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Poital Law* require that subscriptions be L paid promptly. A blue 1 pencil mark in this j circle mean* your sub-scription is due, and we will thank you for a prompt remittance riTZ Of all forms of advertising known to man—nothing has yet been found as space in the home p a p e r . VOL. XLVII LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19,1924 NO. 39 EVENTS COHGISELY TOLD INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN TOWN AND VICINITY. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Stromfeltz at Rome on Tuesday. Miss Edna Longenecker has been assisting with work at the office of her father John F. Longenecker. The local Odd Fellow lodge will give the initiatory degree on Monday evening. The Lititz band will furnish the music for outdoor concert here on Sat-urday evening. These concerts seem to be more popular than ever before. June 21 marks the longest day when in normal years, farmers start cut-ting the hay crop. It will not be ready this year at that time. The Junior and Intermediate So-cieties of the U. B. Church will picnic at Shivleys grove, Saturday, June 21. Trucks will leave the church at 8:30 A. M. sharp. Maurice Fry, fire chief of the Lititz Fire Company, has two fractured ribs, resulting from being struck by the nozzle of the hose when testing it out. Mrs David Bomberger of Lexington who had been sick for the past sev-eral weeks is showing improvement and is out of bed. She had a com-plication of ailments. Fourteen acres of land with im-provements, including a stone quarry, a half-mile east of Lititz, was sold at public sale on Saturday as the pro-perty of the late Aaron Long to Elm-er Hershey for $8000. The Leese Amusements will be located at Manheim from June 20 to the 28th, at the old location near the trolley terminus. Mr. Leese, the owner, has been coming thru this section for a number of years. L. N. Moyer has moved his house-hold goods from South Spruce street to his new home on Main street and with his family has taken up his residense there. The drug store Toom is still undergoing renovations. Dr. C. E. Lane takes pleasure in informing his patients that he will open an office at 65 East Main street on Monday, June 23. An entirely new equipment, including an x-ray machine has been installed. Fred Gable, who has been a resi-dent of Los Angeles, Calif., for the past three years, expects to visit in Lititz in August on his way home from Toronto, Canada. Next Sunday evening the Rev. S. A. Heisey will preach a special ser-mon to White Dove Commandery, Knights of Malta, in the United Evan-gelical church. Recently the officer and directors of the Keystone National Bank, Man-heim visited and inspected the Lititz Springs National Bank. Also the officers and directors of the Lewis-burg National Bank and the officers of the Industrial National Bank of York and on Tuesday the directors of the Drovers and Mechanics National Bank of York. They were all highly pleased with the new bank, especially when comparing the population of the town. Through the. efforts of G. G. Diehm the shad season will be extended. The law calls for closing on June 20, at the discression of the fish com-missioner, but is now continued to July 1. Owing to rainy weather shad fishermen had a poor season. They will now have a chance to make some extra money besides putting shad on the table for a little time longer. Mr. Diehm was responsible last year in having the season extended. This applies to fishing in the vicinity of the power dam. A. CLAIR RICE AND MISS MARY GROSCH MARRIED Took Place at "The Little Church Around the Corner," New York Allan Clair Rice, of Honey Brook and Mary S. Grosch of Lititz, were united in marriage at The Little Church Around the Corner in New York City, oh Tuesday June 17 at 4 P. M. Rev. J. H. Randolph Ray, Rector of the church officiated. The ring ceremony was used. The bride wore a gown of silver blue canton crepe and carried yellow rose buds. Miss Emma C. Grosch of Plainfield, N. J., served as bride's maid and Mrs. Henri Bodder of Beth-lehem as matron of honor. Mr. Henri Bodder was best man. Mrs. C. W. Grosch, mother of the bride attended the wedding and later visited at Plain-field. Miss Grosh is a graduate of Lititz High School and Millersville Normal and taught several years in the Lititz Public Schools. Mr. Rice is a veteran of the World War having served in Co. A., 107th Machine Gun Battalion, 28th Division. He is at present a linotype operator at the Lancaster Intelligencer. They expect to spend ten days tour-ing New York State and Pennsyl-vania and spend several days at the Delaware Water Gap. Moravian Ushers Go to Lake Grubb Today The Moravian Ushers' Association will leave here Thursday for their annual outing at Lake Grubb, start-ing at the fountain in automobiles at noon. The amusement committee has arranged a program of base ball, play ground ball, quoits and other games, while Albert Gochenour, chair-of the social committee, will see to it that there is no shortage in the food supply. Lake Grubb is a se-cluded little beauty spot of the county, with pure water.ninety feet deep, and a variety of fish. STAUFFERS FROM ALL GATHERED AT SPRINGS IN ANNUAL REUNION Heat Killed Horse While Gilbert Myers was plowing yesterday one of his horses dropped dead as a result of the heat and the other horse became sick, and for a time it looked as if it would not re-cover, but now is showing improve-ment. Among a truckload of cattle being taken to Lebanon in Seth Lorah's truck a steer died while near Bricker ville, supposed to be due to the heat. In trying to remove it a cow in the truck became wild and caused so much trouble that the gate could not be opened to take the animal out and the truck moved on. S " V Ladies' Allentown Band Booked for Lititz One of the big musical events of the season will be the Ladies' Allentown band, booked to give a concert here on Saturday, July 26. This band makes a big hit wherever they appear and should bring a recordbreak-ing crowd to Lititz. No little expense is involved in getting them to come here, but as a special treat without a doubt the money will be well spent. S N. S. Myers Sold Three of His Pro-perties This Week N. S. Myers reports two of his houses on the South Broad Street ad-dition sold. One of them, the middle apartment of a row of three houses, was sold to Earl Esbenshade. Pos-session will be taken at once. He will erect a furniture repair shop on the rear of the lot. The other house, two and a half story single home, now in the course of erection, in the same block, was sold to Rev. J. E. Maurer, a former pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church at this place, and now a resident of Mt. Holly Springs. He will take possession in October. Mr. Myers also reports the sale of one of his farms in Heidelburg town-ship, near the city of Lebanon, to Ralph R. Shessler, of Wildwood, N. J. School Tax the Same After a careful survey of the school needs and the funds available it was decided by the finance committee to fix the school tax at fifteen mills and the per captia tax at $2.00, including both sexes of voting age. Death of Monroe Meily Monroe M. Meiley died last eevning at his home on Lincoln Avenue, after a lingering illness, aged 41 years. He was born at Brunnerville and lived at Lititz for many years. He was a cigarmaker by trade and was fore-man of a factory until some months ago. He is survived by his wife, nee Catherine Fry, and one daughter Esta and a granddaaughter Gladys Hacker all of Lititz, also his mother Mrs. Mary Meily, of Brunnerville, and the following brothers and sisters: Amos Meily and Mrs Alice Young, of Brunnerville and Mrs. Jacob Singley, Lititz. The funeral services will be held on Sunday with services at the house at 1.30 P. M. and at St. Paul's Lutheran church at 2. P. M. Interment in Machpelah cemetery. About 300 persons attended the annual reunion of the Stauffer clan at the Springs on Saturday. While Lancaster Countains predominated, other parts of the Union and even Canada, were represented. The family, according to a histori-cal sketch written by Johannes Scherr a German writer, and translated by Fred F. Vaughn, was one of the lead-ing families of Germany, being re-peatedly represented upon the throne. The original name was Hohenstauffen, and the family was at one time as famous and powerful as the Hohon-zollern, to which the ill-starred Kaiser belongs, which it preceded. It fin-ally sank into comparative oblivion. The first emigrants to this country left Switzerland in 1709, preceeding by way of the Rhine and Liverpool, England. A most interesting program was rendered, consisting of addresses by members of the clan. The Rev. E. G. Stauffer, of Mastersonville, led the devotions, Clarence W Hess, of Akron the President, delivered the address of welcome and the response was made by A. H. Stauffer, of Atglen. The Rev. H. L. Hess, of Manheim, spoke on: "Fellowship," Tobias Stauf-fer, of Norfolk, Va., read the history of the Stauffers, and others short talks were given by D. H. Stauffer, of Chambersburg; Maurice Stauffer, of Littlestown; J. B. Stauffer, of Harrisburg; and Mrs. Carrie Stauffer Wulcox, of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. E. J. Hartman, of Pomeroy, read a list of 17 names of those who had died since the last reunion, and led in the closing prayer. Gladys Hess sang a solo and a recitation was given by Grace Hess, a number of hymns were sung, and the Rev. H. L. Hess pronounced the benediction. The following officers were elected: President, Clarence W. Hess, of Akron; Vice Presidents, Jacob A. Stauffer, of Gap; John N. Wissler, of Ephrata; Levi N. Stauffer, of Mt. Joy; Secretary, A. H. Stauffer, of Atglen; Treasurer, John W. Stauffer, of Willow Stree; Historian, Amos Stauffer. Miss Emma Hess, of Akron served as pianist. It was decided to meet at Lititz again next year on the second Sat-urday in June, if the date was avail-able. LOYSVILLE BAND DREW BIG CROWDS Lititz People Appreciated Their Play-ing and Gave Over $300 Towards Orphans' Home Rattlesnake Plant in Bloom J. M. Hoffman, of South Cedar St., has a rattlesnake plant in the yard at his home which is in bloom and attracts considerable attention. The stalk is four and a half feet high, including the bloom, which looks like a tongue and starts from a cup-like cluster of leaves. * There are no other leaves on the stem but later on a thick foliage will grow out. For sev-eral days it emitted an offensive snake like smell, from which the plant prob-ably derived its name. It is a tropi-cal plant and dies down in the fall. The bulb, which is as large as the bottom of a bucket, is kept in the cellar during the winter. Mr. Hoff-man has the plant for eight years, but it is the first time it has bloomed. The Loysville band was greeted here by an enthusiastic turnout of people from Lititz and surrounding country. Saturday afternoon a short concert was given in front of the fire house but in the evening a lengthy program was given from the band stand aside of the firehouse. Autos were lined up early to get an advant-ageous position and half the width of Broad street within hearing dis-tance was a mass of people. The boys held the interest of the audience from start to finish. The chimes ad-ded novelty to the music and hearty applause was1 acknowledged with a number of encores. A sacred concert was given at the Springs Grounds on Sunday after-noon attracting a big crowd. On Sat-urday evening $139.00 was collected besides which the business men con-tributed $50, and on Sunday after-noon the collection amounted to $114.30, a total of $303.30. The year previous the collection was exactly $300. On Sunday evening, in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, the annual Chil-dren's Day service was held, which was largely attended, and which was beautifully rendered. Seven picked members of the Band assisted in the orchestra at this service. An offer-ing of $61.54 is sent direct to the Home, and not thru the band. The band gets credit for the above offer-ings received thru itself. Prof. Stenger wishes to thank the people of the community for their courteous hearing and generosity. Harvey Seaber Has Finest Clinbing Rose Bush in Town Harvey Seaber, who takes a great pleasure in rose culture, has a climb-ing rose stalk known as the yellow finch which is hard to beat for the number of flowers and buds it con-tains. It covers many square feet of space, all originating from one root and is covered with hundreds of flow-ers and buds. It would keep a person busy for a day to count them. Un-like many climbers the bloom is large, over two inches in diameter. The buds are yellow and the flowers some-what lighter. The stalk is eight years old and never before bloomed as now. Harvey says this is an exceptional year to produce fine roses, although they are later than usual. A unique feature in his yard is three colors of roses trained over a trellis, produce red, white and blue blooms. They will be in bloom later in the summer. —Porch swings, rockers, matting and awning, at Pfautz Bros. New Play Ground Instructor The new play ground instructor, Mr. Swanger, of Lebanon, is on the job. He is at the play ground from about eight-thirty