Lititz Record Express

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Music — A Woman's View —
Patter
Music is the poetry of speech
and serves well in memory when
all other soft voices die. And
when that music is sacred, and
sung in sacred company, there i:s
an added sweetness and a clearer
understanding. I can but add to
the praises already heaped on the
excellence of the Concert on Sum-day.
A man said to me that before
the concert there were three thing:s
he had always dearly loved but ne-ver
understood: Painting, Woman,
and Music. Now there are only
Woman and Painting which ho
cannot fully understand. That's
what the concert did for him, and
I think he will ever have great
confidence in the people of Lititz,
and what they can achieve. I am
sure that all who attended were
mightily impressed and pleased to
see that nothing is impossible
where there is a spirit and faitlh
that binds. We look forward witlh
hope to next year's combined con-cert.
Now and again I have embel-lished
this column with thoughts
of women, what she is made of,
and her importance and unimpor-tance.
Now I would like to pre-sent
a woman's—or girl's view of
man, young or old. I invite any
member of the supposedly sophis-ticated
sex to send us her criti-cism,
pro and con, of us poor um-lovable
males . . . .
Peter Lorre is one of my favoi-rite
actors, and nert week, Farm
Show or no, I intend being there
in. the local theatre to see Mr.
Lorre in a new role, as a Chinese
detective. "Think Fast, Mr. Moto"
is the title, borrowed from the ori-ginal
of J. P. Marquand's stories.
When Peter Lorre made the pic-ture
'M' in Austria, it is said thait
he made so eerie an impression
that thereafter women recognizing
him-in the streets of Vienna ran
from his sight. Of such is Lorre,
the Mr. Moto of next Thursday's
picture in the Lititz Theatre. . . .
And next week we will receive
our just rewards of a year's wait-ing.
The Lititz Farm Show; come
one and all, have your fun with as
few fakirs as possible. Music and
merriment, fun and other things.
But more in this vein next Thurs-day
Next Week's The Time!
Great Community Show
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Vol. LX Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday, October 14, 1937 No. 6
Moravians
Choose Cast
For Pageant j
— i
"The Builders," Written
By Miss Mary Huebener,
To Be Presented Here \
October 27 and 28
Massed Choirs
Give Fine Concert
Before 1000 Here
Chorus To Sing
At Phila. Banquet
The Acappella Male Chorus oif
East Petersburg has accepted am
invitation to sing at the annuail
meeting and-hanquet of the Inter-
State Milk Producers Cooperative,
Inc., to be held in the Benjamin
•Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, on
November 17.
The group was invited to sing
because of their appearance at the
State Farm Show last year and the
fine reputation they are making
for themselves.
Sportsmen's Annual
Trophy Shoot Saturday
The annual Lititz Sportsmen's
Trophy Shoot will be held at thie
traps at the rear of the Springs
Park on Saturday.
The Sportsmen's Association
meeting will be held in the Park
View Hotel on Monday night whein
besides other business, the plan oif
the annual Community Show dis-play
in the Fire House will b«e
completed.
The personnel of the pageant,
"The Builders," which members of
the Moravian church here wiil
present October 27 and 28 to cele-brate
the 150th anniversary of the
dedication" of their church building,
consisting of about 175 men, wo-men
and children, was announced
by the author and director, Miss
Mary Huebener. The characters
appear in fourteen short scenes
which depict phases in the history
of Lititz and the Moravian church
between 1725 and 1787.
Mrs. Carl Workman, will be the
narrator who will read the intro-ductions
to each scene. George ;
Smith, of South Broad street, will j
be the herald. Charles K. Wolpert!
will play the role of Count Zin-zendorf.
The Rev. Byron K. Horfie, .pas-tor,
will take the part of the Rev.
August Klingsohr, pastor of thei
church here when it was built.
