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BURKHART'S Town T A l f K When Ton Vote — Lest We Forget —Hallowe'e« — When you vote next Tuesday, remember the Lititz Public Library. The h&lf-mill levy means more than a little. In April, 1936, you saw the culmination of hard work,! thought, and an inspired drive to' give our town what she needed.: We should remember and revere | those beginnings. Now you can' pay tribute to those men and wo- j men who started the movement for j the "greater cultivation of the minds of Lititz." Your vote will enable the library to progress as it should. More volumes mean more members, mgpn more inter-est. Perhaps the space now re-quired could be enlarged. This is the season: winter brings a desire to sit at home and read whatever holds most enjoyment. Of course., reading material is limited, and there is often a swing to the left. The trash that is sold today is dis-tributed so well that there is diffi-culty in avoiding its influience. The library is the only safety zone of literary culture, and your job is upholding that institution for your children's sakes. ! I hope to see additions in the form of non-fiction books, especial-ly. Romances are not in books; they are in life. Books of travel and comment on the arts, litera-ture and biography. Truth is be-coming paramount in the world to-day. In the words of Francis Ba-con, let us have more books that may be "chewed and digested." j Last night I read a history of Lititz, a portion of which contained the following paragraph: "In the 1900's Lititz held annual 'farm shows' or outdoor bazaars, •which were well attended until they were overthrown by a Great Evil. Un-luckily, the town's wiseacres ad-mitted so-called 'fakers' to enter the town, and set up their crooked trades. Historians are unalble to agree as to the reason for thie citi-zens' moral laxity, which was ne-ver tolerated during any other sea= ' son. Whatever the underlying cause, the fact remains. In the late thirties, matters reached a shameful end. Gambling wais per-mitted by and large, wholesale fak-ing was overlooked and unpiunish-ed. And thus, through a situation which could easily have been avoided in the beginning, this Penn-sylvania town lost its stand,. For gambling had maintained siufch a hold there, that the only fate was one similar to that of Nineveh." If there is greater beauty than love, it is found in autumnall land-scapes. Surely there is nothing more enjoyable than the nature of late October and opening glory of November. Hunter on the hill, a bird's reluctant thrill . . . . But have I forgotten Hallowe'en? Oh, the fun we had with all the lads. The parties in the old red barn, where we quaffed our cideir and didn't give a darn . . . . T hie bob-bing apples in the tub, the rosy-cheeked females, and waving corn-fields Spin-the-bottle, post-office, blushing, crushing, kiss. The RECORD Carries More Personal Items Each Week Than Any County Weekly THE LITITZ RECORD Qtyt Citttz fcxpttss 2,500 Copies Each Week 10,000 Potential Readers. Vol. LX Lititz, Lancsater County, Pa., Thursday, October 28, 1937 No. 8 Welfare Fund To Be Sought Next Month Six Sites Offered For Postoffice Here Annual Meeting of Com-munity Chest to Be Held Next Thursday Night; Teams Are Announced Watch repairing and furnace re-pairing are two occupations which generally do not go together. But one of our local watch-makers i3 proud of the job he did on his own furnace. He's been talking: about it for a month. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Unger, who were mentioned in this department last summer because of the num-ber of tomtaoes on their English vines, dropped us a card from Lit-tlehampton, England, where they are staying. They write, "It's difficult, here, to beliieve we are in the middle of October. Roses, sweet peas and other flow-ers are blooming in abundance. And we are eating English toma-toes, but the Lancaster County soil yields the most." Think About This The following item was handed to the editor yesterday by one of our local physicians— "I don't think there's any ques-tion that over-eating is the! great-est national crime today."— Dr. Victor G. Heiser, San Fraincasco, Calif. The annual public meeting of the Lititz Community Chest will be held in the Council Chamber on Thursday evening, November 4 at j eight. The report of the past year's work will be given in detail and, plans for the new drive—to be putj on betwee Nov. 8 and 15—will be considered. | It is also the time for the elec-' tion of the members of the govern-; ing Board. This year, a change in! the Constitution in regard to the term of office for the Executive Board members is slated for the approbation or disapprobation of j the members of the Community! Chest. By a member is meant any-1 one who contributes to the Chest. : A cordial invitation is extended j to anyone in the community who j may be interesed, either critically j or constructively, in the Welfare Work done by this organization for the unfortunates in our town. Those who have been appointed by some church or organization, , or are the Captains and workers se-lected for the 1937 Drive are espec-ially urged to attend this meeting which informs the public fully of the spending of the money collect-ed each year. The following captains with their workers have been chosen for this year: District No. 1, Ab-ram Hershey, Captain, Mrs. R. P. Healy, Mrs. Frank Hunter and Frank Longenecker. District No. 2 John Hershey, Captain, Charles Dussinger^ Tom Dussinger and Landis Stehman. District .