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VOL. LI THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1928 NO. 41
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
Several local people attended the
Grocers' Picnic at Wildwo-od, N. J.,
today.
Hie Lititz Band will give the con-cert
this Saturday evening at the
Warwick House.
The employees of Snavely's garage
had their annual outing at the Snavely
bungalow on Tuesday.
The old Sturgis House on East
Main street, offered at public sale
last Saturday, was withdrawn at
$24,800.
O. K. Bushong, the local station
agent of the 'Reading Railroad Com-pany,
addressed the Rotary Club at
their weekly luncheon on Tuesday on
"Transportation."
•Dr. D. C. Martin's office will be
closed from this Thursday until Tues-day
of next week. Dr. Martin and
family are spending a vacation at
Atlantic City.
The Regennas Brothers entertained
eighteen members of the Boy Scouts,
including the Scout Mlaster, at their
home on Walnut and Lambn streets
on Monday evening.
A Record man was up in the Blue
mountains near Hamburg last week
find found the peach trees laden with
f r u i t , hut the ap[ple trees did not ap-pear
to have much fruit on them.
Allen Putt exhibited two chicks
hatched out of one egg, connected
like Siamese twins. The one was
white and the other black. They
managed to break out of the shell un-aided
but lived only a short time,
George Hackman, 83, Civil War
Veteran, had his first aeroplane ride
on Saturday while at the Lancaster
Airport. Mr. Hackman stated that
he enjoyed it and is ready to go up
again at the first opportunity.
A gray and white kitten strayed
away from the home of Albert Christ-ne-
r. While the cat is not valuable,
yet it means a great deal in the af-fection
of the children and they would
be made happy if it is returned.
With a bountiful crop of potatoes
this year it is a great consolation to
the class of people who depend largely
upon meat and potatoes for their daily
meals. The tubers are now selling
a t frami 75 cents to $1.00 per bushel.
W. H. Buch is holding a special
sale, giving 25 cents off on every dol-lar
on everything in his store. Mr.
Buch has been doing this yearly at
this time of the year and his cus-tomers
know that- his reductions are
real.
Several Japanese beetles were found
in town this week. Frank Rader has
several live ones in a bottle. Ac-cording
to the latest information the
English starlings and sparrows are
enemies of the beetle, devouring them
greedily.
The Lititz barbers will hold their
•annual picnic at Kauffman's Park, Mt.
Gretna., on Thursday, August 2. In
case of rain it will be postponed to
Thursday, August 9. All barber
shops will be closed all day for the
occasion.
One Lititz family is raising six
turkeys in a small yard. Throughout
the surrounding country you see
r.iany young turkeys running around
about half grown. Some one remark-ed
that this favorite fowl should be
cheap next winter.
A pedigreed pomeranian dog, own-ed
by Louis Haines, pretzel manu-facturer,
was run over and killed by
an auto truck near Snavely's mill this
week. The driver did not stop to
see the result. The dog was three
years old and weighed 5% pounds.
At the local market last Saturday
home-grown potatoes sold at Sl.ftO
per bushel: home-grown tomatoes at
20 cents a box; home-grown corn at
3 cents per ear; eggs at 35 cents a
dozen. There was a large variety of
other products offered to suit every-body.
The regular quarterly session of
the Southeastern Pennsylvania Fire-men's
Association, held here last
Thursday evening, was attended by
400 members. A banquet was served
after the meeting by the entertain-w<
r committee of the Lititz Fire
Bazaar Today
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NEW SERIAL TO START
IN "RECORD" NEXT WEEK
"Dinsmore's Folly," a modern
tale of romantic interest, pleas-ant
mystery- and wholesome
thrills, begins in the "Lititz
Record" next week.
The story derives its title
from the name given by resi-dents
of a suburban community
to a certain house. The builder
of the domicile, Granpa Dins-more,
was a lover of architec-ture.