Those in the cast for the respec-;
tive scenes are: |
Prologue, "Indian Council by the :
Lititz Springs, 1725: Indian chief,
Abe Beck; councillors, William
Light, Robert Posey, Edward
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Close to 1000 people were thrilled
by excellent renditions of anthems
and hymns Sunday afternoon as
about 125 men and women and a
large orchestra presented the
Massed Choir Concert in the Liti.z
Theatre. It was the first of what
is expected to be an annual event
here.
The singers were members ot
church choirs of Lititz and vicinity
and the orchestra was made up of
local musicians. Both groups, the
former under Victor Wagner and
the latter under Henry C. Hack-man,
have been rehearsing for the
event for a month. All the work
and rehearsing they had done was
apparent in the concert Sunday,
for seldom have the various com-positions
been as superbly sung
around here.
Although all numbers on the
program were well done, several
stood out above thg others. This
was especially true "of the first
hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy", which
was sung with a feeling and rev-erance
seldom accorded it. Stain-er's
"God So Loved the World"
was very well done, as was the
closing anthem, "The Radiant
Morn." Perhaps best-liked on the
program was the Christiansen ar-
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Cowboys On Theatre Stage Monday Local Woman
On Program
Of Sessions
The famous Kansas Cowboys, who will be the feature of the
Saturday night entertainment of the Lititz Community Show next'
week, will appear on the stage of the Lititz Theatre Monday and Tues-day
nights.
This group of entertainers appeared with Governor Landon in
his presidential campaign and made appearances with the Governor on
the radio. They combine unusual novelties with singing and comedy
to present a very interesting program.
Record Services Held In St. Paul's As Pastorate
Of Rev. Mumper Ends; Letters From Africa Read
Government Again Seeks
Sites for P. 0. Here
Leon Meek Buys
Hess Fruit Store
Leon Meek who has been man-ager
of the Hess Fruit Market at
22 South Cedar Street, since Lester
Hess has been conducting one in
Lancaster, purchased the stock and
good will from Mr. Hess, the deal
being consummated on October 6.
He proposes to give the commun-ity
the best in fruits the market
affords. See his announcement
elsewhere in this issue of the
RECORD.
Home-Coming Service
At Brickerville Sunday
The annual Home-Coming Ser-vice
of Zion Reformed Church,
Brickerville, will be held on Sunday
afternoon at 2. Communion will
be held in the morning at the
church.
The afternoon program is made
up of invocation, hymns, Scripture
reading, prayer, music by Penryn
Reformed Chorus, addresses, music
by Lititz Church of the Brethren
quartette, solo by Mrs. Galen Bal-mer,
remarks, further addresses
and music, offering, closing hymn
and benediction.
Sites suitable for a postoffice In
Lititz are again being sought by
the United States Government, ac-cording
to an announcement from
Washington and an advertisement
printed in this issue of the
RECORD. Bids for the same are
receivable now at the postoffice
here and will be opened publicly
on Monday, October 25, at 9 A. M.
A new Lititz postoffice has been
proposed for several years and a
year or more ago 14 offers of
sites were received when a call
advertised. Various places in the
central part of town were offered,
but the project was sidetracked,
apparently by lack of money.
Since that time, however, extra
money for the Lititz building was
voted by Congress and all the mon-ey
for the program is believed to
be available.
Postmaster Robert E. Pfautz has
asked the government not to build
a red-brick building here, as it
would not be in keeping with the
architecture of other business
places. It is believed that his re-quest
caused federal authorities to
hold up the building until more
money was available and a finer
structure could be erected.
ENTERTAIN CHURCH GROUP
C. o! C. To Meet
On Tuesday Night
Stuart Little is a boss lineman
for the P. P. and L.
But the other day, Mrs. Little
was holding very securely a step-ladder
upon the second step of
which he was doing some work at
their home on Linden Street.
A well-known local insurance
man "lapeled" us on Tuesday.
"Why," he queried, "are the banks
closed?"
"Don't you know whose birthdaj
this is?" we answered. "To whom
do we owe the fact that we havie
this great land, breathe this alir
and enjoy life in this hemisphere?'"
