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Vol. XLH Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa.^ Thursday, December 21, 1939 No. 15
Lititz Merchants Ready
For Last Minute Rush
Christmas shopping was speed-ing
along at a rapid pace here
this week as hundreds took ad-,
vantage of the opportunity of
trading at home in comfort.
According to a survey made to-day
of local businessmen, shop-ping
in Lititz this year already
reflects an increase of from 15 to
20 per-cent over the volume of
Christmas shopping last year.
This was in part due to the in-creased
Christmas stocks put on
display by a number of local busi-nessmen.
With the holidays only three
shopping days away, local merch-ants
were well prepared to take
care of the final spurt of those
seeking to make a last-minute
selection.
A new supply of small radios
which make excellent gift selec-tions
was received this morning
by Charles Krick who found him-self
forced to send in a hurry-up
call for more models late last
week after the large stock he had
had on hand was entirely depleted.
A large assortment of selections
for boys and men were offered
this week by ¡Henry Neff, proprie-tor
of Kuhn and Bro., as a guide
for the late shopper. No male
member of the family need go
without something really nice if
Cantata
At St. Paul's
On Xmas Eve
The Senior Choir of St. Paul's
Lutheran Church will fittingly
celebrate Christmas Eve, Sunday
evening at 7 P. M. with the sing-ing
of Alexander Matthews' Can-tata—"
The Story of Christmas".
The public, knowing the extra-ordinarily
fine quality of this well-known
choir's singing, realises
there will be much added to their
Christmas joy because of their
privilege of hearing this beautiful
work.
Mr. Joseph W. iSheckard will be
directing, with Miss Grace I. Ses-seman
at the console. The solo-ists
include: Sopranos, Mrs. Roy
Weaver, Mrs. Norman Brubafcer,
Mrs. James Mummert and Miss
Ruth Carper: Contralto, Mrs. Rus-sel
Longenecker: Tenor, Mr.
Thomas Maharg: Bass, Mr. Wil-liam
S. Dengler.
The arrangement of the Cantata
is as follows. :
Part I—The Prophecy: 1, Cho-rus,
"Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, O Emmanuel, our King
and Lawgiver". The Annunciation,
Soprano solo & Chorus, "The An-gel
Gabriel was sent from God".
Part II—The Vision of The
Shepherds: Introduction and Cho-rus,
''There were shepherds abid-ing
in the fields". Soprano Solo,
"And the angel said unto them".
Chorus, "Glory to God in the
Highest". The Journey of the
Shepherds—Tenor solo and Cho-rus,
"And it came to pass when
the angels were gone away".
Voices of the Sky— Soprano solo,
"O Lovely voices of the sky".
Part III—Instrumental March;
(Continued on Page 4)
1st page reader
—Good Used Piano. Suitable for
X'mas Gift. Young's Music House.
—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.
this large stock is inspected.
Henny and Keath combined
offerings with a showing of the
new 1940 Norge Electric Aefriger-ator
this week. The new models
on display in their storfe at 112
Front street was attracting con-siderable
attention.
Greens and trees which were
being offered at various pqints in
the borough also gave an addi-tional
yuletide touch to the local
scene.
Xmas Program
At School
Here Friday
Two entertainments will be giv-en
in the Lititz schools preceed-ing
the Christmas vacation which
will begin Friday, December 22
and continue until January 2.
"Trouble in Toyland" will be
presented by Grades one to six,
Thursday, December 2,1 at two
o'clock, directed by Joseph W.
Sheckard and the teachers includ-ing,
Miss Margaret Kofroth, Miss
Eleanor Fell, Miss Mary Sturgis,
Miss Martha Sturgis, Miss Vera
Hoffman, Mies Agnes Hensel, Miss
Kathryn Gantz, Miss Betty Hollen-bach,
Miss Marion Althouse, (Mrs.
Margie Arntz, Albert Ebbert, Mrs.
Margaret E. Hess and Miss Jean-ette
Shellenberger.
The cast includes, -Robert Heagy,
Margaret Grosh, Elloit Krane,
Gene Knipe, Nancy Lutz, Eloise
Kauffman, Cynthia Keener, Bar-bara
Witmyer, John Witmyer, Ma-ry
Pelger, Mary Lou Hershey,
Shirley Hoffman.
