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VOL. XLIX THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1926 NO. 31
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
George Carr of this place, enlisted
in the U. S. Army and is on his way
to Honolulu.
Miss Lydia Graezer has entered the
Hahannan Hospital, Philadelphia, as
a student nurse.
The Reading advertises a one day
excursion to Niagara Falls on April
25. The round trip fare from Lititz is
$7.50.
The contributions by the Moravian
church, the past several weeks, in be-half
of foreign missions, made up a
total of $720.30
The person who got the wrong hat
in the Moravian S. S. Chapel last Sun-day
can have it righted, by calling at
107 E. Main street.
Special business will be transacted
at the regular session of the Mystic
Chain lodge on Saturday evening.
Lunch will be served.
Odd Fellows who intend accompany-ing
the degree staff to Lancaster on
Friday evening, of this week, should
be at the lodge hall not later than
7 P. M. Those who have cars should
bring them there.
Garden digging is in full progress,
the cool weather having delayed the
work. Naturally the gardener is en-tertaining
high hopes of a fruitful
garden. If nothing else, gardening
furnishes good exercise.
The young Ladies Bible Class of
St. Paul's Lutheran Sunday School,
will hold a pantry sale in the Traction
Company room on Broad street, on
Saturday, April 24th, afternoon and
evening. Cakes ,pies, sandwichcs,
coffee, vegetable soup, ice cream and
polar pies will be on sale.
Trout season opened last Thursday
with cold and unseasonable weather.
Early morning fishermen complained
that it was so cold that they could
hardly bait the hook. Catches of five
and six trout was considered good.
Local fishermen went to the Middle
Creek and other streams north of
here.
Hikers Return From Nine-
Month Trip To Western Coast
Leaving Lititz on June 15, 1925,
with $15, Paul Young, of this place,
and Eugene Mohn of Rothsville, work-ed
their way to California and return-ed
home again on Friday of last week
with $15 less than when they left, but
rich in experience.
Each carried a pack on their back
of twenty pounds, on which was print-ed,
"Lancaster, Penna., Coast to
Coast, Sacramento, Calif." The sign
was a great help in getting lifts in
antomobiles. They arrived at San
Francisco on Sept. 2. of last year.
On the way out they were in no
hurry to reach their destination, pre-ferring
to go slow and see the coun-try
thoroughly. They actually tra-veled
only thirty days. On the re-t
u r n home they were "filled up" on
western scenery and the cold weather
added to their desire to reach home as
soon as possible. They left California
with $70.00, which was sufficient to
bring them back - to their old home
state.
HUNDRED PERSONS AT MORA-VIAN
BANQUET
The Ushers' League banquet of the
Moravian church, held on Tuesday
evening, was a great success. Over
a hundred persons were there. A
fine program was rendered. Clarence
Maharg sang a solo, Lester Sesse-man
played a violin solo and speeches
were made by S. C. Hassler, Louis
Hueibener, M. S. Hess, and Paul
Young. A luncheon was served and
P. F. Snyder acted as toastmaster.
Their experiences were so varied
that it would require a book to record
the history of those nine months.
Fortune favored them on the first
day after leaving Lititz, when they
covered 280 miles in three machines,
carrying them to Pittsburgh.
On some days they were picked up
in twelve different machines. Only
once did they travel an entire day in
one machine. One owner with a full
car allowed them to stand on the tire
carrier.
People on the whole were kind to
them, often buying their meals. In a
little town in Kansas they met a
number of former Lancaster county
people from Ephrata and Denver. In
California Clarence Burkholder, form-erly
of Lititz, hailed them. They
were introduced to the mayor of San
Diego, and also met Irvin Cobb, the
writer.
They talked, to many fanners
throughout the west. High freight
rates, low prices for cattle and other
adverse conditions is working hard-ships
among them. All wanted to
know about farming conditions in
the east.
On the way to California the travel-lers
rode in 170 cars, covering in one
day as much as 312 miles down to 20
miles. In reaching California they
crossed fourteen states, also were in
part of Mexico.
With the small initial cash on hand
they were not particular as to the
softness or hardness of beds. Several
times they asked and received per-mission
to sleep in jails, at other times
box cars served the purpose, any
amount of hay mows, mother earth,
and even hotels when fortune smiled
on them.
They carried blankets, as well as a
change of clothing and oil slickers.
They always tried to keep neat and
clean looking' and it assisted them in
getting lifts.
