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VOL. LI THE LITITZ RECORD, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1928 NO. 41
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN TOWN
AND VICINITY
Roy, son of
ig'ht forearm
Eno s Fry,
in a fall.
broke his
The Lititz High School band will
play at the square Saturday evening.
The office of M. H. Yode-r, M. D„
will he closed August 24th to Aug-ust
27th, inclusive.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hepp has rented
her store, but the nature of the bus-iness
has not been made public.
Ross Nies had the index finger of
the- right hand smashed in a cog wheel
at the Simplex Box factory.
Herbert Hackett, Lititz R. D. No.
2, and Lester L. Ri-neer, Lititz R. D.
3, were arrested by borough officers
for speeding.
Earl Foltz landed a four pound bass
at the Susquehanna this week. It
was 20 inches long and the heaviest
¡bass brought to town this season.
A birthday surprise party was giv-en
for Arthur Johannsen at the home
-of his sister, Mrs. Carl Spacht, on
Spruce street, on Wednesday even-ing.
School supplies are being featured
in store windows in town, reminding
pupils that vacation time is almost
at an end. Schools in Lititz will open
on Sapt, 4.
Huebener & Habecker sold for Al-lied
Douiple his home near Longe-necker's
meeting house to Ralph W.
Achey. Possession will be given on
November 1,
In a potato growing section in
southeastern Virginia, reports a Lit-itz
visitor, farmers are receiving a
collar a barrel for white tubers. The
barrel alone costs fifty cents.
The W. C. T. U. had a supper
meeting in the Springs Park on Mon-day,
and plans for the year's work
were presented by the superintend-ents
of departments and- discussed,
Sixteen persons accompanied the
excursion from this place over the
Reading on Sunday, thirteen going to
Atlantic City and and three to Wil-low
Grove, Philadelphia.
A Lititz man who returned from a
western trip, from information gath-ered
at the Chicago stock yards and
from a big rancher, was told that
beef would reach a high peak in
price this winter, from 50 to 60 cents
a pound.
The Hackman furniture factory dis-continued
business on Tuesday be-cause
of financial difficulty. It is
hoped that the difficulty can be
straightened out, as the concern was
well equipped with machinery and did
good work.
Lititz fishermen who were at Diehl's
Island, in the Chesapeake Bay last
week, returned with a fair catch of
fish and a lot of crabs. Grabs are
caught for commercial purposes there.
Girls are paid six cents per pound
for picking the meat. Another party
-of local fishermen left for the same
place this week. It is also a great
shooting grounds for wild ducks.
An-other record crowd was attracted
to town Saturday by the concert
given by the Lititz Male Chorus. The
audience appreciated every minute
of the time, the only drawback being
that those [who were on the extreme
outskirts of the crowd could not hear
the low parts. Donald Heidenreich,
the reader, went across big. -Mr,
Victor Wagner led the Chorus and
Miss Minerva Smith played the ac-companiments.
A card was received at the "Record"
office asking where men could be
•secured to help pick u\p potatoes and
do other odd jobs, at wages ranging
up to 35c per hour, with two meals
per day, and also to help to put away
tobacco at wages ranging up to 40c
per hour with two meals per day.
The card was signed "Farmers 'Re-lief,"
and bore no return address. In
the future we would advise addressing
requests of this kind to W. G. Fah-nestock,
Secretary of the Lititz Cham-ber
of Commerce, Lititz, Pa.
U. S. 3rd LIBERTY LOAN BONDS
will be due September 15. 1928, at
which time interest on same will
cease. We are now prepared to re-ceive
such bonds for collection,
LITITZ SPRINGS NAT'L BANK
If. H. Biehm, Cashier
au23-4t
Beck Bros. Employees Picnic
Along Conestoga
The employees of both the stores
and factories of Beck Bros., located
at Lititz anc! Manheim, were tendered
a picnic along the Conestoga, at
Snavely's Bungalow, by their em-ployers
last Thursday. The trip to
the picnic site was made in the big
furniture van of the firm. Twenty-eight
employees were present and
spent the day swimming, boating,
and enjoying themselves in general.