in the morning till noon and after dinner till about three o'clock in the afternoon. The chil-dren should take advantage of this opportunity and go to the play ground for it is sure to do them some good and surely better then playing on the street where machines are pass-ing the whole day and accidents are sure to happen. Fish Bit Well at the Bay Ten Lititz persons left for Fortes-que last Saturday returning the next day with a nice catch of fish. James Goldthwait, Jacob Bachman and son, William Roth, Harry Kauffman, Charles Ringer, were in one auto and their party caught a hundred fish, and Chester Ritchie, Chester Ruth, Elwood ' Shoemaker, William Mathers and Arthur Kling, started near midnight Saturday in another car, but owing to trouble with the car did not reach the fishing ground until 10 o'clock the next morn-ing. They caught seventy fish. The catches comprised mostly weak fish and croakers. The fish bit lively. Strawberry Festival Near Lititz On Saturday evening June 21, the Willing Workers Circle of King's Daughters will hold a strawberry festival on Frey's lawn, opposite Ivan Bushong's mill. Everything that's good to eat will be on sale. Music will be furnished by the Neffsville orchestra. SUMMER HOT WEATHER Thermometer at 85 Degrees Making Up for Past Cool Weather Persons who were wondering if hot vgeather had been overlooked by the weatherman had a treat of the real article since Sunday when the ther-mometer registered 85 degrees and more. Porches are comfortable in the evening and ice cream sales are going up with the thermometer. Since the hot weather garden truck is making an unusual growth. Straw-berries seem to be late in ripening and bring 20 cents a box for the best, but with good weather conditions a big crop is in prospect. The prospects for a big peach crop this year are promising. Other fruit is also hanging full on the tree. Next week cherries should make their ap-pearance. There will be a good crop of both sweet and sour cherries. Potatoes stalks look good and seem to be making up for lost time after being retarded by cool weather. Rain is almost a daily visitor but fortunately is not of long duration before the sun comes out again. Correction Among the persons who motored to Quincy, as mentioned in last week's Record, the nam>es of Mr. and Mrs. William Stauffer and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Royer were omitted by mistake. John Sutter, whose remains are buried in the Moravian graveyard, died of a broken heart. He lived too early. He asked Congress, after his land was stolen, to refund to him the money that he paid the U. S. Government in taxes and should have en-titled him to protection. They accepted his money and kept in and the protection that he received as a citizen was nothing. His land was taken by squatters and they kept it. Congressmen pro-mised him to have a bill pass-ed to refund him his money —which was a very just de-mand— but the years drag-ged on and he died without action being taken. Shame-ful! In modern times all he would have had to do was to split up with a high official, receive the money and ma-rines would have been sent out to protect him. But it is doubtful if Sutter would have stooped to such dish-oner. The State Board of Fish Commissioners request the extenmination of water snakes. Many streams be-ing damaged thru the killing of fish by these snakes. By co-operation of the members of the different Game Associ-ations and by putting on a campaign, the streams could be rid of hundreds of these nakes. Every person who has gone fishing has had some experi-ence with these snakes. In fishing for suckers by catch-ing them with the hands un-der banks it was not unusual to grab a snake and kids know how unpleasant it is to see a snake come up aside of them when swimming. They are of no benefit and should go, but that is easier said than done. For five years Joshua Roll-man has been using his Ford truck for hard service, prob-ably covering enough miles to have taken him around the world. The truck looks it, too, but it still does the work. The other day he used it in bringing in hay from [the fields, the hay being over the top of the driver's seat and hanging down, so that it looked like a moving hay pile as it passed thru the streets the driver having only a little open space for his vis-ion. The sparrow hawk which has become tame and has its home with Harry Kepple on Broad street, is having its share of trouble this sum-mer. The hawk comes to his home several times daily to be fed but does not have much time to loiter around. Every time it makes it ap-pearance it is attacked by all the robins in the neigh-borhood and often the forces are increased by blackbirds. They will not fight it out-right but dart and fly around while the hawk puts up its sharp claws for protection. His pet has never been in-jured by these massed at-tack but they make it un-comfortable for his pet which will fly away when contin-ued for a length of time, fol-lowed by the attacking party j amid a great chattering. Their object evidently is to drive it out of the neighbor-hood. He's the Pansy King Enos Miller, living south-east of Lititz, had over five hundred visitors at his home who caiwe to see his pansy bed. Mr. Miller has red pop-pies that measure seven inches in diameter. CHAUTAUQUA OPENS THURSDAY Leader Here Has An Interesting Career Mrs. Marian Ballou Fisk, superin-tendent of the Chautauqua here this year, is a distinguished personage. Early in her career Mrs. Fisk be-came interested in missionary work among the heathen, but instead of journying into far distant lands on a campaign of conversion, she applied herself to ministering to the poor and lowly who inhabited "the jungle" in Chicago, one Stock Yards district, where she worked among the fugi-tives from oppression who had fled from "the old country" to seek free-dom. She taught the illiterates and for-eign speaking peoples by means of crayon pictures. Thus she talked to many' different nationalities together in picture language, which served as sewing circles among the women and an universal tongue. She established Sunday schools which grew in num-ber to 110 in the Chicago "jungle", including eleven different nationali-ties. For the last sixteen years, Mrs. Fisk has demonstrated her work, giv-ing picture talks with crayons of 20 different colors to Chautauqua and Lyceum audiences and now she is vice president of the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association. She will give you an interesting account of her work on the second afternoon program in the big tent, next Wednes-day. In order to enjoy the whole pro-gram