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Vol. LX LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1937 No. 39
Radio Brings Out
New Sutter Story
Trips To Home Near Reading
Revealed by Man Who Heard
California Radio Broadcast
Quakertown Man Buys
Girvin Greenhouse Here
Clyde Hendricks, of Quakertown,
bought the Girvin Greenhouse and
took possesion on June 1. Mr. and
Mrs. Hendricks' parents are green-house
people and they both know
the business thoroughly. They will
move to Lititz on July 1.
New information on the last
days of General John A. Sutter,
buried in the Moravian cemetery
here, was discovered through a
University of California radio
broadcast recently, when a listen-er,
reversing the usual order of
procedure, told the broadcaster a
few things.
The program, given by the Uni -
versity Explorer and broadcast
over a State-wide network, was
based on the book, "Sutter's Own
Story," by Prof. Erwin G. Gudde,
assistant professor of German of
the university.
A few days after the broadcast
the Explorer received from 85-
year-old George A. Zellers, of
Bakersfield, Calif., a letter con-taining
new and interesting side-lights
on the life of Sutter, on
whose Sacramento Valley land gold
was discovered in 1849. In the
latter years of his life, according
to Prof. Gudde's book, Sutter lived
at Lititz. It was at this time that
Zellers became acquainted with
VJrn. i
sller's father ran a blacksmith
near Reading. Nearby was an
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'Little Theatre" Opens
ie initial opening of the Little
itre, located at 312 S. Cedar
and operated by August Fleck-
,ein, Jr., was held on Friday
ning, the special feature being
May Day" celebration,
'he following children took part:
y Queen, Kathryn Helman;
,g, Richard Fleckenstein; Guard,
laid Mohler; Attendants to the
g and Queen, Elizabeth Zintz,
dys Kauffman, Lorraine Felker,
iy Ann Landis and Patsy Foltz;
rt Jester, Bobby Eberly; Fairy
Id, Phyllis Lauver.
The Queen was costumed in a
skyblue satin gown and a crown
of orange blosoms, encircled her
hair. The King wore a robe of
orchid color. The atendants, flower
girls and guard were also in cos-tume.
The npxt program will be given
the ,latter part of this month.
Entertains Club
Miss Mary Snavely entertain-ed
the Happy-Go-Lucky-8 Club, of
which she is a member, at the
Snavely Bungalow on Tuesday and
Wednesday. The following girls
were present: Betty Gonder, Ger-aldine
Garman, Jean Badorf, Betty
Herr, Phyllis Breneman, Kathryn
Hammer, Mary Snavely. Misses
Dorothy Moyer and Kathryn Gantz
were chaperones.
Many Peonies In Bloom
The yard of Dr. L. N. Moyer, E.
Main Street, is filled with several
thousand peonies, as nearly all of
the 154 varieties he has are in
bloom. Some of the newest peon-ies
are included in his collection.
Guess Who
This week's "Guess Who" will be
the last one "Bob" Lutz will draw
for the summer. Robert came into
the office Saturday with the an-nouncement
that he would like to
be excused from the task for the
hot months, but would start again
early in the fall.
Business News
Harold Weidman has opened an
automobile repair shop of his own
at the Jerry K. Adams Garage, N.
Cedar St. and Lincoln Ave.
Frank Moore, for sometime em-ployed
at Wolf's Garage, is now
working in the repair shop of R.
R. Graybill's garage.
Edward' Mowery, of town, has
been added to the force at Wolf's
Garage. ,
Adds To Goat Hera
During the past week Mrs. Al-bert
Christener, of N. Broad St.,
received an addition to her herd
of pure bred Saanen does from
Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. Christener
is establishing rapidly a foundation
herd of pure bred Saanens, which
is even now the most outstanding
in this part of the State.
Artist Visits Here
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cunningham,
Clarksboro, N. J., were the week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Christener. Mr. Cunningham is a
native of Texas and a painter of
note. His murals are in the State
Capitol of Texas. The Christener's
son, Albert, Jr., met the Cunning-hams
in Paris during his visit in
Europe. _
Buy New Books
The Lititz Library has purchased
35 new books, part of which have
already arrived and are on the
shelves. During May 508 books
were circulated and 42 were added,
bringing the total to 1700. Thir-teen
new members were put on the
rolls. _
Mrs. J. Wilbur Light
Mrs. J. Wilbur Light, 35, of
Warren, Pa., died in a hospital at
that place Monday of pneumonia
after a short illness. She was a
native of Philadelphia and the
wife of a son of the Rev. J. C. H„
Light, of town.
The funeral will be held this
afternoon in Philadelphia.
Decorate Graves
Harry Workman headed the
committe from the local Lodge of
Odd Fellows in the decoration of
graves of departed members in
cemeteries in Lititz, Manheim,
Hess, Lexington and Brickerville,
Monday.
Twenty-five members of the Lit-itz
Order attended the meeting in
Lancaster Friday night when the
members of the Grand Lodge paid
their official visit.
Visit Lititz Home
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Murphy and
son, Paul, and Miss Margaret Mc-
Mahon, of Niagara Falls, are vis-iting
Mrs. Mary Dengate.
