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VOL. XLVI
MIS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
A baby girl was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Jasqp Groff at Rome on Mon-day.
H a r r y Crall was taken to the Lan-caster
General Hospital for treat-ment.
The McQuate and Steffy families
will have reunions on the Spring
grounds on Saturday.
The Churchtown band will play
here on Saturday evening on the
Springs hotel lawn.
—A reward is offered for the re-t
u r n of a pair of shell-rimmed
glasses to the Record office.
According to Bear's almanac, the
longest day was on Tuesday, 19th
inst., and summer commences on the
22nd inet.
Howard Young has been appointed
a member of the Lititz Board of
Health in place of his f a t h e r , the late
J. B. Young.
Samuel Sheaffer, formerly of New
s t r e e t , was recently operated upon at
t h e Lancaster General Hospital. He
is recovering nicely.
John McCloud, who was employed
a t Linden Hall Seminary for about
two years, will discontinue there on
t h e first of July.
Helen Showers, daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Showers, had her
tonsils removed at the Lancaster
General Hospital on Wednesday.
The Moravian Ushers' Association
•will hold their annual outing a t Lake
Grubb, near Silver Spring, on Thurs-day,
June 28. They have been going
t h e r e annually the past four years.
Willis Gochenour, who conducted a
store on Broad street at this place,
moving to Lancaster some months
ago, opened a grocery and dry goods
store at the corner of East King and
Ann streets, in t h a t city.
The American Stores Company
secured a contract to supply Louella
b u t t e r for the U. S. navy. It made
t h e highest test in strong competi-tion.
This is the same butter sold at
t h e store at this place.
The short stretch of road from
Clayton Brubaker's farm east of
town is being rebuilt as a state road
to the borough limits and this much-used
highway needs it by all means.
That short stretch of road is closed.
The Record erred in an item in last
week's issue. We referred to War-ren
Enek, of Biglersville, Adams coun-ty,
who makes a specialty of fruit
growing. Instead of him having an
apple ©rehard of 5 acres it should
have been 25 acres, which is a mater-ial
difference.
Chocolate dust in the large venti-lator
ou the roof over the roasting
department at the Ideal factory
caught fire last Friday morning.
I t was extinguished by employees at
t h e factory. Flames shot out of the
•ventilator. It was the thirteenth
time the Lititz fire company was
called eut since January.
L i t i t a Fire Company won $140 in
prize money at New Holland on Sat-u
r d a y m competition with seven com-panie—
first prize of $100 for the
best appearing company, and $40 to
t h e company having the l a r g e s t num-ber
of men in line. Lititz had seven-ty-
one waiformed men out of a pos-sible
100. Lititz marched well as
Msuak They were awarded five
prize«, lw*t were allowed only two.
LITITZ AUTO WRECKED
NEAR LANCASTER
Henry Hershey Had Face Cut—
Others Injured
Five persons were injured, includ-ing
Henry Hershey of this place,
when a Willys-Knight Sedan, owned
by Rev. J. W. G. Hershey of Lititz,
overturned near Rocky Springs Park
at 11 o'clock Sunday night. The top
is badly wrecked and most of the
glass panes were broken. The car
was brought back to Lititz with its
own power.
Henry Hershey was lacerated about
the face, six stitches being required
to close the biggest cut. He with
the other five occupants were taken
to the General Hospital by passing
automobiles. The others who were
t r e a t e d at the hospital for minor in-juries
were: Miss Violet Gunnion, 20
North Queen street, Lancaster, a
possible f r a c t u r e of the left ankle,
and lacerations of the face; Miss
Mary Metzger, 558 Pershing avenue,
Lancaster, lacerations of face and
arm.
John Mowry, 219 East New street,
Lancaster, was driving the car. He
was pinned underneath the car and
was released by passers-by. He es-caped
with slight injuries.
According to the version of one of
the p a r t y an attempt was made to
pass around a car in the front. One
of the wheels struck a bad hole in
the road, throwing the car on the
side.
