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VOL. XLVIH LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1924 No. 10
ÌSELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Two woman's watches were found.
Losers can get information here re-garding
them.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Frederick an-nounce
the birth of a boy in their
family on Monday.
Eight Lititz men were required to
pay fines of over $13 each last week
for violating automobile laws.
—Turkey dinner on Thanksgiving.
Reservations ••will be appreciated.—
Bifrkholders Restaurant.—aav.
L. B. Wiest of Ephrata, sold a
brick dwelling and' 4% acres of land,
at Brunnerville/ to Harry Binkley, of
Lititz, for $3,600.
Mrs. Howard Bollinger chaperoned
' thirty-two children pn a hike on Fri-day
afternoon. - The kiddies carried
lunch .¿nd had a fine time out-of-doórs.
Two tramps, overtaken by Sunday's
sudden colà snap, were placed in the
borough lockup on Sunday morning.
Before being released they were given
hot coffee and breakfast and went on
their way rejoicing on Monday morn-ing.
The Ladies' Sewing Society of the
Moravian Church will hold a sale of
needlework in the young ladies bible
class room of the. Moravian S. S.
chapel on Saturday afternoon and
evening, Nov. 29.
Two automobiles collided at East
Main and Cedar streets at 5.40 A. M.
on Monday. One of the machines
had its windshield shattered but no
one was hurt. The burgess cleared
away the fragments of glass an hour
later.
A letter was received here from
Rev. and Mrs. John Barwick, of Jer-usalem,
announcing the birth of a
son. Mrs. Barwick before marriage
was Laura Herslìey, a daughter of
R e v . a n d M r s . J . W . G. H e r s h e j r of
this place. Her husband is engaged
in Y. M. C. A. work in Jerusalem.
They left here over a year ago.
Under new management the con-fectionery
store in the Malta building
was opened last Saturday evening by
J. Albert Hall, with music by a four-piece
orchestra. The store room has
been painted and papered and pre-sents
an inviting appearance. There
were many callers all evening and the
new manager feels well pleased with
the patronage given him.
William Lewis, billard pool cham-pion
of Pennsylvania, gave an ex-hibition
at the Brunswick restaurant
on Tuesday evening. He defeated
Robert Imhoff, a local boy, by 100 to
25. His highest run was 26 balls.
He did trick and fancy shooting'and
made a good impression.
Hiram McCauley, of Steelton, a
former resident of this place, spent
Sunday with Lincoln Gable and family.
Eggs a^e up to war-time prices.
At five and fraction cents apiece hen
fruit is being used more sparingly.
Fotunately for people in Lititz and
country famiiles have their own flocks
of chickens and in flush times put
eggs away for the lean periods.' Hens
are just recovering from the moult
and only a small per cent are làying.
Of course poultryman who specialize
in the business know how to get eggs
• when they bring the big prices.,
Monday was the coldest day of t ie
season and the mercury dropped to
14 degrees here early Monday morn-ing.
There was a show fall on Sat,
urday but it melted when it larded
on the earth. The sudden drop of
temperature brought out heavy win-ter
overcoats and furnoo.'s were stok-ed
to make houses comi» table. Win-try
blasts had been sic-, 1 < arriving
but the first sample of the : vason was
a good one, high wind§~r-,€ding a
disagreeable feeling to the yv»dy ac-customed
to mild weather.
Lititz Woman's Brother Fatally
Wounded ih Fight at Dance
Hall -
Francis E. Blettner, 17 years old,
of Hanover, brother of Mrs. W. Mar-tin
Muth, of Lititz, was fatally in-jured
Saturday night in a street quar-rel
following an American Legion
dance.
The fight started outside the Legion
Home at Hanover. Charles Wilkin-son,
27, Fayettsville, with his brother,
resented remarks made by another
crowd, and when his auto, in which
he and his brother took refuge, was
surrounded, Wilkinson drew a twenty-five
calibre revolver and fired into
the group. Bettner fell with a bul-let
thru his head and died Sunday
morning. Wilkinson was arrested
soon afterward and is in jail. He con-fessed
firing the shot and ' will be
charged with murder.
