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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1936
Page
1
The 60-voice choir of First E. C. Church Reading will perform Mendelssohn's Elijah at Trinity E. C. Church in Lititz on Monday evening May 26 following a previous singing during the Monday service.
Large crowds attend opening services and dedication of the Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church at Orange and Cedar Streets. Rev. D. P. Langsdorf praised by many as about $2,000 was raised for the building fund. Community Night to feature greetings from Lititz pastors and music by St Pauls Lutheran choir with solo by Joseph W. Sheckard. Tax collector YT Stevens Grosh announces 1936 county and personal tax collections at several local sites with abatements for early payment.
Veal lamb and beef sausage 24c pudding 18c hamburger 18c. We deliver. Phone 148. LUTZ MEAT MARKET. Adv.
Lititz rapidly becomes a city as the Yer and Ephista Telephone Co enforces number dialing. The borough shifts from naming by party to using numbers to speed calls. More operators join the system, and subscribers must provide numbers to ensure efficient service.
Congressman John S. McGroarty, California's poet laureate and Townsend Old Age Pension Bill sponsor, urges moving General John A. Sutter's body to California. He claims Sutter's burial site in California as rightful resting place and plans to renew the effort on his return home.
Grant Brandon superintendent of Lancaster playgrounds will address a meeting tomorrow at 7 30 in the social room of St Pauls Lutheran Church. The gathering aims to spark town interest in a supervised Lititz children's playground this summer with moving pictures of activities to be shown. All parents and interested residents are invited.
Mr and Mrs Ludwig Wolf of West Main Street announce the birth of a daughter at 10 12 AM Monday at Lancaster General Hospital.
The reorganized Chamber of Commerce holds its first meeting at 8 o clock Tuesday evening in the Fire House. Reports on the members campaign will be the main feature. All members and town merchants are urged to attend and a tax tail committee is expected to be named to handle local business needs.
Mrs. Pearl Kettering and Miss Pauline Hresko hosted about 70 pupils from the Klein feltersville School in the Park on Monday. The event was the first picnic of the season and signaled the term’s close for the schools.
Youth Week in Lititz ends with Open House at the school tonight as many rooms display year long work. The observance began with elocution and music contests, attracting numerous parents. A Saturday May Day Fete drew about 2000 to the Tark where a pageant Awake Tis Spring retold a Greek legend.
The Lititz Democratic Club gathered Tuesday evening with 80 members and friends hearing Harold Gibble and H. C. Reinhold. Refreshments followed the meeting as the group voted to sponsor the Lititz Soft Ball team this summer.
At the Rotary Club, Prof. E S Karieofe of Elizabethtown College spoke on the Psychology of Humor. A joke about a boy's Christmas gifts and a diary entries three days of snow leads to the punchline still snowing today then shot grandma. Workers injure Hershey goat and a jumping attempt ends in a cold bath during May Day rehearsal.
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