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YOL. LI THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MOR:
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
Thomas Steffy purchased Brobst's gar-age
at a price said to be $[9,000.
Underwriters are making- a fire
chart of the town.
Lititz Lodge No. 1050 will confer
the first degree on Monday evening.
Daniel Goehenaur has taken the
agency for a Lebanon Laundry Com-pany.
Huebener and Habecker report the
sale of property near Millport, for'
John D. Street, on private terms.
Twenty-two persons took the excur-sion
train here Sunday, six going to
New York and sixteen up the Hudson.
Raymond S. Hess moved with his
wife from Akron to the home pur-chased
from Murrell Brockway, on
South Spruce street.
Carl Grosh is representing the Lit-itz
Fire Cotaipany at the- State Fire-men's
Convention being held at Sham-akin
this week.
Highspire High School football team
will play Lititz High here on Saturday
The Women's Auxiliary of the Lit-itz
Fire Company will meet in the
f i r e house this Thursday evening. All
members are urged to be presero.
N. D. Sturgiis, Lyman Harnley,
Charles Hollinger and Harry Showers
eauight 21 salmon at thle river on Sat-urday.
Mr. Sturgis hooked the lim-it,
ten.
Skunks are numerous in town and
seen frequently 'crossing the public
streets. One dog learned of its pro-tective1
methods much to the annoy-ance
of the owner.
Fratiik Burfcholder was taken to the
St. Joseph Hospital last week
when he suddenly became sick. X-ray
pictures were taken but his ailment
has not been made known. David
Fass.w^as taken to the same hospital
Friday.
The home of the late Peter Bru-baker,
on North Cedar street, near
New street, was sold at public sale
by the héirs, to Reuben Brubaker, for
Mrsi. Fianma Erib, for $4725.
Ephraim Herr, George Evans and
Clayton Roth caught ten bass at the
river this week, the largest weighing
two and a quarter pounds and mea-suring
17 inches in length.
One farmer sold his 1927 crop of
leaf tobacco in the field at 18 cents
per pound. The consensus of opin-ion
is that tobacco generally will
bring more than the 1926 crop.
Williaim Cleary moved his house-hold
goods by truck f r om South Broad
street to New Brunswick, N. J., where
he is employed with a chocolate com-pany
which recently started in busi-ness.
Speeding and racing with big trucks
as well as motorcycles is a common
sight along East Main street, and it
seems the authorities take no notice
of it. Why not report it to the
State Police?
A member of St. Paul's Lutheran
church stated that he has not missed
•a Communion service ever ince the
church was dedicated in the year 1885,
or 42 years ago. He also kept a re-cord
of the numiber who communed at
each such sierivce. That is some re-cord
to be proud of.
Myers Caught at Last
Found Fisherman's Paradise
Near Cape May, N. J,
School of Mackerel Furnished Plenty of Fun for Local Anglers
Broke Out of Cell in Fire House Here
Last March
John Myers, who broke out of the
"m cell in the fire house here the
past March, after being arrested on
a charge of disorderly conduct, was
caught Tuesday afternoon by Officers
Singley and Kreider, at the stone
quarry, a mile east of town. They
were on his trail several times pre-viously
but he managed to elude them.
No chanice was taken with Myers this
time and he was taken to the Lan-caster
jail to await a hearing before
Squire C.'N. Derr, next week.
Myers' wife and'craldren reside m
Lititz. It was reported that he
calmie here to kidnap the elu'dren.
Myers served several tetfmis in jail.
When Myers broke jail here-the
charge algainst him was only a trivial
one and the ease would probably have
been dismissed, as his wife, who
brought complaint, was considering
withdrawing the charge.
When Myers broke jail here he
.creed off the handle of a meat chop-per
and using it as a lever, pried the
bars apart. He previously broke out of
she 1"raf1- im jail by getting po'sises-sior
crowbar.
The . aily came here. from Man-heim.
The Old Grounds
"What is so rare as a day in J u n e ?"
Well, piscotoi-ically speaking, I
might amend this by saying a day in
September, toward the fag-end of the
month or early October, when most
of these wise weather predictors say
we should have a few equinoctical
storms, but not this year," writes
Harry W. Seaber, of Paltoiyra, N. J.,
in the Philadelphia Record, "for last
Sunday was just about as near a per-fect
day ais one could wish for.
