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May Day pageant highlights and cast listing
A longreport from Lititz outlines a May Day fete with pagesant scenes set near Aetna Sicily and featuring characters Persephone Pluto and Ceres. Cast lists include principal roles and junior senior court members along with dozens of dancers and grades. A separate fire report notes a three story factory and six homes burned on South Charlotte Street Manheim with significant damage and multiple fire companies responding.
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Persephone
Aetna
Sicily
Pluto
Cupid
Ceres
Winter
Zeus
Underworld
Mercury
Earth
Mary Badorf
Marcella Ingle
Junior McCreary
Yuto
William Longsdorf
King Winer
Herbert Wagaman
Jonald Rannels
Herbert Yooper
Robert Reidenbaugh
North Wind
Charles Hevener
Helen Bruce
Arlyne Demmy
Josephine Kopp
Vera Nagle
Winifred Shaeffer
Mildred Young
Reba Tackman
Jane Keith
Dorothy Little
Ruth Showers
Robert Gangner
Harry Girvin
Robert Hackman
Marcus Tartranft
Daniel Painter
Morris Rosenberg
Curtis Badorf
Quentin Keith
Robert Keller
Evelyn Enck
Treva Traclich
Thelma Hall
Charlotte Tarr
Emma Hornberger
Ethel Lowe
Marguerite Maharg
Eloise Mearig
Frances Meiskey
Helen Mellinger
Betty Miksch
Evelyn Neidermyer
Ima Nolt
Ida Posey
Ruth Rollman
Marion Rosenberg
Betty Royer
Naoai Snavely
Helen Ruth
Dorothy Walter
Charlotte Weaver
Betty Werts
S. Charlotte St
Manheim
Lititz Fire Co