Prize List For Baby Parade Grows For 1935 Show
Plans for the 1935 Community Show were advanced at the Show Association meeting in the Fire Hall. Wm G Eshleman outlined parade details and a new prize for best decorated doll and coach. All entrants receive a merchandise prize. winners get cash and additional awards. Lititz Cadet Band to play at the baby parade and opening mummers parade. Ivan Lorg to handle lighting for $112 bid.
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Show Association
Fire House
Elmer B. Bock
Wm. G. Eshleman
Lititz Cadet Band
Ivan Lorg
New Mill To Open Soon At Lititz Silk Co
Remodeling of the former Kiddy shoe plant on the alley West of North Broad Street into a silk mill was completed Monday. The Lititz Silk Co plans to operate the plant, moving in machinery and aiming to begin work in about two weeks. Local workers from other silk mills seek jobs at the new facility.
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Kiddy
North Broad Street
The
Lititz Silk Co
Local Alumni Dance At General Sutter Hotel
Millersville State Teachers College alumni host a dance tomorrow night at the General Sutter Hotel starting at 9 pm. Proceeds benefit the College Student Loan Fund. Tickets cost 1.00 per couple, sold by Irene Keener Betty Martin Margaret Kosoth Wilmer Luckenbaugh or Fordyochenaur.
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Millersville State Teachers College
General Sutter
Irene Keener
Betty Martin
Margaret Kosoth
Wilmer Luckenbaugh
Ford Yochenaur
Saturday Columbus Day Observance Noted for Banks
Saturday will observe Columbus Day with local banks closed in honor of the holiday. The notice urges customers to plan transactions accordingly and mentions federal closures may apply.
Lititz Faces Elizabethtown in pivotal home game
Lititz High School football returns home to host Elizabethtown High as the Berks Lancaster Conference leaders visit. Lititz seeks its first league win after a 12 to 0 defeat at Shillington, hoping to rebound from early miscues and improve under Coach Clyde Arbegast ahead of the key clash.
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Lititz High School
Elizabethtown High
Berks-Lancaster
Lititz High
Shillington
Stevens
Elizabethtown
Berks
Clyde Arbegast
Local Legion To Present Program At Coatesville
Local Garden Spot Post 56 American Legion will present entertainment for patients at Coatesville Veterans Hospital Sunday afternoon. Legionnaires will travel by machine leaving the high school at 1 PM with the high school band to perform at the hospital. Post members ex servicemen and friends are invited to join the trip. One member notes the visit shows war’s human cost and may inspire residents to work to prevent another conflict.
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Garden Spot Post
American Legion
Coatesville Veterans Hospital
Legionnaires
Lititz
New Holland and Millersville Farm Show Highlights
Town residents attended the New Holland and Millersville Farm Shows with Paul and Norman Badorf entering horses. Paul’s blue ribbon winner led in hunter class and placed high in touch and out as Norman’s horse earned a fourth in hunter. Cold weather reduced attendance as World Series fever ran through town with radios on display. A rural Chevrolet dealer traded many items for vehicles and goods in a barter style sale. Nurseries forecast a strong year with chicken pox risk and disease cautions for families. Ephrata’s WPA funding request for a $110000 school addition was denied by Washington, citing existing Lancaster County school funds.
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New Holland
Millersville
Paul
Norman Badorf
Norman
Linden Offices Move to Modern Second Floor
The Linden Underwear Company relocated offices to newly remodeled space on the second floor of their North Broad Street mill. The new area is described as among the most modern in town.
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Linden Underwear Company
North Broad Street
Two Local Homes to Be Sold in Saturday Public Sale
Two Saturday public sales will offer local properties. Harry I. Buechter will sell his home at 30 New Street at 2 o clock and Walter Buch will sell his home at 152 South Broad Street at 8 o clock. Both sales on the premises.
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Harry I. Buechter
New Street
Walter Buch
South Broad Street
Government Bids For Post Office Lease Here
The Post Office Department seeks bids for a short term lease on local post office quarters. The current lease expires soon and the new lease is temporary pending a Federal building in Lititz. Interested parties may inquire at the local Post Office to secure proposals. Receipt of proposals closes November 5.
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Post Office Department
Robert E. Pfautz
Lititz
Local moves and visits noted at Linden and area
Rufus R. Graybill moves his Dodge and Plymouth agency into the former Wolf Garage area on North Locust Street joining Harry Zimmerman. Several local residents and visitors are listed, including G F and Mrs Jones of Indiana Pa and families from Wood-Ridge New Jersey and Altoona, with various visits to Linden Hall and General Sutter Hotel.
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Rufus R. Graybill
Dodge and Plymouth
N.cedar St
Lincoln Ave
Harry Zimmerman
Wolf
North Locust Street
G. F. Jones
Indiana
Linden Hall
H. G. Grosh
Wood-Ridge
N. J
General Sutter
Agnes Wolfe
Carrie Reinke
Esther Wolfe
Harold DeForrest
N. Cedar
Vermont Miley
E. Main Street
Harry Rudy
Town
Clarence Mellinger
Akron
Rudy
C. M. Basford
Annapolis, Md
Radio Broadcast Presented To Rotary Club In Lititz
A Rotary Club meeting in Lititz featured a radio broadcast style program at the General Sutter Hotel sponsored by T. T. Dussinger. Performers included the Gem Trio Dorothy Hornberger Jean Eberley Marylyn Gangner Joseph W. Sheckard Jane Dustinger and they sang Three Blind Mice. Also a local advert listed meats from Lutz Main Street Store with delivery service.
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Lititz
Brunnerville School Plan Approved by Warwick Two Board
The Warwick Two School Board won WPA funding approval for a new Brunnerville grade school designed by H Y Shaub of Lancaster. Construction must start before December 15 with a $16,300 government grant covering 45 percent of costs, as two rural schools will close and transfer pupils to Brunnerville for grades 1 through 8. The district plans to buy adjacent land for a playground near the Rothsville building.
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Brunnerville
Warwick Two School
Washington
H. Y. Shaub
Lancaster
Brounnerville
Lititz
Clay
Buch’s
Lexington
Bronnerville
Warwick Board
Rothsville
Cake slump ends as Mrs Mohler serves hot cakes
SNOOPS notes Mrs John Mohler burned out on baking but treated her family to hot cakes for supper. Her son Donald praised the cakes asking for cold cakes again. Also in town aviation chatter about a stunting plane linked to a possible sweetheart pilot. An East Main Street porch was painted by candlelight with a cat strolling the fresh finish. Lebanon explosion belated story referenced.
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John Mohler
Donald
Snoops
Lancaster
East Main Street
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Lititz High Grid
Coatesville
Tee
Chevrolet
WPA
Ephrata
Lancaster County
Linden
Randolph Bricker
Mrs
D. P. Bricker
Harry Lehman
Joan
Pasadena
Calif
Isaac Lehman
M. G. Shaeffer
W. M. Grube
Tullock
Altoona
Harlan Hoffman
B. F. Lindenmuth
Bristol R. 1
General Sutter Hotel
Rotary Club
Hamburg
Lutz’ Main St
Lebanon
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