Funeral services for Frank C Dengate held in Lititz
Funeral services for Frank C Dengate vice president treasurer and general manager of the Animal Trap Company of America were held in St James Church Lititz with hundreds attending. Dengate born 1883 Elyria Ohio joined Oneida Community 1900s came to Lititz in 1914 married Mary McMahon Niagara Falls sent for burial Riverdale cemetery. Survived by wife four children mother and several siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank C. Denate
Animal Trappany of America
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lancaster
St. James Church
Front Street
Dengate
Lititz
Father Murray
Father Ebener
Philadelphia
Father Riley
Niaga Falls
M. H. Yoder
Warry Bender
D. M. Graybill
J. T. Breitigan
Almer Eby
W.K H. Muth
C. M. Woolworth
Fourth Degree
Knights of Columbus
William Klunck
Willian Faillip
George Grunenberger
SL. James
Holy Name Scvitty
Martin Iker
Harry McCleary
Norman C. Carr
Animal Trap Company
Niagara Falls
My. Dengate
Third Street
St. Mary’s Church
Riverdale
Mr. Dengate
Elyria
Ohio
Oneida
Mary C. McMahon
St. James Catholic Church
Holy Name Society
Santa Maria General Assembly
B. P
Elks of
Utica
N. Y
Mary Josephine
Frank C., Jr
Margraret Ann
William Michael
Mary Bengate
Frank C. Ryan
William Dengate
Leon
Pontiac
Michigan
Archibald
Neffsville Woman Injured in Crash Arrests Following Collision
A Lancaster man, Bair Sl. Sheaffer of R D 8 Lancaster, was charged with reckless driving after a Saturday night automobile crash at 10 30 at North Charlotte and West Orange Streets Lancaster. Miss El mira Riner Neffsville and Armand Pagquin 22 E H Andrew Street Lancaster suffered head and leg injuries and were treated at St Josephs hospital and discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bair Sl. Sheaffer
Lancaster
R. D
North Charlotte
West Orange Streets
Elmira Riner
Neffsville
Sheaffer
Armand Pagquin
Surprise Shower for Mrs. Ira Esbenshade in New Holland
St Pauls Lutheran Sunday School class from Lititz and Akron members surprised former member Miss Esther Hull now Mrs. Ira Esbenshade in New Holland Tuesday evening. They presented a table. attendees included N G Bachman and wife, Urban Hull and wife, Chas Weaver and wife, Anna Dussinger, Edna Diehm, Emma Hartranft, Ella Brubaker, Mae Keller, plus Mrs Ed Hess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. G. Bachman
St. Paul’s Lutheran Sunday School
New Holland
Ira Esbenshade
Esther Hull
Esbenshade
N. G. Bachman
Urban Hull
Chas. Weaver
Anna Dussinger
Edna Diehm
Emma Hartranft
Ella Brubaker
Mae Keller
Lititz
Ed. Hess
Akron
Pantry sale hosted by St. Pauls Ladies Aid Society
The Ladies Aid Society of St. Pauls Lutheran Church will hold a pantry sale in the basement on Saturday featuring pies cakes custards crullers soup and potato chips. Victor Wagner buys the Madison Dietrich general store and dwelling and will take possession around April 1. Dietrich will take over a recently purchased farm. Reverend H J Kline preaches at his former Royersford charge in the Evangelical Church. Lemon Neidermyer aids moves for his daughter Mrs Martin Bixler in Millersburg and Miss Mother Neidermyer of Philadelphia assists. Clement Hoppes 80-year-old Philadelphia relative visits Lititz to see Mrs Martha Hepp of the Moravian Church. Reverend Nathan Martin of Lebanon plans evangelical services in the Church of the Brethren starting November 3. Grandson David T Grosh of Kansas City Mo dies of scarlet fever aged years. burial at Burlington. Mrs Mary Rode has entered the Moravian Slome permanent set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Victor Wagner
Madison Dietrich
E. Main Street
Dietrich
H. J. Kline
Evangelical Church
Royersford
Lemon Neidermyer
Millersburg
Martin Bixler
Mother Neidermyer
Philadelphia
Clement Hoopes
Litisz
Martha Hepp
Hoppes
Rickert & Hepp’s Academy
Nathan Martin
