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Vol. LIX LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1936 No. 48
Community Show
To Be Oct. 22-24
Plans For Greater Exhibition
Discussed At First Meeting
Of Group In Fire House
An enthusiastic meeting Wed-nesday
night began plans for the
1936 Lititz Community Show, a
show which should be greater than
any yet held here. The dates of
October 22,.23 and 24 were chosen
for the event and officers and com-mitteemen
were named.
A substantial balance is in the
treasury, according to C. S. Zart-man,
treasurer. Receipts of the
1935 show totaled $"1,429.85, and
after paying bills amounting to
$1,346.24, there is a balance of
$110.67.
J. C. Brubaker, who has been
at the head of the "show for many
years, sent word to the meeting
that due to the press of business he
will be unable to take part in the
work this year. The meeting voted
to .retain him as president, although
he will be inactive, and then nam-ed
B. L, Sharp as second vice-presi-dent
to assist Elmer Beck, first
rice-president. Robert Russeli was
named to the new office of financial
secretary.
Child Has Birthday Party
Mrs. Harry Kemper entertained
at a birthday party fo^ her daugh-ter
Joan's second birthday anni-versary
on Thursday. Joan recei-ved
very nice presents. Refresh-ments
= were served to the follow-ing:
Nancy Helter, Shirley Roll-man,
Betty Kauffman, Roger Roll-man,
Donald Ross, Sonny Wonder,
Mrs. Monroe Wonder and Mrs.
Lloyd Miller, all of town, and Betty
Behmer, Mrs. Amelia Bigler and
Mrs. Ivan Behmer, all of Lancas-ter.
County Tennis Tournament
Opens Here On Saturday
The Lancaster County Tennis
Tournament will be played on the
courts of the new athletic field next
week, opening games will be played
on Saturday.
Approximately 75 players will
be seen in action during the week,
players coming from all sections of
the County.
Entries for the men's singles will
be received at 48 N. President Ave.,
Lancaster, up to 5 o'clock tomorrow
evening. The men's doubles en-tries.
will be received at the same
address up to 5 o'clock Sunday. The
singles drawing will be made Fri-day
night and get underway on
Saturday, while the doubles play,
drawings will not be made until
Sunday.
Most of the matches will- be
played in the evenings. Several
Lititz players will take part.
The annual tournament sponsor-ed
by Abram Hershey on the Lin-den
Street court got underway this
week and will close Saturday giv-ing
the local tennis stars the chance
of entering the County tournament.
Spectators are invited to see both
the Hershey and County tourna-ments
without charge.
Teacher Resigns
Miss Lucille Gilchrist, of Lake
Coma, Pa., who taught last year in
the commercial department of the
High School, tendered her resigna-tion
to Supervising Principal M. C.
Demmy on Monday. Miss Gilchrist
fltends to marry.
Several applicants for that posi-tion
and for the position of ath-letic
coach, made vacant by the
resignation of Clyde E. Arbegast,
have been received, but the school
board will not select teachers until
the August meeting, next week or
the week after.
Democratic Club To Meet
H. Clay Burkholder, prominent
Lancaster attorney, will be the
main speaker at the regular month-ly
meeting of the Lititz Democratic
Club at the Democratic Headquar-ters
on Tuesday evening.
Mr. Burkholder is the candidate
for the United States Congress
from the Tenth Congressional Dis-trict,
which includes Lancaster and
Chester Counties. . ,
Republic Club Plans Active
Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign
The Republican Club of Lititz
and Vicinity met in the Park View
Hotel dining room Monday night,
and laid plans for an intensive "get
out the vote" campaign for the
fall general election.
A permanent meeting place was
not decided upon at the session and
was carried over to the next meet-ing
on September 8, when the com-mittee
appointed by President Vic-tor
Wagner will report. For the
next meeting, the Club accepted the
offer of host Charles Brobst to
meet again in the Park View until
permanent quarters are found.
Several places were recommend-ed
at the meeting for the perman-ent
Club headquarters, among them
the Malta Hall! Because of its ex-cellent
facilities, it is likely to get
the call.
The Club planned several me-
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Meeting Hitler Is High Spot
of Lititz Girl's Trip To Europe
Cooking School To Be Held
Here By Penna. P. & L. Co.
A free cooking school will be held
in the Lititz Fire House next week
by the Pennsylvania Power & Light
Company. Valuable prizes will be
awarded at each session.
The school will open Wednesday
evening at 7:30 and continue both
Thursday and Friday evenings at
the same hour. Miss Edna Möhr
will be in charge of the school and
will be assisted by Mrs. Scott. Door
prizes will be awarded each night
and a modern gas range will be
given as the grand prize at the end
of the school. All women of this
section are invited to attend.
—Any boy or girl making a
purchase of 18c or more will get a
ticket for the pool for only 5c more.
Hamburg steak, 18c Ib.—LUTZ.
The thrill of meeting the great
Hitler and of presenting a bou-quet
of rosebuds to him is one that
will live long in the memory of
Rene Vath, of East Main Street,
who returned Friday from a three-months'
trip to Europe with her
mother, Mrs. Joseph Vath.
But great as that thrill is, it is
only one of the many Rene ex-perienced;
thrills of learning to
swim in the beautiful blue lakes,
of going down into salt mines, of
climbing mountains, of visiting dif-ferent
countries and of ocean trips
including several days of seasick-ness.
Arranging a meeting with Hitler,
who, according to Mrs. Vath, is
loved by the German people, was
difficult, but the Lititz woman put
it through so that her daughter
could have the honor of being pre-sented
to the German leader. Thou-sands
of people try to see him each
day, but few succeed, and Mrs.
