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In order to allow the regular publisher's mailage rates, we are [required to have sub- Iscriptions paid prompt-l y . A blue pencil ' mark in this circle means your subscrip-tion is due, and we will thank you for a prompt remittance. THE 1 There is no Substitue for Circulation 1900 PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS Equal to 9500 readers Advertisers must have steady circulation to get results VOL. L THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1927 NO. 18 EVENTS GOTO TOLD INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN TOWN AND VICINITY Mrs. Daniel Wechter, at Pine Hill, is quite ill. She is 85 years of age. There was no Warwick House sale last Saturday on> account of the cold and snow blizzard. The snow of Saturday brought out one sleigh. A horse and sleigh is becoming a novelty in town. Milton Hacker, of this place has applied for a divorce f r om his wife, Adeline Hacker, of Atlanta, Ga. Elmer Bender will take over a meat store at 501 West New street, Lan-caster, s t a r t i n g in about three weeks. The Elizabeth M. Lowery home at Lexington was sold at public sale last Saturday, to Joseph Borry for $2700. Henry Weaver, North Broad street, lost a pair of spectacles in a ease while shoveling snow. He would g r e a t l y appreciate their return. Peter Yeiser, who had been residing for some months at Philadelphia, where his daughter resides, has re-turned to Lititz to make his home. Hon. G. G. Diehm was a member of t h e committee in charge of the inau-guration of John S. Fisher as Gov-ernor of Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Mrs. D. M. Risser is at the Lan-caster General Hospital since last week, as the result of spraining her ankle and internal injuries while skating. The Ed. W. Ranck home, comer of North Cedar street and North Alley, was offered a t public sale on Saturday and was bid up to $4,000, but was withdrawn. Allen Putt is in charge of the Old Glory Store here since Monday. Wil-liam Steininger, who had been in charge, will travel for the Beechnut Packing Company. Representative Graybill G. Diehm was made chairman of the Committee on Fisheries, it was announced at t h e present session of the Assembly at Harrisburg. Mr. Diehm is an enthusiastic bass fisherman. Clarence Dillman, of this place, has purchased a store property and busi-ness place, at Grantville, Dauphin county. He will t r y to sell his home on Spruce street and move to his newly purchased home about April 1st. Cement bases, for signal lights, are being put in position at the Broad street railroad crossing. There will be two light systems, one on the north and one on the south side of the railroad tracks. When completed au-toists should have no excuse not to heed the danger sign. A twenty-two bullet broke a win-dow pane and entered a room at the home of Michael Keath, on Front street. Boys were shooting a rifle in another part of town and evidently did not think how f a r a bullet carries. There is an ordinance prohibiting the shooting of firearms in the borough. Automobile Club Meeting The J a n u a r y meeting of the Lan-caster Automobile Club will be held this Friday evening, J a n u a r y 21st, at the Stevens House, Lancaster. There are a number of matters of impor-tance to the members of the club t h a t will be brought before the meet-ing for consideration. President Gable will report on several progres-sive moves taken by the Board of Directors. All members of the organ-ization are urged to attend this meet-ing. The notices given thru the newspapers will be considered the of-ficial notice for the J a n u a r y meeting. This is made necessary because of the f a c t that the issue of the Motorist will be delayed on account of it being the official number of the Auto Trade -Association show number. Wonder—Lehn George B. Wonder and Lillian T. Lehn, both of Lititz, were married, on Tuesday evening at the United Evangelical parsonage, by the Rev. S. A. Heisey, at 8 o'clock. They were unattended. Birthday Anniversaries J a n u a r y 17—Milton Bushong, N. B. Leaman. J a n u a r y 21—Clement Badorf, Mrs. • Jlorace Sturgis, Joseph Dreifus, Friends Left Him Sleep a ' A business man fell fast asleep one night last week, on1 a chair at a certain recreation house here. His friends turned out the lights when they were ready to leave, while the man slept on. He awoke at three o'clock in the morning much confused in mind as to where he was and when the muddle cleared he lost no time making tracks for home. His associates greatly enjoyed the joke. Up to the Minute News of Hi School Honor Stude'nts at Lititz High The honor students for the school quarter who received As and Bs in all their subjects are: Seniors—Vera Hoffman, Ada Rudy, Martha Sturgis, Margie Whitcraft and Warren Diehm; Juniors—Helen Eby, Ruth Marble, Hazel Mathers, Mary Minnich, Kath-ryn Seaber, Jeanetta Weaver, George Rose; Sophomores—Dorothy Miksch, Herbert Longenecker; Freshman— J a n e t Huber, Donald Furlow, Mary Minnich, H a r r y Neidermyer. School Band Progressing Several of the townspeople have taken special interest and are help-ing with the progress of the school band. Everett Mathers has taken charge of the trombone section and meets with the boys once a week. Henry Hackman of Spruce street meets with the baritone section and B. F. Lutz is meeting several of the boys at his home and helping them on the different instruments. The band is progressing very nicely. Symphony Orchestra To Give Concert Here Tuesday The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra will appear here; on Tuesday even-ing and render their concert in the High School auditorium. The High School in general is anxious to have a full house as the whole profit will be added.to t h e muafc: fund. Out of this fund will be taken the expenses for the band and orchestra music and special instructors for the band. Displaying Class Colors The Seniors and Sophomores have togged themselves in their new sweaters. The Senior class colors are blue and g r a y and the Sophomore colors are green and gold. Manheim To Play Here Friday Nite Lititz High will play the Manheim High School basket ball tossers on Friday1 evening on the home floor. The preliminary game will be played between the Lititz High girls and t hi Manheim High girls. Legion Going After More Members Lititz Post No. 56, American Le-gion, will make a drive for more members on Monday and Tuesday of next week. There will be six teams and the ground will be covered quick-ly and