Lebanon
Church of the Brethren
Myr
J. L. Grosh
Street
David T. Grosh
David EK. Grosh
Kansas City
Burlington
Town
Mary Rode
Potato Grading Demonstrations At County Meetings
Thirty farmers attended potato grading demonstrations conducted to U S Government standards with discussions of improved marketing methods. County Agent F S Bucher J B R Dickey and Henry R Reist from State College led two farm meetings at Mt Joy and Rohrerstown on Saturday. Similar meetings were held Friday at Lititz New Holland Morgantown on listed farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
F.S. Bucher
J. B. R. Dickey
Ienry R. Reist
State College
J. Marl Martin
Mt. Joy
Levi Brubaker
Rohrerstown
J. C. Brubaker
Lititz
Amos Eberly
New Holland
Jacot Mast
Morgantown
Ills and Fractures Reported in Lancaster Area
Among the sick and injured, two year old Fern Miller of E Front Street fractured her right arm. The infant child of Milton Cassel is recovering from infantile paralysis. Anna Beck was seriously ill and moved to Lancaster General Hospital. Trackman, an elderly Zion Home guest, was also moved to Lancaster General. An eleven year old Monroe Miller underwent appendicitis surgery at the Lancaster General Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fern
Lester Miller
Front Street
Milton Cassel
Anna Beck
Lancaster General Hospital
Trackman
Zion Home
Monroe Miller
Entertains Guests At Dinner And Bridge In Lititz
Miss Dorothy Habecker entertained guests at dinner and bridge on Tuesday evening at her Hast Main St home in Lititz. Honored guests included Mr and Mrs Kenneth Miller of Cape May New Jersey plus numerous local residents and visitors such as Mr and Mrs John Bachman Miss Elizabeth Meminger Mr and Mrs John Lippold Charles Ibess Miss Emma Hess Joseph B Cameron and Mr and Mrs Frank Tongenecker Mr and Mrs James R Johnson and Mr and Mrs Edward Fabweiler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Habecker
Kenneth Miller
Cape May
N. J
Main St
Miller
John Bachman
Elizabeth, Meminger
Lancaster
John Lippold
Lime Valley
Charles Ibess
Emma Hess
Tiessdale
Joseph B. Cameron
Pittsburgh
Frank Tf. Tongenecker
James R. Johnson
Edward D. Fabweiler
Lititz
Hen Buch 94 Still Works As Painter At Lincoln
Henry Buch aged 94 remains in good health and active in his trade painting chairs and automobiles. He reports strong appetite and sight with minor hearing loss. Eye examinations and glasses offered by Horton Optician of Lincoln with hours 9 am to 8 pm and after supper visits welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Buch
Horton
Optician
Lincoln
Obituary Ella G Noll
Ella G Noll 59 widow of Harry D Noll died Monday in St Josephs Hospital Reading after a serious operation. She lived in Lititz much of the time and had many friends here. She belonged to St Pauls Lutheran Church and St Bernard Temple Ladies of the Golden Eagle Reading. Survived by two children Anna wife of W Raymond Commodore and Harry J Noll two sisters a brother and three grandchildren. Funeral this afternoon at Evangelical Church Womelsdorf with interment in the cemetery there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella G. Noll
Harry D. Noll
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Reading
Noll
Lititz
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
St. Bernard Temple
Ladies of the Golden Eagle
Anna
W. Raymond Commodore
S. Cedar Street
Harry J. Noll
Philadelphia
Evangelical Church
Womelsdorf
Mrs Mary Jane Kauffman dies at 82 in Millersville
Mrs Mary Jane Kauffman eighty two widow of Christian S Kauffman died Thursday morning at her Millersville home of age infirmities. Born at Donegal Springs she was daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Bucher Baker and lived in Millersville since childhood. Survivor include son John B Kauffman daughter Alice B two grandchildren J Earl and Alice H Kauffman and sister Annie M Davis. Funeral at home Monday 10:30 burial in Millersville Mennonite cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jane Kauffman
