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VOL. L
VEITS CONCISELY TOLO
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1927
Chocolate Co. Here
and Brewster Co.
Form Consolidation
€. B. Risser bought Benjamin Weid-ner's
farm of 14 acres on North Broad
Street.
Chester Witmyer bought half of
a double dwelling house on West Lin-coln
Avenue from Thomas Steffy.
Henry Lutz, who was successful In
building a "jack-rabbit," or miniature
gravity railway, has started to build
a tree house.
There should be a good turnout of
fans at the ball game on Saturday,
when Manheim and Lititz will fight it
out on the local grounds.
At the home of D. Wal. Evans, N.
Broad Street, an African lily is in
full bloom. It is a rare flower in Lititz
and its blue blooms attract much at-tention.
A farmer near town, discovering an
abandoned pheasant's nests, put the
eggs under a hen and now has ten
young pheasants which are six weeks
old.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bear announce
the birth of a boy at their home on
Lincoln Avenue on Friday. They feel
justly proud of their first boy. All
the clerks in the post office here now
have a boy in, the family, the post-master
being content with two girls.
Three parties of Lititz fishermen
who went to Bowers' Beach, Oxford
and Wildwood the latter part of last
week met with little or no luck, ow-ing
to the rough weather. There
were also reports of sea-sickness,
magneta, tire trouble and what not.
The last picnic of the season will
be the Reading Railroad Club, booked
for Saturday, Sept. 17, when 600
members are expected to attend. Free
soup will be provided. A band will
be in attendance.
John L. Hossler, who was in charge
of the A. & P. store, Ephrata, this
week started as manager of the gro-cery
department of the Hershey De-partment
Store, at Hershey. His fam-ily
resides at Lititz.
The White Dove Commandery, No.
532, Knights of Malta, will have nom-
• ination of officers this evening. Elec-tion
of officers will be held next Thurs-day
evening, August 28th. A full at-tendance
is requested.
Christian F. Hess, who owns and
conducts a farm near Hess' church,
will retire after selling his farm and
household goods and move to one of
his children. M(r. Hess has worked
at farming for sixty- one years.
A blue heron was shot and left lav
by some unknown hunter near Lititz.
Mr. F. B. Buch received the bird and
secured a special permit to mount it.
He is also mounting a monkey-faced
owl by special permit, it being against
the ¡aw to shoot birds of these
species.
I. H. Doster has started renovating
the front part of his store. The en-trance
will be lowered and the show
windows will' also be lowered and in-creased
in depth. The grocery de-partment
will be moved to the front
part of the store room.
D. E. Sawtelle, of Harrington, Del.,
has started shipping cantaloupes di-rect
from the farmi to consumer at
$1.50 per crate by parcel post. Lititz
people in past years have received
many crates of melons from the
farm.
New Company To Be Known As
Brewster Ideal Chocolate
Company
Consolidation of the Ideal Cocoa
and Chocolate Company of Lititz, "Pa.,
and the Brewster Sons Company, of
Newark, N. J., into a new corpora-tion
to be known as the Brewster
Ideal Choeolate Company, was an-nounced-.
Friday. A program of ex-pansion
will be carried out under the
leadership1 of Albert E. Brewster, who
will serve as president of the con-solidated
company. A few changes
are expected in the titles of officials
now connected with the new company,
because of duplication, of executive
heads, but no changes will be made !n
minor officials or in the operating
personnel.
The newly organized Brewster Ideal
Chocolate Company will acquire the
plant, equipment and business of the
Brewster Sons Company, which start-ed
business fifty-five years ago, and
the modern equipped plant, assets, and
business of the Ideal Cocoa and Choc-olate
Company, which was organized
in 1900.
The two Companies transact busi-ness
of approximately $2,000,000' an-nually,
but this total is expected to be
substantially increased as the consol-idation
was undertaken chiefly for the
purpose of expanding the business of
the two companies. Both organiza-tions
have an excellent record of
gTowth and earnings. The Brewster
company has been in control of the
family since its inception, having been
founded in 1872 by the father of the
president of the consolidated com-pany.
The Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate
Company was taken over by the late
Artemias Ward, prominent in New
York business circles for many years.
At his death the property passed to
Harvard University as residuary leg-atee
under his will and the business
since has been in the hands of the
executory trustees under the will.
The consolidated company's bal-ance
sheet, .after giving effect to the
merger and readjustment of the cap-ital
structure show.s total assets of ap-proximately
SI,567,000, with land,
plant, and equipment valued under
conservative appraisal at $1,200,000.
