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VOL. XLIX THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1926 NO. 18
EVENTS CONCISELY TBLO
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
A letter, written by a "Record"
subscriber in. defense of Florida ap-pears
on page two of this issue.
U. S Delp, it is reported, bought
several crops of tobacco around here
at prices ranging from 8 to 12 cents.
This is the first tobacco bought in
this section.
The Men's Missionary Society of.
the Moravian Church will celebrate
its 52nd anniversary on Sunday, Jan-uary
31. Rev. S. H. Gapp of Bethle-hem
will be the speaker of the day.
Many Lititz persons are still in-terested
in crossword puzzles. Recent-ly
Miss Mary Huebener won a $5
prize from the Philadelphia Inquirer
and Miss Carrie Tschudy won a dollar
prize from the Philadelphia Ledger.
There has been almost springlike
weather this Iweek, the thermometer
registering fifty degrees and above,
coupled with bright sunshine. Florida
weather can't be much more agree-able,
but the question is, how long
will it last.
John Longenecker damaged his au-to
when he turned quickly at the rail-road
crossing on Broad street to avoid
being struck by the engine of the
passenger train on Friday morn-ing.
The auto skidded and came in
contact with the baggage car, push-ing
the auto out of danger.
Joe Doster intends entering his
Russian wolf, hound at the Bench
Show in' the Arcade building ,Lan-caster,
to be held on Friday and Sat-urday,
Jan. 29 and 30. There are
600 entries, nearly half of them from
Lancaster city and county.
In a card received from Mrs. M. S.
Hess, who is now sojourning in St.
Petersburg, Florida, she says, "There
are plenty of tourists here, but there
is room for more with plenty of food
for all. The real estate men are ac-tive
and boat aind auto rides with free
lunch enroute are to be had every day"
Local stores are paying 35 cents a
dozen for eggs, almost summer prices.
Around here nearly all poultry keep-ers
report that their chickens are
laying well. One woman states that
two things provoke her husband, who
takes a great pride in his chickens,
one is when they don't lay and the
other when eggs are low in price.
Frank Sturgis, a pullman car con-ductor
located in Philadelphia, wrote
to his father, N. D. Sturgis, that he
is at Winterhaven, Fla., being in
charge of a car of tourists. When
the train stopped alongside of an
orange grove they were given per-mission
to help themselves. He said
the colored porters did full justice to
the free treat.
BACHELOR PASTOR'S SER-MON
ON "MARRIAGE"
Rev. Martin W. Schweitzer, bach-elor
pastor of First Reformed Church,
at Ephrata, who has married 783
couples, and a prominent figure in
recent stories having to do with the
Elkton, Md., "marriage mill" on Sun-day
evening preached a sermon on
marriage. The minister entitled his
sermon "The Nature and Duties of
the Married State," and he prepared
and delivered it because he was forced
to do so, because of his association
with a marriage which ended in Cam-den,
N. J., divorce court, and brought
a censure from the judge. The couple
who sought to break the bands of wed-lock,
paid Rev. Schweitzer to join
them, while he was serving for an-other
"marrying parson" at Elkton.
Among other things the Ephrata m)ii>-
ister declared that "marriage is a
divine institution," but added that 95
per cent of marriages are unsuccess-ful.
He went oni record as in favor
of both early and late marriages, but
believes emphatically in early ones.
MAN CARRIES STEER TO STABLE
Believe it or not, police say Alois
Moser, of Lancaster, picked up a live,
kicking steer and carried it a quarter
of a block to a stable. The animal
strayed away from a pen in another
part of the city and police were asked
to corral the animal. The animal
balked within a quarter of a block of
the nearest stable and Moser solved
the problem by carrying it the rest
of the way.
Local Gas Plant Sold
Yesterday for $116,000
Money Deposited in Lititz Banks to be
Paid to Stockholders
A hundred and sixteen thousand
dollars spot cash was the price settled
upon' yesterday for the sale of the
Lititz and Manheim Gas plant to R.
