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>L. LUI LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1929 No. 7
nanuel Grube
Injured in Fall
ll-Known Lititz Resident, 85,
uts Forehead, Breaks Jaw
in Fall On Broad Street
nanuel Grube, who will be 85 this
th, was seriously injured Thurs-afternoon
on South Broad Street,
condition is considered critical by
attending physician.
t . Grube, who is well-known to
¡sands of people in town, because
lis daily walks about the Square
his home at Broad and Main
:ets, had evidently walked across
ad Street from his home to the
i between Amer's Hardware Store
the Gas Company building. As he
•ed the pavement, he fell, striking
face on the street. Pedestrians
,ing by assisted him to his feet
Dr. S. R. Posey, who appeared at
Square at that moment, was
.d.
r. Grube was taken to his home,
re it was found he had sustained
id cut on his forehead and had
lured his jaw. His left hand also
injured and it is believed he is
•ed internally.
Obituary
William E. Wertsch
•lliam E. Wertsch, 65, of near
iland, died Friday morning of
ilications after an illness of sev-months
He was the father of
y R. Wertsch, Lititz jeweler.
\ Wertsch is survived also by his
who was Emma Ruth, by the
wing sons: Edwin, Hopeland and
, Ephrata, and by eight grand-ren
and the following sisters:
Polly Fasnaeht, Denver; Mrs.
a Roehrer, Ephrata, and Mrs.
}ln Christ, Hopeland.
,e funeral was held Tuesday
ling at 9.30 o'clock from the late
3 and at 10 o'clock from the
iland United Brethren Church,
interment in the adjoining ceme-
Mrs. Wayne Neidamyer
s. Ida Sahm Neidamyer, 58, wife
rayne Neidamyer, died Tuesday
ing at 10.20 o'clock at her home,
•ievin" Street, Lancaster, of cona-ions.
She was born September
in Lincoln, a daughter of the
isaac and Lavinia Roland Sahm.
esided in Lancaster for the past
n years where she was a mem-of
Covenant United Brethren
:h and Ladies' Aid Society,
ides her husband these children
re: Mrs. Clarence Brubaker, of
; William P., of Lancaster, and
rine A., Emma M., and Richard
11 qt home. Brief private fun-cervices
will be held from the
lome this afternoon at 1.30 o'-
and at 2 o'clock in Covenant
d Brethren Church, W. Orange
Mulberry Streets, Lancaster.
1 will be in the Riverview ceme-
Samuel G. Ruth
nuel G. Ruth, 93, a veteran of
iivil War, died suddenly at the
of his nephew, A. R. Hensel, of
¡and, Monday evening a 6 o'-
of acute indigestion,
was the oldest resident of Hope-and
was the last member of a
y of sixteen children. He had
>d with his nephew, for four
, and was a member of the
land United Brethren Church,
nephews and nieces survive,
ring the Civil War Ruth served
impany I, 19th Ohio Volunteers,
ifantry regiment,
neral services will be held to-ow
afternoon at 1.30 o'clock in
Hensel home, with further ser-at
2 o'clock in the Hopeland
ed Brethren Church. Interment
be in the adjoining cemetery.
s. Katherine G. Dommoyer .
s. Katherine Grant Donmoyer,
y-one, widow of Abraham Don-r,
Rothsville, died Sunday at 11
. of apoplexy, at the home of
laughter, Ada, wife of Ervin
rmyer. She is survived by the
/ing children: Emma, wife of
;e Eichelberger, near Neffsville;
wife of Ervin Neidermyer, of
ville; Harry, Neffsville; Lizzie,
of Levi Heil, Ephrata; Mary,
ville, thirteen grandchildren,, ten
(Continued on Page 8)
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Druekemrriller,
of Royersford, are visiting the par-ents
of the latter, the Rev. and Mrs.
H. J. Kline, at the Evangelical Con-gregational
Parsonage, on Orange
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl S. Mathers, of
Balimore, are spending several days
with the parents of the latter, the
Rev. and Mrs. F. A. Weicksel.
The Rev. F. A. Weicksel attended
the meeting of thé Pastoral Associa-tion
in Lancaster on Monday in the
morning and the district Luther
League meeting in the afternoon
Mrs. W. R. Sammel and children,
Margaret and Edward, spent from
Monday until today in Gettysburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Lemon S. Neidermyer
spent Sunday at Millersburg visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bixler.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Jones, of
Ephrata, and Mrs. Charles Pike and
son, Herbert, of Coatesville, were en-tertained
by Mr. and Mrs. Pej-cy B.
Furlow, of Front Street, on Sunday.
