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VOL. L
THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1927_
NO. 20
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
A girl was bora to Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin W. Ranck on Monday.
'The Springs Committee meeting
will be held in the Moravian parish
house this Thursday evening.
The two and a half story frame
dwelling of the late Mrs. Levehtine
Zartman, corner New and Cedar Sts.,
was sold at Public Sale on Saturday
to David Hdrnan for $4,540.
Mrs. 13.. M. Risser, "who was taken
to the General Hospital several
weeks ago, undergoing a slight op-eration
'as a result of an injury from
skating, developed Blood poisoning
and is m a serious condition.
S. J-. Leicey, chiropractor who had
his office at 16 North Broad Street, is
moving '¡his business to 307 S. Broad
street and he and his wife will also
reside Stihere. iHewill be ready to re-sume
'business on -Friday.
Harry Adams smashed the side of
bis auto 'by hitting a telephone pole
at East Petersburg on Saturday. He
was lacerated about the face and body
and was taken to the hospital. He
is ablfe to walk around again.
Emanuel Ditzler bought the Mrs.
Frances Brighten home on Spruce
Street. Mrs. Brighten's new double
dwelling on West Orange Street is
under roof. It will be lined with
boards and contain veneered ¡brick
on the outside.
The 54th anniversary of the Men's
Missionary Society will be held in
the Moravian church on Sunday with
lovefeast at 3 P. M. Rev. Theodore
Reinecke, of York, will speak in the
morning, afternoon and evening.
Eggs are down to 35 cents a dozen,
an unusually low price for this season
of the year. The open winter prob-ably
has kept up production. Eggs
took a drop before Christmas and
have gradually gone down in price.
Boro on Good Financial Footing
The .fe&rough financial statement for
the past year will be out this week.
Th«r© is a balance to date in the
treasury of $10,742.29. The tax money
received was $26,125.58. The lighting
of the town cost $3,265.85.
The water department paid a profit
of '$5,514.79, probably the best bal-ance
Hn the history of the plant. The
borough has a bonded indebtedness of
$27,000, and a loan of $9,100, with a
sinking fund of $12,780.23.
light Carloads
of Seed Potatoes
John Hess Early Pioneer
in The Business
Starting fifteen years ago, when im-ported
seed potatoes were a novelty,
John S. Hess received less than a
carload for his initial shipment. In
early March he will receive his fif-teenth
shipment, consisting of six car-loads
of Maine certified seed, a car-load
of Michigan russets and a car-load
of Vermont cobblers.
Mr. Hess has received the same
strain of some of these varieties f r om
the very start and' because ©f the
good results the demand has been
staadily increasing.
At first it was hard to convince po-t
a to growers that imported seed from
tested strains would justify the added
expense, but the farmer has long ago
been sold on the good seed idea.
These potatoes will be distributed
in Lancaster, Lebanon and Dauphin
counties. Mr. Hess' address is l i t i tz
R. D. 1, telephone 260-R-ll. He ad-vises
persons who have mot contract-ed
with him for a supply t o do so at
once.
The Holiday Month
February, the shortest ©^ all
months, stands at the head of the list
-when it comes to the number of holi-days.
On Feb. 2 Lititz people watched
for the groundhog. While not a na-tional
holiday, nevertheless, it is not
the least of events.
Then comes Lincoln's birthday, on
Feb. 12—always an occasion for es-says
and speeches in our schools. And
then the day when lovers come into
their own and sweethearts get in
some "heavy work"—St. Valentine's
Day, on Feb. 14. Right on the heels ;
of this comes Washington's birthday,;
on Feb .22. And how many holidays ;
of minor importance occur in the same
month, we haven't time to count up.
The four mentioned are of more
or less importance and all are en-titled
to observance. But of the four
we fully believe there is more interest
locally in -'Groundhog day." For
where is there a man who wants to
-hovel coal, carry in wood or sweep
snow six more weeks when the
groundhog is said to have it in his
power to cut the winter short by that
length of time or keep it going if it
suits his whim ?