at the least possible cost get season tickets now as no tickets will be sold after the opening date. There will be no surplus tickets in the hands of the guarantors at or after the opening of the Chautauqua. The contract provides' that in the event of a deficit all unsold tickets must be returned to the Chautauqua As-sociation and never be divided among the guarantors. Chautauqua tickets are now on sale. They are being sold by members of the Guarantors association and the Junior Boosters. The Chautauqua tent will be erected on the public play ground lot. TRAVELERS HEAR AND FAR COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES Many Local i»«!lfii«ms at Auto Races at Altoona Many persons from Lititz and vi-cinity attended the auto races at Al-toona, on Saturday, leaving here early Saturday morning by auto and were on the field at 9 o'clock the next morn-ing, returning Sunday. They took the William Penn highway going out and returning some of the persons took a side trip around State College, covering 375 males in all. The list of persons comprises Wayne Zartman, Leon Himmelberger, Earl Erb, Ralph Diehm, Clarence Rudy, Lester Runk, Dervin Runk, Benjamin Forney and brother, Wayne Grube, Jr., Ammon Longenecker, Raymond Peiffer, Ver-non Lehn, Allen Badorf, Lloyd Bom-berger, Henry Hershey, Clyde Keller, H. C. Helman, Victor Stark, Jacob Musser, Reese Landis, Harry Adams, William Zell, Edward Hippel, Harry Geltz, George Wonder. Rufus Kline, Harry Galebach. —Imported Dotted Voile, special at Pfautz Bros, this week. —Wool, and cotton Bathing Suits at W. H. Buch's, Lititz Will Meet Denver The most important game in the county league so far will take place during next weekend, when Lititz will go to Denver to cross bats with the fast aggregation at that place. Den-ver has not lost a game in the county league while Lititz lost its only game to that team in the beginning of the season while experimenting with pitchers. Lititz has been going like a house afire since then, hitting like wild Indians, while their pitchers, Kingsley and Enck, have been mow-ing • down their opponents with reg-ularity. Denver will know they are in a ball game when they strike Lititz the second time. A big crowd of fans will accompany the team. Lititz Man Receives Degree From Wesleyan Miles Reisner Fasnacht, son of Alice E. Fasnacht, 227 South Spruce Street, Lititz, Pa., received the degree of Bachelor of Science at the ninety-second annual Commencement Exer-cises of Wesleyan University held at Middletown, Conn., June 16. Mr. Fasnacht prepared for Wesleyan at Lititz high school. In his sophomore year he was a member of the class track team. In his junior and senior years he was a member of the Adam Smith Club. He is a member of Com-mons Club fraternity. Martin Risser and Harvey Bachman students at State College, returned home for the summer vacation. Misses Loa Lytel and Margaret Whistler of Lewistown are visiting at the home of J. F. Stoner. Miss Cairo Crosland who is attend-ing the Moravian College for Women at Bethlehem is home on her summer vacation. Thomas Evans, of Newark, N. J., was a visitor in town this week. He is a native of this place and enjoys coming back to Lititz. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Leaman and daughter Catherine of Dixon, 111., are spending a month with their dau-ghter Mr. Owen Hershey. Mr. C. Eugene Longenecker is spending the week at Tarrytown, N. Y., in the interest of the Chevrolet car, studying up special parts. Mrs. Ella Lacy, who left in Novem-ber of last year to visit her son Paul and family, at. Covington, Va., re-turned to Lititz, and will reside at the Moravian Home, as formerly. Mrs. Martha Thuma and Miss Katie Smith visited at Marietta on Sunday. During their absence their mother Mrs. Catherine Smith, over ninety years old, spent the day with her so» Harry on North Cedar street. Charlotte U. Ditzler is spending the week visiting her mother Mrs, Mary C. Ditzler. Miss Ditzler grad-uated from Temple University and expects to teach on a playground in Phila. this summer. Levi Eberly and daughters: Laura, Verda, Nora, Dora, and Ruth, of Wayne County, Ohio, are visiting Amos Oberholtzer and family Lititz and other relatives. They also visit-ed the Eberly homestead, Durlach, where their ancestors from Switzer-land settled. Miss Esther Leaman, who is taking a course in dietetics at Battle Creek Mich., and Miss Martha Leaman who is a student nurse in the Osteopathic Hospital in Kirksville, Mo., are visit-ing their parents Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Leaman. Mrs. Stoner and Mrs. Roop of Union Bridge, Md., spent Friday at the home of Graybill Minnich after attending the conference at Hershey. They are related to the Minnichs, their ancest-ors having gone to Maryland from this county. B. Landis Graybill, near Lititz, re-turned home from State College for the summer. Many persons are taking trips to the ridge of hills north of here for mountain laurel. Bouquets of this beautiful wild flower are seen around the town. Cats Killing Young Chickens Many townspeople who raise chick-ens in their back lots on a small scale are troubled with cats killing their chickens. This is especially true on Spruce street and the western end of town. Some owners report losing forty young chicks in a short time. They consider that the cats are as destructive as rate and have their shot guns in readiness, with a result that many a pussey cat has given up its ninth life. Cleared $100 at Festical on Saturday The American Legion practically sold out in everything, clearing over a hundred dollars. Owing to the fact that solicitations were made only among their members, the profit was not so large as if the entire town had been canvassed. Oldest Woman in Lititz Dead Miss Rosanna Kreider, aged 92 years,, died yesterday afternoon at the home of her niece Mrs. Jacob Bowman, from diseases incident to-old age. She had been confined to bed" for the past three weeks. Miss Kreider was born in Lititz, a daughter of the1 late Saumel and Elizabeth Kreider, and Resided here her entire lifetime. She is survived by ten nieces and. nephews. She was a member of the Moravian church since her girlhood. Miss Kreider was a cultured lady, a wonderful conversationalist, a musi-cian and an artist. She taught music at Linden Hall for a number of years. Funeral services will be held on Saturday afternoon 2:30 at the home where she died. Interment in the Moravian cemetery.
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Title | Lititz Record |
Masthead | Lititz Record 1924-06-19 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Description | Lititz newspapers 1877-1942 |