efficiently. A booster meeting was held at Neffsville last evening. Propoganda Condemned Organized propoganda against the tuberculin testing of cattle is bitter-ly condemned in a resolution adopted by members of the Pomona Grange of this county. "Agitation against the tests is de-plorable because for years we have told cities that milk products are among the best of foods," the resolu-tion said. The grange adopted a resolution favoring the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill. Farmers Bank Officers The Farmers National Bank direc-tors met on Monday and organized as follows: President, S. W. Buch; vice president, H. J. Pierson; secretary and cashier, J. H. Breitigan; assistant cashier, Paul Bomberger; teller, Al-f r e d Douple; clerks, Miss Violet Hel-ter and Miss Louetta Hershey. Pretzel Frogs Instead of rolling out the usual pretzels, William Kissinger designed some frogs out of dough one day recently and baked them. He placed a little pretzel in their mouths. While if is not a paying proposition to shape the dough in animal designs, yet they make good advertisements, as he displays them where he sells his pretzels. The f r o g design is a clever imitation. Sunday School, M at ßudi's 50 Years Ago Johnson Miller the First Superintendent Doubtless there are not very many people not connected with it in any way t h a t know that a union Sunday School was conducted some f i f t y years ago in what is known as Buch's school house, one mile west of Lititz, 1871-74. Benjamin L. Miller on Spruce street, is in possession of all the records and books, carefully preserved by his fa-ther, who was one of the officers. There are small Bibles, hymn books, catechisms, which were evidently taught, as there were no prepared les-sons at t h a t time, primers for the use of the beginners, and library books. Although all in good condition they will never be used again. The hymn books are all out of date, not contain-ing a single hymn found in present day Sunday School hymnals. The l i b r a r y books consist of Bible stories and others of good children who died before their time and little saints and prigs of seven and eight years, of whom, doubtless, the world was well rid. They are written in the quaint stilted language of a by-gone day and would neither be read nor understood by children of our day. Some of the t i t l e s : "A Memorial for Sunday School Girls;" "A Monument of par-ental Affection," etc. The f i r s t officers mentioned in the secretary's books were the following: Superintendent, Johnson Miller; assis-t a n t , Jacob Workman; secretary, Franklin Baker; treasurer, David R. Buch; librarian, Henry Miller. There were seven classes, 4 male and 3 fe-male teachers, and f r om 16 to 22 male and f r om 15 to 31 female scholars, at different timies. A record was kept of the number of visitors and even t h e weather. Among the inter-esting items were the visits of John Beck (1791-1873), the founder of the famous Academy for Boys, who was in the habit, especially after he retired in 1865, of visiting the country schools and Sunday Schools. The date of one of these visits was July! 23, when he addressed the school. On August 6, 1871, there were 24 vis-itors and again on the 20th of Aug. there were the same number. On Sept. 3, 1871, Mr. Riemensnyder, a g r e a t Sunday School man and father of the novelist, Mrs. Kate Riemen-snyder Martin, and Mr. Francis Christ (1816-83), a prominent Lititz man and assistant superintendent of the Lititz Moravian Sunday School, addressed the school, and there were 28 visitors. On Oct. ,15th there (were 17 visitors, Mr. Beck5 again addressing the school. On May 26th, 1872, Mr. Hacker of Lit-itz, addressed the school, it was "very nice and warm and there were 10 male and 21 female vistors." On June 9th, 1872, there were 17 male and 14 femiale visitors as it was "very plea-sant and clear and very warm." On June 23rd, 1872, Mr. Beck addressed the school, which brought 21 male and 26 f emale visitors. On July 7th, Mr. Hacker, of Lititz, addressed the school^ and there were 22 visitors in all. ' On July 21st "it was cloudy and cool" and there were only 9 male and 13 female visitors. On Aug. 4th, Mr. F. W. Christ and Mr. Hacker addressed the school and there were 19 visitors in all. The school evidently had its ups and downs, for on Aug. 18th Mr. Johnson Miller, the superintendent, was not present, it was a small school, no col-lection and "it was almost a failure." "Yet," the secretary adds, "it was a fine pleasant day." The f i r s t record of a collection was made Sept 1st, 1872, it was sixty-four cents. Mr. John Beck addressed the school on Sept. 14 and there were 46 visitors present in all. On Oct. 6th, 1872, it was a very pleasant afternoon and Mr. B. D. Danner addressed the school. All the officers were absent except Johnson Miller ,but there were 12 vis-itors. On May 4th, 1873, the school was re-organized with Johnson Miller as superintendent; Charles Baker, a s s i s t a n t ; Harry K. Hacker, secre-t a r y ; David R. Buch, treasurer, and Henry S. Miller as librarian. On J u l y 6th, some one wrote that both Mr. Henry Miller, ' and Mr. Henry (Continued on Page 4) Promoters for a new lodge were in town last week. Little headway was made and the at-tempt was given up. Apparent-ly Lititz has enough with six lodges. Two or three lodges made a start here within late years, but failed to continue. It is said t h a t there is sufficient organization in Lititz but that there is a lack of general co-operation. General co-opera-tion is needed to keep pushing the town ahead. Organization as in lodges, societies, clubs and what not, is all right in its place but it must not be overlooked t h a t there are times when the citizens must all work together as one. A local business man who for-merly paid toll for his truck over the Lititz pike, now de-posits the exact amount of mon-ey saved daily in a little box. It will amount close to $150 in a year. That's a good plan. Many persons who are put in a position to save, spend it an-other way. If their salary or revenue increases they spend more on living expenses. Sav-ing is an art. Some time ago when Christ Hess, near Lititz, was remov-ing corn fodder from the field, a hawk stayed close by, and swooped down on field mice. The bird hovered around as long as he was in the field, and showed no f e a r f o r the man who provided easy food for it. At one time it was the idea to kill all wild life, but farmers especially, are learning to dis-criminate between the friends and enemies