They worked in the fields at Wood
River, Neb.; washed dishes at Chey-enne,
Wyo.; unloaded bricks at Cody,
Wyo.; did construction work at Yel-lowstone
National Park and Elko,
Nev.; found work in a used car garage
in San Francisco; were handy men
about the place at a hospital at Ban-ning,
Cal., and acted as nurse to sev-eral
thousand young chicks at a chick-en
ranch in Imperial Valley.
The boys are bronzed from their
out door life and in fine physical con-dition.
Young started off with high
laced boots but on the home trip wore
loose riding boots and found them
more comfortable.
Young is a son of Howard S. Young
of this place and Mohn is a son of
Joseph Mohn of Rothsville. Both
graduated from Lititz High School
several years ago.
The young men were fortunate in
enjoying the following events:
International Rotary Convention in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Parade of War Veterans, at Omaha,
Nebraska.
Diamond Jubilee, in San Francisco,
California.
Alomnd Blossom Festival, in Ban-ning,
California.
Orange show in San Diego, Calif-
S ^ r o u r i d
O u r
Town
American Forest Week, now
being observed, brings to
mind that man has taken steps
to protect nature's gifts from
the ruthless destruction of other
men.
In times past folks who did
not have country property used
to visit ' farms and woodlands
to procure vegetation such as
shrubs, evergreen branches,
f r u i t blossoms and wild flowers
for ornamental purposes. Now
it is a criminal offense, punish-able
by a heavy fine, for any
individual to pick flowers, strip
trees of their branches, remove
shrubs or any kind of vegeta-tion
without the owner's con-sent.
Give Thought To
American Forest Week
Lecture on Subject to be Given at
Lititz on Friday
This is American Forest Week, dur-ing
which it is seriously brought to
mind by the recent forest fires near
home.
American Forest Week has been
established for the purpose of ac-quainting
thinking citizens with the
forest situation and enlisting their
active support in forest restoration.
President Coolidge and the Governors
of the States have issued proclama-tions
and statements concerning its
importance. It deserves careful
thought and fitting obervance on the
part of each citizen.
An illustrated lecture by Edward
Rudy, a practical forest man, will be
given on Friday evening on prevent-ing
and the causes of forest fires.
Admission is free. The lecture was
given at Ephrata before a full house.
The meeting will be held in the High
School auditorium.
The number of persons that go to
the fire tower north of here indicates
an interest in forestry work. On
Sunday 160 persons registered at the
tower. Persons are asked not to
write their name on the tower prop-erty
and if this continues, guilty per-sons
will be fined.
-Hear the Radiola. No outside
3S. Howard S. Young.
WOMAN'S AUXILIARY MAKING
PROGRESS
The Women's Auxiliary of the Lit-itz
Fire Company desires to give all
the women of Lititz an opportunity
to be members of the Auxiliary. The
town has beeen districted and a can-vass
for members is being made. It
is hoped that our women will join
even if they cannot be active in the
work.
The dues are twenty five' cents a
year. The next meeting will be held
in the Fire Company Hall on Friday
evening at 7 o'clock, when the con-stitution
and by-laws will be present-ed
for adoption. All come and give
the Auxiliary your support.
NEW 'RAILROAD SCHEDULE
STARTS SUNDAY
Starting Sunday there will be a
change of schedule on this branch of
the Reading for some of the trains.
Following is the; entire schedule:
Weekdays
For Reading, at 5:17 and 8:36 A. M.,
1:35 and 6:53 P. M.
For Lancaster, at 8:36 A.' M., 1:35,
7:16 and 9:27 P. M.
Sundays
For Reading, at 8:01 A. M. and 4:35
P. M.
For Lancaster, at 8:22 A. M. and
7:16 P.M.
For future reference cut this sche-dulet
out and paste on schedule card
handed out by W. H. Buch recently.
POTATOES GOING INTO GROUND
DEAR
Edard Heidrich received two car-loads
of seed potatoes which he sold
at $4 a bag. Mr. Heidrich for some
years has been urging farmers to
devote more time to potato growing.
At the last Warwick House Sale
they sold as high as $3.65 a bushel
for eating stock. Some storekeepers
were caught short and are looking
around for potatoes.
Putting Some Pep
Into The Band
This is the season of spring
housecleaning, when the men
will be called upon to help take
the stove pipe apart and put it
in place again'. Men who can
sit patiently at a creek a whole
day fishing wear out their pa-tience
around a stove pipe in
five minutes. The soot begins
to shower, the wife instructs
how it ought to be done, but it
just won't fit. Nearly all men
have gone thru the experience
and those who have not, avoid-ed
a possibility of losing their
temper. A man who can put a
contrary, t i g h t - f i t t i n g stove
pipe together without swearing
possesses wonderful mental con-trol.
