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VOL. L THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1926 NO. 9
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
Rev. J. Taylor Hamilton, of Beth-lehem,
occupied the Moravian church
pulpit last Sunday morning.
Mrs. C. N. Derr was taken to the St.
Joseph's Hospital last Thursday. On
Saturday she -was successfully operat-ed
upon.
A musical will be held in St. Paul's
Lutheran Sunday School rooms on
Thursday, November 18, by the Dor-cas
Class.
The 104th anniversary of the Wom-en's
Missionary Society, of the Morav-ian
church will be celebrated on Sun-day
with special services.
William Steininger is in charge of
the Old Glory Coffee Store since
Monday. He worked there under
a former management.
The Kings Daughters of Lititz and
vicinity will hold a sale of needle-work
on Saturday, December 4, ip
the Fire Company hall.
Horace Keller shot two skunks on
Spruce street last Sunday morning.
There were six killed along that
street the past several weeks.
Next week is quarter sessions court
week at Lancaster. Answer to your
names jurymen, constables and wit-nesses,
or else be subjected to a fine.
Mrs. Sara Jenkins, who is still at
the hospital, since her accident, is
doing remarkably well, although not
yet out of danger. Her mind is
clear.
Jacob Bachman shot a goshawk,
the worst killer of the hawk family,
near Lititz. It had just torn up a
Rhode Island Red chicken when he
shot it.
Charles Birkenbine captured a ring-necked
pheasant in a cluster of weeds
near Fairland last week. The bird
had hidden its head under its wing
when caught.
Ammon Weidman, residing on
Spruce street, was thrown off a wag-on
load of wood last Saturday and re-ceived
bruises on his face, arms, legs
and one foot. He was fortunate
that no bones were broken.
Twenty-two members of the Tri
Mu club, an organization of boys, ac-companied
by their leader, Rev. E. S.
Crosland, went to the Sesqui exhibi-tion,
Philadelphia, yesterday. They
were transported in the fine autobus
"Miss Ephrata."
Ed Eshleman, of Akron, who start-ed
work with the Independent Tele-phone
Company when the line was
being built and has been the repair-man
for the company ever since—
twenty-eight years, changed employ-ment
on Monday and is now connect-ed
with the Mentzer Electric Com-pany,
of Ephrata.
It was wonderful what a large
quantity and variety of f r u i t and veg-etables
camte under the hammer at
the Warwick House sale last Satur-day,
such as apples, pears, bananas,
turnips, sweet and Irish potatoes',
corn on the ear ,pumpkins, celery, etc.
The apples especially were plentiful
and in large and many varieties.
ROTHSVILLE FIRE CO.
BOUGHT HAHN TRUCK
Demonstration to be Given on Nov.
20 and Campaign to Raise Funds
Will Be Started
Falling in line with the latest im-provements
in fire fighting apparatus,
Rothsville Fire Company will have a
public demonstration of their new fire
truck on Saturday, November 20, at
that place and several nearby vil-lages.
A new Hahn fire truck, a 300-gallon
triple combination apparatus', is ex-pected
to arrive at Rothsville on Nov-ember
19th. The truck was pur-chased
at a net cost of $4765.
A two-weeks' campaign will be
started upon the arrival of the truck,
to raise funds amounting to $4250.
The slogan of the Rothsville firemen
is "It is better to have a first-class
equipment and never need it, than, to
have one or more serious fires and no
equipment to fight it."
The purchase of the truck came
about when many of the property
owners at that place. offered to give
individual subscriptions. The officers
then decided to conduct a campaign
to secure popular contributions of all
citizens from Rothsville and vicinity.
The dam built at Rothsville, for
supplying water in case of fire, is in
good condition, being repaired after
the breast broke this summer during
a severe flood.
The officers of the Volunteer Fire
Company No. 1, are Earl Stauffer,
president; Amos Shrom, vice-presi-dent;
Chester N. Adams, secretary;
N. I. Long, treasurer. The trustees
are Dr. H. V. Walters, H. S. Kissinger
and E. S. Mumma, who is chairman.