of the agricultur-ist, t h a t there are good hawks and bad hawks, that owls are friends of the farmer and that the blacksnake should be pro-tected r a t h e r than destroyed. Germans, English and Scotch- I r i sh r a n a close race in s t a r t - ing important schools in Lancas-ter, Franklin, Cumberland and Berks counties. The f i r s t Sunday School was established by Ludwig Hacker, at Ephrata, in Lancaster county. For a generation it survived in its original home, but in Sep-tember, 1777, it was turned in-to a hospital for American sol-diers wounded at Brandy-wine. At Lititz and Ephrata were planted other schools which have come down with great dis-tinction to the present day. Such teachers as Frueauff and Beck—the l a t t e r grandfather of James M. Beck—sent their names rolling through many generations. And when nearly a century ago, a better free school sys-t em seemed possible, it was a close race between the Pennsyl-vania Dutch Governor, Ritner, and Thaddeus Stevens who should win f i r s t honors in pro-moting it. " I will follow t h a t man," de-clared Stevens, in the greatest speech ever made in Pennsyl-vania Legislature, "whose ban-ner streams in light." His characterization of Gov-ernor- Ritwer who fought a big army of holdbacks, who believ-ed the "Three R's" was ¿[uite enough for anybody.—Girard, in t h e Phila. Inquirer. W. Lomax Childress, D. D., who nightly is drawing big crowds at the U. B. church, said t h a t when he was a youth he courted, like other young men, girls t h a t were girls. Now-adays, he explained, he would be afraid of getting painters colic. L. B. Longenecker, • Church Elder Many Years, Dead Set Qood Example inlTrue Living Linneaus B. Longenecker, a well-known resident of this part of the county, died at 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon at his home, a mile and a half west of Lititz. His age was 74 years, 1 month and 15 days. He was sick for a week, starting with grip, and heart trouble developed. He was born on the f a rm where he died, known as the Longenecker Home-stead. He was interested in religious work, his family and his farm, not striving after great things but was consistent in the things t h a t surround-ed him. He was a deacon in the Church of the Brethren for four years, when he became an: elder, twenty-one years ago, of the White Oak District, with a membership of over 450, on'e of the largest congre-gations in the eastern district of Penn-sylvania. He was a trustee of Longenecker's church and always had church inter-ests at heart, and was also active in Sunday School work, He was the f a t h e r of a large fam-ily and he believed in the old-fashion-ed hospitality in his home, and en-joyed in having his children gather around him in family reunions. His f a rm was a model for being spic and span, and besides being at-t r a c t i v e to the eye, was highly pro-ductive. He planted many trees along the road along his premises. He was a t r u e neighbor and his kind dis-position won him a host of friends. He made his community better by having lived in it. Besides his wife, nee Ellen Sellers, he is survived by eight chidren, namely: Mollie, wife of Edwin Mark-ley, Lititz R. D.; William, Mt. Joy; Ammon, Lititz R. D.; Nathaniel, Lancaster R. D.; Jeremiah, Farmers-ville; Ellen, wife of Warren So'uders, of Danboro, Bucks county; Martin, Mt. Joy; Ira, ^t home; also a sister, Mxs. Susan Snyder, Lititz, and twen-ty- nine grandchildren. The funeral wijl be held at 9:30 on Saturday morning at the late home, and at 10 o'clock at Longenecker's meeting house. Interment in the ad-joining cemetery. Automobiles will meet the 9:45 ttolley car at Lititz to convey persons to the church. Odd Fellows Had Galla Time Lititz Odd Fellows Lodge had a red letter day in its history on Mon-day evening when there was an at-tendance of 24 persons, including guests from Manheim and Lancaster, besides the degree team of fifty-five f r om Middletowm, together with thir-ty- five others from that town. The big degree team worked to perfection, showing • how some old things are done in a new way. The drilling won spontaneous applause. A,number of addresses were given by the visitors. A fine luncheon followed the session. There were twenty-two autos f r om Middletown, each bearing a banner on the rear. $100,000 Loss In Fire In New Holland Bakery V —New subscribers to the Record added every week.—$1.50 per year. 12 Volunteer Fire Companies Fight Flames—Save Bank and Other Buildings The big plant of the Wright Baking Company at New Holland was com-pletely dlestroyed by fire Saturday morning, entailing a loss of $100,000, which is p a r t l y covered by insurance. The fire is believed to have started f r om an overheated cake oven and spread rapidly. Twelve volunteer f i r e companies f r om the eastern part of the county fought the conflagra-tion for two hours and prevented its spreading to adjoining buildings. The plant is located next to the town's new bank building. The building was, however, not damaged by the fire. The business was found-ed by Howard Wright and the plant f i r s t located on the sight was destroy-ed by f i r e 11 years ago. Eight years ago the senior Wright was killed by a train while driving an auto load of flour f r om the station to his plant. The present owners are H. Earle and Robert H. Wright. Tobacco Sold Near Lincoln The following is a list of the sales of tobacco, by farmers in the vicinity surrounding Lincoln: Phares Bru-baker sold his crop at 11 and 2; H a r r y Shealer, 12 and 3; David Zart-man, 12 and 2; Jacob Wornbach, 12 and 3; David Eshleman at- 4 cents thru; Benjamin Bollinger, 4 cents; Elmer Bollinger, 4 cents. The sales at 4 cents is for tobacco that is dam eged by shed burning, last fall during the soggy, hot weather prevailing r i g h t a f t e r it was housed. The Lure of Antiques is Strong Iconoclastic contempt for every thing but the modern, but with' senti-mental regard for the past, is an in-consistency, yet it seems to describe the times. History and biology are among the best sellers in an age when modernism is turning the world up-side down. And the antiques are in greater vogue than ever. . Explain it, if you can. The past is being dug up by the wagon load, sometimes by steam shov-els. Scientists are pawing around in the earth's crust for old bones, said to be millions of years old. Histor-ians, acknowledged and otherwise, are turning the yellowed records of the past into yellow journalism of the present. Who's who of the bygone days of glory and grandeur is being