B. Hull, manager of electric and gas
services at Lancaster. _ The money is
now deposited in equal parts in the
two Lititz banks. It will amount to
$116 a share, in addition to accrued
dividends of the company for three
months. There was. another bidder
in the field.
On Monday the present directors
will resign, when the plant will pass
into the control of the new owners.
The employees of the plant will be
retained.
The Board of Directors and officers
consists of Elam H. Myers, president,
Willow Street; C. M. Neff, vice presi-dent,
Lancaster; John Miller, sec. and
treasurer and manager; C. C. Grim,
superintendent; M. A. Moore, Lititz;
Jacob Esbenshade, Lititz R. D. and
B. Frank Kready, Esq., Lancaster.
The local Gas Company was organ-ized
about twenty years ago and had
a hard time getting started. Promot-ers
got their hands on it and in 1918
the plant passed into the hands of
receivers. Stock was issued by the
promoters and a line was laid to the
outskirts of Ephrata, by the way of
Eothsville and Akron.
C. C. Grim, came here from York
county when it was in receivers hands
and started getting results, so much
so that it again came into the hands
of the original stockholders.Originally
$100,000 worth of stock was sold.
Local stockholders bought back the
plant at $15,000 and the company
iwas reorganized.' The stock was re-called
and replaced with an issue for
$50,000. Over a year ago after
paying interest for some years
the stockholders received $50,000 more
stock, making it the original amount,
Most of the Lititz financed
companies have turned out well
When the stockholders sold out
the Chocolate plant they got
$115, par $100; the safe works
deal gave the stockholders $105
with accrued interest, par $100;
the gas company sale will sur-pass
the margin of profits when
the stockholders will receive
$116 with accrued interest, par
$100. Another concern which
was uncertain at the start and
stock could have been bought for
a song, is now in a position
where stock is much sought aft-er.
On the long run, it pays to
invest at home, as facts and
figures prove. Had an investor
bought local gas stock seven
years ago his profits would
have made Florida real estate
deals look like a piker game.
after authority was granted by the
public service commission'. Lately the
stock paid 5 per cent dividend.
I t is quite likely that gas will be
continued to be manufactured here.
It is not unlikely that the new owners
will supply gas to residents along the
now unused line to Ephrata, and will
be ready to enter Ephrata. This will
mean big possibilities for the new
owners of a patronage including
Lititz, Manheim, Ephrata and inter-vening
places.
In the past years the business has
prospered and sholwed a steady growth
and the superintendent, C. C. Grim,
deserves much credit, as well as the
officers and directors. Eight years
ago stock could probably have been
bought at $10 a share and even lower.
FUTURE CITIZENS OF LITITZ
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Brockway an-nounce
the birth of a baby boy in their
family on Saturday. It was named
James Donald Brockway.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lesher an-nounce
the birth of a girl on Saturday.
SILVER WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Z. Fry of near Denver, was the scene
of a delightful social function on, Sun-day,
the occasion being the silver wed-ding
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Fry
and also of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Lutz
of Lititz. The Fry family entertained
the Lutz family at a duck dinner. A
large angel food' cake with the num-ber
"25" neatly arranged on it was
a feature of the splendid dinner.
At the same time and place Mr. and
Mrs. Fry announced the engagement
of ^heir daughter Mary Luella to John
S. Lutz, a member of the Lutz family.
ADVERTISES THE TOWN
Even persons not interested in
basket ball admit that a team like
the American Legion outfit, Post 56,
is an advertisement for the town.
A Lititz business man who was on a
t r ip to Baltimore stated that he was
surprised when asked about the Lititz
team in that city.
A citizen of Egg Harbor, N. J.,
after Lititz made a trip there re-marked
that if it hadn't been for the
basket ball team he would never have
known of Lititz.
The Klein Chocolate Company put
a base ball team on the field several
years ago at a great expense, mainly
as an advertisement for its product.
