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Vol. XLII Lititz, Lancaster Co.. Thursday, November 30, 1939 No. 12 i
Lititz Stores Display
Large and Complete Lines
Of Xmas Gift Suggestions
~~ Banks Will
Distribute
$36,000 Here
Xmas Fund Checks i o Go
Out Monday; $7,000 In-crease
Over 1938
By Mss LtUta
Tie spirit of the yuletide as-serted
itself here this week when
Lititz merchants and businessmen
climaxed weeks of planning and
revealed their new Christmas
stocks of thousands of gift selec-tions.
A surrey of the business sec-tion
this morning proved beyond
any doubt that this year's store of
Christmas articles in the local
stores is by far the most elaborate
and extensive ever offered by the
businessmen of Lititz.
As though spurred iby compara-tively
better business conditions
during the past year, Lititz store-keepers
have greatly supplement-ed
their stocks. Store decorations
which were being completed today
also revealed many artistic ar-rangements
in which the red and
green of Christmas practically
transformed the whole business
section into a veritable Santa
Claus workshop.
With the street decorations go-ing
up today and a flood of Christ-mas
savings check» going out
Monday, in addition to a score ¡or
more of Christmas entertainments,
cantatas and song-feats being
planned, the holiday spirit was
proving highly contagious even at
this early date.
Proof of this was offered by
Henry Neff, proprietor of Kuhn
and Brother's, who reported that
the vanguaTd of the Christmias
shoppers kept him on the go thiis
week enen before he had complet-ed
the task of unpacking a large
amount of Christmas merchandise
just received.
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Ivans Suit
Is Halted
In Court
Judge Schaeffer Tuesday ordered
a compulsory non-suit in an auto
damage ease involving a quest! <n
without precedent in Pennsylvania.
The suit was brought by Ivan
C. Adanas, of this borough, against
John D. Williams, of Nesquehon-ing,
whose son, Cromwell, twenty,
and another youth were killed in
a collision with a truck owned by
Adams while they were on their
way to Franklin and Marshall
college.
The question was whether a
minor son being sent to college is
to be considered on business; for
his father or for himself. Tlhe
point was raised by F. Lyiman
Windolph, of Windolph and Muel-ler,
counsel for Williams. By en-tering
the non-suit, the couirt
found that the son was on his
own business and that th# father
could not therefore be held.
Windolph informed the court
yesterday that there was no ques-tion
of facts in the case, but that
he questioned the father's liabili y.
Charles L. Miller, counsel for
Adams, told the court, "I must
establish that this boy was on hiis
father's business. The whole is-sue
is based on one question: is
the sending of a minor soil to col-lege
a 'business of the father'.'" He
explained that Williams had given
his son permission to use the car,
but had not directed him to use it.
The motion was argued until
5:45 P. M. yesterday, and at hat
time Judge Schaeffer reserved hiis
i
decisio».
The accident occurred north of
BrickerviHe on Route 501 on Sep-tember
15, 1938. Adams' truck was
being driven by his father, Ivan
K. Adams.
Jobn Ronemus, eighteen, Nes-quehoniBg,
was the other youth
killed. Artfrnr Jenkins, of Nesqu e-honing,
was injured.
Adams asked $374.87 because of
damages to hi« truck.
Christmas shopping in Lititz
will be given an added impetus
Monday when nearly 900 persons
here will be recipients of a veri-table
shower of gold.
For Monday's mails will carry a
'.otal of more than $36,000 in
Christmas Savings Fund checks
from the Farmers National Bank
Hid the Lititz Springs National
Bank. The total being paid this
rear is approximately $7,000 more
than was paid out last year, heads
of the two local banks revealed
this morning.
Local bankers pointed to the
increase in Christmas savings as a
direct result of improved economic
conditions in Lititz during the
past year. While both banks will
distribute approximately the same
amount, the Lititz Springs iBank
will mail to a total of 480 persons
while the Farmers Bank checks
will reach more than 400.
Annually a certain percentage
of the Christmas Savings checks
return to savings and checking
accounts in the two banks al-though
the bulk is usually devot-ed
to enabling families here to
complete their holiday purchases,
it was explained.
Local retailers as a result were
looking forward to a sudden spurt
in business next week.
The local checks are a part of
$1,059,400 to be paid out in this
manner by banks of Lancaster
city and county during the coming
week. Banks also are enrolling
members for 1940 Christmas sav-ings
clubs at this time.
Start Work
Of Widening
Cedar Strèet
The widening of Cedar street at
the side of the new Lititz Poet
Office will be started today and
will be completed in about a week
providing weather conditions re-main
favorable, Postmaster Robert
Pfautz announced this week.