HUSKED COMRADES CORN
On Saturday, Nov. 6th, a number
of Legion men went to the farm of
Comrade Ed Morrison, at Lexington,
and husked his corn crop for him.
Comrade Morrison intends leaving
this week for a government hospital
for treatment. He was badly gassed
during service overseas.
WILD CAT ..NEAR. THE LEBANON
PUMPING STATION
A wild cat, according to reports,
has been seen around the Lebanon
pumping station and near Hopeland.
Strange cries have been heard in the
woods by hunters and fleeting
glimpses of an animal resembling a
wild cat have been seen.
Isaac Brubaker, a trapper and hunt-er
of Manheim, was around the pump-ing
station one night recently. His
dog took a trail and soon the hunt-er
heard a commotion, his dog being
engaged in a fight. Then the hound
came back to the owner, bleeding from
many wounds. Brubaker went there
several nights later, but the dog was
still scared and stayed at his heels
According to Linnaeus Firestone,
the last wildcats seen in that section
v a s thirty-years ago, when three were
known to be there.
ATTENDED RADIO SCHOOL
Webster Keath, of Lititz, and Carl
Webber of Manheim, attended a ses-sion
in a radio school conducted at
Reading by the Radio Corporation of
Almierica. Mr. Keath is connected
with the Freed-Eisemann radio s£ore
here and believes this course will en-able
him to give patrons fine ser-vice.
The instructor at the school,
Mr. Keath related, installed a Radiola
in Queen Marie's car.
Must
Come Down
Travel in the West
Today and Twenty Years Ago
By HARRY LENHART
Laundale, Calif., Boxl004
Oct. 20, 1926
Mr. Buch,
Dear sir:
Allow me to make a few compari-sons
of travel thru the west twenty
years ago and now, as to cost and
road conditions. Last June with my
family I left California, by auto, ov-er
the Santa Fe trail, headed for Penn
sylvania. I went over the Navoje
desert, which up to two years ago,
was almost impassible, dragging
along over sand for nearly two hun-dred
miles. Even now travel is noth-ing
to boast about, as the roadbed
is rock, which in a few years will
no doubt be the foundation for a cem-ent
road.
Traveling in a light Chevrolet ove?
this desert road took time. Most
people cross at night and rest in the
daytime, on account of the heat. It
took over a day to cross and we did
not seem to suffer from the heat.
At Amboy, Calif., we stopped to
cook and rest for three hours, and
found the heat registered 112 in the
shade, yet could feel no perspiration.
Water standing in the sun became
so hot that you could not put your
hands in it. Amboy, no doubt, is the
hottest place in the United States.
Fresh eggs will eventually cook, but
they have no flavor.
The desert has its comforts for
the traveling public. At the camp
where we stopped over night, there
were sheds to drive under, a commun-ity
kitchen, shower bath, laundry
trays. Wife washed clothes and they
were dry before time of retiring.
I had the seat in the auto cut down
to convert into a bed, but here we
stretched out on the sand for a good
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Business 'People Not 'Pleased
With Cew Law
The much discussed ordinance re-lating
to signs over the pavement has
now been distributed in town in cir-cular
form.
Some of the merchants have already
taken down their signs. There is a
penalty of $100 prescribed for not
obeying this borough law.
The ordinance came as a surprise
as it was not known among the busi-ness
people that the proposed law
has been submitted for readings. It
must pass three readings at three re-gular
meetings and if favorably pass-ed
upon, becomes a law.
Ome store owner stated that he had
ordered an expensive electric sign
which he must pay for and will have
to discard. Had he known that
such a law was on the table an^
appeared for readings, he would not
have ordered the sign.
There are forty overhead signs
which will have to be removed, ac-cording
to the ordinance.
