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Tonight's the night. An old mu-sician's
dream come true. A band
of nearly one hundred. A chorus
of male voices numbering fifty,
under the direction of 'Vic' Wag-ner.
Among eight other leaders,
Mr. Henry Hackman will be Band
Leader No 1. A just reward to a
man who has accomplished not a
little in local musical circles. Do
you remember Harry Keppel, fel-lows?
Boy, we kids used to think
worlds of his trumpet, when he
played in the old Musical Round-house,
recently demolished Well,
Mr. Keppel will be there tonight;
and also Sup't. of Schools Arthur
Mylin.
In the park tonight you will wit-ness
what may well be called a
Musical Round-up. No one of you
can afford to miss the great show.'
May I call it colossal? stupendous?
•Okay, I will. Because it is, in all
truth. It's a concert that will
make trial of the new band shell,
and the memories recalled will
bring a deep glow of pleasure to
the cheeks of citizens who saw
Lititz when this town was a cen-tre
of music, when men were men,
and the women didn't care.
Look-alikers: Jean Shaub, of
town, and Hollywood's Frances
Farmer, currently seen in "The
Toast of New York." . . . . Give
Lawrence Young—house painter—
a moustache, and you have the per-fect
likeness of Brrol Flynn,
Screenland' adventurer-of-the-hour.
When the family album comes into
view,
The girl friend think you hould
"skiddoo".
What fun this silly world would
see
If all the old maids went on a
spree.
Some girls say: A slap on the
cheek
May be felt for two or three weeks.
If you don't like the August heat
very much, think of what is in
store for you, in just a few months
Snow, that semi-cold stuff that
makes winter what it is. Let us
hope for a winter unlike that of
last year, when sledding was noth-ing
but a dream, and snowballs
were made at a loss
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Personal Items Each Week
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10,000 Potential Readers.
Vol. LX Li tit z, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday, August 26, 1937 No. 51
Schools Open
Monday In
Warwick Twp.
Èey. Mumper To Accept Washington Call;
Will Leave St. Paul's After Six Years As Pastor
Half Session Will Be Held
On First Day, Principal
Bailey Announces; New
Teachers On Faculty
The schools of Warwick Town-ship
will open the 1937-38 Term on
Monday morning, Aug. 30. There
will be a half day session in all
the schools the first day. The
first Faculty Meeting will be held
on the afternoon of the same day J 0 1 S J » i"0 ^ M d u mW
The Rev. J. Harold Mumper,
pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran
Church here for the past six years,
was unanimously elected pastor of
the Keller Memorial Lutheran
Church at Washington, D. C. at a
meeting of that congregation on
Sunday. The formal call will ar-rive
here within the next week
and Rev. Mumper has indicated
that he will accept.
Notification of his selection was
sent to Rev. Mumper by the pastor
of the Washington Church, the
Rev. S. T. Nicholas, D. D., who will
retire from the ministry after serv-ing
that congregation for 25 years,
and from other officials of the
church. The formal notification is
being drawn up and will be sent
Encks Entertain
At Bungalow
Mr. and Mrs. J. Alvin Enck,
Front Street, entertained some
friends and relatives at Snavely's
Bungalow, Oregon, over the week-end.
The guests were: Mr. and
Mrs. Warren Enck and children,
Mary, Joan and Tom, Biglerville,
Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Loxell
and children, Fred Jr., Bob, Jack,
Betty and Virginia, Fairfield, Pa.;
Rev. and Mrs. Warren Hess and
children, Nevin, Bob, James, Betty
and Esther, Avon, Pa.; Mr. and
Mrs. Adam Hershey, Lancaster;
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bear, Rohr-erstown;
Harold M»omaw, Roa-noe,
Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Christ Dou
pie, Ephrata; Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Kauffman, Lexington; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Demmy, Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Roland, Mrs. Gertrude Helt-er,
John H. Hnck, Jacob Wissler,
Rufus Graybill and John J. Enck,
of town.
in the office of the Rothsville High
School building. The children
should all be back home by 12:30.
A pre-school meeting of all the
teachers will be held Saturday
morning at 9:30 o'clock for pupil
accounting, unifying courses and
plans for instruction.