Goodwill and trade marks of the two
companies, which have several popu-lar
brands on the market, are valued
in the balance sheet at $1. Current as-sets
totaled $516,655 and current lia-bilities
$17,433, leaving the new com-
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NO. 48
Many Candidates
in Second Ward
For Councilmen
Little Competition For Other
Borough Offices In Coming
Primary
The engravure is a birds-eye-view of the Animal Trap Company of America factory at Lititz
and was taken at a height of nearly 600 feet by a cameraman who stood on the wing of an aero-plane.
It is clear and unique
Farmers Bank
Giving Out Handbooks
Series of Sixteen Subjects on
Financial Independence
Spent Week At Resort
Dr. and Mrs. Harry Bender and
Mr. and Mirs. Clarence Grosh spent
the greater part of last week at Wild-wood,
N. J.
Band Concert Proved Disap-pointing
The Quarryville Band will furnish
the music here on Saturday evening.
The 104th Cavalry Band met with
difficulties and did not arrive here
until 8.45 Saturday evening. A heavy
rain, at Mt. Gretna delayed their
starting and another hour was lost
when they were misdirected as to the
road to Lititz. Owing to the steady
rain they played under the roof at the
Hotel porch, giving an hour's pro-gram
while standing. Even with this
handicap they proved that they were
an organization with wonderful abili-ty.
It is hoped they will come here
again under more favorable circum-stances.
Many autoists, who came
to hear the concert, left before the
band arrived.
Ralph M. Spacht entertained the
musicians with lunch before they left
for their home.
Juniors Interested In Garden
Work
A meeting of the local Junior Gar-den
Club was held at the home of
Ray and Jacob Bushong, at Rome,
last week. Mr. Huffington, of State
College, was present and gave a prac-tical
talk. A report of each garden
was given. It was decided to visit
each member and an auto run will be
made on September 3 to see what
progress has been made. The club
has a stall at Lutz's Market House.
Silver Wedding Anniversary
The Farmers National Bank is giv-ing
out a series of sixteen "Prosperity
Handbooks," or little pocket guides on
talks on prosperity. Not only does
it tell you to save money, but why
and how. Every sentence is construc-tive
and written in a clear way that
is easy, to understand. In fact some
of the sentences read like Benjamin
Franklin's sayings. The books are
written by a financier and what he
says are the results of experience
and practice.
Several of the ¡books deal with
children, one of them on the sub-ject,
"What Children Should Know
About Money." Here is a sentence
quoted from the book, "Money never
comes by magic. There are no Al-ladin's
lamps in real life which one
may rub and get his wish. In almost
every home someone does a dollar's
worth of hard work with hand or
brain for every dollar there is to
spend."
These handbooks can be had at the
teller's window. They are the best
we have ever -seen on banking.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Althouse, of
E. Main Street, Lititz. were married
twenty-five years ago on Wednesday
at Lancaster, residing at Lititz for
the past twenty-three years. They
celebrated the event only in a small
way.
Frank Burkholder Files Bank-ruptcy
Petition
Frank B. Burkholder, of Lititz, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy in the
United States District Court, at Phil-adelphia.
He has liabilities of $14,-
739 and assets of $4,500.
\ Borough Taxes Payable
T. Stevens Grash will receive boro
taxes at the following places:
Dietrich's Store, Aug. 19, 2 to 8 P. M.
Warwick House, Aug 20, 2 to 8 P. M.
Five Points Store, Aug. 26, 2 to 8 P.M.
Springs Hotel, Aug. 27, 8 A. M. to
8 P. M.
Birthday Party For Miss Fetter
A birthday surprise party was held
on Monday evening, for Dora, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Fetter.
Thirty guests were present, among
them Adam Walters and family, who
came by auto from the Lebanon. Coun-ty
line. Refreshments were served.
Miss Fetter is employed as a book-keeper
at J. F. Longenecker's gar-age.
Lititzites Visited Jacob Funk at
Summer Headquarters
Members of the Moravian prayer
society and others, thirty-four in all
spent Monday evening with Jacob
Funk in his summer camjp, near Leb-anon.
Mr. Redy, of the Moody Tn-'
stitute of Chicago, with his wife are
sojourning there and added to the
pleasantness of the evening.