Herbert Longenecker and Milton M.
Brubaker, students at Penn State Col-lege,
spent the week-end at their
homes with their parents, Mrs. Mary
C. Longenecker and Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Brubaker.
Mr. and Mrs. William Zartman and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stehman are
spending a week in Kitchener, Can-ada,
visiting Mrs. Stehman's brother,
Clayton Bomberger and family. Mr.
Bomberger was formerly a resident
of this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin R. Keller visi-ted
Mr. and Mrs. Willard McConnell
at Lyndell on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Royer, of Nor-folk,
Va., spent the week-end with
H. H. Royer and attended the funeral
of Mr. Royer's grandmother.
Julia Owen, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Owen, New Street, is
spending several days this week at
the home of Mr. Owen's father, at
Hershey.
Clarence Keller, of Towanda, spent
the week-end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. R. Keller.
Mrs. Sara K. Jenkins requests the
members of the King's Daughters
Circles of town to get in touch with
her regarding the candy drive for the
Perry Point Soldiers.
Four Blizzards This Winter
Prediction of Seer, Now 91
Biting winds will make' whoopee
and four blizzards will lend their arc-
: tic. blasts to make the winter of 1929-
1930 a colder, windier one than has
been seen for many a year in this
section.
That is a picture of the coming
winter as forecast by Frank Haas, 91
year old weather prognosticator of
Free Hold, near Topton. Haas has
been predicting winter weather for
3(i years and according to farmers in
his neck of the woods, has been pret-ty
uniformly accurate in his weather
prophecies. ^
Each year Haas, who in spite of
his s 91 years, drives to Reading and
observes the elements on November
1 and 2 and immediately thereafter
makes his prophecy. His fame as a
forecaster has spread to all sections
of southern Pennsylvania. v
"Yes sir it's going to be colder this
year than for many years," Haas
said. "We'll have mild weather for
he next four weeks. There'll be plen-ty
of time for folks to get in the
corn. Then we'll have a week of
warm weather, with fresh south
winds. That'll be around the first
week in December. After that there'll
be a sudden change to westerly and
northwesterly winds, with much cold-er
weather. The extreme cold will
last through January and February,
then there will be four pretty big
blizzards, with lots of deep snow. I
don't look for much real bad weather
after the last week in February.
There won't, Haas said, be much
snow before January, and the pros-pects
of a "white Christmas" are not
so good.
Haas bases his annual forecast
largely upon the weather conditions
on the first two days of November.
These days, he believes , are of unique
significance to the prognosticator and
the winds that exist then are invar-iably
forerunners of what is to come.
He also points to the thick foliage
of this year's corn fodder and the
unusual height to which weeds have
grown as a basis for his belief in a
very cold season.
—A Sheaffer Lifetime Fountain Pen
and Pencil Set makes a very practical
Christmas Gift. You'll find a com-plete
stock at Scott's Book Store.
ÍERICAN RED CROSS
Hotel Co. Meets Tomorrow
Details and obstacles confronting
officials of the Lititz Community
Hotel Company are rapidly being
ironed out and much progress will be
reported at a meeting of the company
to be held tomorrow.
The architect, Henry Y. Shaub, of
Lancaster, has had men busy on the
site securing measurements. General
specifications for the new building are
being drawn up and will be discussed
at the session.
• Legion Officers Installed
At a meeting of the local Legion
Post, held last Wednesday night in
the Post home, the newly elected offi-cers
were installed by Hugh Eiseman,
Deputy Commander. The officers are:
Commander, Paul H. Bomberger;
Vice Commanders, Dr. E. McMullen,
Valentine Brobst; Adjutant, Frank
Hunter; Finance Officer, Alfred
Douple; Historian, Kenneth Witmyer;
and Sargeant of Arms, Albert Horn-berger.
Warwick House Bazaars
To Be Resumed Saturday
Saturday will mark the resumption
of the Warwick House Bazaar Sales
by the people who started them more
than forty years ago. The well-known
inn recently changed hands, and is
now in the ownership of C. M.
Snavely, who is remodeling the place
to take care of his automobile busi-ness
and these sales. H. H. Snavely,
veteran auctioneer, will again have
charge of that end of the sale, and
protaises some fine entertainment.
As an added attraction, a rabbit
chase, pheasant chase and guinea
chase will ¡be held at 1 P. M. for the
children. The sales will start immedi-ately
thereafter. The proprietors
have been registered by the state to
prepare and sell all kinds of furni-ture
and bedding.