I t pays to advertise, every time.
Thinking citizens and those with a
pride of the town in them are boost-ers
for the Legion. The support here
is wonderful. Long may the Legion
team flourish and continue to tell the
world of Lititz.
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
The third quarterly conference
meeting will be held in the United
Evangelical church on Wednesday
evening, Jan. 27, and Rev. Mengel,
presiding Elder of the Harrisburg
District, will preach at 7.30, followed
by the busin.es ¡meeting.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS IN
MORAVIAN CHURCH
Dr. W. W. Rugh of the Pensylvania
Institue of the Bible, Philadelphia,
closed his week's series of talks on
"Types of the Tabernacle" in the Mor-avian
Sunday school Chapel on Sun-day
morning his subject being "Christ
the Centre of the Old and the New
Testament".
In the afternoon he spoke on the
Ark of the Covenant, its make, con-tents
and meaning.
In the evening he explained the
meaning of the cherubim on the Ark.
Last week he explained how the cur-tains,
corner boards, the brazen alter
of sacrifice, the laver, the table with
the shew bread, the seven-branched
candlestick and the golden altar were
made and the meaning of every de-tail,
all being types of the atonement
of Christ and the justification, sancti-fication
and glorification of believers.
Dr. Max Wertheimer, of Ada, O., a
converted Jew, the speaker for this
week, has also chosen old Testament
Prophecy for his theme. Considering
the weather and the prevalence of
much sickness, the meeting are being
well attended.
ENJOYED VISIT HERE
Miss Emily Eschbach, who was here
for almost four weeks, left on Monday
for her place of occupation at Wood-stock,
111., where she is librarian, spec-ial
nurse and house-mother at Todd
Seminary for boys. Miss Eschbach
has been there "for the past twelve
years. She expects to call on friends
in Chicago. Miss Eschbach greatly
enjoyed the visit here, still retaining
membership in the local Moravian
church, and looks forward to the time
when she can again make Lititz her
home. She wishes to thank her
friends who helped to make her visit
so enjoyable and regrets that she
could not call on all her former asso-ciates
on account of limited time. She
looks upon Lititz as her real home
and loves it dearly.
KLINE—SMITH
Rev. J. W. Smith, at the Trinity
Lutheran parsonage, E. Main Street,
Ephrata, on Saturday evening united
in marriage Jamie; J. Kline son of
Flora Klein of Lititz and Margie • K.
Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ir-win
K. Smith, also of Lititz. The
ring ceremony was used.
STAR COURSE NUMBER JAN. 28
ESTHER JEAN RUNYON TRIO
The third number of the High
School Alumni Star Course will be
held in the High School Auditorium
Thursday evening, January 28th with
the Esther Jean Runyon Trio as the
star attraction
The purpose of the Esther Jean
Runyon Trio is to present a finished
recital program appealing as much to
the exacting critics as those who want
whole hearted entertainment. The
company consists of Miss Evelyn
Greene in dramatic sketches and im-personations;
Mr. Ronald Tomlinson
who posesses a natural gift of an un-usual
baritone voice of rich quality,
and Miss Esther Jean Runyon, violin
soloist , an artist of special ability.
Miss Runyon plays numbers by such
masters as Kreisler, Burleigh, Shu-bert
and Dawes, with a warmth of
tone and a fine understanding which
denotes a master.
The chart for the exchange of
tickets will open at Moyers Drug
Store on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 8 A.
M. Single admission 35c.
MANY CELLARS FLOODED
Rain, which started on Monday
afternoon and continued with a heavy
downpour in the evening until 11
o'clock, caused the Lititz Springs
creek to overflow its banks. The
greater part of the Springs grounds
was under water. Cellars in factor-ies
and houses close to the creek were
filled with water.
At the Central Cigar Factory here
the fire engine was used to pump out
the water. At Longenecker's Rest-aurant
the water in the cellar almost
covered the furnace. The Paper Mill
cellar was flooded and work was sus-pended.
