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VOL. XLYI LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1923 NO. 51
iVEOTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Straw hats will be called in oh the
15th inst., so don't forget it if you
•want to resume it again next year.
Evelyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Dennis, has become a student
nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lan-caster.
Jacob Kauffman's growing tobacco
in rear of his home on East Orange
s t r e e t , is worth seeing. It is about
t h e best grown in this section with
leaves so very large.
Linden Hall Seminary will open
f o r the fall term on Wednesday, the
19th inst. From the present outlook
t h e r e will be fully as many pupils as
were here during the last term.
The Lancaster and Lititz pike has
finally been tarvied between Neffs-ville
and the Lititz borough limits.
That part of the road f r om Lancaster
t o Neffsville was tarvied last spring.
The Brubaker family reunion will
be held at the home of J. C. Brubaker
near Lititz next year. So it was de-cided
at the recent reunion held at
Kitchener, Eastern Canada, recently.
The date will be decided by a com-mittee.
Rev. Wm. N. Schwartze, of Bethle-hem,
Pa., will occupy the Moravian
church pulpit next Sunday morning
and evening at the usual hours, when
a special collection will be taken for
t h e benefit of the earthquake suffer-e
r s in Japan.
The 316th I n f a n t r y reunion will be
held on Saturday, September 22nd, at
Hotel Lorraine, North Broad street,
Philadelphia. There are quite a few-young
men from Lititz in this regi-ment.
Any person wishing f u r t h er
information see Paul Bomberger.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Minnich enter-tained
at a supper on Sunday even-ing
in honor of Mrs. Dora Phillipi, of
Los Angeles, Calif., the following:
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Beck, Mr. and
Mrs. John Graybill and family, of
Manheim; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Markley, of Lexington, and Mrs. Ella
Evans and son Raymond of Lititz.
The raising of funds for the Jap-anese
sufferers is in the hands of the
local Red Cross. Offerings will be
l i f t ed in local churches Sunday. The
United Evangelical church had an of-ering
which amounted to $50 last
Sunday. Posters were placed at the
local industries asking for aid, and
money can be deposited at the of-fices
of these industries. Lititz has
never failed to lend a helping hand
in such cases. The quota assigned
to Lititz is
Mrs. Henry Gibble entertained the
Sunday School class of which she is
teacher on Monday evening. The
boys went to Miller's woods south of
L i t i t z about four o'clock and remain-ed
until dark, where they built a fire
and enjoyed "doggies," bacon, eggs,
toasted marshmallows and the like.
They all had a fine time. Those who
enjoyed the party were George
Young, Abram Minnich, John Peiffer,
F r a n k Nies, H a r r y Stehman, Mr. and
Mrs. Gibble and son Henry.
Edgar Sturgis Shook Hands With
Firpo
Edgar Sturgis, pretzel manufac-t
u r e r at this place, while at Atlantic
City last week shook hands with
Firpo, the South American who will
fight for the heavyweight champion-ship
this Friday evening. Firpo was
stopping at the Edison Hotel, three
doors from The Estelle, where Mr.
S t u r g i s had his headquarters. Firpo
was standing outside and Mr. Mullen,
proprietor of The Estelle, suggested
to Mr. Sturgis that they shake hands
with him. "I wish you luck in your
big fight," said Mr. Sturgis. Firpo
extended his hand, a hand t h a t would
have covered his two, as he said,
"Thank you, thank you."
While Mr. Sturgis saw pictures of
him he said he had no idea he was
such a fine specimen of manhood.
"He looks big and strong enough to
beat Dempsey," was his comment.
Saw Word's Championship Tennis
Tournament
Pof. and Mrs. H. H. Beck and Ed-win
Bear attended the world's tour-nament
tennis matches at the Ger-mantown
Quaker Club yesterday.
Prof. Beck was one of the first per-sons
in Lititz to play the game. Mr.
Bear is the present champion of the
town.