S^round
©ur
Toum
Howard Strickler, a poultry-man
near town, caponized a
number «f buil' rocks. One of
them, was «not a success and is
known as a "slip." Its comb
and feathers developed normal-ly
and it proved, an unusually
good type of show bird. It was
exhibited at the recent Harris-ourg
State Show and won first
prize :and a special.
Tëbaoeo Firms
Buying Crops
A mill for the manufacture of
women's muslin garments will be
opened in the Meiskey building if
enough women employees can be se-cured.
Hand in your application at
once or the business will be estab-lished
in another borough.
W. G. Fahnestock, S. Broad Street,
invites radio enthusiasts who are in-terested
in late developments to hear
the new Stromberg-Carlson receiver
which will be demonstrated at his res-idence
by appointment any day during
the next,few week.
The Lititz branch of the Linden
Hall Alumnae Association will hold
their monthly tea in the Seminary
parlors on Thursday afternon, Feb-ruary
10, at 2.30 o'clock. Everyone
is requested to come dressed in old-fashioned
costume or at least to
bring some old-fashioned article and
a photograph of herself taken in in-fancy.
Old fashioned songs will be
sung and every member is privileged
to bring a guest.
Mr. Elam Groff Tendered Sur-prise
Party
Mr. Elam Groff, S. Locust street,
was given a surprise party on Satur-day
evening by the members of his
class in the Evangtelieal jSranday
School, John McCloud teacher, in hon-or
of his fifty-sixth birthday anni-versary.
Music was furnished by
Mrs. J. K. Mathers and a fine supper
was served.
The following were present: Flor-ence
Leitheiser anil Laura Witmyer,
of Brunnerville; Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bender, of Petersburg, John Wagner,
Landis Adaire, John McCloud, Harry
Buch, Thos. Kissinger, MTS. Katie
Mathers, Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Hei-sey,
Elam R. Groff, Mrs. Ella IS.
Meiley and Mahlon E. Groff, all of
Lititz.
FOUR TRUCKLOADS OF
APPLES SOLD AT THE
WARWICK HOUSE
AU Kinds of Wearing Apparel Also
Found Buyers
Crime Wave Now Reaching Out
Even to Small Towns
On Thursday morning of the past
;week, just a week after the school
house robbery, the office of Jno. F.
Longenecker, at this place, was en-tered,
$16.40 being stolen from the
cash register. The office door was
opened with a key.
MEETING OF FARM WOMEN
The Society of Farm Women No. 1
will meet at the home of Miss Anna
Erb-, on North Broad Street, on Sat-urday
afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Re-ports
of the State Convention at Har-risburg
will be given by those who
attended and other interesting fea-tures
will be on the progrom.
Elizabethtown College Quartette
Will Render Concert
Over 700 articles were sold at the
Warwick House sale on Saturday, the
attendance being above the average.
It was a good sale all through.
Four truckloads of apples were sold
from 60c to $1.50 a bushel. At the
latter price the fruit was the finest
brought to the sale for a long time,
Potatoes brought f r om 95c to $1.55 a
bushel, cabbage 50c a basket, oranges
$2.10 a box and grapefruit 5Qe a
dozen.
A hundred hogs were sold at prices
ranging from $3 to $23. A slight drop
in the price of hogs is noted. Fly-nets
brought $2.15, a brooder $3.00, a
sleigh $1.85, brooms 45c to 50c.
Geese sold at $1.85 each, about half
the price as during the holidays, and
i guineas brought 80c each.
Wearing apparel was much in evi-dence,
as follows: Underwear 20c to
$1.00, sweaters $1.20 to $1.60, shoes
$1.60, stockings 10c a pair,, overalls
$1.25, pants $1.75, rubbers 30c to 60c
shirts 30c, suspenders 25c, children's
suits 75c, men's suits $4.50 to $7.25,
dress goods 50c. to $3.00 per piece.