Shot Pure White Squirrel
Frank Miller, Lincoln Avenue, shot
an albinö squirrel at the Furnace
Hills. Its fur is pure white, has. a
large bushy tail and pink eyes. It
is of the gray squirrel specie. He is
having it mounted by Atwood Kreid-er
and when completed will be dis-played
in The Specialty Shop. A white
squirrel, like a white crow, is a sport,
and is known as an albino, said to be
due to an absence of coloring pig-ments.
The late Linnaeus Shelly
used to have a mounted white fence
hackey, and this' is the first time since
then that a white squirrel was re-ported
shot by a local hunter.
Birthdays
Prof. Herbert H. Beck, South Broad
street, attained his 49th birthday last
Saturday,
Miss Grace Keller, chief operator
in the Bell telephone exchange here,
added another year to her age last
Sunday, as did also H. L. Eschbach
on thé same day.
Mr. Eschbach received 76 birthday
cards, coming from North Dakota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Lititz .and other
near-by places. Mr.. Eschbach iss
kept busy nursing, being called to
different parts of the county.
1. W.BÜBSI, FORMER
PASTOR HERE, READ
Lutheran Pastor Was Hero in
Civil War
On Friday, November 14th, the Rev.
Isaac Walton Bobst, the former be-loved
pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran
church of Lititz, for thirteen and a
half years, passed away at his home,
3808 N. 17th St., Philadelphia, Pa.,
at the age of seventy-seven years.
He was born April 6, 1847 in Berks
County.
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Real Estate Man Preparing to Open
Business Here on Friday
Howard J. Karer, of Lancaster,
¡was in town this week, getting things
in shape to start business here on
Friday. His office will be located
aside of N. S. Myer's residence, Cedar
street, across the street from the
school house. The office' building is
being altered and he will have a tem-porary
office in Mr. Myer's residence.
He will be at the office this Friday
afternoon and evening to list proper-ties
arid discuss real estate with pros-pective
customers.
Jay Hershey to Give Ratal at Owl
Hill School Hapse
Oh Saturday evening Nov. 29, a
very interesting prograi will be
given in the Owl Hill scbol house by
Amos Jay Hershey of ancaster for
the benefit of the Wilhg Worker's
Kings Daughters. Anone having
heard Mr. Hershey befce will surely
want to hear him agaiiand anyone
who has not heard him ill be great-ly
benefited by coming o Owl Hill
on the date mentioned aive.
, —Reducing Corsets ofthe finest
grade at The Specialty iop. .
—-Nice Gólden Dates, uaranteed
pew crop, per lb. Ì5c, ^Miller &
Habecker's. t •
Received Yams from Virginia
Cieorge Leicey of- Brownstown re-ceived
H barrels of yams from Wayne
Carpenter at Waverly, Va., and sev-eral
Lititz persons received some of
them. The yam is somewhat similar
to the sweet potato and is favorite
food in the south. Northern persons
¿s a rule know little about them.
Local persons who have tried them
say they are superior to the "sweet,"
being sweeter in taste and not be-ing
as solid. The yam is larger than
the sweet potato.
Miss Leila Burkholder of Lancas-ter,
a niece to Mr. Carpenter, receives
from a. half to a car of yams . each
season for disposal at Lancaster from
this source^
Friends Surprised Christian R. liess
by Husking His Corn
Forty-seven able-bodied men gath-ered
at the farm of C. R. Hess, east
of town, on Tuesday and husked his
eight, acres of corn and put it in the
crib. Mr. Hess fell back of schedule
with his farm work owing to the con-dition
of his wife, who has been sick
since March. Quick time was made
%i husking. Persons • were present
from Mt. Joy,' Clay, and neighbors
and friends from close-by.
