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In order to allow the regular publisher's mailage rates, we are ^required to have sub- Iscriptions paid prompt- Sly. A blue pencil "mark in this circle means your subscrip-tion is due, and we will thank you for a prompt remittance. LITITZ RECORD Of all forms of advertising known to man-—nothing has yet been found as space in the home paper. VOL. XLIX THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1926 NO. 21 EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN TOWN AND VICINITY Friday, February 12th, is Lincoln's birthday and a legal holiday in the banks, which will be closed all day. Rev. Robert H. Brennecke, of Beth-lehem, field secretary of the Larger Life Foundation Fund of the Morav-ian Church, occupied the local Morav-ian church pulpit here last Sunday morning. F. F. Bolster and his son-in-law, Christ Douple, opened a drug store on East Main street, Ephrata. Mr. Douple is a former resident of Lititz and until lately was employed at the Lititz Paper Box and Printing Com-pany. Mrs. Thomas Keller of Lancaster called on her brother, N. D. Sturgis on Tuesday,, the day marking the 50th anniversary of her wedding. She was married to Mr. Keller in the house now occupied by N. D. Sturgis and family. A concert wil be given by the Y. W. C. A. ehorus of Lancaster compos-ed of 60 voices tinder the direction of H. A. Sykes, in the Linden Hall audi-torium on Saturday evening, Febru-ary 13. Mr. Harry Stark of Lancas-ter will be the soloist of Che chorus Jacob Dissinger, a carpentef fore-man, left for Rockville, 111., to assist in erecting a bank there. Mr. Parks who oversees the work for Hoggson Brothers of New York and who just completed the new Keystone National Bank at Manheim, has been trans-ferred to Rockville. Following the snow of last week, there was a heavy snow fall on Tues-day and Wednesday of this week. Luckily there was no high wind and the warm temperature caused some to melt. The traction company used a truck with a snow plow. Trains and trolley ran on schedule time. The ground is frozen to the depth of only an inch or two. Barton and Luther Sharp, boys who were reared on the farm, and know many things that city boys never learned, in tracking a coon came across a honey-bee's home in an old stump at the Furnace Hills. They collected thirty-two pounds of the fin-est honey imaginable. They failed to get the coon but set traps for it and possibly will catch it later. SICK AND INJURIED Miss Nora Helman fell on the pave-ment on Friday evening, breaking her left ariml at the elbow. Mrs. Laura Snavely is confined to bed with rheumatism. A. R. Bear is critically ill at his liome on North Broad Street. Dr. W. K. Bender is seriously ill yince last week, with acute heart trou-ble. Dr. Bender first noticed symp-toms after shoveling snow. Levi Erb broke a rib by falling when he lost his balance while sawing wood. He did not think his injury was serious until he called a doctor several weeks later, who located the fracture. y Aged Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Johans-sen, who live in Miller's row, became ill and so helpless that Mrs. Johanssen was removed to the county hospital, and JJilr. Johanssen to the home of his son on East Main Street. Mr. Johans-sen is 87 years old and his wife 83. PRETZLETTE MADE ITS APPEARANCE The Pretzlette, with an illustrated cover by a High School pupil, made its initial appearance in the High School here last Friday. It has a variety of reading matter with a sprinkling of original jokes and poe-try. It is a good idea and a means to the use of good English. Those who have seen it praise the ability of the young writers. The traction company of Reading regularly issues a pamphlet called "The Pretzel." The real estate of Mary A. Frey, deceased, was sold on Saturday, Feb. 6, to Harry W.' Spayd for $900. It consists of a two-story frame house along the road from Lititz to Mill-port. —The latest music on Victor Re-cords arrives every Friday—Scott's Book Store. —Customers say the fish Stark, of Lititz, sells, are good and fresh No cold storage fish. BEN'S IDEA WAS DIFFERENT Sent Huge Postcard To Pennsylvania R. R. Head A picture of B. F. Lutz holding an immense post card, appeared in the Lancaster New Era, in connection with "hew station day" in that city on Friday, when cards, letters and tel-egrams of all descriptions were sent to the president of the Pennsylvania railroad. Ben had an uniqe idea as the following description shows: "Is It Large Enough, Mr. Atterbury? This postcard, nearly 36 inches long and 24 inches wide, was sent to W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsyl-vania railroad, today by B. F. Lutz, a merchant of Plum and Chestnut streets, Lancaster. 