The Elizabethtown College Male
Quartet will render a musical pro-gram
at 7 o'clock Sunday evening,
February 13th, in the Church of the
Brethren at Lititz. The personnel,
consists of Rufus Eby, first tenor:
Aaron G. Breidenstine, second tenor;
Galen C. Kilhefner, baritone and Dan-iel
E. Myers, bass.
To Move to Lancaster
Dr. N. B. Reeser will open an of-fice
a t 139 East Chestnut street, Lan-caster,
moving to that location with
his family on April 1st. However
Dr. Reeser will continue his office
here, the time of office hours to be
announced later.
Women's Auxiliary Meeting
The Women's Auxiliary of the Lititz
Fire Company will meet this evening
ir: the Fire Company hall.
—Silver link bracelet, with colored
stone bracelet, lost in Lititz. Reward
if returned to the Record Office,
TáKing Up Choice Holdings of
the 1926 Crop
The first big buying break in the
Lancaster County tobacco field came
with the entrance into the market of
buyers for several big companies. De-spite
rumore to the contrary the
price being paid for the wrapper class
of goods are 14 and 15 cents.
In past years i t has been the custom
of the buyers to begin: operations
shortly after the holidays, but each
succeeding year found the opening
dates set back several weeks. With
the desertion of the local field by
•many independent packers and the
centralization of the business in the
hands of half a dozen or more of the
big manufacturers who are now buy-ing
direct from the growers instead
of from brokers, there has been no
set time for the buying to start.
The big manufacturers have a regu-lar
line of growers from whom they
purchase each year and many farm-ers
never consider more than one
customer. This is now the prevail-ing
custom, and the local representa-tives
of the manufacturers take the
field when they feel so inclined, not
fearing competitive bidding on the
ground. The big figures in the buy-ing
market set the price for the year
and these figures prevail during the
season, with the rare instances in
which there are exceptional crops.
Benjamin Swartz, of Ephrata, has
bought the seven-acre crop of tobacco
from Henry Springer and Andrew
Garber, of Erb's Corner, at 14 and 2%
cents. Levi Stieff, of Springville, and
Charles Stamm, Jr., of Lincoln, have
sold their crops to Benjamin Swartz,
of Ephrata, at 14 and 2.
In the vicinity of Ephrata and Lin-coln
buyers made their appearance
and figures were from 12 to 15 cents
for the better grades. Some crops
t h a t showed damage went for 4 cents
and a few holdings for 3 cents. In the
Donegals crops that did not look good
went at 4 and 5 cents, while 12 cents
was paid for wrapper goods. In the
vicinity of Denver some sales were
made at 12 cents,' while one crop was
noted at 14 -cents.
Now that the big buyers are in
the field it is safe to say that the Lan-caster
county market for 1926 tobac-co
is open, and the average price will
be 14 and 15 centas.
A number of independent packers of
Lititz have started buying.
There is considerable agita-tion
as to doing away with dis-trict
institutes for public school
teachers. At Manheim last
week there was an attendance
•of twenty-eight. At Lititz there
was not much improvement.
These institutes have been
held for forty-five years. It
used to be one of the big events
of the year, before the day of
the automobile. At Lititz it used
to attract a jammed house.
There was always a debate when
the best school teacher orators
in the district were chosen and
then came the general debate
in which ex-school teachers,
doctors and clergymen took
part. There was no half-heart-edness
about it. It was real
and earnest, and there was pep
and vim injected into it. In the
evening "hired" talent was se-cured
for entertainment—a mu-sical,
a lecturer or a reciter.
There was a crowded house
again and the institute was re-membered
many days after-ward,
hashed and rehashed.
Now with the radio, moving
pictures, auto, and basket ball
the enthusiasm in local teach-ers'
institutes is lost. It has
outlived its usefulness. We're in
the.jazz age now.
Denver & Ephrata Telephone &
Telegraph Co. Re-Organizes
The Denver and Ephrata Telephone
and Telegraph Company held their
election for officers and directors last
Saturday. The results of the elec-tion
are: Directors—W. F. Brossman,
D. W. Artz, J. C. Nissley, C. A. Eaby,
Monroe Lausch, D. W. Buch, Bertha
Brossman; Officers—president, W. F.
Brossman; secretary, D. W. Artz;
vice president, C. E. Eaby; treasurer,
D. W. Buch.
The board of directors re-organized
on Tuesday, Feb. 1.
