will Shaeffer
Naomi Bomberger
J. E. Lewis
Coatesville
Albert Godenaur
Harry W. Miller
New York City
Joseph Miller
Harry Garman
Binkley
Atlantic City
Benj. Hertzler
Abram Burkholder
Keemar
L. N. Moyer
H. C. Miller
Catherine
Hessdale
I. W. Fank
Buffalo
Niagar& Falls
Fredericka Kling
Wilson F. Gibble
Myrtle
Katherine
C. R. Ross
Mary S. G. Buch
Chambersburg
Walter H. Buch
Luther Weiland
Phoenixville
Morris Doster
Smithers
I. H. Doster
Harry LeFevre
Quarryville
H. L. Reiber
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