$306 AN ACRE FOR
FARM NEAR LITITZ
Rothsvilîe Farm Withdrawn at $260
an Acre
The fifty acre f a rm belonging to
Tobias Snavely, situated about one
mile east of Lititz on the Rothsville
road, was sold at public sale on Tues-day
for $306.00 per acre, to Joe Long
of Millport,
The f a rm of C. B. Risser along the
Rothsville road known as the Noah
Hess farm, containing 43 acres,
which was offered at public sale on
Friday, was withdrawn a f t e r the bid-ding
had reached $11,000.
Reports of Properties Sold
The Lancaster County Farm Sales
Agency, M. M. Carman, Propr., 124
E. King St., Lancaster, branch Lititz
(Hart-is Bidg.) reports the following
properties sold through the agency:
For John Fry of Lititz his 3% acre
truck and poultry f a rm with improve-ments,
located near village of Mill-port,
to Harrison Harmes of Lancas-ter,
on private terms. Purchaser
will take possession Oct. 1st.
For Harvey L. Haverstick, his 25
acre truck f a rm with fine modern im-provements
located in West Hemp-field
township near Silver Springs,
to Jacob D. Mellinger of East Lam-peter
township. Terms of sale were
private. Purchaser will take posses-sion
April 1st.
For John Miley his truck and poul-t
r y farm near Lititz, consisting of
IM. acres with improvements, to
Jacob C. Ober of Penryn, on private
terms. Purchaser will take posses-sion
April 1st.
For Edwin Lutz his 60 acre f a rm
with fine improvements, located in
the village ofLBrunnerville, to Reu-ben
Myers of Neffsville, on private
terms. Purchaser will take posses-sion
on April 1st.
Wayne Fahnestock Has Latest Im-proved
Ford
Wayne Fahnestock was the first
person in Lititz to secure an im-proved
Ford coupe, coming thru the
local agency of Hite Brothers. The
coupe is the most conspicuous among
the new types which is of entirely
new body design and construction,
r e s u l t i n g in a more t r im exterior ap-pearance,
more com£prtable seating
capacity and a greater lug-gage car-r
y i n g capacity. The new radiator
sets an inch and a half higher than
the former. Besides giving a more
finished appearance it increases cool-ing
efficiency. The gasoline tank is
under the seat. The new improve-ments
on all Ford types promise to
bring a greater demand than ever
before for the car. No changes in
price are contempated.
Lititz Boys Left to Attend Col'eges
Martin Risser left on Saturday to
take up studies as a freshman at
State College in Center county.
John Fasnacht left here last week
for Williamette University, a t Salem,
Oregon. He expects to take a prom-inent
part in athletics.
Miles Fasnacht will leave f o r Wes-
•leyan University at Middletown,
Conn., on Friday.
Newton Hershey left to attend
school at North „ Manchester, Ind.
His brother Abram Hershey is again
attending Juniata College at Hunt-ingdon,
Pa.
Sarah and Henry Muth will leave
on Sunday for Ann' Arbor, Mich., to
attend the University of Michigan.
They are the son and daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Muth.
Small Boy Injured When Tobacco
Wagon Passed Over Him
Henry E. Shreiner, 4-year-oId-son
of Mr. and Mrs. H a r r y E. Shreiner,
of near Halfville, had his l e f t leg bad-ly
injured between the knee and
thigh, on Tuesday morning, when the
wheel of |the tobacco wagon passed
over his legs, but only injuring the
one.
He was taken to the General Hos-pital,
Lancaster, where his wounds
are being treated.
Lititz Couple Observe Wedding An-niversary
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Frederick
celebrated their golden wedding an-niversary
Sunday in their home, East
Main street, Liiitz. There were
many relatives present.
Serving on the Grand Jury
Four women are serving on the
grand jury at Lancaster this week.
They are Tillie Wolfskill and Laura
Rhoads of Reamstown, Emma Marks
of New Holland, Naomi Bomberger
| of Lititz.
Zartman's MM Dates Back To Revolutionary Time PRIMARY E^™ES])AY
Zartman's mill north of Lititz,
along the Hammer creek, which was
destroyed by fire some time ago, is
being rebuilt and is almost comple-ted.