'There may be some doubt about all the telegrams reaching him personally on Lancaster New Station Day, so I fixed this spec-ial delivery postcard for sure delivery' Mr. Lutz states. It cost 94 cents to send it. On it were these words: 'Kindly < give us a railroad station that will be a credit to our city as well as to your R. R. Company.' " HERE ON VISIT FROM WILDWOOD C. A. Douglass, treasurer of the Wildwood basket ball team, was in Lititz on Tuesday, and incidentally made a trip to the pretzel bakery. Mr. Douglass said that when Lititz pretz-els were passed out to the fans at Wildwood it brought back old memor-ies. Forty years ago he was married to a Manheim woman and learned to eat Lititz pretzels at that time. Mr. Douglass is engaged in the salt water taffy business and if he can ar-range it will give out salt water taffy when the Wildwood team comes here. Mr. Douglass is a booster for Wild-wood and was instrujmtental in getting a big excursion to come to Wildwood from Lancaster. He was accompanied to Lititz by the president of the Wildwood Title and Trust .Company, who looked over the Lititz Banks as well as the new bank structure at Manheim. MANHEIM'S NEW KEYSTONE BANK The nftwly erected Keystone Nat-ional Bank at Manheim was thrown open to the public for inspection on Saturday, last. Thousands of people took advantage of the occasion and at times almost overwhelmed the building and officers, who hardly knew how to handle the throng. Many beautiful bouquets of flowers and potted plants were on display. The building is certainly an up-to-date one, both outside and inside, and has few equals for a town .the size of Man-heim. CIRCULAR BROODER HOUSE MAKING HIT M. E. Snavely of Kissel Hill Recent-ly sold Leola Brooder houses to the following persons: Tillman Stauffer, Lititz R. D. 3; Morris Ober, Manheim R. D.; Henry Stehman, 2, Manheim R. D. 2; Levi Yerger and Edwin, Ranck, Lititz; Ira Landis, Neffsville; Elmer Snavely, Brickerville; Roscoe Sweitz-er, Ephrata R. D.; John Shreiner, Eph-rata R. D.; Daniel Eckman, Hopeland; Mr. Snavely has the local agency for this broder house as well as sell-ing other poultry supplies. BIRTHDAY SURPRISE FOR OHIO VISITOR Forty-five neighbors and friends at-tended a surprise party at the home of E. J. Hammond, East Main street, on Saturdy evening, in honor of Fred Hammond, of Canton, Ohio. A fine social time was enjoyed, ending with refreshments. Mr. Hammond who was 48 years old on Friday, received many gifts, forty packages of hand-kerchiefs, socks, ties, etc., being sent from Ohio, and also some from Lan-caster, besides those from Lititz friends. A cake was received from a sister in Ohio and arrived in good con-dition. Mr. Hammond and wife came here to visit his brother, but shortly after his arrival, was taken sick, and after an operation was at the Lan-caster Hospital for nine weeks. He returned to Lititz recently, much iimi-proved in health. —How 'bout a box of Whitman's Chocolates for your Valentine—Feb-ruary 14th is Saturday—Scott's Book Store. OwTcm While the recent snowfall was called an "old timer" horse-drawn sleighs, which in former years were as familiar and num-erous on the highways as auto-mobiles are today, are conspi-cious by their absence. The old-er residents recall how the con-veyance with runners replaced the wagon during the time that the snow covered the ground. Last week there were less than half a dozen sleighs seen on the streets of Lititz. Many sleighs have been chop-ped up for firewood or go under the hammer at sales for a quar-ter or fifty cents The advent of tractors and oth-er (modern machinery and imple-ments on the farm accounts for the decrease in the number of horses, which were used in drawing the sleighs. Most peo-ple would rather ride in a closed auto than a sleigh. Occasion-ally there is an old-fashioned sleighing party, especially among the public schools in the rural sections. Vast numbers of wild pigeons were seen in this country prior to 1865, though not in such numbers as earlier in the cen-tury, namely, 1800 to 1850. The slaughter of these pigeons rag-ed for years with nets, traps and guns, and by 1884 there were very few of the wild pig-eons seen in this country. Old diaries in Lititz relate of the vast floeks that flew over the towini and of the pigeons shot around here. By 1900 they had dwindled down to a few specimens left in captivity in Milwaukee and in the Cincinnati zoo. Martha, the last known wild pigeon, died at 2 P. M., August 29, 1914, at the age of twenty-nine. According to all ornithological data avail-able, she was the last of her tribe in the world. Martha's mate died in 1910, and though a prize of $1,000 was offered for a mate, none was ever found. The editor was fortunate in see-ing Martha and her mate in 1910, and naturally was tniuch interested in these birds. One of the last flocks of these wild pigeons seen was in Lancaster county, according to Prof. H. H. Beck, of this place. In the same week recently three Lititz products were ship-ped to California—a carload of safes, pretzels and bantams. These things must have merits or they would be secured from a shorter distance. Did you