There was a base ball game to en-liven
the gathering. A "feed" con-sisting
of fried chicken and all the
trimmings was given the employees
by the firm. Several fine photographs
of the gathering were taken by At-wood
Kreider.
Train Guns on
High Gas Rates
Among the many current improve-ments
suggested for the town at the
Chamber of Commerce meeting on
Tuesday, including the dangerous road
approach at the entrance of the Bor-ough
on South Broad street, probab-ly
the most important discussion was
the high gas rate in Lititz.
The rate here of $2.25 is higher than
any other town its size in this State.
At $1.60', it was stated, gas compan-ies
make a nice profit. More data
on the subject will be asked for from
the State Chamber of Commerce. G.
G. Diehm explained that any attempt
to change the rates would have to
be made before the Public Service
Commission, after full data was se-cured
to give reasons showing that
the rate was excessive. This would
mean securing the services of an en-gineer,
H. H. Diehm, chairman of the Vig-ilance
Committee, read a code drawn
up to safeguard the community
against bond salesmen and solicitors
who could not give a clear or honest
recommendation. While the Chamber
does not have the power to keep this
class out of the Borough, yet if they
cannot show a card endorsed by the
Lititz Chamber of Commerce, it would
"prove a discouraging factor. Lititz
people, in the future, should ask to
see the solicitor's permit from the
local organization,
W. G. Fahnestock, the secretary,
stated that a salesman of national
maps, after failing to give him a
satisfactory endorsement, quit Lititz
when the secretary -would not give
his approval.
Mr. Fahnestock reported that he
arranged a card for filing in starting
an employment -bureau.
J. Clayton Brubaker was called
upon to speak. He has had consider-able
experience in the State Cham-ber
of Commerce, having served on
various committees and he gave ex-amples
of how a Chamber of Com-merce
can reach ou,t into the rural
sections.
•John Domniy, Leon Ke-ath and
Fred Trimmer were added as new
members.
One More Picnic at Springs Park
The fair season and the picnics and
and family reunions are overlapping.
There is one more picnic booked for
the Springs Park and numerous fam-ily
reunions. Local persons are at-tending
the Lancaster fair this week
and note an improvement over past
fairs.
Scouts To Celebrate Tenth
Anniversary
The tenth anniversary of the lo-cal
Boy Scout organization will be
celebrated at a campfire Monday ev-ening,
August 27, os the hill in the
park. The ceremony will begin- at
7.30 and will be followed by a pro-gram
of stunts, exhibitions, story-telling
and songs.
Scouts of Troops No. 2 and 3 will
render the program of fun and en-tertainment.
The public is cordially
invited.
Birthday Surprise for Blind Lex-ington
Mart
An agreeable surprise was tendered
Mr. Scott Meiley of Lexington in hon-or
of his 38th birthday anniversary,
Vvhich occurred on Saturday. He re-ceived
presents from Reading, Scheaf-ferstown,
Lexington, Brunnerville,
Pine Hill and Lancaster. The affair
was arranged by his sister Mrs. Al-bert
Potts of Pine Hill, Mr. Meiley
wishes to thank all those who so
kindly remembered him. Although
blind since infancy Mr. Meiley travels
alone on trolley and steam cars to
nearby cities.
New Chevrolet Dealer in Lititz
C, M, Snavely, who conducts a gar-age
on East Main street, has taken
the agency for the Chevrolet auto-mobile,
Mr, Snavely has placed an
order for cars and parts which should
arrive -within several weeks. Frank
Keller will be head salesman.
Special Free Movies Saturday
Douglas Fairbanks in " T H E AMERICANO," in five
reels, showing at 7-15 and 8,15 o'clock P. M. A "whirl-wind"
drama taken in South America, true to the title
— " T H E AMERICANO."
These moving pictures-are free and are sponsored by
R, M, Spacht and several other local business men.
X
Ray Dillman, a former Lititz boy,
now o-f Philadelphia, although not old
in years, having served in France with
the American Army of Occupication
during the World War, has had. many
experiences, but the latest episode re-ported
in Sunday's Philadelphia Re-cord,
probably outshines all pre-vious
happenings, Ray was home
over this week-end, explaining to his
many friends, "You see it was this
way."
