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YOL. LI THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1927 NO. 9
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
Institute next week. None of the
scholars have complained so far.
Mrg. Aaron. Brubaker tripped over a
dog- w*hile working at Linden Hall
Seminary and broke several ribs.
Icicles formed at the fountain on
Sundayi and Monday the water was
disconnected. Its usefulness is at
an end until next spring.
A breakdown of the heating plant
at the local High School made iit ne-cessary
to dismiss the lower grades
for two days.
The Saturday afternoon mail deliv-ery
in town will be resumed the com-ing*
Saturday. During the summer
and fall it had not been in existence.
Leaman & Leed bought apples in
New York State, also in Adams and
York counties. D. G. Withers also
bought New. York State apples.
A male pheasant was seen in the
Moravian Church Square several days
agio. A mother skunk with five
young ones was seen frisking around
at the same location.
John Helman, who is always on
the lookout for antiques, bought a
candleform at the Warwick House on
Saturday for 50 cents. Someone
evidently, in this day of electric
lights, had no use (for a form to make
candles, and cashed in on it.
W. E. Hickman has located his busi-ness
office in the Agricultural Trust
Company building., Room 400, on N.
Duke street, Lancaster, and is contin-uing
in the real estate business. He
reported that he is meeting with good
success.
Eggs have soared up and up for
some time, not because they are so
.scarce, but because they are ¡bought up
by the house-to-house hucksters, for
the cold storage dealers in the cities.
Market retailers at Lititz last week
sold the; h'en products at 60 cents per
dozen- and in the Lancaster markets
at 70 cents. Some day ere long it is
predicted there will be a big drop and
you will not need to wait until Christ-
Wilas to see it happen.
To Fatten Texas Cattle
John Sensenich, who conduits a
f a rm near the Brethren Home, re-ceived
three carloads of Hereford
steers from Texas. A carload of 48
arrived on Saturday, and two cars,
with 55 cattle in each arrived on Sun-day,
ia total of 158. They are young
and light in weight and it will take
about ten months ito f a t t e n them.
Mr. Sensenich received the record
price paid in the county this year
for 72 Hereford cattle finished on his
f a rm recently, bringing $14.65 a hun-dred
pounds.
Weiss Left to Join Washington
Team
Austin Weiss, who got his start
in basket ball at this place, signed a
dointract with the Palace Club, of
Washington, D. C., of the American
League of Basket Ball Teams. He
reported on Monday in New York.
The Washington! team will practice in
t h a t city for a week, with college
teams, then leave for Washington and
will open the league season on Nov-ember
20.
Weiss will have an excellent oppor-tunity
to jump right into the game
f r om the start, as three of last sea-son's
team failed to report on account
of money matters. Weiss always
had an ambition to play professional
basket ball.
Eight-Pound Rabbit
Shot by Eugene Long
Eugene Long shot the heaviest rab-bit
of the season last week near Mill-way,
tipping! the scales at eight
pounds. As the largest native rab-bits
seldom reach half that weight,
local sportsmen were puzzled to clas-ify
it. It was unusually long of
body with thick, short legs. Its back
was sojmjawhat the color of a wild rab-bit
with light fur underneath. Its
tail came to a point and varied great-ly
from the cotton tail.
If it were a tame rabbit that be-came
wild it would have been hard to
classify as-it was not a Belgian hare,
although one person did pass the
opinion that it might be a Flemish
giant. Others thought, it may have
been a cross between a wild and do-mesticated
rabbit.
Another explanation is that form-er
Game Warden Keehn some years
ago liberated large buck rabbits to
experiment in increasing the size of
the local rabbits- Snow shoe rab-bits
were also released in, this county
but did not thrive, only one having
been reported shot near Cornwall, two
years ajgo. It is certain that this
eight pound rabbit was not of this
specie.
Last year local hunters were hot
on the trail of a rabbit at the South
mountains, but did not succeed in
shootimgi it. Instead of taking the
dogs in a circle like the comiuion cot-ton
tail it took a course covering
many miles and then lost the dogs.
