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Vol. LXIII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, December 4, 1941 No. 10
Dramatic Club
Xmas Dance
December 22
Theatre To Start Produc-ing
Plays Early Next
Spring
Will Light
Xmas Stars
Here Tonight
Christmas Spirit Makes
Itself Felt Throughout
Business Section
Winter Fun in Pennsylvania
f j ^ s r -
This column will probablly read
something like this: "All Gaul is
divided into," etc., etc., since there
have been so many items collect-ed
in the past two weeks.
First—The Lititz D t a m a t ic
Theatre will hold its second an-nual
Christmas dance on Decem-ber
22d at the General Sutter
Hotel from 9:00 o'clock until 1:00
o'clock.Tickets are $2.00 per cou-ple
and may be purchased from
any member of the theatre. Mem-bers
note: get your tickets from
any one of the following commit-tee
members: Carl B. Walls, Jr.,
Dorothy Little, Winifred F. Sheaf-fer,
Sam Shiley, Jr., or Bob Kep-pel.
You may call Mrs. Joseph
Carl or Mrs. E. C. Bertolet for
table reservations. Members may
also get their tickets from Robert
Snyder at the hotel.
This is the club's one social af-fair
of the year and judging from
last year's dance they draw a fine
crowd of young people from sur-rounding
communities. It has oc-cured
to this writer that the group
might also use the occasion to
bring in new members to the thea-tre.
An enlarged membership, by
the way, is a definite necessity at
this time, to the club.
This positively 'slides' into the
next item. Plays for next season.
The club must increase its mem-bership,
its active membership, to
be more explicit, if they hope to
•start on productions next spring.
They cannot afford to watt until
' the college boys and girls come
home next year. This column ha.i
used the phase "prove your
worth" until it has ragged edges,
but nevertheless, that is exactly
what the members must do. And
a handful of young people won't
accomplish the' job. To cast and
produce a play takes dozens of
people. So why not, Lititz Dra-matic
Theatre, work on your
membership drive -when you hold
your Christmas dance this year,
and next season you will be able
to cast a play before the produc-tion
date leaps right into your
anns
The play-reading committe« has
selected one comedy thus faT, for
(Continued on Page 5)
The sipirit of Christmas speead
throughout the business section
today as the work of erecting the
street decorations was being rush-ed
to completion in the hope that
the huge stars could be lighted
for the first time tonight or Fri-day
evening.
Trimmed with holly, the many
stars will set the entire business
section off in a blaze of mellow
light and will form a suitable
background for the central decor-ation
about the fountain. The
fountain display will be similar to
that of last year.
Local stores also were joining
in the spirit of the occasion this
week with many local proprietors
going to considerable trouble to
give their places o£ business an
unusual yuletide appearance.
Stocks of yuletide suggestions are
larger than in former years and
offer an even wider range of selec-tions.
The Lititz Chamber of Com-merce
which sponsors the street
decorations each year announced
today that it will hold its Decem-ber
.meeting this Tuesday, Dec. 9,
in the firehouse. This is one weeK
earlier than the regular date for
the meeting, the change being
made because of the activities of
the Christmas season. •.
The Christmas decorations and
other items of business will be
discussed. All members are urg-ed
to attend.
72 Attend
Annual Dinner
Of Farm Show
Canyon View
0 Pennsylvania Department of Commerce Photi
From east to west they enjoy Pennsylvania in winter. Upper
photo shows toboggan run at Lake Makoma, not far from Eagles
Mere. Lower photo shows rink at Cook Forest State Park north-east
of Clarion.
Y. P. Council
Will Install
Nef Officers
Senior Play
To Be Gi ven
Wed.-Thurs.
Mail Society
Will Dine
Here Friday
John Wise Air Mail Soci-ety
to hear *~ddress By
National President
The John Wise Air Mail Society
ot Lancaster will hold a banquet
at the General Sutter hotel on Fri-day
evening, Dec. 5, at 7 o'clock.
One hundred members and guests
are expected to attend.
' .Ralph Ruppin, Esq., of Lancas-ter,
will serve as toastmaster, and
the national president of the or-ganization
from New York, will
be the guest speaker. Music will
be furnished by a Lancaster or-chestra
and a quartet will sing.
