Lititz Record

              VOL. LVI LITITZ, PA,, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 25, No, 37
Excavation Started Monday
For 2-Story Structure
On Adjoining Lot
Excavation work started Mon-day
for a two-story modern church
school building for the United
Brethren Church, North Cedar St.
The building will take up the lot to
the South and West of the Church
and will provide sorely-needed
room for the growing school.
Ground was broken for the pro-ject
Sunday night at an impressive
ceremony and the work will be
pushed as fast as possible. Full
plans for the building have not yet
been completed, but will be soon,
following which bids will be asked
and the contracts let as soon as
possible thereafter.
The plans will call for a brick
and limestone building, with a
large basement containing a social
room and kitchen. - The first floor
will be for the Young People's and
Adult Departments and the second
floor will take care of the Junior
and Intermediate Departments.
Each elass 'will have its own room
in which to meet, yet the main
floor will be built that it can be
opened into the church auditorium,
making a total seating capacity of
better than 600,
The church school building, while
complete in itself, will be but the
first part of a building program.
The present church building will
be renovated when the new build-
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The Class of 1933 of Lititz High
School, with its 49 pupils the larg-est
of all the 46 classes that have
graduated here, will have the dis-tinction
of inaugurating a new
style of commencement program.
This program, which will be held
Wednesday evening at 8 in the
high school auditorium, will com-bine
the traditional class day and
commencement affairs, presenting
the best features of both and giv-ing
nearly every member of the
class a part in it. The commence-ment
speaker, an age-old institu-tion,
has been dropped this year.
The stage of the auditorium has
been transformed into a Venetian
scene and for the first part of the
program, the class members will be
in Italian costume. The class pro-phecy
and the presentations, usu-ally
parts of Class Day progarms,
will be presented in this part. Dur-ing
the intermission, the graduates
will change to their caps and
gowns and march into the audi-
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Two Pupils Honored
Two eighth grade pupils of Lit-itz
schools, Jane Keith and Charles
Hevener, were honored this morn-ing
at the assembly with the pre-sentation
of American Legion
medals for outstanding honor,
courage, scholarship, leadership,
and service. The medals were pre-sented
by Frank M. Hunter, com-mander
of Garden Spot Post, 56,
American Legion, and the pupils
chosen to receive them were pick-ed
on the reccommendation of the
faculty and students.
Tendered Shower
Miss Julia Owen, of East New
Street, was tendered a miscellane-ous
surprise shower Monday night
by Mrs. Ralph Stauffer at the
home of Mrs. E. S. Deckert, Front
and Locust Streets. Among those
present were Dorothy Roth, Doro-thy
Spacht, Mary Eshleman, Es-ther
Rubrecht, Esther Furlow, Ar-
/ lene Steffy, Ethel Shelly, Margaret
Ditzler, Ere Seaber, Dorothy Owen,
Mrs. Maybelle Harting and Mrs.
Robert V. Owen. Miss Owen will
be married to John Reifsnyder, of
town, sometime in June.
H. S, Alumni To Meet
The Lititz High School Alumni
Association will hold its public
meeting next Thursday night in
the high school and its annual ban-quet
the following evening in the
General Sutter. A fine program
is being arranged;
Springs Garage Takes Over
Local Chevrolet Dealership
Lititz Springs Garage, Broad
and Marion Streets, took over the
Lititz dealership for the Chevrolet
motor cars Tuesday afternoon and
from now on will hande the car
and its service.
C. M. Snavely, who has handled
the Chevrolet car here since 1928,
has been appointed local dealer for
the Pure Oil Company and in the
future will devote himself to gaso-line,
oils and repairs at his North
Broad Street garage and service
station.
The move came as a surprise in
local automobile circles and de-spite
the quickness with which the
deal was put through, the Springs
Garage has several Ghevrolets on
hand for demonstrations. The Gar-age
will continue to handle the
Buiek car as in the past.
Students Entertain Club
Seven members of the Senior
Class of Lititz High School pre-sented
the program at the weekly
meeting of the Lititz Rotary Club
Tuesday evening in the General
Sutter. Miss Ruth Dissinger gave
an "opera" entitled "King's Dau-ghter,"
and Misses Cleo Himmel-berger
and Ruth Gochenaur and
William Dengler, Thomas Maharg,
Robert Neidermyer and Warren
Newcomer gave a pantomime,
"The Coquette."
The meeting of the club next
week will be on Memorial Day,
but will be at 6.30, instead of
6.15. John G. Hershey, of town,
will speak.
TIMELY ADVICE
You cannot overemphasize the
desirability of getting equipped
now, at the current price level, for
the good bright days ahead. It
means that prosperity is some-where
ahead. It would be just a
little ridiculous for us to say that
recovery will be complete in a few-weeks,
but it really does not take
a great deal of imagination to see
recovery on its way by watching
the market of raw materials and
commodities that the present price
level is tempting everybody to buy.
As our stock is complete and pres-ent
prices are as low as they will
ever be, we invite you to visit our
store and save by buying for the
future.—J, S, HARRIS & CO.,
Lititz, Pa,'
The Lititz Parent-Teachers As
sociation has presented an opaque
machine to the Lititz schools. This
machine will reproduce on a screen
pictures on slides, or in books,
magazines, etc., and is a valuable
addition to the visual education
facilities of the school.