There was also water in the
Trap Factory building. However, the
creek soon subsided again, it being
fortunate that the rain did not con-tinue
during the following morning.
The streams throughout the county
were swollen, somie of the roads be-ing
impassable.
POTATOES SELL AT $2.70 AT THE
WARWICK HOUSE SALE
Seven hundred and eighty-seven
sales were made at the Warwick
House on Saturday, and because of the
many articles the sale continued um^
til late. A hundred and eighteen pigs
were disposed of, bringing from 3.65
to 14.50. Other articles sold as foll-ows:
Eight rabbits at 12 cents each;
bantamis, 20 cents each; pigeons, 15
cents each; 62 bushel potatoes at 1.35
to 2.70 a bushel; 82 bushel apples at
1.00 to 1.95; 5 bushel turnips, 75 cents
a bushel; 36 pounds beans at 7 and
8 cents; 60 brooms at 45 and 65 cents;
12 bed blankets at 2.50 to 2.85; 18
pounds of soap at 8 and 9 cents; waff-le
iron at 1.05; robe at 5.00 and stove
at 3.25.
PANTRY SALE
There will be a pantry sale held by
the Ladies Aid Society of St. Paul's
Lutheran Church in the sewing room
all day Saturday, Jan. 23rd. Pies,
cakes, and soup will be on sale, also
plain and fancy sewing.
Lititz Firemen's Social Event
Of The Year.
The Lititz Fire Company is
making elaborate preparations
to properly entertain all mejm-bers
of their Fire Company thru
a committee appointed for this
purpose. Among the invited
guests will be all the officers of
the Lancaster County Firemen's
Association; also Mr. Frank
Toule, Fire Marshal of Chester
county and others.
An orchestra will furnish
music throughout the evening.
4- fine luncheon will be served.
A great time is promised to all.
Recently a citizen residing
several miles from Lititz lost
a child,' by death and when it
came to selecting a burial site,
the sum of ten dollars was re-quired
for the lot and grave
digging. The poor fellow was
dumbfounded, for he did not
have the ten dollars and no cre-dit
either. Finally a friend
came forth with the required
amount and he breathed a sigh
of relief. The man referred to
has steady [work at two hunderd
dollars a month and yet has no
money on: hand for an emergen1-
cy case, as was this one. What
does he do with his money ?
Some say he gambles, which
may or may not be true. He
evidently never looks ahead and
squanders all he earns. He nev-er
thinks of the proverbial rainy
day. Poor shiftless fellow.
The death of Abner Hull at
Lancaster recalls the days of
old ball teams at Lititz. Thirty-five
years ago Ab was a pitch-er
on the Lititz nine. He had
speed and curves and was a hard
hitter. On one occasion he was
secured by the Lebanon Grays
to play short stop in a game
against the Cuban Giants at
Penryn Park. Ab had two hits
trraore than any other Lebanon
player. The Giants were then
equal to the National League
teams.
Frank Rader of Lititz was a
battery mate for Hull. Frank
wore a fingerless glove. Raw
beefsteak in the palm of the
hand helped to take out some
of the sting. Before the game,
was over the beefsteak would
tear in shreds and drop out.
Hull and Rader later caught for
Ephrata, receiving $2.50 a game
for both of them, out of which
they paid their expenses. Gen-erally
when a team went away
they paid their own expenses,
the winders securing the ball as
a reward. Usually the games
between Lititz and Manheim
broke up in a fight. On one
occasion the Manheim first base-man,
Bostick, believing his
team would lose, grabbed the
ball in the ninth inning and
started running up the railroad
with the Lititz fans in pursuit,
but he was too fleet and made
his escape. Next Lititz played
a t Manheim and the visitors
were; run, out of town. A collec-tion
was taken with a hat tow-ard
expenses. While baseball
required little money to finance
it, there was just as much inter-est
in those days as at the pre-sent
day of high-priced import-ed
players.