At all events the eig-ht pound rab-bit
furnished as fine a meal as could
be desired.
Notice !
The superintendent of the Water
Street Mission, 214 W. King street,
Lancaster, has informed the Record
that envelopes will be distributed
around the town shortly. Two ladies,
with silver badges, will collect .the
offerings. Do not hand the envel-opes
to anyone else but these repre-sentatives.
DING DONG BELL !
NO ONE WILL TELL !
Mystery Surrounding- Ringing of
Bells at Linden Hall Re-mains
Unsolved
Clues as to the persons who rang
the chime' bells at Linden Hall Sem-inary
as a Hallowe'en prank have n-ot
materialized and the identification of
the jokesters is as f a r off as ever.
A big ball of rope wias left behind.
It is known that the young men con-nected
came there in an automobile.
Dr. Stengle made an effort to find
out wheire the rope was bought but
is still at sea. Evidently it was a
well-laid plot.
Another unsolved question is how
iwfas the rope connected with the bell ?
I t is a considerable distance from the
ground to the belfry and it is almost
a certainty that no ladder was used.
I t is almost as sure that there
was co-operation from inside. « The
whole thing will probably relmiain an
unsolved mystery, although some per-ils
claim they know but •won'it tell.
Moravian Hymn Books Sent to
Nicaragua
Mr. M. S. Kauffman, secretary of
the Board of Eldens, of the Moravian
church, forwarded to Rev. Guido
Grossman, superintendent of the Mor-avian*
Mission in Nicaragua, about 80
copies of the old church hymn books.
These books were kindly given by
members of the church, in response
to a request from Brother Grossman.
The books will be used in services now
being held for a small group of Eng-lish-
speaking foreigners.
Luther Sharp Improving From
Injuries Received While on
Hunting Trip
Luther Sharp is slowly recovering
f r om the gain shot wound in the leg
a t the Lebanon hospital. He is still
subject to fevers but no other symp-tons
have set in. It will be some
weeks, however, before he can return
ho»m|e.
G. G. Diehm Will Go On Board
. of County Commissioners
The election on Tuesday caused
little interest because of the one-sided
situation here. The hardest job was
to get t h e voters to come to the polls.
¡Four hundred and fifty-five votes
were cast in the First Ward and 169
votes in the Second Ward. The en*-
tire Republican ticket was elected
here. The highest Coalition vote for
any ons candidate was twenty-nine.
G. G. Diehm,' for County Commis-sioner,
ran ahead of the ticket here,
receiving 385 votes in the First Ward
and 148 votes in the Second Ward,
a total of 533 votes out of 624 ballots
cast for all partieis. He was an easy
winner in the county.
¡Guy Bard, a Democratic candidate
for the minority place on the board
of. Couirty Commissioners, received
120 votes in the First Ward and 42
votes in the Second Ward, a total of
162 votes, against a total of 106
by his Democratic opponent, James
Stojpson. Mr. Simpson was victor-ious.
W. M. Pfautz, Democratic county
candidate for County Controller, re-ceived
111 votes in the First Ward
and 33 voteis, in the Second Ward a
total of 144 votes.
Because of the many split ballots
the election board was kept busy in
the First Ward until 2 o'clock in the
morning. In the Second Ward the
returns were made by 12 o'clock.
The Republican organization slate
won in Lancaster City and the county
with substantial majorities. Maud
Haldeman, of Marietta, has become
t h e County Treasurer, the f i r s t wom-an
to hold the position in the history
of the county.
Local returns are as follows:
1st 2nd
Borough Council— Ward Ward Total
James Sturgis, R _ 344 344
H. P. Regennas, D ___ 66 66
J. D. Heiter, R 126 126
E. B. Weber, R ___ 134 134
P _ 5
D _ 18 157
Ezra Kline, D 32 32
Held Banquet at Springs Hotel
The Santa Maria Assembly, the
f o u r t h degree of the Knights of Col-utmjbus,
of Lancaster, had a banquet
at the Springs. Hotel on Wednesday
evening. There was a Lititz orches-t
r a and Mr. Victor Wagner was the
soloist.