Patrons will liGte the following
important changes in the School
Code for 1937-38 term. The age
limit for domestic permits, either
temporary or permanent is raised
fom 14 to 15 yeas. Absolute ne-cessity
must be proven to get these
permits from the issuing officer,
Justice of the Peace Charles Hess.
No beginners will be allowed to
enter who will not reach the age
of 6 years on or before February
1, 1938. A beginner once enrolled,
becomes of compulsory school age,
even though less than 8 years old,
which was the old compulsory age
limit. Children 16 years of age
may remain out of school this
Term but those 16 in 1938-39 will
be of compulsory age and those
17 in 1939-40, ad those 18 in 1940-
41 Term.
All beginners will be required to
bring a vaccination certificate and
birth certificate. No child entering
the Township schools for the first
time will be allowed to enroll
without these two certificates.
New teachers for the term are—
Miss Mildred Schaffstall of Harris
burg, H. S. English and Library
at Rothsville High School, Miss
Ruth Dissinger, of Lititz, Brunner-ville
Grades 4 & 5 and Miss Alta
Zimmerman of Oregon, Millport
Rural.
The Brunnerville Consolidatet
School Ground has been beautiful-ly
landscaped and seeded over the
Summer, and an extensive grading
and road building program is
nearing completion at the Roths-ville
Consolidated School. New
texts in health and spelling cours-es
and additional supplementary
reading materials have been furn-ished
the entire Township.
The direitors are—Abram
berger, Harry Burkholder,
Kafroth, Solonfcn Strohm
Isaac Erb.
September. His resignation
pastor of St. Paul's will be tender-ed
following the receipt of the call.
The Keller Memorial Church is
at Ninth St. and Maryland Ave., N.
E., and has a membership of 1100,
about twice as many members as
the local church has. A Sunday
School building erected within the
last ten years provides ample room
for a completely departmentalized
church school of 1020 members.
Rev. Mumper preacned in the
church on August 15.
Coming here in September, 1931,
from Westville, N J., following the
resignation of the Rev. W. Ray-mond
Sammel, Rev. Mumper has
made hundreds of friends and has
taken an active part in the relig-ious
life of this place. He nas also
served as president of the Harris-burg
Conference of the East Penna.
Synod of the Lutheran Church and
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New Trap
Co. Building
Is Completed
Offices and Display
Rooms Provided in
Structure; Compleetd
in Four Months
KEY. J. HAROLD MUMPER
at present is secretary of the Sy-nod,
a position he will have to
relinquish because the Washington
Church is a part of the Maryland
Synod. He is president of the
Lancaster Lutheran Pastoral Asso-ciation
and is vice-president of the
Lititz Rotary Club. He received
his bachelor of divinity degree in
1925 and that of Master of Sacred
Theology in 1929.
Mrs. Mumper has been active in
the Sunday School and Missionary
Society work of the local congre-gation
and has been Missipn Study
Secretary of the East Penna. Sy-nod.
Both she and Rev. Mumper
have taught in the Lancaster
Leadership Training School.
Richard Snyder Sees An Execution;
Drama of Last Minute Is Intense, He Says
"Hit-Run" Driver
Breaks Garage Window
Playground Lantern
Show Postponed
Bom-
C. C.
and
BRENNER-^SEABER
A driver who tried a different
angle of the hit and run accident
broke a large plate glass window
at the Lititz Springs Garage Sun-day
night and sped away, believ-ing
that his tracks were covered.
Two people, however, who heard
the crash, have described the ma-chine
so well to John H. Steffy, of I
the garage, that the identity of the
driver is known and the case will
be placed in the hands of the po-lice,
unless the damage is paid.
The crash happened about 8.30
ar a little later Sunday evening
when the driver stopped to get air
at the pump on Broad Street. He
hit the window sill, splintering it
and breaking the window.
Miss Arlyne Demmy, playground
supervisor, has placed the play-ground
display of handicraft in a
window of the P. T. Trimble &
Son store. Over 100 articles, in-cluding
linoleum carvings and lea-ther
craft, were made by the 75
or more children this summer dur-ing
the playground hours.