written with more realism than ro-mance, Garnered From Garrets From old garrets and barns, are being dragged forth triumphantly, dusty and scarred pieces of furniture, old glass and china ware, silver, pew-ter, prints, wallpaper. The list is very incomplete. A complete one would fill a column. Curiously, and therein lies some of the charm of antiques, these old furnishings are about the only things t h a t a r e not be-ing debunked. An antique, if it is an antique, is an antique, and no one can s t r ip i t bare of its romance. And the love of the past is not confined to antiques. One can look into a modern woodworking shop and see industrious, self-respecting cabin-etmakers busily boring wormholes in-to r a f t e r s , wainscoting and imitation antique furniture. They'll let you see them do it too. No secret about it, nothing shady. Somebody wants an old house built new, and modern workmen, using modern machinery, build a new house old. And, one must admit, t h a t it is usually a charm i r g house. • Our Colonial Cabinet Makers I n t e r e s t in antiques has exerted a beneficient effect on modern f u r n i t u re designing, we are told. Through the efforts primarily, of our museums, in-t e r e s t has been aroused in the product of our Colonial cabinetmakers. The n amies of such f u r n i t u r e makers as Savery and Duncan Phyfe have be come as well known as those of Ben jamin West, the Peales, Copley, Sully, Stuart, Morse and other early day American painters, who brought glory to their native land. This interest has extended to mod-ern f u r n i t u r e designing. One can buy a piece/>f twentieth century Cai Cool-idge period, in which the curves of Queen Anne's time are harmoniously blended with the graceful sweeps of Duncan Phyfe. Some authorities point to our added interest in early American furniture as one of the forces behind the renais-sance of the modern product. I t ' s An Epidemic More than a narrow circle of en-thusiasts collect antiques. The pro-portions of this ho*bby are epidemic. The enthusiasm is feverish. And contagious. Antique hunting parties daily raid the country. A collector's ideal of Paradise is probably a king-dom of untouched garrets. And what place has produced more romance than a garret. The soft light of dying day filtering thru dust-covered win-dows. Old trunks and chests and— what's that protuding f r om the shad-ows ? A wonderful mahogany four-poster resting against a fine old high-boy. Garrets, the home of genius, the birthplace of masterpieces ,and the resting place of some mighty fine old things for those who can find them. Aside f r om its features as a hobby collecting old things has practical value. One need not furnish a house with them. A piece of antique silverware, glassware or chinaware adds a touch of interesting character to a room furnished in modern style. A piece of antique f u r n i t u r e will har-monize with the furnishings of most homes, especially in these days when TRAVELERSJEAA AND FAR COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES Thomas Marks returned home a f t er spending a week at Reading with his son. ' John F. Longenecker and son, Eu-gene, attended the New York Auto Show last week. M>. and Mrs. Norman Brubaker were among the guests at a turkey dinner given by Mr. and, Mrs. L. M. Mellinger at Denver, on Sunday. Mrs. Wm. M. Kissinger returned honfl on Saturday after spending a jweek with her daughter and hus-band, Mr. and Mrs. William H. De- Wald, who recently moved from At-lantic City to Pleasantvflle, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ensminger of Manheim, were the guests of J. F r a n k Buch and family on Sunday. Mr. Ensminger, former editor of the Manheim Sentinel, is kept busy as n o t a r y public, writing many wills as well as other legal work. R. B. Detwiler, who conducts the Ford Service Station here, and his shop foreman, Bruce Palmer, attend-ed the New York Automobile Show last week. Mr. Detwiler reports t h a t he is picking up a nice business here and has made some sales for spring delivery of Ford cars. Pretzel Bakeries Busy Pretzel bakers in town are unusu-ally busy, believed to be due to the fact that the public is glad to turn to pretzels a f t e r a Christmas diet of candy and cakes. Sturgis & Haines have four ovens -working full time. Wm. Kissinger reports that he had record break-ing business last week. The other pretzel bakeries in town also report the business at a high peak. A Correction With reference to the challenge in last week's Record will say there is*- a misunderstanding. Instead o'f my-self being the only surviving member of the old Moravians Sunday School orchestra of thirty years ago, would state, I am the only one whp was playing until a short time ago, hav-ing recently resigned. Mistakes will happen.—B. F. Lutz. Suggests French Name Instead Of Owl Hill Felegraphic Editor of the Record Thanks! Thanks! The name Owl Hill may have been all r i g h t 75 years or more ago, but as you sug-gested, it should be changed. Now-adays it would not be "conim-il-faut" to say you lived at Owl Hill. I distinctly remember the beautiful view from there, over a charming stretch of good old Warwick town-ship, f r om so called Owl Hill. I t seems tc me that we picnicked there in t h e woods in June. Let me be the f i r s t to suggest a name—Bellevue, I would call the picturesque spot.—F. Springs Bank Elects Officers At the meeting of the Directors o£ the Lititz Springs National Bank on' Monday morning, all the old officers-were re-elected,, as follows: D. M, Graybill, president; Amos Sensenichj vice president; H. H. Diehm, cashier; LeRoy Kling, teller; Wm. E. Ringer, teller; Ralph Wier, bookkeeper; Menno H. Stoner, bookkeeper. Will Open Co-operative Market s Lancaster County farmers have de-cided to open the first co-operative market. The decision follows several weeks of conference and planning. The f a r m e r s will take over the first floor of a Lancaster garage, near the center of the city. They will pay an annual rent of $20,000. The new market will open early this spring ,according to present plans. ~ an assortment of styles is not only permissable, but is regarded as evi-dence of sophisticated taste. Lately too, t h e giving of antiques as Christmas presents has become well established. Presents of this nature have the advantage of not being du-plicated easily and one can almost certain t h a t the counterpart of a pre- (Continued on Page 5)
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Title | Lititz Record |