ev-er stop to consider how many in-dustries Lititz has. You'll be surprised. MILK SHIPPED FROM HERE TO FLORIDA An auto load of men from Miami, Florida stopped off here on Monday to see E. L. Garber. They are users of milk from the Garber creamery and upon being in this part of the county, decided to meet personally, the man they are dealing with. Fresh milk is shipped from the Gar-ber creamery to Florida, in refriger-ator cars, requiring 52 hours on the road and arrives in first-class condi-tion. LITITZ STORE TO RUN BIG SALE Pfautz Brothers are running their annual Inventory Sale, starting to-day Thursday and continuing until Satur-day, February 20. If you ha-le not received one of the large advertise-ments, phone Pfautz Brothers and a copy will be mailed to you. They are offering a grand assortment of stand-ard merchandise at a big reduction during this sale, and you can profit with the many others who will be amongst the many shoppers during this sale. This store is the headquarters in Lititz for Armstrong linoleum and made to measure window shades. In the past ten years this firm has plac-ed 95 per cent of all the new homes in Lititz, with fine window shades and Armstrong linoleum. This is due to delivering standard merchandise and rendering satisfactory service. Lincoln a t Gettysburg" * ¥ Four score and seven years ago our fathers ; brought forth on continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil w a r testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. W e are met on a great battlefield of tha C war. W e have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a fieal resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this But in a larger sense we can not dedicate—we can not conse-crate— we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men living and dead who strug-gled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. T h e world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can ne\ier forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedi. caied here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced It is rather for us to be here dedi-cated to the great task remaining before us—• that from these honored dead' we take in-creased devotiofi to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion— thai we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have die<^<n vain—(hat this nation under God shall havi a neW1 birth of free-dom— and that government of the people, by the people, for ihe people shall not perish from the earth. I VI NEW EXPRESS TRAIN ON THE READING TO STOP AT LITITZ Will Change Schedule of Passenger Trains Going to Reading in The Morning The Reading Company will place in service on February 23rd, a fast ex-press train out of Lancaster, carrying through parlor cars to New York and making connections at Reading with Philadelphia, New York, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Rochester and other cities, according to an announcement by officials of the rairoad company yesterday. The train; which will be known as No. 992 leaving Lancaster, and No. 999 returning, will leave Lancaster at 8:06 A. M. arriving at Reading at 9:21. It will make four stops as fol-ic ws: Manheim, 8:34; Lititz, 8:32; Ephrata, 8:45 and Denver, 8:53. Six-Day Service Returning, the train will leave Reading at 8:55 P. M. and arrive in Lancaster at 10:10. This service will be six days only, it was announced, the present Sunday schedule remain-ing in force. The only change as a result of the installation of the new train,, will be a change in the schedule of the train now leaving Lancaster at 7:27 A. M. On and after February 23, this train will leave at 5:08, arriv-ing in Reading at 6:45. The new train will connect at Reading with the famous Queen of the Valley and at Allentown with the Black Diamond. A wait of only sev-en minutes will be necessary at Read-ing. The train arrives there at 9:21 and at 9:28 leaves, arriving at these cities as follows: Allentown, 10:21; Bethlehem, 10:44; Easton, 11:04; Plainfield, 12:30; Newark, 1:07 and New York City, 1:05. Pottstown 9:42; Phoenixville, 10:08; and Philadelphia, 10:50 Pottsville, 11:02; Tamaqua, 11:18; Mahanoy City" 11:42; Ashland, 12:03; Mt. Carrnel, 12:33, and Shamokin, 12:43. At Allentown connections may be made with the Black Diamond, arriv-ing at these cities as follows: Wilkes- Barre, 1:42; Scranton, 2:30; Rochest-er, 6:50 and Buffalo, 7:50. TO GIVE PLAYS The C. E. Society of the Moravian Church will present two plays in the S. S. Chapel on Tuesday evening, Feb-ruary 16. A pageant will be given by the Juniors. A silver offering will be takeni for the Indian Missions in California. The program will start at 7:30 P. M. BIRTHDAYS February 10—Fredericka Kling February 11—E. L. Garber. February 12—P. B. Bucher. February 12—Abraham Lincoln, (born 1809) V. GOOD GAME FOR SATURDAY The Harmony Club of Phila-delphia, basket ball five, will play the Legion team here on Saturday