The mill was built on the same
spot of the destroyed mill, the old
walls being used. The .original mill
was built by I. Stauffer in the year
1776 and was the first saw mill in the
township. This mill was remodeled
by E. B. Brubaker, who added an-other
story to it, making it a four
floor mill. Mr. Brubaker was the
owner of the mill for f o r t y years.
In the year 1908 the mill and the
old Stauffer f a rm were bought by E.
! K. Zartman and brother. In 1910
' h e y dissolved partnership, W. K.
Zartman taking possession of the old
Stauffer f a rm and E. Z. Zartman of
! t h e mill. The mill building was de-i
stroyed by fire December 20, 1922.
j The newly - erected building is
t h r e e - s t o r y with an entire set of new
machinery and saw mill. Mr. Zart-man
is equipped to do all kinds of
feed grinding and sawing- , also car-ries
all mill feed, grain, flour and
poultry feed and will take wheat in
exchange for feed.
Mr. Zartman wishes to thank all
who have helped him during and
a f t e r the fire and again solicits the
t r a d e of all his former customers as
well as others who can use his pro-ducts.
m mm
l i CONTEST
This is the Last Week
With this week's issue of "the Rec-ord,
we close the "Missing Word"
Contest, which has been in progress
for the past 13 weeks.
As soon a f t e r Wednesday of next
week as possible, when all returns
a r e supposed to be in, the entire lot
of r e t u r n s for the contest will be
tabulated and the cash prizes will be
awarded to the winners.
The missing word for last week
was "peach" and was taken f r om the
adv. of Wayne Longenecker in the
sentence "—four flavors—this week
Vanilla, Peach, Burnt Almond, Choc-olate."
Note: Peach did not have to follow
t h e word vanilla but could be any-where
abong the flavors.
The missing word this week begins
with the letter "c" and ends with the
l e t t e r "s"
Mrs. Leigh Back f r om California
Mrs. Laura Leigh returned home
a f t e r a ten weeks' t r i p t h r u the west,
accompanying a touring party of
twenty-four persons, in charge of Dr.
Kelley, of State College. She visit-ed
many places of i n t e f e s t in Califor-nia,
and at Pasadena saw the John
Gibbel family, Mrs. Charles Miller,
Mrs. Loercher, Mrs. Fianna Eberly,
and other former Lititz persons.
Mrs. Leigh stopped at Salt Lake City
and Denver, saw the Grand Canyon
and Colorado Springs and other beau-t
y spots, and spent some time with
relatives in Illinois and Indiana.
While crossing the Rocky Mountains,
she among the other passengers, saw
a large black bear. Dead cattle were
numerous on the plains, the dry
weather causing lack of food and
water.
She is staying with her sister, Mrs.
Cyrus Zartman.
I. F. LUTZ SPOKE BOLDLY
Hon. Hugh Fulton Quoted Schoo':
Code at Public Meeting Held
Monday
Still Catching Bass
Daniel Imhoff, Sherman -Steffy and
H a r r y Showers caught five bass and
two salmon at the river on Saturday.
One of the salmon measured 22
inches.
F r a n k Rader, Wiliam Stauffer and
Lloyd Royer caught five bass at the
river on Monday, the l a r g e s t measur-ing
17 inches.
Richard Gingrich caught twenty-five
bass near Brownstown in three
days last week.
Took Auto Trip to Seven Mountains
Twelve persons from this place
took an auto trip to ¡Sjtate College on
Saturday and stopped overnight at a
S t a t e Forestry camp at the Seven
Mountains. Those in the p a r t y were
Mr..and Mrs. Howard Hollinger, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Spangler, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Hoffman', Ray Dillman,
Domen Benner, Misses Emma Shrei-ber,
Nora Helman, May and Anna
Brenner.
Three hundred persons attended
the meeting in the moving picture
house on Monday when B. F. Lutz,
candidate for school director for the
primary election, gave his views of
! t h e school situation at Lititz. Mr.
| Lutz stated that he didn't come there
with a whitewash brush, as was evi-
[ dent, as he hurled his accusations
with a f r e e hand.
