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VOL. L THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1926 NO. 15
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
A fox was seen roaming around in
the open fields on South Broad St., a
few days ago.
Frank Gantz of Pine Hill .finished
husking his corn yesterday afternoon,
He reports -having a fine crop.
The American Railway express of-fice
will be closed all day Christmas
and all day on New Year's day.
A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs:'
Albert Pierson last Thursday morn-
MRS. JENKINS HOME FROM SAN-ITARIUM
Mrs. Sara Jenkins, Who had a ser-ious
fall at the Community Show,
October the 30th, and 'has been in the
Lancaster General hospital and later
in the Hatfield Sanitarium, Wagon-ville,
Chester County, has come to
spend Christmas at Lititz. At pre-sent
she is the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
P. F. Snyder. Her daughter, Miss
Dorothy Jenkins, who teaches in Dam-rosch's
Institute of Musical Art, at
New York City, will spend Christmas
with her mother.
Mrs. Jenkins wishes to thank all
her many friends for the kindness
shown her during her illness.
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ing at the Lancaster General hospital.-1 Î^flVlStîïlCÎS 1 T£C
Elmer Yerger bought the Lititz and
Lexington turnpike toll property at
public sale on Saturday for $1100.
The Rush cigar factory was closed
on Tuesday and will remain closed un-til
the first week in January.
According to Bear's almanac we had
the shortest day of the year on Tues-day
and the winter began on Wednes-day.
;
The Central cigar factory closed
yesterday and work will not be re-sumed
until possibly the 3rd of Janu-ary.
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Harding last Thursday at the
Ihome of the grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Haines.
Christmas vacation at the public
schools • will start on Thursday, De-cember
23. The schools will open
again on Monday, January 3.
Mrs. Elmer Bender will return home
today from the Lancaster General hos-pital
where she had been a patient for
two weeks.
Emanuel Ditzler discontinued his
shoe repair shop on North Broad
street, but expects to reopen shortly
at some more central location.
We thank our many patrons who
renewed their subscriptions during the
holiday season and for the new names
received, to whom the Record will be
sent as a Christmas gift.
The biggest Christmas mail in the
history of the local post office i s how
under way. A truck is used to de-liver
parcel post packages and Christ-mas
cards seem te come in showers.
Miss Mae Hassler expects to enter
the U. of P. hospital, Philadelphia,
early in January, as a student-nurse.
She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.
C. Hassler.
The barber shops of Lititz will be
closed all day Christmas, but will be
open Thursday afternoon and even-ing.
On New Year's day the shops
will be open until noon.
This week the Central Market will
be held on Thursday, December 23rd,
and next week it will be held Thurs-day,
December 30. This is done be-cause
of Christmas and New Year
coming on the regular market days.
The Manheim Selah Lodge degree
team will confer the third degree on
several candidates at the Lititz Lodge
on Monday, Dec. 27. A good atten-dance
is desired. Lunch will be serv-ed
at the close of the meeting.
The estate of Horce D. Grube,
Lancaster, was adjudicated in Or-phans'
Court. It shows a balance
to be distributed of $.10,142.43. Mr.
Grube was for many years the Associ-ated
Press operator in Lancaster and
was a son of Emanuel Grube of Lit-itz.
Mrs. Landis Herr, 230 E. Front St.,
has been awarded a prize of $5, for
-suggesting a question to- be printed
over her name, in the December 25th
isspe of Liberty. Of the thousands
.of such questions and answers receiv-ed
each week by Liberty, only twenty
.-are selected for their cleverness and
general information value.
A one-day tractor school will be
held here oil Monday, Jan. 5, thru the
local dealer of the International Com-pany,
W. B. Gochnauer. Starting
at 9 o'clock A. M., in Albert Shenk's
girage, Lincoln Avenue, a tractor will
be torn apart and re-assembled. At
7 o'clock in the Central Market house,
Main street, moving pictures of farm-ing
with tractor power will be shown.