One business' man is contemplating
making a test case, claiming that
any sign erected prior to the passing
of the ordinance is not effected, prov-ing
similar to a porch. A law re-gulating
the distance it may extend
on the pavement does not effect
porches already in position, except if
rebuilt, and can only govern, porches
built after the passage of such a reg-ulation.
Another mooted question of the law
is regarding signs appearing over a
porch roof.
Lancaster city has a similar ordin-ance
and the streets are clear of signs,
improving the appearance in general,
in the opinion of many people.
DEER ROAMING AROUND BRICK-ERVILLE
A spike buck deer roamed around
Brickerville and the Speedwell farms
all of last week, and the same deer or
another one was seen at Elstonville.
The animal does not appear to be
very wild.
X C. Brenneman
Promoted to the
Lancaster Station
J. C. Brenneman, former Lititz sta-tion
agent, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy at the Lancaster termin-al
of the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad, caused by the death of D. G.
Eschbach, veteran station agent. The
appointment was made by supervisor
Agnew T. Dice, Jr., of the Wilmington
and Columbia division.
Mr. Brenneman started work for
the railroad company in 1890, serving
as chief clerk at Lancaster until Jan-uary
25, 1909, when he was transfer-red
as station agent to Lititz and has
been here these seventeen years.
The Lititz Station will be in charge
of O. K. Bushong, formerly stationed
at Landisville. The changes become
effective on Thursday. Mr. Bushong
started at the Rothsville station. He
is a son of Samuel Bushong of this
place.
OVER 12,00 ARTICLES SOLD AT
WARWICK HOUSE
There was an unusual big day at
the Warwick House Sale on Saturday,
when 1242. sales were made. As for
variety, Sears Roebuck & Co. cannot
show m:uch more. There .were night
gowns and men's shirts, blankets for
the wintry blasts, cigars in beautiful
labeled boxes, at pre-war prices, fur-niture
of every description, phono-graphs,
sewing machines and native
nuts and peanuts.
A hundred and forty bushels of po-tatoes
sold from 55 cents to $1.70 a
bushel; 3 truckloads of apples, at 60
and 70 cents a basket; 2 truckloads,
of bananas, from 50 cents to $1 a
bunch; pullets, 72 cents each; rabbits,
o-5 and 40 cents each; sweet potatoes,
$1.50 a bushel; carpet at 58 cents a
yard, kitchen cabinet at $9.75; bicycle,
$10; dress goods at $1.00 to $1.65 a
piece; men's shirts, $1.35; blankets,
|2.95; men's overcoats, $4.50 to $7.50;
night gowns 10 cents each; cigars at
$2.20 a hundred.
ARMISTICE DAY TODAY
Flying flags will recall Armistice
Day, celebrated today. The banks
and stores are closed all day, to ob-serve
the national holiday.
Talking about the Centennial
exposition in Philadelphia, in
1876 brings to the mind of the
writer his first sight of an auto-mobile,
which was on exhibit
there, of course in its infancy,
and could be seen only to and
f ro as f a r as across an ordinary
street. It of course startled
every eye witness to see a mov-ing
vehicle without horse
mule, or steam power. No
wonder the Chinaman broke out
in the words when seeing the
f a s t automobile, "No horsey, no
rnuley, but goes like helly."
Three Lititz men related a
strange rabbit story, seeing it
with their own eyes. A "rab-bit
was crossing a bridge just
as the men appeared at one end.
At the same time several per-sons
started to cross at the oth-er
end. The little animal was
trapped. It ran back and forth.
Then some one imitated the
bark of a dog. The rabbit came
to a halt and their leaped the
low wall guarding the bridge.
Twenty-five feet below was deep
water and after a splash the
rabbit canne to the surface
again and swam for the shore.
The last thing seen of the rab-bit,
it was running away in
great leaps.
Many people hereabouts are
taking advantage of seeing the
Sesqui-Centennial exposition in
Philadelphia, now that it will
close in a few weeks. This
brings to mind the Centennial
exposition in the same city, in
1876, when three young men
residing a few miles from Lit-itz
went to Philadelphia by
trains to see the big exposition.