Army of Rakers Out
Everyone around town seems to be
busy raking up the leaves that have
fallen on the lawns and sidewalks,
and since that is one of the last out-door
jobs of the year, winter seems to
be upon us. And in the midst of all
this vicinity, many fires of leaves are
sending up their pungent smoke into
the evening sky. Many of the leaves
are used to place around rose bushes
and other plants as a protection from
winter's icy blasts, and many of the
leaves are hauled away, sometimes to
gardens and scattered about for fer-tilizer.
Local Red Cross Campaign
To Be Started Next Week
The local Red Cross campaign will
probably get underway here next
week. Mrs. Sarah K. Jenkins, who
usually handles the campaign, has
been forced to delay the start of it
this year due to the fact that she was
injured severely in a fall from an
automobile and has been unable to
give her full time to her numerous
duties. However, she has started the
preliminary work and will announce
the details next week.
The Red Cross began its nation-wide
campaign this week and gives
an idea of its work j n several stories
appearing in this week's RECORD, as
well as pictures of its work in a sup-plement
issued with the paper this
week. Although posters have been
put up in town, it has been sugges-ted
that njerchants place the supple-ment
in their windows to show their
support of the work.
Plan Welfare Campaign
Dr. M. H. Yoder, head of the Lititz
Community Chest, has announced that
full details of the campaign to be put
on in town to raise the Lititz share
of the chest in Lancaster and also to
provide funds for separate work in
town, will be given out next week.
A meeting of those on the Com-munity
Chest committee will be held
the latter part of this week to com-plete
the plans for the canvass.
Y.P.Council Names
Officers for 1930
Plan Rummage Sale
Lititz representatives of the new
Osteopathic Hospital in Lancaster
will aid in conducting a rummage
sale, November 19t hand 20th, next
Tuesday and Wednesday, in a store
room in the first block of S. Duke
Street, Lancaster. Persons wishing
to contribute rummage may leave the
same at Leaman and Leed's, N. Broad
Street, or J. C. Brubaker's farm, not
later than the 18th.
Addresses Rotarians
W. H. Muth addressed the weekly
luncheon of the Rotary Club on Tues-day
evening in the Springs Hotel.
Six or eight visitors were present,
an unusually large number for a
luncheon here.
Lititz Auto Strikes Girl
Alma Urwiler, ten, of 429 Beaver
Street, Lancaster, was slightly bruised
when she was struck and knocked
down by a machine driven by Harry
Fahl Lenhart, 28 North Broad street,
Lititz, at Prince and King streets,
Saturday afternoon. Lenhart told po-lice
he was driving east on King
street when the child ran from the
curb in front of his machine.
Father and Son Banquet
A very enjoyable Father and Son
banquet was held last night in St.
Paul's Lutheran Church, when about
170 gathered around the festive board
at 7 o'clock and partook of a fine
meal. The program was greatly en-joyed
by everyone present.
—Come in and make your selection of
personal engraved Christmas Cards.
SCOTT'S BOOK STORE, Lititz, Pa.
J. C. Brubaker Addresses Meet-ing;
Twenty Visitors from
Columbia Attend
The Young People's Council of Dis-trict
No. 9 held their regular monthly
meeting in St. Paul's Lutheran
Church. The devotions were in charge
of the Lititz Mennonite Church. Mr.
J. C. Brubaker gave a very interest-ing
talk on "A Renewed World Vis-ion,"
and the Scripture and songs
we're all centered about that theme.
Several schools then gave Bible
Dramatizations.
The Council was very much pleased
to have with them a visiting council
from Columbia, of about twenty per-sons.
The Council officers elected for the
coming year are: Associate Super-intendents,
Warren Diehm and Anna
Mary Franck; President, Irma Gantz;
Vice President, Lloyd Hertzler; Sec-retary,
Helen Yerger; Assistant Sec-retary,
Betty Martin, and Treasurer,
John W. Eiberly.
On Saturday, November 30th, both
afternoon and evening, the annual
Young People's Conference will be
held in St. Paul's Lutheran Church,
at which time young people's prob-lems
will be discussed by good speak-ers.
The following members of the
Council attended the Regional Young
People's Conference at Reading, Fri-day,
Saturday and Sunday: Kathryn
Gochenaur, Verna Hertzleiv Beulah
Stauffer, Anna Mary Franck, Mary
Goodyear, Ella Stauffer, Marguerite
Bard, Rutli iSeaber, Warren Diehm,
Hazel McBride, Rev. McBride, Helen
Yerger and Margaret Souders.
B r e v i t i e s -iJ" ' III I r—o
The remodeling of the home of
Chas. K. Keath, Front and North
Streets, is rapidly being finished and
Mr. Keath expects to occupy the
house in a month.