Work of digging up the street
and pavement and of excavating
for the new pavement will be
done by Levi Yerger, of this bor-ough.
The ne wpavement will be
constructed approximately five
feet back from where the present
pavement runs.
When the widening of this sec-tion
is completed, Cedar street
from Main street will be the same
width as that at Orange street at
present and will eliminate what
borough officials consider one of
the most dangerous traffic inter-sections
at Main and Cedar streets.
At the same time, engineers in
charge of the construction of the
new post office announced that
the new building will probaibly be
ready for occupancy more than a
month ahead of schedule. While
scheduled to be completed not
later than April 24, the new build-ing
will be ready for occupancy
March 1, it was announced..
The work has been well ahead
of schedule since started.
—Home-made Sausage, 25c lb.;
Beefsteak, 30c lb.; Hamburg, 19c
Ib.; Frankfurts, 25c lb.; Whole
Chucks, 19c and 20c lb.; Home-made
pudding 20c. LUTZ—Phone
293-R. We Deliver. adv.
Xmas Street
Decorations
To Be Bigger
Start Putting Up Display;
To Be More Elaborate
Than Former Years
Workmen started today to put
up Christmas decorations through-out
Lititz' business section with
tihevpromise that this year's street
adornrilents will be much more
elaborate than those of former
years.
Ten new stars will be added to
the main part of the street deco-rations
although this year's de-sign
of decorations iwll vary con-siderably
from that of last year,
Harry Wertsch, chairman of the
decorations committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, announced
this morning.
Efforts also will be made to
change the fountain display in or-der
to eliminate any traffic con-gestion
at that point, especially
during the singing of carols
Christmas eve. The committee
also is considering other plans
whiOh will include a surprise for
local shoppers.
The singing of carols at 11.30
P. M. Christmas eve will be under
the direction of Benjamin F. Lutz.
The decorations committee of the
Chamber of Commerce consists of
Mr. Wertsch, chairman; Wililam
G. Eshleman, Raymond Reedy,
Harry Gorton, and John Witmyer.
A committee to take charge of
collections to defray expenses in-cludes
the following: Ralph M.
Spacht, chairman; Christ Nissley,
Harry Gorton and Benjamin We-ber.
At its meeting Tuesday evening
the Chamber of Commence also
considered a drive for members to
be launched at the next meeting,
to b held Tuesday, December 19.
The public is invited to att .nu.
New Library
To Be Opened
On Tuesday
A new and enlarged library will
be open to the citizens of Lititz
on Tuesday, December 5. It will
be a combination of the former
public library and the school li-brary
which has all been moved
into the new addition of the
schol building.
It is in a large south well
lighted room and will be entered
by the west door. The hours will
be the same as the school hours,
eight fifteen to eleven forty in the
morning and twelve forty five to
four o'clock in the afternoon. The
library will not be open on Satur-days
but will be open on Tuesday
and Thursday of each week from
six until eight thirty in the even-ing.
Miss Bessie Searle, the former
librarian of the school library will
be in charge. It will be closed
the remainder of the week to
make the necessary adjustments.
The books from the school library
were moved on Monday and the
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I. O. O. F. PARTY TUESDAY
A turkey card party which is
open to the public will be present-ed
Tuesday evening in Malta Hall
by members of the installation
staff of the Odd Fellows here.
The Cloister encampment of I.
O. 0. F. conferred the Golden Rule
degree on a team of candidates of
Ephrata and Lititz in the Lititz
liall Monday evening. On Decem-ber
15 the iRoyal Purple degree
will be conferred on a class in
Ephrata.
Signaled out as "a booster of
the school and a lover of child-ren",
B. F. Lutz, local business-man,
this week was presented
with Ticket No. 1 for the first
game of the basketball season—
the first game to be played in the
new gymnasium. The game, with
Rothsville, will be played here
Friday evening. The selection was
.made by M. C. Demmy, supervis-ing
principal of the borough
schools.
—Select your new Piano now—
before the holiday season.
Young's Music House
B. F. LUTZ HONORED
WITH TICKET NO. 1
Public Will
View New
Gym Friday
Lititz High To Meet Roths-ville
As Baket Ball
Season Opens
by GUY L. B0MBERGER
Lititz will have its first official
view of the new high school gym-nasium
tomorrow night when the
Lititz High basketball team
the Rothsville High team. The
game is scheduled to start at 7:30
on the new floor.