Home From Trip Covering Many
Thousands of Miles
A telegram was received by Mrs.
Frances Flory, at Lancaster, stating
that her sister, Mrs. Ida Foltz, would
be at Lancaster today (Thursday) at
noon. Mrs. Foltz has been spending
the past four months with her- son
Frank and wife at Dillon, Montana,
previous to which for years she had
her hom,e with her daughter, Mrs.
Theodore B. Bush, at Honolulu, T. H.
Three Hundred Attend Ladies'
Night by Odd Fellows
The local Odd Fellows held Ladies'
night on Monday evening, when there
was an attendance of 300, the banner
mark since the start' of this event.
Mrs. William Zartman was mis-tress
of ceremonies and served very
creditably. The program was varied
with plenty of humor and numerous
prizes were given out. The playettes
were well received. A lap luncheon
was served.
T E
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH . OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Rev. J. B. Baker
Here Feb. 16th
I r a W. Stratton, former may-or
of Reading, Pa., now a world
traveler and .writer, recently
spent two weeks at Honolulu, in
the Hawaiian Islands. Coming
into one of the city administra-tion
offices he announced that he
was a native of Reading. Theo-dore
B. Bush, a native of Lititz,
lost no time in becoming ac-quainted
while the former may-or
asked if he had received any
Lititz pretzels recently. He call-ed
again on Mr. Bush several
days later and it can be expect-ed
that when Lancaster and
Berks countians met they had
much to talk about. He had
this to say about Hawaii:
"When the earth was made
the great Creator must have ta-ken
some of the choicest parts
and assembled them here in
mid-Pacific, giving them an in-comparable
water setting of
beauty combined with gorgeous
cloud effects. The uniform,
cheerful, happy disposition of
the people, with their kindness
to the stranger within their
»ates, adds to t h e alluring charm
found.
"The people of our1 country,"
he said, "have not begun to ap-preciate
that Hawaii is part of
the American commonwealth.
I confess that I never realized
the tremenduous wealth repre-sented
here, but I shall never
lose an opportunity to tell the
people about Hawaii, of its
í beauties and its wonderful in-dustries."
Display Instruments
for School Band
Will Be Displayed in Farmers Bank
Building Two Days
The band instruments which have
been purchased by a prominent citi-zen
of the town will be exhibited on
Friday, Feb. 11, and on Saturday all
day in the Farmers National Bank.
During the day the instruments will
be exhibited in the bank and during
the evening in the vestibule of the
bank.
The instruments are all in the. pos-session
of the school and those in-struments
which are owned by in-dividual
members will not be on dis-play.
Will Bring York Choir
and Orchestra
Along
Rev. J. B. Baker, of York, a popu-lar
orator and builder of member-ships
in church work, will be at the
St. Paul's Lutheran church at this
place on Wednesday, Feb, 16. Rev.
Baker wias born in Lititz and is al-ways
happy to be back in his early
environs.
Rev. Baker will be accompanied by
his wife, the orchestra and choir con-nected
with prayer meetings in his
church, a total of forty-five persons.
The prayer-service here will be turn-ed
over entirely to-Rev. Baker, with
an orchestra prelude.
Rev. Baker will on that night tell
the story of the origin and growth
of the "Radiant Cross Prayer-meet-ing"
held in his church, attracting a
weekly attendance, of between seven
and eight hundred persons.
The public is cordially invited to
attend this special service.
Millwork Made Here Destroyed
by Fire
Fake Charity Collectors
Collectors for all kinds of charity
f,.re in Lititz almost daily. Some un-doubtedly
are deserving while others
are fakes. The best way is to asfc
the solicitor to see his State lieense
card, and also his letter f r o m the
State. If it cannot be produced there
is something wrong.
The collectors know this and those
that are fakes "beat" it in a hurry
when questioned as to their card.
Columbia Has No Chinaman
Columbia has lost its only China-man.
Louie Jim, who for some time
has conducted a laundry there, de-parted.
