Lititz Record

              Vol. LVII LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1334"
Council R
No. 38
Collector Grosh Brought In
$15.141 Of Duplicate; ?879
To Be Collected By Liens
Of the 1933 tax duplicate of
$16,348.80, Tax Collector T. S.
Grosh reported"collecting $15,141.54
at the May meeting of Borough
Council on Tuesday night. Of the
balance, the following exonerations
were asked and granted: deceased,
$68; dependables, • $62; removed
from town, $198. Liens will be
filed for collection of the balance
that has. not been paid, $879.26.
The report of the collector was
accepted by Council, and a warrant
for the collection of the 1934 dupli-cate
was given to Mr. Grosh. The
duplicate1 amounts to only $12,653.32
this year, due to a reduction in the
tax. The property valuation is as
follows: First Ward, $1,560,873;
Second Ward, $867,550—or a total
of $2,428,423.
The Street Committee reported
general cleaning and repairing of
•streets and the Memorial Plot put
in (proper condition. The Water
Committee reported the pumps in
operation 383 hours and 8,946,000
gallons pumped. Four meters were
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Festival Next Week
The annual festival of Lititz Fire
Company will be held next Sat-urday
in front and within the Fire
House, and from advance plans,
the event is going to be a big one,
All the usual good things to eat
will be on hand this year, and fire-men
are now seeking donations
from people in town and country.
- The boys band of the Tressler
Orphans Home at Loysville will
again be the attraction of the eve-ning,
and will give a concert in
front of the Fire House. The band,
brought here yearly by the Luth-eran
Church, plays for the firemen
for .whatever collection is received
from the audience. The band will
also give a concert on Sunday in
the Park if the weather is- favor-able.
The boys will be quartered
overnight in homes of various
memlbers of the Lutheran Church
congregation.
Class To Go To Washington
Members of the Senior class of
the High School, chaperoned by
Miss Josephine B-riner and Melvi'n
H. Brubaker, will leave for Wash-ington,
D. C., on Monday morning
at 6:30 o'clock, go as far as Lan-caster
by automobile, board the
train there, and arrive in Wash-ington
some time around noon.
After seeing the sights at the
Capital, they expect to arrive home
shortly after 10 o'clock. Standard
Time, Wednesday evening.
Newcomer Named Head
Of I,.U.S. Alumni Group
At the Annual Meeting of the j
Lititz High School Alumni Associa- !
tion on Wednesday evening in the I
high school auditorium, Warren |
Newcomer, '33, was elected to sue- |
ceed Paul E. Furlow as president
of the organization. Ford Goeheu-aur,
'29, will take the place of Dr.
M. H. Yoder as vice-president for
the coming year. Miss Grace
Sessemah, corresponding secretary,
and William Fasnacht, treasurer,
were retained from last year's ad-ministration.
Miss Thalia Hershey
was named recording secretary.
The Public Meeting, which pre-ceded
the regular business session,
brought Prof. G. Herman Goetz,
supervising principal of the Lititz
Public School from 1886 to 1910, as
speaker; especially fine music by
the Alumni Woodwind and String
Ensemble composed of Mrs, Ken-neth
Witmyer, Harry Neidermyer,
Lester Sesseman, Henry Hackman,
Victor Wagner, Richard McCloud
and Herbert Weitzel,
Two renditions by the Alumni
Women's Chorus directed by Mrs.
Carl Workman, a former teacher in
Honors Conferred As Class
Is Graduated; Dr. Green
Gives Fine Address
Twenty-four girls and 24 boys,
the 48th class to be graduated from
Lititz High School, received the
diplomas that signify the comple-tion
of their public school careers
at the annual commencement exer-cises
Tuesday night in the school
auditorium.
For the first time in years the
auditorium was crowded with par-ents
and friends for the exercises
and for the' address of Dr. Francis
Harvey Green, headmaster of the
Pennington School for Boys, of
Pennington, N. J.
Scholastic honors in the class
were divided among six pupils,
Wilmer Eby, Jane Miller and Joh^
Hertz having been named honor
students, and Mildred Gangwer,
Lena Risser and Lloyd Grayibil!
honorable mention. In a surprise
awarding of honors ' bestowed by
classmates and faculty, Miss Gang-wer
and Robert Lutz were named
the best all around students of the
class, and were awarded medals by
Prof. M. C. Demmy, supervising
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Trout Put In Springs
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Dinners At Hotel
The class of 1919 of Millersvilie
State Teachers College held a
banquet Saturday night at the
General S utter Hotel, The Franklin
and Marshall College Orchestra
held a banquet at the hotel on Fri-day
evening.
On Monday evening-,. the 1909
class of F. & M. will hold a banquet
at the Hotel, while on Wednesday
the F. & M. Academy will hold a
dance. Thursday, evening-, there
will be a dinner dance by the Hi-Y
club of the Lancaster Boys High
School.
Following the installation of a
fish rack in the Springs at Broad
Street, and the bringing of the few
remaining trout from the stream
between Broad and Cedar Streets,
to the head, several hundred trout
were put into the water under the
auspices of the Lititz Sportsmen's
Association.
The rack to keep the fish from
going down stream was installed
Monday night by Elmer Bomberg-ex
and George Evans, The stream had
been inspected' sometime ago by
State Fish Commissioner Sanda,
and the fish were' given to the local
organization following- his appro-val.
Big Dog
As Jo
John Peiffer, of Orange Street,
has completed training with his dog
guide "Eldssa" at the Seeing Eye,
Inc., Norristown, Pa., and has re-turned
to his home.
The dog guidesi are educated to
guide their .masters through heavy
traffic of any kind, to avoid obstac-les
in the path, to stop at curbs and
steps, and to pick up any article
dropped, and last but not least, be-
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come a constant friend to the mas-ter.
