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VOL. L THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1927 NO. 38
EVENTS CONCISELY TOL
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
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The Eby Shoe Company is building
an office adjoining the factory on the
north.
David Kreider, South Broad street,
who is on the sick list, is showing im-provement.
Girls were born in the families of
Ralph Kauffmian and Victor Singley
on Sunday,
There will be an excursio.ni over the
Reading, to New York and up the
Hudson on Sunday.
A book of "Devotions and Prayers"
of the Catholic faith awaits the
(wner at this office.
The second All-Lititz "hop" will be
held at the Lancaster Gunning Club
on Saturday, June 18.
C. E. Marble bought a lot, corner
of Fifth Avenue and Spruce street,
f r om Clarence Dillman. „
Mrs. Leon Sehmuck was taken to
the Lancaster General hospital and
operated upon for gall stones.
The Lutz brothers played on their
musical .saws at the Advent Lutheran
church, a t Lancaster, last Thursday.
The Health Center for babies will
be opened in the Moravian S. S. chap-el
on Wednesday afternoon, June 15,
at 3 o'clock.
Laurel is in bloom in the high parts
of the mountains but in the lower
altitude will ,not be at the best until
the middle of the month.
Wayne Zartman has picked a base-ball
team to play the Lititz team on
the local grounds this evening. Wayne
is confident that his team will win.
Burgess Norman Badorf requests
the householders of Lititz to trim all
trees hanging over the walks and
street. An ordinance calls for eight
feet clearance.
Mrs. Clayton, Keithf and Mrs. Sam-uel
Wonder, both of the Second Ward,
in this borough, are in St. Joseph's
hospital since last week. Both were
operated on for gall stones.
Farmers have been having trouble
with corn. The cold, wet weather
and poor germination qualities re-sulted
in much seed corn being plant-ed
the second time. Good seed corn
i s scarce.
Irwin Strohmt had the cheek bone
fractured at the paper mill on Mon-day,
when "fooling" with several oth-er
employees. He was taken to the
General Hospital for .treatment and is
still confined there.
Some person left several good tools
lay alongside of an auto outside of
Longenecker's garage on Monday
morning. From all indications an
effort was made to remove a tire but
evidently plans were spoiled and a
hurried get-away was made.
Joshua Rollman is now picking
mushrooms from his beds on a com-mercial
scale and finds a ready sale
for them. He sold eight baskets at
the Brunswick Hotel this week. He
had a mushroom six inches in diam-eter
on display at Burkholder's res-taurant.
The first home-raised strawberries
came to town last week, bringing
around 25 cents a box. The supply
is light. Berries are behind time as
it is not ideal weather for growth of
f r u i t s and vegetables of local pro-duction.
The f i r s t fclossoms of the
, early variety of strawberries were
frozen. Asparagus produced only
half a crop.
Taught Father and Children
D. W. Dietrich, of Lancaster, casmle
to town on Monday to attend the fun-eral
of Thomas Marks. He was Mr.
Mjarks' school teacher and served in
the same capacity for his two chil-dren.
Talking Doll to Be Given
Away at Fire Com-pany
Festival
A large talking doll was re-ceived
by the, Lititz Fire Com-pany
f r om W. B. Hornberger, in
the circulation department of
the Philadelphia Record. The
doll will be given away at the
festival on Saturday. It will
be on display in W. H. Buch's
window up to that time. The
doll can sing, says a child's
prayer and in fact has quite a
vocabulary considering its size
^and age. Who will get the
doll?
The doll is truly marvelous.
Hold her hand and she will walk
along beside you, singing as
she goes.
She has real huimlan hair to
brush.
She is all dressed up in, white
organdy, trimmed with lace, rib-bon
and fancy rosebuds, knitted
socks and fancy white shoes.
She is1 the most accomplished
doll in the whole world. The
doll with the genuine human
voice. She is as large as a
real live baby.
She prays, "Now I lay me
down to sleep." -She sinjgs,
'Rock-a-bye Baby," and recites
"Little Boy Blue."
Fishermen's Luck!
Charles Fink returned frcumi the
Susquehanna on Saturday with twen-ty-
one carp, averaging around nine
pounds.
Charles Butzer, of Li,titz, with
Charles Griel, Edward Todd, William
Litch, Dave McHenry, of Lancaster,
and Clarence Miller, of Columbia, ac-companied
by Captain Greenhawk, of
Oxford, Md., caught 400 fish weighing
600 pounds'in the Chesapeake Bay
over the week-end.