One of the ambitions of Ray Dill-man,
Lititz, Pa., has been to see the
sun rising out of the boundless ocean.
He vowed that some day he would
make a special journey to the coast
for the sole object of gazing on Aur-ora
in her splendor.
And so he came to Wildwood. This
morning he determined to realize his
ambition. In order to make sure that
he would not oversleep, he decided to
stay up all night. At an early hour he
drove his car to the foot of Fifteenth
street, and then on, far out to the
edge of the surf'. Then he waited, not
knowing that the tide ebbs and flows.
The story now jumps to the moment
when the lifeguards, who take no in-terest
in sunrises, refreshed by their
sleep, -made their way to the beach to
take u|p their duties for the day. A
strange sight met their eyes. Far out,
above the tumbling waves was the fig-ure
of a man. He was standing on
something and he was wildly waving
a shirt.
It was none other than Ray Dill-man,
lover of the sunrise, it seemed
that the sun took an uncommonly
long time to rise above the horizon this
morning, and Dillman, sure that the
first rays would waken him had dozed
off. But he had forgotten the justly
famous tide, a tide that was aided by
a stiff northeast wind. Awakened by
the spray he had sent up distress sig-nals.
The beach patrol set out and re-cued
the marooned, wet shivering re-sident
of Lititz. Then they found
that he was standing on the roof of
bis sedan. Later a hawser was at-tached
to it and it was pulled ashore.
Dillman is of the opinion that sun-rises
at sea are all wet,
Ray has rather a mania for sleep-ing
in his car. Some time ago, while
on the way home from Reading in the
evening, he felt drowsy and, drove
in the yard at the Muddy Creek
church. At 10 o'clock next morning
he was still sleeping soundly, while
people who came for the services
looked at him with amazement. Fin-ally
he woke up, when a little boy
put his head in the window and asked,
"Hey, mister, what are vou doing
here?"
Ray is a student at Temple Uni-versity,
working in an auto accessory
store betweeen school hours in Phil-adelphia.
After attending ball games
for many years we saw a man
on Saturday who would make
the best umpire in. the business
today. So far he has not been
discovered by the big league
moguls.
Wanting to see the Athletic-
St. Louis game in Philadelphia,
coming there by chance just
after the start of the game and
not being able to get in the
ball park, the writer did the
next best thing. Got a seat at
a window of a house overlook-ing
the bail park. Including the
fans on the roof there were
forty persons who paid fifty
cents admission to the private
house. That was $20 for the
afternoon. If we lived in Phil-adelphia
we would rent one of
those houses and quit work
during the summer. At that,
we had a more comfortable
seat than in the ball park, with
ash tray and ice water close at
hand.
It was in this house- that we
discovered a man who would
make a premier umpire if he
had the chance. He wore
glasses, but at that, from the
far-off window, he called strikes
and balls for the benefit of the
house party. He disputed the
decisions of the umpire, who
was only several feet from home
plate. "What you think of
that," he would call out, "a mile
•wide and he calls it a strike.
The Athletics are certainly get-ting
a raw deal all afternoon.
Some one should poke that big-bum
in the eye, out on second,
my eye, he slid under the ball.
Why doesn't Connie put in a
pinch hitter. If he is a strata-gician,
I'm a magician. Charge
the loss of the game to Connie."
Remember, he was sitting
so far away that it would have
taken SH extradinary Babe
Ruth swat- to have reached him,
yet he out-umpired the umpire,
and out-smarted Connie Mack.
He was a. wonder and must have
had a telescope eye if every-thing
was true and correct as
he reported. Not being able to
see that sharply we had to take
his word for it.