Mr. Hugh Fulton, of Lancaster,
who has been a member of the bar
| f o r over fifty years, and a civil war
' soldier, talked calmly, while he quo-ted
the school laws,, l e t t i n g the audi-ence
draw their own conclusions,
i He drew attention to the law re-quiring
fifteen minutes intermission,
both morning and afternoon, for all
pupils f r om six to twenty-one years
of age. If this is carried out, he said,
it means better progress in learning.
He explained that he had always
been interested in children, first as
a teacher and later as a Sunday
School worker.
Following this, he said, the law re-quires
that the school directors pro-vide
for each grade suitable grounds
f o r all the children f r om the ages of
6 to 21. He called attention to the
l aw which stated t h a t no school shall
be erected without a proper play-grounds.
Therefore, he concluded
t h a t the children must be provided
with playgrounds and intermission.
Hon. Fulton upheld the school code
of Pennsylvania and believed that it
embodied broad principles. He cited
an example of the power of a court
over such matters, when a former
Lancaster judge dismissed an entire
school board and appointed others
when they refused to comply with the
s t a t e law.
Lititz, he said, is looked upon as
t h e mecea of learning, with its his-t
o r y of Linden Hall and Beck's School
f o r Boys. He said he was a strong
believer in the public schools for a
good practical education. Get the
best out of the school system t h a t is
in it and keep it f r e e from politics,
he told his hearers. It should belong
to no political p a r t y . For a director
it requires a man who is friendly to
t h e school system and is interested
in the children. At stake is the tem-poral,
educational, physical a n d moral
welfare of the child.
B. F. Lutz followed with his speech
s t a t i n g that he did not care a snap
of his fingers for the job, but t h a t if
he was elected, he promised to take
t h e people in partnership with him,
giving them an account of the busi-ness
done at each meeting. He talk-ed
for about twenty minutes.
An orchestra furnished music. The
meeting was orderly.
—The Flower Pot season is now at
hand. By the time you read this
Miller & Habecker will have a new
lot on sale.
Fount? (Wiawn
A peach tree t h a t grew up
f r om a stone thrown casually
in the garden at the home of
D. Wal. Evans produced its
first crop this year of twen-ty-
one unusually choice
white peaches. The peaches
averaged around eleven
ounces apiece. Like apples
a peach stone produces a
v a r i e t y entirely different
t h a n its original and may go
back many years. At the
nurseries peaches are g r a f t -
ed on the Georgia wild
stock. Alberta peaches are
about the only variety that
will run nearly true to its
original. So in planting a
peach stone it's a m a t t e r of
waiting to see what comes
f r om it. One man related to
us and we saw the tree, t h at
he g r a f t e d a tree on a west-ern
sandberry. Whatever
t h a t is, we don't know. As
he explained, it has a very
b i t t e r taste, and he was
never troubled with borers.
Christian Hess, near Lititz,
has a two foot dwarf peach
t r e e in his yard that is pro-ducing
peaches for the
t w e l f t h year and he never
gave it any special attention.
I t is almost certain it was
not g r a f t e d on a peach stock.
Why not get away f r om the
idea of g r a f t i n g peach on
peach.
No person in town is bet-t
e r acquainted with Tokio
and Yokohama, which were
destroyed by the tidal wave,
t h a n Wayne Longenecker of
this place. When he was in
the U. S. navy they were in.
port there many times. On
one occasion the ship on
which he was assigned was
t h e r e for six months, and
they were given shore leave
practically every day. He
was in a hospital in t h a t city
f o r ten weeks. The total of
the time he was there was
about a year and a half and
t h e sailors would refer to it
as home. Earthquakes were
common and it was not un-usual
to be awakened by the
j a r r i n g , the bed f a i r l y rat-tling.
There was a tidal
wave in one of the Japanese
cities when he was in the
service, and he was on one
of the boats sent there to
give relief. There were 10,-
000 deaths reported that
time.
Many Local Offices to be Filed—-Two
Lititz Men on County Ticket
-Read the Record, $1.50 a year.