One of the party became estrang
ed from the other two ^nd they
were obliged to come home with-out
him. He was too timid to
ask for help, he did not know
how to find the railroad depot,
so he undertook to walk home,
which required three days to
get back. It was some experi-ence
fifty years ago.
Because the Record that con-tained
Prof. Frueauff's address
at the Bamberger reunion refer-red
to Capt. von Schweinitz's,
visiting and riding Jacob's
young, frisky horses, seventy
years ago, a copy of the Re-cord
was sent to his nephew, in
Dresdon, the beautiful capitol
of Saxony, General Hermann
von Schweinitz, not retired, but
waiting ofders. During the
World War he was stationed at
Leipsic. The General writes:
Respected Cousin: I thank you
many times for sending me a
copy of the Lititz Record, con-taining
a reference to our de-ceased
uncle, Bernard von
Schweinitz, who died in Dresdon
in 1898. From his frequent
accounts to me, of his American
experiences, the names Frueauff,
Bamberger, Lititz, Linden Hall,
are well remembered by me. My
ancle always spoke with pleasure
and thanks of the years in the
Moravian town of Lititz, in
which he and Aunt Marie had
found a second home among
relatives and many kind friends.
What a beautiful and fruitful
country Lancaster county must
certainly be. There still may
be some friends remaining in
Lititz, who will remember our
uncle.
With most hearty greetings,
Your cousin,
Herman von Schweinitz
S
MR. GRAYBILL WOUNDED DEER
D. M. Graybill who accompanied a
party of Lancaster sportsmen to the
Adirondacks, New York State, return-ed
home this week. One deer was
shot. Mr. Graybill hit a deer, and
they followed the animal by the blood
marks but could not locate it. An-other
member of the party had a
good chance to bring down a buck, but
the cartridge failed to explode.
Vo to Sell
Toll Road
Free T^oad ¡Big ¡Boost for Lititz
Almost unanimously the stockhold-e
r s of the Lancaster-Lititz Turnpike
Company, at a meeting held at Lan-caster,
on Tuesday, approved the sale
of their interests to the State and
County for $70 000. Of this purchase
price, the Conestoga Traction Com-pany
will receive $20,000 for the re-lease
of their 999 year lease to levy
tolls.
It has been promised that the legal
transfer of the property will be made
in a short time.
With the purchase of the Lititz and
Lexington turnpike previously, it will
mean a free road and easy communi-cation
from Lancaster to Brickerville,
connecting with the Sproul road there.
The Lititz and Lexington pike is
in deplorable condition and will need
immediate attention.
Just when the toll will be taken off
the Lancaster and Lititz turnpike,
depends on the State Department of
Highways.
HELD RUMMAGE SALE
The W. C. T. U. desires to thank
all those who contributed to the suc-cess
of the rummage and pantry
sale last week, by their patronage,
contributions and assistance. What
was left over was divided between the
Rescue Mission at Lancaster and the
Leper Home in South America.
RADIO SET STOLEN
State Police were in town this week
investigating the theft of a radio set
from the office of Hershey-Leaman
Company, last week. The set was
placed there on trial by the Hummer
Electric Company of Lincoln. A dol-lar
and a few trival things were also
taken.
Nine hundred cigars were stolen at
the factory of Ray Meiskey last week.
Two hunderd cigars taken from, the
f i r s t floor, were found hidden in the
basement. All of the doors and win-dows
were found locked as they were
when the owner left the building.
Mr. and Mrs. Evans
Celebrate Qolden
Wedding Day
A marriage f i f t y years ago, a wed-ding
trip to the Centennial; another
f i f t y years, the exposition again and
Mr. and Mrs. D. Wal Evans, of North
Eroad St., are impressed with the fact
by their sons and daughters, that it
is their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
The event was enjoyably celebrated
on Tuesday, Rev. Charles Nagel, a
retired Moravian minister, of Lancas-ter,
who married them, and now is in
his 82nd year was present; Mr. Wil-liam
Essig, of Lancaster, the teamster
who drove the span of horses convey-ing
the newly-married couple; Susan
Hambright, the brides maid fifty
years ago and Mr. Horace Eschbach,
an attendant at the wedding, were
among those present.
