Lititz Record

              THE LITITZ RECORD.
An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence.
VOL. XXXVIII LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 3,1915. NO. 38
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
I t e m s of Minor Mention, So to Speak
but of Interest to t h e Average Reader
at Home and Abroad.
A large doorkey awaits the loser at
t h e RECORD office.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bechtel are
receiving congratulations upon the birth
of a daughter.
Farmers are busy planting tobacco
and many a back aches by the time the
sun goes down.
Wm. H. Zartman has joined the army
of "Ford" enthusiasts and has purchas-ed
a new 1915 model touring car.
A pair of eye glasses were lost some-where
about town on Monday evening.
Finder will confer a favor by returning
to this office.
Miss Emily Tietze, a teacher at Linden
Hall, was operated on for enlarged
glands at the Lancaster General Hospi-tal
last Friday.
Drover Horace Keller on Monday
shipped a car of f a t hogs to Grays Ferry,
Philadelphia. They were bought from
farmers hereabouts.
William A. Sturgis erected a good-sized
two-story attachment to his house
near the San Domingo creek. Hershey,
Leaman & Co. did the carpenter work.
The seniors of Linden Hall, accom
panied by the teachers, will take their
annual trip to the hills on Saturday to
secure laurel for decorating for com-mencement.
• Miss Ada May Schnerer has received
a position as stenographer and type-writer
in the C. S. Garman cigar fae
tory at Denver and she assumed her
duties on Monday.
County Supt. of Public Schools Fleish-er
examined a class of eighteen appli
cants for schools in the Warwick high
school building last Friday, of whom
three failed to pass.
There will be an important meeting
of the Fourth of July Springs Com-mittee
this evening in the council cham-ber
at 8 o'clock. * Ail mdffibers ~ar&" "fi^"
quested to be present.
The wife of Rev. G. Harry Miksch,
of Park, York county, who is well known
here, was operated on for goitre in the
Philadelphia University Hospital last
week and she is doing very well.
Thomas Steffy, concrete builder, re-ceived
a large contract for all the work
needed at the new Myerstown public
school building about to be erected. It
is a job which will require at least seven
carloads of cement.
While repairs were going on at what
is known as Rudy's dam south of Owl
Hill recently two boys caught three cat-fish
which together weighed seven
pounds. They also captured the largest
frog ever seen in that vicinity.
The Whit Monday races at Rothsville
postponed on that date on account of
rain were held on Saturday afternoon.
Despite overcast skies a number of
lovers of horses turned out and the races
proved interesting from beginning to
LINDEN HALL COMMENCEMENT
The Exercises t o be Held Next Week—
T h e r e will be Seven Graduates
Next week will be commencement
week at Linden Hall Seminary. Great
preparations are making for the event as
many patrons and alumnae have signi-fied
their intention to be present.
The honors have been awarded to the
deserving ones, as follows: First honor,
Miss Esther Graver, Neffsville; second
honor, Miss Katharine Huggins, of
Trenton, N. J. The prize essay has
been awarded to Miss Marjorie L.
Thropp, of Trenton, N. J. The class
motto is, "Prius Frangitur Quam
Flectitur." The class colors are blue
and gold; class flowers, sweet peas.
Following are the names of the seven
graduates: Helen E. Cook, Esther S.
Graver, Kathryn H. Higgins, Gertrude
E. Kilgore, Eleanor E. Muth, Elizabeth
L. Shreiner, Marjorie L. Thropp.
Following is the program of exercises
from day to day:
Sunday, June 6—Sermon to the grad-uating
class by Rev. E. S. Hagen, prin-cipal,
Moravian church, 10.30 A. M.
Monday, June 7—Class day. 3.30 P.
M., presentation of the Senior class
memorial; 8 P. M„ Senior play, gym-nasium-
auditorium.
Tuesday, June 8—Alumnae day, 8 A.