-o. 3, M. C. Demmy, Capt., Mrs. M'. C. Demmy, Mrs. Mary Dengate and Mrs. Wm. Moody. District No. 4, Alfred Douple, Capt., Elmer Bom-berger, Ira Eberly and James Sea-ber. District No. 5—Meljyin Bru-baker, Capt., Charles Landis, Mrs. Arlie Rader and Mrs. Margie Arntz. District No. 6, Domer Brenner, Capt., Norman Brubaker, Wilson Gantz and Menno Rohrer. District No. 7, John Miller, Capt., Kathryn Gantz, Ruth Carper, Marguerite Weidman and Ford Gochenauer. District No. 8, Louis Huebener, Capt., Mary Sturgis, Agnes Hen-sel, Wm. Light and Charles V. Pfautz. District No. 9, Elam E. Habecker, Capt., Dr. F. W. Sten-gel, Herbert Weitzel, Wm. Klunk, Joseph Zahm. District No. 10 Dr. Harry Bender, Capt., Lillian Mc- Creary, Martha Sturgis, Margie Whitcraft and Harry Way. District No. 11, Albert Hornberger, Capt., Anna Mae Pfautz and Ethel Wike. District No. 12, D. P. Bricker, Capt., Thomas Steffy, Sophie Brick-er, Mrs. Norman Badorf and Jacob Koch. District No. 13, Miss Mag-dalena Bricker, Capt., Charles' Krushinski, Mrs. Russell Longe-necker, and Clayton Keith. Dis-trict No. 14, Arthur Guiney, Capt., Roy Myers, Jacob Leed, Sara Weid-man and Helen Farrand. District No. 15, Luther Ruhl, Capt., Charles Kling, Wm. Ringer and Elwood Keath. District No. 16, Eugene Dechert, Capt., Howard Hollinger, Clifford Helter and Melvin Lauver. Industrial, C. M. Woolworth, Capt., N. M. Badorf, Charles TCeath, Rob-ert Black, Frank Hunter, Edgar Feairheller. Mercantile— B. M. Leaman, Capt., Carl Workman, W. H. Muth, P. M. Bomberger, H. H. Diehm Barton Sharp and District No. 18—"Big Gifts"—Elam Risser, Captain, Dr. H. K. Cooper, Dr. M. H. Yoder and Senator H. J. Pierson. • Six sites, one of which was pre-sented by three parties, have been oifered for a new Lititz Post Office, it was disclosed Monday morning when proposals were opened by Robert E. Pfautz, postmaster. The amount allotted for the Post Office is $80,000 of which 20 per cent may be used for purchasing a site. The specifications call for a lot 120 x 18z feet if on a corner, and 150 x 180 feet if an inside lot. The bids follow: northwest cor-ner of Broad and West Main streets, lot approximately 120 x 85 feet, for $18,000, by Samuel F. Blatt; Bare tobacco warehouse property in the rear of the Blatt site, fronting on West Main street, lot approximately 80 x 107 feet, for $7,500, by H. J. Pierson; south-west corner of East Main and Ce-dar streets, lot approximately 45 x 200 feet, for $15,500, by Clayton Stehman; two lots and house west of the Stehman site, lot approxi-mately 96 x 200 feet, for $16,000, by Dr. C. E. Lane; three lots, nos. 59, 61 and 63 East Main street, ap-proximately 66 x 205 feet, for $13,- 000, by Mabel L. Groff, executrix. The bid presented by three part-ies is for three properties on South Broad street, approximately 66 x 200 ft., for $23,000. The properties are offered by Dr. Herbert H. Beck, 25 South Broad, for $,6500; Wil-liam G. Eshleman, 27 South Broad, for $6,500 and Ida Mohler, 29 South Broad, for $10,000. , This was the third time in the past several years that bids were asked for a site for a new Lititz Post Office. Hunters Set For Opening Of Season Trap Factory Whistle to Give Signal Here on Mon-day; Sportsmen Ask All' Gunners to Obey Laws j Vote YES Next Tuesday Voters of Lititz are urged to vote Yes after the following on the ballots at Tuesday's elec tion: "Do you favor the support of the Lititz Lititz Public Library by a one-half mill tax levy? Yes—X No Big Vote Seenj Community Show Told At Election By Council To Bar Here Tuesday Outside Concessions Park Improvement Tag Campaign Ends Saturday The tag campaign in which pur-chasers of tags from local school girls aided the park improvement fund of the Chamber of Commerce will be concluded tomorrow and Saturday. Thus far the girls in the contest have sold a large num-ber of tags and are expected to sell many more before the contest closes. The tags are ten cents and all the money will go to the improve-ment fund. Prizes will be awarded to the girls selling the highest number of tickets. Help the park improvement fund by buying a tag! Prizes donated thus far for the contest are: pull-up chair, by Spacht; oil-silk umbrella, by J. S. Harris & Co.; photograph album, by the Lititz Book Store; and a 616 Brownie camera, by Wertsch. These prizes will be awarded next week. Large Crowd Sees Moravian Pageant A large audience gathered last night in the Moravian Fellowship Hall and enthusiastically received the first presentation of "The Build-ers," a pageant written by Miss (Continued on Page 8) One local plant, the Animal Trap Co., is cooperating with I sportsmens groups of the county in their efforts to get the hunting season underway promptly at ()\ o'clock Monday morning. This j plant will blow its whistle j at that hour as a signal that the' season is open. Hunters in the) field will begin shooting when they hear the whistle. < The Lititz Sportsmens Associa-tion requests all hunters to wait until the whistle is heard before shooting. Whistles in all county towns and in Lancaster will be sounded at the same hour, so that every hunter in the county will be in a position to hear the signal. Some helpful hints for hunters are outlined by the local sports-men and are, 1. Be sure to have your license signed and displayed on back. 2. Do not carry your gun loaded in car. 3. You may not shoot at game on public highway. 4. Remember to stay 150 yards away from any building. 5. You may only have three shells in a repeating shot gun. 6. Do not break down the farm-er's fences or destroy any property. 7. Be sure to look where you shoot. - • . . ,,y r 8. Do not shoot more than the limit of any kind of game. 9. After the season, fill out^Game Report and give to any member of the Lititz association and they in turn will turn it over to the De-partment at Harrisburg. 10. "Be a Sportsmen" then oth-ers will become sportsmen, too. The Soil Conservation Service of ] the federal government also issues 1 a plea to hunters in order thatj young men working on the projects! of the service will be protected.! The plea is as follows: [ "There are about 150 CCC boys I doing soil conservation work on| farms in this vicinity. Red warn-ing signs will be posted in con-1 spicuous points near where crews! of the boys are working. When] you see one of these signs, find out exactly where the boys are located j and then do your hunting in the! opposite direction. J "These boys are helping you. I Among other things, they are planting trees and shrubs so that: wild life will find a more favorable j environment next year and in the years to come. "Why not help the boys in your turn? Don't shoot in their direc- (Continued on page eight) Half-Mill Tax Is Needed By Library Lititz People Urged to Vote "Yes" to Proposal For Levy on Ballots At Tuesday's Election Both Party Candidates Active Since Primary In Campaign for Borough and School Board Posts TO CONFER DEGREE The Lititz Lodge of Odd Fellows will confer the initiatory degree on a class on Monday Tiight in the lodge rooms. All members are urged to be present. Dr. Hertz and Dr. Dafoe and Triplets; Agree Both Discuss Quints Were Kept Busy The quints at play, a talk with Dr. Dafoe, a walk through Henry Ford's Dearborn village, a visit to Dr. Locke's foot clinic, one meal at Battle Creek sanatorium, a glimpse at the birthplace of Mark Twain and the old board fence which