His affection for the art
was so great that he tried to
incorporate all known styles of
it into his residence. The re-sult
can be ilnfegined better than
described. The consensus of
opinion among beholders was
that the neighbors did not err
when they named the place
"Dinsmore's Folly." No family
wished to live in it but when a
prominent character in the story
gets involved in a Wall Street
mix-up, the old house becomes
an ideal place of refuge. It
was then that the romantic and
thrilling events of the story tool-place.
The story starts next week
on page three. Dont miss the
opening chapters.
V
The Alter Society of St. James
Catholic Church will hold a bazaar on
the church lawn this Thursday after-noon
and evening.
Union Picnic a Success
The Lititz Union Sunday School pic-nic
on the Spring Grounds last Thurs-day
was attended by several thousand
people. While rain threatened there
was no precipitation. The Lititz High
School band attracted much attention
and there were games for the young
folks afternoon and evening. There
was a parade of Sunday School mem-bers
after sapper, headed fcy the band
Seven and a half barrels of coffee
were distributed.
The Sunday Schools participating
were Moravian, Lutheran, Reformed,
United Evangelical and United Bre-thren.
There were many guests from
out-of-town present.
Five hundred caps and crickets for
the primary children's parade in the
afternoon were secured from the El.
Capitan Coffee Company by R, M.
Spacht,
Big Bass Catches
Bass in the Susquehanna were hun-gry
during the week-end and local
fishermen made good catches,
George Evans, Clayton Ruth, Ep-hraim
Herr and Emory Wagner, cau-ght
twenty-four black bass and a
pike and were forted to quit when
their live bait was all used. Eight
of the bass weighed two pounds apiece.
Lyman Harnley, Charles Hoilinger,
Harry Showers and Clayton Roth
caught twenty-three bass, two salmon
and three eels. Mr. Showers caught
ten of the bass, the limit allowed by
law for a day.
Haines Thrilled Crowd With
Aeroplane Stunts
Ralph Haines, of Elmira, N. Y.,
well-known here four years ago when
he was a resident of Lititz, serving
as an air (pilot under the late Robert
Behmer, took a prominent part in the
air derby thrills at the Lancaster fly-ing
field on Saturday and Sunday.
Haines carried off the majority of
honors on Saturday, winning four
loving cups and on Sunday was
awarded first place for stunt flying.
James Goldthwait of Lititz was the
donor of one of the cups won by
Haines.
Hanies landed at Kissel Hill, with
his machine before going to Lancas-ter,
so that he could not lose time in
colmiing to Lititz to see his old friends.
It is estimated that 24,000 people
were at the air port on Sunday. A
number of Lititz people took-trips in
passenger -planes.
American Legion Should
Investigate
Earl Pfautz came home last week,
being discharged from the regular
army, because of physical disability.
He had been in the army for four and
a half ¡years, and lately had been at
Washington, D, C. He was surprised
to see the bad treatment meted to
some of the insane patients at the
Walter Reed hospital, at the hands of
attendants. When he was in uniform
it was useless to protest, but now he
need not hesitate in telling of what
he saw.
—Official opening of the KayArt
Goo-die Shop o'> Saturday, July 28.
Ernest G. Brick, chemist and con-ductor
of all reseadh work of the
Boote Mineral Comipany, Incorpor-ated,
of Philadelphia, has -written an
article on the subject, "Sampling and
Screen Testing," which appeared in a
late number of Foote-Prints, a tech-nical
magazine on the rare metals and
unusual ores. The article is illustra-ted
showing approved methods of
sampling and screen testing, by the
author. It is a highly technical art-icle,
dealing largely with manganese
and chrome, and showing tables and
ratio.
At the present time Mr. Enck is
working on colored sand to be used
in the coloring of bricks. So f a r the
results have been a beautiful green
and also a red sand. Mixtures of the
two colors give most pleasing heather
shades.