M. Reunions of 1.870 pupils and classes,
1890 to 1894; 1 P. M., art and domestic
science exhibition; 3 P. M., general
alumnae business meeting; 4.30 P. M.,
alumnae banquet; 8 P. M., concert,
gymnasium-auditorium.
Wednesday, June 9—Commencement
day; 9 A. M., commencement address
by the principal elect, Rev. Frederick
William Stengle, of Canal Dover, Ohio.
NUMEROUS PERSONS CALLED TO THE
GREAT BEYOND.
Mrs. Clara Nye
Mrs. Clara Nye, aged 56 years, died
at her home at Lancaster, on the 26th
ult., from a complication of diseases.
She had been in failing health for the
past year. Deceased was born in War-wick,
but had been a resident of Lan-caster
for the past 30 years. She was a
member of the Moravian church, of
Lititz. She is survived by two sons,
Paul and Edward Lutz, both of Lancas-ter,
and two brothers, Herman Diehm,
of Lebanon, and William Diehm, of this
borough. The funeral was held from
her late home on Monday morning; in-terment
was made in the Greenwood
cemetery, Lancaster.
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED
The Occasion
Beautiful and
in Our Midst
Again Witnessed the
Impressive Ceremonies
Was Not H e r e for 26 Years
Mrs. Rev. James B. Stonesifer, of
Fort Louden, Franklin county, is the
guest of Mrs. D. H. Kreiter on South
Broad street for the week. Mrs. Stone-sifer
was Martha Tobias, daughter of
the late Rev. D. C. Tobias, who died
here about twenty-five years ago. She
married and left Lititz twenty-six years
ago and never was here since except on
one occasion as she passed through.
She has four children. Her husband is
^astop of a. Reformed e»"weh at Fort
Louden. She thinks Lititz has made
wonderful forward strides.
Death at Zion Home
George Foster, an inmate at the
United Zion Home, north of this place,
died at that institution on Thursday
morning, May 27, at 6.40 o'clock. His
age was 79 years and death was due to
infirmities due to his advanced age. He
had been ailing for a few months but
was only bedfast for about a week prior
to his death. Deceased was a veteran
of the Civil war and loved to relate in-cidents
of those thrilling days. He
spent much time with friends in Lititz
where he was well known. One daugh-ter,
whose whereabouts are unknown,
survives. The funeral was held on Sat-urday
morning and deceased was buried
with military honors in the United Zion
cemetery, which was according to a re-quest
he had made. Rev. J. A. Heitler
officiated.
Dr. B. F. Z e r b e Dead
EIGHTEEN YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN
RECEIVED DIPLOMAS
end.
John F. Longenecker returned on
Wednesday from a trip to the middle
west. He visited the plants of the au-tomobile
firms which he represented
and is satisfied that the Imperial and
Chevrolet cars are all that they are
claimed to be.
The RECORD is in receipt of a post
card from Samuel B. Pfautz, who left
here a month or more ago for the Pacific
coast. It was written at Tijuana, Mex
ico. Mr. Pfautz evidently is enjoying
himself. He formerly worked in the
Eby shoe factory here.
On Tuesday morning Policeman Greek
arrested a man for drunkenness and dis-orderly
conduct. He was taken to the
lockup and kept there for the day and
then told to beat it. The man gave his
name as John Weakwater, and admitted
that he had used too much strong water.
Mr. John Wentworth, a former resi-dent,
is spending a few days in town.
For seven years he has resided at Mine
La Motte, Mo., but his furniture is on
the way east and he and his family will
reside near Reading with his son Ed-ward.
Mrs. Wentworth is visiting rel-atives
on her way east.
Automobile races are claimed to be
most exciting, but most persons here-abouts
will never get an opportunity to
witness them. Nevertheless if you
want to see one of the "Benzine Bug-gies"
travel at a fast pace just hang
around the new Warwick township state
road. The autoists love to take advan-tage
of this beautiful piece of road to
test the speed of their cars.