"It brought down a big crowd all
set for the fishing banks. All the
boats from Schellinger's Landing car-ried
almost, if not quite, their full
quota. The ride out was just as fine
as the return trip, .and how anyone
managed to get seasick seemts a mys-tery,
although there were some never-theless.
"The fishing was juist as good as
the weather was fine. Every boat
had its full share of luck. Flounders
were rather scarce, and still scarcer
were the fancy little mackerel. Some
f ew were caught, but the vast army
seemed to have moved on to deeper
water. But they'll come back, they
will be back next year. However
they furnish a lot of sport for sever-al
months and their delicious taste
appealed to thousands of Philadel-phianis,
who no doubt will miss their
tojackerel breakfast.
"Both porgies and sea bass
were caught in abundance, and to
give you an idea of the large
catch, most of the passengers on
the Ocean Queen averaged at
least 50. One party of ours
caught 300. I was well satis-fied
with my 35, as it supplied no
less than eight families of Pal-myra
with a fine fish breakfast
Monday morning.
Scarce as flounders were it did not
prevent Robert Henderson, of 2940
Tulip street, Philadelphia, from hook-in,
g into an eight pounder and rob-bing
the pool with it.
"It seems a hopeless task to find
cut why this wonderful productive
fishing spot, located 30 miles out, as
the crow flies, is called the Old
Grounds. That iseems ' to be its of-ficial
title, always has been., and per-haps
always will be. This is from
fishermen who have been in the game
for more than 50 years. Be that as
it may, it is the one remiaindng hope
of those who lave to fish in the bound-ing
billows. So f a r no way has been
devised for the purse -netteris td clean
up this place. Yet you never can
tell. If by some means they dis-cover
some way it will be a sad fare-well
to deep sea fishing.
"Fortescue is played out. Fish-ing
there has been very uncertain
all summer, and the high cost of
both boats and bait has put a
crimp in the place that may mean
more than words can convey. Few
large weakfish are being caught
this fall, so few that it is causing
some apprehension among the
lovers of this fine sport, for weak-fish
is usually that, but it looks
as if its days are numbered."
On Saturday, October 1, four Lititz
persons tried out the "Old Grounds,"
namely Howard Bollinger, Charles
Krick, David Roth and the writer. In
spite of the fact that all were inexper-ienced,
in two hours a catch of 102
f i sh was made, filling two chip bas-kets
even full. There were porkies^
mackerel, sea bass, a few weak fish
and croakers. The fish that won the
pool was a large weak fish. Captain
Buck landed ninety-one fish and a
boy did almost as well, their catches
filling up a buishel basket apiece. It
must be remembered this was done in
exactly two hours.
On Thursday not a mackerel was to
be seen but on Saturday the ocean
was literally alive with them. They
were pulled out three at a time. The
question was, how to manage not to
catch them, in order to get a chance
to hook other varieties. The Lititz
fishermen had 42 mackerel to return
home with, probably the f i r s t fresh
mackerel brought here. They are
delicious, putting it mildly, fat and
thick fleshed. Broiled with brown
butter poured over them they are far
superior to the salted mackerel that
are bought over the counter of the
store. If cut right the backbone can
be lifted out and are eateni without
dissecting for bones. Then they have
a flavor all their own.
The f a r e by train, leaving Philadel-phia
ferry in time to catch the 6:30
A. M. train at Camden and returning
about the same time, is $1.50 for the
round trip. The boat ticket is also
SI.50. The ocean, was calm on Sat-
1 r d ay and no one on the boat became
sick.
Captain Buck has beem taking out
fishing parties for 32 years and is
anxious that ail on board make a good
catch. He told the writer that two
years ago he took a party of "plain"
people from Lancaster county out on
his boat. "They are wonderful peo-ple"
he commented, and gave
him some home-cured ham, the best
he ever tasted. He said he was dis-appointed
that they did not imiake the
t r ip this year.
