Lititz Record

              Vol. LVIII LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935 No. 49
"Air Circus" To Dedicate
Airport Over Weekend
Stunts, Races and Parachute
Jumps by Noted Pilots to
Feature Event at Field
Attended by the greatest air
^monstration ever witnessed in
this section, the new Lancaster
Municipal Airport, three miles
south of town, will be dedicated
Saturday. More than 150 pilots
are expected to take part in the
"air circus" which will follow the
dedication that afternoon and
which will be continued on Sunday
afternoon.
Government officials, noted pilots
and dignitaries of the County,
State and Nation will attend the
ceremonies that place the $300,000
field in use. The Lititz High School
Band will play at Saturday's exer-cises,
©omlplete details of the dedica-tion
are not available at this time,
nor is the list of notables who will
¡be present. The local band will
have a part in the exercises and
will .be led by Henry Hackman.
'Following the dedication, an aer-ial
parade of the planes present
ill be held and passenger carry-ing
will be the next event. The
field ceremonies will conclude with
parachute jumping and in the eve-
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New Store Opens Tonight
The new store of the American
Stores Company, adjoining the
Lititz Theatre, will be open for
public inspection tonight and the
people of the community are in-vited
to view the modern grocery..
Several truck loads of stock were
unloaded yesterday, and last night
a large force of men placed the
merchandise on the shelving.
Reading Clowns Here Tonight
The All-Li'titz Soft Ball Team
will play the Reading Clowns in
an exhibition game tonight on the
Lute Field at 7 o'clock. Manager
Walter Birkenibine has entered his
team in the District Play-offs spon-ged
iby the Chicago National
Soft Ball Association. These Play-off
g a m e s will begin the latter part
af this week.
Housekeepers along South Broad
Street have their own particular
setting-up exercises. Every clear
norning they can, ¡be seen armed
rvith a watenpail and a broom, at-acking
the pavement to scrub off
he remans of sparrows' escapades
he previous night.
Hundreds of ¡birds gather in the
arge shade trees along the front
lavements soon after sundown and
cram/ble for the best perches.
Valking beneath the trees, you
an expect a sudden outburst of
hirping and rattling leaves, as
,'ell as catch a few falling feathers,
jmething should be done about it!
Band Leaves at 9:30
To Play at Airport
The Lititz High School Band
will leave the local school
promipty at 9:30 on Saturday
morning for the Lancaster Air-port
and members must report
in full uniform before that time.
All players are urged to come
out to play.
The band will play during the
m.orning, will have dinner there
and will pl!ay again in the after-noon.
Cornerstone of
Trinity Church to
be Laid Sunday
Special services Sunday will
mark the cornerstone laying of the
new building of Trinity Evangeli-cal
Congregational Church, Orange
and Cedar Streets. The Rev. C. D.
Huber, presiding elder of thè the
Evangelical Church, will speak.
The Rev. S. A. Heisey, former
pastor of the local congregation,
now of Herndon, will preach at the
morning service,' to be held in the
High School auditorium and again
at the evening service, which will
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Town
PERSONALS
.Mr. and Mrs. Josephswn moved
into the hiouise formerly occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Wolf,
New Street, on Wednesday. Mr.
Josephson is employed by the P. P.
& L. Company.
John Troutmian, three-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Troutman broke his collar bone in
a fall from his bed.
Mrs. Charles Kling who was
operated on for appendctis in the
Lancaster General Hospital last
Tuesday is reported improving
nicely and expects to return home
tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Oven,
otf New Street are entertaining the
latter'» sister and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Aubrey P. Stutz and children,
Josephine and Aubrey, Jr., of Rich-mond,
Va., this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoff and
son, Richard, enjoyed a picnic sup-per
at Hershey on Sunday.
Among those attending Cleona
Camp Meeting this week are: Mr,
and Mrs. Addison Felker, Mrs. Su-san
Shriner, Mrs. Amos Hershey,
Mrs. Andrew Shissler and daugh-ter,
Ruth, and Mrs. Clara Stoner.
Mr. and Mrs. Abram Mease sipent
several days last week visiting
relatives in Ohio. Mr. Mease is
bookkeeper at the Lincoln Avenue
garage.
Mris. Benj. Brookmyer, Mrs.
Henry Lea man and son, Richard,
Mrs. John Troutman and children,
Judy . and John, and Miss Sophie
Brookmyer spent Wednesday at
Hershey.
Have you .seen Johin' Keller's
old Model "T" Ford on the streets
of town? He has "her" painlted
red and' black now, instead of the
nile green. Some tricky phrases
in white lettering adorn the body
of the vehicle. Every time the old
crate, as he calls "her" goes by, it
gives onlookers a good laugh in
reading the odd inscriptions.
John, Bob Owen and Galen Min-nic'h
are figuring on taking a trip
to the Pacific Coaist in it later on in
the summer. They will arrive there
during the orange harvest season,
and after working in the oranige
groves, will return home again.
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We understand that the Lititz
soft ball team has made applica-tion
for entrance ia the 'State Soft
Ball Tournament. The State has
been divided into several districts.
Winners of the district eliminations
will go to the regional meets, and
the regional meet survivors will
compete at the State meet at Lan-caster,
August 31. The State
championis will compete, with all
expenses paid, at Chicago, Sept. 7,
8 and 9 for the national title.
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We hate like sixty to bring poli-tics
into this column, but you won't
mind this one squib.
We saw a local woman arguing
with a Lititz butcher Saturday
night , over the increased price of
bacon. "Why," she said, "it has not
been so long ago that I bought two
packs for a quarter, now it is a
quarter a pack."
"I know," ¡said the butcher, "but
that was before the great minds
running the New Deal decreed the
destruction oif 6,00{),000 sows, and
pigs . . . and believe me they start-ed
a situation that is n:ow becoming
acute."