Fire at Rothsyille
At 12.30 Tuesday noon fire was dis-covered
on the second floor of Henry
Grumbein's property tenanted by Clay-ton
Young, along the road from Roths-ville
to Millport. The Rothsville Fire
Company responded promptly, but the
man in charge of the hose rushed to the
fire without that necessary fixture and
had to return for it. In the meantime
the fire gained great headway and the
water in the well also became exhausted.
Consequently the entire upper floor was
; gutted out together with the contents.
! Nearly everything was removed from
the first floor. A defective flue caused
the fire. Loss about $500. There was
some insurance on the property. A
large brick house stood close by the
burned one but was not damaged.
BriUiant Exercises Marked the Twenty-
Eighth Commencement of Lititz High
School
The twenty-eighth annual commence-ment
exercises of Lititz High School
were held in the Linden Hall Gymnasium
on Thursday evening of last week before
an audience that filled the large audi-torium.
These exercises are always
looked forward to with much pleasant
anticipation by the scholars, their par-ents
and friends of education of this
community. We doubt if there is any
place any where where this event is
more fittingly and enjoyably observed.
And this year's exercises, held in honor
of the eighteen young folks who suc-cessfully
completed the course of studies,
was without doubt one of the best if not
the best that has ever been held here,
with all due respect to the talents dis-played
by those who stood before the
footlights in the years gone by.
As the curtain which screened the
stage from the audience was lifted, the
graduates, other High School scholars,
the faculty and the High School orches-tra
as well as others who participated in
the program were revealed, behind a
bank of beautiful potted plants dotted
with the class flower, the dogwood. The
class colors, brown and gold, were used
with striking effect to complete the de-corative
scheme, which was most note-worthy.
Prominently displayed was the
motto, "Artem pete finem," "Aim at a
Certain End."
The High School orchestra supplied
the music at the start of the program
and the leader, Prof. P. E. Beck, had
the youthful musicians well prepared
for the occasion. Rev. J . W. G. Hershey
invoked the blessing of the Creator upon
the assembly. Salutatory honors were
awarded to Roy Workman, who at this
time welcomed all with well chosen
words, after which he delivered an ora-tion
which tingled with true patriotism
on
"The Man Without a Country"
The book of this title from the pen
of Edward Everett Hale is known to
practically all readers. After giving a
brief sketch of Philip Nolan, the young
officer who conspired against his coun-try,
and when captured and tried de-clared
" I wish I may never hear of the
United States again" the young man
said in part: "It does not' nefed that a
man should curse the United States as
Philip Nolan did to make it desirable for
him to consider the lessons which are in
this story. Any man is "Without a
country" who by his sneers, looking
backward, or by revealing his country's
secrets to her enemy, checks for one
hour the movements which lead to peace
among the nations of the world, or
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Dr. B. Frank Zerbe, of Schaeffers
town, former prothonotary of Lebanon
county, died at 11.35 P. M. on Sunday
at his residence on Center square. He
suffered from pneumonia and a compli
cation of diseases. Deceased was aged
61 years. He was born in Schaeffers
town on Oct. 11, 1853,/and was a son of
the late Dr. John Z^fbe, who was born
in Tulpehocken, Berks county, and who
in 1840, married MiSs Martha A. Meye
They had five children, two of whom
survive: Charles M., Lebanon, and Dr
Thomas, Schaefferstown. The deceased
was a graduate of Jefferson MeSical
College, Philadelphia, and for a time
practiced with Dr. Gleim, of Cornwall,
later moving to Schaefferstown, where
he conducted practice until the time of
his death. In 1882 he formed a partner-ship
with his brother, Dr. Thomas Zerbe
and they engaged in the cigar manufac
turing business at Schaefferstown. This
interest he also held up until the time of
his death. In 1907 he was elected pro-thonotary
and served for a term of two
years. He is survived by his widow and
a son, Charles L. Zerbe. Funeral,
Thursday June 3, at 2 P. M. Interment
at Schaefferstown.