Grocery Department Makes a
Good Showing
I. H. Dostoer has rearranged Ms
store, moving the grocery department
from the re!ar to the front of his store
room on) Main street, making it han-dier
for the public. A large refri-gerator
has been- placed in position
for meats, cheese and other things
of that nature. The show windows
have been lowered and modernized.
Weather Governs Opening of
Fire Tower
Fire Warden LeRoy Bare, in charge
of the Cornwall fire tower, announced
that owing to weather conditions, no
definite date has been s'et when he
will go on duty there, although it may
be about the middle1 of the month. He
will be glad to receive visitors when
he is there.
Attended "Fair of Iron Horse"
Lititz persons attended the Cen-tennial
of the B. & O. Railroad, at
Baltimore, known as "The Fair of the
Irani Horse" and were pleased with
what they saw, the old enginesi and
cars being a wonderful contrast to the
modern railroad facilities. The fol-lowing
persons made the trip by auto
en Tuesday: Mr. and Mrs. Ira Eberly,
Daniel Eberly, Jacob Eshleman, M|rs.
A. E. Furlow. It will close on Sat-urday,
October 15.
Pantry Sale
The Dorcas Class of St. Paul's Lu-theran;
S. S. will have a pantry sale
in the church basement on Saturday.
Pies, custards, cakes, cruellers,
vegetable soup and other good things
will be on sale.—adv.
Working at Chocolate Factory
for Twenty Years
Daniel Groff and Levi Longenecker
completed twenty years of employ-ment
at the Ideal Cocoa and Choco-late
Company. Directors in New
York took cognizance of the fact and
presented the men with a twenty dol-lar
gold piece each and a letter of
congratulation.
Mrs. Kauffman Broke Leg
Mrs. Ralph Kauffmlan. broke both
bones of the1 left leg above the ankle
when the heel of her shoe caught on(
the porch step at Williatm. ElsMeman's
store on Broad street on Tuesday
afternoon.. She was taken to the
Lancaster General Hospital for treat-ment.
Thieves Scared Away
Seeing and hearing men on the
premises at night have kept S. J.
Leicey and John Bender on edge for
soma time. Once two men, who had
been acting suspiciously, were sha-dowed
but got away in an auto be-fore
they could be seen plainly. Re-cently
Mr. and Mrs. Leicey were away
over night. About 12 o'clock the
Benders, who live in one of the apart-ments
of a double house with Mr. and
Mrs. Leicey, heard footsteps in the
room downstairs next door. Mr.
Bender went down stairs and after
that everything was quite.
When Mr. and Mrs. Leicey return-ed
home next morning they discovered
a window wide open, but nothing was
missing as the intruders undoubtedly
were scared away before they could
carry anything off.
Leicey and Bender have secured
guns with the intention of stopping
the night prowling.
round
Our
T o i d ü
Apropos an article in. the
Philadelphia Bulletin, on "Fam-ily
Heritage," reprinted in the
Record last week, Dr. J. L.
Hertz wrote to the author,
George Nox McCain, and receiv-ed
the following answers in the
columns of that paper:
From Lancaster county the
versatile Dr. J. L. Hertz, of Lit-itz,
adds a corroborative feature
in his comment on miy recent
reference to Pennsylvania Ger-man.
family reunions. Dr.
Hertz, who is a keen observer,
says:
"Family-Kin-Reunions by the
hundreds; Han Herr's sent 15,-
000 invitations; the Boyers,
French Huguenots, 5,000; the
Staucers had two ¡separate meet-ings;
so had the Kurtzes; my
own< people, the Hertzes, from
the Palatinate in 1739, and the
Kricks in 1731, are others.
"The Mennonites and the
Church of the Brethren have at
last endorsed these reunions;
every day but Monday—which
is wash day—is liable to be sel-ected
for a family reunion. Lan-caster
papers printed columns
about reunioms in June, July and
August."
What Dr. Hertz says about
Lancaster newspapers is also
applicable to those of Norris-town.,
Easton, Doylestown, Al-lentown,
Biethlehe.ni and all larg-er
towns in the famous fourteen
Pennsylvania Dutch counties.
Dr. Hertz propounds an inter-esting
question which I am un-able
to aniswer apropos these
Pennsylvania family reunions.
