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VOL. L THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1926 NO. 6
EVERTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
Mrs. Alvin Ohle was taken to St.
Joseph's hospital, Lancaster, the past
Thursday for treatment.
The Brunswick orchestra, a local
organization, will play on the War-wick
House porch this Saturday ev-ening.
Frank B. Buch mounted a white
breasted chicken hawk, shot at Quar-ryville.
It measured 52 inches from
tip to tip of wing.
The Benjamin Weidner farm on
North Broad street, offered at public
sale, last Saturday was withdrawn
for want of bidders.
Raymond Dubbs bought a lot on
Third Avenue fromS D. B. Eberly.
Mr. Dubbs started excavating at once
for a bungalow.
Miss Esther Stoner has resigned as
clerk at the Farmer's National Bank
and will be succeeded by Miss Lou-etta
Hershey, daughter of Rev. J. W.
G. Hershey.
The incoming and outgoing trains
are as a rule, not as noisy as they
had been all fall and summer. We
can readily dispense with some of
those long, loud whistles, which are
unnecessary.
A citizen remarked the other day
that rats are becoming so numerous
and bold about his premises that they
run up the grape arbor in quest of
the grapes, and are becoming so plen-t
i f u l that he hardly knows what to
do.
A supposed mad dog around the
safe works stirred up the people in
that part of town. The town police-men
went there armed but the dog
was found drowned in the creek. It is
not likely that the dog was mad, but
had a f i t of some kind, or was poison-ed.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Leicey and
son Roy left for Pittsburgh, Tuesday
morning, by auto, to attend the fun-eral
of the former's brother Frank
Leicey. Deceased was 57 years, old,
and was born at Mastersonville. He
was a trolley conductor in Pittsburgh
for years. Besides Mr. Leicey of Lititz
u brother, Henry, of Lebanon survives
CONTINUATION SCHOOL
NECESSARY IF PARENTS
DO NOT CO-OPERATE
EXPECT LARGE CROWD AT SOUR
KROUT SUPPER, SATURDAY
The Women's Auxiliary to the Lit-itz
Fire Co. are preparing for their
sour krput supper to be held in the
Fire Hall in the afternoon and even-ing
of Saturday, Oct. 30th. A vari-ety
of good things to eat will be on
hand for sale, including sour krout,
pork, mashed potatoes, frankfurters,
sandwiches, baked beans, pies, cakes,
candy, sugar cakes, coffee, ice cream,
etc. This is a most worthy cause,
and should have the loyal support of
the town. As it is Community Show-night,
and also the night when the
ghosts and the goblins are abroad, a
large crowd is expected.
State's R o a d M e r
s Received Here
Children Would Have to Attend Eight
Hours of School Each Week
A report shows that there are at
present twenty children working in
factories, under the age of sixteen
years. If any more are employed
it will be necessary to open a Con-tinuation
School in this borough, ac-cording
to State requirements, and
parents and factory employers are
asked to co-operate with the school
authorities and not employ any more
children under sixteen, as this would
mean additional teachers and all such
children., regardless of residence,
working in Lititz borough, would be
obliged to attend school eight hours
each week with no classes on Satur-days.
Pupils and Teachers to Visit Sesqui
The Lititz schools will be closed on
Friday, October 29th, to give the
children and the teachers an oppor-tunity
to visit the Sesqui-Centennial
Exposition at Philadelphia. They
will go by bus.
Institute Week Near at Hand
Institute week will be observed in
this County the second week in Nov-ember.
Visit Lampeter Community Show
The directors of the Public Schools
and Prof. M. C. Demmy, attended the
Community Show at Lampeter last
Thursday evening. The main speak-er
of the evening's entertainment was
Supt. Haas, superintendent of Public
Instruction.
Scored Six Points in M. S. N. S. Meet
Lititz High scored six points at the
Millersville Track meet held at Mil-lersville
on Saturday, and finished,
holding sixth place in Class A. Rob-ert
Gibbel won first prize in oratory
and Paul Seaber won third prize in
pole vaulting.
Ephrata High won first place in
Class A, having scored 24 points.
Musical Activities
Lester Sesseman is organizing a
class < t beginners in violin in the
High School.