After it is all over the
man wonders why he ever be-lieved
in the romance of happy
wedlock. Most men weaken
when it comes to working
around a stove pipe. There is
an opportunity for an invention
that will make the work easy
I and fool-proof.
HIS HOUSE ROBBED
Thieves on Wednesday night of last
week burglarized the home of Wm. B.
Hornberger, 1230 Hilton street, Phila-delphia,
and stole $150 in cash, all the
gold jewelry and a valuable diamond
ring, in all amounting to about $700.
Mr. and Mrs. Hornberger were away
from home from 7 to 9 P. M., during
which time the thief or thieves gain-ed
entrance by prying open a rear
window. No clue, up to the present
time, has been obtained. Mr. Horn-berger
is employed on the Philadel-phia
Record and is well known here-abouts.
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Three Fires in Furnace Hills-
Warden Shoots at Fire Fiends
The mystery of the origin of three
forest fires in four days, causing thou-sands
of dollars worth of damage in
the vicinity of the fire tower near
Penryn Park, was solved when incen-diaries
were seen in the act of start-ing
a fire on Monday.
A white and colored man were spied
starting a fire less than three hundred
yards from the fire tower by Ed Rudy,
who was on duty there. Rudy lost
no time in getting down from the
tower and pursuing them. He called
to them to halt and when they started
running he emptied his revolver at
them but without results. It is be-lieved
that the two men came there
in an automobile.
Suspicion was - aroused when four
fires broke out in different parts of
the woods in quicker time than fire
could have traveled to those points.
At first it was believed that the fires
started from a railroad engine but
now it is believed that the incendiar-ies
started the fire near the railroad
to allay suspicion. It is thought to be
spite work. State authorities are
making investigation.
Fire Warden, LeRoy Bare, of this
place assisted in the work of fighting
the fire and young men from this
place, including high school pupils,
gave aid. A deputy fire warden halt-ed
automobiles on the road, putting
the occupants to work. Ephrata fur-nished
a large quota of men.
On Saturday 500 men were at work
in the woods, and other days from
150 to 200 men, including workers
at the Cornwall ore banks, which in-dustry
closed down because of the
fire, and laborers on the railroad.
The first fire occurred Friday near
Mt. Hope, burning an area of over 100
acres.
On Saturday at noon fire broke out
again near Penryn Park, traveling to
Miner's Village and jumping across
the road at the Halfway house and
spreading as f a r as Walnut Run and
Buzzards Roost. There was a high
wind, the fire traveling at times at
the r a t e of 15 miles an hour. An area
of over a thousand acres was burned
ed. Burning material was carried
as far as Clay. Farmers feared for
the safety of their property. The Le-banon
fire company had an engine at
Miners Village to protect the houses
there. Six houses were more or less
in the path of the flames but were sav-ed.
Monday fire broke out again about
one <?clock,when incendiaries were dis-covered.
An area of over 250 acres
were burned, the best timber in that
part of the mountains.
Rudy was within the law when he
shot at the culprits. Aimed guards
patroled the land on Monday night,
but the incendiaries evidently had
cleared out.
The fire occurred on the Cornwall
estate, the Cornwall and Lebanon pro-perty
and land owned by the Bethle-hem
Mine Company. The Strauss
Lumber company will lose heavily.
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Earl B. Landis To Lead The Band
This Season
The Lititz Band is being revamped.
At a meeting held last week C. C.
Grim was elected president, Joseph N.
Mohn, secretary and manager; Willis
Gibbel, treasurer and Earl B. Landis,
of Landis Valley, leader.
Mr. Landis teaches music in the
public schools at Rothsville and other
places and is a successful orchestra
leader. In the past summer he has
been taking special courses in music
and intends specializing in band lead-ership.
Some young players will be added to
the band and an experienced bass
player has been engaged for the sea-son.
Every effort will be made to
inject new life and interest in the or-ganization.
The Lititz people are
asked to give their hearty support and
in return have a good band that will
be an advertisement.
Some of the members who have
played in the band for many years
want to continue playing but want
to be relieved of business affairs.
A number of engagements have been
booked, including July 3 at Lititz.