He says:
"Portuguese Jews, after they
were exiled, settled Shaeffers-town,
Lebanon county, long be-fore
the Revolution. Many Jews
must have arrived in America
at the same time. Yet I have
never heard of a Jewish pioneer
reunion."
Dr. Hertz has propounded a
pertinent question I have never
heard discussed. It is worthy
of consideration and inquiry.
There is much to say on both
sides on trolley lines vis. busses.
There is no more pressing ques-tion)
in the transportation world
at present pending than, the
permanent place and service of
the motor bus and motor truck.
The temporary transfer of great
columns of traffic f r om the rail-way
lines to the highways con-cerns
the public interest in
more ways than o.ne and has
consequently exceeded mere con-venience.
The public service commission
has a stiff proposition. The
railways are entitled to cer-tain
rights and so is the public
in the matter of transportation,.
The trolley line was a great
assiet at one time on short trips
but the bus is finding its place
and it is a question of how long
trolley service from the cities
to rural towns will continue.
For instance the trolley has the
monopoly between! Lancaster
and Lititz. It is slow, 45 min-utes,
at a fare of 42 cents for
sixteen miles. To hold out
again.sit individual cars within
the next ten years, quicker time
will have to be made with trol-leys
impre on the Pullman style,
or else the company will have to
run its own busses. The anti-quated
trolley car system can
not hold out indefinitely.
Edward R. McDonald, 66,
a native of Johnstown, where
he rode a horse at the time of
the Johnstown flood and warn-ed
thousands of danger, died at
his home there today. While
riding about Johnstown soun^.
ing the warning he was oye r_
taken by the flood but h^ a nd
his horse managed to reach"
safety."
This news appeared ;n the
newspapers recently. >£jje
cord this summer re:fe r r e ( j to
(Continued on P a g e 4)
To Be Held In St. 1
The 16th annual Coun
of the International Oi
King's Daughters and fc .'ill
held in St. Paul's Luthera .arch on
Thursday morning and afternoon^ Oc-tober
13th. The morning session will
open at 10 o'clock and the afternoon
session at 1:30 o'clock. Luncheon
will be furnished at noon in the base-ment
of the church, by the Ladies' Aid
Society. Tickets 50 cents.
Over 200 Delegates Are Expected
There are 28 Circles in the County,
with a membership of 1316. There
are 23 senior and 5 junior Circles
and 47 King's Sons. Lititz has five
Circles with a membership of 256.
A new Junior Circle called "The1 Lov-ing
Workers," was organized at Lex-ington
during the last year. Last
year $4,291.67 was Spent by the Cir-cles
in, the work of the Order.
The following are the officers: Presi-dent,
Mrs. Sarah C. E. Beckler, Lititz;
Vice President, Mis® Clara Ream, of
Lancaster; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
U. G. Gibney, Lancaster; Treasurer,
Miss Mary H. Huebener, Lititz; Exe-cutive
Officers: Mrs. H. C. Miller, o,f
Lititz, Mrs. Pierce Lesher of Lancas-ter,
Mrs. R. E. Good of New Holland,
Mrs. William Fisher of Quarryville,
Mrs. Anna J. Gregg of Peach Bottom,
Mrs. Frank Coleman, Peach Bottom;
Mrs. Mary Long of Druimore1.
Mrs. Beckler has served as Presi-dent
for 15 years. She its also the
President of the Love-Oniei-Another
Circle, of Lititz.
, and Sons
•eh. Lititz, October 15th
'orning Program
, -ffing program will be ren-the
morning:
M.—Devotional services in
charge of Rev. W. R. Sammel, pastor
of the St. Paul's Lutheran church;
Words of Welcome, Mass Louisa A.
Weitzel, Speak-No-Evil Circle, of Lit-itz;
Response, Mrs. Nichols, Memor-ial
Circle, of Lancaster; Mjinutes of
Convention of 1926, Mrs. U. G. Gib-njey,
County Secretary; Treasurer's
report, Miss Mary Huebener, County
Treasurer; report of the President,
Mrs. Sarah C. E. Be'ckler, County
President; violin, solo, Lester Sesse-man;
election of Officers; report of
State Convention at Lancaster, Mrs.