The new gym, rated as one of
the best in the county, is much
larger than the old one, measur-ing
over 82 feet long by more
than 63 feet wide. The actual
basketball court occupies a space
79 feet by 43 feet.
Tomorrow night's game, the1
Red and Black's season opener,
will find only three varsity letter-men
from last year seeing action.
They are Robert Haines, Charles
Brown, and Bert Reidenbaug-h.
Others trying for positions >n
the varsity and J-V Squads are as
follows: Curtis Long, (Robert
Bachman, Herbert Pfautz, Harry
Adams, Richard Stark, Roger
Martin, Carl Sa»mmet, Carl Reist,
Melvin Neff, Clyde Stauffer, Clyde
Davidson, Clarence Maharg, Arch-ie
Shelley, Ford Gorton, Robert
Herr, Earl Ludwig, Arthur Bortz,
Christian Snavely, Richard Sipe,
James Buch, and Harry Singer.
John Helter and Clair Mentzer
are student managers.
The season's schedule is as fol-lows:
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Welfare Fund
Falls Below
Quota Sought
Total of $3,469.60 Sub-scribed;
Several Solicit-ors
Still To Report
The close of the 1939 Lititz
Community Chest campaign here
this week revealed the total sub-scribed
still several hundred dol-lars
short of the quota fixed for
the borough.
The amount subscribed to-date
totals $3,469.60, A. L. Douple,
treasurer of the community chest
association, announced today. This
amount is approximately $200 less
than that subscribed last year and
is $331 below the amount sought.
The total includes $32.25 ob-tained
in the collection during the
annual Thanksgiving Day service
here last Thursday morning in
the United Brethren church.
There are still several solicitors
to report and these will in all
probability bring the total to
within a few dollars of last year's
total, those in charge of the cam-paign
predicted.
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Hershey Club
Leaves Today
Members of the Hershey Hunt-ing
Club will leave on their eighth
annual deer-hunting expedition to
Cedar Run, Lycoming county, to-day
at noon and will remain there
one week, returning next Thurs-day.
Included on the trip will be Hi-ram
"Pappy" Stohler who despite
his eighty or -more years of age
s still an active deer hunter. Mr.
Stohler, who got a doe last year,
has never shot a buck but hopes
to at) so this season.
Others who will make the trip
are as follows: Abe Hershey,
Owen Hershey, John Hershey, all
of Lititz, Dr. I. N. Hershey, Mam-heim;
Dr. Howard Minnich, Frank
Ditzler, Lloyd Hoffman, Floyd
Rader, Paul Doster, Luther Sharp,
Stanley Weit, Roy Long, Dervin
Runk, Harvey Runk and Clyde
Hotter, Lititz; and Lloyd Bomber-ger,
Lancaster.
FOUR AUTOS DAMAGED
IN COLLISION HERE
A total of four automobiles were
damaged here in an unusual acci-dent
which occurred on iEast Main
street Saturday morning. Accord-ing
to Chief of Police Clarence
Kreider, a machine driven by
Harry Lane which had beerwpark-ed
in front of Bushong's, pulled
out into the street when it figured
in a collision with a machine
operated by Harry Connolly, Ce-dar
street.
Endeavoring to avoid striking
the two machines, Raymond Kil-hefner,
of Akron, swerved across
the street and struck the parked
car of Dr. Wertsch, Kreider de-clared.
All four cars had to be towed
away.
Boro Council
May Buy Cops
Overcoats
$9,000 In Water Bills Go
Out This Week; New
Councilmen To Meet
Newly-elected councilmen will
get an insight on their jobs at the
December meeting of borough
council. An invitation to the two
new members to attend next
month's meeting in an ex-officio
capacity was extended them by
the present members of council at
a meeting held here Tuesday even-ing.
The two new members, Guy L.
Calvert and Thomas Steffy, will
take the. oath of office at a
special meeting shortly after Jan-uary
,1. Councilmen Jacob Koch's
resignation which was submitted
to council last month was ac-cepted
but no appointment was
made to fill the vacancy which
ends December 31.
Street Superintendent Addison
Harding reported that the im-provements
along South Spruce
street will be completed in an-other
week if present weather
conditions continue. The paving
of South Spruce street already has
created considerable favorable
comment on the part of residents
of the section.
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Drive To End
Pollution
Is Launched
Council And Board of
Health To Confer On
Steps To Be Taken
A campaign to end pollution of
the stream running through the
borough was launched this we 5k
when members of borough council
Invited the borough board of
health to confer on possible steps
to be taken.