The son detests herring, the
mother is "wild" about them
while the father is neutral The
mother had herring on the table
one day. Them the herring dis-appeared.
She found them on the
ash pile. Selecting several she
put theml under the son's pillow
that night. He soon, discovered
it, said nothing and placed the
herring in the cuff of mother's
coat. Next morning she went to
church and sooni, in the warmth
of the building, sniffed fish. She
looked suspiciously at the wom-an
aside of' her and arrived at
the conclusion that she had had
fish for breakfast. The other
woman looked suspiciously at
her. Then as the smell became
"louder" they both asked, "who
has been eating fish?". Both
denied it. Later the woman
who was tricked discovered it
by .noticing that the smell was
stronger whem she dretw her
hand close to her face. The joke
was on her and at dinner she
hid it in the son's pocket. At
Sunday school there was consid-erable
sniffing going on. It end-ed
there t o r a while, both figur-ing
that the joke was an even
break between them.
The young man went on a vis-it
to a nearby city and a can of
heiring was sent after him, with
instructions to put it in front
of his plate. He knew his moth-e
r ' s fondness for Easter eggs
and sent her one specially with
pretty decorations. It arrived
in due time and unsuspectingly
she bit in it. There was the
herring. Now the boy is away
from home again and it is the
intention to send him a box of
the delicacies, with the wording,
"Should old acquaintances be
forgotten." That may end this
fish story and again it may not.
The story of herring reads
like a "continued next issue"
in the history of a Lititz family.
This year Mrs. Emanuel With-ers
will make the candles for the
Springs Grounds for use on
July 4th. While that date is a
long way off the work has to be
done now wihile the weather is
cold, and besides making 5000
candles by hand requires not a
little time. Over 400 pounds of
tallow are required, the product
of four or five f a t cattle.
These candles have been made
in private families ever since the
celebration was started here over
fifty years ago. The store can-dles
are not satisfactory as they
would burn too fast and the
Springs would be in darkness
in ^practically a short time.
Mrs. Carolina Grosh was the
official candlestick maker for
many years and after that her
son Stephan Grosh made them
for sixteen years. It requires
more time to make 5,000 candles
than the average: person would
imagine, to provide a night's
amusement.
BIRTHDAYS
Clement Badorf is 73 years old to-day.
Horace Sturgis also is 62 years
old today. F. B. Buch, Broad street,
was 74 years old on the 18th ins.
N. B. Leaman who was 65 years
old on Sunday, last, was givep a spec-ial
birthday dinner by his wife.
FIVE PLACES PADLOCKED
The proprietors of two cafes and
and three hotels were restrained f r om
selling alcoholic beverages which
Judge Charles I. Landis handed down
a temporary injunction against them
following the finding of bills of equity
by special deputy attorneys acting
with District Attorney Joseph Wissler.
The establishments affected are
the cafe operated by William Hen-ninger;
the Arcadia cafe, operated
by Robert Williams; the hotel main-tained
by Harry Buckius, all of Lan-caster;
the Penn Hill hotel, operated
by Earl Piatt, and the Little Texas
hotel, managed by Levi Eckert. Final
hearings on the order will be held in
March. Piatt and Williams have been
convicted of liquor violations.
MRS MIRANDA RUHL
Mrs. Miranda R. Ruhl, aged 62,
died at 2.30 o'clock Tuesday morning
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Ellis Heisey, Rapho township, of
compilations after one day's illness.
She was a member of the United
Brethren church and Iwas a daughter
of the late Reuben and Rebecca Him-melberger.
She resided near Buch's
school house, west of Lititz, at one
time, with her husband, also in Penn
township. She is survived by thé fol-lowing
children: Oscar Ruhl, East
Petersburg; Mrs. Cyrus Boyer, Bel-laire;
Mrs. Charles Kaufftoan, Master-sonville
and Harvey Ruhl of Hershey;
and by the following brothers and
sisters: Mrs. Amelia Troutman, of
Berks county; Mrs. Ada Bowman, of
Philadelphia; L. D. Himmelberger, of
Kissel Hill, and Simon H. Himmel-berger,
of Lancaster.