Huckleberry Finn made fa-mous, were just a few of the high spots in the 4,021 mile trip of Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Hertz through Can-ada and the mid-west. Dr. Hertz had previously written to Dr. Dafoe telling him about his experience as physician at the birth of triplets in Lancaster county. "We have had trials together" Dr. Dafoe said when they met. He discussed the quintuplets with the Hertz's, who watched the five girls at play. "They are cuter than their pic-tures, so full of life and pep. They are normal youngsters with good training", Mrs. Hertz remarked. Mrs. Hertz stood in line with three or four hundred other peo-ple at Dr. Locke's clinic. When her turn came she 'said "there is nothing in the world wrong with me but I want to shake hands with a successful man". So she paid her dollar and had the privilege. I Among the other points of inter-est they visited were Lincoln's : birthplcae and tomb in Springfield, | 111. There were many other tour-' ! ists there at the same time. Li- i cense tags on the cars were from' ' states from Florida to California1 but they saw no two alike. j> | Among the old friends and form-; i er Lancaster county people visited were Mrs. Fanny Hess Boettner, at Kitchner, Canada; Miss Mary Den-j gate, a student at St. Mary's, South Bend, Ind.; B. L. Hertz cousin of. Dr. Hertz, at Harrisburg, 111.; j Isaac H. Hershey, at Olathe; Mrs. George Bomberger,at Indianapolis; Ralph Heilman, at Hope, Ind., a delegate to synod the Hertz's en-tertained last year and several army friends of Dr. and Mrs. Hertz at various places through the West. The Lititz Public Library, which was started eighteen months gao with a few hundred contributed volumes, has grown to the point that it now has 2,000 books on its shelves and many, many more available on request. The number of volumes has doubled in the past year, the li-brary having acquired the entire Lutheran Sunday School collection and several substantial private do-nations recently. The fact that Lititz started a li-brary Is believed responsible for inspiring several neighboring towns to do the same. Both Manheim and Ephrata established similar ones after the Lititz Library As-sociation was formed. An average of 644 books monthly are carried from and to the li-brary; located on the second floor of the Amer building, on South Broad street, records of the librar-ian, Mrs. Naomi Miley, show. June was high with an exchange of 876 volumes. Through an arrangement with the Lancaster library, Lititz read-ers may obtain books from there without cost if they are not avail able here. Mrs. Miley, a resident of Lancaser, brings volumes from Lancaster as they are requested. In addition, several hundred are sent here from Lancaster occa-sionally. Thus far the local library has been supported in large measure by 'the dues of the Lititz Public Library Associtation, by donations from organizations such as the Rotary Club, Chamber of Com-merce, Susquehanna Recreation Club and Delphians, and by the help of the WPA and NYA in furn-ishing librarians and janitor ser-vice. The Library board is un-certain how long Federal help will be available. The usefulness of the library has not been questioned by any who have watched it in operation. Through the past summer it was patronized by school children from seven years upwards, some of whom came in businesslike fashion to pick a book from the shelves and take it home with them, and others of whom sat in the large room and read there. With the opening of school and concentration on lessons, adults form a larger percentage of the patrons. The records show that "once a reader, always a reader", inasmuch as patrons return fre-quently after they have once been introduced to the place. The room now used is large, having five windows and a maxi-mum of shelf space. Mrs. Miley, the librarian, has it open from 2:30 to 5:30 P. M. and from 6:30 to 8:30 P. M. Tuesday and Thursday and from 2:30 to 5:30 P. M. Saturday. Mrs. Miley spends several mornings each week in mending books and handling the clerical work. (Continued on Page 6) Fire Company Asks Loan For Purchase of New Engine; Aid Promised After Laws Are Scanned TO AWARD SIX LAMPS Drawings will be made at the j Lititz Theatre Monday night for six Rembrandt Lamps. The drawing will take place at 9 P. M., after; the first show. The lamps were furnished through the local deal-ers, Beck Bros., Lititz. Tuesday's election will likely bring out one of the largest votes in the Borough's history when two school board seats, two Council seats, tax collector and Burgess will be filled. Candidates for the offices in both parties have been doing heavy electioneering since the September 14th Primary. The Republican ticket is as fol-lows: Tax Collector, Raymond Reedy. Burgess, Victor Wagner. School Directors, Wm. H. Fas-1 nacht and Frank H. Longe-necker. Borough Council, Elmer H. Bomberger and A. L. Douple. Auditor, C. S. Zartman. Justice of the Peace, Andrew M. Shissler. Judge of Election, Wm. Zart-man and C. G. Brubaker. Inspectors of Election, Ralph Hoffman and J. A. Enck. The Democratic ticket is as fol-lows: Tax Collector, Frank Masser. Burgess, J. C. Brenneman. School Directors, John Hershey and Dr. S. R. Posey. Council, Levi Rudy and Wm. Moody. Auditor, Carl B. Workman. Justice of the Peace, Chas. Krushinski. Judge of Election, Chas. Reg-ennas and Arthur Counts. Inspectors, Emory Wagner and Irene Nuss. T. Stevens Grosh, defeated in the Primary by Raymond Reedy, will conduct a sticker campaign and endeavor to hold his post of tax collector, which has has occupied for 24 consecutive years. The Republican ticket carries the names of four men, Reedy, Fassnacht, Longenecker and Bom-berger, who are newcomers to the political field. The Democratic ticket contains five persons never before identified with local politics: Moody, Workman, Krushinski, Counts and Irene Nuss. Dr. C. E. Lane, local dentist, is the Democratic candidate on the County slate for the position of Recorder, and has been waging an active campaign among his local and county friends. Polls will be open the regular hours Tuesday, from 7 A. M. to 7 P. M. The second ward voting p ace has been moved frpm the Warwick House across the street diagonally to the Lititz Safe and Metal Co. building. This change was made in a recent ruling by the Legislature regarding polling places being lo-cated in the same building where wines, liquors or beer are sold. Every voter in the State will be asked to vote on five amendments to the State Constitution as fol-lows: 1. To permit amendments to the State Constitution to be sub-mitted more often than every five years. 