Masthead | Lititz Record 1927-01-20 |
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Full Text | In order to allow the regular publisher's mailage rates, we are [required to have sub- Iscriptions paid prompt-l y . A blue pencil ' mark in this circle means your subscrip-tion is due, and we will thank you for a prompt remittance. THE 1 There is no Substitue for Circulation 1900 PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS Equal to 9500 readers Advertisers must have steady circulation to get results VOL. L THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1927 NO. 18 EVENTS GOTO TOLD INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN TOWN AND VICINITY Mrs. Daniel Wechter, at Pine Hill, is quite ill. She is 85 years of age. There was no Warwick House sale last Saturday on> account of the cold and snow blizzard. The snow of Saturday brought out one sleigh. A horse and sleigh is becoming a novelty in town. Milton Hacker, of this place has applied for a divorce f r om his wife, Adeline Hacker, of Atlanta, Ga. Elmer Bender will take over a meat store at 501 West New street, Lan-caster, s t a r t i n g in about three weeks. The Elizabeth M. Lowery home at Lexington was sold at public sale last Saturday, to Joseph Borry for $2700. Henry Weaver, North Broad street, lost a pair of spectacles in a ease while shoveling snow. He would g r e a t l y appreciate their return. Peter Yeiser, who had been residing for some months at Philadelphia, where his daughter resides, has re-turned to Lititz to make his home. Hon. G. G. Diehm was a member of t h e committee in charge of the inau-guration of John S. Fisher as Gov-ernor of Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Mrs. D. M. Risser is at the Lan-caster General Hospital since last week, as the result of spraining her ankle and internal injuries while skating. The Ed. W. Ranck home, comer of North Cedar street and North Alley, was offered a t public sale on Saturday and was bid up to $4,000, but was withdrawn. Allen Putt is in charge of the Old Glory Store here since Monday. Wil-liam Steininger, who had been in charge, will travel for the Beechnut Packing Company. Representative Graybill G. Diehm was made chairman of the Committee on Fisheries, it was announced at t h e present session of the Assembly at Harrisburg. Mr. Diehm is an enthusiastic bass fisherman. Clarence Dillman, of this place, has purchased a store property and busi-ness place, at Grantville, Dauphin county. He will t r y to sell his home on Spruce street and move to his newly purchased home about April 1st. Cement bases, for signal lights, are being put in position at the Broad street railroad crossing. There will be two light systems, one on the north and one on the south side of the railroad tracks. When completed au-toists should have no excuse not to heed the danger sign. A twenty-two bullet broke a win-dow pane and entered a room at the home of Michael Keath, on Front street. Boys were shooting a rifle in another part of town and evidently did not think how f a r a bullet carries. There is an ordinance prohibiting the shooting of firearms in the borough. Automobile Club Meeting The J a n u a r y meeting of the Lan-caster Automobile Club will be held this Friday evening, J a n u a r y 21st, at the Stevens House, Lancaster. There are a number of matters of impor-tance to the members of the club t h a t will be brought before the meet-ing for consideration. President Gable will report on several progres-sive moves taken by the Board of Directors. All members of the organ-ization are urged to attend this meet-ing. The notices given thru the newspapers will be considered the of-ficial notice for the J a n u a r y meeting. This is made necessary because of the f a c t that the issue of the Motorist will be delayed on account of it being the official number of the Auto Trade -Association show number. Wonder—Lehn George B. Wonder and Lillian T. Lehn, both of Lititz, were married, on Tuesday evening at the United Evangelical parsonage, by the Rev. S. A. Heisey, at 8 o'clock. They were unattended. Birthday Anniversaries J a n u a r y 17—Milton Bushong, N. B. Leaman. J a n u a r y 21—Clement Badorf, Mrs. • Jlorace Sturgis, Joseph Dreifus, Friends Left Him Sleep a ' A business man fell fast asleep one night last week, on1 a chair at a certain recreation house here. His friends turned out the lights when they were ready to leave, while the man slept on. He awoke at three o'clock in the morning much confused in mind as to where he was and when the muddle cleared he lost no time making tracks for home. His associates greatly enjoyed the joke. Up to the Minute News of Hi School Honor Stude'nts at Lititz High The honor students for the school quarter who received As and Bs in all their subjects are: Seniors—Vera Hoffman, Ada Rudy, Martha Sturgis, Margie Whitcraft and Warren Diehm; Juniors—Helen Eby, Ruth Marble, Hazel Mathers, Mary Minnich, Kath-ryn Seaber, Jeanetta Weaver, George Rose; Sophomores—Dorothy Miksch, Herbert Longenecker; Freshman— J a n e t Huber, Donald Furlow, Mary Minnich, H a r r y Neidermyer. School Band Progressing Several of the townspeople have taken special interest and are help-ing with the progress of the school band. Everett Mathers has taken charge of the trombone section and meets with the boys once a week. Henry Hackman of Spruce street meets with the baritone section and B. F. Lutz is meeting several of the boys at his home and helping them on the different instruments. The band is progressing very nicely. Symphony Orchestra To Give Concert Here Tuesday The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra will appear here; on Tuesday even-ing and render their concert in the High School auditorium. The High School in general is anxious to have a full house as the whole profit will be added.to t h e muafc: fund. Out of this fund will be taken the expenses for the band and orchestra music and special instructors for the band. Displaying Class Colors The Seniors and Sophomores have togged themselves in their new sweaters. The Senior class colors are blue and g r a y and the Sophomore colors are green and gold. Manheim To Play Here Friday Nite Lititz High will play the Manheim High School basket ball tossers on Friday1 evening on the home floor. The preliminary game will be played between the Lititz High girls and t hi Manheim High girls. Legion Going After More Members Lititz Post No. 56, American Le-gion, will make a drive for more members on Monday and Tuesday of next week. There will be six teams and the