Rev. Hershey, the owner of the car,
l e f t on a trip to Canada with his
wife, and from there will go to the
Pacific, and will be away six weeks.
The car is now at Burkholder's gar
age.
THESE LAZY BOYS
Tell me not in mournful numbers
That a lad is bound to fail,
J u s t because his morning slumbers
Make his daddy raise a gale.
Why, that daddy when a laddie,
Made his daddy do the same,
And his daddy's daddy's daddy
Also played the possum game.
This is not a new invention,
This is old as Adam's race,
And in spite o f , a l l contention,
Is no herald of disgrace.
Why, I know a superintendent
Of a corporation now,
Who was once a joint-attendant
On a clumsy, dreamy cow.
Nine his f a t h e r had provided,
Eighteen milkings every day,
These with sister he divided,
In the goo<$, old-fashioned way.
Four apiece they milked unaided,
As if carrying out a vow,
But the ninth one found them jaded,
Each but milked a half a cow.
Never did they cheat each other,
Never was the line-fence Grossed,
She protected well her brother,
He his sister without cost.
Ah, they always were past masters,
These young goslings in our nest,
To avoid the great disasters,
Over-work and under-rest.
So you might as well quit scowling,
Save -your lungs and throat and
nose,
For they'll not rise at your growling,
If you yell till Gabriel blows.
They just need more rest than you
do,
If they didn't, the'cl be up,
So instead of playing hoodso,
Eat your b r e a k f a s t and shut up.
—JOE BAKER.
State Road Thru Lititz
Awaits Governor's Approval
The proposed State road from Lancaster to Brickerville, a
pet measure of Representative Diehm, of this place, for the past
four years, passed through the Senate during the last day of
session and is awaiting the signature of Governor Pinchot to
make it a reality. Diehm never lost a chance in working
for this measure and pressed his opportunity through an omnibus
bill, by which each county will be given state aid for one road.
Diehm had «the assurance for some time that he would be given
support as the road had a logical claim and the fact was not over-looked
that Lititz had no state road passing through its confines.
Diehm was called upon to appear before the conference qommittee
and his plans met with no opposition, and when the bill came back
to the House for any possible amendments it went through as
first proposed.
Mr. Diehm called on the Governor since the bill is in his
hands. He was given a cordial audience but the chief executive
would not commit himself. If approved wonk will start on the
road in two years. "If the Governor vetoes it," Mr. Diehm was
asked, "would you work on the bill at the next session?" "Ac-cording
to the almost unanimous vote, the measure is sure to be
The road would be maintained by the state.
RECORD Of all forms of advertising
known to man—nothing has yet
been found as space in the home
paper.
LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1923 NO. 39
$100 in Cash to The Readers
of The Lititz Record
'Educational Contest," Consisting of a Full Page of
Advertising, Starts In This Week's Issue
SUCCESSFUL CONTESTANTS TO BE' AWARDED
PRIZES
Find the Missing Word and Earn Money—Rules of
Contest—To Continue 13 Weeks
Teday—elsewhere in this issue—a most interesting feature
s t a r t s The "Educational Contest," for both young and old. the
Lititz Record is going to reward all successful contestants—those
who WORK—and ACHIEVE; and divide $100.00 in cash prizes
among them. ,
The "Educational Contest" consists of a full page of adver-t
i s i n g which will appear once each week for the next 13 weeks.
Watch for it! Each week the vast army of readers of the Record
will have a chance to read on these pages of advertising the names
of merchants and business people who are striving hard to serve
you and serve you well.
CONDITIONS OF CONTEST
The conditions of the contest are simple. No one but those
mentioned in another p a r a g r a p h is barred f r om entering the con-t
e s t No Tfs" or "Ands" about it. Some one will win the big
cash prizes. WHY NOT YOU?