The decorations will be In the
Christmas motif.
Albert F. Witmer, of Lancaster,
Is the president, and Richard
Stngley of Lancaster is the secre-tary
and chairman of arrange-ments.
Guests are expected from
Reading, Harrisburg, Coatesvillj,
and iDowningtown. The local
members include Owen Hershey
and daughter Margaret Ann.
To Meet In Evangelical
Church Here On
Monday Evening
The Young People's Council,
District No. 4, will hold their reg-ular
monthly meeting in the Trin-ity
Evangelical Congregational
church on Monday evening, Dec. 8,
at seven thirty.
The Rev. George B. Ammon, su-perintendent
of the Young People
of the county, will be in charge of
the instillation of the new officers.
They are as folows, Miss Mae
Stauffier of Kissel Hill, president;
Miss Rhoda Nagle, Lititz, vice-president;
Miss Helen Mellinger,
Lititz, secretary; Henry Shissler,
Lititz, treasurer.
Miss Jean Balmer, of the Young
People's organization of the Unit-ed
Brethren church of Neffsville,
will have charge of the devotions,
and Miss Mellinger will supervise
the recreation. A committee will
be appointed to select a play to be
given by the group.
Harry Way
Co. President
Re-named Fire
Will Present Comedy Sen-sation,
"Foot-Loose"
Two Evenings
A comedy sensation, titled,
"Foot-Loose," will be released for
public enjoyment on Dec. 10 and
11, in the Litjtz High School Audi-torium.
When mother and father leave
four children at home, while they
enjoy a world cruise, you can ex-pect
anything to happen, and it
does! With a high school son
getting into auto accidents, and
other scrape®, and a. high school
giil Running around with boyis,
you can expect a riot of fun. Meet
some of the characters:
Richard Early, played by Wil-bur
Ditaler, is the father ol the
Early family, a very sincere fel
low. Emily, his wife, played by
Rhoda Krane, tries to live the life
of her whole family, and is a very
strict person, concerning her chil-dren.
Hope, their daughter, play-ed
by Betty Lou Jones, is a social
worker. Djok, their son, playied
(Continued on Page 8)
Annual Kiddies Christmas
Party Will Be Held
On Dec. 24
Councilman-elect Harry Way
was re-nominated president of the
Lititz. Fire Company for a fourth
term at a meeting of local firemen
held last week. The election of
new officers will be held at the an-nual
meeting, Tuesday, 'Dec. 30 at
8 P. M. I
Other officers nominated were
as follows: First Vice President,
S. iL. S trohm; second vice presi-dent,
Linneus Roth; recording sec
retary, Lloyd Smith; financial sec-retary,
Herman Reedy; treasurer,
William Fasnacht; fire chief, Em-ory
Wagner; trustee, Raymond
Runk; janitor, George Evans; dis-continued
on Page 4)
M. C. Demmy Urges Co-operation
In Address
Of Evening
Lititz' 1941 Community Show
was described as one of the -most
successful in recent yeans in a
serie of addresses which marked
the annual banquet helt in the fire
house Tuesday evening. More than
seventy workers and their wives
and husbands attended.
During the banquet, officers an-nounced
donations will be made
to the following local organiza-tions:
Lititz Community Chest,
$10; Lititz Service Association,
$10; Lititz Springs Park Commit-tee,
110; Lititz Girl Scouts, $5;
and two lpcal Boy Scout troops
$5 each.
Presenting the annual report of
the president, Harry Gorton em-phasized
that this year's show not
only was successful financially,
but th'at* not a single complaint j
had been received regarding any
of the many concessions.
"The exhibits were as interest-ing
as any previous year and the
concessions were conducted in
such a way that everybody ap-peared
well pleased," Mr. Gorton
delcared. ;
In the main address-of the even-ing,
M. C. Demmy, supervising
principal of the local schools, ex-pressed
an appeal for a closer co-operation
between the fifty or
more various local organizations.
"If we could get all clubs,
classes and organizations of lititz
to co-operate in working toward
obtaining a community building
v hich is sorely needed here for
"(MiT^young people, we would ob-tain
that building inside a year,"
Mr. Demmy asserted.
