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Lititz Record

Location

Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

May 29, 1913

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Strawberries ripen as town looks to festival and taxes

The issue notes early strawberry harvest promising a bountiful crop and urges payment of state and county taxes for a five percent abatement. It also reports on local events including high school commencement, fishing trips, firemen’s strawberry festival preparations, a Panama Canal lecture, a large Memorial Day parade, and community notices about utilities, horses shipped, and park wildlife.

John F. Longenecker Hiram Mentzer Ephrata Julius Keller Thomas Adams Conestoga Creek Alice Wolfe Isaac Larah Warwick House John D. Bair Blue Ball Rolandus Shoemaker Warwick Rudy’s Hall Warwick High School Dan’l Fleisher Howard Studenroth D. G. Reinhold Lansdale Panama Canal United Evangelical Church Strasburg National Guards Beck Hershey United States Post Office Department Railway Patent Office Wilson Geibel Nick Ella Gibben

Lititz High School Holds Twenty Sixth Commencement

Lititz High School celebrated its 26th annual commencement at Linden Hall gymnasium with 600 to 700 attendees. Fourteen graduates, nine boys and five girls, led a varied program including student orations on aeronautics fiction, Livingstone, and the presidency, plus music by a student orchestra and several soloists.

Lititz Linden Hall Longenecker Ernest Baker Elam Hornley Landis Herr Roy Singer Ernest Sonders Howard Studenroth Herbert Weitzel Kenneth Witmyer Carl Workman Beatrice Brookmyer Ella Gibbel Ardell Kissinger Viola Leib Ruth Oechme Schubert P. T. Brocious P. E. Beck France James Glaisher United States Wright Bros Dayton Earnest Baker David Livingstone Livingstone University of Glasgow London Africa Jesus Launfal

Travel Scenes As Citizens Seek The Open Air

A parade of locals travels near and far for leisure and visits as spring turns to summer. Mrs Dreifus visits Orwigsburg. Dr Moyer stops in Robesonia. Habeckers and Marks near Columbia and Philadelphia. many relatives gather across Reading Ephrata Akron Lancaster Myerstown and York. Potatoes rise in price at Warwick and Warwick House as vendors report strong demand for farm produce. Memorial Day festival invites readers to stock up on cakes and goods.

Joseph Dreifus Orwigsburg Louis N. Moyer Robesonia David Habecker West Reading Katie Kreiter Coatesville J. &. Keene Reading Roy Hassler Bethlehem Wilson Schenenberger Galen Ephrata Mae Romig Akron Estella Buchter Frank Marks Harry Columbia Samuel Miller Warwick Risser Clay York Martin Bucher Jacob Risser Samuel Brubaker Jacob Snyder Viola Ellis William Bollinger Anetta Evans Edwin McCully Philadelphia McCully Guy Bomberger Pennsylvania Railroad Company Altoona David Bomberger Hallville Jos. H. Long Martha Mary Neal John F. Longenecker William Sharp Penryn Samuel Givler Manheim Thomas Marks E. K. Katcamp E. K. Fisher Brobst Robert Kling John Helter Cornwall W. D. Fichthorn Frank Badorf John Gable Allen Hacker Myerstown John Habecker Wm. H. Gormly Pittsburg Lititz Academy Springfield Indianapolis Ind Jackson Mich Niagara Falls Buffalo Banaer Warwick House Lehigh County

Borough Tax Levy To Remain The Same At Meeting

Borough council approved the present year tax levy of 2 mills for ordinary use and 4 mills for water, plus $1 per capita, with multiple street and sidewalk projects ordered. The meeting covered crossings on Raspberry alley, Pine alley, Center alley, Lemon street, and Willow street, culvert work, pole placement by Bell Telephone, and removal of encroachments beyond block lines. sejumlah vouchers were approved for electric light, concrete guttering, labor, hauling, and other municipal services.

Stevens G. A.R Kissel Hill Lutz Machpelah U. E P. T. Brocious Bell Telephone Exchange Bell Moyer’s Bear & Long’s Raymond Wetherhold J. Paul Enck Borough Council Burgess Steiner Leib Badorf Baum Miksch Neidermyer Sesseman Orange Street Masser Elm Street Kline Alley Cedar Street Lemon Street Spruce Street Pine Alley Willow Street Bell Telephone Co Main Street Badorf's Alley Cchief Center Alley Edigon Electric Light Co TDR Pescrete Cpt Penge Heit Landis D. Lehreinen G. Verger James Yoder Tolm R. Gibbel Harry F. Long Becker Lancaster B. F. Fralich & Go Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Cc Express W. H. Greek May Peter Keller Henry Stormfeltz Daniel Miller Henry Weaver Butt Mohn Brenner Frank McKinney Emanuel Reifsnyder Jacob O’ Neil Andrew Myers

Venerable Lady Charlotte Bachman Celebrates 94th Birthday

Ninety four year old Mrs Charlotte Bachman celebrates her ninety fourth birthday on May twenty ninth seventeen nineteen born. She is the oldest local resident and enjoys good health and sharp faculties. Living with daughter Mrs W K Bender at town’s eastern end she received many callers and congratulatory post cards.

Charlotte Bachman W. K. Bender

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Lititz High School America de Bennot Christopher Columbus Thomas A. Edison England John Huss Martin Luther Wittenburg Luthers Viela Leib Lowell
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