Seventy guests called to pay their
respects during the day, out-of-town
visitors registering from Lancaster,
Philadelphia, Wilmington, Browns-town,
Leola, Manheim, and East Pet-ersburg.
Rev. E. S. Crosland, of the
Moravian church, was among the cal-lers.
A special dinner was served to the
four sons and daughters—Paul, Phila-delphia;
George, Anna, wife of
Charles Zartman; Esther, wife of
Charles Hammer, all of Lititz, with
their families, sixteen in all.
The home was beautifully decorated
in white and gold and yellow" and
white chrysanthemums. The cotiple
received many beautiful gifts, includ-ing
gold, besides cards and telegrams.
Mr. Henry Sturgis, who was at Lin-coln
and could not be present, sent
them a beautifully worded letter.
Mr. Evans is 72 years old and his
•wife is 70 years old. Mrs. Evans,
who was Laura Hamibright, is a na-tive
of Neffsville. They went to the
Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia
on a wedding trip, the day ¡before it
closed.
STOPPED AT MENNONITE
CHURCH IN MARYLAND
Family Names There Are Same As
In This Part of County
COUNTY TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
This is Teachers' Institute Week in
Lancaster county, all the teachers in
the public schools of the county out-side
of Lancaster city, numbering ov-er
800, being assembled in St. Paul's
Reformed church, on the corner of
Duke and Orange streets, Lancaster.
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Eberly, former-ly
of Mason and Dixon, Pa.; P. N.
Myers, formerly of Hagerstown, both
men now being employed in Lititz,
and Lloyd Royer took an auto trip
on Sunday thru York, Gettysburg,
Greencastle, then to Maryland, by
way of Bmimitsburg and Hagerstown.
They stopped at Reiff's Mennonite
church, in Washington County, Md.,
learning that an attendance there of
700 church members was not unusual.
They were surprised to learn of such
family names there as Eshlemani, Eb-erly,
Martin, Horst, Risser, Baer, My-ers
and Young. The farms in that
section are well cared for and produce
good crops.
The Lititz visitors followed the
Conococheague creek at the Forge
Road, said to be an old Indian trail,
and found a number of arrowheads.
Mr. Royer, one of the party, has
arrow heads from various states in
the union, recently securing some from
the mounds in Ohio, made by a race
of people before the Indians.
There is much scenic beauty along
the route they took and the roads
were good'the entire distance. They
covered about 250 miles.
LOCAL LEGION ELECTED NEW
OFFICERS
At the regular monthly meeting of
Post 56, the following officers were
elected for the coming year:
Post commander, Norman L. Ha-becker;
1st vice commander, James
Carper; 2nd vice commander, Frank
Grumbrecht; Adjustant, Frank Hunt-er;
Finance Officer, Alfred Douple;
Historian, Dr. C. E. Lane; sergeant
at armte, Roy Keller.
ODD FELLOWS READY FOR TRIP
TO MIDDLETOWN
Lititz Lodge, No. 1050, I. O. O. F.,
has been honored by being given
charge of the religious exercises at
the Odd Fellow Home, at Middle-town,
on Sunday, November 14. Rev.
F. W. Yost was secured by the lodge
to deliver a sermon. A male chorus
of forty persons from this place will
give a number of selections.
All Odd Fellows in Lititz and vicin-ity,
whether a member of this lodge
or not, and the. families and friends
of the members, are invited to go
along.
The procession of automobiles will
leave the Malta Hall at 12:30 P. M.
on above date. Persons who do not
have full machines please notify the
secretary. Secretary will also pro-vide
Odd Fellow stickers for machines.