The primary election will be held
on Tuesday, Sept. 18. So f a r politics
is quiet in Lititz, the only real fight
being for school director. Hon. J. B.
Wissler, Republican, of Lititz, is a
candidate on the county ticket for
district attorney, and G. G. Minnich
of this place, is running for poor
director on the coalition ticket. The
Lititz candidates are well and favor-ably
known.
Following are the candidates for
borough offices:
LITITZ BOROUGH
High constable, C. R. Kreider, R.;
auditor, E. E. Habecker, R.; school
director, B. F. Lutz, R.; school direc-tor,
Herbert H. Beck, R.; school
director, Lewis N. Moyer, D.; auditor,
Charles H. Regennas, D.
F i r s t Ward
Councilman, S. R. Posey, R.; in-spector,
C. E. Regennas, R.; judge of
elections, William G. Eshleman, R.;
constable, Samuel Bowers, R.; con-stabe,
Jacob Singley, R.; assessor H.
C. Miller, R.; councilman,' John C.
Breneman, D.; assessor, Ivan S.
Buckwalter, D.; inspector, Harry E.
Workman, D.; judge of elections,
Franklin Andrews, D.
Second Ward
Councilman, Edgar B. Weber, R.;
councilman, John D. Helter, R.; as-sessor,
A. M. Shissler, R.; inspector,
Clarence Brubaker, R.; judge of elec-tions,
Paul H. Bombeger, R.; con-stable,
John Carpenter, R. ; inspector,
Mc-Kee Weaver, D.; assessor, Howard
Studenroth, D.; judge of elections,
H a r r y S. Neidermyer, D.
Don't Forget to Vote for Tom Shirk
for Sheriff
Tom Shirk isn't the kind of a can-didate
that will give you a smile and
shake hands with you before election
and then forget all about you if he
gets into office. He's been extending
the glad hand ever since he came to
town twenty years ago and naturally
before he dreamed of becoming sher-iff.
He has an education and experi-ence
in approaching people that
should be of good advantage to him
in office. He'll do what's right if he
gets there, we feel certain of that.
As he has numerous friends, and few
enemies, the chances are he'll land
the place. But don't forget to • voté
for him. Vote for a man you know
either personally or by reputation,
and if you have never heard of hipi
take our word that he's all right.
The editor told Tom he was going
to boost for him regardless of any
political f a i t h and here's hoping we
can do him a good turn.
Hermit Singer Smashed Auto
Running his Buick car up a four
foot embankment and striking a tree,
damaging the car beyond repair, Ker-mit
Singer of Lexington, was badly
bruised on Thursday night, while
Miss Helen Bear, who accompanied
him, was not hurt in the least. He
was on the way to Lititz and was
close to the turn before coming to
Clayton Brubaker's premises. He
saw the light of an approaching car,
realized that he could not make the
t u r n without hitting the other car,
and turned for the bank. The car
was not insured. He is a son of John
Singer of Lexington.
Allen Putt Will See Dempsey-Firpo
Fight
Among the successful winners of
subscription contest of the Lancaster
New Era is Allen Putt, manager of
the American Store. He will go to
t h e fight will all expenses paid, with
first class hotel accommodations and
a seat close to the ring. Allen, some
years ago, was a popular boxer and
took p a r t in many engagements at
Lancaster, being noted for his clean
sportsmanship.
There are seven other Lititz young
men who have arranged to see the
fight.
Took 200 Mile Trip to Fish
Twenty persons from this place
spent the week-end at Fortescue, but
had poor returns. Some of the p a r ty
l e f t at 11 o'clock Saturday evening,
a r r i v i n g there at 4:30 in t h e morning.
Those in the party were C. T. Rit-chie,
William Mathers, George Evans,
Michael Adams, Chester Good, James
Goldthwait, Ed. Gear, Harry Kauff-man,
William Roth, Jacob Bachman,
Raymond Forney, Roy Weaver, Linn.