The front of the telephone ex-change
on East Main Street, has
been greatly enhanced by the re-moval
of the two windows and the
placing of a large center window
with two smaller ones a t each side.
The work was carried on without
interruption to the telephone op-erators
and their work.
B, F, Lutz likes big families.
We quote him as follows: "I have
a mother hog that had a litter of
15 little h,oggies the other day,"
That seems to be a pretty big lit-ter,
from as much as we know
about them.
John Muth gave an address upon
"Art Treasures of Paris" at the
monthly meeting of the Ushers'
Association of the Moravian
Church last Monday evening.
Warn On Trash-Dumping
Various complaints have been
made by landowners about the
dumping of garbage trash and tin
cans on land on the edge of town
and warnings have been issued that
the practice must stop. A lot at
the corner of New and Locust Sts.
is being filled in with ashes, which
is agreeable to the owner, but some
have been putting garbage and
cans there. The latter must be
stopped or prosecution will follow.
Many Entries Received For
Events At Linden Hall;
May Day Fete At 1:30
Over 1000 At Opening-
Game of Ball League
The lopal twilight baseball lea-gue
got off to a flying start Tues-day
evening before an estimated
crowd of more than 1,000 persons.
Following a parade to the field
from the Legion Home, Burgess
John C. Brenneman threw out the
first ball and the game began.
The Red Sox team managed to
eke out a victory over the Browns
by the score of 4 to 2 in the seven-inning
same, cut short because of
the preliminary parade, which was
composed of the Cadet Band in
uniform, players of both the teams
in uniform, managers of all four
teams and the Legion Color Guard,
As the score indicates, the game
was very close and interesting for
the first of the season. The score
stood at 2 to 1 in favor of the
Browns when the Red Sox came
to bat in the sixth, and in that in-ning
bunched two runs to win out.
The game scheduled for tonight
has been postponed until tomor-row
night due to the soft condition
of the new diamond from last
night's rain.
Due to a misunderstanding in
seorekeeping Tuesday night the
box score will not be published for
the opening game until next week
following its revision.
No game will be played Decora-tion
Day evening as previously an-nounced
as too many of the local
players had already agreed to play
for out-of-town teams_on that day.
Colored Ball Stars Coming
Next Wednesday night the fast
Lancaster A, A, colored soft ball
team will make its first appearance
in town on the East End field, East
Front Street. Practically the same
line-up as last year will be used
by the visitors. The game is slated
for 6:30 o'clock.
War Veterans of Lititz will pay
tribute to their departed comrades
Tuesday, Memorial Day, when they
mark the graves in the local and
nearby cemeteries.
The program of the veterans
will follow the usual lines, with
decoration of soldiers' graves in
nearby cemeteries occupying the
morning and with the local ob-servance
in the evening.
The parade of the veterans from
the Legion home to the Moravian
.cemetery, at 5,00 P. M, will' be,
headed by the Lititz High School
Band and will find all the local
veterans in line. The Sons of Vet-erans
Band of Lancaster will also
furnish music and will play at the
cemetery service.
Charles A. Gebhart, of Tamaqua,
a past commander of the State
Department of the Legion, will be
the speaker, and will deliver a
forceful message on the meaning
of Memorial Day, Following the
service, the parade will return to
the post home and disband,
With many more entries than in
other years, the approach of the
Fourth Annual Linden Tall Horse
Show, to be held Memorial Day
morning and afternoon on the
school campus here, finds the nine
classes filled to a point that will
mean great difficulty in judging.
And with the May Day celebra-tion
of the Linden Hall girls com-ing
between the morning and after-noon
events, a large crowd is ex-pected
here for the day.
According to latest reports, 18
rriders are entered in the jumping
class, 17 in an open saddle class,
13 in another saddle class and 10
in a third. Prof. H. H, Beck has
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3 Broad Street Speeders
Arrested Sunday Night
Three automobile drivers were
arrested Sunday evening on South
Broad Street by Chief of Police
Kreider and Constable Jacob Sing-ley
for reckless driving and run-ning
at excessive speeds.
The three drivers who will have
to appear before Squire A. M.
Shissler within the next ten days
are: Warren Boyer and Paul Hess,
both of Lititz R. D. 5, and Robert
Turner, of 702 South Broad Street.
They will each be fined $10 and
costs, the standard fine of the State
for the offense.
The local "Cops" stationed them- -
selves between 7:30 and 9 o'clock
on South Broad Street where a
score or more of complaints had
been made by residents of that
part of town, regarding the reck-less
driving and speeding.
Chief Kreider stated that all
three drivers were going at least
50 miles per hour, when his whistle
called them to stop.
Proceeds of Poppy Sales
Used For Veterans' Relief
The Flanders Poppy, symbol of
America's tribute to its war dead,
will again make its appearance on
the streets of Lititz today, when
members and friends of Lititz
Springs Post, No. 1463, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, will present their
annual appeal in behalf of disabled
and needy veterans and their de-pendents.
Those who purchase the little
red flowers will be contributing to
various phases of welfare work
that have been assumed by the V,
F. W. post and the national organ-ization.
Primarily they will be
buying poppies that have been
fashioned by the hands of disabled
veterans, still patients in govern-ment
hospitals throughout the
land, who are thereby afforded a'
source of income for necessities
not included in government regula-tions,