"Roosevelt," he answered.
The October meeting of the Lit-itz
Chamber of Commerce will be
held in the Lititz Fire house at 3
on Tuesday evening.
Every one of the old and new
members is urged to attend to dis->
cuss the business which will bo
brought before the meeting. The
president, Elser Gerhart, will be
in charge.
Mr. and Mrs Elser Gerhart,
South Broad Sreet, entertained the
members of the St. John's Lutheran
Church Council of Brickerville and
their wives, Monday evening. Those
present were: Mr and Mrs. Wayne
Elser, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Elser,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fassnacht,
Mr. asd Mrs. Henry Shenk, Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Reifsnyder, Samuel
Forry and the Rev. Paul Shaeffer.
RUMMAGE SALE
TENDERED SURPRISE
The Sunbeam Class of St. Paul's
Lutheran Church will hold a rum-mage
sale Saturday, Oct. 23, from
7 to 9 P. M. and Monday, Oct. 25,
all day in Lancaster. Any one
having donations for the sale can
bring them to the basement of the
Lutheran Church.
Fifteen persons were received in-to
membership, 448 partook of
communion, five children were bap-tized,
and more than $450. was re-ceived
for the missionary-support
fund at the services in St. Paul's
Lutheran Church on Sunday, the
last Sunday of the pastorate of the
Rev. J. Harold Mumper. The num-er
communing set a record for the
church, the previous high number
being 444.
Nearly every available seat in
the church auditorium was filled
for the morning service and in the
evening the congregation filled
about three quarters of the pews.
Many of the worshippers tarried
after the services to bid farewell
to Rev. and Mrs. Mumper.
All cash offerings of the Church
and Sunday School were turned in-to
the fund which forms the total
support of the Rev. and Mrs. G.
Gordon Parker, Jr., Missionaries in
Liberia, Africa. The cash received
at the morning service alone
amounted to nearly $100 and the
total of $450. is made up of that
and the evening offering, the offer-ing
in the Sunday School and pay-ment
of pledges or. of gifts to the
missionary fund.
Those becoming church members
were: Mrr-and Mrs. John R. Byers,
Miss Lee R. Byers, Miss Edna G.
Diehm, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Leek-ing,
Miss Mary Leeking, Miss Bet-ty
Leeking, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Lowe, James M. Mummert, Mr. and
Mrs. David I. Nevling, Mrs. John
H. Steft'y and Ira Yeagley.
At a service in the afternoon,
Rev. Mumper baptized Rufina Fay
and Karl Nevin, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Balmer; Marielle
Lore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Da-vid
I.- Nevling; Herbert Dale, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Larkie,
and Nancy Elaine, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas H. Erb, Jr.
Rev. Mumper and family left yes-terday
for their new home in Wash-ington
and today will move into
parsonage of Keller Memorial
Lutheran Church, 907 Maryland
Ave., N. E.
A letter from the Rev. and Mrs.
G. Gordon Parker, Jr., misisonaries
in Liberia, Africa, who receive
their sole support from St. Paul'3
Lutheran Church here, was read at
the morning service of the congre-gation
on Sunday. Mrs. Parker,
the former Evelyn Zimmerman, is
a member of the local church.
Another letter from the Africa
Mission fields, from the Rev. and,
Mrs. Joseph K. Donat, both mem-bers
of the local church, was also
read at the service. The letters
are printed herewith, to pass along
the interesting things they contain.
Gettysburg Assembly Station,
Zorzor,
American Lutheran Mission,
Monrovia, Liberia, Africa
August 16, 1937
Dear Friends of St. Paul's:
Rain time is upon us in full
force. It rains • every day and
sometimes all day. At this alti-tude
it is quite cold and we have
fire all of the time. The outdoor
activity of the native people is re-duced
to a minimum. They have
no clothes that will protect them
frcm Lhe cold and rain. The fact
th it "hungry time" comes now
adds to the hardship for rice and
meat are very scarce. From the
standpoint of human beings this
season closely resembles the cold-est
part of the winter in America.
