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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1934
Page
9
The winter caused extensive street damage with many potholes on North and South Broad Street and East Main Street. When spring arrives, repairs will be needed and taxpayers worry about cheaper materials. Also noted are high sale prices for Hollinger estate goods and a bank liquidity recovery from 1932 to 1938.
The article notes more public sales as a sign of economic recovery, reflecting higher activity in the local area and in other places. It parallels rising road traffic and statements from an auto industry leader about improvements seen in the recovery perspective.
A Lititz reader notes a famous comedian fills a nearby theatre Monday, drawing thousands including many from Lititz. The letter urges building a local cinema and reflects town desire for a theater as Lititz High School’s Pretzelette prints the item.
The Lititz High School pupils voice strong support for a clean well run theatre in Lititz to provide Saturday night entertainment for youth. They argue town boredom and out of town trips justify a local cinema.
Bulletin lists residents with ailments and curiosities. George Menizer suffers bunion swelling. Esaixs Eitnier owns a cow yielding thirteen pounds weekly of butter. A Moravian ground lease for a passenger station runs 999 years with reversion to the church. fences to be maintained by the railroad. Susan Eberly has been bedridden for 28 years. Linn Shelly plans a live monkey and parrot from Philadelphia. no charge to see performances. A Pine Hill hotel gate aged 59, built by Augustus Enek. David Brubaker sale sees Lititz and Lancaster stock sold at $75.40 per share. Rev. H. E. Semmel honored by White Oak congregation with gift. A four-year-old boy in Rothsville narrowly escapes death from a mill door. John Souder hosts a surprise at Millway with music by the Jobhsville Band. Prof. M. J. Brecht visits county schools. Philip Arndt of Manheim marks 84th birthday. G. Boyd seeks legislative honor in Penn Township. Fifty years since Augustus Euck began carpentry. Twenty young ladies sew rags at Widow Smith’s. one partygoer wheels in a wheelbarrow. A. F. Hostetter, Esq., spoke on two weeks in a Pullman palace car. Judge Livingston fines Adam Gehman $200 for Sunday liquor selling.
Twenty five years ago notes from Lititz detail fire taps and local taps lists for waterworks, church services by Rev D Stauffer in German and English, a Reading to Lititz line service check, and a kite tangled wire fix. Reports cover tobacco shipments, a basketball defeat, a near train accident, and a duck chase on Nathan Buch’s farm. Remaining items note camp meeting grove changes, Easter date rules, new engines and kilns, concrete use, property sales, wildlife, and social events around Lititz with numerous locals named.
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