Due to the inclement weather
BOY KICKED BY HORSE
Donald Buch, ten-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Buch, Spruce
Street, suffered severe lacerations
of the face, when he was kicked by
a horse Tuesday afternoon on the
farm of his uncle, Roy Buch, just
west of town.
The injured lad was treated at
Miss Ruth I. Seaber, daughter t h e o f f l c e o f D r D c Martin and
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Seaber, | t h e n t a k e n t o h i g h o m e Yesterday
FRYMYER REUNION
The annual reunion of the Fry-myer
family will be held in the
Lititz Springs Park on Labor Day.
SNOOPS
The other evening a man living
near town entertained a friend,
who, during the evening's conver-sation,
asked his host if he would
leave his trousers at the cleaners
the following day, as he was going
away early in the morning and
would not have time to do it. The
Host agreed, but then forgot about
it as they talked.
As the guest prepared to leave
he told his host to come out to his
car to get the trousers, where, to
the great surprise of the host,
the guest peeled off the ones he
was wearing, hopped in the car
and started home.
of Front Street, and Prank E.
Brenner, son of Milton Brenner,
of Cornwall, were married Tues-day
morning at 9, Standard Time,
at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
in York, by the Rev. Jos. B. BaKer,
uncle of the bride.
Following the ceremony, the
couple left on a trip to Niagara
Falls, and after September 1 will
be at home at Cornwall.
The bride is a graduate of Lititz
High School, class of 1930, and of
the St. Joseph's Hospital Training
School, class of 1933, and has fol-lowed
her career of nursing. Mr.
Brenner is a graduate of Corn-wall
High School where he teach-es
mathematics, and of State Col-lege.
morning he was taken to a Lancas-ter
hospital for an X*-Ray examina-tion.
the lantern show scheduled in the
Park for tomorrow night will be
postponed one week. No play-ground
activities were held this
week because of the rains and all
this week's work will be done
next week. The playground will
close next Friday. All children are
invited to assist in the lantern par-made,
whether having attended the
playground or not, and parents
and friends are invited to witness
it.
The handicraft articles were
brought to the playground last
Friday where they were exhibited
and judged. The following prizes
were awarded: linoleum carvings
(neatest), Mary Rapp; (most ar-tistic),
Jane Walters; (most diffi-cult),
Marion Schantz. Coin pur-ses
(large), Helen Shenberger;
(small), Mary Rapp. Wallets,
belts and key cases, Orval Won-der.
Pocketbook sets, Jane Wal-ters;
Bookmarks, Norma Foltz.
The judges were Mrs. Margie
Arntz and Miss Mary Sturgis.
The new three-story office build-ing
of the Animal Trap Company
was completed last week, four
months after the breaking of
ground in April, and the structure
is now occupied by the purchas-
! ing, factory management and en-j
gineering departments of the com
I pany.
The first floor of the new build-ing
contains the offices of Herman
Drach, plant superintendent, and
Charles Kling, purchasing agent,
and other employees concerned
with purchasing and production.
On the second floor are the of-fices
of the engineering and re-search
department. The individu-als
in this department are con-stantly
studying and searching for
new ways to improve the quality
of the manufactured items, design
improvements to reduce costs and
also develop and design new items,
both in the trap line and other
fields.
The third floor will be used to
house and display the many valu-able
traps of the company and
may also be used as a meeting and
assembly hall for employee and
other group meetings.
While the building is of red
brick construction, to harmonize
with the adjoining trap factory,
much glass brick was used for
window paneling to supply added
natural light to all floors. It is
the only local building in which
'tjiis new glass brick has been
used.
Beside the added light glass
brick supplies to a building, it is
also recommended as an insula-tion
material. Each glass brick is
hollow, and the air has been parti-ally
exhausted, producing a vacu-um
effect which gives the insulat-ing
quality.
Several thousand persons in Lit-itz,
Lancaster and the county last
week "saw" the electrocution of
Major Green, negro, for the mur-der
of Mrs. Mary R. Case through
the eyes of Richard Snyder, of
Spruce Street, who "covered" that
event for the Lancaster news-papers.