Coffee and frankfurters were pre-pared
over an out-door fire, and with
rolls made a good lunch. The camp
is in a woods, several tents being
erected, besides a small tabernacle
with an organ. Here a short praj^er
and experience meeting was held.
The woods is in ship-shape order,
with paths and flower gardens. Mr.
Funk, who is a Lebanon jeweler, has
this place for his summer home and
has company almost daily. Mr. Funk
•openly says that drink and non-
Christian living had once dragged
him down to othe gutter, but that
now he is trying to live a Christian.
life and help his fellow-men. '
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JAPANESE BEETLE INVESTIGAT-ORS
HERE >
Investigators of Japanese beetles
were in town this week. They found
several specimens on South Spruce
Street. Geoige Miller reported to
them that he found several on rose
stalks and a neighbor showed them
some specimens he found and kept
alive by feeding. While the infest-ation
is by no means general, the
chances are that there are more Jap-anese
beetles in this locality.
—It pays to advertise in the Clas-sified
Columns of the "Record."
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O u r
TOIPQ
In conversation with a well-known
Pottsville business man
recently, the question was put
to him as to how business was.
His ready reply was "rotten."
He added that the hard coal
miners in that section are work-ing
only two and three days a
week, owing to the small de-mand
for their product. "The
miners struck once too often,"
he said, "and now so miany peo-ple
are resorting to other meth-ods
of cooking and heating—
some are using gas, some elec-tricity
and others oil." There
you have it in a nutshell. It
doesn't always work out when
y°,u think as did the thousands
of miners that the world can't
get along without their services
in digging dusky diamonds.
Have you ever noticed when
in Lancaster City on market
days that most every woman
comes along carrying a market
basket either full or empty?
The same conditions exist in
Lititz, especially on a Saturday
afternoon and1 evening. Over
on Staten Island, N. Y., no
woman can be seen carrying a
basket. The women there con-sider
it beneath their dignity
to be seen carrying a basket,
but at the same time you may
see them wearing their hus-bands'
hats or caps, coats or
boots. Anything they buy in
the markets and stores they
want delivered, be it only a
trifle:
The sale last week of the or-gan,
used at the Sesqui-Centen-nial
in Philadelphia, said to be
the largest organ in the world,
recalls from history another in-teresting
fact relating to one
of the early organs in Philadel-phia.
It was built in 1790 by
Johanri Tannenberg, the Lititz
organ builder, for the Zion Lu-theran
Church, Cherry and 4th
Streets, that city. Washington
and Congress were present at
the dedication of this organ.
The church was destroyed oy
fire in 1794.
The steeple of the Moravian
Church, as seen here today, was
designed by Tannberg. He died
while tuning an organ he had
built at York, by falling from
a bench on his head, in 1804. He
made many organ,s for churches,
mostly in this State, although
one organ was built for Albany
and one for Salem, N. C. A
few of his origans are in exist-ance
today.
Imperial Valley
Land of Opportunity
So Say Local Persons Who Re-turned
From Trip to Texas
y
"Young Man, Go To Texas," is the
advice of Lititz persons who recently
returned from a trip to the Lone Star
State. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Pfautz
and Graybill Minnich accompanied a
party of persons from this and near-by
Counties on an eight-day trip to
the Imperial Valley in Texas, spent a
short time at Houston, Galveston and
crossing the border into Mexico.
In a day and a night from St. Lou-is,
on the commodious and fast train,
"The Spirit of St. Louis," they were
in the heart of Texas.
Two days were spent touring the
Imperial Valley by auto, where they
met and talked with many owners
of tracts of land, varying from ten
acres to several hundred acres. Ev-erywhere
there are signs of prosper-ity
and the most of the successful
farmers relate how they came there
with little finance and are now finan-cially
independent.
The Imperial Valley is forty miles
long and twenty miles in width. The
soil is black and rich, running to a
depth of forty to seventy feet, so that
fertilizing is a waste of money. The
land is irrigated, the water being
brought from the RioGrande. Three
crops a year are raised.
Citrus fruit (oranges, lemons and
grapefruit) and trucking are the main
crops. Everyone keeps a cow or two
and chickens. Truck is put on the
market, even being sent into Canada,
from a month to six weeks before the
Florida greenstuff,s are ripe. By
Christmas they are enjoying practic-ally
all the fresh vegetables. *
The rural homes have electric
lights, electric refrigerators and elec-tric
cookers. Natural gas will soon
be piped into the valley. A canal
project from the Gulf, at Point Isa-belle,
sixty miles away, is under way
to connect with the valley.
