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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1936
Page
1
The Lititz Community Show opens next Thursday to Saturday with a larger midway, enhanced entertainment and superior exhibits. Officials promise record entries and prize displays, culminating harvest home celebrations across the county and surpassing earlier years.
Lititz High hosts its first home game on the new athletic field this Saturday against Lebanon High School Reserves. Coach Williamson has developed a small, inexperienced squad through three games, aiming for a solid afternoon contest against the remaining four opponents. The team previously showed progress by tying Elizabethtown High 6 to 6 at Elizabethown last Saturday.
Mrs Priscilla Fox a Lebanon speaker and active Republican worker headlines the final Lititz Republican Club meeting before the election at Malta Hall Tonight President Victor Wagner to preside Women voters invited and the second ladies sponsored meeting since the club formed
The Lititz Golf Tournament concludes with a dinner Saturday evening at the General Sutter Hotel. Trophy honors go to medal scorer Guy Reidenbaugh and the three flight winners Dr. C. A. Landis Rev. Byron K. Horne and E. J. Nugent will be recognized.
Local ad offers meat delivery from Hamburg price listing 18 cents per pound. Customers urged to phone orders to 9181W LUTZ for home delivery service.
The Lancaster County historical society unveiled a memorial tablet to Count Zinzendorf at a Lititz area farmhouse north of town. German officials praised the Moravian leader as 800 attendees heard speakers note his missionary work and role in founding Bethlehem Nazareth and Lititz. Mary Jane Hershey unveiled the tablet, with Arno Mowitz and Dr. J. von Ranta among speakers.
Landon-Knox rally scheduled for Rothsville next Tuesday night October 20 on the lot beside the High School. If bad weather, gathering moves to the school auditorium. Principal speakers include William Noll Jacob Hill Byrne and Wm Allenstein from York. Representative Harry E Trout and H Frank Eshleman spoke at Grenierville rally Thursday. Continued on Page 4.
Lititz Boy Scout troop will canvass the Borough Saturday to gather old papers and rags. Proceeds fund camping equipment and troop purposes. Scouts assisted at the Zinzendorf tablet unveiling and horse shows and will aid at the Community Show next weekend.
Homer Rodeheaver, noted song evangelist, will appear at Trinity Evangelical Congregational church Monday evening November 9 to present a program of music. The committee in charge is preparing to handle a large crowd.
A special meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of Lititz Fire Co will be held in the Fire House on Monday evening. All members are urged to attend.
Dr. M. H. Yoder of Lititz Health and School Boards told the PTA audience that preventive measures could cut illness by 25 percent. He urged public education that disease can be prevented and stressed physician support depends on citizen involvement.
Walter Hallowell of Darmstadters Lancaster presented color motion pictures to the Lititz Rotary Club in the General Sutter Hotel on Tuesday. The photos were taken by Hallowell during trips last summer.
Roy S. Reidenbaugh has purchased the 9 S Broad St property from Walter H Buch executors via Farmer s National Bank with possession set for November 7. He will convert the first floor into a modern electrical salesroom and shop, altering the show window and entrance while the RECORD remains on the second floor.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Weitzel of Stevens announce a son born early Monday at Lancaster General Hospital. Mr. Weitzel works at Wolf Garage. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Becker of N Cedar St announce a son Marcus Eugene born Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Keller of town announce a son born Sunday at Lancaster General Hospital.
About 35 members attended a smoker in the League rooms on Thursday night. A business meeting followed discussing repainting the front porch and furnace repairs. Plans include another smoker on Election night to hear returns and a Ladies' Night next month.
The Lititz Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday evening in the Keath Planing Mill Co rooms. New officers will preside and all business men in town are urged to attend and participate in the work.
Former Bandon city manager John Fasnacht describes fleeing a forest fire that swept his town on September 26. He details watching Bear Creek flare up, helping evacuate families, and returning to gather tools to battle the approaching blaze.
About 150 to 200 delegates from Evangelical Congregational Churches of the East Penna and Ohio Conferences come to Trinity E C Church for a three day Sunday School and Christian Endeavor Convention. Sessions run Monday through Wednesday with talks by denomination leaders and guests. Meals are provided by the Ladies' Bible Class and decorations are organized for the event.
SNOOPS Merv Balmer, milk salesman for Log Cabin Farms, reports pheasants so numerous he must send someone ahead of his truck each morning to chase them from the farm lane. The old and new mix as an unveiling near Her shey farm north ofown draws attendees and circling planes from Lancaster Airport.
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