Cabbage/Cheap and Plentiful at
Warwick House Sale
In spite of the disagreeable weath-er
on Saturday there was a good at-tendance
at the Warwick House sale
and a wide variety of things were
sold. Pigs sold (from $3.55 to $11.40;
chickens at $1.05, pullets, 85 cents;
potatoes, 80 to 90 cents a bushel; tur-nips,
25 and 30 cents a basket; apples
at 90 cents to $1.15 a basket; pears,
10 cents a basket; cabbage at 2 to 3
cents a head. Celery sold at 3 and
5 cents a bunch; grapes, 40 cents a
basket; bananas, 85 cents to $1.25 a
bunch; candy, 10 cents a box; bologna,4
70 cents to $1.68 apiece; cigars, $1 a
box; stockings, 7 to 18 cents a pair;
underwear, $L25 a suit; shirts, $1.65;
bli nkets, $2.10 to $3. .'
Slchool Directors—
P. F. S.iyder, R
P
D
Frank Hun!:er, R
P
J. C. Brenneman, D
Justice of the Peace—
C. N. Derr, R
P
D
High Constable—
C. R. Kreider, R
P
D
Constable—
Jacob Singley, R
John Carpenter, R
P
D
Auditor—
C. S. Zartman, R
P
Louis Huebener, D
Assessor—
Paul Deimmy, R —
P
Firank Gable, D
Andrew Shissler, R
P
D
Judge of Election—
W. G. Eshleman, R. __ 338
H. E. Workman, D 87
Paul Bomberger, R __
D
Inspector of Election—
V. Wagner, R 353
Frank Runk, D
Clarence Brubaker, R
P
D
Stanley Diehm, D
326
15
17
306
5
126»
350
17
19
347
14
20
367
333
5
100
329
100
138
2
17
129
2
36
138
2
19
138
2
19
135
3
19
138
1
22
138
1
140
2
20
515
442
162
545
540
367
157
477
122
468
100
141
20
71
139
1
22
22
162
338
87
161
353
71
162
22
Two Legal Holidays This Week
The stores of town will be closed
on Friday, Armistice Day, all day,
and will be open on Thursday even-ing1.
The banks will be closed all day,
but the Post Office will not observe
holiday hours.
Thief Stole Gun
Arthur Keath had a Remington re-peating
g!un! .stolen from an auto
which he left standing for a short
time last week, near Zartman's dam.
A man's footprints led from the car
to a nearby cornfield, the thief evi-dently;
making his escape that way.
round
Our
Toion
Admiral T. P. Magruder,
commander of the Philadelphia
Naval Yards, who has seen 36
years service, receiving the Dis-tinguished
Service Medal as se-cond
in command of American
Naval Forces, during the World
War, was dismissed from the
post.
In. a magazine article he
miildly criticized some of the
methods of the navy yard.
Among other things he said
there "are too many officers in
Washington and with the fleets,
and too much money is being
spent on the maintenance of the
navy yards and naval stations.
He had said the same thing in
testifying before Congressional
committees and other distin-guished
officers of the navy had
corrobated his evidence. More-over
he literally told the truth
both in his evidence and in his
magazine article. But the
language in the magazine article
has been interpreted by1 the bu-reaucrats
as subordination.
It was no secret that millions
of dollars worth of ships were
sunk 'tftf an international agree-ment
kept only by the United
States and later additional ships
were added. Said a local citi-zen
who worked at the navy
yards during the war, "In re-conditioning
a ship all the sil-verware,
as good as. the day it
was made, was thrown out and
replaced with new."
A. former U. S. sailor from
Lititz related that in loading
coal at foreign ports he never
saw Uncle Sam get a full ton.
There was a split-up of the dif-ference
¡with some one. He
never learned who received the
g r a f t money but he knows that
the checker-up, generally an or-dinary
sailor appointed for the
day, received a $10 tip for his
work. Did he enter a protest ?
Not much ! His word wouldn't
have meant anything, and the
ordinary sailor not being a fool
or a martyr, pocketed the money
as the safest way.
