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Vol. LX LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937 No. 26
Groups To Discuss
Plans for Springs
Committees of Park Board
and C. of C. to Meet Soon ;
New Members Named
Plans for an early meeting of
the executive committee of the
Lititz Springs Committee with the
committees named by the Chamber
of Commerce to discuss a band
shell and the sanitary conditions of
the Park are being pushed. At the
same time, members of the general
Springs Committee are rapidly
drawing up plans to make the cele-bration
of the Fourth of July this
year one of the most outstanding
ever observed here.
The executive committee of the
Park board was completed Thurs-day
a week ago by the election of
Harry Gorton and O. K. Bushong.
The other three members are W.
M. Grube and Alfred L. Douple,
who were named by the Board of
Trustees of the Moravian Church,
and Dr. Harry E. Bender, who is a
member because of his office of
President of the Board of Trus-ses.
Officers for the general commit-tee
were chosen by the executive
group, Dr. Bender becoming the
chairman in line with an old cus-tom.
The other officers are Mr.
Gorton, vice-chairman; Paul H.
Bomberger, treasurer, and Mr.
Douple, secretary.
Ralph Spacht, A. A. Zecher and
John Erb were elected to member-ship
on the general committee.
Louis Huebener, chairman of the
music committee, reported that the
contract with the Allentown Band
for an afternoon and evening con-cert
on Monday, July 5th, has been
signed in accordance with instruc-tions
given at the last meeting of
the general committee.
The lighting committee, Mr.
Douple, chairman, reported that
the family of Walter Light had
completed the making of 6500 tal-low
candles for the celebration.
Close Another Good Season
The photograph pictures the varsity squad as follows, back row,
left to right: William Stark, Robert Keller, Christian Bachman, Robert
Martin and Eugene Roth; front row,- left to right: Martin Kutz, Ray
Herr, David Sammet, Charles Ludwig and Stanley Brumbaugh.
BURKHART'S
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Brunnerville Men
Organize Fire Co.
With the idea of maintaining an
adequate water supply and of be-ing
prepared to fight fires before
any start, a group of men of Brun-nerville
and vicinity have organ-ized
the Brunnerville Fire Com-pany.
John. Zimmerman is the presi-dent
of the new organization. Er-nest
Helmqn is vice-president, Dr.
Jonas E. Risser secretary and Raj
Doster treasurer,, "At present the
group is trying to get as many
members as possible and is plan-ning
to meet at least three times
a year.
It is improbable that a fire en-gine
ever will be purchased by the
company, for the cost of it and its
upkeep would be a terrific expense
to the village. However, the men
believe there are many ways in
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Town -
T A I IK Pretzels and Generals .
York' Notes . . .
New
It isn't fair. Something should
be done. Every time I read an
article about pretzels or General
Sutter I'm burned up. And what
I mean. Why? Well, you see, they
always forget to mention Lititz in
their accounts of "The Pretzel,
When and Why" and "The Last
Days of General John A. Sutter."
Oh, they know, where the General
was laid to rest. "A small town in
Pennsylvania." It's the same way
with pretzels. Lititz never gets
any mention at all.
What to do ? Write to our legis-lators
and let them introduce a
till. Call it the "Bill for the Recog-nition
of Lititz's Supremacy Over
the Pretzel Industry, and Letting
the World Know of that Town's
Pride, Concerning the Fact that:
General Sutter is Buried in their
Venerable Soil." And "then all you
have to do is erect a few statues
of the above mentioned and point
them out to visitors.
FLASH—Four Small-Town Boys
Motor to New York City.
Return with these observations:
In fifth grade we were taught
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Lose Only Three League
Games During Full Season
Lititz High School's basketball
season closed Friday evening, with
another fine record established.
The team won 14 games and lost
seven. Of the seven defeats, only
three were by teams of the Section
2 League.
The three League defeats were
by Ephraja, Columbia and Man-heim
Township, and the four non-
League defeats were: two games
to Lebanon and two to Cornwall.
While the team failed to win the
County Championship this year it
did make an exceptional showing,
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New Brunnerville School
Is Named For John Beck;
To Be Dedicated Saturday
The name of John Beck, widely-known
scholar, writer and educa-tor
of Lititz of many years ago,
will be perpetuated in the new
school at Brunnerville. When the
building is officially dedicated on
Saturday night, it will be called
the John Beck School, the Warwick
Township school board has decided.
Dr. H. H. Beck, of town, a grand-son
of John Beck and a member
of the faculty of Franklin and
Marshall College, Lancaster, will
speak at the dedicatory exercises,
which will be held in the school
Saturday at 7:30.
The program will open with
music by the Rothsville High
School orchestra, directed by F.