Death of a Young Man
Christian Nelson Hartman died
Philadelphia on the 2nd inst., aged 18
years. He was a son of Dr. and Mrs.
J. D. Hartman, formerly of Penn town-ship.
His ailment was pneumonia. He
attended the Williamson Trade School
for two years, when he took ill in April,
1914, and was bedfast at school until
July 20tla last. His last illness was of
ten weeks' duration. Funeral, Friday,
June 4, in the J. Addison Memorial
Presbyterian church in Philadelphia.
Interment at Mohler's near Ephrata at
"12 M. Saturday, June 5.
Thieves Visited Several Homes
Thieves displayed unusual activity in
this borough on Wednesday night of last
week, when no less than a half-dozen
homes were visited by the intruders.
They appeared to be after most any and
everything, for the list of articles taken
ranged all the way from eatables to a
gas meter. At the home of Benj. Weid-ner
the gas meter was taken from the
house into a field nearby. It was a
quarter meter in which that amount of
money is put in each time a certain
amount of gas is used. No doubt the
thieves thought there was money in the
meter, but such was not the case. At
E. K. Brubaker's summer house near
the Weidner home the intruders secured
some eats. The thieves visited the
home of Mrs. Anna Bricker but they
were heard by a neighbor who turned on
the lights, which apparently frightened
them and they left the place. The homes
of Thad. Will and Monroe Meily, who
reside in the former's double house was
visited and at Meily's the thieves stole
their daughter's bicycle. It is also be-lieved
that they visited the home of
Michael Grazer for during the night one
of the family is said to have heard a
noise about the house and the next morn-ing
the cellar door was open, but noth-ing
was missing it is believed that the
intruders were frightened away.
As yet the local officers have not ob-tained
any definite clues, but it is be-lieved
that the thieves were persons
familiar with this locality.
Shipped Walnut Lumber
A carload of walnut lumber was
shipped from here to Boyertown, Berks
county, last Saturday, where it will be
used in making burial caskets. The
lumber was sawed in Z. M. Fry's saw
mill at Eden. Mr. Fry buys the trees,
cuts and saws them. The lumber was
hauled here in Levi Yerger's auto
trucks.
At the Mt. Airy Hotel in Clay town-ship
on Saturday, 12th inst., there will
be a public sale of cows, heifers and
hogs, all good stock.
Memorial day was fittingly observed
by the veterans of this vicinity as well
as by the citizens in general on Monday.
The day was fine and there was nothing
to mar the carrying out of the program.
Nearly all places of business were closed
as well as some of the industries. At 1
o'clock in the afternoon the G. A. R.
veterans proceeded in automobiles to
Kissel Hill, where the graves of depart-ed
comrades were solemnly decorated
with floral tributes. - From there home-ward
bound they made a stop at Mach-pelah
cemetery where a similar duty
was performed and thence to the United
Evangelical cemetery, where others
were decorated.
In the early evening a procession of
the veterans, headed by the Lutz family
band, was formed. They marched down
East Main street. At the corner of
Cedar street they were joined by about
150 public school children, all armed
with bouquets, and together they pro-ceeded
to the Moravian cemetery. Here,
at the sound of the bugle, the veterans
and children gently placed their tokens
of respect on the graves of the many
soldiers buried there. The sight was a
pretty one indeed and all was executed
to perfection, so to speak. Lutz's band,
played a solemn hymn, after which Rev.
Geo. B. Raezer offered a prayer. Rev.
Hagen read Lincoln's Gettysburg ad-dress.
Rev. P. T. Brocious introduced Hon.
Wm. C. Freeman, of Cornwall, as the
orator of the day. The speaker launch-ed
out in a manner which attracted every
one's attention, for his voice was clear
and distinct. He congratulated the
veterans and the children for their in-terest
on this solemn occasion and then
recited the reasons for the ^observance
of Memorial day, recalling the strife of
over fifty years ago when the struggle
existed for the defense of the Union.