Vath gave up all thoughts of meet-ing
him herself so that Rene could
have the honor.
Rene fairly bubbles over with joy
when she tells of the meeting, and
her words tumble forth so fast that
they are difficult to understand.
Goehring and other aides were with
Hitler at the time she met him, she
says, and all of them asked ques-tions.
They wanted to know her
full name, the name and nationality
of her parents, wherte they lived
and many other things. Then she
presented the rosebuds and they
said thank-you.
Rene expects to receive the auto-graph
of Hitler and she will place
it at the head of the long list of
things she has as remembrances of
her trip. No, she did not want to
come home.
Mrs. Vath and Rene left America
April 24 and traveled in Germany,
Switzerland and Austria. They also
touched at Southampton and Cher-bourg
on both ocean trips, but did
not visit in either France or Eng-land.
The object of the trip was
to visit Mrs. Vath's mother, Magda-lena
Deibler, who is 74 years old.
at Wurtemberg, and other relatives.
Short side-trips while on their way
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Three Held For Speeding
Floyd Hoffman, of Brickerville,
and Clarence Dull and Willard Her-shey,
of town, were arrested Sun-day
night by Policemen Kreider
and Singley for speeding on Broad
Street. They will have hearings in
the near future.
Chief Kreider will continue the
drive on speeders until the practice
is stopped. He also warns that
parking on the left sides of streets
is again cropping up and those
breaking that ordinance will b« ar-rested.
Wiliam Jones, negro, of Colum-bia,
who was arrested Sunday at
North Cedar Street and the rail-road
for drunkeness, had a hearing
before Justice of the Peace Heir
on Monday morning and was sent
to jail for ten days.
Answer Two Fire Calls
Lititz firemen responded to two
fire calls last week but did not see
action at either. Wednesday eve-ning
a call came from the home of
John F. Longenecker, N. Broad
Street, where his car was reported
afire. When the firemen arrived,
after breaking all records for a
speedy start because a meeting of
the company was going on at the
time, the fire was out.
Thursday morning at 1:30 a call
came from Rothsville, where a bar-rel
of oil ignited while men were
working on a road leading to the
Thompson Shirt Company. The
shirt factory and building of W. S.
Stauffer were threatened for a time
and the Akron and Lititz compan-ies
were summoned, in case they
might be needed. The Rothsville
company extinguished the flames
before the others arrived.
Addresses Rotarians
Robert Groh, an official of the
Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.,
addressed the Lititz Rotary Club,
Tuesday evening, in the General
Sutter Hotel on "This Hurrying
Age." The program was sponsored
by Frank Keiffer, local manager of
the utility company and a member
of the club.
The annual picnic of the club
will be held next Thursday, the
13th, on the farm of Wayne Fah-nestock,
near Schaefferstown.
Entertain At Cards
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brobst en-tertained
at bridge at their bunga-low
at Susquehanna Heights on
Tuesday evening. Supper was ser-ved
on the porch to these guests:
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shier and
son, Harold, of Cranford, N. J., and
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Rice and daugh-ter
Rosemary, and Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Bowman, of town.
Post Office Open
Longer Each Day
Windows Not Closed Until
7:30 Daily and 4:30 Sat-urday
Under New Ruling
Stamp windows of the Lititz Post
Office will remain open longer each
day, Postmaster Robert E. Pfautz
announced yesterday. It is impos-sible,
however, under present con-ditions,
to allow the office to re-main
open after the clerks leave.
Mr. Pfautz announced the change
in hours after receiving a letter
from A. B. Crawford, post office in-spector,
to whom he had referred
the request of the Lititz Chamber
of Commerce that the office be kept
open until a later hour each eve-ning,
so that box renters could get
their mail later.
Mr. Crawford, in his letter, cited
postal regulations which require
that an office not amply protected
must not be open when no clerks
are on duty. The protection lack-'
ing at the local office is screening
from the top of the window parti-tions
to the ceiling. At present, the
screening extends only part of the
distance.
The stamp windows will not be
closed each day until 7:30 and each
Saturday until 4:30. The change
will mean that the local office is
open 1% hours longer daily than
most of the other offices of this
class.
697 Books Circulated
During July, 697 books were
circulated by the Lititz Public
Library, Miss Bernice Iscovitz, the
librarian, reports. In the same
month, 36 new members were added
and ten new books were received.
Births
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Mentzer, of
Denver, announce the birth of a
son, Saturday at the Lancaster
General Hospital. Mrs. Mentzer is
tile former Marion Biemesderfer,
of Kissel Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. David Nagle, of
Front Street, announce the birth of
a son, last Friday, at home.
Legion To Nominate
Garden Spot Post, 56, American
Legion, will nominate officers for
the coming year at the August
meeting of the Post tomorrow eve-ning
at 8:30.
—For attractive investments, E.
E. Habecker, Real Estate Agent,
offers several properties at inter-esting
prices. Also good property
in Lincoln for $2,350. ad
Dr. Chas. Rominger, supply pas-tor
for the Moravian Church Sun-day,
gave the congregation twenty
anxious minutes when he failed to
appear at the time for the service.
He got lost in Reading.
Officials of the church decided to
read the litany, sing several hymns
and dismiss, and A. L. Douple had
just taken a step into the front of
the church when Dr. Rominger ar-rived.
W. M. Light reached into the
church and grabbed Mr. Douple
as he took that step and in another
minute the minister went in.
A woman of the congregation re-marked
afterward, "The minister
came in wearing a gray coat, but
they pulled him out and he changed
to a black one."
A camp chair collapsed with Ben
Grosh two weeks ago in what was
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