The funeral will be held on Fri-day
at 1.30 o'clock from the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Heisey, in Rapho
township with services in Ruhl's
United Brethren church at 2 o'clock.
Burial will be made in the adjoining
cemletery.
Read the "Record" 1.50 a year.
TRAVELERS M D FAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Miss Mollie Nagle, of Lancaster,
visited Miss Grace Keller last Satur-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Foltz of Lan-caster
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Lem Zook last Saturday.
Mrs. H. A. Bailey of York is visit-ing
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. L.
Hepp, several days this week.
Miss Agnes Hensel and Grace Hass-ler,
Millersville State Normal School
students, were home over the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Imber and
young son of Denver spent Surday
with Jacob Hertzler and family on
Locust street.
Barton Swarr of Ardmore is stay-ing
at the home of Ralph Worley on
a short visit to his grandfather, Ben-jamin
Hertzler.
Wiliam Sesseman of Reading was
here on Sunday to visit his brother
Hiram, who became sick after coming
here frqmi Altoona.
Misses Fianna, Martha and Mollie
Light of Elizabethtown were visitors
at the home of Mrs. Ella Evans and
sons Arthur and Raymond on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Christian Yerger and
child, returned this week to their home
at Kansas City, Kansas, visiting here
since the holidays. Mr. Yerger is
employed at carpenter work.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Goldthwait of
this place, Sheridan Wolf of Browns-town
and Mrs. Buch of Lancaster, left
for Philadelphia today. They will at-tend
the auto show at that place.
Nathaniel Sturgis, who came here
from Elmira, N. Y., because of the
sickness of his mother, Mrs. Sarah
Sturgis has returned again. Mrs.
Sturgis is now staying with her son
Charles and family at Lancaster.
Jacob Reinhold of Lancaster, was in
town on Tuesday, the day marking1
his 66th birthday anniversary. Mr.
Reinhold stated that when fifteen
years old he started work as a clerk
at what was then Miller's store on
Broad street.
Mrs. Annie Stehman, who has her
home with her daughter, Mrs. Frank
Eby, left by auto for Florida yester-day
with her son John Stehman and
wife. They expect to remain at Se-bring
until spring. Mrs. Stehman had
been in Florida earlier in the winter
but was called home owing to death
in the relationship.
THE SICK AND AFFLICTED
Miss Grace E. Keller is confined to
her room at the Springs hotel most
of the time on account of an impaired
lower limb, which has troubled her
for some time. However, she is being
remembered by her numerous friends
in many ways and thus is being con-soled
and comforted to a "great extent
Mrs Catharine Zwalley, East Main
Street, who, spent most of last week
in Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia,
came home Friday but had no opera-tion
on her eyes. She will be obliged to
return later.
Mrs. Gertrude Ditzler was taken to
the Lancaster General Hospital on
Monday and operated upon the same
day.
Mrs. T. E. Will, Lincoln Avenue,
went to the Jefferson Hospital in
Philadelphia today for an operatioa
for cataract. She will be gone about
a week.
Moses Eckert, North Broad street,
who underwent a serious operation in,
the Lancaster General Hospital sev-erel
mionths ago is home but does not
go out.
Fred Hammond returned from the
Lancaster General Hospital on Friday
where he had been confined for nine
weeks, following an operation. Mr.
Hammond and wife came here from
Canton, Ohio, to visit his brother, E.
J. Hammond and wife, and became
sick shortly after arriving here. ''
SOLD HOMES
Lyman Harnley sold his home oa
Locust stfeet to Henry Shenk on pri-vate
tertmjs.
E. C. Ritchie sold a double frame
dwelling house on Lincoln Avenue to
Christian, Longenecker.