That the state department of
health also will be consulted in
an effort to end the «lumping of
foreign substance into the stream
when runs the entire breadth of
the borough, was indicated.
At the same time, borough offi-cials
revealed that pians for wid-ening
the stream and cleaning it
will not be started, as planned,
but will be delayed until some
means has been found to end the
pollution.
Addressing borough council on
the subject, Burgess Victor Wag-ner
described the stream to ne in
a worse condition at present than
at any time in the past 20 years.
Councilman Charles Krick iso
reported the condiiton of the
stream to be bad and expressed
the opinion that existing laws to
prevent dumping into streams
should 'be enforced.
That council should meet im-mediately
with members of the
borough board of health in order
to correct the situation as quickly
as possible was proposed ;by Pres-ident
of Council Alfred M. Douple.
The pollution extends from
Broad street to where the stream
leaves the borough it was report-ed.
Surveyors this week com-pleted
the task of staking off the
stream preparatory to cleaning
and widening the stream. Bids
for this work were submitted at
the October meeting <of borough
council but not definitely acted
upon.
Back row: Shelly, Reidenbaugh, Maharg, Neff, Bachman, Mentzer, Miksch, Cooper, Long, Davidson, Zanders,
Coach Hendrickson. Middle row: Lowe, Gangwer, Pfautz, Zug, Ludwig, Hoff, Brown, Adams, Bomberger,
Pfautz, Haldeman, Miller, Mowery. Front row: Stauffer, Haines, Miller, Bingaman, Shultz, Garner, Kauff-man,
Shelly, Burkholder, Marks, Haldeman.
Lititz Football Season
Was A Successful One
by GUY L. BOMBERGER
Athough a season's record oil
three wins, three losses, and one
tie isn't too impressive a record,
it, nevertheless, marks a fairly
successful season for the 1939
Lititz High football team.
As a matter of fact, one has to
go way back to 1934 to find the
last Lititz High team that had a
better season than this fall's ele-ven
had. In that year the Red
and Black won four games,
dropped one, and tied one.
Approximately 2,500 fans wit-nessed
Lititz's four home games,
three of which resulted in vic-tories
for the "Pretzels."
Throughout the seven game
schedule the local eleven rolled
up 37 points as against 57 for op-ponents.
All the Lititz scoring
was done by Herb Cooper and
Charles Brown. Herb tallied four
times and converted one extra
point for a total of 25 points.
Brown hit the payofl territory
twice for 12 points.
Seven players played their last
high school football game in the
final fray against Lancaster Cath-olic
High on November 11. They
are: Harvey Miller, Harold Zand-er,
Bert Reidenbaugh, Herb
Pfautz, Ross Haldeman, Charles
Hoff, and Herb Cooper. The lat-ter
was captain for the season.
The following statistics help
show how the Hendrickison-coach-ed
team went through the season,
Lititz gathered 43 first downs and
allowed opponents to roll up 65.
The Red and Black machine com-pleted
20 passes out of 59. Lititz's
rivals did a bit better, completing
23 aerials out of 60. Lititz penal-ties
totaled 145 yards, while op-posing
teams were set back a to-tal
of 202 yards.
Twenty-one players saw acti >n
this past season. The linesmen
who played are: Clair Mentzer,
Archie Shelley, Bob Haines, Herb
Pfautz, Bert Reidenbaugh, Ross
Haldeman, Harry Adams, Curtis
Long, Elwood Zug, Bill Miksch,
Clarence Maharg, Earl Ludwig,
Harvey Miller and Harold Zand
er. The folowing fonmed- the
backfield; Herb Cooper, Charles
Brown, Charles Hoff, Robert
Bachman, Clyde Davidson, Melvin
Neff, and Richard Frederick.
Coach Clarence Hendrickson
was fairly satisfied with his
team's showing this fall. "The
team was more successful this
year because they worked togeth-
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Miss Bender
Is Engaged
ToWed
Dr. and Mrs. Harry E. Bender,
East Main St., Lititz, announced
the engagement of theiir daughter,
Mary Charlotte to Joseph M.
Carl, son of Mrs. George Carl and
the late Mr. Carl, of 2537 N. 2nd
St., Harrisburg. The announce-ment
was made at their home last
evening.
Miss Bender is a graduate of the
tLititz high school and Duke Uni-versity
and is a member of the
Sigma Kappa Sorority.
Mr. Carl is a graduate of the
Wililam Penn High school, Harris-burg
and Duke University. He is
a member of the Lambda Chi
Alpha and 'Phi Kappa Fraternities.