2. To authorizie the Legislature to enact graduated income and in-heritance taxes, and to allow cer-tain exemptions. 3. To validate legislative appro-priations for old age pensions and mothers' assistance. 4. City County Merger for Phila-delphia. 5. To authorize the Legislature to borrow $42,000,000 to erect and maintain State prisons and hospi-tals. Two trustees of Lititz Fire Co., Guy Buch and Dervin Runk, then appeared before Council in refer-ence to the Borough loaning some money to the Company for the pur-chase of a new fire engine. They explained that the engine will cost $8331.50, less a trade-in allowance which will bring the price down to $7362.42. The Company has about $3300 toward it and the Auxiliary has presented $500. About $3500 more is needed to secure a cash price. Council promised its sup-port and will inform the Company what it will be able to do after the Borough Solicitor has looked up the laws governing such cases. Gambling Protests Bring Action; Citizens Present Facts to Town Rulers of What They Saw Baby Parade Will Be Held On Saturday Big Community Show Event Postponed by Rain; Large Crowds Here for Annual Show FIRE AUXILIARY TO MEET The Ladies Auxiliary of Lititz Fire Company will hold its regular meeting in the fire house on Thurs-day night, Nov. 4. Once again a Community Show is history and the history of the 1937 event includes many thousands of people here, large and fine exhibits, a great Mummers and industrial parade and plenty of fine enter-tainment. Rain, however, called off what to many people is the finest thing about the Show, the baby parade. That will be held this Saturday afternoon at 1:30 and the entry list will .be large. The same route as previously announced will be followed. Thousands lined the streets on Thursday night as the opening fea-ture, the parade, got underway. It was one of the finest that has ever been put on as the Show's open-ing feature. Friday night's big feature was the Soapbox Derby and in it 18 miniature racing * cars made by boys under 16 years of age rolled down South Broad Street. Theo-dore Brosey, No. 12, with a racer made of cast off baby coach parts costing $1 nosed out Marvin Stark, for the first prize of $15. Stark received the second prize of $5. Special prizes of $2.50 each were awarded for construction of cars as follows: best mechanically built, Robt. Zartman and Clarence Bear; best appearing Harry Gorton; od-dest looking, Oscar Forrey, for his non-streamlined car with a square box hood. One dollar prizes will be award-ed the heat winners who defeated their rivals as follows: Fred Stur-gis over Oscar Forrey; Marvin Stark over Robert Reidenbaugh; Tom Leaman over Harold Eckert; Carl Reist over Eugene Steffy; The-odore Brosey over Willard Her-shey; Harry Gorton over Robert Kline; Ray Singer over Charles Rose; Robert Zartman and Clar-ence Bear over William Miksch. Homer Hackman, former indus-trial arts teacher of Lititz, headed the derby committee which included Luther Ruhl, Eugene S. Dechert, Johnn Todd and Paul R. urlow. Crowds thronged the midway and exhibits Friday night until chased by rain after 10 o'clock, and when the rain ceased Saturday aftern-noon people began appearing from everywhere until a great crowd was on hand by the time eveninng arrivied. Prize winners in the parade were as follows: Largest comical group, Lititz Fire Co. Auxiliary; best comical group, Avous Stark, Mrs. William (Continued on Page 8) Barring from future Community Shows all concessions operated by men who are to all intents and purposes professional game hand-lers was recommended by Borougl Council at its October meeting on Tuesday night, following a storm of public protest against the garnet operated at the Show last week. The action climaxed what might be termed a public hearing on thi Show. A group of citizens ap-peared before Council to lodg« their protests. Councilman Charles E. Kricl brought the matter to Council'! attention by taking the floor am telling about the complaints he hat received. J A. L. Douple, president of Coin cil, also spake. "We are a] satisfied that we do not want thea people here again. We on Counci have formed laws to keep such peo pie out of town. Why invite then here for a community show?" Dr. S. J. Leicey, of W. Main Chief-of-Police Kreider and G. Myers, also spoke as did J. vin Enck, Harry Gorton and Lloy Smith. Harry Ruley declared the coi cessions committee was not a much to blame as the type whic operated the games could fool anj one. George Royes-ateo f iiM, few of the things he had seen. As the discussion was conclude Council promised to go on reojl condemning the gambling featur) and the visitors departed. The mj tion to recommend that the Sho! Association bar outside professioi al game operators was then fram« and passed. i The resolution is worded as fij lows: "That Council deplores fact that flagrant gambling vailed during the recent show that hereafter no concessions be sold, other than to local peoj and that they be subject to a; proval by Council and open to i spection by the ocal authoriti at all times." ! Boys Go To Woods For 1 Nuts for Squirrels ! j j Thirty to forty years ago it w : the custom of the youth of Lit \ to hire a team and large wag from a neighboring farmer a make an annual trip to the Fui ace Hills for chestnuts. Elev local newspaper carrier bo^a" 8 their friends are making a simi! trip this morning. They are in the Hershey-Leam truck instead of a wagon and n gather all varieties of nuts sir the chestnuts are practically < tinct from the blight. The nuts they will harvest y be stored and fed to the gi squirrels in the Lititz Springs Pa during the winter months and ai ment the peanuts given them William Stauffer who has h< feeding them since the State Ga Commission placed them here. ; The following boys each | whom invited two friends are the trip; Carl Sammett, Elwc Ritz. Bruce Sheaffer, Charles Hi Theodore Counts, Arthur Kell Luther Hartranft, Clyde Staiig Melton Worley, Bert Reidenbfl and John Helter. A. A. Zeche" the Lititz Sportsmens Assoc' is in charge. —Your vote for me for T lector at the Election Tuf respectfully solicited.—T. Grosh. For home-slaughtered Sausage and Pudding—go to LU1 Hamburg Steak, 19c. Phone 918' We deliver. a