One woman related that she and
her husband came there practically
broke and while her husband prac-ticed
dentistry she ¡farmed. She took
itheimi thru her $20,000 home which
she paid for out of the profits of cit-rus
fruit.
An important factor of the Imperial
Valley is its healthful climate. Rheu-matism
is .soon cured there and per-sons
with goiters discover that the
malady soon leaves and they become
entirely cured.
A man with ten acres of land there
has as big an opportunity, say the
Lititz visitors, as a person here with
a hundred acres. It's the land of op-portunity
for a young man looking for
a place to get a start in life.
The Lititz visitors were amazed
with the wonderful public schools,
and yet the taxes are very low. This
is due to the royalties which the
State receives from oil, the money be-ing
used for the schools.
Republicans and Democrats in the
Borough of Lititz have placed tickets
in the field for the primary election
o,n, Tuesday, September 20.
For County office G. G. Diehm will
'be a candidate for Commis-sioner
on the Republican ticket, while
another townsman, W. M. Pfautz, is
slated for County controller on the
Democratic ticket.
As councilmen in the First Ward,
on the Republican ticket, James Stur-gis
has no competition* but in the
Second Ward, where two councilmen
will be elected, there are five candi-dates
on the Republican ticket. John,
G. Helter and E. B. Weber, whose
terms will expire, have three candi-dates
in the field against them and
Old Warwick is buzzing over the sit-uation.
Frank Hunter, proprietor of a knit-ting
mill here, has thrown his hat in
the ring as a cándidate for school
director.
Two American Legion, men are on
the Rlepublican ticket this year, dem-onstrating
that the men who wore' the
uniform are interested in civic affairs.
Following, is the ticket for Lititz:
At Large
Auditor — Clarence Regennas, R.
Clayton S. Zartman, R., Louis
Huebener, D.
High Constable—C. R. Kreider, R.
School Directors—P. Snyder, R.,
S. C. Hassler, R., Frank Hunter,
R., J. C. Brenneman, D.
First Ward
Judge of Election—Wm. G. Eshleman,
R.
Inspector of Election—Victor Wag-ner,
R., Frank Runk, D.
Constable—Jacob Singley, R.
Councilman—James A. Sturgis, R.,
Harry Regennas, D.
Assessor—Paul Demmy, R., Frank
Gable, D.
Justice of the Peace—C. N. Derr, R.
Second Ward
Judge of Election—Paul H. Bomberg-er,
R.
Inspector of Election—Clarence Bru-baker,
R., Stanley Diehm, D.
Constable—John Carpenter, R.
Councilmen—John D. Helter, R., E.
B. Weber, R., F. C. Dengate, R.,
J. G. Moore, R., Norimian Ha-becker,
R., Ezra Kline, D.
Assessor—Andrew Shissler, R.
Addition to New Market House
Completed
The new Lutz Market House, on
East Main Street, in an enlarged
form^ was open to the public for the
first time last Saturday. By the ad-dition
of 20 feet to the rear the room
is now about 90 feet long and looks
much better and still more inviting.
Not all the tables are yet in use, but
there is no question but that they
will be filled in the near future.
Fresh fruits and vegetables, to say
nothing about "Benny" Lutz's meat
stand, graced the tables. The follow-ing
were somie of the prices asked on
¡Saturday: Drelssed yotmig chickens,
$1.00 to $1.50; old chickens, $1.50 to
$2.0i0; green corn, 35c to 40c per
dozen; apples 25c to 35c per half peck;
potatoes 25c per half peck; eggs 35c
per dozen; red beets 5c a bunch;
radishes, 5c and 6c per bunch; black-berries,
20c per quart box; onions 6c
per bunch; string beans, 20c per half
peck; celery, 10c per stalk; cup
cheese, 10c a cup.
TRAVELERSJIEAR AND FAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Saw Canvasback Duck On Lititz
Creek
A juvenal plumage canvasback duck
about two months old was observed on
the lower branch of the Lititz Creek
by Prof. H. H. Beck last week. It is
the first record that a canvasback
duck was seen, in the County and
probably: in the State ait this time of
the year, the last 'week in October
marking the time of their first ap-pearance,
when they travel in flocks
and confine themselves to bays and
larger rivers. By nature they do not
feed along creeks and mill dams. This
individual duck has broken numerous
natural laws.