Rothsville School House Nearing
Completion
The two-story addition to the
Rothsville school house will be ready
for occupancy within a month. It
is built of brick, 70 by 60 feet, With
a basement to be used as a gymna-sium.
The present quarters are over-crowded.
This addition was started
in the summer. -
Moravian Ushers Met
The Moravian Usher's Association
held their first meeting tor the fall
on Thursday evening, with an attend-ance
of 35. Spirited talks were giv-en.
A fine luncheon was served. The
December gathering will be a Father
and Son meeting.
Rev. I. Walton Bobst
At the age of 13 years he lost his
father and immediately became the
support and stay of his mother and
her; younger children. When not quite
sixteen years old he enlisted in the
128 Penna. Volunteers, in response to
the call of Lincoln and began a ser-vice
for his country that lasted until
the Civil War was won.
He was captured at Chancellors-ville
and later paroled. In a little
while he re-enlisted and entered the
first Penna. Cavalry, taking part in
eleven cavalry battles. He was cap-tured
and imprisoned both in Ander-son
ville and Libby prison. His thrill-ing
experiences in the Civil War made
him a frequent and acceptable lec-turer
on the subject in and about
Philadelphia.
At the close of the war he resum-ed
work ^t his trade, that of cigar
making and while at it determined
to prepare for the ministry, studying
at first at Kutztown Normal School
and later at the Theological Semin-ary
in Gettysburg, Pa., from which
he was graduated in 1879.
On Nov. 23, 1880 he was united in
wedlock with Miss Alice Holmes of
Harper's Ferry, which union was blest
with the following children, who with
their mother survive him:
; Mrs. David T. Bricker of Lititz;
Mrs. A'. C. Biles of Trenton; Dorothy
at home; Harry of Phila., and Elmer
H. of New York.
Rev. Bobst served six charges in a
pastorate that extended over a period
of forty five years. They were Harp-er's
Ferry, two years; Illinois, two
years; Clear Springs, Md., six years;
Lititz, over thirteen years; Trenton,'
N. J., over eleven years; St. Marks,
Phila., ten years.
Five weeks ago he preached his
tenth anniversary sermon in Phila.,
after which, under the persuasion of
his family, dtfe to signs of failing
health recognized by them, he handed
in his resignation.
He had done this upon a previous
occasion but' the council refused to
accept it. This time; they did accept,
it but a t the same time elected him
pastor emeritus.
Rev. Bobst was the oldest pastor
in the active, service in the Lutheran
church of ^Philadelphia and in the
East Pennsylvania Synod.
The body lay in state in the church
in which he ministered, where the
G, A. R. held a service on Sunday
evening. The final service was held
in the church on Monday afternoon
at one o'clock. It was in charge of
Dr. E. Heyl Delk of Phila. The prin-cipal
speakers were Dr. E. P. Croll, a
life long ministerial, friend and Dr.
J. B. Baker, a ministerial son of the
deceased. The Phila. ministerium
was there in large numbers, at least
twenty of the clergy being on hand.
A tender resolution of that body was
read by Dr. Joseph Hartman of Phila.
After the service interment was made,
amid a Paradise of flowers, in West
Laurel Cemetery.
Rev. Bobst was ill about five weeks,
the last three of which were spent in
(bed. Seven physicians were called
to his bed side and used all the re-
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w B v t m u n d
Here's a Lincoln story with
strong moral. If every per-son
who is tempted to invest
in doubtful stocks would re-member
the following story
I t would save many a re-gret:
It seems New Yorkers
were much disturbed at the
inadequacy of defense in |
New York harbor. They felt
a war vessel should be built
and anchored in the harbor
to insure greater protection.
A comimittee was sent to
Washington to talk to Lin-coln,
then president. The
chairman of the committee
explained the growth of the
great city the vast amount of
wealth being accumulated, !
and cited this as a reason
why gre^t protection should
be given.