The "Educational Contest" is for young and old. Immediate-ly
a f t e r the 13th full page ads have appeared judges will decide
the winners and the big cash prizes will be distributed to them as
a reward for their effort. Read conditions in another column ot
this issue. Then we would say to every boy and girl "Drop her
in high, and t r a m p on the gas." Boys and girls of one thing be
sure, t h a t the f ew years t h a t are ahead of you hold g r e at possibil-ities
for those who now have little, but your responsibilities will
increase and keep increasing. Idleness begets idleness and pois-ons
the brain. Keep pepped up, and over the top you'll go in true
L i t i t z fashion.
An entertaining and interesting f e a t u r e is this "Educational
Contest." It consists of a full page of advertising, found else-where
in this issue, which will be r u n for the next 13 consecutive
weeks. This "Educational Contesst" should be read each week
and followed by every one of the Record's large army of readers.
This f e a t u r e page, of course, offers splendid advantages to
the merchants and businessmen as an advertising medium, but the
"Educational Contest" also offers an interesting proposition to
our many readers, for the reason that by careful reading each
and every week they will each have an opportunity to compete
f o r the purses of money which are offered as prizes, and which
go to those who are successful in finding all of the most of the
omitted words in the 13 weeks.
On the contest page, the Editor has intentionally omitted
ONE WHOLE WORD from ONE ADVERTISEMENT ONLY
The word omitted this week begins with the letter g and ends
with the letter d.
This one word being omitted makes the sentence read
gramatically wrong. Now, in order to find the word, the
reader must read carefully every ad on t h e "Educational Contest"
page, and when a sentence is found in which a wor d is omitted
the missing word must be supplied. The cue to finding the miss-ing
words each week will be found in the rules located on the
coupon blank, found elsewhere in this issue. When you are sure
you have found the missing- word, fill out the r e t u r n blank with
the answer. Be sure to write your name and address plainly,
and sign your r e t u r n blank the same each week. , As an illustra-tion,
if you sign your name the first week, "Mrs. J . H. Jones," and
your next blank comes in "Mrs. Mary Jones," there will be no
way of determining that both replies belong to the same party.
Send all replies to Contests Editor, care of this paper.
In order to be counted, replies of missing words for previous
weeks must be in this office by 6 o'clock Wednesday night of each
week. Letters postmarked as being mailed at that time will be
accepted.
Each Thursday a f t e r the missing word for the week previ-ous
have been announced, the original copies, containig all the
words, are on exhibit in the Record office.
. The only persons barred from entering the contest are the
employees of this office, or any one connected with the working
force of the Record. AdvertiaeTs and their families have the
privilege to participate. It is fine concentrating exercise.
The $100.00 in cash to be given away to the successful con-t
e s t a n t s , a r e listed with the rules shown on the Contest Coupon on
another page. The readers should not give up if unable to find
the missing word any week, but should keep t r y i n g until the close
of the contest, for it is not believed t h a t any one person will find
all the missing words during the 13 weeks.
The prizes will go to those finding the most of the missing
words—one each week for the next 13 weeks. So you will very
easily be repaid for your time and efforts, if you find several of
the 13 missing words.
The publisher of the Record will not be responsible to any
advertiser if the reading of advertisements is not exactly as pre-pared
or handed to us, as on the missing wards depends the suc-cess
of this contest. Whether the copy is prepared by the adver-t
i s e r or in our office, in either ease another copy is made, and the
correct copy secretly filed, while the other copy with the missing
words eliminated without any identification of them having ap-peared
on the copy will go to the workrooms, so no one but the
Record will know what have beep cut from the advertisements
each week.
No envelopes properly addressed to the Contest Editor,
"Educational Contest," care of Lititz Record, Litite, Pa., will be
opened until the completion of the contest. If you do not ad-dress
your envelopes properly, as above, and the same i s opened in
t h e Record office, along with other mail matter not marked for
identification, the publisher of the Record will not be responsible
or is to be held accountable if your letter is opened. However,
should contestants fail to observe the proper addressing and iden-tification
rules it will not bar anyone f r om participating, as let-t
e r s opened will be marked, and the judges (who will be announc-ed
later) will then know by the markings t h a t it was your f a u lt
and not the publisher's. Remember, answer blanks will be count-ed
whether in sealed or unsealed envelopes; or you can hand or
send the answer blanks by person to the Record office.