He alluded to the European war now in
progress, but did not dwell much on
this subject. He rather disapproved
of large Standing armies but favored
national guards and a good coast de-fense.
Mr. Freeman's remarks showed
a well studied subject and it was gen
erally considered the best delivered or
such an occasion for many years.
Following the address Rev. Brocious
pronounced the benediction. The pro
cession was re-formed and a return
march to and along Main street closed
the day's event.
The cemetery contained a larger crowd
than probably ever before, and it seems
that interest increases rather than de>
es when Memorial day comes
along.
TRAVELERS NEAR AND EAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
BOROUGH FATHERS HAD BUSY SESSION
Fire and Water Committee Instructed
t o Buy Large Lot of Water Supplies.
Many Bills Ordered Paid
Town council held its regular monthly
meeting on Monday evening and al-though
the day was a holiday our bor-ough
fathers had a busy session. Chief
Burgess Marks and Councilmen Miksch,
Neidermyer, Graul, Schnerer, Masser,
Haverstick and Miller were present.
The Street Committee reported the
streets oiled. Three water permits
were issued during the month.
The Fire and Water Committee re-ported
negotiations in progress for the
purchasing of 325 pieces of four-inch
water pipe, 57 pieces six-inch pipe, nine
fire plugs, 10 four-inch valves and 2 six-inch
valves. S. G. Lantz, representing
the Darling Pump and Manufacturing
Co., explained and demonstrated the
superior points of their fire plugs. A
number of bids on pig lead, etc., were
submitted and considered. The com-mittee
was instructed to secure the
necessary water supplies without delay.
The matter of trimming trees to the
required height was once more consider-ed
and council decided that the trimming
should proceed.
Complaint was received about the
paint dropping from the crossarms of
the Bell Telephone Company's poles.
Tax Collector Grosh submitted a list
of names of tax payers who had died,
removed from the borough, or are unable
to pay and asked that they be exoner-ated,
which was done. He was instruct-ed
to proceed against the few delin-quents
who have not yet paid and compel
payment.
A resolution fixing the tax rate for
the year 1915 at 6 mills, to be levied on
all property subject to county rates and
with an additional sum of $1.00 on all
male inhabitants over the age of 21 years
per capita, which is the same as last
year, was adopted finally. This applies
to all properties and persons within the
present borough limits. Two mills will
be used for general borough purposes
and 4 mills for redeeming outstanding
water bonds.
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The Whereabouts of Your and Our
Friends as Thev Move T o and Fro.
Rev. J. W. G. Hershey was at
Shamokin on Monday.
Mrs. W. H. Buch spent a week at
Reading with her sister.
Mr. A. J. Ulrich of Lancaster called
on Lititz friends on Monday.
Mrs. W. B. Oehme spent several days
with her daughter at Manheim.
Miss Elsie Lenhart of Mechanicsburg
is the guest of Miss M. J . Derr at Linden
Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Smith, of Ak-ron,
spent Sunday with relatives in
town.
Miss Emma Grosh, who taught school
in New Jersey, came home for the
summer.
Mr. Harry Warner of Minersville,
Schuylkill county, visited Lititz friends
last Sunday.
Mrs. T. R. Kreider of Gettysburg
is visiting Lititz relatives and friends
for two weeks.
Mr. Walter Grosh of Bethlehem spent
Monday to Tuesday here with his broth-er
Ben. F. Grosh.
Mr. John Leed leaves this week for
Hershey, intending to make his home
with his son Spencer.
Mr. Charles Schmidt of Philadelphia
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Schmidt at this place.
Miss Lottie Duchman, one of our pub-lic
school teachers, has gone to her home
at Reading for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Graybill of East
Petersburg on Monday visited her father
Peter Brunner on Front street.