ground will be covered quick-ly and efficiently. A booster meeting was held at Neffsville last evening. Propoganda Condemned Organized propoganda against the tuberculin testing of cattle is bitter-ly condemned in a resolution adopted by members of the Pomona Grange of this county. "Agitation against the tests is de-plorable because for years we have told cities that milk products are among the best of foods," the resolu-tion said. The grange adopted a resolution favoring the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill. Farmers Bank Officers The Farmers National Bank direc-tors met on Monday and organized as follows: President, S. W. Buch; vice president, H. J. Pierson; secretary and cashier, J. H. Breitigan; assistant cashier, Paul Bomberger; teller, Al-f r e d Douple; clerks, Miss Violet Hel-ter and Miss Louetta Hershey. Pretzel Frogs Instead of rolling out the usual pretzels, William Kissinger designed some frogs out of dough one day recently and baked them. He placed a little pretzel in their mouths. While if is not a paying proposition to shape the dough in animal designs, yet they make good advertisements, as he displays them where he sells his pretzels. The f r o g design is a clever imitation. Sunday School, M at ßudi's 50 Years Ago Johnson Miller the First Superintendent Doubtless there are not very many people not connected with it in any way t h a t know that a union Sunday School was conducted some f i f t y years ago in what is known as Buch's school house, one mile west of Lititz, 1871-74. Benjamin L. Miller on Spruce street, is in possession of all the records and books, carefully preserved by his fa-ther, who was one of the officers. There are small Bibles, hymn books, catechisms, which were evidently taught, as there were no prepared les-sons at t h a t time, primers for the use of the beginners, and library books. Although all in good condition they will never be used again. The hymn books are all out of date, not contain-ing a single hymn found in present day Sunday School hymnals. The l i b r a r y books consist of Bible stories and others of good children who died before their time and little saints and prigs of seven and eight years, of whom, doubtless, the world was well rid. They are written in the quaint stilted language of a by-gone day and would neither be read nor understood by children of our day. Some of the t i t l e s : "A Memorial for Sunday School Girls;" "A Monument of par-ental Affection," etc. The f i r s t officers mentioned in the secretary's books were the following: Superintendent, Johnson Miller; assis-t a n t , Jacob Workman; secretary, Franklin Baker; treasurer, David R. Buch; librarian, Henry Miller. There were seven classes, 4 male and 3 fe-male teachers, and f r om 16 to 22 male and f r om 15 to 31 female scholars, at different timies. A record was kept of the number of visitors and even t h e weather. Among the inter-esting items were the visits of John Beck (1791-1873), the founder of the famous Academy for Boys, who was in the habit, especially after he retired in 1865, of visiting the country schools and Sunday Schools. The date of one of these visits was July! 23, when he addressed the school. On August 6, 1871, there were 24 vis-itors and again on the 20th of Aug. there were the same number. On Sept. 3, 1871, Mr. Riemensnyder, a g r e a t Sunday School man and father of the novelist, Mrs. Kate Riemen-snyder Martin, and Mr. Francis Christ (1816-83), a prominent Lititz man and assistant superintendent of the Lititz Moravian Sunday School, addressed the school, and there were 28 visitors. On Oct. ,15th there (were 17 visitors, Mr. Beck5 again addressing the school. On May 26th, 1872, Mr. Hacker of Lit-itz, addressed the school, it was "very nice and warm and there were 10 male and 21 female vistors." On June 9th, 1872, there were 17 male and 14 femiale visitors as it was "very plea-sant and clear and very warm." On June 23rd, 1872, Mr. Beck addressed the school, which brought 21 male and 26 f emale visitors. On July 7th, Mr. Hacker, of Lititz, addressed the school^ and there were 22 visitors in all. ' On July 21st "it was cloudy and cool" and there were only 9 male and 13 female visitors. On Aug. 4th, Mr. F. W. Christ and Mr. Hacker addressed the school and there were 19 visitors in all. The school evidently had its ups and downs, for on Aug. 18th Mr. Johnson Miller, the superintendent, was not present, it was a small school, no col-lection and "it was almost a failure." "Yet," the secretary adds, "it was a fine pleasant day." The f i r s t record of a collection was made Sept 1st, 1872, it was sixty-four cents. Mr. John Beck addressed the school on Sept. 14 and there were 46 visitors present in all. On Oct. 6th, 1872, it was a very pleasant afternoon and Mr. B. D. Danner addressed the school. All the officers were absent except Johnson Miller ,but there were 12 vis-itors. On May 4th, 1873, the school was re-organized with Johnson Miller as superintendent; Charles Baker, a s s i s t a n t ; Harry K. Hacker, secre-t a r y ; David R. Buch, treasurer, and Henry S. Miller as librarian. On J u l y 6th, some one wrote that both Mr. Henry Miller, ' and Mr. Henry (Continued on Page 4) Promoters for a new lodge were in town last week. Little headway was made and the at-tempt was given up. Apparent-ly Lititz has enough with six lodges. Two or three lodges made a start here within late years, but failed to continue. It is said t h a t there is sufficient organization in Lititz but that there is a lack of general co-operation. General co-opera-tion is needed to keep pushing the town ahead. Organization as in lodges, societies, clubs and what not, is all right in its place but it must not be overlooked t h a t there are times when the citizens must all work together as one. A local business man who for-merly paid toll for his truck over the Lititz pike, now de-posits the exact amount of mon-ey saved daily in a little box. It will amount close to $150 in a year. That's a good plan. Many persons who are put in a position to save, spend it an-other way. If their salary or revenue increases they spend more on living expenses. Sav-ing is an art. Some time ago when Christ Hess, near Lititz, was remov-ing corn fodder from the field, a hawk stayed close by, and swooped down on field mice. The bird hovered around as long as he was in the field, and showed no f e a r f o r the man who provided easy food for it. At one time it was the idea to kill all wild life, but farmers especially, are learning to