evening. This is a high calibre team and is comdng here confident that they will give Lititz their first defeat of the season on the home floor. It is composed of former Eastern League players, namely: Stev-enson and Scrone, forwards; Reagan, centre; Degler, Arm-strong and Daily, guards. It will be a big honor if the Legion can win from stars of this calibre. Fans should not miss the game. r FIRE SCARE Children playing with matches started a fire in Martin Muth's ten-ant house, east of Lititz, on Monday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. The fire started in an enclosed porch, causing a heavy smoke, burning a hole in the floor and charring part of the wall. The alarm was sent to the Lititz Fire Company, but the fire truck was stopped before it reached tlfe farm the flames being extinguished with buck-ets of water. The house is occupied by Leon Car-penter and family. FARM WOMEN SEE GAS STOVE DEMONSTRATION The Society of Farm Women No. 1 met at the howre of Mrs. M. W. Hess, east of Lititz on Saturday afternoon to see a demonstration of the protane bottled gas stove given by J. B. Hewes of Lancaster. Oyster soup, coffee, biscuits and toast bread were prepar-ed on the gas range and were served and enjoyed by the ladies. The pro-gram consisted of the song "Silently Falls the Snow"; scripture reading, "The Wise Woman" Proverbs 31, by Miss L. A. Weitzel; the Lords prayer; the reading of the minutes; a report of. the State Convention at Harris-burg by Mrs. Ben Shaeffer; "Home", a recitation by Mrs. M. A. Moore, and a humorous reading by Miss L. A. Weitzel. The next meeting will be when Mr. Rohrer of near Manheim, held on March 6th, at the home of Miss Anna Erb, North Broad street, will give a talk on "Gardening". PRETZEL CUSTOMER FOR FIFTY YEAR An, engraved notice was received hère by N. D. Sturgis from Geo. K. Stevenson: Co., of Pittsburgh, in honor or of the hundred anniversary of the founding of their business. The Sturgises . have been doing business with this house for half a century, first Julius Sturgis, followed by his son, N. D. Sturgis. LONE SCOUTS VISITED MAN WHO LIVES IN WOODS Coal Strike Does Not Bother Him— Lives On Thirty Cents A Day Five members of the Lone Scouts hiked to the Speedwell lands on Sun-day to see Albert Zimmerman, an in-teresting old man who lives in the op-en. Zimmerman, who will be seventy years old on Easter Sunday, has solv-ed the probleimf of high cost of living. His sleeping quarters are the size of a "pup" tent, with board floor. He has plenty of blankets and says he never gets cold. He does his cooking in the open, with several cupboards suspended from trees, while there is a spring nearby. His food costs him less than thirty cents a day. Wood is to be had for the chopping and the coal strike does not touch his pocket-book. For thirty years he has lived out-of-doors and believes he would become sick if he had to stay in a house. Ev ery three months he receives the in-terest from $6000, to continue as long as he lives, the result of a will made by a doctor in Ohio, whose life he saved. Zimmerman is talkative and gener-ally has company on Sundays. Sever-al weeks ago, a hundred persons stop-ped to see him, after having read an account of his life in a Sunday news-paper. Zimmerman is not a recluse £ind likes to be sociable to everybody. The Scouts observed a number or robins in the woods where Zimmerman lives and it was the old man's opinion that spring would be early this year. ALMOST SAME TIME TO GO TO READING AS TO GO TO LANCASTER With the new express train to be put on by the Reading, between Lan-caster and Reading, Lititz residents can reach the Berks county seat in 49 minutes, just four minutes longer than it takes to reach Lancaster by trolley. What the trolley company should do is to straighten out the road at Kissel Hill, and make the run between these two places in half an hour. MORAVIAN CHURCH CHOIR HELD BANQUET The Moravian Church Choir held its sixth annual chicken and waffle dinner, on Wednesday evening, Febru-ary 10th, at Mrs. F. B. Burkholder's restaurant. Thirty-seven members were present. Mr. Louis Huebener acted as master of ceremonies. Each melmber of the choir received a fav-or of an orange and orange blossoms, sent by Mr. and Mrs. Hess, who are at present in Florida. Mr. Hess is a member of the choir. The director Miss Gingrich and the organist, Mrs. Kenneth Witmyer received from the choir, boxes of candy, suggestive of Valentine. Every one thoroughly en-joyed the evening and did justice to- Mrs. Burkholder's culinary art. TflAVELERSJiEAR AND FAR COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES TRIPLE BIRTHDAY SURPRISE Mr. and Mrs. Charles Birkenbine, of South Locust street gave a birth-day surprise on Saturday evening in honor of Mrs. Sue Gable, aged 75 years, Mr. Charles Birkenbine, Sr., aged 73 years and Mr. Levi Rudy, ag-ed 61, a cake being provided for each one with the candles corresponding to their