School Board Names 1931 Tax Report Presenter
Lititz School Board at its May meeting selected Bucknell University historian Dr. Henry T. Colestock as commencement speaker. Miss Helen F. Quinn was rehired as art teacher at current salary. The 1931 tax duplicate totals 65 000, with 60 393.98 already received. final balance deferred. Farmers National Bank named treasurer. board to convene a special session to adopt the report.
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Henry T. Colestock
Bucknell University
Lititz
Colestock
Helen F. Quinn
Coonth
World Exposition at Chicago unveiled with stellar sunrise
A columnist previews Chicago’s World's Exposition tied to a star light experiment and contrasts modern wonders with a century past. He recalls crime, culture, and progress, noting "Lindy" murder shock and playful trivia from barber Bill Mathers while musing on changing customs and the pace of history.
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Chicago
United States
White House
Lindy
Bill” Mathers
Moravian area guests and visits reported Sunday
Mrs J Harvey Dean and Mrs Diers motored to West Chester and Wilmington Del on Sunday. Miss Magdalena Bricker attended a Bach festival at Bethlehem Friday and Saturday. Emma Enck and daughter Arlene of East Orange NJ visited Tatitz friends Monday. Carl Spacht spent a week at Harrisburg. Fred Elfrey and Kathryn McAfee of Philadelphia brought Mr and Mrs Carl Spangler and daughter Doris to visit Emma Spangler. Gerhart family and Mars G W Sweigert with Olive and Wilson Ebersole of Harrisburg were weekend visitors with Mrs M L Steiner. C I Grantham of Scottdale spent the week with her. Agnes Philipps of Lancaster spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs A R Feller. Agnes Adams entertained at dinner Sunday: Wa Kunstman of Neffsville, Alvin Ames of Intercourse, James M Goldthwait of town. Paul and Charles Smith and friend of Lebanon visited Eugene Kreider Sunday. Ella Kuch serenaded by Moravian Sunday School Primary Department in honor of her birthday anniversary. Thomas Laing and two daughters and William Hedding of Lebanon visited Mrs Ella Lacy at the Moravian Home. R E Worley and family visited at Carlisle over the weekend. Elwood Furlow and Emma Grant visited Colebrook Sunday. Elizabeth High and Bell of the Hill School at Potts town visited Linden Hall Sunday. High tore a ligament in a fall and stayed with daughter F W Stengel. Lizzie Hershey spending week with daughter Barwick at York.
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J. Harvey Dean
Diers
West Chester
Wilmingam
Del
Magdalena Bricker
Bethlehem
Emma Enck
Arlene
East Orange
N. J
Tatitz
Carl Spacht
Harrisburg
Fred Elfrey
Kathryn McAfee
Philadelphia
Carl Spangler
Doris
Emma Spangler
Gerhart
Mars
G. W. Sweigert
Olive
Wilson Ebersole
M. L. Steiner
C. I. Grantham
Scottdale
Agnes Philipps
Lancaster
A. R. Feller
Agnes Adams
South Locust Street
Wa.kuntTman
Neffsville
Alvin Ames
Intercourse
James M. Goldthwait
Town
Paul
Charles Smith
Lebanon
Eugene Kreider
Ella Kuch
Moravian Sunday School
Thomas Laing
William Hedding
Ella Lacy
R E. Worley
Raymond Worley
Carlisle
Elwood Furlow
Emma Grant
Colebrook
Elizabeth High
Bell
The
Hill School
Pottstown
Linden Hall
High
F. W. Stengel
Lizzie Hershey
Barwick
York
Pilgrims of the Way Drama by Lancaster District Young People
A religious drama titled Pilgrims of the Way will be staged Tuesday evening at St Pauls Lutheran Church by the Young People of District No 9 Lancaster County Sunday School Association. Admission is free with a voluntary offering. The pageant follows early Christian history from Saul of Tarsus, a Pharisee, to his conversion, with Barnabas John Mark Mary and Rhoda among the cast in a Jerusalem garden setting.
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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Lancaster County
Sunday School Association
Saul of
Tarsus
Christ
Barnabas
John
Mark
Mary
Rhoda
Jerusalem
Linden Hall Announces Commencement Speaker and Events
The Rev. Byron K. Horne of Bethlehem will deliver Linden Hall’s commencement address on Tuesday June 7. The Lititz Branch Alumni luncheon is set for Saturday May 21 at 6 PM at Hotel General Sutter. On Monday at 7 PM the Linden Hall Glee Club will dine at the same hotel. The Linden Hall Senior Class was hosted at the Hostetter estate in Eden on Monday afternoon.