Christian S. Kauffman
Millersville
Donegal Springs
Jacob and
Elizabeth Bucher Baker
Bethany Lutheran Church
John. B. Kauffman
Alice B
J. Earl
Alice H., Kauffman
Annie M. Davis
Lititz
Millersville Mennonite
Unusual inlaid sideboard at public sale
The administrator A. M. Shissler will auction a hand made inlaid sideboard once owned by the late R. Carpenter famed wood worker. The piece contains more than 10 000 decorative wood pieces and took long to construct. Sale is this Saturday at 131 N. Cedar Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. §. Carpenter
A. M. Shissler
Cedar Street
Young People’s Council to Present The Patsy
The Patsy, a three act comedy once staged in New York and Philadelphia, will be presented Tuesday evening in the High School Auditorium by District No. 9’s Young People’s Council after two months of preparation. Produced by arrangement with Samuel French, it offers a departure from local fare and promises an entertaining evening. Tickets are available from council members and reserved-seat charts open at Moyer’s Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Philadelphia
Young People’s Council of District
No. 9
Samuel French
Moyer’s Drug Store
Fire Co Card Party Kicks Off Season in Lititz
The Lititz Fire Company invites all residents to tonight’s card party at 8 in the fire hall. Door prizes total fifteen dollars in gold with other valuable prizes in pinochle and 500. Parties recur monthly through the winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz Fire Company
Lititz Mill Fire Extinguished by Owner John Brubaker
John Brubaker, owner of Lititz Springs Hosiery Mills on Spruce Street, quickly put out a cellar fire Thursday night before the Lititz Fire Co. arrived. Firemen found no further action needed as the blaze was already under control. Origin of the fire remains undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brubaker
Lititz Springs
Spruce St
Lititz Fire Co
League Smoker Tomorrow With Business Meeting
The Young Men's Business League hosts a smoker and business meeting in League rooms tomorrow night. Lunch starts at 6 o'clock and the meeting at eight. All members are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Business League
Dr Charles A Landis Jr Opens Gettysburg Dental Office
Dr Charles A Landis Jr of Gettysburg opens his dental offices in the Fahnestock Building at 56 East Main Street today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Landis, Jr
Gettysburg
Fahnestock Building
East Main Street
Annual UB Women Dining Event Highlights Aid Society
The United Brethren Church Ladies' Aid Society held its fourth annual banquet in the church basement with a menu of chicken waffles mashed potatoes pepper cabbage rolls fruit salad coffee and mints. The program featured songs prayers welcome remarks and stunts including a rejuvenation machine act and comic pieces by Esther McCreary and Beatrice Kemper in negro costume. Officers and members listed. Separately the Moravian Church Women’s Missionary Society met to study Nicaragua with readings and plans for a missionary lovefeast on November 3 plus charitable gifts and a next meeting at the parsonage. St. Paul’s Lutheran Choir will sing at a Radiant Cross event in York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Society of the United Brethren Church
J. C. H. Light
Elmer Ehrhart
Harry McCreary
Esther McCreary
Beatrice Kemper
Church Ladies’ Aid Society
J. ©. L. Light
Frank Spickler
Susie Smith
Roy Myers
Laura Bhen
N. D. Sturgis
Helen Sturgis
Harry Showers
James Seather
Erla Steffy
Wm. B. Stauffer
Ellis Spickler
Ruth Spickler
A. Shissler
Mae Shissler
Mildred Thorp
Elmer Waughter
Cbr. Wertsch
Ethel Wike
C. Whitmyer
Ben. Weir
Emma Will
Wm. Wood