At last they have arrested
one of those road menaces, the
auto driver who takes a chance
of messing things up by driv-ing
out of line. He is the fel-low
who tries to jump ahead
and when he gets in a jam
wedges in by pushing the other
fellow off the road. One would
imagine he do-es't have the
brains he was born with,
Niles Forsport, of Chester,
pulled out of a long line of
traffic. He couldn't -get back
and collided head on with a
machine driven by Jacob Bender
of Columbia. Both men had
their families with them, thir-teen
persons in ail, and six were
injured, including fractured
bones. Forsport jeopardized
not only the lives of the people
in the other car, who were the
innocent victims, but the lives of
his own family as well. For-sport
is only one of the many
who drive out of line. He de-serves
no leniency.
Just what is a newspaper ?
Each week it tells its story, and
one wonders whether there will
be enough news to fill its pages
next week, but it goes on and
on, For half a century the Re-cord
has gone on and on. The
clearest definition of a news-paper
was written by Bristow
Adams, professor of journalism
at Cornell University, Ithica, N.
Y, Here it is:
I ar» the Newspaper
I am the friend of the family,
the bringer of tidings from
other friends, I speak to the
home in the evening light of
summer's vine-clad po-rch or the
glow of winter's lamp,
I help to make this evening
hour; I record -the great and the
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C. M. Bassford, of East Port, Md.,
who is married to a former Lititz wo-man,
the family coming here frequ-ently
to visit Mrs. Bassford's mother,
Mrs. Lillie Rudy, proved a hero in
handling a disabled boat in wild seas,
after drifting twenty-sevn miles.
Another member of the party was
Ralph McMurry, who worked in Lit-itz
at one time on the construction of
the chocolate factory.
The following report was taken
from the Evening Capital, of Anna-polis,
Md.:
The fury of the week-end storm
which swept over this section is
perhaps best related by the near-fatal
experience of three Annapo-lis
men and as many Baltimoreans,
who were cast about at the mercy of
the rain and waves in Chesapeake
Bay. The men were finally able to
reach shore after 30 hours of despair,
in which each bade one another fare-well.
In addition to Mr. Bassford, others
in the party were Ralph W. McMur-ray
and John E. Freeman, of Severna
Park; Alfred Davis, manufacturer of
engineering, leveling and surveying
instruments, of Baltimore; Edwin
Baer, of Baltimore, owner of the boat,
and James Nusse-ar, prominent Balti-more
architect. They set out for a
peaceful fishing trip in a motor sail
boat of the cruiser type. They reached
Choptank river near Cambridge and
fished there until 2:30 Saturday after-noon
when they started for home,
just, as the storm came out of the
southeast.
When the fishermen wanted to
iand at 5:30 o'clock Saturday after-noon
the breeze changed to the north-east
heading the party off. The mo-tor
was to no avail against the huge
waves, it iwas found. The party's only
chance was to anchor. This they did
five miles from shore. An hour later
they began drifting, the anchor prov-ing
a toy to the fury of the waves.
They sighted four steamers and gave
distress signals, but without receiving
notice. Darkness set in and the men,
huddled in the cabin, were thrown
from side to side as the helpless craft
pitched and tossed in the raging Ches-apeake.
Only Mr. Bassford knew
enough about navigation to right the
boat in the time they drifted 27 miles.
The night's experience was frightful,
to say the least. Four of the party
were sick and helpless.
At 5:10 Sun-day morning the boat
refused to withstand further punish-ment
and sank 9 miles below Chesa-peake
Beach several miles off Plum
Point. The most hopeless task then
faced the men. Two of the party,
Baer and Nussear could not swim. Al-though
30-foot waves were lashing
them the other four men undertook
th e task of saving their companions
who pleaded to be abandoned to their
fate. Fortunately, all the men had
life belts, so about 2 hours later the
party reached shore, several in an ex-hausted
condition. As the men neared
land the undertow would throw them
25 feet back into the turbulent bay,
however, Samuel Dixon of Plum Point
and a colored man, by some fate of
Providence, noticed the struggling
men and helped to get them ashore.
Mr. and Mrs. Young Home From
Western Trip
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Young re-turned
home Monday after a five-weeks'
trip to the Pacific Coast, hav-ing
been with a personally conducted
tourists' party of 170 persons. Mrs,
Young's father was one of the party.