They read an almost second-by-second
account of Green's last
minutes on earth in Mr. Snyder's
story. That was his duty as a re-porter
assigned to cover a certain
happening by his newspaper.
But what was his private opin-ion
of the execution he witnessed?
"An electrocution is not as re-pugnant
as you would thihk," Mr.
Snyder remarked the other even-ing.
"But it does leave you with
the feeling that there is something
abnormal about capital punish-ment,
even done in this manner,
about the quickest and most pain-
Music Fest
To Be Held
Next Week
Rains Cause Postpone-
To Thursday, Sept. 2;
ment of Great Event
Many Men in Band
method civilization has de-vised
to requite a murder."
Mr. Snyder was not particularly
anxious to attend the affair at the
famous Sing Sing prison. Follow-ing
the trial of Green in the early
part of the year for t,he brutal
killing of the young Mrs. Case, a
native of Lancaster, which he cov-ered,
an application was mide tu
have a representative of the Lan-j
caster papers attend the execution.:
The matter was forgotten, how-ever,
until several days before the'
date for it, when a letter was re-j w i t h the ground soaked with rain,
ceived from Warden Lawes. That m o r e failing and the skies showing
stated that the "privilege" of at- n o s i g n s of a l e t_„P ) o f f l c i a l s o f t he
tending the execution had been ac- g r o u p s interested in promoting the
corded the newspaper. 1
M u s l c F e s t ( g c h e d u l e d f o r t h e L i t_
So on Thursday, Mr. Snyder went i t z springs Park tonight, stood at
to New York and in the evening t h e bandshell on Monday evening
departed for Ossining. The hour a n d di g m aUy surveyed the sur-he
spent at the great prison before roundings.
the execution was strained and T h e r e s e emed to be nothing else
(Continued on page four)
Soap-Box Derby
Planned for Fair
A soap-box derby, a sport for
boys which has taken many parts
of this country by storm, is being
arranged for the 1937 Lititz Com-munity
Show and will be held on
the Friday night of the fair.
A committee consisting of Hom-er
Hackman, chairman, E. S. Dech-ert,
Paul R. Furlow and Dr. ,L. N.
Moyer was named at the weekly
meeting of the show association
on Tuesday evening to arrange for
the derby and layout the details of
the races. A large amount of mo-ney
will be paid in prizes.
The show offlcials have also ar-ranged
to buy poultry coops from
the Mt. Joy show association. Each
year the local show has rented the
coops from Mt. Joy and, by buying
them, will save their cost in two
years.
The next meeting of the associa
tion will be held on Tuesday, Sep-tember
7.
School Term
Opens Here
On Sept. 7
to do but to postpone the event.
' and after a thorough discussion
j and a consultation with the large
i number of musicians who were
; ready to rehearse, it was decided
i to put it off for a week.
I So the big event, to which thou-
' sands are looking for a grand eve-
(Continued on page four)
Rev. Jacoby Accepts
Rothsville Call
The Rev. Gerald Jacoby, of
Pottsville, has accepted the call to
become pastor of Jerusalem Luth-eran
Church, Rothsville, according
to word received in that community
this week.
Rev. Jacoby will come to Roths
ville on September 12 to begin his
new duties. The call was issued
to him at a congregational meet-ing
on August 8. He will be the
first pastor of the Rothsville
church as an independent charge,
the congregation formerly being a
member of the Brickerville Parish.
New Teachers, Large En-rollment,
Changes on
Program in Store for
Pupils This Term
ATTEND HUYETT REUNION
The Lititz Public Schools will
open for the 1937-38 term at 8.15
Tuesday morning, September 7.
The enrollment is expected by
Supervising Principal M. C. Dem-my
to be large and several new
teachers will be on the faculty
For the first time this year de-partmental
work in Grades 5 and
6 will be introduced, with Miss
Margaret Emory teaching geogra-phy,
Mrs. Margie Arntz, history,
Miss Frances McGinnis, arithmetic,
and Miss Marion Althouse, Eng-
Falling leaves, chirping crickets,
children discussing school—these
are the first signs of Fall and they
are with us now; not to mention
the ads of fall clothes. Does any
woman ever really buy a fur coat
in August? Don't answer me. It
was sour grapes prompted that
question anyway.