You can fill out only one answer blank each week in the same
name, and only the blanks found in the columns of the Record,
will count.
In case of more than one contestant entitled to prizes having
t h e same number of correct answers, the money will be equally
divided.
Clip the answer blanks from your own newspaper, get the
blanks from your neighbor's copy. See that the blanks of the
previous week, properly filled out, reach the Record office no later
than 6 o'clock Wednesday night of each week. For instance
answer blanks of this issue, June 21, are void a f t e r 6 o'clock Wed-nesday
night, June 27, 1923.
Each Thursday for the next 13 weeks the missing word in
the advertisements on the "Educational Contest" page of the pre-vious
week will also ba published in these columns, so t h a t our
readers «am see just where the word was omitted.
"Song of Thanksgiving"
Cantata by J. H. Maunder
Given by
. St. Paul's Reformed choir,
Lancaster, and the Moravian
choir, Lititz, on Tuesday
evening, June 26th, at 8
o'clock in St. Paul's Reform-ed
church, Lancaster, and in
the Moravian church, Lititz,
on Thursday evening, June
28th, at eight o'clock.
Soloists—Miss Emily Nut-
•to, soprano; Mrs. Harry C.
Kuntz, contralto; Mr. E. K.
Savage, tenor; Mr. Victor
Wagner, bass.
Miss Bessie T. Gingrich,
• director; Miss Viola Leib,
organist.
Silver offering will be
l i f t e d.
Rev. Crosland in Philadelphia
Hospital
Rev. E. S. Crosland l e f t on Monday
f o r the Misericordia Hospital, Phila-delphia,
suffering with a nervous
breakdown. He is under the atten-tion
of two specialists. He will need
a complete rest.
The Pool
The swimming pool, offered f r e e to
the borough council, needs^ cleaning
and it does not drain itself, but if the
borough council will accept the acre
of ground upon which the pool is and
fill it up until it drains itself, a very
nice wading pool can be had with lit-tle
expense, then the children could
enjoy themselves at that place dur-ing
these hot summer days.
I hope t h a t for the benefit of the
children this offer will be accepted.
I can already hear the merry laugh-t
e r of the little tots who would enjoy
a splash in the waters for years to
come.
If the town continues to grow the
next twenty-five years as it has done
in the past twenty-five years the
east-end will be built up with houses.
Would not this acre of land with a
wading pool, a stream of water flow-ing
through, shade trees, a number
of swings and see-saws, make a beau-t
i f u l place for the children? How
could we give them a more healthy
place?
I offer this plot of ground to the
borough for the children's enjoyment
and if at anytime they feel that a
white elephant was handed to them,
t h e y will have no trouble at all to
hand it back to me again.
B. F. LUTZ
Reasons Why Tax Payer Does Not
Favor Lititz Swimming Pool
Lititz, Pa., June 18, 1823
Editor Lititz Record:
At your and the Boro Council's in-vitation
I wish to express myself in
r e g a r d to Council's taking- over Lutz's
Swimming Pool.
I say don't, for. several very good
reasons.
F i r s t , the grounds are entirely too
small for a public park, being only
about three-fourths of an acre. You
can not confine a bunch of active
kids in so small a place. While Mr.
Lutz was running it the kids were
continulaly trespassing on other peo-ples'
property and were out on- the
public street.
In the second place the natural
water supply is entirely too small to
keep the pool in the required sani-t
a r y condition.
In the third place, what little water
is secured is gotten by damming the
water back on our property, other-wise
it will not run into the pool.
We allowed it thus f a r but will not
allow it hereafter.
You might of course use boro water
but I feel sure if you look into the
m a t t e r thoroughly you will conclude
t h e Lutz pool is not worth the ex-panse
it will take to run it.