Elves, Donald Brefiner, Robert
Mentzer, JeTry Leaman, Gary
Hanna, Eric Buckley, Lester Long,
Lawrence Pierson and Donald
Guire; wooden soldiers, Donald
Walters, Robert Bender, Thaddeus
Patterson, Allen Adair, John de-
Perrot, Carl Horne, Robert Bush-ong,
Richard Leed.
"A Christmas Fantasy" will be
presented by the high schools on
Friday, December 22 at one
o'clock. The main roleo will be
taken by Howard Richardson,
George Bickel, and Marguerite
Adair.
Miss Winona Schroff is direct-ing,
John L. Byerly has charge of
the decorations and Mr. Sheckard
the music.
There will be Christmas carol-ing
through the halls on Friday
morning.
Bus Service
Is Dscussed
By C. of C.
Will Award Prizes For
Decorations On Jan. 4;
Appropriate $5 to
Children's Fund
With many home-owners here
competing, for prizes offered by
the Lititz Rotary club through
the Chamber of Commeroe, home
decorations in Lititz promise to
be the most elaborate in the his-tory
of the borough, members of
a Chamber of Commerce commit-tee
reported at a meeting held in
the lire house Tuesday evening.
Judges will !be brought here
from out-of-town to judge the
home decorations some evening
(Continued on Page 4)
Sportsmen
Plan Ox Roast
At Meeting
Over forty members attended
the regular meeting of the Lititz
Sportsmens Association held in
the council chamber on Monday
evening. Elmer Bomberger the
president was in charge of the
meeting.
Six hundred brown trout were
placed in the Hamnsrer Creek and
eight hundred in the Middle Creek
since the last meeting according
to the report of the fish commitee
headed by E. K. Adams.
George Royer who had charge
of the distribution of the safety
zone signs for the association
stated that 2000 signs were printed
and that almost ten thousand
acres was available for hunting
through this arrangement. This
is a gain of 431 acres over last
year.
Members were informed that if
any Lititz residents request that
rabbits be removedv from their
yards and gardens they are to
notify Irvin Floyd, South Willow
street, Lititz, who will trap them
and release them in rural sec-tions.
It was decided to have the an-nual
ox roast as in former years,
the date to be selected by the en-tertainment
committee who will
have charge of the affair. The
committee consists of Christ Koeh-ler,
chairman, iRalph Walters,
Chas. C. Zollinger, Wm. G .Eshle-man,
and James Derr.
Former Lititz Boy Describes
Hoildays In Far Off Alaska
PUBLIC LIBRARY IPEN
DURING HOLIDAYS
Persons who are wishing for
the backgr»und of an old-iashion-ed
Christmas, with snow, ice,
sleighing and even reindeer,
should be with George Fleishman
and family in the arctic circle, at
Tanacross, Alaska.
George, a former ¡Lititz boy,
wrote that the temperature there
during the Holidays last year was
48 below zero and for a week hov-ered
day and night between that
point and 43.
Assuredly, Christmas is cele-brated
at Tanacross, with its
small population 'of Indians and
live white people, not forgetting
169 dogs, but not a cat. A house
cat cannot survive the tempera-ture.
Here's the program of festivities
last year: Started with an enter-tainment
at the school, with a
Christmas tree, for all the natives.
Several days later the natives
held a dance. At a later date an-other
dance was held at the
school. Guests were served wth
tea, cocoa, cakes, candy and
puffed rice balls. This year Lititz
clear toy candy will be included
in the treat.
All the dances have a meaning,
or act out a story, explains Mr.
Fleishman and the music dates
back to the Stone Age.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Fleishman, seven years old, prov-ed
an apt pupil in the art of na-tive
dancing, and was presented
with a beautiful crossfox skin as
a token of appreciation by the
Indians last Christmas.
Mr. Fleishman is a Federal Gov-ernment
school teacher and all
(Continued on Page 4)
Christmas Star
So clear the night
And in its velvet folds
A star
Was born to carry light
To shepherds on the hills
A-F&r
Star-light spilled
Upon the world to catch
The eye
Of other men who
Paused at work to gaze
On high.