W. Fisher, of Quarryville; admis-sion
of New Circles, Mrs. Fred E.
Derby, State President; Sentence
Prayeiris; Circle reports; Noontide
Mieditation, Mrs. A. D. Rhaeler, State
Board.
Afternoon Program '
1:30 P. M.—Devotional Services in
charge of Rev. E. S. Crosland, pastor
of the Moravian church; Our States
Works, Mrs. Derby, State President;
Solo, Mirs. Hiestand, of Manhekri; ad-dress,
Mrs. A. D. T'haeler, Nazareth;
hyftnin; offering; address, Mrs. Paul
Shaffner, Lancaster; reports of elec-tion;
charge to Newly Elected Officers,
Mils. Fred Derby; reports of audit-ing
and resolutions committees; clos-ing
thought, Mrs. S. C. E. Beckler;
benediction.
TRAVELERS «EAR.
COLUMN TO KEEP Yv
TOUCH WITH OLD Al
NEW NAMES
H. R. Gibbel Now President of
National Fire Insurance
Associations
At a meeting of the, National As-sociation
of Mutual Fire Insurance
Companies held at Washington, D. C.,
recently, H. R. Gibbel was elected pre -
sident for the ensuing year. Six
hunjdlred dellgates were present from
practically every State in, the Union.
770 companies are enrolled in the asi-sociation.
The main, offices are1 at Indianapolis,
Ind., where executive meetings are
held and routine business transacted.
The next annual meeting will be held
at Milwaukee, Wis.
Fat Steers Brought Record Price
Seventy-two Hereford yearlings
brought-$14.65, a new top price at
the Union Stock Yards, at Lancaster.
J M. Sensenig fattened them on his
f a rm near Lititz. They were bought
f r om a dealer in Texas the latter part
of October, a year ago. Whein bought
the average weight was 317 pounds
and when -sold they averaged 977
pounds.
Took Trip to Coal Regions
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Zartman and son
Bobby, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Furlow,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Steffy and chil-dren
Anna, Ruth, Eugene and Ma-belle;
Mr. anid Mrs. Leroy Steffy and
Betty Krumbine took an auto trip to
the coal regions on Sunday. They
stopped off at Miauch Chunk and Ma-honoy
City, to visit friends.
Young Horseback Rider
Barbara, the twelve-year-old daugh-ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beehtel,
of Kissel Hill, was presented with a
.seven-year-old riding horse, and "go
long, Bill," will soon be heard on
our streets as Barbara comes along
a t a rapid speed.
Will Prepare Pupils for Noted
Violinist
Mr. Lester Sesseman', violinist of
t h i s place, who is a student of Eddy
Brown, the oelebratted violin virtuoso,
of New York City, is spending Wed-nesday
of each week im New York pre-paring
pupils for Mr. Brown. Mr.
Sesseman is studying under Eddy
Brown, and also attended New York
University the past summer, where
he was a student in the summer
course.
MURDERED MAN POSSIBLY
HOWARD BAUM
r
Relatives Here Waiting for More
Definite Information
An unidentified (man whose last
name is said to be Baum, and who
Pittsburgh police say went there re-cently
f r om Lancaster, was found
dead in the Western Pennsylvania
metropolis on. Tu'esday.
Efforts to learn the man's first
name were fruitless and local identi-fication
was not available last night.
According to Pittsburgh authorities'
the man, was a railroader and said to
be a Lancastrian. He is believed to
have been murdered.
Pittsburgh police, reports, of the
man describe him as about 58 years
?f age .with gray hair, gray eyes and
m smooth shaven face. He weighed
about 175 younds an,d was five feet,
nine inches tall.
I t is likely that it may be Howard
Baum, formerly of Rome, who worked
on the railroad between Pittsburgh
and Altoona. His sister is Mrs.
Zeno Frey, who is anxiously awaiting
T.nore definite information. Baum
had not been heard from for several
years. He was a pretzel baker be-fore
taking up railroading.
Had Better Revise Mailing List
A circular letter was received at the
post office addressed to Herion & Co.