dis-criminate between the friends and enemies of the agricultur-ist, t h a t there are good hawks and bad hawks, that owls are friends of the farmer and that the blacksnake should be pro-tected r a t h e r than destroyed. Germans, English and Scotch- I r i sh r a n a close race in s t a r t - ing important schools in Lancas-ter, Franklin, Cumberland and Berks counties. The f i r s t Sunday School was established by Ludwig Hacker, at Ephrata, in Lancaster county. For a generation it survived in its original home, but in Sep-tember, 1777, it was turned in-to a hospital for American sol-diers wounded at Brandy-wine. At Lititz and Ephrata were planted other schools which have come down with great dis-tinction to the present day. Such teachers as Frueauff and Beck—the l a t t e r grandfather of James M. Beck—sent their names rolling through many generations. And when nearly a century ago, a better free school sys-t em seemed possible, it was a close race between the Pennsyl-vania Dutch Governor, Ritner, and Thaddeus Stevens who should win f i r s t honors in pro-moting it. " I will follow t h a t man," de-clared Stevens, in the greatest speech ever made in Pennsyl-vania Legislature, "whose ban-ner streams in light." His characterization of Gov-ernor- Ritwer who fought a big army of holdbacks, who believ-ed the "Three R's" was ¿[uite enough for anybody.—Girard, in t h e Phila. Inquirer. W. Lomax Childress, D. D., who nightly is drawing big crowds at the U. B. church, said t h a t when he was a youth he courted, like other young men, girls t h a t were girls. Now-adays, he explained, he would be afraid of getting painters colic. L. B. Longenecker, • Church Elder Many Years, Dead Set Qood Example inlTrue Living Linneaus B. Longenecker, a well-known resident of this part of the county, died at 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon at his home, a mile and a half west of Lititz. His age was 74 years, 1 month and 15 days. He was sick for a week, starting with grip, and heart trouble developed. He was born on the f a rm where he died, known as the Longenecker Home-stead. He was interested in religious work, his family and his farm, not striving after great things but was consistent in the things t h a t surround-ed him. He was a deacon in the Church of the Brethren for four years, when he became an: elder, twenty-one years ago, of the White Oak District, with a membership of over 450, on'e of the largest congre-gations in the eastern district of Penn-sylvania. He was a trustee of Longenecker's church and always had church inter-ests at heart, and was also active in Sunday School work, He was the f a t h e r of a large fam-ily and he believed in the old-fashion-ed hospitality in his home, and en-joyed in having his children gather around him in family reunions. His f a rm was a model for being spic and span, and besides being at-t r a c t i v e to the eye, was highly pro-ductive. He planted many trees along the road along his premises. He was a t r u e neighbor and his kind dis-position won him a host of friends. He made his community better by having lived in it. Besides his wife, nee Ellen Sellers, he is survived by eight chidren, namely: Mollie, wife of Edwin Mark-ley, Lititz R. D.; William, Mt. Joy; Ammon, Lititz R. D.; Nathaniel, Lancaster R. D.; Jeremiah, Farmers-ville; Ellen, wife of Warren So'uders, of Danboro, Bucks county; Martin, Mt. Joy; Ira, ^t home; also a sister, Mxs. Susan Snyder, Lititz, and twen-ty- nine grandchildren. The funeral wijl be held at 9:30 on Saturday morning at the late home, and at 10 o'clock at Longenecker's meeting house. Interment in the ad-joining cemetery. Automobiles will meet the 9:45 ttolley car at Lititz to convey persons to the church. Odd Fellows Had Galla Time Lititz Odd Fellows Lodge had a red letter day in its history on Mon-day evening when there was an at-tendance of 24 persons, including guests from Manheim and Lancaster, besides the degree team of fifty-five f r om Middletowm, together with thir-ty- five others from that town. The big degree team worked to perfection, showing • how some old things are done in a new way. The drilling won spontaneous applause. A,number of addresses were given by the visitors. A fine luncheon followed the session. There were twenty-two autos f r om Middletown, each bearing a banner on the rear. $100,000 Loss In Fire In New Holland Bakery V —New subscribers to the Record added every week.—$1.50 per year. 12 Volunteer Fire Companies Fight Flames—Save Bank and Other Buildings The big plant of the Wright Baking Company at New Holland was com-pletely dlestroyed by fire Saturday morning, entailing a loss of $100,000, which is p a r t l y covered by insurance. The fire is believed to have started f r om an overheated cake oven and spread rapidly. Twelve volunteer f i r e companies f r om the eastern part of the county fought the conflagra-tion for two hours and prevented its spreading to adjoining buildings. The plant is located next to the town's new bank building. The building was, however, not damaged by the fire. The business was found-ed by Howard Wright and the plant f i r s t located on the sight was destroy-ed by f i r e 11 years ago. Eight years ago the senior Wright was killed by a train while driving an auto load of flour f r om the station to his plant. The present owners are H. Earle and Robert H. Wright. Tobacco Sold Near Lincoln The following is a list of the sales of tobacco, by farmers in the vicinity surrounding Lincoln: Phares Bru-baker sold his crop at 11 and 2; H a r r y Shealer, 12 and 3; David Zart-man, 12 and 2; Jacob Wornbach, 12 and 3; David Eshleman at- 4 cents thru; Benjamin Bollinger, 4 cents; Elmer Bollinger, 4 cents. The sales at 4 cents is for tobacco that is dam eged by shed burning, last fall during the soggy, hot weather prevailing r i g h t a f t e r it was housed. The Lure of Antiques is Strong Iconoclastic contempt for every thing but the modern, but with' senti-mental regard for the past, is an in-consistency, yet it seems to describe the times. History and biology are among the best sellers in an age when modernism is turning the world up-side down. And the antiques are in greater vogue than ever. . Explain it, if you can. The past is being dug up by the wagon load, sometimes by steam shov-els. Scientists are pawing around in the earth's crust for old bones, said to be millions of years old. Histor-ians, acknowledged and otherwise, are turning the yellowed records of the past into yellow journalism of the present. Who's who of the bygone