Earl Landis, music supervisor; the
invocation will be by the Rev. Har-vey
Markley, of the Conestoga
Church of the Brethren, and greet-ings
will be brought by Harry B.
Burkholder, treasurer of the War-
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Lititz Golf Club To Hold
Card Party, Luncheon
A card party and buffet supper
will be held in the General Sutter
Hotel next Thursday evening, the
11th, from 8 to 12, by the Lititz
Golf Club for its members and
friends.
Preliminary plans for the sum-mer's
activities will be discussed
and an interesting evening is ex-pected.
There are 42 membrs of
the club in town and each one is
asked to attend and to bring a
prospective member.
Weddings
Leidich—Keeny
Mrs. Emma R. Keeny, of Man-heim,
and the Rev. O. 0. Leidich,
of North Broad Street, were mar-ried
Saturday morning at 10:30 in
St. Paul's Lutheran Church by the
Rev. J. Harold Mumper, pastor of
the church, in the presence of the
immediate family. Rev. and Mrs.
Leidich will make their home here.
Kissel Hill Sale Saturday
Ground and a house of the
Salinda L. Harnish estate and
ground of the Horace N. Biemes-derfer
estate will be offered at
public sale Saturday afternoon at
2 o'clock on the premises by Stan-ley
Q. Biemesderfer, trustee to sell
the real estsfte of both estates. The
house will be open for inspection
today and tomorrow.
Legion to Meet, Eat
For the regular monthly meeting
of Garden Spot Post, 56, American
Legion, to be held tonight at 8:00
o'clock in the Legion Home, im-portant
business is in order, but
Caterer Wissler adds to the an-nouncement
a line that there will
be something good in the line of
eats.
African Moving Day
Described by Parkers
A "flitting" in Africa with 100
men assisting, a new home among
those strange people in a moun-tainous
country, and Christmas day
in an African village are among
\ the descriptions written by the
Gordon Parkers, missionaries in
Africa, to St. Paul's Lutheran
church.
The Parkers went to Africa last
July to represent the local church
in the foreign mission field. Mrs.
Parker will be remembered as the
former Miss Evelyn Zimmerman.
The letter was written January
3rd to St. Paul's congregation.
The missionaries moved to their
new home at Zorzor, a distance of
200 miles. To do this required 100
men, 12 apiece to carry the mis-sionaries
in their hammocks, (3
shifts of 4 at a time) and the re-mainder
to carry their household
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Plan Orange Social
The March meeting of the Auxi-liary
of the Lititz Fire Company
will be held on Thursday evening,
the 11th, in the Fire House and
will be in the form of an orange
social. All members are urged to
attend.
Pudding 20c lb., Hamburg 18c lb.
I We deliver. Phone your meat
I orders. Phone 9181W. LUTZ.
Publicity Accorded Speech
Is Puzzle To John Enck
"What good is all this publicity
to me at my age?" asks John H.
Enck, of Front Street, in comment-ing
to us on the numerous stories
which have appeared in papers fo!
lowing his addressing the Rotary
Club last week.-
"You had a story in your paper
Thursday, the Lancaster papers
had stories and even one of the
Philadelphia papers had it, too,"
he continued. Whereupon we re-minded
that one of the Lancaster
newspapers had commented editor-ially
upon his talk.
"It reminds me of a visit I made
to the Lancaster prison years ago,"
Mr. Enck said. "The warden in-vited
me to come and see the place
and on our tour of-inspection we
reached the kitchen. The warden
pointed to the cook, a convict, and
said, 'He is the best cook we've
had here and next week his term
is up and we'll lose him. I'm going
to write him a letter of recommen-dation,
so he can get a good job.'
"Then the cook turned to me and
said, 'Do you think a letter of re-commendation
from this place will
do me any good ?' I'm in the same
fix. What good will this publicity
do me now?"
Before he left, Mr. Enck re-newed
his subscription to the
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To Hold Ham Card Party
A ham card party, at which the
prizes will be ham and bacon, will
be held next Thursday night, the
11th, at the Park View Hotel for
the benefit of the Community Am-ublance
Fund. The public is in-vited.
SNOOPS
Last Thursday was plenty cold
and at Hegins, where Charles Rapp
and Elwood Sipe were working on
wiring for Roy S. Ridenbaugh in
an unfinished church building, the
temperature was zero and below.
They shivered from the cold and
the anticipation of spending a night
in a strange hotel away from their
warm homes.
But when they retired, they
found their hotel room hotter than,
on any night in mid-summer and,
with windows open wide, they could
not get it cool. Rapp finally
crawled out of bed and slept on
the floor.
For last Thursday evening Mrs.
Ellis Spickler planned a supper
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