The Great Emancipator
smiled and said: "Gentlemen,
if it is true that, there is so
much wealth in New York
why do ¡not you New Yorkers
build a battleship for your-selves?"
A man with a tan hat and
a big diamond in his shirt
11 front recently approached a
clerk who'was making thirty
dollars a week and had sav-ed,
in two years one hundred
and fifty dollars. He told
about the wonderful oppor-tunity
which he had taken
advantage of in oil well prop-
-eties in Texas; of the amount
of money he had made. Then"
he dwelt on new properties
to be developed and finally
»xchanged a yellow and green
certificate for the one bun-ded
and fifty dollars that had
been saved.
Unlike Lincoln, the clerk
did not say, "If you have
made so much why not de-velop
these new oil . wells
yourself." He just fell for
•'blue-sky" conversation.
Let us, like Lincoln, learn
to say, "Gentlemen, why not
build that battleship your-selves."
The building bought by
John Painter, in the eastern
^nd of town, for storing milk,
has a history. In 1765 a full-ing
mill was built on the site
and it was also used as a
snuff factory. In 1827 it
was burned with the excep-tion
of the walls; was rebuilt
and furnished as, a carding
mill. The Lititz creek furn-ished
Water power. Fulling
and carding are a process
used in manufactura of wool,
preparatory to weaving. In
those early days, when teams
furnished transportation. A
community had to produce
the majority of commodities
used. Living was more of
a problem then now and
even a small community had
to have many kinds of trades-men.
In 1843 there'were in
Lititz two- shoemakers, Ja-cob
Greider and George D.
Thomas; two tailors, Jacob
Rock and Charles W. Stur-gis;
two harness-makers,
Frederick Keller and Daniel
Kryder; two tinsmiths, James
Miksch and Jonas Meyer;
two cabinet-makers, Samuel
Lichenthaler and Alexander,.
Sturgis; two tobacconists,"*'
John Graeff and John Hamm ;
one chairmaker, Aaron Trae-ger;
one blacksmith, Charles
Grosh; one «doctor, Levi
Hull; one potter, Jacob
Sturgis; one baker, William
F. Rauch; stonecutters, J. P.
Christian and H. Rauch; one
cooper, Samuel Kryder; one
wheelwright, John Mclnhen-ney;
one tanner, Jacob Geit-ner;
one brewer, Jacob Weit-zel;
two watchmakers, Chris-tian
Hall and F. L. Lennert.
William H. Rauch began the
manufacture of pretzels here
in 1810. Education went
hand in hand with the other
activities in the village. The
first school established was
in 1762 and was conducted
under the ^auspices of the
Moravian church. Can you
imagine Lititz a century ago.
SUTTER'S FORT
Son Owns Ten Acre Fig Orchard
Sutter's Fort at Sacramento, said
Mrs. Maggie Wentworth, who re-cently
returned from a trip to Calf-iornia,
was one of the many interest-ing
things she saw in the Golden state.
She visited her son Grover Hoff, at
Pittsburg, Calif., a town with a pop-ulation
of 7000, and from there made
many: excursions in the agricultural
district, having plenty of time to ob-serve
the varied and large crops
grown there.
Her son Grover Hoff, a native Lititz
boy, who at present is a foreman in a
large steel plant, is tffe owner of a
ten and a quarter-acre tract of land
on which are planted 720 Kota fig
trees. This is an improved fig, very
large and practically seedless. He
expects to move on his land jn two
years when his trees will be in bear-ing
condition. The figs will be can-ned
and sold fresh. There are 13000
acres of land surrounding his place
planted in fig trees. California farm-ers
ascertain what their land is best
adapted for and will produce the best
financial returns. For this, reason one
will see sections where only one thing
is grown. This fig section is around
Stockton. Mrs. Wentworth saw sec-tions
where nothing but almonds and
English walnuts were grown. At an-other
plade she visited white, potatoes
were grown. Here all the farmers
grow the Burbank variety, some po-tatoes
weighing five pounds apiece.