Miss Bender and Mr. Carl are
associated with Armstrong Cork
Co. No date has been set for fhe
wedding.
The guests included, Miss Ruth
Girvin, Miss Catherine Light Mi3S
Evelyn Pfautz, Miss Irene Keener,
Miss Ruth Dissinger, Miss Kathe-rine
Gochaneur, Miss Annabella
Minnich, Miss Margaret Kofroth,
Miss Katherine Rolliman, Miss
Mary Dengate, Miss Ruth Gocha-neur,
Miss Margaret L<ongenecker,
Miss Edith Diehm, Miss Janet
Aungst, Mrs. Warren Newcomer,
Mrs. Lloyd Shaeffer, Mrs. Robert
Trimble and Mrs. Robert Posey all
of Lititz; Miss Delina Heiss,
Neffsville; Mrs. Donald MoCol-lough,
Lancaster; Miss Mary
Storb, New Holland; Mrs. Howard
G. Johnston, Strasburg.
"DYNAMITE BOLLA"
Molon and Roy Yost of South
Locust Street spent Wednesday to
Sunday at Deer Lake, Schuylkill
County.
Well der Feir-dawg iss widder
fer-bi fer a'dale leidt ovver net
fer'se oil. Der waeg dos ich des
fer-shtae iss dos -se net oil tsum-ma
cooma hen kenna iwer"m
londt uf dem ieir-dawg so sin se
draw gonga und hen tswae dawg
p'shtelld fer'n tsu a'holda. Und
es gookt mer dos wun a'dale leiSt
tswae feir-dawga greega des yore
so dos se sich dick-seckich ful
fresea kenna, und des daed meer
awe ordlich gude g'folla ower ich
bin denk net gons so glicklich we
onneri sin. IBs coomt mer fore
dos se now a'mohl en dawg
g'setsdt hen fer Bade Dawg tsu
a'holda, ovver ich will net huffa
dos se rum foola mit'da Grish-dawg,
und bra'veera den dawg awe
rum tsu setsa. Won se sell doona
und se daeda de Grish-dawg im
Summer holdta, wos daed mer du
fer Shlidda fawra uf seler dawg
udder we kent mer unser nei win-der
glaeder ob weisa? Won mer
hut.
Sawg des hut ovver shunt ord-lich
ga'gnellt daart driwa ivver
em sae in'da ledschta pora wucha.
Iss es ovver net shlim der waeg dos
se de Shifter uf bloosa und maarda
so feel fun sella um'shuldichi
leidt. Und won ich sawg dos des
ba'dowerlich iss, don sed mer
yusht denka wos mer du daed won
ebber em si haemed in'da nicht uf
bloosa daed fer gore ken uhr-soch.
So iss es grawdt mit sella
Shiffer dos im sae rum gaena und
wissa net welli minnut dos so'n
grosser "Dynamite Bolla'" "ruf
coomt und bloost olles tsu sthick-er,
yar Menscha und olles. Und
feel fun denna leidt sin bledslich
dote und feel sin fer-gribbld ier
laeva, dale cooma lavendich aweak
ower sin si laeva nimmi we s
a'mohl worra. Won des now i
wos de Englisha g'civilised ha
don daed ich gleicha wissa w >
leidt sich awe-g'shickt hen wu /
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Candle Light
Xmas Service
Next Tuesday
The annual Pre-Christmas Can-dle
Light Service at St. Paul's
Lutheran Church will be held
next Tuesday evening at 7.30
o'clock. Begun a number of
years ago, this beautiful service,
sponsored by the Women's Miss-ionary
Society and the Mothers'
Club, jointly, has become a belov-ed
tradition. Attended not only
by the congregation but by the
public as well, it has become the
herald for this Sacred high festi-val
of the Christian Church in
this community.
The program Tuesday evening
will begin with a fifteen minute
recital of Christmas music by
Mrs. T. T. Dussinger. Miss Doro-thy
Little will follow with "Gesu
Bambino" by Yon on the marimba
with muted mallets. After the in-vocation
Mrs. Norman Brubaker
will sing "O Holy Night", a tra-ditional
composition. Three .pro-phetic
passages of Scripture will
introduce the carol "Joy to The
World", sung by the women's oc-
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HEALTH POSTER CAMPAIGN
TO BE EXPLAINED HERE
The health poster campaign
will be explained to local high
school students this afternoon by
Roy Hansen, representing the
Lancaster County Medical Society.
He will be introduced by Dr. M.
H. Yoder, member of the loca'
school board. Reels of talkir
moving pictures on television a'
air waves also will be shown d'
ing the chapel program.