Miss Elsie Rulon, of Philadelphia,
former music teacher at Linden Hall,
was a guest of the school this week.
Mrs. Harry Gingrich and child of
Spring City are visiting her husband's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gingrich.
Mr. Alvin Wertsch, a teacher at the
Stevens Industrial School at Lancaster,
was the guest of Jos. Miller on Sunday.
Mrs. H. Y. Yocum and mother, Mrs.
Louisa Yetter, of Grill, Berks county,
visited.Mrs, Catharine Smithpn Monday,
Mr. Tahlman I. Brubaker of Philadel-phia
spent a few days here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi N. Baubaker.
Harry Herr, a student in the William-son
Trade School in Delaware county,
was here visiting his parents for a few
days.
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Kiehl and
daughter of Ephrata were Sunday visi-tors
with Mr. and Mrs. Lemon Neider-myer.
Mr. Lloyd Ritchie, employed in an
Ashland jewelry store, spent several
days at his parents' home on West Main
street.
Miss Leah Kreiter, of Washington,
•D. C., who is the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
D. D. Graul, is spending a week in
Reading.
Mr. Valentine Brobst is home from
Philadelphia for the summer vacation.
He is a student in the Medico-Chirurgi-cal
University.
Mr. William Ditzler, for years em-ployed
in the Eby shoe factory here, but
for some time employed at Quarryville,
was here over Sunday.
Mrs. Laura Bowman of Norristown
visited numerous Lititz relatives last
week. She was born in Lititz and was
a daughter of the late Andrew Grosh.
Miss Esther Wolle, of Philadelphia,
is here to spend several weeks. She at-tended
the Bach musical festival at
Bethlehem and from there came here.
Mr. Joseph Ebersole, a bookkeeper at
the great electric power plant at Mc-
Call's Ferry, was in Lititz Monday.
Formerly he was employed in our bor-ough.
Mr. Luke Grosh of Philadelphia and
his nephew Raymond Barr of Reading
spent from Friday to Monday here with
the former's .mother, Mrs. Caroline
Grosh.
Mr. John Troutwine, who secured a
position with the Jersey Shore, Pa., gas
company, left for that place on Sunday.
His family will, however, remain here
for the present.
Mr. Martin Keener of Strasburg and
Mr. Paul Bomberger, of this place took
an auto trip to
Sunbury on Monday,
The round
Talks to t h e Business Men
Mr. Wm. Smedley, of Philadelphia,
spoke to the business men of this com-munity
on Wednesday afternoon and
evening in the Linden Hall gym. The
afternoon meeting was slimly attended,
owing to the continuous rain. The
speaker was an organizer and his busi-ness
is to tour the state and arouse
business men and show them what can
be done by organization, co-operation
and efficiency. He dwelt almost wholly
on this subject in the afternoon. There
are two kinds of business men who need
to be awakened to the necessity of or-ganization,
the ignorant kind and the
indifferent kind. He believed thorough-ly
in local and state organizations and
urged every one to join. He also advo-cated
home patronage, and discounte-nanced
the big mail order houses. Too
many merchants do business under the
impression that the difference between
the buying and the selling price was all
profit, forgetting all overhead charges.
Mr. Smedley hadles his subject from a
strictly business standpoint and presents
many facts which cannot be gainsaid.
In the evening Mr. Smedley spoke
along similar lines as in the afternoon.
He denounced the credit business and
argued in favor of making people hon-est
instead of extending long credits
when uncalled for. Following his ex-cellent
address several in the audience
spoke briefly.
956 Voters in the Borough
Registry Assessor J. B. Young has
completed his work in securing the num-ber
of voters in Lititz borough. There-are
956, an increase of more than 300
through the enlarging of the borough.
Of this number 614 reside on the south
side of the Reading railroad and 342 on
the north side. It is likely that the bor-ough
will be divided into wards. Lititz
is now the second largest borough in the
county, as to the number of voters.
