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Vol. LIX LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1936 No. 26
Local News Briefly Told
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gibbel at-tended
the meeting of the Juniata
College Alumni Association held at
Harrisburg on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Muth return-ed
Tuesday after spendnig- a week
at Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Seigrist
and children Junior, Bernell and
Mark, of East Petersburg, spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Hertzler.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hershey and
Mr. and. Mrs. Henry Gibbel at-tended
the National Home Show at
Philadelphia on Saturday.
Miss Ruth Carper attended the
Community Concert Series number,
the Joos European Ballet, at Al-lentown
on Thursday night and on
Friday and Saturday she attended
four lectures on the Social Security
Act in the same city. The lectures
were presented by Dr. E. Craig,
a member of the Federal Social Se-curity
Board.
Richard Musser left Sunday for
Reading where -he will study nurs-ing
at St. Joseph's Hospital.
The Accapella Male Chorus, of E.
Petersburg, will sing Sunday night
in St. Stephen's Reformed Church,
New Holland.
Community Recreation
Centre Opens Tuesday
A Community Recreation Centre
will open here on Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock in the High Schol gym-nasium,
when an athletic program
for boys and young men not attend -
ing school will be started under the
direction of Paul Bachman, a for-mer
Lititz High graduate.
Basketball and one or two other
games will be played at the start
and later a more varied athletic
program will be formulated. There
will be no charge. Those planning
to take advantage of the one eve-ning
a " sek recreation must bring
p m suits with them. The school
showers will be available at the
close of each night's fun.
Political Clubs To Meet
Approval of By-Laws and the
election of eight men, four from
each ward, will feature the second
meeting of the newly-organized
Republican Club of Lititz and
Vicinity in the Enck Building, N.
Broad Street, Monday night, at 8
o'clock.
Fifty-eight men attended the
organization meeting of the Club
two weeks ago, and plans are being
made to accommodate close to 150
at Monday night's meeting to which
all Republican voters of Lititz and
the surrounding Townships are in-vited.
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The regular monthly meeting of
the Lititz Democratic Club will be
held at headquarters, Malta Hall,
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The en-tertainment
committee of the Club
has prepared special entertainment
features and free lunch will be
served. Three valuable door prizes
will be awarded during the meet-ing.
Master Howe Crawford, Jr., who,
with his parents, has been spend-ing
some time at the General Sut-ter
Hotel, underwent an operation
for the removal of his tonsils at
the. Lancaster General Hospital on
Tuesday.
Miss Radcliffe, of Lancaster, en-tertained
at a birthday party on
Leap Day, Saturday the 29th.
The contract between the Penn-
;ylvania Power and Light Company \
md Lititz Borough for the lighting
>f streets here has been approved
iy the Public Service Commission.
Miss Ruth Steffy spent the week-end
at Elizabethtown as the guest
>f Miss Ruth Sheetz.
Miss Helen Eby sperft the week-end
in Pittsburgh. Rudolph Dev-ries
returned with her and will
spend several days in town.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Demmy spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George
Brossman at Manheim.
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Asks Return of Cane
Mrs. Julia Sturgis, of the Mora-vian
Home, requests that the per-son
who by mistake took her cane
from either the Moravian Chapel
or Church return it to- her. She
discovered the cane she carried was
not her own after attending' ser-vices
recently and would like to
Have her own again.
Obituary
Mrs. Samuel Shaub
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Lausch Shaub,
64, wife' of Samuel Shaub, of near
Neffsville, died at 2:30 P. M. Tues-day
at the Lancaster General Hot
pital, of complications. She was
a member of St. Peter's Lutheran
Church, Neffsville.
Besides her husband, she is sur-vived
by the following brothers and
sisters: Harry Lausch, Camden,
N. J., Mrs. Horace Greenly, Lititz;
Mrs. William Geltz, Oregon; Jonas
Lausch,- Elstonville; Mrs. Elvin
Weaver, Frank Lausch, and Mrs.