"At present it is a tough job for
any one of these groups to obtain
(Continued on Page 5)
Three Youths
Now Confess
Six Robberies "BE MARSH ÏAEGER"
Are Placed On "6 P. M."
Probation For Next
Seven Months
Two local school boys caught
looting a local home more than a
week ago have implicated a third
youth, and have confessed to a
total of six robberies, Chief of Po-lice
Clarence Kreider revealed this
week.
De wuch hut de harsh serson
g'shtaart, und de yaeger sin denk
so dick druvva im barrig dos mer
dent net rum doppa kent unni eb-ber
uf'da tsae draeda. Ovver wun
se g'shposs daart drin saena kenna
don mus mer se yusht gae lussa.
Wos mich wunnert iss we feel fun
denna karls daart nuf gaena in der
barrig yusht fer harsh, ich will
wetta dos blendi kaijs gaena fer
awennich a'weck cooma fun'ra
Arraigned informally before Jus Fraw, und da'noh sin awe ordlich
tice of the Peace Joseph M. Herr, i dos denk gaena fer fun sellem blo-the
three boys were given a leng-' borriger Tae drinka. Se sawga
thy lecture and then placed on a
six-o'clock-curfew probation for the
next seven months.
Obviously aware of the serious-ness
of their escapades in which
wer dos seller Tae iss ordlich shtar
rig und en karl sich net watscht
und drinkt tsu feel kent der shiaag
en dreffa, und wun der blo-barriger
Tae shiaag se dreft don donna se
Central Moravian Church Burns
Before Rev. Home Is Installed
For Brae Dress«d M^ftt follow
the crowd and land in LUTZ'S
Meat Market Prices and quality
do the trick. Phone 293 R. We
deliver.
A fire causing a loss conserva-tively
estimated at $40,000, swept
the Central Moravian church at
Bethlehem on Saturday morning.
The fire was caused by an auto-matic
motor used to drive the heat
into the church auditorium
which failed to operate, and con-tinued
to pour heat until some-thing
ignited and the paint on the
woodwork of the interior, blister
ed.
The church was completely ren-ovated
and redecorated only six
weeks ago in preparation for the
Christmas celebration, which will
usher in the Bicentennial cele>
bration in the church and city of
Bethleheim.
The gallery, organ and pews in
the back part of the church were
completely destroyed, but the pul-
Lititz High
Routs E-town
In Fast Tilt
ME. and MRS. LOUIS HUEBENER
ENTERTAIN MORAVIAN
MINISTERS
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Huebener
entertained the members of the
Moravian Ministers Association of
Central Pennsylvania at their
home on Tuesday. The guests in-cluded,
Dr. F. W. Stengel, and Dr.
E. S. 'Hagen of Lititz; the Rev. and
Mrs. Byron K. ¡Home, Bethlehem;
the Rev. and Mrs. R. Henkeiman,
and the Rev. Theodore Reinke, of
ork; the Rev. and iMrs. Mervin
iRood, Lebanon; the Rev. and Mrs.
Ruben Bollman and son, Lancas-ter;
the Rev. and Mrs. Paul J.
Seltzer and Mrs. Harris, Grace-ham,
Md.; the Rev. and Mrs. Rob
ert Huebener, Thurmont, Md., and
Mrs. Berens Reading.
the church pulpit recess for the
first Sunday in Advent, was a
charred mass on the floor. The
upholstery on the pulpit furniture,
which was covered, appeared un-damaged.
The Rev. ,Byron K. Home, newly
appointed pastor of the congrega-tion,
and his family, had arrived
in the city in the late afternoon,
Friday, and had attended the
trimming of the Christmas candles
in the church in the evening, and
left albout 10:iH5. At 1:30 they
heard ithe fire alarm and looked
to see smoke issuing from the
church windows.
The 135 year old. edifice which
seats approximately one thousand
persons, was to toe used for the in-stallation
service for Mr. iHorne
on Sunday morning. This was
pit, except for the paint, was un- transferred to the building known
harmed. A hugh star placed in, (Continued on Page 4)
Will Meet Manheim Twp.
In League Game
Friday
After battling on even terms for
three quarters, Lititz High put on
the pressure and outscored their
opponents 16 to 6 in the final stan-za,
winning from their old rival by
score of 42-32. E'town got off to
an early lead of three points but
the locals came back in a fury and
once taking the lead were never
headed. Due to ragged foul shoot-ing
the locals had to be satisfied
with a 16 to 13 margin at the half.