It is the intention of continuing
band practice during the winter, so
that new material can be broken in
from time to time.
Chevrolet Employees
Enjoyed Fine Supper
Wife and Son Surprise John Longen-ecker
at Lancaster Garage
Mrs. J. F. Longenecker, assisted by
her son, C. Eugene, agreeably surpris-ed
Mr. Longenecker by arranging a
supper for his employees, numbering
fifty, at the Lancaster sales head-quarters.
C. Eugene, who is in charge of the
sales, gave an interesting talk, fol-lowed
by remarks by other salesmen.
They were served witlt a fine sauer
kraut supper, prepared by Mrs. Har-ry
Long. The tables were prettily
decorated with pink snap dragons and
carnations, which were given later
to the guests.
Mr. Longenecker was very much
surprised as he received a telephone
call from his son to come to the Lan -
caster garage at once, stating that
an impending deal required his pres-ence.
Upon arrival he was ushered in
with music by the Brunswick orches-t
r a to the tune of "Hail! Hail!"
All expressed themselves as having
had a wonderful time.
RECORD ADVS. RETURN LOST
ARTICLES
A lost kodak, advertised for with
a reward of five dollars, in the Re-cord,
was found by H. W. Spacht, and
returned to the owner on Friday.
A watch charm with a. lodge insigna
lost by Levi Mellinger, was returned
to the owner t h r u a Record adv.
AMONG THE SICK
Miss Amanda Rapp, residing on S.
Cedar Street, is suffering with a siege
of rheumatism.
Morris Frederick was kicked by a
horse, fracturing two ribs and other-wise
bruising him. However he is
doing farmwork this week.
Frank Marks is confined - to bed
for over a week. Blood poisin devel-oped
and his jaw became stiff, so
that he had trouble to eat. He is
recovering nicely.
Miss Miriam Russel, who under-went
an operation at St. Joseph's
Hospital and was in a critical con-dition,
is showing improvement.
ODD FELLOWS TURNED OUT
STRONG
Seventy-one members of the Lititz
Odd Fellow Lodge marched to the
United Evangelical church in a body
on Sunday evening, when a special
sermon was delivered to the order
by Rev. S. A. Heisey. The Odd Fel-low
Chorus sang two selections.
Rev. Heisey chose as his text from
First Thessalonians, 5:5, " Sons of
Light." His subject was ''Real Hap-piness."
The pastor impressed on
his hearers the importance of being
cheerful. Some are born with that
faculty, but with will power it can
be developed.
It was a helpful heart-to-heart
address, a lesson in self-improvement
bringing out the psychology of good
cheer.
SHE LIKES THE FAR WEST
Miss Clara Fry, of Tucson, Arizona,
who spent a week among Lititz
friends, in- the beginning of April,
left from her sister's home at Staten
Island, N. Y., on Monday, for her
far western home. Miss Clara is
a native Lititz girl, and in her visit
here she was surely welcomed by all
who knew her. She is a good con-versationalist
and she can rattle off
many interesting tales of her life in
the west in1 a short time. She says
she feels perfectly contented in Tuc-son,
where she nurses the sick and
takes care of her own health at the
same time, but it would be unwise for
her to return east to live. ,
LITITZ BOY MARRIED THIS
MORNING
John H. Lutz, son of Mr. and Mrs.
B. F. Lutz, of Lititz, and Mary L.
Fry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Z. Fry, of Denver, were united in mar
riage this morning at 10 o'clock by the
Rev. E. S. Crosland in, their newly
furnished apartment at Lancaster
The ring ceremony was used.
'The bride wore a white canton
crepe dress with hat to match and
carried a bridal bouquet of white
roses and sweet peas. Only the im-mediate
families were present.
The bride is a graduate of Denver
High School and of Interstate Com
mercial College, of Reading. The
groom conducts a meat store at Lan
caster.
The couple left on a wedding trip
to Washington, D. C., and other points
in the south. They will be at home
after May 1st at 359 East Chestnut
street, Lancaster.
—Big Dollar Sale on at Pfautz
Bros. Friday and Saturday of this
week.
S
BASKET OF GROCERIES DISAP
PEARS
Charles Long purchased a basket
full of groceries at Pfautz Brothers
store on Saturday, stopping off at
Rudy's butcher shop later, and leaving
the basket on the outside there.
When he came out the shop, the bas-ket
was gone. Mr. Long is the ten-ant
farmer on Dr. S. R. Posye's farm.