Mr, Enck has written several art-icles
for the magazine which has been
published for many years and has
won a high place among technical
publications. He has been connected
with the Foote Mineral Company for
the past two years. Mr. Enck is a
native Lititz boy and a graduate of
the Lititz High School.
Male Chorus Concert at Ephrata
The Lititz Male Chorus, under the
direction of Mr. Victor Wagner, will
give their special concert on the lawn
of the Mountain Springs Hotel, Eph-rata,
on Tuesday evening.
Mr. Harry Bailey, a former well-known
resident of Lititz, has charge
of the resort and has especially in-vited
the local singers to give a, con-cert
for the hotel guests and the pub-lic.
Aside from the guarantee the mem-bers
of the chorus "will be given a
luncheon after the concert,
New Business Firm To Have
Opening on Saturday
Work of 'renovating the Ray Art-
Goodie Shop, recently taken over by
Raymond and Arthur Evans from J.
Albert Hall, has "been started. There
will be a separate ice cream parlor
in the- rear of the main store room,
to be furnished, along modem lines.
Light lunch will be served in addition
to ice cream and soda water,
Messrs. Evans will continue *"
the Fath dry cleaning and dycma
business.
Potatoes Selling Cheap
The early potato crop is turning
good and spuds are selling arouna i a
cents a bushel, A buyer who intends
shipping in carload lots around here is
offering 65 cents a bushel. This is
far below the price offered for home-raised
tubers in other seasons. -
At Robesonia, Berks County, new
potatoes are selling at $1 a bushel.
Execution Issued
Zirrtrrcerman, Myers and Kready.
the Lancaster Trust Company, iss
execution against Frank B. B"
holder, Lititz, with notice to Minerva
L. Burkholder, terre tenant, to
cover $15,100. Fuller details car
seen in the advertisement in this t-sue.
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In Balloon Service For Eight
Years
Amos Withers, who is in the bal-loon
service of the U, S, Army, for
the past eight years, was in Lititz on
Tuesday, and left to visit relatives at
Reanistown. Before joining the army
he was employed by Seth Lor ah, near
Lititz. He is on a ninety-day fur-lough,
coming here from Lang-ley
Field, Virginia.
On Auto Trip Through Shenan-doah
Valley
Mi
Mr.
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Virg
ing
and •
Market.
Enjoys Coming Back to Home
TVswn
One in every 23 American
men and boys is named William,
and one among each 29 of the
country's feminine population
answers to Mary. There are
2,500,000 Williams in the United
States and 2,000,000 Marys.
Think over a list of people you
know in Lititz and see how
many are named William and
Mary,
The heart of America is still
sound, in spite of pessimists
who" look for ¡perfection, and
when they fail to find it, acclaim
that the county is going to the
dogs. Consider the battle for
the Presidency of our country.
Hoover sprang from the country
comimlunity; Smith struggled up
from the multitudes in a great
city. Hoover ¡worked his way-through
college by driving a
laundijy wagon and Alfred
Smith sold papers in New York's
"East Side" to help support a
widowed mother.
They have made their own
climb from poverty and obscur-ity
to positions of power and
ionsibility. That's the way
America.
i he picnic season is on. It
I to be that only Sunday
St-nools had picnics. Now look
t, individual classes and
associations in the church hold
.ics. There is the grocery-
's picnic, store picnics, fac-picnies,
automobilists' pic-
, lodge picnics, firemen's pic-barbers,
not to be outdone,
3 one day in the year when
' can "cut up." After at-iing
a half dozen picnics and
still feel the urge there are
ics all over the county where
do not need a special badge
atend; you can go to the
Muddy Creek picnic, Stone Hill,
S eep Hill or Snake Hill. All
uiese places draw imimense
crowds and have a band or two.
The crowd eats watermelon and
ice cream, mills around the
stumps and stones and then
goes home to pleasant dreams.
