Delphian Society Resumes Tall Season Meetings
The Lititz Chapter of the Delphian Society held its season opener Friday evening at Miss Bricker’s North Broad Street home. After business, members discussed current topics including the Pulitzer Drama award, New Deal features, Rivera’s art aims, plays Dodsworth and Yellow Jack, world peace and Japan, Afghanistan’s position, and educational themes in The Deans Window. The next meeting is set for Friday October 5 at Mrs David Bricker’s home.
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Lititz
The
Delphian Society
Bricker
North Broad Street
Edward Buch
Florence Gibbels
Rivera
R. P. Healy
P. F. Snyder
Myrtle Eckert
Dodsworth
Japan
Mary Huebener
Mary Reidenbach
Afghanistan
Henry Gibbel
Rumania
Wm. Moody
Mary Dengate
Herbert Agar
David P. Bricker
Obituary for Mrs Mary Eckert of Lebanon and family ties
Mrs Mary Eckert widow of Civil War veteran Jacob Eckert died Thursday at her daughter’s home in Lebanon after a 10 week illness. Survived by four daughters Mrs Beck Mrs Pierce Read ing Mrs Lizzie Connover and Mrs Benjamin Heffer and two sons eee Eckert and Nathan el Eckert. Also 19 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. Mrs Eckert was a Brickerville Lutheran member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Eekert
Jacob Eckert
Elmer Beck
Lebanon
Eckert
Brickerville Lutheran Church
Beck
Pierce Robert
Reading
Lizzie Connover
Stevens
Benjamin Heffer
Manhenny Rdb
Eee Eckert
Ephrata
Nathanel Eckert
Lititz
Pletz Rites Held for Jacob Franklin Pletz in Lancaster
Jacob Franklin Pletz 62 of Zooks Corner died Friday at General Hospital Lancaster after a runaway accident and extended illness. He was injured April 24 and treated, then readmitted, passing away under observation. Survived by wife Early Mae nee Hershey, daughter Gladys Elizabeth Johns, son Walter Luther, brothers William Rutherford Heights George Progress sisters Barbara Noll Sara Wisher Charles Linglestown and Brooke Pletz Penbrook, plus a foster grandchild Betty Jane Johns. Services were held Sunday
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Jacob Franklin Pletz
Zook’s Corner
General Hospital
Lancaster
William and
Sara Ettinger Pletz
Neffsville United Brethren Church
Mae
Simplex Box licenses spread across majors worldwide
Large firms license the Simplex box design, boosting distribution from Lititz. Robert Gair Company and Imperial Box Company join, with Firstbrooks Boxes in Canada and plans to license others from Mississippi to the West Coast. Simplex boxes produced at six to twelve thousand per hour, used by Lucky Strike and other national brands.
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Hititz
Robert Gair Company
New York
Imperial Box Company
Chicago
East
Canada
Firstbrooks Boxes
Mississippi
Chatham Blankets
Cannon Towels
Thom McAnn
Dennison
Ralph A. Gross
Simplex Box Co
United States
Great Britain
Lititz
Interment Planned at Landis Valley Mennonite Cemetery
Noon service at the home and 1 80 o clock CDT at 2 o clock at the Yeffsville 1.5 Church. Interment s in the Landis Valley Mennonite cemetery.
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Yeffsville
Landis Valley Mennonite
Mrs Cramer Dies At Lancaster In Private Service
Mrs Oscar J Cramer 50 of Lancaster died at her home Monday morning after a illness. She was born to Annie May and the late George Curry and belonged to First Baptist Church and Golden Sheaf Sisterhood No 17 Dames of Malta. Survived by husband two sons and Lillian M and Edith E Cramer a brother John Curry of Lititz. Services will be held at 1:30 this afternoon at the home with interment at Mt Lebanon Cemetery.