Mr. H a r r y Herr on conducted a
clothing store here, selling out to
Morris Cohen, who locked the door
one morning and disappeared, no one
in Lititz, at least, having seen him
since or knows where he is. The
former store building is now used as
the local office of the Edison Gas and
Electric Company. Mr. Herror, is
now successfully engaged in the real
estate business in New Jersey. The
firtmi sending him the letter had bet-t
e r revise their mailing list.
John Wagriter, of Lititz, Com-mented
on Having Fine
Pullet
Commenting on the buff rock chick-ens
shown at the Allentown Fair, a
leading poultry newspaper reports, as
follows:
J,alni(es H. Vincent showed a cock
and hen. t h a t were easy winnmers in
Buff Rocks, while H. J. Schmeller,
John H. Wagner and Harry N. Conner
divided the other three blue ribbons.
Wagner's f i r s t pullet was a real bird,
beautiful in color and shown in the
pink of condition.
Dr. and Mrs. Louis Hepp, of Ntv,
York, came here this week, Dr. Hepp
returning a f t e r a day while his wife
will remiain here for solmie time.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Shott, of Stone-hurst
Hills, and Mrs. Thomas Mor-temier,
of Germantowni, spent Sun-day
with Mr. and Mrs. Griffith Shott.
Mir. and Mrs. Reuben Kissinger and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kis-singer
and family, of Manheim, spent
Sunday with the John Krumbine fam-ily.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Martin and
daughter, Mrs. Allen Martin, husbanc
an4 three children, of near Martin
dale, spent Sunday with Hai Ec 'er
and family on, Fourth Avenue.
Mass Dorothy Honeycutt, o,f Staten
Island, N. Y., is spending f r om Tues^
day to Friday with William Mikseh
and family. Her f a t h e r was the late
Nathan. Fry, a cigar manufacturer at
this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Forry and
three children, of Lancaster, spent
Sunday in town with Martin Hoffman
and family. Mr. Forry jwas the
baseball pitcher on the. Lititz team
for five seasons at least, startii"
some twenty-three years ago, V
was known by old base iba1
"Gipper".
Miss Berniee Jones, an E _
mission worker, spent Tuesday a^
Wednesday with her uncle, C. N. Der
and family. Miss Jones, who is
native of Kansas, had Ibeeni located i
Philadelphia for some years and
now on her way to Lios Angele
where she will assist in establishir
a new mission. She had been s
¡gaged in the work in Kansas City
Baltimore previously.
Rev. A, M. Vivian, D. D., of Phila-delphia,
is visiting at the home
Mrs. Mary L. Steiner. He assisted
in the 50ith anniversary at the Meth-odist
Episcopal church, at Cornwall,
where he was pastor 37 years ago.
Dr. Vivian and Mrs. Steiner were
classmates at Palatinate " " ' o ^ a
Myerstown, now kn^
College. Mrs. M
Mr. and Mrs. V
Philadelphia, ar
here this week,
their wiay hon
Cleveland.
County Bus i
Opposi
The application
Krick, to operate mi
f r om Lititz to other p.
posed by the Conestoga ^
and the Lancaster-Ephrati
anon Street Railway Co., a
last Thursday before the
vice Commission,, at Harris,.
The trolley companies < jntendea
that ample transportation facilities
are maintained in the communities
Krick desires to STve.
"HIT A HOT PACE'
Slogan Introduced at Banquet for thr
Chevrolet Employees Here
"Hit a hot pace" was the sir
inaugurated at the banquet
at John F. Longenieeker's
igarage Monday evening, v
Chevrolet sales and servir
of this place, Lancaster.
Ephrata and Adamstow1
al invited .guests sat d'
cn and waffle meal,
on the menu wer
lilmia beans, toma4
pretzels, cheese
followed by par
cigarettes,
by Mrs. En-reputation
soms sat
the '
S'
Legion Festival a Success
Over $500 was taken, in at the
tival at the f i r e rouse on Saturda'
Post 56, American Legion, lea\
profit of close to $400 when ;
were paid. A bif was
ed there and prac
were sold.
Philadelphia^
Mr. and IV
ard, Mrs. A
Albright ai
all of Phi.
home1 of M
enbine on .