GARDEN CLUB PRIZES
The Junior Garden Club met at the
home of J. C. Brubaker and prizes
were awarded. Money for the prizes
was received from' the following
sources: Ten dollars in prizes from
the Lititz Community Show, $5 from
each of the Lititz Banks and $2 from
Ambrose Furlow.
Following are the awards, based on
scores: Lloyd Sheaffer, 1st prize, $7;
Mary Brubaker, 2nd prize, $5; Roy
Bushong, 3d prize, $4; Jacob Bushong,
4th prize, $3; Herma and Verona
Rickert, 5th prize, $2; Arthur Moore,
6th prize, $1.
at Legion Room
Work of Art
By EDWARD JEROME VOGELER
A Christmas display that would
command attention anywhere, and
that is unique in its originality of
idea and painstaking attention to de-tail,
will be placed on exhibition
Christmas Eve at the Garden SpftJ;
Post 56, of the American Legion,
where it will remain throughout the
following fortnight.
The display depicts a miniature vil-lage
and is grouped about the Christ-inas
tree at the Post headquarters, at
114 South Broad street. The work
is that of Harry Geltz, of Lititz, and
represents, according to Geltz, the
product of his spare moments during
more tha,n. a score of years.
The diminutive structures are fash-ioned
of paper pulp, and Geltz has
shown real artistic appreciation in
his craftsmanship. Two of the build
ings, that make up the group of
thirty-two, are replicas of European
castles, while others are-structures o
Geltz's imagination. Several might
serve as models for an architect.
Geltz has employed a wide range of
architectural design for his work,
with the "result tliat "modern home;
are grouped with ancient castles, and
wind mills and decorative designs are
represented, with sky-scrapers. The
"toute ensemble" when electrically
illuminated presents a striking pic-ture.
- •
Some idea of the scrupulous atten-tion
to detail» in evidence throughout
the tiny village, might be obtained
from the realization that there are
548 windows in one of the paper struc-tures.
This represents a modern
office building, and, although the larg -
est of the group, stands less than two
feet high.
Geltz has painted a pleasing back-ground
for his miniature village, us-ing
mountains, forests and streams
for the scenic effect. All in all, the
exhibit is well worth the inspection of
every resident of this community, and
the Garden Spot Post is to be con-gratulated
upon this artistic contri-bution
to its holiday preparations.
STUDENTS HOME FOR HOLIDAYS
Amcmg the students home from col-lege
are- Harold Ebersole, Elizabeth-town
College; William Fasnacht, Penn
State; Paul Furlow, F & M.; Russell
Longenecker, Carnegie Tech.; Thelma
Gross and Helen Marble, Hood Col-lege;
Marian. Light, Lebanon Valley;
Esther Weber, Bernice De-ngler and
Lester Stark, Millersville State Norm-al
school; Alvin Stoner, Wagner Col-lege,
Staten Island; Miss Kathryn
Fasnacht, Harvey Bachman, State
College; Newton Hershey, Carnegie
Tech.
L. N. MOYER WON PRIZE IN
WINDOW DISPLAY
Making up a window display ac-cording
to his own idea, during Oc-tober,
showing Kotex, L. N. Moyer,
the local druggist, was asked by an
agent to take a photograph of it and
compete for a prize. At first Mr.
Moyer would not consider it, but the
traveling man persuaded him» that it
'might be profitable to do so.
To Mr. Moyer's surprise, he receiv-ed
a check for $25 last week, stating
that his display was awarded 29th
place, out of 364 contestants.
VISITED FORD PLANT
William Peacock and Ralph Gross
recently returned home from a busi-ness
trip in the west and went thru
the Ford plant at Detroit, Mich. They
saw Henry Ford and son in the plant
and also saw the head engineer, who
draws a salary said to be a million
dollars a year. Everything is efficiency
and cleanliness. In the machine room
there are hard wood floors, with the
finish of a ball room. They were
much impressed with what they saw.
NO RECORD PUBLISHED NEXT
WEEK
¡No Record will be printed next
week, following the custom of omit-ting
one issue a year in order to take
stock account and put things in ship-shape.
However all job work will
be given'prompt attention as usual.