They traveled 12,000 miles. In Cana-da
they found that overcoats were
serviceable and the same was true
in San Francisco. At Los Angeles
they called on Fred Gable, a native
Lititz boy. They saw the main at-tractions
which included Yellowstone
National Park and Mt. Ranier. Mr.
Young enjoyed a long slide on the
snow, after stealing the mountain.
They especially were delighted with
the Northwest. Fruit was very
cheap. Restaurant fare was good and
reasonable west of the Rockies.
They went to Pike's Peak by auto-mobile,
enjoying the thrills of the
narrow, winding roads. They believe
that a personally conducted tour is
the best way for strangers to travel.
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN
TOUCH WITH OLD AND
NEW NAMES
Elwood Furlow and family ara
spending a week at Harrisburg.
Miss Esther Grosh is enjoying her
vacation at Ocean City, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Miller have
gone to Oneida, N. Y., fòr a week.
Grace and Dorothy Mover are
spending the week at Wildwood, N. J.
Mr. Jacob A.
Lebanon county,
Sunday,
Buch of Richland,.
was in town last
Back From 10,000
m Mile Auto Trip
Gave Doggie Roast
The Mi sse-s Beatrice and Anna
Kemper entertained the following
young people to a doggie and corn
roast: Marjorie Whitcraft, Charles
Kling, Esther McCreary, Chester Wer-tsch,
Betty Krumbine, Glenn Mamma,
Kay Seaber, William Fasnacht, Mae
Wahl, Paul Seaber, Katiherine Stur-gis,
Clarence Herr, Joy Grunenberger,
Joe Dunlevy, Helen Ebv, Leon Duss-inger,
Ere Seaber, Viola Schmuck,
Howard Keener and LeRsoy Pfautz.
The roast was held at the Millway
Bungalow.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Long returned
nome after a sight-seeing trip by
auto-bus to California and the nroth-west.
They traveled 10,000 miles,
going by the way of the Santa Fe
route and returning home by a north-ern
route. They saw the petrified
forest, painted desert, the Grand
Canyon, Yellowstone National Park,
in fact, wonder after wonder.
They traveled in daytime and at
night stopped at hotels. Mr. and Mrs.
Long stood the trip well, in fact, re-turned
home in the best of health.
At Abilene, Kan., an auto followed
after the bus for four miles, and as
soon as the bus stopped, the woman
in the auto, who had seen the Lan-caster,
Pa., sign, explained that she
was a native of the county and want-ed
to know about her relatives in
Lititz. At other places they encount-ered
Eastern people, who gave them
the hand of welcome. Mr. and Mrs.
Long are so well pleased with this
method of travel, that they are con-templating
another auto trip in the
near future.
Talked to Athletic Ball Players
Theodore Dussinger and Paul Bom-berger,
who attended a ball game at
Shibe Park last week, arrived early
and occupied a box seat. Several of
the Athletic players were seated
close by and they had an opportunity
to talk to them about the high lights
of the game. Jimmy Fox, Ty- Cobb
and Lefty Grove autographed their
names on the Lititz men's score
cards.
Richard Goetz Returned Home
After being absent from his home
more than five months J. Richard
Goetz, 22, 99 North Eighteenth
street, Harrisburg, has returned to
that city accompanied by his mother,
Mrs. G. Herman Goetz, who went to
California when it was learned that
her son had been located.
Young Goetz disappeared from
Harrisburg February 20, after losing
his job at the State Department of
Labor and Industry.
He was born at Lititz, the father
having been principal of the boro.
schools.
Schools to Open
The High School and the Seventh
and eighth grades of Warwick town-ship
begin sessions, August 27th. The
rural schools and other grades will
begin on September 3rd, Transporta-tion
busses for the rural pupils will
begin operations as usual on August
27. No children, however, who will
not reach the age of six years before
January first will be admitted.
Chicken Waffle Supper in Fire
House Saturday
The Ladies Aid Society of the Un-ited
Brethren Church will have a
chicken and waffle supper in the Fire
House on Saturday, Sept. 1st, -
Delayed on the Way by Auto
Accident
On his way home to Lititz with his
family after visiting his brother at
Clearfield, the Pontiac car of Morris
McCloud collided with a Chevrolet at
Mill Creek, near Huntingdon, Pa., Me-
Cloud's car was badly damaged, an
axile being bent, tires were punctured
and fenders bent, causing eight hour's
oelay. The Chevrolet showed little
damage. Heavy rains caused bad
road conditions at the place of the
accident.