Some few places still pro-vide
free supper, the table be-ing
loaded with cakes and more
cakes, pickles, cheese and cold
slaw. Some of the cakes are
gorgeous affairs, five layers
'high, embellished with thick
icing and rows of candy. Then
there is the banana cake and
checkered cake, pink colored
cake and chocolate coated cake.
The cakes disappear and pro-bably
some ¡members of the fam-ily
feel sick the next day, but
it was a glorious picnic just
the same.
There are places where the
young people still play bingo,
three deep, sock ball, drop the
handkerchief and the old-fas-hioned
kiss ring. These games
•were in vogue before necking
in automobiles was dreamed of.
The picnic game is great sport
if you don't weaken.
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Entertained at "500"
Miss Helen Lorigeneeker-%ntertained
several friends at a card party on
Monday evening at the home of her
parents on North Broad Street. Her
guests included the Misses Thelma
Pfautz and Violet Helter, Mr. and Mrs,
Carl Spacht, Messrs. Homer Hackman,
Russell Longenecker and Luther Ruhl,
of Lititz; Misses Mamie Graybill and
Beata Dixon, of Lancaster; Mr. Ed-gar
Book, of State College, and Mr.
Frank Strauss, of Jenkintown, Prizes
were won by Mr, Strauss and Miss
Pfautz, Refreshments were served.
Mr. and 3-frs
and son Walton,
J. W. Vance,
spent Sa"
Lititz. Mr.
boy who has
and enjoys c
home town.
H, Bob:
and Mr
Appreciated The "Record"
Joseph Brown, of Rome, a World
War Veteran, who is suffering with
diabetes, returned home from the Na-ff
n i l League Island, Phil-had
been under
months. He re-el"
regularly and
igii reading it, it
patient to the
... , .... jBd he was asked
ncerning articles
Strange Fur Bearing Fish Vouched For
by Trap Agent
Agents for the Animal Trap Com-pany
cover the tuountry thoroughly
and hear and see strange things, es-pecially
relating to fur bearing an-imals.
Frank Riveriburg, one of the
agents who is here -on his summer
vacation, brought back to town the
first news of fur-bearing fish, backed
with a photograph and description
which should prove convincing. Mr.
Riveriburg, is an ardent fisherman.
Even in the dead of winter, when other
followers of Isa-ak Walton are con-tent
to sit by the stove and talk of
past catches of big ones, Frank goes
The water in this lake is so cold
that nature has taken care of her
own by providing the fish with a thick
coat of fur. In fact the water is so
cold that it is beyond' t'he freezing
point.
The beazel, a very rare specimen,
is found only on Prince Edward Is-land
and live on the hum of the hum-ming
bird. They were found to be
the only bait that these fish will bite
except in extreme warm weather,
when it has been learned that they
will bite on "ice worms." Another
peculiarity of this fish is that it fol-
Marvelous Fur-Bearing Fish
ice fishing. A fur bearing fish
colligates nicely the two things
he is deeply interested in—the fur
business and fishing.
When all is said and done, it's one
of the best fish stories ever brought
to town. Here's the best description
gathered to date of this strange fish:
The discovery of this fur-bearing
fish was made •while traveling through
Glacier National Park during a sud-den
drop in temperature, following up
of which led to "Iceberg Lake," loc-ated
near Whitefish, Montana. Several
hooks were tried, but were broken im-mediately
upon touching the water.
Finally, one was heated, and when this
hit the water, the temperature teto-pered
the hook, with the result that
one of the fish was caught.
lows the precept of the poet who
said: "In the-spring a young man's
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
love." So, with these fish, and dur-ing
this period with a portable
phonograph, by putting on a love
song the fish will come to the surface
and the quick transfer to a jazz re-cord
results in them shaking them-selves
to death, when they can be
picked out of -the . water.
It has been found that these fish
absolutely refuse to bite during the
"love" month of June, but as there
is always a black sheep in every
family, the one caught (picture of
which has been taken) disgraced him-self
before the entire family and
suffered the usual penalty.