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Byron K. Horne
Bethlehem
Linden Hall
Lititz
Linden Hall Alumnae Association
General Sutter
Linden Hall Glee Club
Hostetter
Eden
Masons To Conduct Service At Manheim Lodge
Masons at Manheim Lodge No 587 will conduct services at the Masonic Homes in Elizabethtown on Sunday afternoon at 2 80 day light time. Members residing in Lititz are reminded of the services and asked to note the time.
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Manheim Lodge
Elizabethtown
Lititz
Lititz Secures State Aid for Poor Food Purchases
At a Lititz meeting of the Community Chest and local merchants, plans were laid to buy food for the borough’s poor using state funds from the Talbot Bill. Lancaster County’s share is 113000, to be managed by the County Poor Board, with Chest funds reserved for nonfood items and a card system to track purchases.
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Lititz
County Poor Board
Tititz Community Chest
Lancaster
Talbot Bultor
85 Mothers and Daughters Attend U. B. Church Banquet
The United Brethren Church held a Mothers and Daughters Banquet in the lower Sunday School room with 85 attendees. The oldest mother was Mrs. Susan Hornberger, 76, and the youngest daughter present was Joyce Renn, 2. The Otterbein Guild arranged the program and served a ham meal with beans, potatoes, salad, and desserts.
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United Brethren Church
Susan Hornberger
Joyce Renn
Otterbein Guild
Young People’s Missionary Society
Foust
Irene Whitcraft
Helen Steffy
Katie Ditzler
Mom
Virginia Bowman
The
Jug Band
Guild
J. C. A. Light
Grace
Helen Hershey
Mary
Sturgis
Chester Ruth
Lititz May Day Pageant Draws Big Crowd
Lititz schools present the annual May Day Fete in Springs Park with more than 800 pupils taking part in songs dances and Colonial era costumes. The 3 pm program traces village preparations for the May Queen and a gypsy band performs with the Queen’s Court. Features include a Colonial minuet Indian songs Yankee Doodle and God Save the King with two grades performing. One mysterious unannounced finale remains a surprise for the audience.
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Lititz
Springs Park
America
Chester
14 To Sail Into Life's School At Rothsville Class Day Tonight
The Rothsville High School graduating class will hold its Class Day exercises tonight in the high school auditorium. The ship’s band will play sea songs while graduates parade for final inspection. Captain Roy Stauffer will welcome all aboard for a cruise into life. The ship's historian Llyrya Knox will present past events in brief.
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Rothsville
Rothsville High School
Roy Stauffer
School of Life
Llyrya Knox
Annual Poppy Sale Opens Here Tomorrow Morning
The Women’s Auxiliary of Garden Spot Post 56 American Legion launches its annual poppy sale tomorrow morning and it will run until all poppies are sold. Proceeds aid disabled veterans and Legion welfare projects, with Isabel M. Meany urging maximum effort to sell out. Local Auxiliary members will operate on the streets seeking public support.
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Women’s Auxiliary
Garden Spot
American Legion
Legion
Isabel Tl. Meany
State Department of the Auxiliary
Bigger Better Horse Show Planned At Linden Hall
May Day at Linden Hall features the annual horse show and May Day Fete inspired by Harrie's Peter Pan. A larger crowd is expected as a jumping class for men riders is added, boosting Main Line level thrills. Student participation rises, rehearsals for the fete proceed, and the May Queen remains a surprise until the fete opens.
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Linden Hall
Harrie
Witmyer Elected Traffic Club Officer at Banquet
Kenneth E. Witmyer of the Animal Trap Company was elected vice president of the Traffic Club of the Lancaster Manufacturers Association at the seventh annual banquet held at the General Sutter Hotel Monday night. 165 guests attended. Officers named include E. G. Seidle as president and H. H. Spinner as secretary treasurer. Speakers included Burgess Breneman Mayor Metzger Congressman Heine Schultz and A. Hopkins.