This is believed to be one of the
biggest catches ever made there by
any one fishing party. The catch
included eels, croakers and trout, all
of large size. There were two bar-rels
of fish.
N. D. Sturgis and Dr. D. A. Long
caught ten big sea trout, running
from five to eight pounds, in the
Chesapeake Bay, in the southeastern'
part of Virginia. They inet a man
and wife, who were professional fish-ers,
ar.d saw their catch, 37 and
42 pound channel bass. Their fish-ing
tackle was insured for $2500.
The Lititz fishermen had intended
going after big fish, but Weather con-ditions
were against them. 'A fine
boat, with upholstered cabin, was
rented at a surprisingly low price and
the cost of lodging was also low.
They were surprised at the hospi-tality
of the south and in the small
town where they had headquarters,
everyone, down to the children, bid
them the time. Bowers Beach, said
the Lititz men, cannot be compared
.to this fishermen's paradise.
Another Hitching Post Out of
Commission
Lititz Proposes
To Enter League
Four Teams In Base Ball
Circuit Close Together
In order to have closer contests the
Lititz base ball management is con-sidering
entering a two-county league.
The Lancaster team is known as the
Public Utilities', undefeated league
leader of the Lancaster Industrial
League. This team lost to Ephrata
last week by a 6 to 5 score.
Local fans, should write their views
to the Record in order to see how the
sentiment of the town stands. All
local season tickets sold will be honor-ed
here.
Representatives of base ball teams
i r four towns met at Manheim on
Tuesday night to organize a new
league, to be called the Lancaster-
Lebanon County League. The towns
in the league are Lancaster, Lebanon,
Lititz and Manheim.
C. J. Haag, manager of the Leban-on
team, who called the meeting, out- •
lined his idea of having a four-team
league, made up of former independ-;
ent teams, stating that league base
ball would prove more attractive to
the fans than independent ball. j
Others at the meeting were enthus- 1
iastic, and after discussing the plans
they adopted them with some revision, j
A schedule of 24 games for each I
team will be played, beginning next !
Sunday, June 12. ' Each team will j
play 12 games at home and 12 away, I
all games to be played on Saturdays j
and Sundays. Since Sunday baseball j
cannot be played at Lititz or Man- j
heim, these teams, will play four of
the'ir games together in Lancaster, at j
Rossm)ere ball park.
The Lancaster team will be man-aged
by "Rube" Andes, manager of
the Public Utilities team in the In-dustrial
League of that city. C. J.
Haag will manage the Lebanon team,
Robert Fry the Manheim team and
A. C. Fleckenstein, with the present
board of managers, will pilot the
Lititz team.
As director's of the league were
named Jack Martin and John Swank,
01: Lancaster; LeRoy Albert, of Leba-non;
Ralph Buch, of Lititz, and Harry
Trout, of Manheim I. A meeting will
be held on Wednesday, June 15, at
Manheim.
The first game of the season will
be played next Sunday. Manheim
will play Lancaster at Rossmere ball
park, and Lititz will go to Lebanon.
How Did Seitzinger Get Auto
Tags
Adiami Seitzinger, a resident of Lit-itz
f o r a short time, now in jail await-ing
trial in Court, will have another
charge to answer, beside the alleged
t h e f t of auto tires. The tags on
his automobile were traced and
found to have belonged to the car of
Elmer Hershey, wrecked in the rail-road
accident here when, the en-t
i r e Hershey family was killed.
The ownership of Seitzinger's automo-bile
is also being investigated.
Many Chickens Promised for
Firemen's Festival
Lititz firemen are out soliciting and
bringing home the chickens for the
annual festival on Saturday. Devil-ed
clams will .also be on the menu,
Moravian sugar cake, chicken sand-wiches,
fancy cakes and the usual
other good things. The, Ladies' Aux-iliary
have volunteered their services.
The firemen are planning for a
combined pumper and chemical en-gine
and with this goal in sight are
working hard to make this festival a
record breaker. With the Lititz
High School band as the attraction
for the evanimg the people of Lititz
and vicinity without a doubt will turn
out in full.
Early Monday morning John Fleish-man,
driving south on Cedar street,
collided with a hitchinlg post on the
cornier at Hensel's drug store, when
he steered wide to avoid hitting
Yerger's truck moving on Main street.
The car also hit the mail box. There
was a clatter of glass and a jar, but
the only damage to the Ford was a
broken wheel and a bent axle.