He blamed poor business for
his decision to move on,
s
The musicale which is held annually
by the grades of the public schools,
under the direction of Prof. H. B.
Baughey, will be held on Feb. 10 and
11. All grades from the first to the
sixth, inclusive, will take part under
the supervision of their respective
teachers.
The Junior High School will con-clude
the program. There will be a
chorus by the Junior High School un-der
the direction of Miss Enck, a pa-triotic
cantata under the direction of
Miss Wilson, and a song cycle of
American History. Edith Eberly will
portray the Goddess of Liberty and
Bert Kauffman. will be the bugler.
The pianists are Dorothy Miksch and
Grace Hackman.
The chart for the tickets will be
cpen at the school building on Feb-r
u a r y 7 at 8 A. M. for the Thurs-day
night performance and on Feb-ruary
9 for the Friday night's per-formance.
There will be no previous
sale of tickets. Admission is 3-5
cents.
The comedy play "So This Is Lon-don"
will be produced in the school
on February 17.
The senior play "Seventeen" will be
given on March 3. Miss Rose, Eng-lish
teacher in the public schools, is
the director.
The boys' and girls' basket ball
teams will journey to Columbia on
Friday evening to play against Co-lumbia
High. Two buses will leave
the school building at 6 o'clock
On Saturday night the High School
team will play Chambersburg High
Birthdays
Jan. 23—F. M. Birkenbine.
Feb. 1—David Eberly.
Feb. 2—Adam B. Long.
Feb. 3—George Frederick, Miss
Mary Frederick.
Feb. 6—J. W. G. Hershey.
A big quantity of mill supplies
made at the Keath planing mill here
were destroyed Saturday night when
a big barn at Lansdowne caught fire.
The woodwork was stored there by
a contractor. Much of the work will
have to be duplicated at once.
Cigar Industry
Unparalleled, growth in the cigar in-dustry
within the next six months
was forecast by Julius Lichtenstein,
chairman of the Consolidated Cigar
Corporation, on his departure for Hol-land
to look over the tobacco market
there for favorable opportunities to
buy supplies. He said cigarmaking
is being concentrated in the hands of
a few large companies.
Messrs. H. J. Pierson and Harry
Eby, who spent several weeks in Flor-ida,
have returned home.
M]r. and Mrs., Granville Wike, of
Reading, visited relatives in town on
Sunday.
Harry Lenhart, of West Lawn, vis-ited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Lenhart, on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Grciss and
daughters Thelma and Agnes and
Mrs. Lizzie Becker spent Sunday at
Harrisburg.
D. G. Witmyer is at Lincoln almost
every night on account of the illness
of his mother, who is over ninety
years of age.
Miss Grace Moyer, a teacher in the
public schools- at Reading, spent the
week-end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. N. Moyer.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Walters, of
near Kleinfeltersville, were the guests
of Harry Fetter and wife on Front
Street last Saturday.
Frances Huber, of Stevens, was a
visitor in town and intends locating
here shortly. He is a native of Vir-ginia.
Miss Alma Brookmyer, of this
place, will take ¡part in a recital
which will be given in a Lancaster
church tomorrow evening by the pu-pils
of J. Amos Hershey.
Mrs. Naomi Bomberger, formerly of .
Lititz, is registered at the Alexander
Young Hotel in Honolulu, T. H., for
a month or more and intends remain-ing
until March 6.
Mr. John Stoltz and family of York
were the guests of the parents of Mrs.
Stultz, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Buch, on
Sunday.
Groundhog Knows His Business
There is no doubt but what the
groundhog saw his shadow and re-turned
again to his winter headquar-ters,
to remain there for six more
weeks while winter continues with its
icy grip.
At least this belief furnishes
amusement for the unbelievers and
gives newspapers something to dis-cuss
annually. It is the first warn-ing
that winter is drawing to a close,
giving comfort to those persons who
do not like wintry blasts.
