Lititz Record

              Vol. LVIII LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 4, 1934 No. 4
Heavy Rain Turns
Cloudburst Saturday Night
Floods Park And Maroons
Down Town Shoppers
Damage estimated 1 at several
thousand dollars in this immediate
vicinity and at many thousands in
the Northern end of the County
followed a cloudburst here Satur-day
evening, y Rain fell with a
force not recalled here before; so
• hard that no one ventured out in
ii and driving was almost impos-sible.
Strikink about 9:30, after a day
of rather hard rain, the storm beat
down in this section and the result-ing
high waters swirled and swept
over streets and fields, into houses
and barns and pushed streams far-over
their banks.
Traffic all around here was tied
up Saturday night, and until Sun-day
evening in some cases. Streets
' in town that have rarely been
flooded were full of water Saturday
night, while those that fill up us- i
ually were impassible. More than
3 inches of rain fell in the storm.
V The Springs Park was covered
m t h water and many things were
washed to the Broad Street end of
the Park. Cedar Street, near the
Moravian cemetery, was a minia-t
u r e lake, as was New Street at the
corner of Locust. Water poured
out of the alley at the end of the
Lindeii Hall Campus on Main St.,
and covered Front Street in sev-eral
places near Broad "Strcfet.
About one foot of water was
passing over New Street at Locust
f o r several hours Saturday night.
Shoppers were marooned in !
downtown stores until late, and
many people who had gone out of
town were delayed several hours
getting home again. Some had to
remain in Ephrata until morning.
People living in Manheim and here
f o r a few hours were unable to get
home on any of the roads leading
to that town. And speaking of Man-heim,
the borough was having thei£
Community .Show Saturday eve-j
i i ng but the downpour completely
s c a t t e r e d it.
The baby parade scheduled for
Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock
at the Manheim show was post-poned
to this Saturday afternoon
at the same hour.
Water again entered the base-ment
of the Walton plant on Water
Street and one of the Lititz fire en-gines
was kept busy pumping it
out. Many cellars in town were
flooded and many roof leaks were
reported doing considerable dam-
At Millway, besides flooding the
road, the water moved one of the
large oil tanks several feet and
ripping it, left about 1200 barrels
of oil mingle with the flood. The
tank' was one that was being torn
down and was not as. secure as the
others.
The Elizabethxawn and Mt. Joy
ections reported much damage.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Lititz Fire Company will meet this
evening at 7:30 o'clock in the
Council Chamber to make final
plans for the Community Show.
The St. James Altar Society will
hold a card party in the fire house,
Wednesday, October 17, at 8:15
o'clock. Casino, bridge, pinochle and
500 will be played and about 100
prizes will be awarded- Tickets
are 35 cents.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spacht. and
family, of Allentown, visited Mi.
and Mrs. H. W. Spacht over the
week-end. Mrs. H. W. Spacht ac-companied
them home . to spend
this week.
Mr. and
Allentown,
Mrs. D. A.
Mrs. John Trexler, of
are visiting Dr. and
Long from Tuesday
Small Boy Nearly Drowns
in I j t nden Street Fi
Junior, one and a half year old
son of Mr. and Mrs- Clarence
Levan, who reside with Mr.
Levan's parents, Mr, and Mrs.
Stephen Levan, on South Linden
Street, nearly drowned in a small
fish pond near his home on Mon-day
afternoon.
He had been playing and evident-ly
walked into the yard of Robert
Croif, where the pond is located,
and fell in while playing too near
the edge. His grandmother saw
his red flannel suit bobbing on top
of the water and called to her
daughter-in-law. The mother's
screams brought the neighbors to
the yard and a man who was walk-ing
up the back alley ran into the
yard and pulled the boy from the
pond.
He was blue, and pronounced
nearly gone by Dr. Joseph Grosh,
who removed water from his lungs
and revived him. Hot applications
were administered and he is fast
improving from his ordeal and nar-row
escape. Care will have to be
taken so that he does not suffer
no after effects, the physician said.