We thank our patrons for the sup-port
given, readers and advertisers
both, and feel in a town this size, they
are old friends. Without trying
to manufacture sentiment, but with
real feeling for Record friends, some
of whom were readers before the pre-sent
editor was born, a Merry
Christmas is extended and the wish
for your health and happines^s as the
days of the new year are paged.
Cristmas Carols
at White House
Connect Lititz
TRAVELERSJiEAR AND FAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Religious
Programs
in Lititz,
Penna.
Moravian
The annual lovefeast and candle ser-vice
will be held on Christmas eve,
Friday, at 5:30 and .7:30 P. M. Spe-cial
music by choir and orchestra.
Admission by ticket.
On Christmas day there will be a
Christmas sermon and special music
by the choir and orchestra, at 10 A.
M. Offering for benevolences.
In the evening the Sunday School
will render the following program:
Orchestra; Song, "Our Message;"
responsive reading; prayer, Rev. Cros-land;
song, "Whispering Winds Softly
Sighing;" Christmas greeting, Kath-ryn
Rollman; "All the year 'round,"
Randolph Bricker; primary song and
exercise; "Dip Deep with a Smile,"
Fred Rader; offering, orchestra; song, -
" 'Tis Christmas Day;" "Reviving j
Christmas Spirit," Margaret Kofroth, i
Betty Martin, Ruth Seaber, Romaine !
Long; reading, "Echoes from B-ethle- J
hem," Mae Hassler; Primary song and j
exercise, solo by Mildred Young; ex-ercise,
"Christmas Stars," Mary Ben-der,
Mary Showers, Lillian Herr, Ruth
Dissinger, Helen Showers, Ruth Gir-vin;
Song "The Manger Babe;" exer-cise,
"Christmas Signals," Charles
Showers, John Hertz, Abram Miller,
Charles Regennas, Roy Badorf; dram-atization
of "Silent Night;" Song,
"All in the silent night;" benediction.
Miss Miriam Russell has charge of
the program and Miss Ella Buch of
the Primary exercises. Harry Kepple
leads the orchestra. The beginners
and cradle roll have their program on
Sun-day at 3 P. M.
St. Paul's Lutheran
St. Paul's Lutheran Sunday School
will render the following program on
Christmas day at 6 P. M. "The Star
of Hope" is the title.
Song, "Christmas, Glad Christmas;"
responsive reading; prayer, by Rev.
Sammel; song, "Joyously Sung;" re-citation,
"The Announcement," Eliza-beth
Maharg; song, "Song of the
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A farmer near town recently
went to a public sale and with-out
carefully examining them
purchased two pigs at the rate
of twelve dollars each. He
thought they'd be just the
thing to put in' the pen with the
steers to fatten them, but on
closer inspection he learned they
were too small to pen up with
the cattle, as he feared they
might lie down on the porkers
and kill them, so he hasn't con-cluded
what to do.
Speaking of Christmas and
Santa Claus' reindeers, Alaska
should interest people in the
practical side of those far north
animals. The people in general
know little of Uncle Sam's pos-session
and still less about the
reindeer of Alaska. Some peo-ple
seem to think that they are
wild animals, like the deer of
Pennsylvania, while one person
remarked that he understood
that the reindeer were almost
extinct in Alaska at one time.
Reindeer, less than fifty, were
brought to Alaska from Lapland
some thirty years ago. Sev-enteen
years before the first
reindeer was imported to Alaska
the, Moravian church started a
mission in that county, with a
Lititz woman, Miss Mary Huber,
as one. of the early missionaries.
Members of the Moravian
church here, through hearing
returning missionaries speak, at
times being accompanied by
Eskimos, several of whom work-ed
on farms around Lititz for a
short time, learned to know
more of that frozen country
than the average citizen resid-ing
at other places.
The mission in.Alaska looked
like a forlorn hope at first, . Re-cords
show one trip vjas made
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V y
Christmas-
Past and
Present
In Lititz, Pa.
By MISS L. A. WEITZEL
The Moravian church music was
considered so fine in the days gone
by that people came from far and
near to hear it. Among those were
people from Philadelphia and other
cities. In early days the program
was renderd entirely in German, later
partly in English and partly in Ger-man.