TRAVELERSJEAR AND FAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
IN CHARGE OF DEDICATORY
EXERCISES
On Saturday, November 13, Post 56
will help the Dramatic Society of
Neffsville, to dedicate the memorial
shaft erected to the imiemory of all
ex-service men of Neffsville and vi-cinity.
There will be a parade, start-ing
at 2 o'clock, at the Rotary, march-ing
from there to the road at the
Neffsville hotel, where the memorial
is located. The parade will consist
of school children, Neffsville Fire Co.
and Garden Spot Post 56, American
Legion, of Lititz, headed by the Roh-rerstown
band.
The regulation Legion service for
dedicating memorials will be observed
and Chaplain H. W. Swartz, of the
local Legion Post will deliver the de-dicatory
address.
Mrs. Ellen Leib and daughter Mabel
spent several days in Philadelphia
and Atlantic City.
Mrs. Eliza Kling went to Lebanon
to spend some time with her daughter
Mrs. Augustus Steiner.
Mrs. Clarence Stang of Philadelphia
spent the week-end in Lititz, her hus-band
being employed here.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Calvert spent
the week-end in the home of D. E.
Weicksel and family at Kirkwood.
Postmaster Paul E. Seaber and wife
went to Philadelphia to spend a few
days on the Sesqui Grounds' and also
visit his brother Samuel.
Miss Elsie Bahner, employed in the
accountant room at the Ritz-Carlton,
Atlantic City, spent several days this
week with Miss Susan ,Huber.
Marie Evans and Minnie Davidson
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Paul Evans
to Philadelphia on Wednesday to spend
the remainder of the week with them.
Mr. Hiram Demmy, of near Lancas-ter
was in town on Friday last, call-ing
on a few friends and seemed to
be glad to be back in his former home
town once again.
Mrs. David Shank, daughter Rhona
and son Rian, of Washington, D. C.,
former resident of this place, made
the trip here on Sunday by automo-bile
to see old friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Miller, of S.
Broad street, and Mrs. Claude E.
Marble and daughter Ruth, of Spruce
street, left on Wednesday for a
week's trip to Oneida, N. Y,
Mrs. J. V. Honeycutt and children
of Staten Island, New York, spent
the week-end in Lititz. Mrs. Honey-cutt
will be better remembered by
many as Dorothy Fry.
Dr. Richard Bender, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Edward Buch were in Philadelphia
on Monday and Tuesday, when they
spent most of their time on the Sesqui
Grounds, seeing the sights.
Seven young ladies of Lititz and vi-cinity
spent the week-end seeing the
sights at the exposition grounds, at
Philadelphia, as follows: Frances Lud-wig,
Florence Bouder, Esther Shue,
Mabel Fry, Julia Berkenbine and Eli-zabeth
Long.
Mr. and Mrs. William Zell and dau-ghter
Mary, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman
Steffy and daughter Helen, Clarence
Steffy, Clarence Keller, Miss Ruth
Boyer and Miss Ruth Engle, spent
Saturday at the Sesqui Grounds, at
Philadelphia.
Rev. L. M. C. Weicksel, of Renova,
Pa., visited his brother, Rev. F. A.
Weicksel, the f i r s t part of last week,
and Rev. Wm. Weicksel, of Mounds-ville,
W. Va., another brother, visit-ed
from Sunday to Tuesday of this
week. The former preached in the
Lutheran church at Penryn on Tues-day
evening of last week, and the
latter preached in the Lutheran
church at Brickerville on Sunday even-ing.
High School Alumni Presents Star
Course Number on Tuesday Night
The f i r s t number of the Lititz High
School Alumni Star Course entertain-ments
will be held on Tuesday even-ing,
November 16, in the High School
auditorium when the Allpress All Star
Company will render a concert. The
company consists of a violinist, pian-ist
and celloist, and have on their pro-gram
new compositions on the old
melodies, novelty music, humorous,
readings, musical monologues, rhap-sodies
and reveries.
Tickets can be reserved at Moyer's:
Drug Store, on and. after Friday.