Yours sincerely,
j . w . BRUCKART:
The Last of the Strawberry Crop
Strawberies have passed the peak
of production. While they were f a i r -
ly plentiful, the quality has been
g r e a t l y impaired by the dry weather
and they are, in size, greatly inferior
to those of a year of normal weather
conditions. Housewives took the ad-vice
of growers and made quantity
purchases for preserving purposes.
They are selling at 18 to 20 cents
t h i s week.
Cherries are abundant but still
bringing good prices.
New peas are plentiful. More
r a in is needed for vegetation or thé
present plentifulness win give way to
scarcity.
Attention, American Legion
All members are invited to the
motion picture theatre on Tuesday,
June 26, at 8 p. m., when the
Woman's Auxiliary will entertain by
showing the national convention film
and other pictures. Also have a good
speaker. They will entertain neigh-boring
auxiliaries as well. Dtfn't
f o r g e t , we want to show them we're
alive.
Some years ago the
f r e i g h t depot was moved
f r om the chocolate factory
building to temporary quar-t
e r s in f r e i g h t cars across
the street f r om the factory.
Then a warehouse was built
on Water street and for al-most
a year has been in use.
Yet in spite of all these
changes, which were spoken
about f r om time to time and
published in the newspapers,
a Lititz man came to the
former shipping point at the
chocolate factory to see if
any freight had arrived for
him. No, we do not know
who the man was but if you
don't believe it, ask Clyde
Keller who talked to him
when he came there.
By force of habit one often
enjoys things -without stop-ping
to think of their con-cenience.
Probably in no
town or state outside of-
L i t i t z is ice water provided
f r e e on the street. While it
is patronized f r e e l y yet few
ever give it a thought. To
automobilists who stop off
a t tke fountain f o r a drink of
f r e s h iced water it seems
more of a novelty and they
o f t e n express themselves
with, "Isn't it wonderful
w a t e r . " In many cities
spring water is sold by the
bottle and one supplies the
ice.
However, when away f r om
L i t i t z and, one is forced to ''
drink inferior water, then
t h e mind goes back to the
good old Lititz water from
t h e well t h a t never runs dry.
Fact is, there are times
when you would pay a dollar
j u s t for a cup of the cooling
water as you Knew it es-pecially
at places where
t h e r e is nothing but sulphur
water.
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OiirTcwn
The Cicada, better known
as the seventeen year locust,
is not supposed to appear in
t h i s area. This section was
visited by the seventeen year
locust in 1919 and will ap-pear
again in 1936. How-ever
there are exceptions
and in the hills north .of here
t h e r e are strips that abound
with the 1923 brood and
their calls of Pharaoh make
t h e woods ring.
Dr. C. E. Lane, of this
place, while on a trip to Mt.
Hope, counted sixty-four
locust to a square yard.
The female punctures a
tender twig and lays her
eggs in the opening. The
eggs can be seen with a
magnifying. glass. With
several of these punctures in
a space of a few inches, the
twig is weakened and in sev-eral
months falls to the
ground. The young emerge
and burrow down, attaching
themselves to the roots of
the trees and getting sub-stance
f r om the sap.
Another thing of interest
which the Lititz man saw at
t h e hills was a nest of young
t u r k e y buzzards. The
young ones which he saw
stood a foot high and the
f e a t h e r s were pure white.
However, they are objects
not to be fondled, as there is
a disagreeable stench around
the nests, as the result of
the parent birds feeding on .
T R A V E L E R S N E A R A l Fi
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
1924 Chautauqua Assured for Lititz
When Chautauqua came to a close
here on Monday evening there were
101 guarantors on the list for the
1924 chautauqua, guaranteeing its
coming here next season. The pro-g
r am this year was on a high stand-ard
from an educational point of
view, pleasing the patrons. However
t h e r e were not enough tickets sold to
meet the expenses with the r e s u l t t h at
t h e g u a r a n t o r s will be assessed about
$9 apiece.
L i t i t z is one of the banner towns on
t h e Swarthmore circuit, having had
chautauquas here since its origin
twelve years ago.