ages. The evening was pleas-antly spent in conversation and gift giving. A fine luncheon was served. Those present were: ' Mr. and Mrs. Levi Rudy, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ludwig, Charles Birkenbine, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Harry Landis, Mrs. Sue Gable, Mr. Elam Groff and son Mahlon, Mr. Alvin Kochel, Miss Anna Fry, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kulp, Mr. Elias Wolf, Mrs. Manda Grazer, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Ludwig, Mary Ludwig, Miss Ella Ludwig, Miss Francis Lud-wig, Miss Betty Ludwig, Miss Jane Ludwig, Miss Alverta Dussinger, Mrs. Mary Fry, Miss Anna Stormfeltz, Mrs Agnes Adams, Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Hollinger, Miss Eva Plasteur, Mrs. Katie Miley, Mrs. Ella Miley, Mr. and Mrs. George Foltz, Miss Gladys Hack-er, Miss Julia Birkenbine, Mr. Lyman Foltz, Mrs. Phares Spickler and Mr. Francis Plasteur. NEW SHOE SHOP Ditzler's Shoe Repair Shop will be opened on Friday in the basement of Elmer Adalmis Barber Shop, on North Broad street. Open every evening un-til 8 o'clock, Saturday untjl 10 P. M. Francis Helmar left for Phoenix, N. Y., to work in a paper mill Paul Schmuck and son Sidney of Annville, spent Sunday with Lititz relatives. Miss Elizabeth Kline, of Manheim, spent several days of last week here as the guest of Mrs. Mary C. Ging-rich. Miss Beulah Keath, who teaches school at Harrisburg, visited her brother Chester Keath and wife here on Sunday. Jacob Barskey, manager of the Har-ris store here, accompanied by Mr. Harris, of Ephrata, was in Philadel-phia on business on Monday. Mrs. Jennie Reedy, of Philadelphia was here from Saturday to Monday, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Fisher, on East Main Street. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Buch of Kissel Hill entertained at dinner on Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Dos-ter, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Doster artti son Paul. Henry Shroeder, of Wilmington, Del., called on Abram R. Beck, his old school teacher, recently. Mr. Beck receives calls from quite a few of his "old boys" throughout the year. Miss Jean Russell, daughter of Mr* and Mrs. Robert Russell, of this place, a trained nurse in the U. of P., PhiIa-> delphia, accamfpanied a lady patient to her home in Tennessee, where she expects to remain several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. James Goldthwait gave a dinner on Strnday to the foll-owing guests: Mrs. Edith Royer, Har-risburg; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wolf of Ephrata; Mr. and Mrs. Luke Stauffer and Paul and Ethel Wolf of Browns - town. Mrs. Thomas Kissinger spent the week-end at Hummelstown with Mrs. Ephriam Baer. Mr. Kissinger was there on, Monday to attend the funeral of Mr. Bear, who was killed instantly last Thursday, at Rutherford railroad yards by a shifting engine. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Coldrem, of Spruce street, entertained the follow-ing guests on Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Willis Litch and daughter Myrtle, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Killian, all of Shillkigton; Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ech-ternacht and son Earl, Mrs. Ida Weid-ler and Mrs. Alice Weidler of Mech-anicsville. WRONG KIND OF BROTHER Because B. F. Lutz, of Lititz, hailed a stranger on Duke stret, Lancaster, near the Court House, as "How do you do, brother," he was punched and kicked. A policeman nabbed the as-saliant and locked him up. At a hearing on Tuesday the lm>an gave his name as Warren Hartman, claim-ing he worked among farmers and had a room on King street. He offered no defense and pled guilty. He was taken to the county jail and will be tried in the April term of court, with an opportunity to plead guilty before the judge on Feb. 27. He has the appearance of being simple minded. BORO WATER WORKS PAYS The auditors' report of the Borough Finances has been posted. The water department in spite of over $6,000 being spent in extensions, shows a credit of $3,217.74, There is a total . credit in the treasury of $9,670.29. The tax collected amount-ed to $23,400. The total borough in-debtedness is $13,800 in loans and $30,000 in bonds. BORN To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bowers, of near Rothsville, was born a baby giri on Monday morning. The mother of the infant is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Weachter of this bor-ough. Mr. and Mrs. William" Cleary an-nounce the birth of a girl at St. Joseph's Hospital on Saturday morn-ing. Its name is Frances Jane. A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs., Clayton Keath at the same place on Saturday morning. —Albert Hupper's Chocolate and Vanilla Jets at 60c pound - always fresh at-Scott's Book Store. —Buy fish from Stark, the Lititz man. Steak, haddock, smeltz and hal-ibut this week.