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Date | 1924-06-19 |
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Full Text | Poital Law* require that subscriptions be L paid promptly. A blue 1 pencil mark in this j circle mean* your sub-scription is due, and we will thank you for a prompt remittance riTZ Of all forms of advertising known to man—nothing has yet been found as space in the home p a p e r . VOL. XLVII LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19,1924 NO. 39 EVENTS COHGISELY TOLD INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN TOWN AND VICINITY. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Stromfeltz at Rome on Tuesday. Miss Edna Longenecker has been assisting with work at the office of her father John F. Longenecker. The local Odd Fellow lodge will give the initiatory degree on Monday evening. The Lititz band will furnish the music for outdoor concert here on Sat-urday evening. These concerts seem to be more popular than ever before. June 21 marks the longest day when in normal years, farmers start cut-ting the hay crop. It will not be ready this year at that time. The Junior and Intermediate So-cieties of the U. B. Church will picnic at Shivleys grove, Saturday, June 21. Trucks will leave the church at 8:30 A. M. sharp. Maurice Fry, fire chief of the Lititz Fire Company, has two fractured ribs, resulting from being struck by the nozzle of the hose when testing it out. Mrs David Bomberger of Lexington who had been sick for the past sev-eral weeks is showing improvement and is out of bed. She had a com-plication of ailments. Fourteen acres of land with im-provements, including a stone quarry, a half-mile east of Lititz, was sold at public sale on Saturday as the pro-perty of the late Aaron Long to Elm-er Hershey for $8000. The Leese Amusements will be located at Manheim from June 20 to the 28th, at the old location near the trolley terminus. Mr. Leese, the owner, has been coming thru this section for a number of years. L. N. Moyer has moved his house-hold goods from South Spruce street to his new home on Main street and with his family has taken up his residense there. The drug store Toom is still undergoing renovations. Dr. C. E. Lane takes pleasure in informing his patients that he will open an office at 65 East Main street on Monday, June 23. An entirely new equipment, including an x-ray machine has been installed. Fred Gable, who has been a resi-dent of Los Angeles, Calif., for the past three years, expects to visit in Lititz in August on his way home from Toronto, Canada. Next Sunday evening the Rev. S. A. Heisey will preach a special ser-mon to White Dove Commandery, Knights of Malta, in the United Evan-gelical church. Recently the officer and directors of the Keystone National Bank, Man-heim visited and inspected the Lititz Springs National Bank. Also the officers and directors of the Lewis-burg National Bank and the officers of the Industrial National Bank of York and on Tuesday the directors of the Drovers and Mechanics National Bank of York. They were all highly pleased with the new bank, especially when comparing the population of the town. Through the. efforts of G. G. Diehm the shad season will be extended. The law calls for closing on June 20, at the discression of the fish com-missioner, but is now continued to July 1. Owing to rainy weather shad fishermen had a poor season. They will now have a chance to make some extra money besides putting shad on the table for a little time longer. Mr. Diehm was responsible last year in having the season extended. This applies to fishing in the vicinity of the power dam. A. CLAIR RICE AND MISS MARY GROSCH MARRIED Took Place at "The Little Church Around the Corner," New York Allan Clair Rice, of Honey Brook and Mary S. Grosch of Lititz, were united in marriage at The Little Church Around the Corner in New York City, oh Tuesday June 17 at 4 P. M. Rev. J. H. Randolph Ray, Rector of the church officiated. The ring ceremony was used. The bride wore a gown of silver blue canton crepe and carried yellow rose buds. Miss Emma C. Grosch of Plainfield, N. J., served as bride's maid and Mrs. Henri Bodder of Beth-lehem as matron of honor. Mr. Henri Bodder was best man. Mrs. C. W. Grosch, mother of the bride attended the wedding and later visited at Plain-field. Miss Grosh is a graduate of Lititz High School and Millersville Normal and taught several years in the Lititz Public Schools. Mr. Rice is a veteran of the World War having served in Co. A., 107th Machine Gun Battalion, 28th Division. He is at present a linotype operator at the Lancaster Intelligencer. They expect to spend ten days tour-ing New York State and Pennsyl-vania and spend several days at the Delaware Water Gap. Moravian Ushers Go to Lake Grubb Today The Moravian Ushers' Association will leave here Thursday for their annual outing at Lake Grubb, start-ing at the fountain in automobiles at noon. The amusement committee has arranged a program of base ball, play ground ball, quoits and other games, while Albert Gochenour, chair-of the social committee, will see to it that there is no shortage in the food supply. Lake Grubb is a se-cluded little beauty spot of the county, with pure water.ninety feet deep, and a variety of fish. STAUFFERS FROM ALL GATHERED AT SPRINGS IN ANNUAL REUNION Heat Killed Horse While Gilbert Myers was plowing yesterday one of his horses dropped dead as a result of the heat and the other horse became sick, and for a time it looked as if it would not re-cover, but now is showing improve-ment. Among a truckload of cattle being taken to Lebanon in Seth Lorah's truck a steer died while near Bricker ville, supposed to be due to the heat. In trying to remove it a cow in the truck became wild and caused so much trouble that the gate could not be opened to take the animal out and the truck moved on. S " V Ladies' Allentown Band Booked for Lititz One of the big musical events of the season will be the Ladies' Allentown band, booked to give a concert here on Saturday, July 26. This band makes a big hit wherever they appear and should bring a recordbreak-ing crowd to Lititz. No little expense is involved in getting them to come here, but as a special treat without a doubt the money will be well spent. S N. S. Myers Sold Three of His Pro-perties This Week N. S. Myers reports two of his houses on the South Broad Street ad-dition sold. One of them, the middle apartment of a row of three houses, was sold to Earl Esbenshade. Pos-session will be taken at once. He will erect a furniture repair shop on the rear of the lot. The other house, two