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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1935
Page
9
Communications directed to THE RECORD PRINTING CO. PB South Broad Street Lititz Pennsylvania. The note serves as the mailing address for all correspondence.
Citizens seek to establish a free public library in Lititz to provide affordable reading, cultivate literacy, and offer leisure and profit through access to good books. A small group advocates, believing many adults would use such a resource, and anticipate broad community support and success.
The U S Treasury Dept moves to retire the last Liberty Bonds in circulation. Holders can exchange for Federal Treasury Bonds maturing in 10 to 12 years at 2 3 4 percent, or 3 1 2 year bonds at 11 2 percent, or cash. The bonds stop earning interest after Oct 15 1985.
Big day at the Lancaster Fair with several industries closing to allow employees to attend. Trolleys ran every half hour to handle crowds. Garfield Castle No. 76 KAGE sent reps to the county convention in Akron. Potatoes yield high this year with four hundred bushels stored including some weighty spuds. Linden Hall reports record enrollment with forty two boarding and fifteen day students. Birthday gifts arrive for ailing William Engle. Ladies of St Take Reformed Church host a well attended entertainment. Borough Council approves water line and street macadam work. Creditors seek involuntary bankruptcy for John A. Bohler and Lititz Hosiery Mills. A 90 year old woman rides a trolley for the first time. Harvest Home and Rally Day draw 365 in Sunday School. Ladies sew and choir circles meet at local homes. A storm, cloudburst level rain hits Northern Lancaster County with Brickerville area flooded but Lititz sees only light showers.
Pennsylvania wildlife reports a strong year with abundant berries and nuts, supporting healthy game. Small game runs through November with rabbits, squirrels, turkeys, pheasants, grouse and quail available. Male deer hunting runs December 2 to 11 and anterless deer December 12 to 14 in specified counties. winterless deer may be cut up in camp but meat cannot be eaten there.
Fifty years ago a child ingested paregoric, the infant neared death but woke next morning. A Lancaster man bought a blanket and stationery, left the basket with goods at a stand, and returned to find them missing. Exhibits of giant pumpkins, market notes, and a moved telephone exchange fill the town scene along with weather, birds migrating south, a camp meeting viewed as extortion, and plans to create a lakeside recreation area at Mt Gretna.
A congressional committee led by Charles B. McClintock reports the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Field contains far more oil than previously believed. By current methods one billion more barrels can be recovered, equaling seventy-six years of production, with water gas and air recovery being explored. The reserve could supply motorists with genuine Pennsylvania oil and bolster U.S. lubricant independence.
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