The Borough program of paving is
going ahead rapidly and already
First Avenue is finished with a fine
macadam surface and New Street is
stoned and rolled preparatory to
macadamizing.
Mrs. Giiy Reidenbaugh is a patient
in St. Joseph's Hospital, Lancaster,
where she is recovering from an
operation.
Mrs. Chas. Wiertz, of town, left on
Tuesday morning for New York City
to spend several weeks with her son,
Arthur, and her daughters, Mrs.
Theo. Newfield and Mrs. Hugh J.
Aurinder. Mr. Wiertz expects to join
her over Thanksgiving week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Keller attended
a covered dish luncheon at the Honey
Brook M. E. Church on Wednesday
evening.
Drivers of Unapproved Cars
Ordered Arrested by Price
Captain Wilson C. Price, superin-tendent
of the State Highway Patrol,
has issued orders to the several hun-dred
members of the patrol, direct-ing
the arrest on and after Novem-ber
16 of all persons operating motor
cars which do not bear the "approved,
inspected" winshield sticker.
Up to Monday of this week ap-proximately
1,400,000 cars and trucks
had been examined and approved, re-ports
show. The owners of 400,000
others had shown no inclination to
obey the law enacted by the 1929
Legislature.
Of the cars so f a r examined by the
official stations, approximately 2,000
have been refused an "approved"
sticker, their condition mechanically
being terrible, and their drivers re-fusing
to have t i e work done on
brakes or lamps which would have
placed them in good condition. Own-ers
of these cars within a day or so
will receive a communication from
the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, direct-ing
that within a certain period they
have their cars inspected, or run the
risk of having their licenses revoked.
Pantry Sale to Be Held
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Lititz
Fire Company will hold a Pantry Sale
of cakes, pies, etc., and vegetable
soup by the quart on Saturday,
November 23, in the fire house. Sale
will start at 10 A. M.
Church Notes
Sunday evening the Rev. George B.
Raezer, pastor of the Reformed
Church, will preach a special sermon
for the fathers and sons of the con-gregation
in observance of Fathers'
and Sons' Day.
Monday evening there will be a
get-together meeting in the local
church when a social will be held at
7.45. Light refreshments will be
served.
Tomorrow night, there will be a
unique social held in the Sunday
School room of. St. Paul's Lutheran
Church when the choir will hold a
Measuring Social for the benefit of
their fund to purchase gowns. A
very interesting program has been
arranged and a feature will be a play-let
"The Thrilling Rescue of Buffalo
Ann."
Admission will be charged at the'
rate of five cents for each foot of a
person's height, plus a cent for each
additional inch.
The congregation of St. Paul's
Church have sent 2 boxes of clothing
to the Monroe Mission, in Washing-ton
D. C., and a. barrel of clothing
to the Loysville Orphans' Home
The following subjects will be con-sidered
in the remaining revival ser-vices
at the Church of the Brethren:
Tonight, "The Gogd Samaritan";
Tomorrow night, "Leprosy, A Type
of Sin"; Saturday night, "We Are
Journeying to a Place," and Sunday
morning, "The Home" and evening,
"Absalom."
The following are the subjects of
the Sunday evening evangelistic ser-mons
to be preached by ^he Rev. E.
S Crosland in the Moravian Church:
Nov. 17th—"Side Doors to Heaven";
Nov. 24th—"Some Scarecrows"; Dec.
1st—"The Greatest Question in the
World"; Dec. 8th—"Noah's Carpen-ters";
Dec. 15th—"One Word We
Would Blot Out"; Dec. 22nd—"Listen,
World!" and Dec. 29th—"Bethlehem,"
Christmas Cantata by the Choir.
Malta Presents Fine Program
White Dove Commandery, No. 532,
Knights of Malta, presented a very
instructive program for its members
and their friends Thursday night.
While the attendance was not as large
large as expected, the chairman of the
committee in charge, J. Albert Hall,
stated that he felt that it was a step
forward in Malta and is of the opin-ion
that it is just the beginning of
what the organization wth its grand
principal intends in this community.
Rev. H. J. Kline, of the Evangelical
Church, led the attendance in prayer,
and H. H. Bucher, Sir Knight Com-mander,
gave a hearty welcome, after
which the officers of the Commandery
were introduced. Miss Maude Bender,
of this place, furnished a number of
selected readings which were deliver-ed
very capably and were very pleas-ing
to the audience. The principal
speaker, Rev. H. E. Wieland, of Lan-caster,
delivered a masterful address
on Maltaism, explaining the principal
fully, describing the trials and relig-ious
struggles for existance and laud-ing
the order for the benevolent work
in Chrisitan life.