Playing on their home floor
•Etown soon found the range and
played their best game in the third
quarter, knotting the score at 26
all, but showed signs of weaken-ing
as the Pretzels floor work and
clever ball handling became evi-dent
as they went into the home
stretch. Keith started the fire-works
with two hair-Taising shots
from long range closely followed
by counters of the peep and pivot
(Continued on Page 5)
Local Team
Entered In
Co. League
All-Stars Will Play In Old
Gym Each Wednesday
Night
Penna. Dept. of Commerce Photo!
Beyond the rocks one catches a
glimpse of the famous Tiadagh-ton
Gorge (Pine Creek), near
Wellsboro, re-christened the
"Grand Canyon of Pennsyl-vania."
Pre-Xmas
Service Here
On Tuesday
Traditional Candlelight
Program at St Paul's""
Lutheran Church at
7:30 P. M.
The traditional Pre-Christmas
Candlelight Service at St. Paul's
Lutheran church will be held next
Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in
the social rooms of the church. A
prelude of Christmas music will
precede the main service, begin-ning
at 7:15. This program, play-ed
on the organ by Mrs. Ed. Ful-weiler,
will be heard in the rooms
downstairs by means of the newly
installed amplification system.
The theme this year is "Christ-mas
in America." The entire pro-gram
of carols, poems, stories and
music has been drawn from the
rich storehouse of our own land.
The committee has arranged these
and planned to have them presen-ted
to tell the old, old story in a
beautiful, new way.
This service has become a part
of Lititz and its celebration of
Christmas as much as it has be-come
part of -St. Paul's. The com-munity
is always invited to come
and participate. The decorations
(Continued on Page 5)
they stole money in various small1 r.et feel harsh yawga mae, selli
amounts from five of the six homes j season. Don iss now ebbos dos ich
the three obys have agreed that i denk waart, ordlich g'faerlich, de
they would remain in their homes ¡krrls gaena daart nous mit'ra
after 6 P. M. each day unless ac-1 £ hwaer ga'lawdna flint, de kuwila
companied by their parents. j fieega shtarrig und weit. Ovver
The three boys also visited each \ Wos es nuch maener g'faerlich
of the persons whose homes they i mocht iss so feel fun denna yaeger
had robbed, returning the money j nous gaena mit denna flinta, mit da
taken and apologized for their j shnoot ful Blo-Barriger Tae. Es
crimes. j ki n mich neemond weis mocha dos
"I placed them on probation one j er. karl dos ae'pore in'da shnoot
month for each house entered and j hut yusht so gute saena kon, udder
an extra month for lighting] yusht so grawdt sheesa kon dos
matches in the Bomberger home,'' der karl dos sober iss. We maent
Justice of the Peace Herr explain- deer?
ed. "I also let them know that if j Yar now coomt awe widder de
any one of them is found even car-! Grish-Dawg's tseidt, des iss widder
. rying matches they will be brought i doh eb mer sich um-g'saena hut.
before me again."
The six homes entered were
those of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Muth,
South Broad street; Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Bomberger, South Broad
street; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Giibbel,
East Third avenue; a home on
Second avenue; Mr. and Mrs. Ver-
Es mocht sheer gore nix ous wu
dos mer he gaet im shteddel, sin
oil om reddi mocha fer dehr gross
dawg. Hy se hen shunt awe-g'funga
de shtarna uf du es shted-del
drunna, und da'noh wiggla se
so gree shtuf um de pushta rum
fer se recht shae gooka mocha.
ron Gibson, West Third . avenue, i ich m a en des iss en shae ding fer
where nothing was stolen; and the
(Continued on Page 4)
Moravians To
Mark 195th
Anniversary
Lancaster Church Will
Hold Special Services
Sunday
en shteddel tsu du, yusht ich maen
es sin gonse tsu feel onnera socha
des ga'du worra ivver de G-rish-
Dawg dos gore net nodewennioh
(Continued on Page 5)
Let's Go
to
Sunday School
In order to be a good citizen of
any country the subject must have
a thorough knowledge of the con-stitution
of that country together
with its nature and work. It 1»
exactly so with membership in the
Sunday School. In order to he a
good member we must know the
The Lancaster Moravian church
observed its 195th anniversary on
Sunday afternoon with special
services. The Rev. Vernon Couil-lard,
pastor of the New Dorp
church, delivered the anniversary j constitution of the church, namely
sermon, and The Rev. Robert H. | the word of Cod, and in particular
Brennecke, who supplied at Lititz her cordial doctrines. By faithful
on Sunday, assisted with the ser-vice.