days of glory and grandeur is being written with more realism than ro-mance, Garnered From Garrets From old garrets and barns, are being dragged forth triumphantly, dusty and scarred pieces of furniture, old glass and china ware, silver, pew-ter, prints, wallpaper. The list is very incomplete. A complete one would fill a column. Curiously, and therein lies some of the charm of antiques, these old furnishings are about the only things t h a t a r e not be-ing debunked. An antique, if it is an antique, is an antique, and no one can s t r ip i t bare of its romance. And the love of the past is not confined to antiques. One can look into a modern woodworking shop and see industrious, self-respecting cabin-etmakers busily boring wormholes in-to r a f t e r s , wainscoting and imitation antique furniture. They'll let you see them do it too. No secret about it, nothing shady. Somebody wants an old house built new, and modern workmen, using modern machinery, build a new house old. And, one must admit, t h a t it is usually a charm i r g house. • Our Colonial Cabinet Makers I n t e r e s t in antiques has exerted a beneficient effect on modern f u r n i t u re designing, we are told. Through the efforts primarily, of our museums, in-t e r e s t has been aroused in the product of our Colonial cabinetmakers. The n amies of such f u r n i t u r e makers as Savery and Duncan Phyfe have be come as well known as those of Ben jamin West, the Peales, Copley, Sully, Stuart, Morse and other early day American painters, who brought glory to their native land. This interest has extended to mod-ern f u r n i t u r e designing. One can buy a piece/>f twentieth century Cai Cool-idge period, in which the curves of Queen Anne's time are harmoniously blended with the graceful sweeps of Duncan Phyfe. Some authorities point to our added interest in early American furniture as one of the forces behind the renais-sance of the modern product. I t ' s An Epidemic More than a narrow circle of en-thusiasts collect antiques. The pro-portions of this ho*bby are epidemic. The enthusiasm is feverish. And contagious. Antique hunting parties daily raid the country. A collector's ideal of Paradise is probably a king-dom of untouched garrets. And what place has produced more romance than a garret. The soft light of dying day filtering thru dust-covered win-dows. Old trunks and chests and— what's that protuding f r om the shad-ows ? A wonderful mahogany four-poster resting against a fine old high-boy. Garrets, the home of genius, the birthplace of masterpieces ,and the resting place of some mighty fine old things for those who can find them. Aside f r om its features as a hobby collecting old things has practical value. One need not furnish a house with them. A piece of antique silverware, glassware or chinaware adds a touch of interesting character to a room furnished in modern style. A piece of antique f u r n i t u r e will har-monize with the furnishings of most homes, especially in these days when TRAVELERSJEAA AND FAR COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES Thomas Marks returned home a f t er spending a week at Reading with his son. ' John F. Longenecker and son, Eu-gene, attended the New York Auto Show last week. M>. and Mrs. Norman Brubaker were among the guests at a turkey dinner given by Mr. and, Mrs. L. M. Mellinger at Denver, on Sunday. Mrs. Wm. M. Kissinger returned honfl on Saturday after spending a jweek with her daughter and hus-band, Mr. and Mrs. William H. De- Wald, who recently moved from At-lantic City to Pleasantvflle, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ensminger of Manheim, were the guests of J. F r a n k Buch and family on Sunday. Mr. Ensminger, former editor of the Manheim Sentinel, is kept busy as n o t a r y public, writing many wills as well as other legal work. R. B. Detwiler, who conducts the Ford Service Station here, and his shop foreman, Bruce Palmer, attend-ed the New York Automobile Show last week. Mr. Detwiler reports t h a t he is picking up a nice business here and has made some sales for spring delivery of Ford cars. Pretzel Bakeries Busy Pretzel bakers in town are unusu-ally busy, believed to be due to the fact that the public is glad to turn to pretzels a f t e r a Christmas diet of candy and cakes. Sturgis & Haines have four ovens -working full time. Wm. Kissinger reports that he had record break-ing business last week. The other pretzel bakeries in town also report the business at a high peak. A Correction With reference to the challenge in last week's Record will say there is*- a misunderstanding. Instead o'f my-self being the only surviving member of the old Moravians Sunday School orchestra of thirty years ago, would state, I am the only one whp was playing until a short time ago, hav-ing recently resigned. Mistakes will happen.—B. F. Lutz. Suggests French Name Instead Of Owl Hill Felegraphic Editor of the Record Thanks! Thanks! The name Owl Hill may have been all r i g h t 75 years or more ago, but as you sug-gested, it should be changed. Now-adays it would not be "conim-il-faut" to say you lived at Owl Hill. I distinctly remember the beautiful view from there, over a charming stretch of good old Warwick town-ship, f r om so called Owl Hill. I t seems tc me that we picnicked there in t h e woods in June. Let me be the f i r s t to suggest a name—Bellevue, I would call the picturesque spot.—F. Springs Bank Elects Officers At the meeting of the Directors o£ the Lititz Springs National Bank on' Monday morning, all the old officers-were re-elected,, as follows: D. M, Graybill, president; Amos Sensenichj vice president; H. H. Diehm, cashier; LeRoy Kling, teller; Wm. E. Ringer, teller; Ralph Wier, bookkeeper; Menno H. Stoner, bookkeeper. Will Open Co-operative Market s Lancaster County farmers have de-cided to open the first co-operative market. The decision follows several weeks of conference and planning. The f a r m e r s will take over the first floor of a Lancaster garage, near the center of the city. They will pay an annual rent of $20,000. The new market will open early this spring ,according to present plans. ~ an assortment of styles is not only permissable, but is regarded as evi-dence of sophisticated taste. Lately too, t h e giving of antiques as Christmas presents has become well established. Presents of this nature have the advantage of not being du-plicated easily and one can almost certain t h a t the counterpart of a pre- (Continued on Page 5) |
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