FOUR DEATHS IN FAMILY RELA-TIONSHIP
IN SHORT TIME
With the death of Mrs. Herman Jo-hannsen,
there were four deaths in
the family within the past six months.
The deceased's mother, Mrs. Agnes
McCormick, died f i r s t , the father and
mother of Mr. Johannsen died re-cently
and the death of his wife oc-curred
on Monday. The Johannsen
family recently moved to Philadel-phia
from Lititz, Mrs. Johannsen tak-ing
sick while attending the funeral
of Ernest Johannsen here and remain-ed
with her son on Broad Street.
Digging Garden
By Tom Dussinger
There's many a back that's achin',
And there's many an arm that's sore,
There's lots of folks complainin'
That have not complained before.
But there's reasons for this soreness,
And there's causes for the aches,
It's from workin' in the garden,
Exercisin' hoes and rakes.
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TRAVELERS NEAR AND FA
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IP^
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Mrs. W. K. Bender, spent two weeks
with her daughter at Christiana.
Mrs. Bertha Claus, of Bethlehem,,
was among Lititz friends on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Stoner, visited
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Lutz at Den-ver
the week-end.
Mrs. Lillian Miksch, who spent
some time with ker daughter May„
near Atlantic City, N. J., was in town
on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arville Burkholder
and children of this place and Mr.
and Mrs. Atlee Burkholder took an
auto trip to Stoneybrook, York coun-ty,
on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Gibbel attended
the fiftieth anniversary of Juniata
College at Huntingdon, last week, Mr.
Gibbel being a trustee. Men of nat-ional
prominence were speakers for
the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Gibbel
lade the trip by automobile.
Mr. and Mrs .E. C. Keating, of
Montclair, N. J., visited Morris Kauff-man
and family of this place. They
were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Rhoades, from Elmira, New
York, who left for their home on Mon-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Keating left on
Wednesday morning.
Miss Laura Oehme, who has served
as a missionary in China for a num-ber
of years, reached the home ot' her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Oehme,
at East Earl, on Tuesday of last week.
She came home in answer to a cable-gram
announcing her mother's serious
iUnes. Mr. Oehme also is ailing. Miss
Oehme is a niece to W. B. Oehme of
this borough.
Safes Made at Lititz
Pass Highest Tests
Stiffel Freeman Safe Co. Can Use
Label A on Product
The biggest little safe company m
the United States can be aptly ap-plied
to the Stiff el-Freeman Safe Co.
at this place, after one of the safes
was put thru a severe fire test yester-day
afternoon opposite the industry.
Mr. Harry Gorton just returned
from Chicago where six of the safes
manufactured underwent a test in the
National Underwriters' laboratories.
Every safe made a 100 per cent mark,
giving the Company here the right
to use Label A and Label B on their
safes. The test here was on the sev-enth
safe in the presence of an ex-pert
from the underwriters' head-quarters.
At Chicago the safes were subject-ed
to a heat of 2200 degrees (four
hours for Label A safes and two
hours for Label B safes) and after
becoming a cherry red were dropped
from a height of three stories. They
were then put in the heat again (two
hours for the label A class and an
hour for the Label B class) and open-ed
the next day. Papers inside the
safe were not even browned. Tests
showed that the greatest heat at any
time inside was 214 degrees for the
small safes and 241 degrees for th©
larger safes. Three hundred degrees
is allowable.
In the test here yesterday a shed
eight feet square was built, enclos-ing
the safe and the entire space was
filled with 5000 pounds of wood, 300
pounds of straw and excellsior and
saturated with 30 gallons of gaso-line.
With a stiff wind the fire burned
fiercely, the inflammable material
burning up in fifteen minutes. Ther-mometers
registered the heat inside
the safe and surrounding it.
Paper and paper money were plac-ed
inside the safe and will be ex-amined
sometime today when it has
cooled off sufficiently to touch.
Two years ago the Company re-ceived
the right to use the Label B,
and the last test is the last word in
safes. Mr. Harry Gorton, the super-intendent,
has been experimenting foiy
the past eight months to reach the
present perfection. There are only 4
or 5 safe companies in the United!
States making safes who were award-ed
the A label; many concerns haxa
tried and failed.
The Underwriters Association will
continue to test the safes made here,
to see that the requirements are kept
up, taking a safe at random sold to
a customer.
Mr. Gorton stated that the passing
of the final test was like taking a
great strain off his shoulders. Un-doubtedly
it will be a big boost to the
industry here. The experiments were
made at a big expense.