The Rev. Ruben Bollman is
the pastor.
The following from Lititz at-tended
the service: Mir. and Mrs.
A. L. Douple, Mr. and Mrs. Arville
Burkholder, Miss Anna K. Miller,
Miss Amelia Miller, Miss Anna
Strak, Miss Violet Keppel, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Zahm, Miss Emily
Eschbach, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Miller,
Mr. and Mrs. I. Miller, Mrs. Lloyd
Smith, Mrs. Martha Smith, Mrs.
Victor Wagner and daughter
Joanne, and Miss Margaret George
Lititz this year will be repre-sented
by one of the fastest teams
in its history to be entered in the
city-county league, Roy Clair,
local manager, announced today.
The team, to be known as the
Lititz All-W'"'-* —
old gymnasium at the High school
ench Wednesday evening, com-mencing
Wednesday, December 17
Practice sessions began last Mon-day
night.
Veterans- who appear in the line
up include: Dave Samimet, Robert
Martin, Stanley Brumbach, Ray
Herr, Richard Pfautz and Wallace
Lausch.
Dast year's High School star3
who supplement this list of veter-ans
include Charles Brown, Rob-ert
Haines, Rodger Martin, Robert
Bachman, Curtis Long and El-wood
Zug.
Legion Auxiliaries Will
Distribute Christmas Gifts
The American Legion Auxiliar-ies
of Chester and Lancaster
counties who were guests of the
local legion auxiliary, held a very
successful meeting in the United
Brethren church on Tuesday after
noon.
A total of 137 persons were ser-ved.
Visitors were greeted in an
address of welcome delivered by
Burgess Victor Wagner. Local
Legion Post Commander Daniel
Oochenaur, also welcomed the
guests. (Rev. Light pronounced the
invocation.
Mrs. ¡Harrison Smith, state pres-ident,
was the guest speaker.
During the meeting delegates dis-cussed
the various auxiliary pro-jects
of child welfare, rehabilita-tion
and Christmas work among
patients in the United States Vet-erans'
hospitals.
A total of 1,660 Christmas boxes
will be packed at the Coatesvllle
Veterans' Hospital by the auxili-aries
of the two counties on Dec.
15 and 16, It was announced.
-Donations of money, Christmas
trees and cigarettes will be sent
to Coatesvllle, Perry Point, Naval,
South Mountain and the Aspinwall
hospitals.
In addition, a total of 120 toys
were brought to this meeting to be
application we must learn to know
her nature and work. By faith-fulness
and devotion we will be-come
expert in her work, which
will inspire Christian Mope and
Love. We will not only rejoice In
His first advent into the world, hut
with fond anticipations we will
look forward for His return to
take to Himself those who, stand-ing
upon fundamentals, have de-veloped
into full manhood and
womanhood in Christ their Lord.
Youth is the time to lay founda-tions
upon which to Ibuild strong-ly
and abidingly. ¡Foundations
which will withstand all attacks
of whatever kind are necessary.
There is nothing more beautiful
and inspiring than a symmetrical,
well established, young Christian
life. Begin now to lay the foun-dation
of a faithful Christian life
by attending Sunday School regu-larly.
OBSERVES 90th BIRTHDAY
Open house in honor of the
ninetieth birthday of Emanuel
Relfsnyder will be observed Sun-day
afternoon at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Buohter, Kissel
Hill, where he resides. Friends
are invited to call Sunday from 2
to 5 P. M. Mr. Relfsnyder observ-ed
his ninetieth birthday on Tues-day
Despite his age he is un-distributed
to the children's homes usually healthy and takes an ac-in
both Lancaster and Chester tive interest in the current devel-counties.
opment of world affairs.