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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1935
Page
1
Lititz Rotary Club sponsors portable steel bleachers for the Community Athletic Field. Subscriptions sold at $1.80 each. buyers receive a seat unit and a season ticket to the 1935 high school football games. Names will be stenciled on seats and reserved at each fall game.
The Treasury Department moves to retire Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds, allowing owners to exchange for Federal Treasury Bonds maturing in 8, 10, or 12 years or receive cash.
Reading girls softball hosts All4Lititz tonight at Utz Field in a featured attraction. Tomorrow locals face Fruit Ten Lancaster at the local field in a deciding clash of an eight game series. Each team has one game.
Mr and Mrs Harry R Wertsch returned Tuesday from a week at Atlantic City. Wertsch who had not been well showed some improvement after the trip.
The SNOOPS from Tphrata High plan to practice before the ring of school but failed at Lititz Hall as the local court awaits work. They vow to practice every spare hour and try to knock red and black off their basket pedestal this season.
Enrollment on opening day reached 940 students, about matching last term. The first session was half a day, a Tuesday afternoon faculty meeting followed, and all teachers reported for duty. The commercial department post remained vacant after Miss Josephine Briner resigned to return to Lewistown.
The Women’s Missionary Society of St Pauls Lutheran Church plans a Tuesday meeting at Mt Gretna, leaving from the church at 1 30 pm. The gathering will start at 4 pm after supper, with bandage rolling to follow. Donations of muslin for bandages are welcome at the church before noon Tuesday.
Five year old Jonathan Ladd, son of Mr and Mrs William Ladd of East Second Avenue, narrowly escaped serious injury Friday morning when he fell from the running board of Spruce Villa Dairy delivery truck. Driver Joseph Mummert was unaware the boy sat on the board and would have been run over had a neighbor not shouted to stop the vehicle. The boy suffered a slight concussion but is now out of bed and improving.
Rev. James M. Moore becomes pastor of the Church of the Brethren and assumes full duties after a large installation service. The Moore family lives at 45 Front Street. He will preach at the Harvest Home morning service and the young people meet at 6:30 Sunday.
The Lititz Springs Garage will run a free motion picture show tomorrow evening at o o clock in their storage room. A full length talking feature will be shown along with four or five short subjects. The feature is not an advertising picture. The public is invited.
Dr. Howard B. Minnich announces the opening of general dentistry offices at 1018 Broad Street. Phone 260 R.
The column recalls a 40 year old frost that killed tobacco and marks a Labor Day birthday for George Hackman. It also covers Lititz’s water softener debate with a petition of 200 signatures, physician support, and price ranges from 200 to 2500 dollars, plus local ads.
Mr and Mrs Reuban Keath of Brumerville plan a two week visit with their son Henry Keath in New Freedom York County. Numerous residents, including the Joralemons Atkins and Demmy family, spent weekends visiting relatives and attending a wedding at First Church of God Lancaster. Donkey Baseball will be shown in Ephrata Park Tuesday evening as local Lions Clubs compete.
Entries for the Junior League Horse Show exceed fifty at Log Cabin Farms with proceeds to buy and preserve Wheatland James Buchanan's Lancaster County home. The county court approved a charter for the James Buchanan foundation to preserve the historic site with incorporators including Prof. Herbert H. Beck Judge B. C. Atlee Dr. B H Klein Mayor James H. Ross and others.
Heavy rain and flood concerns rise as tropical storm remnants lash Florida. Officials fear high waters and dam damage after days of rain from Monday to Tuesday. Farmers praise the moisture but warn extra rain could injure late tobacco and crops.
John Bender 15 son of Dr and Mrs Richard Bender of East Main Street fractured his right arm when he fell while jumping over Lititz Creek on W M Péautz farm east of town Thursday. He had accompanied his father to test cattle and was aiding in rounding up cattle when the accident occurred. After first aid by Dr D C Martin he was taken to Lancaster General Hospital for further treatment.
American Legion Post 56 will elect officers for the coming year at the regular monthly meeting tonight in the Post Home. The meeting starts at 8 o'clock and all members are urged to attend.
Members of the Lodge of the Independent Americans are notified that Friday council meetings will begin at 7 30 daylight saving time instead of standard time.
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