and a half story single home, now in the course of erection, in the same block, was sold to Rev. J. E. Maurer, a former pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church at this place, and now a resident of Mt. Holly Springs. He will take possession in October. Mr. Myers also reports the sale of one of his farms in Heidelburg town-ship, near the city of Lebanon, to Ralph R. Shessler, of Wildwood, N. J. School Tax the Same After a careful survey of the school needs and the funds available it was decided by the finance committee to fix the school tax at fifteen mills and the per captia tax at $2.00, including both sexes of voting age. Death of Monroe Meily Monroe M. Meiley died last eevning at his home on Lincoln Avenue, after a lingering illness, aged 41 years. He was born at Brunnerville and lived at Lititz for many years. He was a cigarmaker by trade and was fore-man of a factory until some months ago. He is survived by his wife, nee Catherine Fry, and one daughter Esta and a granddaaughter Gladys Hacker all of Lititz, also his mother Mrs. Mary Meily, of Brunnerville, and the following brothers and sisters: Amos Meily and Mrs Alice Young, of Brunnerville and Mrs. Jacob Singley, Lititz. The funeral services will be held on Sunday with services at the house at 1.30 P. M. and at St. Paul's Lutheran church at 2. P. M. Interment in Machpelah cemetery. About 300 persons attended the annual reunion of the Stauffer clan at the Springs on Saturday. While Lancaster Countains predominated, other parts of the Union and even Canada, were represented. The family, according to a histori-cal sketch written by Johannes Scherr a German writer, and translated by Fred F. Vaughn, was one of the lead-ing families of Germany, being re-peatedly represented upon the throne. The original name was Hohenstauffen, and the family was at one time as famous and powerful as the Hohon-zollern, to which the ill-starred Kaiser belongs, which it preceded. It fin-ally sank into comparative oblivion. The first emigrants to this country left Switzerland in 1709, preceeding by way of the Rhine and Liverpool, England. A most interesting program was rendered, consisting of addresses by members of the clan. The Rev. E. G. Stauffer, of Mastersonville, led the devotions, Clarence W Hess, of Akron the President, delivered the address of welcome and the response was made by A. H. Stauffer, of Atglen. The Rev. H. L. Hess, of Manheim, spoke on: "Fellowship," Tobias Stauf-fer, of Norfolk, Va., read the history of the Stauffers, and others short talks were given by D. H. Stauffer, of Chambersburg; Maurice Stauffer, of Littlestown; J. B. Stauffer, of Harrisburg; and Mrs. Carrie Stauffer Wulcox, of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. E. J. Hartman, of Pomeroy, read a list of 17 names of those who had died since the last reunion, and led in the closing prayer. Gladys Hess sang a solo and a recitation was given by Grace Hess, a number of hymns were sung, and the Rev. H. L. Hess pronounced the benediction. The following officers were elected: President, Clarence W. Hess, of Akron; Vice Presidents, Jacob A. Stauffer, of Gap; John N. Wissler, of Ephrata; Levi N. Stauffer, of Mt. Joy; Secretary, A. H. Stauffer, of Atglen; Treasurer, John W. Stauffer, of Willow Stree; Historian, Amos Stauffer. Miss Emma Hess, of Akron served as pianist. It was decided to meet at Lititz again next year on the second Sat-urday in June, if the date was avail-able. LOYSVILLE BAND DREW BIG CROWDS Lititz People Appreciated Their Play-ing and Gave Over $300 Towards Orphans' Home Rattlesnake Plant in Bloom J. M. Hoffman, of South Cedar St., has a rattlesnake plant in the yard at his home which is in bloom and attracts considerable attention. The stalk is four and a half feet high, including the bloom, which looks like a tongue and starts from a cup-like cluster of leaves. * There are no other leaves on the stem but later on a thick foliage will grow out. For sev-eral days it emitted an offensive snake like smell, from which the plant prob-ably derived its name. It is a tropi-cal plant and dies down in the fall. The bulb, which is as large as the bottom of a bucket, is kept in the cellar during the winter. Mr. Hoff-man has the plant for eight years, but it is the first time it has bloomed. The Loysville band was greeted here by an enthusiastic turnout of people from Lititz and surrounding country. Saturday afternoon a short concert was given in front of the fire house but in the evening a lengthy program was given from the band stand aside of the firehouse. Autos were lined up early to get an advant-ageous position and half the width of Broad street within hearing dis-tance was a mass of people. The boys held the interest of the audience from start to finish. The chimes ad-ded novelty to the music and hearty applause was1 acknowledged with a number of encores. A sacred concert was given at the Springs Grounds on Sunday after-noon attracting a big crowd. On Sat-urday evening $139.00 was collected besides which the business men con-tributed $50, and on Sunday after-noon the collection amounted to $114.30, a total of $303.30. The year previous the collection was exactly $300. On Sunday evening, in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, the annual Chil-dren's Day service was held, which was largely attended, and which was beautifully rendered. Seven picked members of the Band assisted in the orchestra at this service. An offer-ing of $61.54 is sent direct to the Home, and not thru the band. The band gets credit for the above offer-ings received thru itself. Prof. Stenger wishes to thank the people of the community for their courteous hearing and generosity. Harvey Seaber Has Finest Clinbing Rose Bush in Town Harvey Seaber, who takes a great pleasure in rose culture, has a climb-ing rose stalk known as the yellow finch which is hard to beat for the number of flowers and buds it con-tains. It covers many square feet of space, all originating from one root and is covered with hundreds of flow-ers and buds. It would keep a person busy for a day to count them. Un-like many climbers the bloom is large, over two inches in diameter. The buds are yellow and the flowers some-what lighter. The stalk is eight years old and never before bloomed as now. Harvey says this is an exceptional year to produce fine roses, although they are later than usual. A unique feature in his yard is three colors of roses trained over a trellis, produce red, white and blue blooms. They will be in bloom later in the summer. —Porch swings, rockers, matting and awning, at Pfautz Bros. New Play Ground Instructor