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The founders of Lititz certainly
established itT>m "solid rock." Al-most
every recent building opera-tion
found the excavators encoun-tering
rock formations. Over 120
tons have been taken out of the
excavation for the new Wolf gar-age
oa. West Main Street by Robert
Yerger the contractor.
Great quantities of rock were
struck in excavations for the U. B.,
Moravian and Evangelical Church
buildings. A cesspool which was
recently dug at the General Sutter
Hotel was solid rock, and in many
excavations for ¡new homes much
rock was encountered.
The baby Hippipotamus which
was thought might be born while
the Hagenibeek & Wallace Circus
played in Lancaster last Monday,
did not arrive until Thursday in
Chester. It was the second Hippo
ever to be born in this country, the
other "Blessed Event" took place
in the New York zoo.
The "baby" weighed 60 pounds
at birth, and was doing nicely, ac-cording
to radio reports given on
the day of its arrival. The mother
weighs a mere ton.
8 Men Seek Nominations
For 3 Seats On Council
Committee Is
Named to Plan
Public Library
Formation of a committee to lay
plans for a public library here fol-lowed
the public meeting on the
project held Tuesday evening. The
committee made up at present of
several members of the Delphian
Society, the Ladies' Auxiliary of
the American Legioin and the
Rotary Cluib, will meet on Monday
svening at 8 o'clock in the office of
Hershey & Giibbel.
Membership on the committee is
"ot limited to the organizations
named, but is open to representa-tives
of any local group or to in-terested
individuals.
'Outlines of costs and of ways and
neans of establishing a lilbmry
were1 presented to the Rotary Club
and the women of the other organi-
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Will Have Open House
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gnosh will
celebrate their fiftieth wedding
anniversary next week. On Suniday
there will ibe a family dinner for
the children and grandchildren. The
anniversary date is Tuesday, Aug.
2. On this day the couple will have
open house afternoon and evening
at their home, 20 E. Maple Street.
They are eager to meet their
friends and extend a cordial invi-tation
to all.
The officiating clergyman at the
wedding 50 years ago was Bishop
C. L. Reinke, who composed an Ode
to the Bridal Pair. It was read at
the recaption at the bride's home
after the wedding. The poem: in
manuscript may be seen and read
when friends call on Tuesday.
Wilson M. Grube and Miss Vir-ginia
Grosh are the other surviving
members of the bridal party.
Donats Leave For Africa
Tine Rev. and Mrs. J. K. Dor.at
and son, J. Kenton, Jr., sailed last
evening from Baltimore for Lon-don,
from which place they will go
to Africa to serve in Liberia as
missionaries of the Lutheran
Church. They were taken to Bal-timore
by Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Hess,
of Akron.
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Leaman and
family also motored to Baltimore
to see the Donats sail.
To Attend Convention
Roy S. Reidenibaugh and Leon
Madlem, will leave today for
Wilkes-Barre to attend the annual
convention of the Pennsylvania De-partment
of the American Legion.
They are delegates of Garden Spot
Post, 56, of town1, to the sessions
which will conclude Saturday.
Auction Sale at Lutz Hall tonight
—Meats. Clothing, Fruit, etc.
Whole Chucks, lean, 16c lb.; Ham-burg,
1,8c lb. ad
Filing of Petitions For l*>cal
Posts Brings Out Unusual
Activity in Political Circles
Eight local men will try for the
three Town Council seats it was
revealed Tuesday, the final day for
filing nominating petitions for the
Primary Election, September 17.
The terms of Jacob Snyder, first
ward, and Jacob Kling and Jacob
Koch, secowd ward, will expire as
members of our Borough govern-ing
body this year. Both present
second ward Councilmen, will seek
reelection, but Mr. Snyder did not
file a petition, signifying that he
did not choose to run again.
'Besides 'Mr. Koch and Mr.
Kling, however, are to be found two
other Republican candidates for the
Borough jobs from the second
ward—Charles Krick and Levi
Yerger.
The Democratic slate includes
the names of Harry Neidermyer
and Elwiood Keath for the two
second ward seats.
For the first ward the Republican
slate as announced by Dr. Herbert
Cooper, committeeman, finds Quiin-ton
Ewck seeking the singfe Council
berth from that ward, while Chas,
V. Pfautz, a former member of
Council, has been selected iby Demo-cratic
committeeman W. M. Pfautz.
Only one school board member
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Man Quizzed In Theft
Robert Sheaffer, of Rothsville,
was arrested Tuesday afternoon by
Staite Trooper Smith and Constable
Sinigley for questioning in the
theft of $60 from Mrs. Gertrude
Hallacher, proprietor of an inn
near Rothsville.
The man was brought to the lo-cal
lock-up Tuesday night. ¡Mrs.
Hallacher reported thait the money
was taken from a purse in the
lunch room while she, was outside
the building.
Club To Hold Outing
The Mothers' Cluib of St. Paul's
Lutheran Church will hold a supper
meeting in the Lititz Springs Park
tomorrow evening beginning at 4
o'clock. The regular club meeting
will be held between 7 and 8
o'clock. Members will take their
lunches and husbands are invited.
In case of rain, the meeting will be
held at 4 o'clock in the Church
basement.
W. C. T. U. To Meet Monday
The W. C. T. U. will meet at
Headquarters oil Monday evening
at 8 o'clock. All committees are
urged to have their reports ready
so that final arrangements can be
made for thei County Convention
to be held August 28 and 29.
—Radio Gospel Rally at Leibzelter's
Grove, Clay, Pa., Sunday after-noon
& evening. Featuring WGAL
Sunishme Folks and ^elpers. ad