Prizes Are Listed
For Baby Parade
Cash And Merchandise To
Be Awarded In Big Attrac-tion
Of Community Show
until Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Anderson, o|
Jamestown, N. Y., visited Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Spacht and family a
few days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Wagner,
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Miller and Miss
Beatrice Snavely visited W'esu
Grove and Avondale on Sunday.
Mr. Miller took part in the Archery
Meet at Avondale.
Mr. and Mrs. D. ,S. Witmyer and
Harry Gingrich visited Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Dietrich at Safe Har-bor
on Sunday. Mr. Dietrich is a
r.ephew of Mrs. Witmyer.
Mr. and Mrs. Waldron Myers
and son moved to York this morn-n.
g where Mr. Myers is employed
Mrs. Myers is the former Miss
Violet Keller.
' Mr. and Mrs. William Gehman
and family, of Brownstown, spen!
Sunday with Mrs. Agnes Adams
on South Locust Street.
The Sunbeam Class of St. Paul's
Lutheran Sunday School will meet-
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs. Ed Hess at Akron.
Mis. G. D. Bitzer, of town, who
had been seriously ill while spend-ing
the summer at Long Island, is
receiving further treatment at the
Lancaster General Hospital.
Mrs. Mary Dengate, Mrs. Arthur
Guiney and Mrs. Wm. Klunlt at-tended
tire National Convention of
Catholic Women in Washington,
being held from September 29 to
October 3.
- May Voy, Mrs. Allen Putt and
daughter, Norma, spent the week-end
at Manheim.
Class Organizes
The Berean Bible Class of the
Church of the Brethren met at the
home of Mrs. Frank Ginder and
organized for the year as follows:
Mrs. Mahion Garman, president;
Mrs. J. I. Byler, vice president;
Mrs. Ginder, teacher; Mrs. C, H.
Royer, Mrs. J. I. Byler, Mrs.
Florence Gibbel, assistant teachers;
Mrs. John Martin, treasurer; Mrs.
C. H. Royer, assistant treasurer;
Mrs. J. M. Miller, secretary, with
Mrs. Willis Gibbel and Mrs. Royer,
assistants; Mrs. Byler and Mrs.
Ginder, choristers.
The next meeting will be held the
last Thursday in October at the
home of Mrs. Byler.
161 Promoted At
Rally Services Of
2 Sunday Schools
Foot Hurl By Car
Lois Dussinger, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Dussinger, Sec-ond
Avenue, narrowly escaped seri-ous
injury when an automobile
wheel passed over her left foot
Tuesday. The driver, Harry Moh-ler,
had stopped the automobile
near his home on Second Avenue
in order to pick up his daughter.
Lois was too near the wheel when
he drove away. No bones were
broken.
Inviting cash and merchandise
prizes for the winners in the baby
parade on the final day of the
Lititz Community Show will likely
make this one of the most striking
events, of the entire affair, it was
announced at a meeting of the
show committees in the Fire Hal!
on Monday night.
The baby parade has been grow-
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Card Party Saturday
The Lititz Lodge, Knights of
Malta, will hold a public card party
Saturday night in the Malta Home
for the benefit of the building fund.
Door and score prizes will be
awarded and a good crowd is ex-pected.
The admission is 35 cents
and the time 8 o'clock.
oras To Aid,
'ssion By Program
Plans for a Christmas Song
Fest are being made by the Acca-pella
Male Chorus, of East Peters-burg,
to raise funds for holiday
work of the Water Street Resuce
Mission of Lancaster.
The concert, which will likely be
as big, or bigger than the recent
son-g f e s t presented so successfully
in the local Church of the Brethren,
will be held somewhere in the
County at a time close to Christ-mas.
The chorus was asked to aid
the mission following the splendid
singing of the organization here
and the fine reputation they have
established.
A crowd of 500 or more people
heard the chorus in a program at
Mountville on Sunday evening. >
On Sunday evening the chorus
will sing in the Petersburg Reform-ed
Church and on Sunday after-noon,
October 14th, the group will
sing at Quakertown and in the eve-ning
at Coventry United Brethren
Church at Kennilworth, Pa.