Elam Risser and family were on a
motor t r i p to Scottdale this week.
Clarence and Ralph Weir went to
Philadelphia on Tuesday to see big
league base ball.
Miss Amelia Fisher, of Robesonia,
was a guest of Misses Lydia and Sa-linda
Hess this week.
Elmer Reidenbach, of Philadelphia^
spent several days at the home of
his mother Mrs. A. B. Reidenbach.
Mrs. John Heiserman, East Main
street, is spending two weeks at Mt.
Gretna with the H. M. Eckert fam-ily.
Mrs. Laura Leigh will leave for
Los Angeles on Saturday. She will
stop off at many places of interest
along the route.
F r a n k Crall, of Reading, spent a
f ew hours here on Sunday. He is-having
a sport model body built on
his automobile at Kofroth's shop.
F r a n k Dengate and family, resid-ing
on East Main street, leave for
Niagara Falls and other points in
upper New York state, on Friday.
The Harry Eckert family left for
Mt. Gretna last Saturday, where they
will occupy a cottage until about the.
l a s t of August or beginning of Sep-tember.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lane, Sam-uel
Lane, Jr., and P. B. Bucher left
by auto for Mansfield, O., to visit
Mrs. Lane's brother.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hornberger and
children, residing in the southern
p a r t of town, spent Sunday in
Browstown as the guests of Sherman
Wolf and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Souders, of
Peekskill, N. Y., are spending two
weeks with his f a t h e r C. W. Souders,
and her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Linn,,
Longenecker near Lititz.
N. D. Sturgis, Sherman Steffy and
Daniel Imhoff went to Maryland last
week to fish for bass, the season hav-ing
opened there on June 15. Their
prize catch was a three and a half
pound bass. They also caught a
number of eels.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith and
daughter Minerva, William Smith,
Sr., and Eleanor and Alice Smith,
daughters of Harry Smith, left on
Sunday by automobile for Nazareth
to spend several days with Mr. and.
Mrs. Jacob Stark.
Mr. and Mrs. I. Jacoby and son
Wilfred, and Jacob Rosenberg, of
Philadelphia, visited their sister Mrs.
Joseph Dreifus a t the Springs Hotel;
on Sunday, Mrs. Jacoby remaining
f o r a week. Mrs. Dreifus, wh® has
been ill for several weeks, is ?or»t,
what improved.
I t is estimated that there -were
50,000 people at Hershey ®n Satur-day
and Sunday to hear the Bach
choir and Creator's band on the event
©f the twentieth anniverary of th«
town. Many person from this ptee®
were there, among them Wilson
Baum and H. B. Bush.
Emory Cox and family, of Wins-ton-
Salem, traveling by auto, stopj^ed
off here on Tuesday to see the Mora-vian
church. While not members of
church they expressed themselves as
interested and knew many Moravians
in their home city. They stopped at
E p h r a t a to go t h r u the Cloisters.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hornberger, of
Philadelphia, were here from Satur-day
to Sunday as guests of their
uncles Walter H. and J. Frank Bueh.
Mr. Hornberger is a native of Lititz,
but has been in the employ oi the
N o r t h American for 23 years, where,
he has charge of the mail list depart-ment.
Roy Miller returned home last Sat-,
u r d a y after spending a week ia
Cleveland, Wheeling, W. Va., Pitts-burgh
and other places. At Cleve-land
he saw a parade of 20,000 unU
formed. Masonic grottoes. Roy, who
was a member of the A. E. F., takes
occasional trips of this kind. Wfeen.
he leaves he has no definite objective,.
Upon arriving at Pittsburgh W
heard of the coming parade and at.
once made up his mind to see it. His
American Legion button stand« him
in good stead and he says no Matter
where he goes the insignia is notieed
and "buddies" stop him and eregag«
in conversation and give him any in-formation
he might want to know.
Handle With Care
Shooting crackers and firework» will
be . allowed to be set off in the bor-ough
on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July.
There is a state law r e g u l a t i n g Trbai
dealers can sell.