Catherine Bear, of Lancaster. One
step-brother, Daniel Lausch, near
Fruitville, also survives.
Private services will be held at
the home at 1:30 P. M. tomorrow,
with public services at the Neffs-ville
Lutheran Church at 2 o'clock.
Interment will be in the adjoining
cemetery. Friends may call at the
home from 7 to 9 P. M. today.
Mrs. Annie Weitzel
Mrs. Annie Weitzel, 76, widow Of
Milton B. Weitzel, died at thè home
of her son, Herbert Weitzel, 325
East Main Street, at 6 P. M., Tues-day,
of complications, after a lin-gering
illness.
She is survived by her son and
a, sister, Mrs. Benjamin S. Rupp,
of Talmage, and three grandchild-ren.
Services will be held at the Weit-zel
home at 2 P. M. tomorrow and
burial will be in the Moravian cem-etery.
Friends may call at the
home this evening from 7 to 9. R.
M. Spacht is the funeral director.
Unusual "squatting" places for
rabbits, such as in old tin cans,
discarded automobile bodies, etc.,
are often discovered during hunt-ing
season, but a rabbit seen last
week seems to have picked the odd-est
place of all to build his "squat."
Some men shoveling snow from the
»utters along a highway noticed a
nice, round hole that had apparent-ly
been dug in the snow bank at
the side of the road, about four feet
from the wheel tracks of passing
automobiles. Upon closer investi-gation
it was found that not only
had a rabbit dug the hole, but
that he was sitting comfortably in
it enjoying the sunshine. One of
the men slowly edged toward the
opening, extended his hand, expect-ing
to see the rabbit dash out and
away. But Mr. Rabbit had no de-sire
to run. He was petted, and
when picked up nestled con-tentedly
inside the workman's coat
while he was carried some dis-tance
and released near the build-ings
of a farm. When released,
however, he made one mad dash
for cover, and disappeared in the
rear of the farm buildings. It was
stated that the effect of the winter
on small game could easily be im-agined,
judging from the thin
body of this rabbit.
Snow has covered the ground
for 62 days of the winter, according
to Ira J. Keath, Ephrata weather
observer for the U. S. Weather
Bureau and 46 of the 62 days have
consecutively gone by with a snow-covering
over the ground.
We were amused at the story of
the farmer from the Northern end
who was taken to New York to see
the sights recently, and one of the
places visited was the magnificient
Music Hall in Rockefeller Center,
a sight guaranteed to take the
breath away.
The lad neveT batted an eyelash
as the symphony orchestra arose
from nowhere and began to play.
The gorgeous sunburst ceiling left
him cold. He wasn't interested
when a regiment of female legs
danced in dazzling precision across
an acre or so of stage. But he
raised his eyes and looked over the
vast auditorium and shook his head
in wonder. His hosts waited
breathlessly to hear his reaction,
and this was it: "My, this is a durn
nice barn and sure would hold a
heap of hay."
Thousands- of Mennohites, in-cluding
many of our own Lancaster
County plain people, migrated to
Mexico 25 and more years ago,
according to old newspaper files
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Lititz High Plays Ephrata
Tomorrow On Cocal Floor
Union Lenten Services
Are Well Attended
An increase in attendance has
been noted at the Union Lenten
Services being held each night thfe
week. A small group of people
were present on Monday night, but
on Tuesday night and last night,
St. Pauls Lutheran Church has
been comfortably filled.
The union services each night are
being tried this year by the Min-isters
Association of Lititz and
Vicinty in place of each church
holding its own service one night
each week. All services this week
have been in the Lutheran ChurSh,
and all next week will be in the
Reformed Church. Different min-isters
address the services each
evening.
The Rev. Byron K. Home spoke
on Monday night, the Rev. Geo. B.
Raezer on Tuesday and the Rev.
J .C. H. Light last night.
