Local notes highlight births, baptisms and town events
Minor items note a factory operating around the clock for a foreign shipment, a leadership change in Warwick township, and community milestones. Henry Leaher turns eighty, Howard Bollinger becomes Lititz Fire Co collector, pavement work front of Linden Hall Seminary, and a child fractures her nose after colliding with a tree. Rev Clarke buys an Overland, Hess Mennonite baptism, and cantata practice for High School Alumni. Mother's Day sermons, Washington trip promo, Linden Hall Seminary commencement June 6 to 9 with Rev Stengel address, and Rev Mortensen to speak on rescue work are reported with calls for attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew M. Shissler
Warwick Township
A. K. Reist
Brutmerville
Henry Leaher
Howard D. Bollinger
Lititz Fire Co
Steffy
Linden Hall Seminary
Ester
Frank Andrews
Cedar St
George D. Clarke
Kissel Hill
Neffsville
Hess’ Mennonite
Nash Landis
Hagen
High ‘School
Willis Gochnauer
Fruita
Col
Gochnauer
E. E. Evans
Washington D. C
Reading Railroad
National Capital
Washington
F. W. Stengel
Canal Dover
Ohio
Mortensen
New York
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Tyrrell's Military Band to Headline Independence Day
Lititz plans a major Fourth of July celebration with Tyrrell's Military Band of Lebanon joining Beck's Concert Band. Italian fireworks illuminate the evening, plus cleanup days at the springs park as the town gears up for a grand event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beck
Tyrrell
Lebanon
Carlisle
Lititz
Pottsville
Zion Home Appropriation Bill Moves Forward
The House appropriations committee reported out a bill to make 8000 dollars available for the Zion Home, located one mile north of Lititz. The measure aims to fund operations or enhancements at the facility serving the local community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Home Appropriations Committee
Zion Home
Lititz
Deaths and notices from Warwick area obituaries
Multiple obituaries and society notices report the death of Mrs Louisa Palm at 79, with details on family, church service, and burial in Moravian cemetery. Also noted are the deaths of Pequea Brethren church member Rev. E. Weaver, Paul Bollinger, and Mrs Louisa Sheets, plus a Young Men's Business League meeting update and Mr Daniel Light and daughter Ella arriving from Pasadena after two years away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa
Jacob Palm
Harry Birkenbine
Centre Street
Warwick
Palm
Philip Diehm
Lititz
Adeline
Isaac Firestone
Ephrata
Lizzie
Anderson Shoemaker
Brunnerville
Sadie
Birkenbine
Albert
Mechanicsburg
Ella
Jerome Sheaffer
Rome
Thamar Grosh
Reuben Diehm
Moravian Church
Phares E. Weaver
Strasburg Township
Brethren Home
Neffsville
Edith Hostetter
New Providence
Pequea
Paul M. Bollinger
Andrew Bollinger
Middle Creek Meeting House
Fliphratas Township
Young Men’s Business League
Philadelphia
Stiffel-Freeman Co
League
Daniel E. Light
Pasadena
Cal
Mr. Light
Elia
Local workers depart for new jobs this week
Went Away to Work Lester Furlow, long time at Huebener's bretzel bakery, left Monday for Spring City, Pa, to join a knitting mill. Harry Musselman from East Main street went to Kutztown last Friday to work in a creamery. Irma Clendenning and Gladys Fleishman have gone to Atlantic City to be employed in a hotel. Pearl Cohick left Tuesday for Cleveland, Ohio, planning further west to harvest fields in summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Furlow
Huebener
Bretzel
Spring City
Harry Musselman
East Main Street
Kutztown
Irma Clendenning
Gladys Fleishman
Atlantic City
Pearl Cohick
Cleveland
Ohio
Lititz Bows Dustless Streets With Oil and Tarvia
Lititz adopts dust control using road oil and tarvia on main streets. A Lancaster party applied the road oil from Atlantic Refining Co., then tarvia coating began. The process, supervised by tarvia crews, dries streets and avoids oil drag into homes, funded by borough taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Atlantic Refining Co
Eighteenth Warwick House Public Sale Postponed By Quarantine
The Warwick House public sale, moved from March due to foot and mouth disease quarantine, will occur Saturday afternoon. Auctioneers Snavely and Hacker offer a carload of cows, Henry Keller of Millway sells milefoot pigs, and Mr Myers of Lancaster sends a varied furniture carload. This marks the 445th sale at the hostelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwick House
Snavely and Hacker
Henry Keller
Millway
Myers
Lancaster
Buried Under Stone Pile Injures Quarry Worker