Here From Onieda, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Miller, South
Broad Street, have been entertaining
for the past ten days Mr. Donald
Btowen, Mr. Harry Lloyd, Miss Fran-cis
Sandusky and Mrs. Harry B.
Wynn, of Onieda, N. Y.
T. I. Brubakjer, of Philadephia,
spent the week-end in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H, Bomberger are
spending some days at the new Hotel
Iroquois at Atlantic City.
Miss Grace Keller left on Monday
to spend a (week's vacation at Fred-erick,
Md.'
Miss Miary Reidenbach spent a week
with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Zug, at
Harrisburg.
Miss Alma Brookmyer and Miss
Maibelle Steffy are spending this 'week
in Philadelphia.
Miss Gertrude Rodkey, of Kinder-hook,
is spending the week here with
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Simcox on Front
Street.
Mr. Paul S. Gable, wife and son, of
Washington, D. C., stopped off here
on Sunday on their way on an auto
trijp. to Easton, Pa.
Mrs. Earl Boyer, of Reading, is
spending* the week with Mr. and Mrs.
E. A. Sturgis, Mrs. Boyer being a
niece to Mrs. Sturgis.
Mirs. Thomas W. Jopson and daugh-ter
Miss Betty, of Germantown, Pa.,
on a motor trip, spent Saturday with
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Zartmian.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sperline and
son, father and father-in-law, of Ac-cident,
Md., are visiting Mrs. Spe™-
line's nieeeis, Misses Sarah and Re-becca
Stormfeltz.
Elmer Kauffman, of Philadelpjhia,
was in town last week. Elmer is a1-
<ways happy to be back in the old
town and shake hands with his many
friends.
Clarence Kreider, Preston Helrnan,
Phares Hollimger, Albert Hall
and Homer Bushong saw many things -
of interest at Washington, D. C., mak-ing
the trip by auto.
Mjr. and Mrs. John Seaber, of Col-umbia,
S. C., visited his brother,
James Seaber, and wife from Friday
to Tuesday. Mr. Seaber, although
away from town, for many yeans, still
takes miuch interest and pride in
Lititz.
Mr. and Mrs. C. William Grosh and
daughter Nina, Misses Anna Erb and
Anna Smith, Mrs. Harry Kepple and
daughter Violet are spending the week
at Ocean Grove and Asbury Park.
¡Mr, and Mrs. Raymond Baetzel and
daughter Eleanore, of Roxbury, in
Franklin County, spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Weidman.
Homer H.ackman, with three friends
from Millersville State-Normal School,
left on Monday morning by auto on
a trip thru the New England States.
They will be gone about a week.
Miss Josephine Bowman and Miss
Frances Ludwig, of Lititz, and Mr.
and Mrs. Irvin Heisey and Miss Hei-sey,
of Rheems, left on Mlonday by
machine for Watkins' Glen, New York,
and Springfield, Mass., to visit Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Spiekler.
The Misses Mary and Carrie
Tschudy, who spent the summer with
their brother Harry, at Cincinnati, O..
were brought home by automobile
this week by the brother above named,
who will spend about a week in
Lititz.
¡Mrs. Clara Weaver, corner of
Broad and Main Streets, and friend,
Mrs. Jaimes Linnier, of Philadelphia,
are isojourning at Beach Haven, N. J.
They were roommates at Wyoming
Seminary, which institution, they at-tended
many years ago.
iMr. and Mrs. Ida Shimp and two
children, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dick-inson,
all of Braman, Oklahoma, spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Ellen
Schnerer* on South Spruce Street, the
women being nieces of Mrs. Schnerer.
Mrs. Dickenson, who left Eph-rata
with her parents forty years ago,
was on her first visit east.
Miss Jennie Grosh, Mrs. D. W.
Pfautz, and Mrs. Emma Nethercott
and daughter Erica spent the p^st
Friday at Miss Mary Bruekart's home
at Elm. It is an ideal rural home ,
with beautiful flowerrs growing on the .
premised. Wonderful hospitality was
shown the guests and they will long
remember the visit.
,Mr. and Mrs. George Bashore, with
a .son, and wife, of Baltimore, spent
Sunday in town with Mrs. Bashore's
mother, Mrs. Mary Kissinger. Mr.
Bashore, when a boy, came here to
learn plumbing with A. M. Kreider,
later starting in the life insurance
business, in which work he is engag-ed
at the present time. Old base baP
fans remember when he played on *
Lititz base ball team.
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