During the war some of the
finest choir pieces were translated
by Prof. A. R. Beck and his son, Prof
H. H. Beck, and the German language
was banished altogether.
During the Christmas eve service
coffee and streislers (not buns, as
writers usually render it, the latter
being an entirety different concoction)
were served, and near the close,
lighted wax tapers were distributed
among the children to typify the
Light of theWorld. When the last
mentioned choir selection, "Mach dich
auf," was rendered, then1 dieners
(servers) came through the door from
the old Chapel into the church, bear-ing
trays with lighted candles. The
effect, when all the other lights are
turned out and the door opens on a
blaze of glory, is indescribable. This
unique service was so popular and the
crowds became so great that the only
way out of the difficulty was to hold
two services exactly similar, one at
5:30 and one at 7:30 o'clock. This
is still the custom, and it looks as if
it might be necessary to hold three
services. At present not only the
children, but the adults get candles.
Longer ago, when the Moravian
Church was the only one in the village
and churches were few in the country,
the country people crowed into the
vestibule and up the stairs to ,th?
galleries and it was difficult to main-tain
order. Some of the young fel-lows
brought their carriage whips
with them into the building and some
kept their hats or caps on. Only
those who had tickets were admitted
to the main floor, which is still the
custom. The galleries are open to
everybody but those on the galleries
receive no candles, cake or coffee.
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The choir of the First Congrega-tional
church, of Washington, D. C.,
will give a program of Christmas car-ols
on the north porch of the White
House at 9 o'clock Christmas eve.
They will sing as in past years, at
the invitation of President and Mrs.
Coolidge. The choir consists of six-ty
voices and will be assisted by the
Marine band. The White House
grounds will be open to the public.
It has been found that the portico of
the north entrance is a good sounding
board and that the singing can be
heard for a considerable distance.
Several thousand people have gathered
annually in the past four years.
Mr. Paul DeLong Gable, a grand-son
of the late Postmaster J. B. Gable,
is a member of the choir. After the
singing the choir will be entertained
by President and Mrs. Coolidge.
The Washington Star says: "In! ad-dition
to this regular Christmas fea-ture
a unique experience is in store
for the people of Washington Christ-mas
eve. They will constitute one
group among more than 20,000,000
persons throughout the-land who will'
unite in the most remarkable Christ-mas
eve musical observance in history.
The Nation'-wide carol concert is
made possible by the linking together
of radio broadcasting stations. Dir-ecting
the service will be a famous,
clergyman and a famous choir master,
Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, of Brook-lyn
and Dr. Harry Rowe Shelly, of
New York City. The quartet and the
choir of fifty voices of the First Con-gregational
church of Brooklyn will
accompany the widely scattered chor-us
of carolers.
The concert will begin at 10:30 P.
M. and will continue for 90 minutes.
Dr. Cadman will have a beautiful
Christmas message.
LOST FINGER WHILE ASSISTING
NEIGHBOR
Evans S. Wolf, a well-known citizen
of Clay township lost a finger last
week, when he assisted Squire Harry
Wealand, teacher of the Hopeland Se-condary
schools, in getting his auto-mobile
out the ditch by the side of
the road. The machine had skidded
and with the wheels on one side of
the machine in the ditch, Mr. Wolf in
aiding him, had his fingers caught in.
the machinery and promptly severed.
MORAVIAN CHRISTMAS
CANTATA POSTPONED
Owing to the illness of the Choir
directress Miss Bessie Gingrich there
will be no Christmas cantata in the
Moravian church, but practice is un-der
way to render it later on. On
Sunday evening the choir will render
the following program:
"Star of the Orient," Shelly; "Arise
Shine," Adams; "Shout the Glad Tid-ings,"
Avery; "There were Shep-herds,"
Vincient; "Jesu Banbino," Pe-tro
Yon, solo by Clarence Maharg.
Miss Mary Reidenbach will spend
Christmas at Bethlehem with her sis-ter.