Henry Stormfeltz of Owl Hill was badly bruised in left arm and chest after a stone pile at John Gibbes quarry near Loeffer's greenhouses slid while he crawled to the top. Fellow workers freed him. no bones broken. Dr M H Yoder treated his injuries. Elmer Mease, son of William and Mrs. Mease, Lititz Route 1 Clay township, is hospitalized at Lancaster General after a gasoline engine accident while assisting his father. He suffered severe body bruising and lower stomach lacerations. Dr H A Long attended. condition improved from critical to fair. Clothes caught in the engine, but tore free to prevent fatal injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
John Brian
Orange Street
Warwick
David Buckwalter
Manheim
Albert Webber
Kisgel Hill
Henry Stormfeltz
Owl Hill
John Gibbes
Loeffer
Stormfeltz
M. H. Yoder
Elmer Mease
William Mease
Clay Township
Lancaster General Hospital
H. A. Long
Brickerville
Mease
Bookstore Change Hands Lititz store sale to Buch
E. E. Habecker sold the Lititz Bookstore goodwill and contents to F. B. Buch on Thursday. Buch took charge on Saturday and pledges to maintain the high standards and welcomes patronage. The shop carries books, stationery, novelties and sporting goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Habecker
Lititz
F. B. Buch
Buch
Travelers Near and Far From Lititz Town News
The column lists residents and guests moving about area towns this week. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Buch visited Philadelphia while others stayed in Lititz or traveled to nearby towns such as Marietta Manheim Bethlehem East Petersburg and Allentown. Readers include teachers students and business people with trips to Nazareth Elizabethtown Lancaster and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Buch
Philadelphia
F. B. Buch
Marietta
Roger Buch
Elizabethtown
Lititz
Rufus Boyd
Lancaster
D. A. Cohick
Nazareth
Fink
W. D. Fink
Denver
Mamie Fritz
Middletown
H. Fisher
Charles Kline
Manheim
Mary Gingrich
Janet Buch
Ella Sturgis
Elmer Kautz
Bethlehem
Clement Badorf
Sue Dohner
Lebanon
William Stoneback
Easton
Kofroth
Elmer Rudy
Schaefferstown
Levi Rudy
Gideon Kahl
A. B. Reidenbach
Peter Killian
Newville
Cumberland County
Owen
Henry Hershey
Elizabethtown College
John Snavely
Harrisburg
K. Snavely
William
Harry Marks
Columbia
Frank Marks
Louise de Schweinitz
Linden Hall Seminary
D. W. Pfautz
Emma Greider
Our Town
Henry Raezer
New Holland
G. B. Raezer
Springfield
Ill
Geo. Smith
Catharine Smith
Mother Smith
C. M. Ford
New York
Ford
Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Co
Jacob Lessig
Ashland
Mary Madden
Orwigsburg
Pearl van Sheets
Emma Beitenman
Col
B.F. Grosh
W. L. Woerner
Roxborough
Phila
Wm. Katzenbach
Anna
Edythe
Gee. Katzenbach
Carrie Hemmerle
Jos. Zaiser
Wm. B. Hornberger
David Jones
Henry McCallister
John
Amanda Hornberger
Allentown
Pennsylvania
King’s Daughters
Charles H. Kreider
Elmer E. Kautz
Katie Smith
Robert Russel
Sarah M. Beckler
Florence Seldomridge
Elie Hare
Maurice Kauffman
Sunny Jim Campaign Draws Growing Local Interest
The evangelist Sunny Jim gains attention in Lititz at Trinity United Evangelical Church. Reported are 21 conversions so far with rising attendance and strong support for his message. Women’s meeting drew a large crowd and hundreds were turned away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunny Jim
Trinity United Evangelical Church
Lititz
Evangelist
Loeffler
Caught in the Act at Snyder Dam
Suspicion of fish theft at C B Snyder's private dam between Lititz and Lexington proves true when Mr. Snyder and his son Nathan confront two neighbor suspects mid night. The men were seen using a flashlight to catch catfish and were warned to stay away henceforth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Snyder
Lititz
Lexington
Mr. Snyder
Nathan
Snyder’s
Two Jewish Peddlers Arrested For License Offenses
Constable Greek and Burgess Marks nabbed two Jewish peddlers Friday morning after they sold dress goods without a license in Manheim and again failed to pay their board bill. They boarded a Reading bound train but were stopped near Lititz and arrested on arrival. After lengthy talk and language difficulties they agreed to pay Manheim board bill license and related expenses and were released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgess Marks
Manheim
Lititz
Manheim Board
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Tyrrell’s Military Band
John Binkley
Levi Yerger
Blue Mountains
Pine Grove
Reading
Binkley
Lena Hessler
Broad Street
Emanuel Grube
Maple Street
Nina
C. Wm. Grosh
Lancaster St. Joseph’s Hospital
Zion
Louisa Pala
Louisa Sheets
Abram Sheetz
Susan Grube
North Broad Street
Grube
Penn Township
Elm
P. M. Barr
J. G. Black
Lancaster Cemetery
California
Theodore B. Buch
Kilauea
Kauai
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