Harry Baughy, musical instructor,
a '' nized a Junior orchestra for all
WOr,t' i did not pass- the grade for
.•could hea.
the inlet, thec i e s t r a"
about the rudder,t
Official Communication Sent to
Turnpike Co.'s President
The proposed freeing of the Lan
caster-Lititz toll road is causing much
discussion among the citizens of the
town.
The announcement coming from the
county commissioners and the State
Department of Highways, seemed a
little premature, from the fact that
neither the president nor the secre-tary
of the turnpike company were
notified of the proposed offer of $70,-
000 for the pike.
However, on Tuesday, D. M. Gray-bill,
president of the turnpike com-pany
received an official communica-tion,
confirming the news made pub-lic
two weeks ago.
The stockholders will have to
vote on the acceptance or rejec-tion,
after twenty days notice is given.
Cne stockholder openly declared that
he was not satisfied with the price,
while another one asserted that he
was not agreed to give the Conestoga
Traction Company $20,000. D. M.
Graybill, in conversation with a Re-cord
representative said he wanted to
see the pike freed quickly. Notices
to the stockholders were mailed
promptly, for a meeting to be held
on Nov. 8. j.
Naturally it will take time to settle
these differences and come to an un-derstanding
between all the parties
concerned.
The big factor in the proposed
freeing of the pike was a clause at-tached
to the omnibus bill by Repre-sentative
G. G. Diehm. Otherwise,
with the big amount of money involv-ed,
it would have dragged along foe
a long time to come. The State and
county officials have done their duty
to the citizens in this end of the
county by offering the money for the
purchase.
MORE AUTOISTS USING TOLL-FREE
ROAD TO LANCASTER
The opening of the old Oregon Pike,
which has been widened to eighteen
feet and a hot oil binding applied, by
way of Roseville and Landis Valley,
will give auto tourists between Lititz
and Lancaster practically a good free
road. It will be possible to travel
between these two places on hard
surfaced roads, with only a few rough
places. Going on the Lititz turn-pike,
from Lititz, some autoists turn
off at Kissel Hill, while others go to
the crossroads, just before approach-ing
the f i r s t toll gate, and coming out
on the same pike near the last toll
gate, paying two cents toll, or coming
out at Rossmere and evading all toll.
Even before this old Oregon pike
was remade, autoists had increased on
this "back" road to Lancaster, even
trucks using this route. This diver-sion
of traffic, it is said, is cutting
down the revenue of the Lancaster
and Lititz toll road.
ATTENDED FUNERAL OF FORM-ER
AIR PILOT OF THIS PLACE
Mrs. Alberta Behmer and her two
brothers, Barton and Luther Sharp,
attended the funeral of Clarence
Markham at Vineland, N. J., Thurs-day.
The deceased, who was an air
pilot, crashed to death in Philadelphia.
He was in Lititz this summer, having
been employed here as a pilot several
years ago.
He had partly given up the business
but only several 'weeks ago bought a
new plane and resumed his hazardous
work. He was not married.
GOLD FISH FREE
Two lively gold fish in a glass
aquarium, complete with pebbles and
plants, given with each 50 cent pur-chase
of Rexall preparations, at Moy-er's
drug store, on Friday and Satur-day,
as long as they last. Come ear-ly
to get yours.
SEVENTH ANNUAL
COMMUNITY
HOW
A i I v a a ia
z
Farmers' Products, Manufacturers' and
Merchants' Exhibits, Automobiles,
• Farm Machinery, Cattle
Poultry Show
The Farm and Household Products
will be shown in Brobst's Garage, on South
Broad Street.
The Merchants' and Manufacturers'
display will be shown under the auspices of
the American Legion, and will be in Snave-ly's
Garage, on East Main Street.
The Poultry Show will be held in
Longenecker's Garage, North Broad Street.
The Automobile and Machinery Exhi-bits
will be held on North Broad Street.
The Cattle Show will be at the War
wick House Stables.
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Thursday, Friday and Saturday
O c t o b e r 28, 29 and 30, 1926
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Henry B. Buch
Ninety and One
H. B. Buch will be nine-one years
old on Saturday and is still active.