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Full Text | BURKHART'S Town T A l f K When Ton Vote — Lest We Forget —Hallowe'e« — When you vote next Tuesday, remember the Lititz Public Library. The h&lf-mill levy means more than a little. In April, 1936, you saw the culmination of hard work,! thought, and an inspired drive to' give our town what she needed.: We should remember and revere | those beginnings. Now you can' pay tribute to those men and wo- j men who started the movement for j the "greater cultivation of the minds of Lititz." Your vote will enable the library to progress as it should. More volumes mean more members, mgpn more inter-est. Perhaps the space now re-quired could be enlarged. This is the season: winter brings a desire to sit at home and read whatever holds most enjoyment. Of course., reading material is limited, and there is often a swing to the left. The trash that is sold today is dis-tributed so well that there is diffi-culty in avoiding its influience. The library is the only safety zone of literary culture, and your job is upholding that institution for your children's sakes. ! I hope to see additions in the form of non-fiction books, especial-ly. Romances are not in books; they are in life. Books of travel and comment on the arts, litera-ture and biography. Truth is be-coming paramount in the world to-day. In the words of Francis Ba-con, let us have more books that may be "chewed and digested." j Last night I read a history of Lititz, a portion of which contained the following paragraph: "In the 1900's Lititz held annual 'farm shows' or outdoor bazaars, •which were well attended until they were overthrown by a Great Evil. Un-luckily, the town's wiseacres ad-mitted so-called 'fakers' to enter the town, and set up their crooked trades. Historians are unalble to agree as to the reason for thie citi-zens' moral laxity, which was ne-ver tolerated during any other sea= ' son. Whatever the underlying cause, the fact remains. In the late thirties, matters reached a shameful end. Gambling wais per-mitted by and large, wholesale fak-ing was overlooked and unpiunish-ed. And thus, through a situation which could easily have been avoided in the beginning, this Penn-sylvania town lost its stand,. For gambling had maintained siufch a hold there, that the only fate was one similar to that of Nineveh." If there is greater beauty than love, it is found in autumnall land-scapes. Surely there is nothing more enjoyable than the nature of late October and opening glory of November. Hunter on the hill, a bird's reluctant thrill . . . . But have I forgotten Hallowe'en? Oh, the fun we had with all the lads. The parties in the old red barn, where we quaffed our cideir and didn't give a darn . . . . T hie bob-bing apples in the tub, the rosy-cheeked females, and waving corn-fields Spin-the-bottle, post-office, blushing, crushing, kiss. The RECORD Carries More Personal Items Each Week Than Any County Weekly THE LITITZ RECORD Qtyt Citttz fcxpttss 2,500 Copies Each Week 10,000 Potential Readers. Vol. LX Lititz, Lancsater County, Pa., Thursday, October 28, 1937 No. 8 Welfare Fund To Be Sought Next Month Six Sites Offered For Postoffice Here Annual Meeting of Com-munity Chest to Be Held Next Thursday Night; Teams Are Announced Watch repairing and furnace re-pairing are two occupations which generally do not go together. But one of our local watch-makers i3 proud of the job he did on his own furnace. He's been talking: about it for a month. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Unger, who were mentioned in this department last summer because of the num-ber of tomtaoes on their English vines, dropped us a card from Lit-tlehampton, England, where they are staying. They write, "It's difficult, here, to beliieve we are in the middle of October. Roses, sweet peas and other flow-ers are blooming in abundance. And we are eating English toma-toes, but the Lancaster County soil yields the most." Think About This The following item was handed to the editor yesterday by one of our local physicians— "I don't think there's any ques-tion that over-eating is the! great-est national crime today."— Dr. Victor G. Heiser, San Fraincasco, Calif. The annual public meeting of the Lititz Community Chest will be held in the Council Chamber on Thursday evening, November 4 at j eight. The report of the past year's work will be given in detail and, plans for the new drive—to be putj on betwee Nov. 8 and 15—will be considered. | It is also the time for the elec-' tion of the members of the govern-; ing Board. This year, a change in! the Constitution in regard to the term of office for the Executive Board members is slated for the approbation or disapprobation of j the members of the Community! Chest. By a member is meant any-1 one who contributes to the Chest. : A cordial invitation is extended j to anyone in the community who j may be interesed, either critically j or constructively, in the Welfare Work done by this organization for the unfortunates in our town. Those who have been appointed by some church or organization, , or are the Captains and workers se-lected for the 1937 Drive are espec-ially urged to attend this meeting which informs the public fully of the spending of the money collect-ed each year. The following captains with their workers have been chosen for this year: District No. 1, Ab-ram Hershey, Captain, Mrs. R. P. Healy, Mrs. Frank Hunter and Frank Longenecker. District No. 2 John Hershey, Captain, Charles Dussinger^ Tom Dussinger and Landis Stehman. District .