Fifty-three children were promo-ted
in three departments of the
Moravian Sunday School on Sun-day
morning at the Rally Day ser-vices.
The primary department in
charge of Miss Maggie Bricker,
held exercises and presented each
child to be promoted with a Bible.
There were 22 children promoted
to the Junior department: Lester
Miller, Richard Hess, John Garber,
Alva Shultz, Ruth Gorton, Walter
Scott, Margaret Y.erger, Samuel
Beck, Rachael Madlem, Bruce-
Keith, David Floxver, Arthur Bach-man,
Doris Wissler, Ray Shelley,
Bruce Burkhoider, Carl Miller,
Mary Shreiber, Robert Kauffman,
Donald Sturgis, Wildabeth Stengel,
Rosemary Rice and David Muth.
The ¡beginners department in
charge of Mrs. Melvin Hoover held
promotion exercises in their room
and the following children moved
tc the Primary Department; Thel-ina
May Lutz, John Rudy Keith,
Barbara Ann Wissler, John Frank-lin
Buch, Robert Eckert Buch, Her-bert
Benard Clousen, Richard Mel-vin
Gorton, William Bishop Ringer,
Doris Little, Doris Nadine Yerger,
Helen June Rudy, Dianna Muth,
Ruth Lawrence, Rodney Stark.
John Herbert Smith, Lester Shultz,
Nancy'Louise Ringer, Wilma Jean
rubaker, Ruth Ann Hunter.
Mrs. Mabel Hertz, Cradle Roll
Superintendent submitted the fol-lowing
13 names for promotion:
Louis William Haines, John Baker
Grosh, Donald Miller Hoar, Harold
Eugene Frederick, Patricia Joan
Foultz, Pauline Ruth Meiley, Betty
Jane George, Doris Elaine George,
Joan Walerie Rembanrann, Celia
Ann Miller, Louise Gaither Stengel,
Harold L. Long and John Welling-ton
Keehn.
Four hundred and sixty-six mem-bers
attended the Rally Day and
Promotion exercises in St. Paui's
Lutheran Sunday School on Sunday
morning, with 10>8 promoted in the
various departments.
The nursery, under Mrs, James
Sheaffer, promoted Jonathan Ladd,
Barbara Jean Witmyer, Lester
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Entertain At Dinner
Mr. and Mrs. Abram Shaak, of
Rothsville, entertained at dinner
on Sunday in honor of their daugh-ter
who recently became the bride
of Leon Risser, Lititz. Those pres-ent
were: Mr. and Mrs. Leon Ris-ser,
Mr. and Mrs. Christ. Risser,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Risser and fam-ily,
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Risser and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ris-ser
and family, of Lititz; Mr. and
Mrs. Norman Steffy, of Rothsville;
Mr. and Mrs. Fanders Steinmeitsi,
of Richard, and Mr. and Mrs. Christ
Geist, of Reading. The couple will
move into Christ Risser'si house,
south of town, in a few weeks.
Elmer Beck Arrived home in the
heavy storm Saturday and left his
car stand on the outside of the
garage, figuring he would put it
away after the storm had ceased.
After the storm he decided, to put
the car away, but could not get it
started. Thinking it was. water-soaked
he had one of his men dry
around the plugs, etc., but after
this was finished it still wouldn't
start. Finally Elmer called in a
mechanic who after working on it
also discovered there was no gas
in the tank. Mr. Beck had just put
a. tankfull in before the storm and
while the car had been sitting there
someone had siphoned it entirely
dry.
An Austin attempted to get thr-ough
the high water this side of
Brownstown Sunday morning about
11 o'clock and as the driver got
about half way across the current
pushed the car against the fence.
Highway men in hip boots then
lassoed the car and pulled it out.
The water was about 2Vs feet deep
and running over the floor boards
of the Austin. The driver would
probably have made it if the car
would have had weight enough to
hold it in the swift-moving cur-rent.
Roller Skating Saturday Night,
10c and 15c. LUTZ HALL.