Speaking of sour grapes, it
seems a columnist of the opposite
sex does not approve the name
suggested here for the new band-shell.
He thinks the name Paul
E. Beck means little to those un-der
forty. Let me hasten to ex-plain
that I am under forty and
never have I seen him direct the
famous Lititz Band. Only by here-say
have I learned that he was
The Rev. and Mrs. George B. highly-gifted, musically. May I ask
Ammon, of W. Orange St, attended ugh
the 19th annual reunion of the' G u i d a n c e a n d p u b l ic
Huyetts at Ephrata Park on Sun
day.
Anna Mary Huyett of Philadelphia
Rev Ammon offered the Memorial
Prayer in honor of the 200th anni-versary
of the landing of the Huy-, „
etts in America. Rev. Paul Huy- flrst g r a d e ' a n d D a v l d F o s t e r ' atl1" °n ' y important as a background
ett, of Philadelphia, gave the his- l e t i c c o a c h a n d p h y s i c a l e d u c a t i j n ' f o r today.
torical address and a program of! M i 8 s E l l z a b e t h G a r b e r ' w h o w as
music and games filled. t.vh.e after-¡i^ a bs_e nt _ f.„r om_ the faculty this past x
noon with enjoyment for over 150 j
people.
my distinguished contemporary,
speaking d o e 8 the name of Beethoven or
Mrs. Ammon was formerly, " I V ^ T i t ^ ^ P r ° g r ^ S C h U b e r t ^ ^ t0 y° U ^
- - Ior ^ r 3 " 6 3 ' l o cause they were not of your day
New teachers this year are Miss and age.
Emory, Miss Margaret Anderson, it is true we must not mourn
commercial, Miss Eleanor D. Fell, the good old days. The past is
! term, will return and teach phys.-
HARVEST MEETING SATURDAY
Armstrong Company Grows Extremely Proud
Of Flooring in New Trap Company Building
The Armstrong Linoleum Co. of
Lancaster, is extremely proud of a
job of flooring they were able to
produce in the lobby of the new
Animal Trap Co. office completed
last week.
The Lancaster firm has suppl'.el
many special flooring designs for
large hotels, restaurants, etc., but
the Lititz firm gave them a design
to supply which was unique to say
the least, and one which the Arm-strong
Company will undoubtedly
photograph and use in their pro-motional
work to show what can
be done with linoleum inlays.
As you open the door of the
Make a purchase of 19c or more, lobby of the new building you step
Get a ticket for pool for 8c. | into a large "trap" which has been
Hamburg steak 19c. placed as an inlay in the linoleum.
Lutz, Phone 9181W. We deliver. Surrounding the trap are inlays of
Card of Thanks
Mrs. Mary Miksch extends her
thanks and deep appreciation to
the friends who sent in flowers,
etc., during her recent illness.
six animals in their natural colors.
The animals were cut out in jig-saw
puzzle fashion and required
special skill on the part of the
operator of the knife on which it
was done.
A skunk is one of the six animal
inlays, and is so natural looking
that one really gets a thrill in
stepping in the lobby door to face
it. The body of the animal is
black and has two white stripes
down its back.
Skill was required to get the
long thin tail of the possum out
without breaking off; and so on
with each of the other animal
inlays.
The office floors are of linoleum
also, but of conventional or stand-ard
patterns.
John G. Hershey
Addresses Rotarians
John G. Hershey, of the firm of
Hershey & Gibbel, insurance
agents, addressed the Lititz Rotary
Club Tuesday evening in the Gen-eral
Sutter Hotel on his classifi-cation
in the club, casualty in-surance.
Interesting glimpses into the
daily routine of an insurance of-fice,
the work with about 125 sub-agenta,
and the checking of rates
on auto-insurance were told by the
speaker, who concluded with sev-eral
stories of compensation cases.