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Kenneth E. Witmyer
Animal Trap Company
Traffic Club
Lancaster Manufacturers Association
General Sutter Hotel
E. G. Siedie
H. H. Spinner
Burgess Breneman
Town
Metzger
Lancaster
Seidle
Heiné Schultz
Hoboken
N. J
A. Hopkins
Philadelphia
Rev Mumper Improves as Illness Keeps Pulpit Empty
Rev J Harold Mumper pastor of St Pauls Lutheran Church is improving slowly after two weeks of illness at home. He has canceled speaking engagements and supply pastors will fill the pulpit this Sunday. Last Sunday Rev John G Hershey preached morning and M L Potsher student at Gettysburg Theological Seminary preached evening.
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J. Harold Mumper
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Mumper
St. Paul’s Church
John G. Hershey
M. L. Pothser
Getysburg Theological Seminary
Lititz Rotary selects officers. local events highlighted
At the Lititz Rotary Club meeting officers were elected: President Dr. F. W. Stengel Vice President Henry B. Gibbel Secretary Frank H. Longenecker and Treasurer Paul H. Bomberger Also reports on forestry talks Ushers' Association Moravian Church Men’s Rally Day and local church activities plus a divorce ruling for Selina G. Eshleman.
Borough approves water works extension contracts to local labor
Town Council awarded contracts totaling May 28 for a water works extension including a standpipe, booster station and 10 inch pipe line. Chicago Bridge and Iron Works won item 1 at 5860 dollars, M and J B McNugh won items 2 3 at 5379 dollars, and items 4 5 for mechanical electrical work and piping went to McNugh at 12390 dollars. Local labor to be used where possible. Completion within 100 working days.
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W. H. Dechant & Sons
Reading
West Third Avenue
Spruce Streets
Chicago Bridge and Tron
Linden and
Marion Streets
M. and
J. B. McNugh
Philadelphia
Borough Council
Rocal
Cotton Blossom Singers to Give Program Tonight
This evening at eight oclock the Cotton Blossom Singers of the Piney Woods Christian Life School Mississippi will present a musical program featuring Negro Spirituals and Plantation Melodies at the United Brethren Church. A silver offering will be taken.
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Cotton Blossom Singers
Piney Woods Christian Life School
Mississippi
United Brethren Church
Moravian Home Association elects officers and reelects board
The Moravian Home Association held its 24th annual meeting with 43 attendees in the Home parlor. Miss Sophie Bricker, president, delivered the devotional and annual address. Officers and auditors were reelected, and a program of solos and readings followed with sugar cake and coffee served during the social hour.
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Moravian Home Association
Sophie Bricker
L. A. Wengel
Robert Russell
P. K. Snyder
G. D. Bitzer
Salinda Hess
Magdalena Bricker
Mary Huehener
Paul Longenecker
Cleo Himmelberger
John Brubaker
Pegey Snyder
Esther Miksch
Irene Keener
Dorothy Evans
Irene Burkey
Garden Spot Post Plans Memorial Day Observance
Preliminary plans for Memorial Day observances by Garden Spot Post 56 American Legion include cemetery visits, a local parade, and graves decorations at Moravian Cemetery with Colonel Daniel B. Strickler to speak. The main service will be Sunday at the High School auditorium with Rev. J. C. H. Light delivering the address. Music by his church choir. Monday morning the Legion will visit nearby cemeteries and a parade of war veterans and students forms at 5 PM.
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Garden Spot Post
American Legion
Daniel B. Strickler
J. CO. H. Light
United Brethren Church
Legion
Girl Bitten By Dog on Spruce Street
Esther Zartman daughter of Chas Zartman was bitten by a dog on Spruce Street last evening tearing flesh on her hip and she was treated by a physician. Tax collector T Stevens Grosh will sit at Wagner's Store May 20 Warwick House May 21 Five Points Store May 27 and Park View Hotel May 28 to receive county and personal tax with a 5 percent discount.
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Esther Zartman
Chas. Zartman
Spruce Street
T. Stevens Grosh
Wagner's
Warwick House
Five Points
Park View
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Horace L. Eschbach
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Cedar Crest
Millersville State
New Holland
Terman Johannsen
Herman Johannsen
I. J. Kline
Evangelical Congregational Church
Annville
Kathryn Furlow
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Sadie Enck
New Street
Central Moravian Church
Women’s Missionary Society of the
Judge Keller
Millersville State Teachers’ College
James B. Dussinger
Percy B. Furlow
Conference of the
Lutheran Church
J. K. Mathers
Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church
Ashland
S. H. Gapp
D.D
Adolph Danneberger
Nicaragua
C. A
Daniel Light
Moravian Home Board
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