Lititz Springs Park Celebrates 12,000 Picnic Guests
Lititz Springs Park drew about 12,000 picnickers this season hosting 28 reunions and gatherings led by the Brubaker and Sweigart clans. The park, once dubbed a lushplatz, features Worldly arbors and historic sites including Augustus Beck's 1857 lion sculpture and Gottes Bruennlein inscription.
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Lititz Springs
Lititz Springs Park
Lushplatz
George Keehn
Brubaker
Sweigart Clan
Colemans
John Beck
Lititz Academy
Reading
Yocek
Augustus Beck
Wayne Doster Dies at 65 After Yearlong Illness
Wayne Doster, 65, died early this morning at his Centre Street home from complications after a yearlong illness. He was a longtime resident and member of the local community.
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Wayne Doster
Centre St
Funeral arrangements for longtime Amer Hardware employee
The obituary notes a longtime Amer Hardware Store worker who retired about a year ago after 14 years at the store. He is survived by his wife, one stepson, seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. The funeral is Sunday afternoon at the late home with burial in Moravian cemetery. R. M. Spacht is the funeral director.
Auto Club Members Dine In Lancaster Meeting
A Lancaster Automobile Club dinner meeting discussed plans to recruit more members in the district. Club head Gable spoke at the General Sutter venue outlining efforts to grow membership and promote club activities.
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Lancaster Automobile Club
Sutter
Gable
Hottest Day on Record with 106 Degree Heat
Report says yesterday set summer heat records with 106 degrees in shade at 6 30 pm on North Broad Street. A brief cooling storm and sparse rainfall followed, while many thermometers across town registered over 100. The night remained unusually hot as winds calmed.
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T. S. Grosh
North Broad Street
Gibbel Home Hosts Clergy Guests and Family
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Gibbel entertained Rev. A. C. Baugher and family and Miss Martha Martin of Elizabethtown and Rev. J. B. Baker of York on Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. A. Brown Milles of Cleveland Chico spent several days with the Gibbels. Their son John Paul, who spent six weeks in Lititz, returned home with them.
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Henry B. Gibbel
A. C. Baugher
Martha Martin
Elizabethtown
J. B. Baker
York
A. Brown Milles
Cleveland
Chico
John Paul
Lititz
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Auto Club
LUCAS
Kreider
East Main Street
Warwick
Music By
RED Wing Serenaders
Gibbel
Stauffer’s
Ripe Stauffer Farms
Kissel Hill
Lititz Pike
Trimmer’s Broad Street
Orange
Jardiniers
Atwater
Kent
RADIO
Jacob Kling
Front Street
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