The hitching post, while useless for
the purpose intended, served to pre-vent
the machine from running
against the building. Mr. Fleish-man,
wasn't even scratched.
Here on Visit for First Time In
Twenty-One Years
Mr. and Mrs. David Dunback and
daughter Margaret, of Oakland, Cal-if.,
arrived here by automobile to vis-it
the Bear relatives, having their
hea«quarters with Mr. and Mrs,. Sher-man
Steffy, on Lincoln Avenue. They
made the trip in seventeen, and a half
days, covering 3,400 miles. They
took the southern route 'and crossed
over the flooded area of the Mississ-ippi.
The water is fast receding
and workmen are in much demand,
they reported.
Mr. Dunbach was reared at Owl
Hill, leaving thirty-one years ago,
when a boy of seventeen, and has not
been here for twenty-one years. His
wife is a native of California. Mr.
Dunbach is engaged in the lumbering
business.
Improving the Appearance of
The Band Stand
A music lover of Lititz hired a
painter to give the band stand aside
of the fire house a coat of white paint.
The white uniforms of the musicians,
will appear to better advantage with
this improvement, is his opinion.
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films, developing, printing and eni-larging
on schedule—Scott's Book
Store.
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A leak in Rudy's dam at Owl
Hill has practically drained off
all the water and it is doubtful
if it will be repaired. At one
time the water there was the
home of a big number of black
bass, one bass being caught by
a local fisherman that weighed
four pounds and ten ounces.
Illegal fishing with nets soon
cleaned them out and it is be-lieved
that the present leak was
caused by a charge of dynamite
used by illegal fishermen.
For many years the dam fur-nished
ice for Lititz and in the
summer was used for swi'mtming.
There are few Lititz "boys,"
many now grown, who do not
know about the dam.
Thirty-five years ago there
was a report that an alligator
or some - such creature was in
the dam. 1 The water was left
off and while no unusual inhab-itant
of the water was found,
fish were taken out by the tub-ful.
A Lititz man broke jail,
charged with some slight of-fense,
and is now working in a
city in this State. If he is
caught he will be sent to the
county jail and will be sentenc-ed
t o idleness for some months.
That's not the fault of the,
judge, jury or officers. It's
the faulty laws for which every
citizen is responsible.
Minnesota was admitted to
the Union in 1858, yet is way
ahead of old Pennsylvania, in
many ways.
The Minnesota State prison is
a $3,000,000 manufacturing
plant, efficiently managed, and
has 1,000 acres of f a rm land.
With an average of 1200 prison-ers,
more than $3,000,000 worth
of binder twine and fiarm im-plements
are manufactured. The
net profits to the State amount-ed
to $103,946. The mmates
are paid a salary above this
amount.
Instead of the Reading Rail-road,
the Girard estate, the
Bethlehem Steel Company and
other monopolies getting all the
cream of the mineral rights, as
in Pennsylvania, in Minnesota
certain moneys from mineral
deposits go to the permanent
t r u s t funds for education. As
a result Minnesota has the larg-est
school trust fund of any
State in the Union. Yet the
conservative East believes the
West is still wild and woolly.
In sipite of the increased num-ber
of chickens prepared year
a f t e r year for the Lititz Fire-men's
festival, up to date there
, was always a shortage and to
those who came late there was
the usual answer, "Sold out."
The chicken corn soup for this
annual festival has been built'
up around Mrs. Einlrna Long,
who always maintains the same
standard of excellency, year af-ter
year.
As high as a ton of chickens
have been converted into soup
on this one day and yet it was
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County farm Boy
Wins Honors In West
J.W. Kauffman, Teacher
In Minn. High School
Lancaster county farm boys have
gained a wide reputation of making
good whan they go west. J. W.
Kauffman, a former resident of Brick-erville,
can be added to the honor
roll, taking his record from the
Long Prairie Leader, published in
Todd County, Minn. Mr. Kauffman
is instructor of vocational agriculture
in the Long Prairie Public Schools.
The judging team of the school,
coached by a Lancaster countiaw, has
for the third year won honors in the
agricultural field, in judging and de-monstration
of which the entire State
can feel proud. The vocational agri-culture
department is considered one
of the best irt the State.
"With nearly fifty State high
schools competinig, the Long Prairie
team consisting of Willard Maland,
Nestor Pontius and Raymond Adams,
won f i r s t place in the dairy judging
contest and will go to Memphis, Tenn.,
to represent the State in a niational
contest. Willard Maland won the in-dividual
sweepstakes prize in: dairy
cattle Judging. Ezra Reineke won
second prize in the individual sweep-stakes
swine judging contest. In a
judging contest between the instruc-tors,
Mr. Kauffman, won first place
in the beef cattle judging contest and
third place in the horse judging con-test.