Fire Co. Strawberry Festival
The annual strawberry festival under
the auspices of the Lititz Fire Company
will be held in the market house on Sat-urday
afternoon and evening. This
festival is always the one that everybody
takes an interest in and there is no bet-ter
way to show that interest than by
attending on Saturday. There will be a
fine variety of the finest eats for sale,
including chicken corn soup, ice cream,
cakes, and the like. While you are en-joying
the eats Hackman's orchestra
will furnish their best music. Now
don't forget the fire laddies and patron-ize
their festival on Saturday. No tell-,
itig when you may want their assistance,
which they are always willing to give
without charge.
WHO SHOULD GET THE TAX
RESIDENTS OF SECTION ANNEXED TO
BOROUGH WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
returning the same day.
trip is about 200 miles.
Mr. Elam Fasnacht spent Saturday
and Sunday with his sister at Stevens,
Mrs. Jacob Stief. Although Mrs. Stief
has lived near the railroad these many
years she never rode on a railroad train.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Brubaker and son
of Philadelphia spent a few days with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abram Bru-baker
on Front street. Mrs. Brubaker
came here from a visit to her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Erb, at Samos, Vir-ginia.
Well-Known Young Man
a Minister
Ordained as
This
man,
It is now Rev. Edgar G. Diehm.
well-known and popular young
who has been spending his summers
here for the past several years, was re-cently
ordained a minister of the Church
of the Brethren at Huntingdon, where
he attends Juniata College. He is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Diehm, of Elm,
and a brother to Mrs. Aaron Hershey
and G. G. Diehm of this place. The
young man has gained an enviable repu-tation
as an orator and appeared in Lititz
in that capacity on one occasion. He
will undoubtedly prove a great success
in the greatest of all vocations of life.
M. G. Schaeffer, Solicitor of the Bor-ough,
Thinks it is Not Prudent for
Those Who Have Come Into t h e Boro
t o Pay Road Tax Levied by Township
I t has been years since any question
has affected the citizens of this borough
as well as of the township of Warwick
as much as the one now being asked by
those persons residing in the section
which has been annexed to the borough,
namely: "Shall we pay the road tax to
Warwick township ? " Many of the
persons who through annexation have
become residents of the borough have
already paid their road tax to the town-ship,
but it is a question whether they
took the proper course. The RECORD
has been endeavoring to secure authen-tic
news on the subject for several
weeks, but it appeared as though no
person wanted to take the responsibility
to make a statement for publication.
At the regular meeting of council on
Monday evening M. G. Schaeffer, the
solicitor of Lititz borough, addressed
that body previous to their levying the
borough tax for the ensuing year, and
in the course of his address brought out
some very interesting points concerning
the question of where the tax should be
paid. In his opinion it is not prudent
for those who have come into the bor-ough
to pay the road tax levied by the
township of Warwick until several ques-tions
have been legally determined. As
the matter is of great public interest we
publish Mr. Schaeffer's address to coun-cil
in full:
To the Burgess and Members of Council
of Lititz Borough.
Gentlemen :-
On a petition of a majority of the
freeholders of the territory adjoining
the Borough, a large portion of War-wick
township was incorporated into
the Borough of Lititz. Under the Act
of 1903, P. L. page 247, an ordinance
was passed annexing the territory as
set forth in draft thereto attached and
this proceeding became absolute after
certifying the ordinance and filing the
same in the Quarter Sessions office of
Lancaster county on February 23, 1915.
The assessed valuation of the proper-ty
added to the Borough amounts to
over $400,000. The total assessed valu-ation
of Warwick township including
the portion taken into the Borough is
about $2,339,000. The assessed valua-tion
of the property within the old lines
of the Borough of Lititz is over $1,000,-
000, and with the assessed value of. the
new portion makes the assessed valua-tion
of the property in the whole Bor-ough
of Lititz larger than that of any
other Borough in the County, with the
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