VISIT FORT MONROE
There will be a Harvest Meeting
Saturday at 1.30 at the United Zion
Home, North of town. Services ! h a v e c h a r S e of t h e b° y s i n V***1'
When the first electrical storms
of the summer came and we had
cal education and history. to miss our favorite radio pro-
Another change in the program grams because of static, we were
this year deals with the physi.-al keenly disappointed, but that dis-education
classes. Previously the appointment has been forgottea,
athletic coach handled those slas- ior now we listen to an oriole sing-ses,
buv this term Mr. Foster will ing on our willow tree.
will also be held in the evening \
with the Rev. Christ Geib, of Pal-!
myra, the Rev. C. H. Moyer, ofi
Elizabethtown, and Bishop J. S.
Brinser, of Elizabethtown, speak-ing.
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BIRTHS
cal education and health and Miss' Hope you all went to see Ele-
Garber the girls. phant Boy Monday night. We took
For the first day, all pupils who ou r children to see it, knowing
attended last year will report in t h e y would enjoy it, but we did
their respective rooms for a mon- n ° t expect to be so much interest-ing
session. Beginners, which this e d ourselves. We were delightfully
year will include all children who surprised, however The picture
are six or will be six before Feb- w a s really wonderful. Who
Miss Earla S'tults and her moth-er,
Mrs. Earla B. Stults, spent the
week of August 15 at Fort Monroe
Va., where they visited Cadet Jack
Lee Grubb, of the U. S. Military
Academy. They were accompanied
by the Misses Marion Koph and
Jean Hearmies, of New York City,
who returned with them to spend
Sunday with Miss Stults at the
home of her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. B. Buch, North Broad St.
Mr. and Mrs. John Witmyer, S.
Cedar St., announce the birth of
a daughter at 7:11 a. m. Friday at
St. Joseph's hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. David Nevling, Lit-itz,
announce the birth of a daugh-ter
at 3:40 p. m. Thursday at the
Lancaster General nospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Freeland N. Buck-waiter,
Bareville, R. D. 1, an-nounce
the birth of a daughter at
6 p. m. Saturday, at their home.
Dr. and Mrs. Chester L. Wertsch,
of Cedar St., announce the birth of
a daughter at their home on Mon-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crouse, of
Bareville, announce the birth of a
daughter at their home on Friday.
The Rev. and Mrs. Alvin Stoner,
of Strasburg, announce the birth
of a son last Wednesday at home.
Mr. Stoner is the son of Menno
Stoner, Lititz, R. D. 1 and a gradu-ate
of Lititz High School, Class o£
1919.
wouldn't be thrilled at joining a
wild elephant hunt—especially
when you sit in a safe spot?
I r u a ry 1, 1938, will report ait 1 P.
1 M. Tuesday. Beginners will be
dismissed at 2.
Pupils transferring from anoth-er
school to Lititz must bring
their transfer card, pemanent re-cord
card or last year's report what, they called
card. Pupils entering high school peculiarities." Said
Friends visiting here from
Philadelphia were much amused at
"small town
they, "when
from the rural districts must bring are among a group of people
their certificate issued by the -vou c a n ' t mention the name of a
County Superintendent. All trans- Person in this locality but that
fer or rural pupils will report at someone will say, "She is a cousin
the offlce at 8. of mine" or "she used to livei'
There will be a meeting of the! across the street" or "we used to
faculty at 2 P. M. the flrst day.
MARK BIRTHDAY
Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Bricker cele-brated
Mr. Bricker's birthday on
Saturday evening by entertaining.
Their guests included, the Rev.
and Mrs. Byron K. Home, Mrs. A.
H. Bobst, Mrs. Emma Moore, Miss
Grace Keller, Misses Sophie and
Magdalena Bricker, Dr. Eliazbeth
Bricker, Charles Bricker, Randolph
and Walton Bricker.
go to school together." You all
seem to know everyone's family
history, too." They think it's pe-culiar
but I think it's nice. Be-sides,
it naturally makes one cau-tious
in conversation which is not
a bad thing. Small town peculiari-ties
indeed!
The First Lady writes a column
for a newspaper syndicate entitled
"My Day." We suggest that her
distinguished husband write a col-umn
and call it ',My Way."