And while they watched
From out the sky above
A horde
Of voices told in song
That in Bethlehem was come
The Lord.
If you can find His star
You may
Find God too along your way.
Selina Eshleman
Moravians
To Hold Three
Eve Vigils
Three identical Christmas eve
vigile will be held in the Moravian
church on Sunday evening, De-cember
24, at four thirty, six and
seven thirty o'clock.
This will be the one hundredth
and eightieth year this picture-esque
service has been held in the
local church. Starting when Lit-itz
was a mere village the service
has grown in popularity until it is
necessary to repeat it three times
to accomodate the vast crowds
who wish to usher in the Christ-mas
season by attending this im-pressive
service.
In the traditional manner the
trombone choir of men and boys
of the congregation will play the
denominational chorales on the
church balcony preceeding each
(Continued on Page 5)
Linden Hall
Honor Roll
The honor roll for Linden Hall
Academy and Junior College, Lit-itz,
for the month ending Decem-ber
lfi includes; Junior College:
first honor roll, Mary Hammond,
Lititz, Kitty Beck, iRuth Carpen-ter;
second honor roll, Jean Mc-
Dermott, Jane Lamparter, Dorothy
Goldstein, Marie Aierstock, Selma
Russell; third honor roll, Peggy
Snyder, Jerne Johnson, June Stite-ler,
Barbara Pipes, Petronella
Durham, Marjorie Groh.
Academy; first honor roll, Mar-jorie
Over, Jeanette Hoskins; sec-ond
honor roll, Patsy Seip, Ann
Price, Barbara St. Clair, Eleanor
Harris, Frances Belser; third ho-nor
roll, Mary Ann Swager, ¡Betty
Evans, Georgia Wurtz, Betty
Goldstein, Sophia Hoimes, Mary
Elizabeth Rich, Elizabeth Ann
Wisner, Jane -Stark, Mary Lou
Livingood, Mary Martha Voorhees,
Virginia Ann Wiehe.
Three Choirs
Will Present
Xmas Concert
The three choirs of the Evan-gelical
Congregational church will
present a concert on Sunday even-ing,
December 24, at eight o'clock.
It will be preceeded by an organ
recital by Mrs. Warren Newcomer,
the organist, at seven thirty.
Mrs. Newcomer's numbers will
include, "March of the Magi
Kings" by Dubois; "Sleepens
Awake", Bach; "Christmas Pasto-ral"
from the hymn, tune, "Her-ald
Angels" by Dinelli; "Bells
and Cradle Song", MacFarlane;
"Two Preludes", "Evening, Clock-ey;
"Toccato", Nevin.
The Senior, Junior and Descant
choirs directed by Harry Neider-myer
will present the following
program, processional, "O Come
All Ye Faithful"; invocation and
prayer by Dr. L. C. Hunt; hymn,
"As With Gladness Men of Old";
"Silent Night", junior choir; "O,
Savior Sweet", Junior and Des-cant
choirs; "Behold I Bring You
Good Tidings" by the senior choir;
offertory, "Christmas", Kinder;
anthems by the senior choir, "Now
is the Time", "Sing We Noel",
''Jesu Bambino", by Yon; Carols
by the Congregation, "Hark the
Herald Angels Sing", "Angels
from the Realms of Glory".
The musical will be followed by
the White Gift service with the
introduction by Dr. Hunt. He will
be assisted by Miss iDorothy Hunt,
Catharine Hall, Miriam Wonder,
Mrs. Harry Neidermyer and mem-bers
of the Junior choir.
NO RECORD NEXT WEEK
Following a custom established
many years ago by the Express
the Record-Express will not be
published during Christmas week,
thus enabling the staff a more lei-surely
Christmas. The next 'issue
of the Record-Express will be
published Thursday, January 4.
During the Christmas Vacation
the Public Library of Lititz in the
High School building will be open
Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30
to 5:30 in the afternoon and from
6:30 to 8:30 in the evenings on
the above mentioned days.
There were 18 new borrowers.