-o. 3, M. C. Demmy, Capt., Mrs. M'. C. Demmy, Mrs. Mary Dengate and Mrs. Wm. Moody. District No. 4, Alfred Douple, Capt., Elmer Bom-berger, Ira Eberly and James Sea-ber. District No. 5—Meljyin Bru-baker, Capt., Charles Landis, Mrs. Arlie Rader and Mrs. Margie Arntz. District No. 6, Domer Brenner, Capt., Norman Brubaker, Wilson Gantz and Menno Rohrer. District No. 7, John Miller, Capt., Kathryn Gantz, Ruth Carper, Marguerite Weidman and Ford Gochenauer. District No. 8, Louis Huebener, Capt., Mary Sturgis, Agnes Hen-sel, Wm. Light and Charles V. Pfautz. District No. 9, Elam E. Habecker, Capt., Dr. F. W. Sten-gel, Herbert Weitzel, Wm. Klunk, Joseph Zahm. District No. 10 Dr. Harry Bender, Capt., Lillian Mc- Creary, Martha Sturgis, Margie Whitcraft and Harry Way. District No. 11, Albert Hornberger, Capt., Anna Mae Pfautz and Ethel Wike. District No. 12, D. P. Bricker, Capt., Thomas Steffy, Sophie Brick-er, Mrs. Norman Badorf and Jacob Koch. District No. 13, Miss Mag-dalena Bricker, Capt., Charles' Krushinski, Mrs. Russell Longe-necker, and Clayton Keith. Dis-trict No. 14, Arthur Guiney, Capt., Roy Myers, Jacob Leed, Sara Weid-man and Helen Farrand. District No. 15, Luther Ruhl, Capt., Charles Kling, Wm. Ringer and Elwood Keath. District No. 16, Eugene Dechert, Capt., Howard Hollinger, Clifford Helter and Melvin Lauver. Industrial, C. M. Woolworth, Capt., N. M. Badorf, Charles TCeath, Rob-ert Black, Frank Hunter, Edgar Feairheller. Mercantile— B. M. Leaman, Capt., Carl Workman, W. H. Muth, P. M. Bomberger, H. H. Diehm Barton Sharp and District No. 18—"Big Gifts"—Elam Risser, Captain, Dr. H. K. Cooper, Dr. M. H. Yoder and Senator H. J. Pierson. • Six sites, one of which was pre-sented by three parties, have been oifered for a new Lititz Post Office, it was disclosed Monday morning when proposals were opened by Robert E. Pfautz, postmaster. The amount allotted for the Post Office is $80,000 of which 20 per cent may be used for purchasing a site. The specifications call for a lot 120 x 18z feet if on a corner, and 150 x 180 feet if an inside lot. The bids follow: northwest cor-ner of Broad and West Main streets, lot approximately 120 x 85 feet, for $18,000, by Samuel F. Blatt; Bare tobacco warehouse property in the rear of the Blatt site, fronting on West Main street, lot approximately 80 x 107 feet, for $7,500, by H. J. Pierson; south-west corner of East Main and Ce-dar streets, lot approximately 45 x 200 feet, for $15,500, by Clayton Stehman; two lots and house west of the Stehman site, lot approxi-mately 96 x 200 feet, for $16,000, by Dr. C. E. Lane; three lots, nos. 59, 61 and 63 East Main street, ap-proximately 66 x 205 feet, for $13,- 000, by Mabel L. Groff, executrix. The bid presented by three part-ies is for three properties on South Broad street, approximately 66 x 200 ft., for $23,000. The properties are offered by Dr. Herbert H. Beck, 25 South Broad, for $,6500; Wil-liam G. Eshleman, 27 South Broad, for $6,500 and Ida Mohler, 29 South Broad, for $10,000. , This was the third time in the past several years that bids were asked for a site for a new Lititz Post Office. Hunters Set For Opening Of Season Trap Factory Whistle to Give Signal Here on Mon-day; Sportsmen Ask All' Gunners to Obey Laws j Vote YES Next Tuesday Voters of Lititz are urged to vote Yes after the following on the ballots at Tuesday's elec tion: "Do you favor the support of the Lititz Lititz Public Library by a one-half mill tax levy? Yes—X No Big Vote Seenj Community Show Told At Election By Council To Bar Here Tuesday Outside Concessions Park Improvement Tag Campaign Ends Saturday The tag campaign in which pur-chasers of tags from local school girls aided the park improvement fund of the Chamber of Commerce will be concluded tomorrow and Saturday. Thus far the girls in the contest have sold a large num-ber of tags and are expected to sell many more before the contest closes. The tags are ten cents and all the money will go to the improve-ment fund. Prizes will be awarded to the girls selling the highest number of tickets. Help the park improvement fund by buying a tag! Prizes donated thus far for the contest are: pull-up chair, by Spacht; oil-silk umbrella, by J. S. Harris & Co.; photograph album, by the Lititz Book Store; and a 616 Brownie camera, by Wertsch. These prizes will be awarded next week. Large Crowd Sees Moravian Pageant A large audience gathered last night in the Moravian Fellowship Hall and enthusiastically received the first presentation of "The Build-ers," a pageant written by Miss (Continued on Page 8) One local plant, the Animal Trap Co., is cooperating with I sportsmens groups of the county in their efforts to get the hunting season underway promptly at ()\ o'clock Monday morning. This j plant will blow its whistle j at that hour as a signal that the' season is open. Hunters in the) field will begin shooting when they hear the whistle. < The Lititz Sportsmens Associa-tion requests all hunters to wait until the whistle is heard before shooting. Whistles in all county towns and in Lancaster will be sounded at the same hour, so that every hunter in the county will be in a position to hear the signal. Some helpful hints for hunters are outlined by the local sports-men and are, 1. Be sure to have your license signed and displayed on back. 2. Do not carry your gun loaded in car. 3. You may not shoot at game on public highway. 4. Remember to stay 150 yards away from any building. 5. You may only have three shells in a repeating shot gun. 6. Do not break down the farm-er's fences or destroy any property. 7. Be sure to look where you shoot. - • . . ,,y r 8. Do not shoot more than the limit of any kind of game. 9. After the season, fill out^Game Report and give to any member of the Lititz association and they in turn will turn it over to the De-partment at Harrisburg. 10. "Be a Sportsmen" then oth-ers will become sportsmen, too. The Soil Conservation Service of ] the federal government also issues 1 a plea to hunters in order thatj young men working on the projects! of the service will be protected.! The plea is as follows: [ "There are about 150 CCC boys I doing soil conservation work on| farms in this vicinity. Red warn-ing signs will be posted in con-1 spicuous points near where crews! of the boys are working. When] you see one of these signs, find out exactly where the boys are located j and then do your hunting in the! opposite direction. J "These boys are helping you. I Among other things, they are planting trees and shrubs so that: wild life will find a more favorable j environment next year and in the years to come. "Why not help the boys in your turn? Don't shoot in their direc- (Continued on page eight) Half-Mill Tax Is Needed By Library Lititz People Urged to Vote "Yes" to Proposal For Levy on Ballots At Tuesday's Election Both Party Candidates Active Since Primary In Campaign for Borough and School Board Posts TO CONFER DEGREE The Lititz Lodge of Odd Fellows will confer the initiatory degree on a class on Monday Tiight in the lodge rooms. All members are urged to be present. Dr. Hertz and Dr. Dafoe and Triplets; Agree Both Discuss Quints Were Kept Busy The quints at play, a talk with Dr. Dafoe, a walk through Henry Ford's Dearborn village, a visit to Dr. Locke's foot clinic, one meal at Battle Creek sanatorium, a glimpse at the birthplace of Mark Twain and the old board fence which Huckleberry Finn made