Roth, Elwood Shoemaker, Charles
Ringer, Harvey Kofroth, Alvin Kof-roth
and two sons, John Wolf.
TRAVELERS NEAR AID FAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
Fred and Henry Muth are seeing*
the sights of New York this week.
Mrs. Ella Moore, of Lancaster,
spent Sunday with her sister Miss.
Anna Stark.
Mrs. J. M Welsch, of Pleasant-ville,
N. J., spent the week-end at the
home of her f a t h e r P. B. Kofroth.
Paul Miller left for New Yrok on
Wednesday to visit his brothers and
will see the Dempsey-Firpo fight.
Mrs. Belle Brink, of New York
City, is visiting her mother, Mrs. E.
S. Young, at the Moravian Home.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fry, of Phil-adelphia,
spent Sunday with Mrs.
F r y ' s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Hacker.
Mr. Fred Trimmer and Miss Edna
Mohler, both of Lititz, enjoyed a trip
to Washington, D. C., and Baltimore
l a s t week.
Mrs. John L. Ennis and family, of
Reading, and several friends of Eph-r
a t a , visited Rev. G. W. Imboden and
family Sunday.
Miss Thalia Hershey left last week
to take up teaching at Russell, a
suburb of Warren, Pa. She taught
t h e r e last year.
H a r r y Marks of Philadelphia spent
several days in Lititz last week. He
is on the road in the interest of an
electric company.
Miss Esther Fass is spending sev-eral
days of this week in New York,
accompanying her brother Benjamin
who was here on a visit.
Mrs. Charles Brobst and Mrs. Har-rison
Helman spent the week-end at
Atlantic City. They saw the Beauty
Pageant which wTas being held there
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Sturgis are
leaving today to spend two weeks
with their son Paul and family at
Tuckahoe, N. J., and other relatives
in that state.
Miss Louise Crosland, of New
York City, is occupying the home of
her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. E. S.
Crosland, who are sojourning in the
Bermuda Islands.
Mr, Mis. W. N. Nixdorf, of
Lancaster; Mr. and Mrs. H. O. O'Neil
and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown, of
Mt. Joy, were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. B. F. Grosn on Sunday.
Mrs. Lizzie Kurtz, formerly of
Lititz, motored to York with her sis-t
e r Mrs. Lilly Boyer and daughter
Sara and husband George B. Long, in
Mr. E. C. Wentzel's Overland car.
Fremont Hollinger, a delegate of
the local order of the Knights of the
Mystic Chain, is attending the state
convention of that order being held
a t Allentown three days this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Byerly, of
Bethlehem, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lee,
of Orwigsburg, stopped at the home
of J. F. Buch on Monday and Tues-day.
Mr. Byerly also took a t r i p to
Holtwood, having been employed
at the power plant some years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. F r i t z and fam-ily,
and Mrs. Mary Wales, and Mr.
and Mrs. Robert R. Hoch, of Bethle-hem,
Pa., autoed f r om Bethlehem on
Sunday to visit Rev. G. W. Imboden
and family. They were former mem-bers
of Rev. Imboden's congregation«
Nathaniel Longenecker, of Wichita,
Kans., who visited here last week
a f t e r an absence of over 50 years,
declared to the writer that 30,000
Kansas farmers will go into bank-r
u p t c y before the year is over, due to
the drought, on account of which there
a r e no crops whatever. Terrible, in-deed!
Mr. H. Reist Landis and daughter
Ella and Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Shank,
of Lancaster, returned Monday af-.
ternoon from a trip to Canada,.
They stopped at Kitchener and Tor-,
onto, Canada; Niagara Falls an Ro-chester,
N. Y., besides mariy other-places
of interest along the way.
They covered over 1300 miles and'
were gone fifteen days.
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Brubaker ?,nd
Mrs. L. S. Reedy returned after a
week's auto trip to Luray Caverns,
Va., and the Shenandoah Cave at
New Market, also visiting relatives
in t h a t p a r t of the state. They made
t h e trip in an Oldsmobile and made
t h e heavy grade over the mountains
near the cavern on high gear, while;
other ears were on second.