And in the 11 days since the li-brary
started there were 114S
books circulated. The public is
invited to the Library during ths
day time from 8 o'clock in the
morning to 4, in the afternoon
and also every Tuesday and
Thursday evening from 6:30 to
8:30.
Will Sing
Xmas Carols
At Rothsville
A Christmas carol service will
be held in the Rothsville High
School this evening to which the
public has been invited. The pro-gram
will begin with a selection
by the orchestra and will be fol
lowed with the invocation by Rev.
W. K. Caccel, pastor of the Evan-gelical
Congregational church of
Rothsville.
A processional participated is
by the grade choirs will featuar e
the program. Grades participating
include those from the first grade
to the sixth.
German folk songs sung by the
Junior High School mixed chorus
also will be presented. The Sen-ior
High Boys' chorus, the school
glee club and the trumpet quartet
also will participate.
An accordian solo will be rend-ered
(by Gerald Zook while Janet
Dubs will present a soprano solo.
The Rothsville Community Charus
will present five numbers: The
Croon Carol, the First Christmas
Morn, There Were Shepherds and
Rejoice and Silent Night.
Rev. Gerald J. Jacoby, pastor of
the Jerusalem Lutheran church of
Rothsville will pronounce the
benediction. The service will close
with community carol singing
around the Christmas tree on the
school grounds.
The program will be directed by
Irene Ranck, supervisor of music;
with Mae Kern, Erla Heller and
Luther Hackman, accompanists.
The orchestra is being assisted
by several players from the town.
Santa Claus
Will Arrive
Here Saturday
Carol Singing At Fountain
Sunday Evening At
8.45 O'clock
The arrival of Santa Claus Sat-urday
morning, cantatas and spec-ial
song services in all of the local
churches Sunday night followed
with the singing of carols at the
fountain, will mark the beginning
of the Christmas season in Lititz.
Santa Claus with the usual big
pack on his back, will be brought
to Lititz by automobile from the
airport where he willl arrive by
plane Saturday morning, Emory
Wagner, local fire chief, announc-ed
today.
After a tour of the town, Santa
Claus will greet kiddies of the
borough and surrounding town-ships
at the Lititz Theatre at 11
A. M. After the special kiddies
show, Santa will go to the fire
house where he will meet the boys
and girls individually- and will
present them with oranges and
candy.
Santa Claus will remain at the
tire house until 7.30 P. M. to greet
boys and girls. In announcing
Sant Claus' plans, Chief Wagner
urged parents to arrange either
early or late lunches! for their
children Saturday in oirder that as
many as possible may attend the
show in the ¡Lititz Thieatre.
"We want the largest crowd of
boys and girls that we ever had,"
he declared.
There will not be a Christmas
display in the lire hou se this year
due to the work of remodeling the
kitchen, Chief Wagner also an-nounced.
The exhibit annually
proves one of the mosit popular in
the county and has been viewed
regularly by thousands.
(Continued on Page 5)
MIDNIGHT MASS AT
ST. JAMES CHURCH
There will be a midnight Mass
of Holy Angels sung by the Choir
followed by a Shepherds Mass.
The 3rd Maßs will be held
Christmas Morning at 10 o'clock.
A Christmas Party for the kid-dies
will be held Sunday afternoon
at 2 o'clock in the Social Hall of
the Church. The party is spon-sored
by the Altar Society.
Bird Club Members Find
Thirty-Six Species Near Lititz
It's possible to see as many as
thirty-six different species of birds
\n the rolling country around Lit-itz,
it was revealed here last Sun-lay.
The discovery was made by
Mght Lititz members of the Lan-caster
County Bird Club who hik-id
most of last Sunday through-lut
the northern part of the coun-ty
counting birds.
Divided into three parties, the
ornithologists tallied 36 different
kinds of birds with a grand total
•if 4,789 individuals.
This Christmas Census was tak-
';n in conjunction with the Na-tional
Association of Audubon
Societies. Over the entire United
States this week, similar counts
are being taken by hundreds of
bird lovers in an effort to deter-mine
the winter bird population
of the forty-eight states.
Those who participated in the
Lititz census were Barton L.
Sharp, William Light, Guy D.
Bomberger, Guy iL. Bomberger,
Charles Regannas Jr., Robert Sny-der,
Donald Garner and Paul
Foreman.