She was present there when they had
¡potato day and Luther Burbank was
a special guest. The record yield is
950 bushels of tubers to the acre. She
saw how celery is grown, the Hindus
being the most adept in g-etting re-sults.
Tomatoes, asparagus are also
grown on a large scale. The grape
section is between Stockton and Sacra-mento.
She saw bunches weighing
six pounds and heavier.
At Pittsburg there are large fish
canneries. Mrs. Hoff' was taken
through one of them. Salmon were
running at the time and 45000 pounds
of these fish were delivered on the day
she was there at this one cannery..
The, cleanliness and care taken in pre-paring
the fish surprised her. They
passed from one worker to another
along a long bench, each one doing a
part in the process of preparing it
Some of the salmon weigh as much as
fifty pounds apiece. Philadelphia is
a market for a good part of the out-put.
The salmon catch was unusually
heavy this year and fisherman work-ed
night and day. The run lasts
about seven weeks.
Sutter's .old fort is well kept.
Beautiful flowers surround the place.
Inside the fort are many relics be-longing
"to Sutter and things seen
during the gold days. There are
paintings of Sutter and an enlarged
photograph, taken in his yard at
Lititz, with the words, "Sutter's Last
Days, 17 East Main Str'eet, Lititz."
A waffle iron, used in the Sutter
household is displayed. Sutter sad-dle,
two covered wagons, used in the
days of '49 in crossing the country,
the first printing presKs in California,
Indian relics and many other inter-esting
things are to be seen. How-ever,
there is no picture of Sutter's
grave, and this Mrs. Hoff , intends
presenting to the persons in charge
of the Fort.
Mrs. Hoff's son said he is well sat-isfied
with California, where the clim-ate
is fine and where .he has
HIGH SCHOOL TO
./'MUSICAL '
GIVE
Ready for Opening of Basket Ball
, Season Thanksgiving Evening,
The Public Schools, under the di-rection
of Mr. Baughey will give a
musical on the evenings of Decem-ber
3 and 4th, at 7.30 in the High
School Auditorium. They will rend-er
a fine program and will be assisted
by the High School orchestra. A
new feature this year is the Girls
Ukelele and Mandolin club, which will
give a few selections.
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Lititz High will open their Basket
Ball season on Thursday evening,
November 27th in the High School
Gym. they will meet the Wrights-ville
varsity team. The game, will
start at 8 o'clock and promises to be
a good lively battle as the Wrights-ville
boys had one of the strongest
teams in the York Coujity League
last year.
On Saturday, the 29th, the local
boys will play at Hershey.
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The following are considered honor
students for the . first quarter. None
of them have a mark below B.
sSeniors: Nine Grosh, Violet Helter,
Mary Neidermyer and Beatrice Pief-fer.
.
Juniors: Harold Ebersole, Kathryn
Gibbel, Elizabeth Grube, Betty Girvin,
Thelma Gross, Mae Hassler and Alice
Smith. *
Freshman: Hazel Mathers.
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The teachers of the Manheim Pub-lic
Schools visited the Lititz Schools
on Tuesday of this week.
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The Senior class of the Lititz High
School will sell Christmas wreaths and
holly again this year, same as the
past few classes have done. The
patronage of the public will be great-ly
appreciated.
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Prof. Demray resumed his duties
at the Public Schools on Wednesday;
after a week's illness. Mrs. Demmy
and their daughter Arlene are also
up and around again after their ill-ness
last week.
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The schools will be closed next
Thursday and Friday, and give the
pupils a short Thanksgiving vacation.
Turkey Will be Missing on Many
Tables
Home-raised turkeys are selling
around 50 cents a pound live weight.
These are always considered more
choice than shipped turkeys. The
turkeys from the south are leaner,
not having been fattened on corn.