fa-mous, were just a few of the high spots in the 4,021 mile trip of Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Hertz through Can-ada and the mid-west. Dr. Hertz had previously written to Dr. Dafoe telling him about his experience as physician at the birth of triplets in Lancaster county. "We have had trials together" Dr. Dafoe said when they met. He discussed the quintuplets with the Hertz's, who watched the five girls at play. "They are cuter than their pic-tures, so full of life and pep. They are normal youngsters with good training", Mrs. Hertz remarked. Mrs. Hertz stood in line with three or four hundred other peo-ple at Dr. Locke's clinic. When her turn came she 'said "there is nothing in the world wrong with me but I want to shake hands with a successful man". So she paid her dollar and had the privilege. I Among the other points of inter-est they visited were Lincoln's : birthplcae and tomb in Springfield, | 111. There were many other tour-' ! ists there at the same time. Li- i cense tags on the cars were from' ' states from Florida to California1 but they saw no two alike. j> | Among the old friends and form-; i er Lancaster county people visited were Mrs. Fanny Hess Boettner, at Kitchner, Canada; Miss Mary Den-j gate, a student at St. Mary's, South Bend, Ind.; B. L. Hertz cousin of. Dr. Hertz, at Harrisburg, 111.; j Isaac H. Hershey, at Olathe; Mrs. George Bomberger,at Indianapolis; Ralph Heilman, at Hope, Ind., a delegate to synod the Hertz's en-tertained last year and several army friends of Dr. and Mrs. Hertz at various places through the West. The Lititz Public Library, which was started eighteen months gao with a few hundred contributed volumes, has grown to the point that it now has 2,000 books on its shelves and many, many more available on request. The number of volumes has doubled in the past year, the li-brary having acquired the entire Lutheran Sunday School collection and several substantial private do-nations recently. The fact that Lititz started a li-brary Is believed responsible for inspiring several neighboring towns to do the same. Both Manheim and Ephrata established similar ones after the Lititz Library As-sociation was formed. An average of 644 books monthly are carried from and to the li-brary; located on the second floor of the Amer building, on South Broad street, records of the librar-ian, Mrs. Naomi Miley, show. June was high with an exchange of 876 volumes. Through an arrangement with the Lancaster library, Lititz read-ers may obtain books from there without cost if they are not avail able here. Mrs. Miley, a resident of Lancaser, brings volumes from Lancaster as they are requested. In addition, several hundred are sent here from Lancaster occa-sionally. Thus far the local library has been supported in large measure by 'the dues of the Lititz Public Library Associtation, by donations from organizations such as the Rotary Club, Chamber of Com-merce, Susquehanna Recreation Club and Delphians, and by the help of the WPA and NYA in furn-ishing librarians and janitor ser-vice. The Library board is un-certain how long Federal help will be available. The usefulness of the library has not been questioned by any who have watched it in operation. Through the past summer it was patronized by school children from seven years upwards, some of whom came in businesslike fashion to pick a book from the shelves and take it home with them, and others of whom sat in the large room and read there. With the opening of school and concentration on lessons, adults form a larger percentage of the patrons. The records show that "once a reader, always a reader", inasmuch as patrons return fre-quently after they have once been introduced to the place. The room now used is large, having five windows and a maxi-mum of shelf space. Mrs. Miley, the librarian, has it open from 2:30 to 5:30 P. M. and from 6:30 to 8:30 P. M. Tuesday and Thursday and from 2:30 to 5:30 P. M. Saturday. Mrs. Miley spends several mornings each week in mending books and handling the clerical work. (Continued on Page 6) Fire Company Asks Loan For Purchase of New Engine; Aid Promised After Laws Are Scanned TO AWARD SIX LAMPS Drawings will be made at the j Lititz Theatre Monday night for six Rembrandt Lamps. The drawing will take place at 9 P. M., after; the first show. The lamps were furnished through the local deal-ers, Beck Bros., Lititz. Tuesday's election will likely bring out one of the largest votes in the Borough's history when two school board seats, two Council seats, tax collector and Burgess will be filled. Candidates for the offices in both parties have been doing heavy electioneering since the September 14th Primary. The Republican ticket is as fol-lows: Tax Collector, Raymond Reedy. Burgess, Victor Wagner. School Directors, Wm. H. Fas-1 nacht and Frank H. Longe-necker. Borough Council, Elmer H. Bomberger and A. L. Douple. Auditor, C. S. Zartman. Justice of the Peace, Andrew M. Shissler. Judge of Election, Wm. Zart-man and C. G. Brubaker. Inspectors of Election, Ralph Hoffman and J. A. Enck. The Democratic ticket is as fol-lows: Tax Collector, Frank Masser. Burgess, J. C. Brenneman. School Directors, John Hershey and Dr. S. R. Posey. Council, Levi Rudy and Wm. Moody. Auditor, Carl B. Workman. Justice of the Peace, Chas. Krushinski. Judge of Election, Chas. Reg-ennas and Arthur Counts. Inspectors, Emory Wagner and Irene Nuss. T. Stevens Grosh, defeated in the Primary by Raymond Reedy, will conduct a sticker campaign and endeavor to hold his post of tax collector, which has has occupied for 24 consecutive years. The Republican ticket carries the names of four men, Reedy, Fassnacht, Longenecker and Bom-berger, who are newcomers to the political field. The Democratic ticket contains five persons never before identified with local politics: Moody, Workman, Krushinski, Counts and Irene Nuss. Dr. C. E. Lane, local dentist, is the Democratic candidate on the County slate for the position of Recorder, and has been waging an active campaign among his local and county friends. Polls will be open the regular hours Tuesday, from 7 A. M. to 7 P. M. The second ward voting p ace has been moved frpm the Warwick House across the street diagonally to the Lititz Safe and Metal Co. building. This change was made in a recent ruling by the Legislature regarding polling places being lo-cated in the same building where wines, liquors or beer are sold. Every voter in the State will be asked to vote on five amendments to the State Constitution as fol-lows: 1. To permit amendments to the State Constitution to be sub-mitted more often than every five years. 