Object Description
Title | Lititz Record |
Masthead | Lititz Record 1926-02-11 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Description | Lititz newspapers 1877-1942 |
Publisher | Record Print. Co.; J. F. Buch |
Date | 1926-02-11 |
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Language | English |
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In order to allow the
regular publisher's
mailage rates, we are
^required to have sub-
Iscriptions paid prompt-
Sly. A blue pencil
"mark in this circle
means your subscrip-tion
is due, and we will
thank you for a prompt
remittance. LITITZ RECORD
Of all forms of advertising
known to man-—nothing has yet
been found as space in the home
paper.
VOL. XLIX THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1926 NO. 21
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
Friday, February 12th, is Lincoln's
birthday and a legal holiday in the
banks, which will be closed all day.
Rev. Robert H. Brennecke, of Beth-lehem,
field secretary of the Larger
Life Foundation Fund of the Morav-ian
Church, occupied the local Morav-ian
church pulpit here last Sunday
morning.
F. F. Bolster and his son-in-law,
Christ Douple, opened a drug store
on East Main street, Ephrata. Mr.
Douple is a former resident of Lititz
and until lately was employed at the
Lititz Paper Box and Printing Com-pany.
Mrs. Thomas Keller of Lancaster
called on her brother, N. D. Sturgis
on Tuesday,, the day marking the 50th
anniversary of her wedding. She was
married to Mr. Keller in the house
now occupied by N. D. Sturgis and
family.
A concert wil be given by the Y.
W. C. A. ehorus of Lancaster compos-ed
of 60 voices tinder the direction of
H. A. Sykes, in the Linden Hall audi-torium
on Saturday evening, Febru-ary
13. Mr. Harry Stark of Lancas-ter
will be the soloist of Che chorus
Jacob Dissinger, a carpentef fore-man,
left for Rockville, 111., to assist
in erecting a bank there. Mr. Parks
who oversees the work for Hoggson
Brothers of New York and who just
completed the new Keystone National
Bank at Manheim, has been trans-ferred
to Rockville.
Following the snow of last week,
there was a heavy snow fall on Tues-day
and Wednesday of this week.
Luckily there was no high wind and
the warm temperature caused some to
melt. The traction company used a
truck with a snow plow. Trains and
trolley ran on schedule time. The
ground is frozen to the depth of only
an inch or two.
Barton and Luther Sharp, boys who
were reared on the farm, and know
many things that city boys never
learned, in tracking a coon came
across a honey-bee's home in an old
stump at the Furnace Hills. They
collected thirty-two pounds of the fin-est
honey imaginable. They failed to
get the coon but set traps for it and
possibly will catch it later.
SICK AND INJURIED
Miss Nora Helman fell on the pave-ment
on Friday evening, breaking her
left ariml at the elbow.
Mrs. Laura Snavely is confined to
bed with rheumatism.
A. R. Bear is critically ill at his
liome on North Broad Street.
Dr. W. K. Bender is seriously ill
yince last week, with acute heart trou-ble.
Dr. Bender first noticed symp-toms
after shoveling snow.
Levi Erb broke a rib by falling
when he lost his balance while sawing
wood. He did not think his injury
was serious until he called a doctor
several weeks later, who located the
fracture. y
Aged Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Johans-sen,
who live in Miller's row, became
ill and so helpless that Mrs. Johanssen
was removed to the county hospital,
and JJilr. Johanssen to the home of his
son on East Main Street. Mr. Johans-sen
is 87 years old and his wife 83.