Mr. Buch maintains his coach
shop, where he works now and then,
such as painting automobiles and
chairs and repair jobs.
Mr. Buch was at the Sesqui-Cen-tennial
exhibition in Philadelphia for
several days and attended several
county fairs. He shows little change
in the past several years. He takes
a pride in his dress, and his careful
grooming, with patent leather shoes,
white vest, frocktail coat and derby
hat makes him conspicious even in a
crowd.
Mr. Buch says he enjoys life, has
no aches or pains, is not restricted to
diet and sleeps soundly. He has
never used tobacco and has been mod-erate
in all things. He appears to
be in good humor at' all times, and
laughs, whistles and sings as he feels
like it. His hand is still steady and
his hearing and eyesight belie his
age. He says he has no grievences
against the new order of things and
avers it is far from him to condemn
the present dress of women.
BIRTHDAYS
October 16—Mrs. Sarah C. Beckler.
October 22—Albert O. Sturgis, of
Nazareth; W. B. Oehme.
October 23—Henry B. Buch.
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT AT
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF
INSURANCE COMPANIES
Henry Gibbel, Jr., was a representa-tive
last week at the National Con-vention
of the mutual fire insurance
companies at Louisville, Ky. His
father, H. R. Gibbel, was elected vice
president of the association, altho
he was not present.
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Town
round
TO DEDICATE MONUMENT
Post 56, American Legion will have j
charge of the dedicatory exercises of
the memorial shaft at Neffsville,
which has been erected by the citizens
of that town. It is very likely that
Chaplain H. B. Swartz, of the local
post will deliver the dedicatory ad-dress.
The post will attend in a
body, all the men wearing uniforms.
Frank Rader found a hornet's
nest in the woods, which he
brought home and hung in his
cigar store. Some hours later
some one discovered that a wood
mouste had a nest in it and now
the little animal after making
tours around the cigar store,
scurries back to the nest when
alarmed.
A wood mouse is different
from the ordinary mouse, has
long ears and a long tail and is
white underneath its body. It
is a very timid animal.
The acid of the apple, like
that of the lemon, is an anti-septic.
A Japanese Physician
showed that these f r u i t acids de-stroy
the germs of typhoid fev-er
and also the cholera germ.
It has long been known that a
diet of apples is an excellent
remedy for chronic dysentry.
An old distich goes:
"To eat an apple on going to
bed,
Will make the doctor beg
his bread."
Equally well based would be
the slogan:
"Six apples a day
Will keep headache away."
Most headaches are due to
intestinal toxemia, the result of
inactivity of the colon. Apples
at meals and at bedtime serve
in many cases as an excellent
laxative, and thus make an end
of the headaches by removing
the cause.
The apple is a good means of
reducing surplus flesh. An
overweight person may eat all
the apples he wants, provided
he will eat nothing but apples,
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M any Special Premiums
for Community Show
The premium lists of the Commun-ity
Show to be held here on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28, 29 and
30, have been distributed. A great
many premiums are offered this yeai;
as follows: Lititz Springs National
Bank on corn, $15; Farmers' Nation-al
Bank on potatoes, $10; Leaman &
Leed on apples, $5; the Lititz
Springs National Bank, $5 for the
best collection of vegetables; Farm-ers'
National Bank, $5 for the best
collection of canned goods; Pfautz
Bros., $5 on fancy work; Doster's De-partment
Store, $2.50 for home made
knitted garments; C. S. Zartman, $5
for the largest and best display of
f a rm products by any one individual
club or association; Doster's Depart-ment
Store, $2.50 for the second larg-est
and best display of f a rm products
by any one individual, club or associa-tion;
Farmers' National Bank $2.50
for the best standard male bird in the
show, also $2.50 for the best bantam
male.
Three silver cups are also offered,
one on White Leghorns, one on Buff
Plymouth Rocks, and one on Barred
Plymouth Rocks. A hand-painted
vase is offered for the best Ancona.
The Poultry show will be held in
Longenecker's garage on North Broad
street and will be in charge of John
Peiffer and Howard Strickler. John
Kreiner, of Stettlersville will be the
judge of poultry.