There were visitors from Lancas-ter,
Christiana, Hopeland and Stev-ens
present, including the Deputy
Grand Commander, J. C. Ulmer. The
next program will be rendered at
Christiana, December 10, when it is
expected to take a delegation from
here to that place. Arrangements are
now under way to have the Grand
Commander of Pennsylvania pay a
visit to the Commandery in the near
future.
Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted, rea-sonable
prices. Hours 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Closed Mon. Come a f t e r supper if you
wish. HORTON, Optician, .Lincoln.
Grube—Hess
David B. Grube, of Lititz, and
Elizabeth M. Hess, of Kissel Hill,
were married by Rev. J. F. Knittle on
Saturday evening at 7.30 in the par-sonage
of the Reformed-Lutheran
Church, Manheim.
Leitheiser—Smith
Miss Anna Smith, of Marietta, was
united in marriage" to Nathaniel D.
Leitheiser, of Columbia at Towson,
Maryland, Saturday by Rev. Richard
Wickers, pastor of the Cavalry
Baptist church . They were attended
by Miss Laura Witmyer, of Lititz,
and Thomas Rearich, of Columbia.
The couple will reside at Columbia.
—See our ad on license Burners on
Page 8.—Holtzhouse Cut Rate Store.
955 Persons See
"Dream of a Clown
King's Daughters Report Gain
of $350 On Show; Men
"Good Ladies"
Close to a thousand persons wit-nessed
the farce "The Dream of a
Clown," as presented here last week
by the King's Daughters with a cast
made up of seventy prominent local
men. And that the 955 who attended
the two. performances Thursday and
Friday nights in the High School
Auditorium enjoyed it immensely was
vouchsafed by the roars of laughter
that greeted the acts and the imper-sonations.
Gross receipts of the play amounted
to $814, and after deducting expenses,
$706 remained as profit, to be equal-ly
distributed between the King's
Daughters and the producing com-pany.
The King's Daughters share of
$353 was then divided equally be-tween
the six Circles of Lititz, giving
each Circle almost $59.
The Clown, played by David
Bricker, the ballet girls, the act of
Dr. W. K. Lockhart and Dr. Charles
A. Landis, proved very good, as were
all the impersonations of the mar-riage.
Chief among the latter were
Dr. E. McMullen as Mme. Schuman-
Heinck and Domer Brenner as Pola
Negri. And the groom, whose iden-tity
was kept secret until it was time
for him to appear on the first night,
was none other than our new burgess,
J. C. Breneman.
Fine Armistice Service
Held By Legion Post
A crowd that filled the High School
Auditorium and crowded extra seats
and the aisles attended the 11th an-nual
observation of the Armistice as
it was celebrated in Lititz on Sunday
night. Many others turned away,
when on arriving late, they learned
they would be unable to gain entrance
to the hall.
The observance was in the hands
of Garden Spot Post, No. 56, Ameri-can
" Legion, and a very fine program
was presented. The service, also, was
a union church service and was at-tended
by the ministers and congre-gations
of town.
Dr. Roy Deck, of Lancaster, who
saw service in the late war with the
British Expeditionary Forces, sur-prised
the audience with a very in-teresting
talk on his experiences over
there rather than the usual "We must
have peace" type of speech. But his
well chosen experiences drew a pic-ture
of the war that clung to every_
one's mind and helped to build up a
desire for peace.
For the musical side of the pro-gram,
the Post secured the services
of the Harmony Trumpeteers, of
Philadelphia, and the Girls' Glee Club
of the local High School, and their
numbers were well presented and re-ceived.
The Legion men met at the Post
home, South Broad Street, previous
to the service and walked to the
auditorium in a body.
Stores Get Housecleaning
Quite a few of the stores of town
are getting their fall housecleaning
and many that have had it are look-ing
spruced up for the winter. The
postoffice also had a bath this week,
inside and out, inconveniencing Post-master
Seaber and his force for the
time being, but greatly improving the
looks of the Federal Building, if such
it may be called
Repairing Tracks at Station
A force of Reading Company work-men
are busy levelng out the tracks
in front of the local station and were
making the dirt fly in the rain of
yesterday. They are digging up along
each side of the track and putting in
new ballast and generally improving
the place.
Institute Week
' The seventy-seventh session of the
Lancaster County Teachers' Institute
il being held this week in St. Paul's
Reformed church, Lancaster, closing
tomorrow. Eight hundred and twen-ty
teachers in the county schools at-tended
the sessions, according to Ar-thur
P. Mylin, county superintendent
of schools.