2. To authorizie the Legislature to enact graduated income and in-heritance taxes, and to allow cer-tain exemptions. 3. To validate legislative appro-priations for old age pensions and mothers' assistance. 4. City County Merger for Phila-delphia. 5. To authorize the Legislature to borrow $42,000,000 to erect and maintain State prisons and hospi-tals. Two trustees of Lititz Fire Co., Guy Buch and Dervin Runk, then appeared before Council in refer-ence to the Borough loaning some money to the Company for the pur-chase of a new fire engine. They explained that the engine will cost $8331.50, less a trade-in allowance which will bring the price down to $7362.42. The Company has about $3300 toward it and the Auxiliary has presented $500. About $3500 more is needed to secure a cash price. Council promised its sup-port and will inform the Company what it will be able to do after the Borough Solicitor has looked up the laws governing such cases. Gambling Protests Bring Action; Citizens Present Facts to Town Rulers of What They Saw Baby Parade Will Be Held On Saturday Big Community Show Event Postponed by Rain; Large Crowds Here for Annual Show FIRE AUXILIARY TO MEET The Ladies Auxiliary of Lititz Fire Company will hold its regular meeting in the fire house on Thurs-day night, Nov. 4. Once again a Community Show is history and the history of the 1937 event includes many thousands of people here, large and fine exhibits, a great Mummers and industrial parade and plenty of fine enter-tainment. Rain, however, called off what to many people is the finest thing about the Show, the baby parade. That will be held this Saturday afternoon at 1:30 and the entry list will .be large. The same route as previously announced will be followed. Thousands lined the streets on Thursday night as the opening fea-ture, the parade, got underway. It was one of the finest that has ever been put on as the Show's open-ing feature. Friday night's big feature was the Soapbox Derby and in it 18 miniature racing * cars made by boys under 16 years of age rolled down South Broad Street. Theo-dore Brosey, No. 12, with a racer made of cast off baby coach parts costing $1 nosed out Marvin Stark, for the first prize of $15. Stark received the second prize of $5. Special prizes of $2.50 each were awarded for construction of cars as follows: best mechanically built, Robt. Zartman and Clarence Bear; best appearing Harry Gorton; od-dest looking, Oscar Forrey, for his non-streamlined car with a square box hood. One dollar prizes will be award-ed the heat winners who defeated their rivals as follows: Fred Stur-gis over Oscar Forrey; Marvin Stark over Robert Reidenbaugh; Tom Leaman over Harold Eckert; Carl Reist over Eugene Steffy; The-odore Brosey over Willard Her-shey; Harry Gorton over Robert Kline; Ray Singer over Charles Rose; Robert Zartman and Clar-ence Bear over William Miksch. Homer Hackman, former indus-trial arts teacher of Lititz, headed the derby committee which included Luther Ruhl, Eugene S. Dechert, Johnn Todd and Paul R. urlow. Crowds thronged the midway and exhibits Friday night until chased by rain after 10 o'clock, and when the rain ceased Saturday aftern-noon people began appearing from everywhere until a great crowd was on hand by the time eveninng arrivied. Prize winners in the parade were as follows: Largest comical group, Lititz Fire Co. Auxiliary; best comical group, Avous Stark, Mrs. William (Continued on Page 8) Barring from future Community Shows all concessions operated by men who are to all intents and purposes professional game hand-lers was recommended by Borougl Council at its October meeting on Tuesday night, following a storm of public protest against the garnet operated at the Show last week. The action climaxed what might be termed a public hearing on thi Show. A group of citizens ap-peared before Council to lodg« their protests. Councilman Charles E. Kricl brought the matter to Council'! attention by taking the floor am telling about the complaints he hat received. J A. L. Douple, president of Coin cil, also spake. "We are a] satisfied that we do not want thea people here again. We on Counci have formed laws to keep such peo pie out of town. Why invite then here for a community show?" Dr. S. J. Leicey, of W. Main Chief-of-Police Kreider and G. Myers, also spoke as did J. vin Enck, Harry Gorton and Lloy Smith. Harry Ruley declared the coi cessions committee was not a much to blame as the type whic operated the games could fool anj one. George Royes-ateo f iiM, few of the things he had seen. As the discussion was conclude Council promised to go on reojl condemning the gambling featur) and the visitors departed. The mj tion to recommend that the Sho! Association bar outside professioi al game operators was then fram« and passed. i The resolution is worded as fij lows: "That Council deplores fact that flagrant gambling vailed during the recent show that hereafter no concessions be sold, other than to local peoj and that they be subject to a; proval by Council and open to i spection by the ocal authoriti at all times." ! Boys Go To Woods For 1 Nuts for Squirrels ! j j Thirty to forty years ago it w : the custom of the youth of Lit \ to hire a team and large wag from a neighboring farmer a make an annual trip to the Fui ace Hills for chestnuts. Elev local newspaper carrier bo^a" 8 their friends are making a simi! trip this morning. They are in the Hershey-Leam truck instead of a wagon and n gather all varieties of nuts sir the chestnuts are practically < tinct from the blight. The nuts they will harvest y be stored and fed to the gi squirrels in the Lititz Springs Pa during the winter months and ai ment the peanuts given them William Stauffer who has h< feeding them since the State Ga Commission placed them here. ; The following boys each | whom invited two friends are the trip; Carl Sammett, Elwc Ritz. Bruce Sheaffer, Charles Hi Theodore Counts, Arthur Kell Luther Hartranft, Clyde Staiig Melton Worley, Bert Reidenbfl and John Helter. A. A. Zeche" the Lititz Sportsmens Assoc' is in charge. —Your vote for me for T lector at the Election Tuf respectfully solicited.—T. Grosh. For home-slaughtered Sausage and Pudding—go to LU1 Hamburg Steak, 19c. Phone 918' We deliver. a |
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