The other exhibits will be Held at
the usual places.
For actual display of products in
quality and quantity, Lititz stands
out distinctly. The industrial exhib-it
is another feature not seen at other
Cotnmtunity Shows.
There will be orchestral music at
S'navely's Garage, Brobst's Gar-age
and North Broad street.
WAR TROPHIES SECURED BY
POST 56
Post 56, secured thru federal auth-orities
at Harrisburg, relics of the
World War, including a German
machine gun, German rifles, swords
and sabers, canteen and helmet. They
will be put on display at some future
date, some where in town.
APPROACHING ELECTION
IS QUIET HERE
Ten days will intervene between
now and the holding of the general
election in November. The time
will be none too long for the voters
of Lancaster County to study the
matter of men and mleasures upon
which they will be called to pass.
The Lancaster county electors will
be called upon to vote for a Govern-or,
a United States Senator,. a re-presentative
in Congress, and four
members of the State Legislature.
Politics has been quiet in town,
voters having probably decided on
their candidates and are not telling
how they will vote.
Rat in Seaplane-
Told by Lititz Man
Trap Made Here Caught Rodent
After 13-Day Flight
Jerome Vogler of Lititz, wrote a
thrilling story which appeared in the
Philadelphia Public Ledger the past
Sunday under the caption "My Flight
in the Sky with a Huge Rat." It is
not fiction but a true story, the adjec-tive
"my", referring to Charles R.
Brown, of the United States Air
Forces.
The narrative occupies a full page
with illustrations. Lieuterant Brown,
relates the author, started from
Hampton Roads with a squadron for
Cuba. Everything was serene, with
fair weather and plane flying fault-lessly.
Then after several hundred
miles at sea, and at an altitude of
some 6000 feet, the air pilot, amid the
hum of the motor and the whistle of
the brace wires, heard a discordant
note, a faint squeak. It was repeat-ed
and, while on land a noise of this
kind 'may cause no alarm, to an air
pilot, a mile above the clouds it causes
more than curiosity. Lieutenant
Brown saw a half-famished r a t make
its appearance, so near that he kicked
at it.
For thirteen days the pilot had the
aerial stowaway for company, the ro-dent
showing wariness in retreating
and hiding. As the rat became fam-ished
for food and water, it gnawed
at wooden braces; but the greatest
danger was of it becoming jammed
in the rudder controls.
Landing at the destination, Guac-anayabo
Bay, brought relief to the
airman, and he lost no time in quit
ting the plane when the madden ro-dent,
no 'longer fearful of man and
desperate for food, charged in his di-rection.
The villian, as in the drama, after
threatening death and causing endless
trouble, walked into a trap. A trap
was secured at the nearest town and
baited with cheese. Ten minutes
later, after a thirteen days fast, the
l a t bit eagerly at the bait, and the
story ended, with a moral that in the
future, air pilots will do well to ob-serve,
"Have we any rats on board."
Ed. Note—Not that the story has
been glossed over, probably the most
interesting part is yet to come, add-ing
a distinct Lititz flavor to it, and
giving the real inside details. The
t r ap with its hair-trigger and death
dealing spring was made at the trap
factory at Lititz, and shipped to Cuba,
the factory here, doing a world-wide
business. Some Lititz employee made
the trap, little dreaming that it would
enter into a thrilling Sunday edition
magazine story.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY CASE
SETTLED
Stephen Grumbling, Walter Blantz
and Martin Blantz were given a hear-ing
before Squire C. N. Derr on
charges of assault and battery at the
Lexington Hotel. There were plenty
of witnesses on hand for plaintiffs and
defendents. The case was settled by
agreement with defendents paying
the cost and satisfying Mrs. Althouse
owner of the hotel, for reported dam-ages.
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ALUMNI ENTERTAINMENT
COURSE
The Lititz High School has arrang-ed
an entertainment course, with
four high class attractions dur-ing
the winter. It consists of two
musical entertainments, a mystery
play and a lecture by Congressman
As well.
The course will open on Nov. 16,
with the All-Star Company of musi-cians.
From all indications it will be the
best course that was ever undertaken
here and should be liberally support-ed.
Tickets for the four events are
now being offered to the public.