• The complete tabulation is as
follows: Turkey Vulture, 129;
Sharp-shinned Hawk, 2; Cooper's
Hawk, 1; Red-tailed! (Hawk, 7;
Bob-white, 6; Ring-necked Pheas-ant,
34; Kildeer, 1;; Mourning
Dove, 40; Belted Kingfisher, 1;
Flicker, 3; Red-bellied Woodpeck-er,
1; Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
1; Hairy Woodpecker, 5; Downy
Woodpecker, 20; Horned Lark, 2;
Blue Jay, 36; Crow, 215; Black-capped
Chickadee, 78; Tufted Tit-mouse,
51; White-breasted Nut-hatch,
15; Brown Creeper, 3; Win-ter
Wren, 1; Bluebrd, 10; Golden-crowned
Knglet, 1; Staring, 3,497;
Englsh Sparrow, 210; Rusty Black-bird,
2; Purple Gracklle. 6; Cardi-nal,
18; Goldfinch, 18; Junco, 203;
Tree Sparrow, 126; S'wamp Spar-row,
1; Song Sparrow. 37.
T>ER
DEITSCH
"DE GRISH-DAWG'
De wuch hov ich ga'wiss net
feel tsu sawga, und ich hob ovver
awe net de tseidt. Yusht des
mocht ovver awe net feel ous,
deer leidt het net de tseidt fer es
tsu laesa de wuch, mit oll de
Grish-dawg's orrivet dos aweck
tsu shoffa iss.
Wos ich sawga kent fun'da
Grish-dawg waart net feel hilf, mi
ga'shreib daed fer'leicht yusht
mae shawda dos gude, won ich
bra'veera daed fer eich ous tsu
laega fun de socha dos de Grish-dawga
shtaad da'fore. Ovver ae
ding will ich sawga, und sell iss
dos de Grish-dawg net shtaed fer
socha dos nuch feel leidt maena
dos se doot. Es shtaed a'mohl
ga'wiss net fer nous gae und sich
dickseckich ful sowfa mit so
shtinkicher shlop bis se net wissa
eb se om cooma sin udder om gae.
Yar es hut nuch blendi leidt dos
net besser wisäa udder fer'leicht
wella se ovver awe net. Ich denk
es iss evva net feel dos mer da
kon da'waega? we maent deer.
Won se so Si fun sich mocha wel-la
mus mer se denk yusht gae
lussa bis se era rechter fer'shtondt
greega. De leidt hedda oil in'da
Karrich si sella ivver SntfiSt,
noh waarts'na ordlich shae ous
ga'laegt worra dos de Grshdawgr
net shaed fer Sowferi und 1
da'gleich, ovver fer socha dos f<
besser und shenner sin.
Well de tseidt iss kartz, ovver
ich shtup darf ich net fer'gr
sich oll en "HAR1RLICHI UND
SAELIOHI GRISH-DAWG *
SCHA."
"DER DEITSCH"
Delphians
Enjoy Program
At Xmas Party
Mrs. Valentine Brobst enter-tained
the Delphian Society at
their annual Christmas party at
her home on Friday evening. Miss
Mary Huebener, the president,
was ' in charge of the business
meeting preceeding .the program.
The group will present Dr. An-ton
Lang Jr., in an illustrated
lecture on "The Passion ¡Play" on
Thursday, January 28, in Fellow-ship
Hall, Moravian Sunday
school building.
Mrs. R. P. Healy illustrated
Dickens' Christmas Carol and
the sketches were thrown on a
screen while Mrs. «Florence Gib-bel
read the story. Miss Huebener
displayed a small booklet contain-ing
the story bought by her moth-er
when she heard Charles Dick-ens
read it in Lancaster many
years ago. The edition was dated
1868.
Gifts were exchanged by the
members and the decorations and
refreshments were of a Christmas
motif.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. Edward Buch
January 5.
LOCAL COUPLE OBSERVES
SILVER WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Christener,
of 55 North Broad street, will ob-serve
their silver wedding anni-versary
on Thursday, December
28. Open house will be observed
during the afternoon and evening
when they will entertain friends.