These are a few of the minor
things the taxpayers must not
know. The publication of
f a u l t s and exposure of waste
and extravagance may arouse
popular indignation and force a
correction of the faults. Ma-gruder
must be disciplined.
Most people have foot trouble
of some kind. Broken arches—
it must be remembered there
are two arches in the foot—cal-louses,
corns, bunions, all caus-ing
pains and tiredness. That
is the price of civilization and
shoes.
A local man has tried every-thing
possible to get relief, and
has consulted every foot special-ist
within a radius of several
hundred miles. He has discard-ed
two shoe boxes full of arches
of all descriptions, has thrown,
away, as articles of torture,
shoes built specially to f i t ; has
had his feet bandaged like a
mummy; has had X-ray pictures
taken; has.followed a series of
exercises for his Trilbies; has
been offered advice daily by
friends, has, listened to stories
of other victims of foot trouble
by the hour, while a legless
man suggested that the sufferer
have his feet cut off, as he could
a t t e s t to the fact that he had
no foot troubles ever since he
lost his lower limbs.
One specialist told him to do a
lot of walking another one ad-vised
him to stay off his feet.
He was informed that his foot
muscles had stretched and sev-eral
days later he was told the
reverse—the muscles were too
tight. He was injected but all
the good it did was to send him
to bed. Some specialists ad-mitted
that they didn't know
what to do for him, as they
couldn't discover a single thing
wrong with his "dogs."
(Continued on Page 4)
Minnesota School Taught By
Prof. Kauffman Honored
J . W. Kauffman, a native of Lan-caster
county, and son of E. B. Kauff-man,
of Brickerville, is making a
name for himself as teacher in the
agricultural department at Long
Prairie, Minnesota.
The Long Prairie High School team,
consisting of four boys, accompanied
by J. W. Kauffman, head of the
agricultural department, participated
in the stock judging contest ait Mem-phis
recently. The team iwion the
right to represent Minnesota by tak--
i|ng first place in the stock judging
contest held at the University farm
last May.
At Memphis the team won first
place in judging Jerseys and third
place in judging Guernseys. In judg-ing
all classes of dairy cattle the
t e am ¡stood sixth, considered arr ex-cellent
showing. The team receiv-ed
numerous medals. The contest
included forty-eight States.
Prof. Kauffman, in communication
to the Long Prairie Leader, says: "A
very close relationship -has been de-veloped
between the farm and the
school. Farm problems are brought
into the. classroom and class groups
are taken on regular trips to various
representative fairtmis for extension
work. The problems studied are
those of stock judging and breeding,
proper feeding rations for cattle,
f a rm ¡Mechanics, identification and
control of obnoxious weeds, care of
swine, prevention and care of disease,
study of bees, sheep, grains, farm
management, etc. :
"The farm boys of this department
are given, four years of this training-in
connection' with the rest of their
High School. work, and this course
enables them to go about ¡the f a rm
problems in an intelligent and scien-tific
manner."
Farm Women Elected Officers
The Society of Farm Women, No.
1, met at the home of Mrs. M. A.
Moore on Saturday. There was an
attendance of about 25 members.
Miss Mae Brenner, of Kissel Hill,
gave a talk on the "Care of the Sieki."
Arthur Moore gave a violin solo and
Junior Moore gave a reading.
The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. M. W. Hess, Vice
President, Mrs. Charles Forney; Sec-retary,
Mrs. M. A. Moore; Corres-ponding
Secretary, Miss L. A. Weit-zel;
Treasurer, Mrs. J. C. Brubakep.
Refreshments w>ere served by the
hostess.
Car Stolen'and Located Again
A new Hudson sedan owned by Mr.
Frank Gable, was. stolen and found
again two days later. The car dis-appeared
f r om Mr. Gable's residence
during Friday night. or Saturday
morning'. The car was found
in a shed connected with the
church at Millport, on Sunday morn-injg.
The car was very muddy, with
grass hanging on the rear, evidently
having been taken over soft roads.
The doors and transmission were
found locked. The speedotmteter,
which had been connected by the thief
or thieves, showed 71 miles.