The three commands used to the
dog, "Forward," "Left," or "Right/1
and "That's a good girl," will be
frequently heard.| This is used to
praise the dog for the work that
she has done, and to show the mas-ter's
appreciation towards the
same,
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Geraniums Stolen
Mrs. George Wonder, of Lincoln
Avenue, likes geraniums, and on
Tuesday bought some from a local
florist and planted them at her
home. The next morning when she
arose she discovered that a thief
had taken all of them. She says if
the party who took them likes ger-aniums
so much, she will be glad to
tell them where she boug-ht them.
52-Year-OM Cigars
S, Harry Smith is displaying to
his friends a family relic that is
52 years old; a box of three cigars
that were made by his father, Wm.
Smith, a year before he died in
1883. The cigars were made of all
Pennsylvania tobacco by Mr. Smith,
who was a cigar maker and tobacco
packer, and appear to be in good
condition.
Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Dunwoody,
of Lancaster, took up their resi-dence
at the General Sutter today.
Rachael Neideigh is a newly-employed
waitress at the General
Sutter Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs, Lee Baker and
daughter, Adele, of Philadelphia,
visited Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Gang-wer
and family on Sunday.
Miss Gladys Maries, of Lancaster,
visited her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Marks, on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Addison Harding
and Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Harding
and children spent Sunday at
Reinholds.
•Martin Bisker, a former resident,
was in town last week.
¡Samuel Seaber, of Philadelphia,
spent a few days this week with
his brother Paul and family.
Mrs. Kate Enck is spending some
time in the home of Clarence Weir.
Mr. and Mrs. George Clauder, of
East Orange, N. J., were guests of
the Frank Eby family.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lauden
Schlager, relatives of the late Rev.
I. B'obst, visited Mrs. David Brie-ker
on Sunday.
The Misses Louise Zieger, Esther
Wingert and Helen Yangreau, of
Metreers'burg spent part of last
week with Miss Hazel Mathers.
Paul Enck and family, of Sehaef-ferstown,
visited Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Singley on Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Meiley and son, Amos,
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sing-ley
on Sunday.
(Mrs, Tobias Stehman, of New
Danville, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
D. P. Longsd'orf.
Mrs. Edward Henessy, of Pitts-burgh,
spent from Friday to Sun-day
at the General Sutter Hotel,
with her aunt Mrs, Walter Bare.
Ernest Souder and family and
Miss Mary Souder, all of Pitts-burgh,
came on Friday to visit M.
M. Souder. Miss Mary Souder will
remain for a week—the others re-turned
on Sunday evening.
Mrs, Garland, of Washington, D.
C., and Wilmert Evans, of Wyo-missing,
were the guests of Mr, and
Mrs, Harry Workman on Friday
and Saturday. Sunday guests in
the Workman home were: Mr. and
Mrs. Arch Hoffman, Mrs. Harry
Hoffman and Misses Elsie and
Mary Hoffman, of Myerstown;
Mr. and Mrs. Geriiart and son, of
West Reading,. and Mrs. Dundore
and daughter, of Womelsdorf.
fine Horse Show
; Cops Awarded To Riders In
Annual Linden Hall Event
On Memorial Day*
Perfect weather after a cloudy
morning and a fine field of horses
brought the largest crowd in the
history of Linden Hall Horse Shows
to the 1934 classic held on the
local school campus Memorial Day.
'Presentation of three cups added
to the excitement and enjoyment of
the show and no spills were present
to mar the day. The school riders
cup, presented by Senator H. -J.
Pierson, was won by Marjorie
Matthew, of White Plains, N. Y., in
the morning competition for Linden
Hall girls. The open saddle horse
championship cup, given by the
S'wain Manor View Riding Aca-demy,
was awarded to Mrs,. H. W.
Prentis, Jr., of Lancaster, and the
jumping trophy, presented by the
Lancaster Newspapers., Inc., was
won by John Burk'holder, riding
James McKinn.on's "Miss Tecum-seh."
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Open Soft Ball Season
e—
The All-Lititz ten opened their
home season last night on the East
End diamond losing to the fast
Lincoln A. G, colored champs of
Lancaster, 14-7. They will meet the
NeffsviUe team here on Monday
night. The team journeyed to
Lancaster Monday n'igiht and drop-ped
a hard game to Jackson Street,
9 to 4. These games are all Nor-thern
End Soft Ball League games.
Junk Yard Afire
Part of the junk yard of Harold
Murr, which is being removed from
Water Street to the Coatesville
Iron Works,, caught fire Wedhesd'ay
afternon when men removing the
junk built a fire to burn wood from
automobile bodies. The Lititz Fire
Company was Called and kept one
engine there until late at night to
prevent the spread of the blaze.
'Friday the firemen were called
to extinguish a fire in the cab of a
Mellinger coal track on the road
to Brickerville. The cab was des-troyed
by the flames.
i t i l z Y o u t
or Na t i o i h.
Robert Hackman, Lititz High
School student and winner of first
place in the baritone horn section
of the State music contest, left on
Monday morning for Des, Moines,
Iowa, to enter the National Music
Contest. He wlas accompanied by
James R. Grim, supervisor • of
music in the local schools.
According to' the schedule,
Robert was to have played last
Des Moines
il Music Contest
night, but no word: has. been re-ceived
regarding the result,
A special feature of the contest
will be a concert by the 'massed'
bands attending under the leader-ship
of Edwin Franko Goldman,
famous bandmaster. There will be
about 5,000' musicians in the band
and the concert will be broadcast
from 5:30 to 6 over the NBC and
WEAF network Saturday evening.