, The topics to be discussed next
week will be making myself, my
home, my neighborhood, my church
and the world Christian.
Tells of England Trip
John L. Byerly, of Lancaster, a
member of the faculty of the local
High School, told some interesting
stories of a trip to England to do
research work at the weekly meet-ing
of the Lititz Rotary Club Tues-day
evening in the General Sutter
Hotel.
Sausage, 24c; Hamburger, 18c;
Pudding, 18c; Fresh Pork Chops,
27c at LUTZ. Phone 9181W. We
Deliver. ad
S. S. Class , Meets
The Sunshine Class of Trinity
Evangelical Congregational Sun-day
School, taught by Mrs. J. K.
Mathers, met at the home of Mrs.
Lemon Birkenbine, Front Street,
Tuesday evening. The following
members were present: Mrs. Math-ers,
Mrs. D. P. Longsdorf, Mrs.
Clyde Rannels, Mrs. Arthur Johan-sen,
Mrs. Aaron Landis, Mrs. Wal-ter
Behmer, Mrs, W. M. Miksch,
Mi-s. W. K. Seitzinger, Mrs. Daniel
Brumbach, Mrs. Pickle, Mrs. Jas.
Maize, Mrs. Irene Kofroth, Mrs.
Harry Keener, Mrs. Carla Wissler,
Mrs. Walter Steely. Mrs. Longs-dorf
gave a very interesting talk
on Temperance.
Wins Contest Prize
Mrs. W. M. Pfautz, of S. Broad
Street, was awarded first prize in
a Bible Game contest sponsored by
a Philadelphia daily paper. The
prize was $500 for herself and $500
for Trinity Evangelical Congrega-tional
Sunday School, of which she
is an active member. Her picture,
as well as the new church and the
pastor, Rev. D. P. Longsdorf, ap-peared
in the Sunday paper an-nouncing
thé winners.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Diehm, Elm,
announce the birth of a son, Mon-day
morning, at the Lancaster Gen--
e.ral Hospital.
Cage Team Will Represent
County In P. I. A. A. Play-offs
If TJiey Down Rivals
Lititz High's basketball team
will face its big test tomorrow
night on the local floor when
Ephrata High will come here to
try to dethrone the leaders from
their perch on first place in the
County Basketball League.
Should Lititz win they will rep-resent
the County in the P. I. A. A.
play-off games for the State title,
regardless of the fact that they
have one more game in their own
League to play, that with Man-heim
Township at Neffsville, which
game has been postponed from the
13th to 20th.
If they win tomorrow night's
game they will start on their con-quest
of the State title by playing
the Berks County winners at Read-ing
on Tuesday night, March 10,
in the Reading Armory. The Berks
winner will be either Wilson High
or Perry High, the winner was de-cided
last night at Reading.
According to the P. I-.-A: A. sche-dule
if Lititz wins tomorrow night,
they should play the winners of
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Honored At School
Miss Mary C. Bender, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Harry E. Bender,
a sophomore at Duke University,
Durham, N. C., has been honored
by being elected to membership in
the Delta Phi Rho Alpha sorority.
This is an honorary sorority to
which seven girls are annually
elected. She is also treasurer of
the Sigma Kappa sorority.
Joe Herr, justice of the peace and
notary, helped at least 200 people
to prepare correctly their applica-tions
for driver's license renewals.
But he was very surprised the
other day to have his own applica-tion
returned by the State. Then
he found he had not signed his
name nor answered the necessary
questions.
A local woman, when she finish-ed
the dishes Sunday noon, put se-veral
eggs on the stove to hard-boil
for supper, and then with her
mother and brother sat down in
the living room for a chat. One
by one they fell' asleep in their
chairs, and quite some time later
the mother was awakened by a
cracking or popping noise. Shr
called her daughter and asked if
she had set any mouse traps,'for
she heard them "going off."
Then the daughter remembered
the eggs. She found the water
boiled away and the eggs explode
ing in the pan.