Travel is difficult and shelter
scarce.
Just before the heavy ra'ins be- j
gan a number of the mission build
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Will Take Part In Annual
Convention Of King's
Daughters Being Held
Today At Chestnut Level
The twenty-sixth annual conven-tion
of the Lancaster County Un-ion
of Kings Daughters is being
held this afternoon and evening in
Chestnut Level Presbyterian church
Sessions opened at 1:30 o'clock
in the Sunday school building, and
the evening meeting will be held at
7 o'clock in the chapel. Supper
will be served at 5:30 o'clock in
the Sunday school building by the
members of the Fairfield W. C.
T. U.
The afternoon session will be
taken up with reports of officers
and department chairmen with
Mrs. George W. Leonard, of Lan-caster,
the county president, in
charge. The outstanding talk will
be by Mrs. Florence Gibble, of
town, who will tell of her trip to
the Holy Land and of the work be-ing
done in the Jesus Help hospi-tal
for lepers. Speakers at the
evening session will be Rev. J. G.
Carruthers, pastor of Faith Presy-terian
church, Baltimore, Md., and
Mrs. Fred Derby, State King's
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Business Firms
Asked To Enter
Trucks In Parade
Business places and industries
of town are urged to enter their
trucks in the Mummers Parade
of the Community Show next
Thursday night. The committee
hopes to make the industrial
feature of the march the finest
in recent years.
Whether or not they are deco-rated
does not matter, the com-mittee
feels, for the main idea
is to let the thousands of people
who see the parade know what
industries are in Lititz.
So, Merchants and Business
Men, get out your trucks that
night and put them in the pa-rade.
Let's put Lititz on the
map!
16 Boys To Enter
Soap Box Derby
Community Chest
Plans Annual Drive
Mrs. Victor Wagner of East Main
Street, was given a surprise party j
at her home on Tuesday evening
in honor -of her birthday anniver-sary
which occurred on Sunday. '
The following attended, Mrs.
•sjjm pub -jpff 'om.ipuno •BpuBray |
Charles R. Gun-drum, Mrs. Warren,
George, Mrs. Emory Wagner, Mr.1
and Mrs. Harvey Fry, Mr. Wagner,
Fred and Joanne Wagner. Mrs.
Wagner received many beautiful
gifts. Cards were played and re-freshments
were served.
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wagaman,
of Front Street, announce the birth
of a daughter at their home on
Sunday morning.
COMMITTEE GIVES PROGRAM
The Club Service Committee of
the Lititz Rotary Club presented
the program at the weekly meet-ing
of the club in the General Sut-ter
Hotel Tuesday evening. Talks
were presented by K. E. Witmyer,
James H. Breitigan, Elmer Beck,
Harry Gorton and John M. Miller,
each one pertaining to the work o?
the committee and the needs of
the local club.
LOVEFEAST HERE TO RECEIVE DUES
The Northern Lancaster County
Dunkard Brethren will have an «all
day meeting in the local church
on Sunday, beginning at 10 and
followed with the Lord's Supper
and Communion at 6 P. M.
Raymond Runk, financial secre-tary
of the Lititz Fire Company,
will sit in the fire house next
Thursday and Saturday evenings
from 7 to 9 to receive dues for the
current year from members.
A meeting of the Executive board
of the Community Chest was held
on Tuesday evening with Elmer
i Eby, the president, presiding. Th-i
other members present were, Elain
Risser, B. M. Leaman, John Her-shey,
Mrs. Mary Dengate and Mrs.
Elizabeth Moody.
Plans were considered for the
annual fall drive for funds to be
held November 8 to 15 inclusive.
H. A. V/aldkoenig, director of the
Welfare Federation of Lancaster
county, and his helper, M. A. Mark,
were present and presented the
needs of the county organization.