PRETZLETTE MADE
ITS APPEARANCE
The Pretzlette, with an illustrated
cover by a High School pupil, made
its initial appearance in the High
School here last Friday. It has a
variety of reading matter with a
sprinkling of original jokes and poe-try.
It is a good idea and a means
to the use of good English. Those
who have seen it praise the ability of
the young writers.
The traction company of Reading
regularly issues a pamphlet called
"The Pretzel."
The real estate of Mary A. Frey,
deceased, was sold on Saturday, Feb.
6, to Harry W.' Spayd for $900. It
consists of a two-story frame house
along the road from Lititz to Mill-port.
—The latest music on Victor Re-cords
arrives every Friday—Scott's
Book Store.
—Customers say the fish Stark, of
Lititz, sells, are good and fresh No
cold storage fish.
BEN'S IDEA
WAS DIFFERENT
Sent Huge Postcard To Pennsylvania
R. R. Head
A picture of B. F. Lutz holding an
immense post card, appeared in the
Lancaster New Era, in connection
with "hew station day" in that city
on Friday, when cards, letters and tel-egrams
of all descriptions were sent
to the president of the Pennsylvania
railroad. Ben had an uniqe idea as
the following description shows:
"Is It Large Enough, Mr. Atterbury?
This postcard, nearly 36 inches long
and 24 inches wide, was sent to W. W.
Atterbury, president of the Pennsyl-vania
railroad, today by B. F. Lutz, a
merchant of Plum and Chestnut
streets, Lancaster. 'There may be
some doubt about all the telegrams
reaching him personally on Lancaster
New Station Day, so I fixed this spec-ial
delivery postcard for sure delivery'
Mr. Lutz states. It cost 94 cents to
send it. On it were these words:
'Kindly < give us a railroad station
that will be a credit to our city as
well as to your R. R. Company.' "
HERE ON VISIT FROM
WILDWOOD
C. A. Douglass, treasurer of the
Wildwood basket ball team, was in
Lititz on Tuesday, and incidentally
made a trip to the pretzel bakery. Mr.
Douglass said that when Lititz pretz-els
were passed out to the fans at
Wildwood it brought back old memor-ies.
Forty years ago he was married
to a Manheim woman and learned to
eat Lititz pretzels at that time.
Mr. Douglass is engaged in the salt
water taffy business and if he can ar-range
it will give out salt water taffy
when the Wildwood team comes here.
Mr. Douglass is a booster for Wild-wood
and was instrujmtental in getting
a big excursion to come to Wildwood
from Lancaster.
He was accompanied to Lititz by
the president of the Wildwood
Title and Trust .Company, who
looked over the Lititz Banks as
well as the new bank structure at
Manheim.
MANHEIM'S NEW KEYSTONE
BANK
The nftwly erected Keystone Nat-ional
Bank at Manheim was thrown
open to the public for inspection on
Saturday, last. Thousands of people
took advantage of the occasion and
at times almost overwhelmed the
building and officers, who hardly
knew how to handle the throng. Many
beautiful bouquets of flowers and
potted plants were on display. The
building is certainly an up-to-date one,
both outside and inside, and has few
equals for a town .the size of Man-heim.
CIRCULAR BROODER HOUSE
MAKING HIT
M. E. Snavely of Kissel Hill Recent-ly
sold Leola Brooder houses to the
following persons: Tillman Stauffer,
Lititz R. D. 3; Morris Ober, Manheim
R. D.; Henry Stehman, 2, Manheim R.
D. 2; Levi Yerger and Edwin, Ranck,
Lititz; Ira Landis, Neffsville; Elmer
Snavely, Brickerville; Roscoe Sweitz-er,
Ephrata R. D.; John Shreiner, Eph-rata
R. D.; Daniel Eckman, Hopeland;
Mr. Snavely has the local agency
for this broder house as well as sell-ing
other poultry supplies.
BIRTHDAY SURPRISE FOR OHIO
VISITOR
Forty-five neighbors and friends at-tended
a surprise party at the home
of E. J. Hammond, East Main street,
on Saturdy evening, in honor of Fred
Hammond, of Canton, Ohio. A fine
social time was enjoyed, ending with
refreshments. Mr. Hammond who
was 48 years old on Friday, received
many gifts, forty packages of hand-kerchiefs,
socks, ties, etc., being sent
from Ohio, and also some from Lan-caster,
besides those from Lititz
friends. A cake was received from a
sister in Ohio and arrived in good con-dition.