The new play ground instructor, Mr. Swanger, of Lebanon, is on the job. He is at the play ground from about eight-thirty in the morning till noon and after dinner till about three o'clock in the afternoon. The chil-dren should take advantage of this opportunity and go to the play ground for it is sure to do them some good and surely better then playing on the street where machines are pass-ing the whole day and accidents are sure to happen. Fish Bit Well at the Bay Ten Lititz persons left for Fortes-que last Saturday returning the next day with a nice catch of fish. James Goldthwait, Jacob Bachman and son, William Roth, Harry Kauffman, Charles Ringer, were in one auto and their party caught a hundred fish, and Chester Ritchie, Chester Ruth, Elwood ' Shoemaker, William Mathers and Arthur Kling, started near midnight Saturday in another car, but owing to trouble with the car did not reach the fishing ground until 10 o'clock the next morn-ing. They caught seventy fish. The catches comprised mostly weak fish and croakers. The fish bit lively. Strawberry Festival Near Lititz On Saturday evening June 21, the Willing Workers Circle of King's Daughters will hold a strawberry festival on Frey's lawn, opposite Ivan Bushong's mill. Everything that's good to eat will be on sale. Music will be furnished by the Neffsville orchestra. SUMMER HOT WEATHER Thermometer at 85 Degrees Making Up for Past Cool Weather Persons who were wondering if hot vgeather had been overlooked by the weatherman had a treat of the real article since Sunday when the ther-mometer registered 85 degrees and more. Porches are comfortable in the evening and ice cream sales are going up with the thermometer. Since the hot weather garden truck is making an unusual growth. Straw-berries seem to be late in ripening and bring 20 cents a box for the best, but with good weather conditions a big crop is in prospect. The prospects for a big peach crop this year are promising. Other fruit is also hanging full on the tree. Next week cherries should make their ap-pearance. There will be a good crop of both sweet and sour cherries. Potatoes stalks look good and seem to be making up for lost time after being retarded by cool weather. Rain is almost a daily visitor but fortunately is not of long duration before the sun comes out again. Correction Among the persons who motored to Quincy, as mentioned in last week's Record, the nam>es of Mr. and Mrs. William Stauffer and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Royer were omitted by mistake. John Sutter, whose remains are buried in the Moravian graveyard, died of a broken heart. He lived too early. He asked Congress, after his land was stolen, to refund to him the money that he paid the U. S. Government in taxes and should have en-titled him to protection. They accepted his money and kept in and the protection that he received as a citizen was nothing. His land was taken by squatters and they kept it. Congressmen pro-mised him to have a bill pass-ed to refund him his money —which was a very just de-mand— but the years drag-ged on and he died without action being taken. Shame-ful! In modern times all he would have had to do was to split up with a high official, receive the money and ma-rines would have been sent out to protect him. But it is doubtful if Sutter would have stooped to such dish-oner. The State Board of Fish Commissioners request the extenmination of water snakes. Many streams be-ing damaged thru the killing of fish by these snakes. By co-operation of the members of the different Game Associ-ations and by putting on a campaign, the streams could be rid of hundreds of these nakes. Every person who has gone fishing has had some experi-ence with these snakes. In fishing for suckers by catch-ing them with the hands un-der banks it was not unusual to grab a snake and kids know how unpleasant it is to see a snake come up aside of them when swimming. They are of no benefit and should go, but that is easier said than done. For five years Joshua Roll-man has been using his Ford truck for hard service, prob-ably covering enough miles to have taken him around the world. The truck looks it, too, but it still does the work. The other day he used it in bringing in hay from [the fields, the hay being over the top of the driver's seat and hanging down, so that it looked like a moving hay pile as it passed thru the streets the driver having only a little open space for his vis-ion. The sparrow hawk which has become tame and has its home with Harry Kepple on Broad street, is having its share of trouble this sum-mer. The hawk comes to his home several times daily to be fed but does not have much time to loiter around. Every time it makes it ap-pearance it is attacked by all the robins in the neigh-borhood and often the forces are increased by blackbirds. They will not fight it out-right but dart and fly around while the hawk puts up its sharp claws for protection. His pet has never been in-jured by these massed at-tack but they make it un-comfortable for his pet which will fly away when contin-ued for a length of time, fol-lowed by the attacking party j amid a great chattering. Their object evidently is to drive it out of the neighbor-hood. He's the Pansy King Enos Miller, living south-east of Lititz, had over five hundred visitors at his home who caiwe to see his pansy bed. Mr. Miller has red pop-pies that measure seven inches in diameter. CHAUTAUQUA OPENS THURSDAY Leader Here Has An Interesting Career Mrs. Marian Ballou Fisk, superin-tendent of the Chautauqua here this year, is a distinguished personage. Early in her career Mrs. Fisk be-came interested in missionary work among the heathen, but instead of journying into far distant lands on a campaign of conversion, she applied herself to ministering to the poor and lowly who inhabited "the jungle" in Chicago, one Stock Yards district, where she worked among the fugi-tives from oppression who had fled from "the old country" to seek free-dom. She taught the illiterates and for-eign speaking peoples by means of crayon pictures. Thus she talked to many' different nationalities together in picture language, which served as sewing circles among the women and an universal tongue. She established Sunday schools which grew in num-ber to 110 in the Chicago "jungle", including eleven different nationali-ties. For the last sixteen years, Mrs. Fisk has demonstrated her work, giv-ing picture talks with crayons of 20 different colors to Chautauqua and Lyceum audiences and now she is vice president of the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association. She will give you an interesting