The number of turkeys raised in Lan-caster
county is becoming less each
year. Inbreeding is making it more
difficult to raise them and blackhead
is another discouraging factor. They
often stray on adjoining farms, caus-ing,
trouble in keeping them located.
Many farmers no longer attempt to
raise them while Others are satisfied
to raise only a few turkeys for their
own use and for their sons and dau-ghters
who have left the farm. Farms
that have a woods it seems are better
adapted to turkey raising.
TRAVELERS NEAR AND FAR
GÔUIMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OID AND NEW NAMES
-^-Just received a new shipment of
Gordon Hosiery;—The Specialty Shop.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ensminger of
Manheim were in Lititz last Sunday.
Mr. W. H. Buch made a business
trip to Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Mr. P. B. Kofroth and Mrs. Mary
Steiner made an auto trip to Orwigs-burg,
Pa., over Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johannsen
spent the week-end with friends in
Philadelphia.
Paul Hassler of New York City is
spending some time with his parents'
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hassler.
Earl Brian, son of Mrs. David Brain,
"is spending two weeks at Pittsburgh,
Canton, Ohio, and Nevada, Iowa.
Mrs. and Mrs. W. B. Hornberger
of Philadelphia, were here from Sat-urday
to<^ Sunday among their num-erous
relatives.
John F. Longenecker and son Rob-ert
spent part of last week in New
York. Mrs. Longenecker spent Thurs-day
and Friday in the same city.
Miss Hattje Longenecker went to
Ephrata on Sunday, to visit her grand-mother
Mrs. Eliza Longenecker who
is sick. She is 82 years old.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hart of Leb-anon
visited Mrs. Hart's mother Mrs..
Ella- Fasnacht on Saturday and Sun-day.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. S. Weber spent
from Saturday to Sunday in the-,
vicinity of Shillington and other parts
of Berks county near Reading.
Prof. Paul Beck and son of Strouds-burg,
Pa., were here ¡ last Friday and
Saturday, paying a visit to his toother
Herbert and father A. R. Beck.
Cleo and Argula Hossler of Eph-rata
spent seveal days of last week
here with their uncle and aunt Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Kreider.
Joseph Checkerd, who has his hom®
with Mr. and Mrs. William Mathers,,
accompanied his mother Mrs, Joe
Sheckerd of Columbia, to Philadel-phia
last week. x
Mrs. Hiram Holtzhouse, Mrs. D.
G. Witmyer, Mrs. Mary Zellers, Mrs..
Sammel, wife of Rev. vV. R. Sammel;:
¡Mrs. Mauer, wife of Rev. J . E. Mauer;:
David Bricker and family, all of this
place; and Rev. G. D. Clarke, of
Bridgeton, N. J.y a former pastor here,
were among those who attended the
funeral services of the late Isaac
Walton Bobst in Philadelphia on
Monday.
Robert Witmyer and family and
Ora Haag and family of Kalamazoo,
Mich., made the trip here by auto last
week to remain a week with Mr.
Witmyer's fatherMohn Witmyer, near
Lititz. Mr. Haag,! while born in the
west, said that the early Haag^Mme
to Michigan from, PennsylvanSMPlfat:
he never heard from what padKf the
state. Haag is a famili^nKme in:
Berks county. ^
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Union Thanksgiviife- Day Sermon
The union Thanksgiving sermon
will be preached in the Moravian
church Thanksgiving day, at 10 A.
M., by Rev. I. W. Funk.
Special thank offering for the bene-fit
of the Lancaster General Hospital.
Everybody urged to attend this ser-good
hunting and fishing as a recrea-tion.
Mrs. Hoff also visited another
son in Missiouri and stopped off at
Mine LaMot. This place, where
thousands of dollars from Lancaster
County was sunk, is going to ruin.
—Full line of gifts for ladies and
gents at Gingrich's Leather Shop.
—Headquarters for Blankets anci
Comforts. New shipnient just ar-rived.—
Doster's Dept. Store.
s Sketch pf Sutter's Fort in Early Days