Boro Council Meets In Monthly
Session
Messrs. H. B. Buch, Frank B. Buch
and J. Frank Buch were at Richland,
Lebanon county, on Wednesday, where
Jacob A. Buch, a brother of the for-mer
two men resides.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Krick, their
son Charles, wife and daughter, and
Miss Anna Hackman on Sunday went
bv automobile to Mt. Aetna, Berks=.
county, where they visited the form-er's
parents.
Mrs. Charles Butzer and sister, Miss;
Grace Habecker, left this week for
Wasco, Calif., to visit their brother^
Henry Habecker, who is working m
the oil fields. The visitors expect to
remain until March.
-Read the Record—$1.50 per year.
Auto Show Now in Progress At
Lancaster
The finest the automobile world has
to offer is being unfolded before the
eyes of Lancaster county automobile
owners at the Fifteenth Annual Au-tomobile
Show of the Lancaster Au-t.
omobile Trade Association. The show
is being held on the third floor of the
Arcade Garage building, N. Prince
St., Lancaster, up to and including
Saturday, February 5. The exhibi-tion
is open every day from 10
o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock
at night. More than forty dealers are
exhibiting about 100 models at the
show,
Lititz Borough Council met in regu-lar
session with Councilmen J. D.
Helter, J. A. Sturgis, Levi Rudy and
Solicitor J. B. Wissler present.
Street Committee reported stone
placed on N. Cedar street, cinders
placed in several alleys and side
streets. It is decided to place stone
oft N. Cedar street fill temporary.
Fire and Water Committee report-ed
forty-nine taps made during the
year and fifty seven meters installed,
a here are 849 meters and 130 cus-tomers
without meters, a total of 979.
Mr. Raymond Dubbs appeared be-fore
Council and asked for the exten-sion
of a water main to his building
in the rear of Machpelah cemetery
The matter was held over for further
consideration.
Mr. Eaby, representing the Denver
and Ephrata Telephone and Tele
graph Co., appeared before Coun-cil
with a proposed ordinance with
reference to the granting said com-pany
the privilege of placing tele-phone
wires underground. Ordinance
v-ill be given further consideration.
The following bills were approved
and vouchers drawn in favor of:
Edison Electric Co., power __ $153.75
Edison Electric Co., light — 277.74
Denver & Ephrata Tel.. Co.,
phone rentals
Elmer G. Hershey, stone
I. H. Kauffman, roller hire __
C. M. Snavely, gasoline
A. M. Kreider & Son, paint —
W. H. Muth & Co., cement —
E. C. Foltz, gas and oil —
Theo. L. Forney, hauling
ground 40.50
C. R. Kreider, police and
meals
Harvey Kofroth, Jan. services
C. Walter Miller, salary and
Mrs. Frank B. Burkholder and Miss
Kathryn Grumbling spent several days
of last week in New York City. They
•eturned on Monday, bringing with
them Mrs. Emma Miller ^ who spent
the last four weeks with her daugh-ter,
Mrs. Louis Hepp.
9.50
111.85
81.00
4.00
7.74
7.00
6.50
92.00
90.00
garage __
Lester Miller, salary
179.67
90.00
LET NATURE "SAY
IT WITH FLOWERS"
Skunk Cabbage Flowers Ahead of
Groundhog in Weather.Pre
diction
Druggist Curtis Hensel, when in-terviewed
yesterday, said he looks up-on
the groundhog theory with incredi-bility
but has great belief in skunk
cabbage flowers as an indication of
an early or late spring.
In company with the pretzel man-ufacturer,
N. D. Sturgis, they made
a trip to the country and brought,
home a nice bouquet of skunk eab-bage
blossoms. They were in bloom
two weeks earlier than usual, show-ing,
as Doc. says, that an early
spring can be looked forward to.
Dr. Hensel became quite flowery in
his description of the first flower that
blooms in the year, saying that it
proclaims spring in the very teeth of
winter, being the first bold adven-turer
above ground.
Dr. Hensel is adverse to offending
G. W/ Hensel, of Quarryville, who
for years has sponsored the ground-hog
because of its sagacious predic-tions
on February 2, but from true
observance believes in letting nature
"say it with flowers."
Ed. Note—Any one who will go
out into the country a little later will
note how emphatic these flowers can
talk.