account of her work on the second afternoon program in the big tent, next Wednes-day. In order to enjoy the whole pro-gram at the least possible cost get season tickets now as no tickets will be sold after the opening date. There will be no surplus tickets in the hands of the guarantors at or after the opening of the Chautauqua. The contract provides' that in the event of a deficit all unsold tickets must be returned to the Chautauqua As-sociation and never be divided among the guarantors. Chautauqua tickets are now on sale. They are being sold by members of the Guarantors association and the Junior Boosters. The Chautauqua tent will be erected on the public play ground lot. TRAVELERS HEAR AND FAR COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES Many Local i»«!lfii«ms at Auto Races at Altoona Many persons from Lititz and vi-cinity attended the auto races at Al-toona, on Saturday, leaving here early Saturday morning by auto and were on the field at 9 o'clock the next morn-ing, returning Sunday. They took the William Penn highway going out and returning some of the persons took a side trip around State College, covering 375 males in all. The list of persons comprises Wayne Zartman, Leon Himmelberger, Earl Erb, Ralph Diehm, Clarence Rudy, Lester Runk, Dervin Runk, Benjamin Forney and brother, Wayne Grube, Jr., Ammon Longenecker, Raymond Peiffer, Ver-non Lehn, Allen Badorf, Lloyd Bom-berger, Henry Hershey, Clyde Keller, H. C. Helman, Victor Stark, Jacob Musser, Reese Landis, Harry Adams, William Zell, Edward Hippel, Harry Geltz, George Wonder. Rufus Kline, Harry Galebach. —Imported Dotted Voile, special at Pfautz Bros, this week. —Wool, and cotton Bathing Suits at W. H. Buch's, Lititz Will Meet Denver The most important game in the county league so far will take place during next weekend, when Lititz will go to Denver to cross bats with the fast aggregation at that place. Den-ver has not lost a game in the county league while Lititz lost its only game to that team in the beginning of the season while experimenting with pitchers. Lititz has been going like a house afire since then, hitting like wild Indians, while their pitchers, Kingsley and Enck, have been mow-ing • down their opponents with reg-ularity. Denver will know they are in a ball game when they strike Lititz the second time. A big crowd of fans will accompany the team. Lititz Man Receives Degree From Wesleyan Miles Reisner Fasnacht, son of Alice E. Fasnacht, 227 South Spruce Street, Lititz, Pa., received the degree of Bachelor of Science at the ninety-second annual Commencement Exer-cises of Wesleyan University held at Middletown, Conn., June 16. Mr. Fasnacht prepared for Wesleyan at Lititz high school. In his sophomore year he was a member of the class track team. In his junior and senior years he was a member of the Adam Smith Club. He is a member of Com-mons Club fraternity. Martin Risser and Harvey Bachman students at State College, returned home for the summer vacation. Misses Loa Lytel and Margaret Whistler of Lewistown are visiting at the home of J. F. Stoner. Miss Cairo Crosland who is attend-ing the Moravian College for Women at Bethlehem is home on her summer vacation. Thomas Evans, of Newark, N. J., was a visitor in town this week. He is a native of this place and enjoys coming back to Lititz. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Leaman and daughter Catherine of Dixon, 111., are spending a month with their dau-ghter Mr. Owen Hershey. Mr. C. Eugene Longenecker is spending the week at Tarrytown, N. Y., in the interest of the Chevrolet car, studying up special parts. Mrs. Ella Lacy, who left in Novem-ber of last year to visit her son Paul and family, at. Covington, Va., re-turned to Lititz, and will reside at the Moravian Home, as formerly. Mrs. Martha Thuma and Miss Katie Smith visited at Marietta on Sunday. During their absence their mother Mrs. Catherine Smith, over ninety years old, spent the day with her so» Harry on North Cedar street. Charlotte U. Ditzler is spending the week visiting her mother Mrs, Mary C. Ditzler. Miss Ditzler grad-uated from Temple University and expects to teach on a playground in Phila. this summer. Levi Eberly and daughters: Laura, Verda, Nora, Dora, and Ruth, of Wayne County, Ohio, are visiting Amos Oberholtzer and family Lititz and other relatives. They also visit-ed the Eberly homestead, Durlach, where their ancestors from Switzer-land settled. Miss Esther Leaman, who is taking a course in dietetics at Battle Creek Mich., and Miss Martha Leaman who is a student nurse in the Osteopathic Hospital in Kirksville, Mo., are visit-ing their parents Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Leaman. Mrs. Stoner and Mrs. Roop of Union Bridge, Md., spent Friday at the home of Graybill Minnich after attending the conference at Hershey. They are related to the Minnichs, their ancest-ors having gone to Maryland from this county. B. Landis Graybill, near Lititz, re-turned home from State College for the summer. Many persons are taking trips to the ridge of hills north of here for mountain laurel. Bouquets of this beautiful wild flower are seen around the town. Cats Killing Young Chickens Many townspeople who raise chick-ens in their back lots on a small scale are troubled with cats killing their chickens. This is especially true on Spruce street and the western end of town. Some owners report losing forty young chicks in a short time. They consider that the cats are as destructive as rate and have their shot guns in readiness, with a result that many a pussey cat has given up its ninth life. Cleared $100 at Festical on Saturday The American Legion practically sold out in everything, clearing over a hundred dollars. Owing to the fact that solicitations were made only among their members, the profit was not so large as if the entire town had been canvassed. Oldest Woman in Lititz Dead Miss Rosanna Kreider, aged 92 years,, died yesterday afternoon at the home of her niece Mrs. Jacob Bowman, from diseases incident to-old age. She had been confined to bed" for the past three weeks. Miss Kreider was born in Lititz, a daughter of the1 late Saumel and Elizabeth Kreider, and Resided here her entire lifetime. She is survived by ten nieces and. nephews. She was a member of the Moravian church since her girlhood. Miss Kreider was a cultured lady, a wonderful conversationalist, a musi-cian and an artist. She taught music at Linden Hall for a number of years. Funeral services will be held on Saturday afternoon 2:30 at the home where she died. Interment in the Moravian cemetery. |
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