The, boys and their instructor
have made a splendid record and The
Leader is proud of them. They are
the kind of young farmers who con-tribute
t o progress.
Concerning Todd county, the Lead- j
er gives many interesting facts and
figures, which are initerestinjg in com-parison
with farming conditions in
Lancaster county.
The creameries of the county, all
co-operative, paid to their patrons
nearly three million dollars for butter
f a t .
iMore than 20,000 acres of alfalfa
are now on Todd county farms.
Every village has its co-operative
livestock shipping association and in
1926 these associations shipped over
two million dollars worth of hogs and
cattle. The farms are on a basis
of producing butterfat, beef, hogs and
poultry. The population of the
county is 27,000. There are sixteen
co-operative creameries.
Here are some facts worth per-using
regarding Minnesota:
Minnesota has a taxable wealth of
approximately $3,000 per capita.
Minnesota is first in butter pro-duction.
Minnesota is f i r s t in the production
cf iron ore.
¡Minnesota is f i r s t in the production
of linseed oil.
Minnesota is second in the produc-tion
of oats.
Minnesota is second in the produc-tion
otf rye.
Minnesota is second in the produc-tion
of potatoes.
Minnesota is second in the produc-tion
of flax.
Minnesota is second in the west
north central section in livestock.
Minnesota has the largest school
t r u s t fund of any State in the Union.
Minnesota manufactures more
flour than any State in the Union.
Minnesota is the second largest
granite producing- center in the world.
Minnesota has more than 10,000
fresh water lakes.
—You can purchase a Remington
Portable Typewriter on easy month-ly
payments at Scott's Book Store.
Two Hard Games for
Lititz This Week
The Christiana team, with
Jebbs in the box, champions of
the southern-end of the county
and contenders for the county
championship, will play Lititz
here, on Saturday.
Christiana is coming here es-pecially
strong as they count
on beating Lititz, the same as
they did last year.
On Sunday Lititz will play
West Lebanon at Lebanon:. West
Lebanon is a going team and
last year gave the Eighth Ward
team of Lancaster" two hard
games. The team' draws big
crowds at Lebanon.
, The twio games will be a se-vere
test for Lititz.
Kiddies Study Bible
The Summer Bible School, conduct-ed
by the five churches of Lititz1—the
Reformed, United Evangelical, Morav-ian,
United Brethren and Lutheran—
is under way and is progressing fine-ly.
There are fourteen grades,
counting the kindergarden with ages
ranging from five to fourteen years.
The teachers are: Misses Dorothy
Jenkins, Caro Crosland, Helen Yerg-er,
Mary Hess, ElizaJbeth Workman,
Mfary Sturgis, A. Virginia Grosh,
Laura Rudy, Agnes Herisel, Kathryn
Gantz, Kathryn Sturgis, Isabell Groff,
also Mrs. N. G. Bachman and Mrs.
J. C. H. Light. In the inability of
three of these regular teachers to
teach during the first two days,
Misses Anna Noll, Bernice Dengler^
and Maybelle Steffy substituted.
There are about 275 pupils enrolled
at the present time, with new pupils
being added each day. The Sum-mer
Bible School began last Mon-day,
June 6th and will continue un-til
Friday, June 24th. Interested
townspeople are cordially invited to
visit the school any morning. ^ The
hours are 8:30 to 11:30 A. M.
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COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Lightning Killed Horse
Lightning struck the biarn of Jo-seph
Long, at Rome on Sunday after-noon
and killed a horse. The gable
end of the barn was splintered but
nothing caught fire.
Mr. Long had another loss several
weeks ago when $40 was taken from
his home when the family was away.
Rain Spoiled Firemen's Parade
at Manheim
The Lititz Fire Company and Lititz
High School band went to Manheim
on Saturday but did not parade, "al-though
in readiness anytime the
weather would have been favorable.
However 'some companies and bands
took a chance and marched, and were
caught in a heavy downpour of rain.
The Lititz High Band gave several
selections in the I. O. O. F. Hall and
later, when the r a i n ceased, played on
the street, quite a crowd gathering
around them.
The r a in was no respecter of persons
and spoiled the county firemen's day
a f t e r mJuch time spent in arrange-ments.
