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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1936
Page
1
Lititz Community Theatre marks one year since opening on March 21 1985. The celebration runs all week with new films and free admission for anyone sharing a March birthday. Lititz High School Band provides music and the venue showcases its modern cooling system and design.
Ben Lutz, longtime Lititz butcher and booster of local woods, bought the first ticket a year ago and plans to buy Saturday’s first ticket again to mark the theatre’s anniversary.
The Junior College of Linden Hall held a supper dance Saturday evening in the school gym. Spring colors dotted the decorations while St. Patrick was honored in the favors. Outside entertainment came from Chester Howard and his Dukes of Rhythm and the General Sutter Hotel catering department.
The final of five Mission Study Classes by women from cooperating Lititz churches meets at 2 PM at Lititz Church of the Brethren. The event invites attendance and continues the series on missionary topics.
The Lititz moving picture era began with a projected train scene at a Sunday Schoolroom, described by Ralph Buch as the first moving picture shown in Lititz. Early exhibitors included Dan Gohic around 1908 and Joseph Pierson at the Home Theatre on North Broad Street, with Rudy's Hall later hosting a second floor theatre.
District Attorney Charles W. Eby and Assistant District Attorney Kellen Shirk will give short talks at the meeting of the newly organized Republican Club of Lititz and Vicinity in the Buck Building on North Broad Street Monday night. By-Laws formulated at the last meeting will be read for final adoption.
Samuel H. Nuss and Christian Nissley dissolve their Lititz Furniture Co partnership. Nissley buys out and will continue operating at the current location. Nuss will run furniture making and repair work in the Masser building at 10 East Front Street.
The Lititz Fire Company hosts a public card party this evening at 8 o'clock. Arrangements chair Allen Putt leads a committee with Guy Buch John Crawford Wilson Shenberger and J J Kline.
The Young Men's Business League will hold a smoker in their rooms this evening. Cards, pool, chess, and other games will be played and a dutch lunch will be served.
Town churches hold Union Lenten Services at the Moravian Church beginning next week at 7 30 PM.
SNOOPS Bob Turner of the Lititz Ma chine Go resolves to turn on cellar lights after descending last Thursday into a foot of water caused by rain and melting snow. Church notices tease an upcoming play The New Minister by the Ladies Aid Society for May 5 with a teaser ad from LUTZ offering meat specials and delivery.
In Harrisburg Lititz High School falls 50 to 25 to Lebanon High in the District 3 playoff. Lebanon’s Fox scores 26 points as Lititz struggles with the fast pace and larger floor. Shriener stars for Lititz with 17 of 35 team tallies. About 3,000 spectators attend, with a large Lititz turnout and special train crowds.
Andrew M. Shissler, night watchman at the Ideal Chocolate plant, viewed the Saturday dawn meteor from the fifth floor. He described a brilliant light lighting rooftops to Rothsville, a later explosion like a Roman candle, and sparks spreading in varied directions. He initially suspected a gasoline-tank airplane explosion near Ephrata.
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