Police departments in nearby cities
and towns had been notified and were
on the lookout for the stolen car.
There are no clues or even feasible
theories concerning the theft.
Alaska Resident
Home for Winter
John McCord, who in his youth
learned tinsmithing and plumbing at
Lititz, arrived at Lancaster, from Al-aska,
on .Saturday. A daughter, Mrs.
O'Brein Miller, resides at Rothsville.
- Mr. McCord has spent neairly thirty
j c a r s in Alaska, as a gold prospector
and mechanic, located now at Fair-banks,
though Nome and D a m o n City
also knew him. A son Abiaham is
in business in Fairbanks.
He has brouigfht along samples of
wheat, oats and huge beats, grow^i
near Fairbanks, four hundred miles
inland from the Pacific Coast and
within 1!00 miles of the. Arctic Circle.
The growing time iis. short, 90 days,
but these splendid samples show what
Alaska has besides its gold and great
fisheries. Mr. McCord will remain
in Lancaster this winter. He is
75 years of aigie.
TBM p AND FAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Received Word That Sister
Safe at Springfield, Mass.
Is
Mrs. Albert Gochenauer received
word from her sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Rettew and family, a t Springs
field, Mass., that they are safe, no
harm having befallen them during the
floods which prevailed thruout the
Nelw! England States and which hit
their home1 town.
S
Rummage Sale a Success
The rummage and pantry .sale held
lasit week by the W. C. T. U. was a
success. The un.ion desires to ex-press
their thanks to all iwiho con-tributed
their services, donations and
patronage.
Local Legion to Help at Dedica-tion
of Memorial
Armistice day will not be observed
here ¡with a program. The local
American Legion Past will assist at
the dedication of a monument at
Mechanicsburg Saturday. Flags
should be displayed and the Xvhistles
will be blown at 11 o'clock, as has
been the custom in the past.
Boy Scouts Offered Land for
Permanent Camp
Frank Hacker, employed at Groff
& Wolf's store, at Lancaster, a na-tive
of this place, was a visitor in
town last ¡week. Mr. Hack.ei; owns
the land and properties of the old
mill site, north of Zatrman's dam,
along the Hammer Creek. He offer-ed
a nice level plot of ground to the
Lititz Boy Scouts, free of charge, for
use as a permanent summer camp,
to construct a log cabin on the place,
if they desire. Scout leaders are
considering the offer and appreciate
Mr. Hacker's generosity.
Traveler Sees Bear on Road Near
Palmyra
Philip A. Loughran, brother of
Tommy Loughran, world's champion
lightweight boxer, saw a large black
bear near Palmyra according to a
statement that he ¡made on Monday.
Loughran is a radio saleemlan and
noticed the bear as he went on his
•way f r om Ephraita to Lebanon in an
automobile. The bear crossed the
road in front of his car, making no
effort to escape the approaching auto.
The.bear did not t r y to attack him,
Loughran says, but continued its
journey across the road, ¡passing into
a nearby field.
Chickens Stolen
Andirew Gochenauer reports that
< Mckens were stolen from his place
several nights ago. Mr. Gochenauer
i? certain he knows who did it and
is prepared for any f u t u r e event.
Stealing of poultry around Lititz
hais. been going on for some time and
even turkeys have been taken. Some
one will be cauight sooner or later.
Shipped Eight Carloads Potatoes
Edward Heidrick shipped eight car-loads
of potatoes fTotmi here this week,
paying $1.00 ,a bushel. It is said
t h a t the cost of raising potatoes this
year was 46 cents a bulsihel, counting
delivery.
Injured in Cave-in at Lancaster
/Clayton E. Martin, aged 46 years,
a carpenter of this place, .was injured
in a cave-in at the new Pennsylvania
¡station at Lancaster. Mr. Martin,
with three other men, was in a hole
12 feet deep, when the e^r£h caved
in. They had to be dug out, Mr.
Miartin is at St. Joseph's Hospital,
and while no bones are broken his
condition, is not good.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Grosh visited
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Neff at Hahns-town.