Frank Ford
Messrs
James Leaher
Ben Weir
Rh. Wertsch
Diller GrossWedding in New York City Chapel
Mary Thelma Gross and Alonzo Potter Diller were married Thursday at 10 30 AM in the chapel of St Saviour at the cathedral of St John the Divine New York City. A wedding breakfast followed at Hotel Pennsylvania with families in attendance. They will reside at 501 East Main Street after a motoring honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Gross
E. Mainstreet
Mary Thelma Gross
Alonzo Potter Diller
William F. Diller
Cottage Avenue
Lancaster
St. Saviour
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
New York City
Hotel Pennsylvania
E. Main Street
Hershey Held for Court In Death of A G Pfautz
Jacob R Hershey of Manheim was held for court in $500 bail on involuntary manslaughter charges after an October 6 auto crash on the Lititz pike near Brethren Home Neffs ville that killed 79 year old Abram G Pfautz. Witnesses said Hershey drove about 45 mph and swerved left. he claims he swerved to avoid a trolley whistle and feared being near the track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob R. Hershey
Manheim RB. D. 2
Abram G. Pfautz
Lititz Pike
Neffsville
John F. Burkhart
Hershey
Linden Hall Elects Senior Class Officers and Hockey Result
Marguerite Bard of Lititz was elected Senior Class President Dorothy Miller of Lock Haven Vice President Kathryn McKinley of Pittsburgh Secretary Jemima Grammes of Bethlehem Trens and Anna Shaw of Philadelphia a faculty member serve as class advisor The Literary Society opened term with a Canterbury Tales sketch Dean A G Rau Moravian College spoke at vesper services and performed on the new organ Shippen School beat Linden Hall 3 to 2 in a hockey match played here on Monday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Bard
Lititz
Dorothy Miller
Lock Haven
Kathryn McKinley
Pittsburgh
Jemima Grammes
Bethlehem, Trens
Anna Shaw
Philadelphia
Literary Society
A. G. Rau
Moravian College and Theological Seminary
Bethlehem
Linden Hall
Shippen School
Dr Roy Deck to Speak in Armistice Program
Garden Spot Post 56 American Legion lines up a union Armistice Day program for Sunday night November 10 at the High School Auditorium. Dr Roy Deck of Lancaster, an WWI veteran, will speak with music by the Harmony Trumpeteers of Philadelphia and the Lititz Male Chorus. The Legion meets November 7 with Deputy District Commander Hugh E Hisman to install new officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American | Legion
Lititz
Roy Deck
Lancaster
Harmony Trumpeteers
Philadelphia
Legion
Hugh Ehisman
W C T U Discusses Election at Quiet Meeting
The women’s Christian temperance group met on Monday evening to discuss the upcoming election. Mrs W K Lockhart consented to lead the S T L and children may meet in the Moravian Sunday School Chapel. No rummage sale date was fixed. Several members led devotions and readings. The president, away at Warren for the State Convention, witnessed the burning of the mortgage on the union’s Harrisburg headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. K. Lockhart
Ella Smeltzer
Mary Miksch
Raymond Dobbs
M. C. Demmy
Morvis Kauffman
Elizabeth Hepp
M. S. Hess
Warren
The
Union
Harrisburg
Candlesticks Presented to St. Pauls Lutheran Church
W. M. Amer and his family donated a pair of brass candlesticks to St. Pauls Lutheran Church during Sunday morning services. The gift adds decorative lighting to the sanctuary and honors the church community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Amer
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Numerous visits and travels among Lititz residents