Mr. Hammond and wife came here
to visit his brother, but shortly after
his arrival, was taken sick, and
after an operation was at the Lan-caster
Hospital for nine weeks. He
returned to Lititz recently, much iimi-proved
in health.
—How 'bout a box of Whitman's
Chocolates for your Valentine—Feb-ruary
14th is Saturday—Scott's Book
Store.
OwTcm While the recent snowfall
was called an "old timer" horse-drawn
sleighs, which in former
years were as familiar and num-erous
on the highways as auto-mobiles
are today, are conspi-cious
by their absence. The old-er
residents recall how the con-veyance
with runners replaced
the wagon during the time that
the snow covered the ground.
Last week there were less than
half a dozen sleighs seen on the
streets of Lititz.
Many sleighs have been chop-ped
up for firewood or go under
the hammer at sales for a quar-ter
or fifty cents
The advent of tractors and oth-er
(modern machinery and imple-ments
on the farm accounts for
the decrease in the number of
horses, which were used in
drawing the sleighs. Most peo-ple
would rather ride in a closed
auto than a sleigh. Occasion-ally
there is an old-fashioned
sleighing party, especially
among the public schools in the
rural sections.
Vast numbers of wild pigeons
were seen in this country prior
to 1865, though not in such
numbers as earlier in the cen-tury,
namely, 1800 to 1850. The
slaughter of these pigeons rag-ed
for years with nets, traps
and guns, and by 1884 there
were very few of the wild pig-eons
seen in this country. Old
diaries in Lititz relate of the
vast floeks that flew over the
towini and of the pigeons shot
around here.
By 1900 they had dwindled
down to a few specimens left in
captivity in Milwaukee and in
the Cincinnati zoo. Martha, the
last known wild pigeon, died at
2 P. M., August 29, 1914, at the
age of twenty-nine. According
to all ornithological data avail-able,
she was the last of her
tribe in the world. Martha's
mate died in 1910, and though a
prize of $1,000 was offered for
a mate, none was ever found.
The editor was fortunate in see-ing
Martha and her mate in
1910, and naturally was tniuch
interested in these birds. One
of the last flocks of these wild
pigeons seen was in Lancaster
county, according to Prof. H. H.
Beck, of this place.
In the same week recently
three Lititz products were ship-ped
to California—a carload of
safes, pretzels and bantams.
These things must have merits
or they would be secured from
a shorter distance. Did you ev-er
stop to consider how many in-dustries
Lititz has. You'll be
surprised.
MILK SHIPPED FROM HERE TO
FLORIDA
An auto load of men from Miami,
Florida stopped off here on Monday
to see E. L. Garber. They are users
of milk from the Garber creamery
and upon being in this part of the
county, decided to meet personally,
the man they are dealing with.
Fresh milk is shipped from the Gar-ber
creamery to Florida, in refriger-ator
cars, requiring 52 hours on the
road and arrives in first-class condi-tion.
LITITZ STORE TO RUN BIG SALE
Pfautz Brothers are running their
annual Inventory Sale, starting to-day
Thursday and continuing until Satur-day,
February 20. If you ha-le not
received one of the large advertise-ments,
phone Pfautz Brothers and a
copy will be mailed to you. They are
offering a grand assortment of stand-ard
merchandise at a big reduction
during this sale, and you can profit
with the many others who will be
amongst the many shoppers during
this sale.
This store is the headquarters in
Lititz for Armstrong linoleum and
made to measure window shades. In
the past ten years this firm has plac-ed
95 per cent of all the new homes
in Lititz, with fine window shades and
Armstrong linoleum. This is due to
delivering standard merchandise and
rendering satisfactory service.
Lincoln a t Gettysburg"
* ¥ Four score and seven years ago our fathers
; brought forth on continent a new nation
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil w a r
testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
W e are met on a great battlefield of tha C
war. W e have come to dedicate a portion
of that field as a fieal resting place for those
who here gave their lives that that nation
might live It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this But in a larger sense
we can not dedicate—we can not conse-crate—
we can not hallow—this ground.
The brave men living and dead who strug-gled
here have consecrated it far above our
poor power to add or detract. T h e world will
little note nor long remember what we say
here but it can ne\ier forget what they did
here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedi.
caied here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced It is rather for us to be here dedi-cated
to the great task remaining before us—•
that from these honored dead' we take in-creased
devotiofi to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion—
thai we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have die<^ |
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