Birthday Cake for Charles Zart-man
At the "third anniversary council
meeting of the Young People of Dis-trict
No. 9, Lancaster County Sunday
School Association, on Monday even-ing,
Charles ZarbmJan was remem-bered
with a birthday cake containing
candles and was greeted with a birth-day
song. His birthday occurred on
Sunday. He has been a faithful mem-ber
of the Association.
Lititz High School Band To Give Concert Here Saturday Night
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Glenn, of Akron,
Ohio, a r e visiting Mrs. Glenn's sister,
Miss Ella Buch.
Miss Edna Charles, of Mt. Joy, is
spending three days with Mr.' and
Mrs. Ralph Worley.
Mis's Caro Crosland is home, a f t e r.
graduating at the New York School
of Fine and Applied Arts.
W. E. Hickman and faimdly took a
t r ip to Cumberland county to visit.
Rev. and Mrs. Maurer.
Ralph Worley and family and W»
W. Worley attended a reunion at Big
Springs, Perry county.
Mrs. Curtis Hensel rwent to Sayre,
Pa., to attend the funeral of her broth-er,
Bernard Coles, on Monday.
Misses Bernice and Hazel Meiskey
of Philadelphia, spent the week-end
with their mother, Mrs. Ada Meiskey.
Guy Bomberger, of the firm of
Long & Co., spent thre® days at
Wilkesbarre, at a convention of coal
dealers.
M|r. and Mrs. Guy L. Calvert at-tended
the wejdding of the former's
niece, Miss Kathryn Calvert, in Phila-delphia,
on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Linneaus1 Nies and
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Showers, of Read-ing,
attended the funeral of Mrs. John
Fasnacht here, on Tuesday.
Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Stengel left
this morning for Winston-Salem, N.
C., to be present at the wedding of
their son James on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Graybill and
Mrs. Ellem Kautz and daughter Mary
took a trip to the Du Pont Gardens,
Wilmington and West Chester on Sun-day.
Kathryn Sturgis and Kathryn
Gantz graduated at Millersville State
Normal School this week. Members
of their families attended the exer-cises.
George Zimmele, representative of
the Ideal Chocolate company in Bos-ton,
is in town this week. Mr. Zim-mele
is a former resident of this
place.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stoner and
Mrs. Cora Albright, of Akron, were
entertained on Sunday with a chicken
and waffle dinner by Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Guiney.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Eby and
daughter went to Hillsboro, Michigan,
this morning to bring home their
other daughter, Mary, who is attend-ing
college a t that place.
Misses Carrie and Mary Tshudy,
both Lititz boro public school teach-ers^
le'ave this week for Cincinnati, O.,
to keep house for their brother, Harry
Tshudy, during the summer months.
Rev. F. A. Weicksel is attending the
meeting of the Miinisterium of Penn-sylvania,
' in Lancaster, this week.
The attending delegates from the par-ish
are John Lengel and C. F. Steiner,
both of Akron. J
Ensign Fred S. Habecker, who grad-uated
from the Military Academy at
Annapolis, Mid., last week, is spend-ing
part of the week at home. He '
will return to school to take a short
course in! aviation.
Robert E. Pfautz went to Washing-ton,
D. C!, Wednesday, to attend the
wedding of J. Theodore Grosh, who
has his insurance office at Pfautz
Bros. Store. Mr. Pfautz will also
visit his son Earl, who is oni the
medical staff a t the Reed Hospital, at.
Washington.
Joseph Dreifus, who resides with
his son, Dr. Percy Dreifus, in Phila-"
delphla, was in town the latter part
of last week and from here letft for
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county. Mr,
Dreifus: is looking well.
T. I. Brubaker, of Bryn Mawr, was
a visitor in town this week. Mr,
Brubaker is president of the Bankers
base ball league, of Philadelphia, hold-ing
that position for several seasons.
The banks finance the project.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl L. Wolf, of 625
New Holland Ave., Lancaster, an-nounce
the birth of a son, Karl, Jr.,
on Thursday, June 2. Mrs. Wolf was
formerly Miss Elizabeth Keller,
daughter of Alvin Keller of this place.
Native of Lititz to be Married
In Washington, D. C.
Theodore Grosh, of Lancaster, and;
Miss Adele Zuberno will be united iii
marriage at Washington, D. C., today.
He is a native of Lititz, being a son
of the late Lawrence Grosh. The
mother, Mrs. Catherine Grosh, left
Lancaster on Sunday to attend the
wedding.
-Courtesy of Lancaster New Era