The final contribution of $250.
was given to the County Federa-tion
to be divided among the two
Lancaster hospitals, Rossmere San-
I atorium and the Red Cross,
j Nine local families were assisted
during the past month. Miss Edna
Miller, the community nurse re-ported
having made 121 nursing
visits and one clinic held during
September/
For home-slaughtered Meats,
Sausage and Pudding—go to LUTZ.
Hamburg Steak, 19c. Phone 9181W
We deliver. adv.
If you thought you heard the
wind blowing through the trees
last Friday night, it wasn't the
wind at all, it was merely the com-bined
sigh of all those housewives
who had finished their fall clean-ing,
of which group I was one and
and proud of it, too. Even if it
did get me down so that I couldn't
write last week; you were probably
too busy cleaning to read anything
more than the birth, marriage,
obituary columns anyway.
Now that life moves along on an
even keel again, we resolve in the
near future to do some things we
have been putting off too long. We
will bake the pumpkin pie our
Johnny has been asking for, finish
the sweater we started last Spring,
call on the invalid in the next
block and spend more time on our
Sunday School lesson. And I sim-ply
must read "Northwest Passage"
so that I can give it back to the
friend who loaned it to me; at
least we were friends up until this
moment.
We are still gloating about the
very clean house with all the cur-tains
hung. But by the time these
words are in print, the curtains
will be the only sign by which we
can tell that the annual fall uphea-val
has been heaved! >We are be-ginning
to realize that this house-cleaning
has its compensations.
For instance the attic, one of the
very most places to clean, we
think—but even the attic has its
moments.
There is my husband's old duffle
bag with its war relics—the Geiv
man trench helmet and gas-mask—
horrible things; the snappy, evil-looking
U. S. trench helmet with the
corps insignia in the front; a small
box where for years we have kept
a piece of hard-tack (army bread).
Don't know why we kept it because
each year we considered throwing
it out fearing it might attract mice
or ants. But, no! Those varmints
were too smart. They never touch-ed
the hard tack. In the duffle bag
also sre copies of the "Stars and
Stripes" the official organ of the
A. E. F., old letters, cards and sev-eral
French dictionaries. Nearby
in a chest reposes the old army
suit of which we once thought we
should be so proud, but we feel
neither pride nor contempt for it
now. It is just something you
have or you don't—like bow legs or
a hare lip. But once we were
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Sixteen local boys are buildfng
Soapbox racers in preparation for
the Lititz Community Show Soap-box
Derby to be held next Friday
night, according to Homer Hack-man,
chairman of the Derby com-mittee.
Out-of-town entries are
expected to bring the total number
contestants to about 20.
The $50 prize money will be
divided as follows: grand prize,
$15; second prize, $5; winners of
preliminary heats $1 each; best ap-pearing
car, $2.50; oddest car,
$2.50; best mechanically built car,
$2.50. All but the last three prizes
mentioned will be awarded for
speed.
Contestants are to register to-morrow
and Saturday at Moyer's
Drug Store, and to report on S.
Broad Street, opposite the P. P. &
L. building at 8 P. M., Oct. 22.
The following rules must be fol-lowed:
Wheels shall not be more
than 12 inches in diameter over-all;
Construction cost not to ex-ceed
$10; Age limits are 6 to 16
inclusive for makers, drivers and
starters; The starting distance
shall be 18 feet; There shall be no
means of propulsion other than
the shove that the starter gives to
the racer in the 18 foot space.
Show Books
Distributed
Here Today
Plans For Community
Fair Near Completion;
Thousands Are Expected
In Lititz Next Week
Lititz High Plays
Lebanon Tomorrow
Lititz High's football team will
play its fourth game of the season
tomorrow at 4 when it meets the
Leanon High School Reserves on
the Lebanon field.
Coach Dave Foster's small squad
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Âmer Properties
Up At Public Sale
Two properties of the late Wm.