C E Mohler and family of Topton visited Rev George Braezer at the Reformed parsonage. Ruth Weichsel spent the weekend with her sister in Baltimore. Various families including Russel, Bueh, Weitzel, Pyle, Yerger, Furlow, Dengate, Couch, Stoner, Engle, Hepp, McMahon, Sammel, Hackman, George, McCleary, Roth, Kline, Marble, Zimmerman, Brumbaugh, and others were noted for weekend visits, dinners, motor trips, and social gatherings in Lititz and nearby towns such as York Gettysburg Mont Alto Mechanicsburg and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Mohler
Topton
George Braezer
Reformed Parsonage
Ruth Weichsel
E. §. Mathers
Baltimore
Robert Russel
Libbie Bueh
L. A. Weitzel
York
Gettysburg
Mont Alto
Sara Pyle
Harrisburg
Horace Yerger
Drexel Hill
Philadelphia
Mr .Yerger
Percy Furlow
Charles
Dones
Ephrata
Charles Taylor
H. C. Couch
L. L. Lively
Mabel Hackman
Mary Gingrich
Warren George
Childdren
Sylvia
Paul
Schuylkill Haven
Lititz
William J. McCleary
New Brunswick
N. J
Dengate
Clara Roth
Mechanicsburg
Brooks
Newark
Avon Kofroth
F. H. Stuckley
Frank Wourk
Bethlehem
H. J. Kline
Claude Miller
S. Broad Street
Henry B. Gibbel
McKee Weaver
J. F. Longenecker
Tribute to Dengate at Rotary luncheon speech
N. G. Bachman spoke on Life Insurance at Tuesday Rotary lunch. Tributes to late member E. C. Dengate were paid by Rev. E. S. Crosland Dr. M. H. Yoder and James H. Breitigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary
N. G. Bachman
E. C. Dengate
E. S. Crosland
M. H. Yoder
James H. Breitigan
Moravian Church Choir Presents Sunday Evening Musical
A Moravian Church choir directed by Victor Wagner will perform a Sunday evening program preceded by a fifteen minute organ recital. Mrs. Kenneth Witmyer will play Borowski First Sonata and Friml Chanson. Choir numbers include Gloria B flat Mass by Farmer Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord Souls of the Righteous Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled and Praise the Lord. Congregation members and friends are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moravian Church
Victor Wagner
Kenneth Witmyer
Borowski
Ch’anson
Friml
Randegger
Weather Prophet Foresees Changeable Winter Forecast
J W Neff of York County, long known for winter forecasts, predicts a mild open winter with changeable spell patterns starting after St Michael's Day. He foresees bouts of cold, then warm, noting scarce hickory nuts and acorns signal an open winter. Ground will thaw and refreeze, bringing mud. winter not here yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Neff
Relay
York County
St. Michael’s
Lititz School Buys Ground For New Building Site
Lititz School System purchased Miller's Row houses and a property on Orange Street for 5000 dollars to clear the site for a new building as pupil enrollment has grown. The district plans to raze the homes after transfer and later acquire adjacent land to provide space for a larger school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz
Orange Street
Literary Digest
American
National Geographic
Popular Mechanics
Pathfinder
Review of Reviews
Atlantic Monthly
Gregg Writer
Popular Science
Science Classroom
Scientific American
Science News Letter
McCall’s
Ladies’ Home Journal
Needlecraft
Good Housekeeping
le Petit Journal
Classical Journal
Bookman
Century
Harper’s
Forum
Magazine World
Outlook
Walpole
Maugham
Spoon River
Masters
Mabel Major
Rebecca W. Smith
Barrie
I. J. Harvey Darton
Sewell Stokes
Thorndike
T. Hill
T. S. Roy
W. W. BR. Ball
D. J. Smith
H. &. Dudenay
R. M. Weeks
E. H. Koch
R. B. Dale
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frank C. Dengate
Young People’s Council
Fire Co
Woman’s Missionary Society of the
Nicaragua
F. 8
Crosland
A. Virginia Grosh
C. E. Beckler
B. Nethercott
Bluefields
L .A. Weitzel
M. ©. Demmy
John B. Kuhns
Shen Kiang
China Inland Mission
Ella Buch
Taylor van Vleck
M. CG. Demmy
Alaska Chapel
Rufus Bishop
Wasla
St. Paul's
Scott's Book Store
Ady
A. G. Pfautz
Scott’s Book Store
Adv
H. J. Heinz Company
Pfantz
Brothers
Lititz System
Miller’s Row
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