TRAVELERSJIEAR AND FAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Misses Pauline and Mildred Milch-sack,
of Bethlehem, spent Sunday and'
Monday with their aunt Miss Mary
Reidenbach.
Mrs. Frances Flory, Mr. ar.d Mrs.
T. R. Kreider and da,ughter Louella,
of Lancaster, called on Lititz friends
on Sunday.
Harry Gorton, superintendent of the
Stiffel-Freeman Safe Co., returned
home this week, after being in Cin-cinnati,
Ohio, for the past r.:onth ire'
the interest of the Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gerhart, of
Pennsburg, Dauphin county, were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hensel
on Sunday. The two ladies are sis-ters.
Mr. Albert O. Sturgis of Nazareth
was in town from Friday to Sunday.
He says farmers down his way take
up as high as 450 bushels of potatoes
f r om an acre and the tubers nre sell-ing
at SI.00 per. bushel by the carload.
Miss Mary Sturgis, who teaches
school at Eden, gave a birthday party
cn Thursday of last week, at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
N. D. Sturgis. Sixteen friends were
present, including some from I' a i r i s -
burg.
Christian Hess, South Broad street,
paid a visit on Sunday, to his uncle
Samuel Metzler, who has his home
with Martin Miller at Lincoln. Mr.
Metzler is 95 years old ar.d served
ir. the army during the Civil War as
a veterinarian.
Mrs. W. R. Sammel and Mrs. Sara
K. Jenkins will attend the thirty-fifth
anniversary convention of the Lan-caster
County S. S. Association at
the Bethany Evangelical church, at
Lancaster, on Thursday, October the
28th.
Mrs. Catherine Schmucker of Phila-delphia,
ninety years old, visited rela-tives
in Lititz and vicinity last week,
among them the families of Samuel
Bucher, near Lititz, and Isaac Weid-man,
at Lexington. Mrs. Schmucker
is a native of this county.
Theodore Rosenberg spent several
days here with his parents, Sir. and
Mrs. Charles Rosenberg. Theodore
is employed by his uncle, Morris
Rosenberg, at Hartford, Conn.
Father and son visited relatives at
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County.
Mrs. Frank Spickler leift on Wednes-day
to visit Mrs. Wilbur Moyer in
Philadelphia. Mr. Spickler, Mr. and'.
Mrs. Arlie Rader and Mr. and Mrs..
Chester Leicey will visit at the Moyer
home during the week-end, and also
visit the Sesqui-Centennial exhibition.
MR. HIRAM REEDY OF
THIS PLACE INTRODUCED
FLOWER CEREMONY
Has Been the Evangelistic Singer at
Millersville Church for 4 Years
Mr. Hiram Reedy of Lititz, was the
evangelistic singer at Stehman's Mem-orial
U. B. church, near Millersville,
on Sunday, when all-day-services were
held. This i s . t h e fourth successive
year Mr. Reedy appeared there, and
was re-engaged for next year. Fea-tures
were an orchestra from Colum-bia
and a male quartet from Mt. Joy.
Mr. Reedy introduced the flower
service. Every person was asked to
bring a flower. They were placed
together and then Mr. Reedy explain-ed
the novel method of distributing
them. Anyone who had a good deed
done to him, was asked to pin a
flower on the person who was respon-sible.
All men in the audience who
had never pinned a flower on their
wife or vice versa, were asked to do it
then, -which also applied to sweet-hearts.
The audience took to it at
once and it was a very interesting
feature.
AMERICAN LEGION TO HAVE
CHARGE OF INDUSTRIAL EX-HIBITS
ON COMMUNITY
DAYS
Post 56 will again have'«charge of
the industrial exhibits and merchants
displays in Snavely's Garage during
the days of" the Community Show.
Anyone desiring to procure a
booth to exhibit, get in touch with
any of the officers of the Post.
ENTERTAINED ON SUNDAY
Mr. and Mrs. William Reidenbach
entertained, on Sunday, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Pottiger, of Sinking Springs;
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ruth, of Landis-ville;
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Boyd, of
Lancaster; Mr. and Mrs. Otis Pfautz
and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Reidenbach,
of Lititz.
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