M. Amer will be offered at public
sale on Saturday, October 30, by
Mrs. Lizzie L. Amer, his executrix.
| The properties are the hardware
j store on S. Broad Street and the
j three-story warehouse along the
| railroad between Cedar and Water
Streets.
j The entire hardware store stock
! will be offered in bulk at the sale
which will be held at the store.
T. S. Grosh To Run
For Tax Collector
T. S. Grosh, tax collector here
for a quarter of a century and
defeated for the Republican nom-ination
for that office at the recent
Primary, will seek ©lection on a
sticker campaign. Mr. Grosh has
been assured support by prominent
leaders of both parties.
The Republican nomination at
the Primary was lost by Mr. Grosh
by 62 votes to Raymond Reedy, a
newcomer in politics here. Frank
Masser is the Democratic candidate.
LUTZ FAMILY TO PLAY
! The Lutz Family will present a
program on musical saws this
evening at 7.30 for the Parent-
Teachers Association meeting ar
the East Petersurg school.
Boklets announcing the premium
lists for the annual Lititz Com-munity
Show were mailed this
morning to every home on the five
rural routes and will be distributed
to every local doorstep tonight.
The premium lists are almost
identical to those of last year in
both the products to be exhibited
and amount of awards for each.
One important change this year,
however, is the time of entering
exhibits, which will be from 12
noon, Wednesday, October 20, to 9
P. M. that night.
Other years the registrars sat
from 9 A. M., but reported that so
few entered exhibits in the morning
that it was foolish to waste their
time for the three morning hours.
The baby parade will be held at
1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon
with the prizes identical to those
of last year, and every entrant will
receive a gift.
Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Snyder will
be at the High School from 12:30
to the time of starting the parade
to register the entrans.
Baby Parade prizes are as fol-lows
: Most Artistic Entry, $5; Most
Comical, $5; Best Dressed, $5;
Most Poorly Dressed, $2.50; Young-est
Baby nf 'Parade, "$2.ou.
Doll and Coach Division, child-ren
under 6 years: Best Doll and
Coach Outfit, $2.50; Most Artistic
Doll and Coach Outfit, $2.50. Doll
and Coach Division, children 6 to
9 years: Best Doll and Coach Out-fit,
$2.50; Most Artistic Doll and
Coach, $2.50. A second prize of
$1.00 will also be given to all of
the classes.
The annual Mummers Parado
will be held on opening night,
Thursday, October 21, and prizes
in the neighborhood of $100 will
be awarded.
This parade will follow the same
route as other years passing the
judges stand on East Main Street
on the home stretch, after a march
north on Broad Street to Front and
over Front to East Main thence to
the judges stand.
The committee asks that local
Barton Sharp, Elmer Beck, Clay-business
houses decorate their
ton Zartman, Frank Ditzler and
Lititz Safe Works have secured the
famous Legion Drun\ and Bugle
Corp to head the parade. This or-ganization
will "pep up" the line of
march and set the pace for the
parade. Both the Lititz High
School and Cadet Band will ba
scattered in the group to prevent
any dull spots in what is expected
to be Lititz' biggest Mummers pa-rade.
Entries for the Soapbox Derby
to be held on Broad Street, Friday
night, Oct. 22, will be registered
at Moyer's Drug Store tomorrow
and Saturday. All planning to en-ter
this event are expected to reg-ister
on these two days.
The premium list booklets will
tell all exhibitors where to enter
and what prizes are being offered
in their exhibits, etc.
Concession space is selling daily.
West Main street has been sold
I solid. A few remain to be sold on
! East Main Street. The North Broad
midway is practically entirely sold
with a large automobile show tak-ing
most of it. South Broad has
! not been sold as yet and it is ex-pected
that all late concession buy-ers
will be placed there. But when
1 the Show opens next Thursday
night it is believed all four mid-ways
will be sold solid, for this
| year's Show will be as large as
| other years in every respect.
The final meeting of the Show
Association group will be held in
the Fire House at 7 o'clock Mon-
! day night, , when all arrangements
! will be completed for the Show's
' opening on Thursday night.
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