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Mabel C. Cramer
Oscar d. Cramer
Lancaster
Annie May
George Curry
First Baptist Church
Golden Sheaf Sisterhood
Malta
Robert C
Kermit P
Arthur E. Seifred
Lillian M
Edith E. Cramer
John Curry
Lititz
Mt. Lebanon
Lebanon
Sunday School Heads For Twentieth Year
A. M. Shissler of town was reelected superintendent of the United Brethren Sunday School for his twentieth term at the regular Sunday session. Officers elected include C. F. Hoffer as assistant superintendent and secretary, Russel Murr as assistant secretary, Mac Shissler treasurer, Kathryn Heffer librarian, John Rhoads assistant, Henry Shissler pianist, Pauline Young assistant, Mae Shissler chorister, C. F. Hef fer assistant, Emma Miller Cradle Roll superintendent, Sailie Simi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Shissler
Town
United Brethren Sunday School
C. F. Hoffer
Russel Murr
Mac Shissler
Kathryn Heffer
John Rhoads
Henry Shissler
Pauline Young
Mae Shissler
C. F. Heffer
Emma Miller
Sailie Simi
All the Home News in The Record
The Record presents home news items and community notices in a compact column. Readers find local society notes, school events, and neighborhood updates alongside classifieds and small announcements from nearby towns.
Guild Plans Halloween Party at Otterbein Church
The Otterbein Guild of the United Brethren Church met at Mrs. Clair Weber’s New Street home last Monday. Miss Mazel Eslinger led the meeting and a Halloween party was voted for October 29 in the church basement. Committees were formed for refreshments and visitation, invitations, decorations, and games with members named in each group.
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Otterbein Guild of the United Brethren Church
Clair Weber
New Street
Mazel Eslinger
Vis. Hii
Mary Sturgis
Hazel FE Hinger
Rhoda Nagle
Irene Whitcraft
Harl Reist
Lillian McCreary
Helen Farrand
Dorothy Spickler
Weber McCreary
Stolen Car Recovered Near Avon
An automobile owned by George Krepp of Lititz R D 5, Lebanon County, stolen Sunday night, was recovered Monday near Avon by Corporal R N K of the Lebanon highway patrol substation. The officer said the car had been abandoned.
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George Krepp
Lititz R. D. 5
Lebanon
Avon
Highway Patrol
Pretzel Makers Elect Lancaster Leader at Meeting
E. D. Sturgis was elected president of the Lancaster County Pretzel Manufacturers Association at a Lancaster gathering Thursday evening. Other officers named were James Sugox as vice president W. M. Kissinger treasurer and K. W. Singer secretary. The first group meeting under the National Pretzel Code authority was held Monday at the Y M C A in Lancaster. Henry G. Burke Baltimore executive secretary of the National Code Authority spoke on the code’s formation and sections including mandatory charges for metal containers. Fred Weiss Annapolis field representative described a tour of pretzel bakeries and urged manufacturers to report the code relation for prompt investigation and settlement.
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E. D. Sturgis
Lancaster County Pretzel Manufacturers’ Association
Lancaster
James Swegox
W. M. Kissinger
Singer
K. W
National Pretzel’ Code Authority
Henry G. Burke
Baltimore
National Code Authority
Pretzel Idustry
Fred Weiss
Annapolis
Authority
Burke
Memb
Thei
Weiss
Old School Sold at Public Auction in Ephrata Township
The Ephrata Township School Board sold the abandoned Fast Middle Creek school building on the road between Milwa and Lincoln at a public auction Saturday. B Landis of Ephrata purchased the property.
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Ephrata Township
Fast
Property for Sale Contains 68 Perches with Abandoned School
A property auction lists 68 perches of land with a brick one room school building unused for over a year. Auctioneer Stauffer Diehni oversees the sale priced at 200 dollars.
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Stauffer Diehni
Mission Society Meeting of Moravian Chineh
The Women's Missionary Society of the Moravian Chineh met Thursday at Miss Amelia Miler's home in West Orange Street with Mrs Byron K Horne in charge. Topics covered motive and method of Moravians. discussion included Emily Eschbach and A Kauffman. A letter from Bethesda Leper Hospital Surinam thanked them for a box sent in March. Next gathering at Miss Sophie Bricker's on the third Thursday in October.
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Women’s Missionary Society of the
Amelia Miler
West Orange St
Byron K. Horne
H. H. Givin
E. Nethercot
Emily Eschbach
A Kauffman
Sophie Bricker
Eizabeth Hepp
Anna Lutz
Reedy
Florence Seldomridge
Ella Smeltzer
Anna Stark
Virginia Grosh
Alice Morrow
Ametia Miller
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Mary Eckert
Jacob FB. Pletz
Oscar J. Cramer
W. H. Muth & Co
Lititz, PA
Pretzel Bakers Elect
Old School
Mission Society Meets
Harry W. Zimmerman
EB. Vront St. Vhone
General Auto Repairing
Buicks
FORDS
Mammoth
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