Rural Carrier Examination
The U. S. Civil Service Commission
has announced an examination for the
position of rural carrier at Lititz.
The examination will be held in Lit-itz
and all applications must be in
before Sept. 28, 1928. The salary of
a rural carrier on a standard daily
wagon route of 24 miles is $180-0 per-annum,
with an additional |30 per
mile per annum for each mile or
major fraction thereof in excess of
24 miles.
—If you have children going to
school this term, our school sale will
save you money. Every item priced
low. See our big sale -bill of school
supplies—SCOTT'S BOOK STORE.
Janet and Catherine Hu-ber, dau-ghters
of S. M, Huber, are at Atlan-tic
City this week.
William Sturgis, Jr., of York, was
in town Tuesday looking up old
friends and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Phares Spickler are
visiting his brother Walter and fam-ily
at Springfield, Mass.
Miss Mary, daughter of Elmer Eby,
Front street, has gone to Wildiwood,
N, J., to spend a week.
Miss Irene Erb left on Saturday to
spend a week with her sister, Mrs.
Harry Baker, at Palmyra.
Miss Miriam Regennas, clerk in
Hager's store, Lancaster, is spending
a week's vacation at Atlantic City.
Miss Hazel Bender, head saleslady
at Pfautz Bros, store is spending a
vacation of two weeks at Altantic
City.
Mr. Benjamin Fass of New York
is a visitor here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs, David Fass, on Spruce
street,
Lloyd Hertzler, William Carper and
Warren Diehm left on Monday to at-tend
the Older Boys' Camp at Spruce
Creek,
Mr. and Mrs. C, C. Grim, Wayne
Zartman, Miss Margie Miller, attend-ed
the auto races at Altoona during
the week-end.
Mrs. Selina Eshleman has secured
a position at Atlantic City. She is
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Gorton.
Miss Verona Sturgis, of Springfield,
Mass., is spending a two-weeks' vaca-tion
with her parents on East Main
street.
Mr, and Mrs. Peter Keller and dau-ghter
Ruth returned home Sunday
after spending three days in Atlantic
City.
Rev. and Mrs, David Young, of
Philadelphia, spent Sunday with the
former's sister, Mrs, Lewis Oehme,
and family.
Miss Ruth Leaman, a Philadelphia
nurse, is spending a two weeks vaca-tion
with her parents, Mr, and Mrs.
N. B. Leaman,
Alice, daughter of Mr, and Mrs.
Ralph Worley, spent several days
with Emanuel Landis and family at
Bridgeport, N. J.
Mr, H. B. Buch attended the Steh-man
reunion at Caledonia Park about
midway between Chamfeersburg and
Gettysburg,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. B-uch are
spending several days at Brant
Beach, N. J,, as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs, W. B. Hornberger.
Miss Dorothy Habecker is spending
the week in Perry county, visiting
relatives in her mother's home town,
Newport, and Millerstown,
Mrs, Jacob Musser and daughter
Ruth, of Salunga, Samuel Erb and
family, of Manheim, visited Mr. and
Mrs, Harry Erb on Sunday,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gorham and dau-ghters
Helen and Betty, and Dan'l
Vauckers, of Little Falls, N. Y., -spent
a week with Mr. and Mrs. H. C„
Couch.
Eward Ranck, Daniel Gochenour
and Homer Schnerer, members of the
local American Legion Post are at-tending
the State Convenion .at Un-i
out own.
Mrs. Lydia Leaman, widow of the
late Ben. Leaman and Mrs, Rev. Jacob
Hershey were at Niaragra Falls as
well as other places in that section
cf Canada.
Rev. William Pfautz and family,
of Berthoud, Colo., left for their home
by auto on Monday. His brother
Monroe accompanied him as far as
Cleveland, Ohio.
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