Harry Myers and ,s,on Gilbert spent
Sunday at Steelton with Mr. and Mrs.
Hiram McCauley.
%ir. and Mrs. S. C. Hassler and
family were at Bethlehem on Sun-day,
visiting their son Paul.
Messrs. Horace Sturgis and Arth-ur
Bruekart made business trip by
auto to Nazareth, Pa., on Tuesday.
Mrs. Alice Milchsach and two dau-ghters
of Bethlehem, visited her sis-ter,
Mary Reidenbach, on Sunday.
Chester Ruth, ¡Daviid Risser and
Ed Hippie left on a huntingi trip on
Sunday, to Lycoming county, to re-t
u r n today.
Rev. W. R. Sammel attended the
Conference of the Lutheran Church,
of the Harrisburg District, at Colon-ial
Park, this week.
£
Dr. Richard Bender, Valentie Brobst,
William Moody and Dr. McMullen, at-tended
the Harvard - Pennsylvania
game in Philadelphia on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Carr who went
to Chicago, f r om Lititz, to reside with
a daughter, have< returned to Lancas-ter
city, and were here on a visit
several days ago.
Mr. Dudley Anderson and family
moved here from Mechanicsburg, into
James Goldthwait's house, corner of
Spruce and Orange streets. • Mr.
Anderson is employed at Lancaster.
Mrs. Ida Foltz, who was a guest
at the Moravian Home the past sum-mer
and fall, went to Lancaster to
spend several weeks with her sister,
Mrs. Frances Flory, a f t e r which she
will leave for her home in the ciiy of
Honolulu, with her daughter, Mrs. T.
B. Bush.
Stolen Car Found
A Ford touring car was stolen f r om
the garage of Abram Foltz, in the
eastern end of town, on Wednesday
of the past week. The car was found
vacated at Lincoln on Tuesday.
Former Ball Player Here Now
On the Stage
" P a t " Peyton, of Coatesville, pitch-er
of the Lititz base ball team during
the past season stopped off in town
last Sunday. His brother, Charlie,
who played left field here, he report-ed,
went on the stage in New York
on Monday, als a singer. He has
been singing in a church choir in
Philadelphia for a number of years.
Robert Pfautz Visited His Store
On Tuesday
Robert Pfautz came to the store
of Pfautz Bros., of which he is a part-ner,
for the first time in several
months, since being operated upon,
and his subsequent confinement to
the hospital and his hojmfe, Mr.
Pfautz is looking well and expects
to resume his dutie's. at the store
shortly.
STABLE AT ROME BURNED
ON MONDAY MORNING
Boys Enjoyed Prof. Beck's Talk
Prof, Herbert H. Beck, of Franklin
tir Marshall College, gave a splendid
talk oni bird life, to the boys of the
Tri Mu Club, of the Moravian church,
last Thursday evening. The Profes-sor
illustrated his talk and his de-scription
of the various birds with
stuffed specimens, which made the
talk all the more interesting and in-structive.
Patrons of Barber
Attention
Shops,
Beginning on Saturday, December
3, all barber shops in Lititz will close
Saturdays at 9 P. M., instead of 10
o'clock, as formerly.—Lititz Barbers.
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Fire Started from Automobile
Stored There—Lititz Fire
Company Answers Call
Fire destroyed a ®frame stable on
thle premises of W. Martin Hess, at
Rome on Monday morning, at 3:45
o'clock. He discovered the f i r e when
he went to the stable to start on
his milk route. Flames were
emerging from the hood of a Hudson
automobile and some p a r t s of the car
had already cauight fire. Mr. Hess
made an effort to get the machine
out of the place but it had been in
gear and he was unable to move it,
severely burning! his arm in the at-tetmfpt.
He then directed his efforts
in releasing a horse and two dogs.
The flames spread rapidly and when
the Lititz fire company arrived the
barn, was almost destroyed. Good
work was done in saving the house
close-by, several window panes having
broken from the heat.
Besides the Hudson car an Over-land
truck and a Ford truck were de-stroyed,
also a large amount of hay.
Mr. Hess carried insurance on the
barn but not on the automobiles.