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Slick Magazine Agent
A slick agent was operating in Lit-itz
last week, trying to secure sub-scriptions
to a magazine entitled "The
Building Age and National Builder,"
published at Chicago 111., for the ben-efit
of builders, building c o n t r a c t or
lulmiber dealers and kindred trades.
He approached Ben Fralich, the con-tractor,
who asked his employees to
sign a subscription blank and get rid
of the fellow, probably thinking it
did not mean anything. The maga-zine
was offered at $5.00 for three
years. Nathaniel Eckert was one of
those who signed. The man then
asked Charles Frederick, another em-ployee,
the name of Mr. E-ckert's wife
and address. The latter gave it and
later, about 8.30 o'clock on Saturday
morning the fellow appeared at 1,30
Liberty Street and asKed for Mrs,
Cora. Eckert and presented a paper
on which was written, "Cora, please
give this man $3.00." At the head
of the slip, which was evidently torn
from another paper, was the name,
Nathaniel Eckert. Mrs. Eckert saw
the paper through the screen door and
thought it was all right. Later she
discovered the writing was not the
same. The man said he would leave
a map for a souvenir, which he did.
Mrs. Eckert gave him the three dollars
and the man said her husband would
explain when he came home. He did.
He explained that the fellow had
swindled her out of three dollars.
Now the question is, how many
others were, or are likely to be taken
in?
He Should Control Himself
Oftentimes it's the little things in
life that are embarrasing. A local
business man, who is unusually tick-lish,
was swftniming in the pool at
Rocky Springs. It was a hot day
and the place was crowded. A swim-mer
accidentally came against his ribs
with the feet, and owing to his sen-sitive
nature he relaxed, his head go-ing
under water. Like a drowning
man grabbing at a straw he reached
out with his hands. He grasped
something and when he came to the
top, to his horror, he saw that it was
a strange woman. She gave him a
nasty look and moved away from him.
Such situations in life are seldom re-corded,
but they happen to the best
of men.
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU I
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
Returned From Rittersville
Amos Qberh-oltzer was at Ritters-ville
on Tuesday and brought back
his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Horst,
who was in the sanitarium there for
the past six months. The lady is
much improved, hence it was con-sidered
best to bring her home.
Coming Reunions
Motored To Connelsville
Mrs. Wayne Longenecker and son
Rus-sel and daughter, Mrs. Harvey
Bachman, and Mrs. Addie Bachman
left this imiorning by auto for Connels-ville,
where Mrs. Harvey Bachman
will join her husband, who is employed
by the West Penn Power Co. at that
place.
Potato Crop Seen Fine In
Quality
People who have been digging their
early potatoes -are not only finding
them prolific but a fine quality and
with no rot. This they had feared on
account of the great amount of rain.
While growers are getting a fair price
for their potatoes, they are within
the reach of the consumers.
—Ice Cream, Sodas, Candies, arid
Light Lunches at the KayArt Goodie
Shop, East Main Street.
The annual Lausch clan reunion
will be held a t Kauffman's Park, Man-heim,
on Saturday, August 4th. A
good program has been arranged for
the entertainment of both young and
old.
The Brubaker Reunion will be held
on Saturday, August 4, a t the Messiah
Bible College, at Grantham, Pa. The
morning session will start at 10:00
o'clock. Grantham can be reached
by the Philadelphia and Reading R. R.
froferj Harrisburg. Autos follow the
highway from Harrisburg to Gettys-burg,
The Helman-Badorf clan will hold
their annual reunion in Kauffman's
park, Manheim, on Sunday, August
12. Relatives and friends invited.
The annual Eberly reunion will be
held in Ephrata Park on Wednes-day,
August 1.
The annual Fassnacht reunion will
be held in the Springs park on Sat-urday,
The Bücher reunion will be held at
Long's Park, Lancaster, on Friday,
August 3,
The Kreider reunion will be held in
the Springs Park on Wednesday.