" /
Miss Mabelle Stultz of York, spent
Friday to Sunday here with her grand- •
parents, Mr. and Mrs.F. B. Buch.,
William Weaver of Reading, spent
Sunday with his parents,<?®fcr. and Mrs.
Henry Weaver.
Miss Dorothy Eby is home from Na-tional
Park Seminary, Washington,
D. C., to spend the Christmas vaca-tion.
Mr. and Mrs. William. Riegel have
gone to Framingham Centre, Mass., to
spend a week with their son and fai%-
ily.
Mrs. Mary S. G. Buch, of Chambers-burg,
is expected at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Buch, to partake of
the Christmas family dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hornberger of
Philadelphia, will spend Christmas in
Lititz with his uncles, Walter H., and
J. Frank Buch.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayden Seaber, of
East Smithfield, Bedford county, were
in town for a few days last week. Mr.
Seaber was a delegate |o the State
Grangers Convention held'" at Lancas-ter
last week.
, Paul Kreider of Oneida, N. Y., and
Charles Kreider, of Chicago, will be
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
David H. Kreiter during Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. George Smith of Phil-adelphia,
is expected here for Christ-mas
day, to visit his mother, Mrs.
Catherine Smith, and brothers and
sisters.
Miss Martha Christener, secretary
to the Consulate General of Belgium,
in New York, is sepnding the holi-days
with her brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Christen-er.
Messrs. John and Benjamin Fass,
who follow the "art preservative," or
the printing trade in New York City,
expect to spend Christmas at the
home of" their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
David Fass.
Mrs.Amos Hershey and son Elmer
and daughter Helen, went to Harrison-burg,
Va., early Wednesday morning
by auto to bring home the former's
daughter Anna, who attends school
there. The distance is 230 miles and
they expect to return this evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Frances Hagen and
children, of Cornwall, N. Y., will be
the guests of Mrs. Hagen's mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hepp, over Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hepp, of New
York City and Mr. and Mrs. David
Kilgore, of Woodbine, York County,
are also expected to be home.
GEORGE YOUNG WORKING FOR
FRED S. GROFF
George N. Young, of Lititz, who, re-cently
graduated from Eckel's Em-balming
school, Philadelphia, secured
a position with Fred S. Groff, at 234
West Orange street, Lancaster. Mr..
Groff is one of the leading funeral dir-ectors
of Lancaster and has a modern-establishment.
The young man is
fortunate in connecting himself as he-has,
considering that he is just out,
of school. However, the four years
spent with Mr. Spacht while attending;
school here, gave him a good insight
into the business.
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM IN HIGH
SCHOOL
The following program will be giv-en
in the high school on Thursday
afternoon at 1:45 o'clock: reading of
minutes, secretary; Christmas Carols;
Boy's Glee Club; Christmas reading,
Romaine Long; piano solo, Dorothy
Miksch; referred question, Origin of
St. Nicholas, Marie Evans; fife solo,
Helen Eby; Christmas poem, Cleo
Hosier; octette, members of the glee
club; Christmas Story, Marion May;
referred question, Robert Gibble; So-phomore
sketch, Sophmore class; ed-itor's
paper, Clarence Kissinger;
Christmas carols, Boy's Glee Club;
critic's remarks, Katherine Fleishman;
recitation, Anna Moore. The pubilc
is cordially invited to be present.
TOBACCO AT TWO AND A HALF
CENTS A POUND
Some local tobacco crops are being
bought at two and one-half cents a
pound. Some of the tobacco became
rusty in the fields and other crops
that looked promising when cut Be-came
pole burn.
Because of the general failure of the
past season, old packings are being
bought from local packers and farm-er
packers at from 15 to 20 cents a
pound, most of it at a loss to the
packers, some of it being .1923 and
1924 leaf.
Among the tobacco packings bought
recently were from Baker and Pfautz,
Meiskey estate, Wm. Amer, Benjamin
Fralich, Nathaniel Leaman, Henry
Bomberger and W. H. Muth.
One farmer reported getting 200
pounds of wrappers from 1100 laths,
and which should have produced 1300
pounds. There are many other grow-ers
who can show no better results.
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