Miss Grace Hassler is attending
Boston University.
Rev. and Mfrs, E. S. Crosland are
spending the week at Mt. Gretna.
Mjr. and Mirs, Harry Myers, Gilbert
Myers and fa'mlily spent Sunday at
Leesport.
Mir. and Mrs, John Hershey are
spending the Week at Baltimore and
Washington.
Miss Ella Stauffer left on Monday
to attend the Older Girls* Camp at
Spruce Creek.
Murrell Brockway is on a week's
business trip to Pittsburgh, making
the trip by automobile.
Mrs. Will T. Cox, of Trenton, N. J„
is visiting Mrs. Kathrine Bear on W,
Lincoln Avenue.
Mrs. Emima Graul of Penryn, ia
spending the week with her niece, El»
wood Fur low and family,
Mrs. J. E. Lewis of Coatesville,
spent last Thursday with her brother,
Albert Goehenaur and family.
Lemon Neiderrayer sjpent Sunday
with his daughter, Mrs. Martin Bix-ier,
and husband at Millersbwrg.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Short, of
Stone-hurst Hill, Upper Darby, visited
the former's parents on Sunday.
Mr, and Mrs. Lewis Hanies and
Mr. and Mirs, Howard Bollinger spent
Saturday and Sunday at Atlantis
City.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Biehm, of
Spring City, were among the visit-ors
here on the Lititz Union picnic
day.
Mrs. J. A, Stultz and two daughters,
cf York, spent Thursday with Mrs.
Stultz's parents, Mjr. and Mrs. F. B,
Buch.
Prof, and Mrs. Hoy Hassler and two
children of Bethlehem are visiting
Mr. Hassler's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
o. C. Hassler.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Spacht
spent several days at New York city,
where Mir. Spacht attended a furni-ture
market.
William Fisher and niece, Elizabeth,
of Norristown, spent Thursday with
the former's cousin, Mrs. Elizabeth
Brubaker, on New street.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Schleith, ©f
Spruce street, left Wednesday by au-tomobile
for Atlantic City. They ex-pect
to return this evening.
Miss Sarah Sturgis. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Sturgis, is spend-ing
two weeks with her aunt, Ivlra.
Charles Gibbel, at Wilkesbarre,
Mrs. Bertha. Klaus and grand-dau-ghter,
Ruth Eleanor Baddetr, of Beth-lehem,
are visiting the former's bro-ther,
H. E. Grosh and wife on Maple
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Keller spent
Sunday with Elmer Butzer and fam-ily
at Reading and also paid a visit
to Elmer Moon and family at .Fleet-wood,
Mirs. Metzgiar Hippie, of Reading,
is spending several weeks at the
Springs Hotel. She forirraerly resided
at Lititz, her maiden name being Or-pha
Buckwalter,
Mrs. A. B. Warner of Philadelphia,
and her niece, Mrs. Charles Brown,
and the fetter's son Filbert Brown of
Brownstown, were callers on Lititz
friends last Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Louis Diehm and two children,
of Coatesville, are visiting Stanley
Diehm and family. The husband, who
is a son of Herman Diehm of Leb-anon,
brought the family here on
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Rettew, after
^ s i t i n g at Lititz and Ephrata, left
on Tuesday for their home at Spring-field,
Mass. They were accompanied
by Albert Gochenaur and children
Fred and Ruth.
Hon. J, B, Wissler left this week
for W&tertown, N. Y,, where his wife
and children have been visiting for
several weeks with her parents. Mr.
Wissler will return, with his family
the latter part of the week,
Mr. and Mrs. David Graybill and
Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Aldrich and child,
of York, stopped off Sunday to visit
Mr, and Mirs. Moniioe Hornherger,
Mrs. Philip Staekhou.se and daughter,
of Philadelphia, are spending the week
with Mr. and Mrs. Hornherger.
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