This week's picture he drew in
about one hour, while the gentle-man
sat in a chair in his home
reading a newspaper. Of course,
"Bob" had to touch up on it and
shade it properly after he was
finished, but the actual outline of
the features, etc., took him about
one hour.
We will not tell you in this item
who the gentleman is but in one
of the advertisements in this issue
you will find his name in small
type.
Incidentally that is what we are
going to do in the fall when "Bob"
resumes his drawings. The name
of the person he has drawn will be
in an advertisement for you to
check upon to see if you guessed
right. And in the fall "Bob" is go-ing
to make it harder for you to
guess them, for he plans to draw
a lot of pictures of prominent
Lititz women. His first series was
entirely of men. So we will ex-cuse
"Bob" for the summer, and
look forward to his return to draw-ing
in the fall.
His pictures have created much
comment in the past weeks, sub-scribers
looking at the picture the
first thing to see if they could
guess the person.
Last week's drawing was of
Squire A. M. Shissler, of North
Cedar Street.
Rotarians Give Talks
Talks by W. H. Muth, Dr. M. H.
Yoder, Elmer Beck and Henry B.
Gibbel featured the program of the
Lititz Rotary Club Tuesday eve-ning
in the General Sutter Hotel.
Two new members, Harry Gor-ton
and Graybill D. Bitzer, were
admitted to the club at the meet-ing-.
Jesse Jones, of Lancaster,
and E. H. Jones, of near Bricker-ville,
but formerly of West Va.,
were visiting Rotarians.
Linden Hall Horse Show
Likely To Be Discontinued
Number of Exhibitions Held in This Section and Falling Off
of Patronage Cited as Reasons; Local Horses
Win Cups in Monday's Classes
The 8th Linden Hall Horse
Show, held Monday, will prob-ably
be the last such show to be
staged on the campus of the lo-cal
school, it was learned Tues-day.
Several reasons were advanc-ed
for the abandonment of the
show, the main one being that
too many horse shows are being
held in this locality, with the
consequent dropping off of inter-est
and patronage. The effort in-volved
to stage a show success-fully
is considered too great for
the financial return. Damage to
the campus is also a factor.
May Day next year at Linden
Hall will probably be confined to
a small horse show for students
of the school, the May Day Page-ant
and some social event in the
evening.
- Charlotte Nicholson, of Steu-benville,
Ohio, was crowned May
Queen at the colorful pageant on
Y. P. Council To Hold
Meeting, Join In Hike
The Young People's Council of
District 9, will hold its 13th an-niversary
meting on Monday eve-ning
in St. Paul's Lutheran Church
at 8 o'clock. Former officers of the
organization will bring greetings
and Miss Betty Martin, will have
charge of the social hour.
On Saturday the Council will
join the Lancaster County Young
People's Council in a hike and pic-nic
which will be held at the sum-mer
home of Prof. Charles Spotts,
near Bowmansville. The local group
will meet at the Lutheran Church
at 1:30. District 9 will have charge
of the hillside service.
Monday which came as an inter-lude
between the horse show for
Linden Hall girls in the morning
and the main events of the show
in the afternoon. Miss Marga-ret
Longenecker, of town, was
one of her two maids of honor.
Miss Margarita Beck, of Lan-caster,
formerly of town, carried
off the honors in the Linden Hall
classes and won the cup present-ed
by Senator H. J. Pierson.
I "Don Byrne," owned by Sena-j
tor Pierson and shown by Barney
McDevitt, captured the blue rib-bon
in the first open jumping
class, with "By the Way," owned
by Paul Badorf, second. Miss
Beck and her brother, Sammy,
placed the horses they were rid-ing
third and fourth in the sec-ond
division of the pony class,
the cup for which was presented
by Dr. M. H. Yoder.
Norman Badorf's "Billy," shown
by Barbara Bechtel, was second
in the first saddle horse class,
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Births
Mr. and Mrs. John Newcomer
announce the birth of a son at the
Lancaster General Hospital on
Tuesday. Mrs. Newcomer will be
remembered as the former Ruth
Shank.
Bible Schools Open Monday
Daily Vacation Bible Schools
will open Monday in the Lutheran
Moravian, United Brethren and
Brethren Churches. The school of
the Evangelical Church will open
on June 14.
Legion Meets Tonight
The June meeting of Garden
Spot Post, 56, American Legion,
will be held this evening in the
Post Home, S. Broad St.
Make a purchase of 19c or more
and get a ticket for the Pool for 8c.
Hamburg Steak, 19c lb. LUTZ.
Phone 9181W. • We Deliver.
SNOOPS
Once Mrs. Amos Longenecker
liked the songs of the birds; but
that was before last Monday.
That day, after carefully spread-ing
handkerchiefs on the grass to
dry, she was dismayed to find them
scattered over the yard and two
very good ones missing. Later one
of the missing ones was found un-der
a tree in the Douple yard and
there is not doubt that the other is
in a nest in the tree. And that
same day, robins stole the strings
off the chair covers on the Longe-necker
porch.
Believe it or not, the bumps on
South Cedar Street are good for
something.
Following commencement Wed-nesday
evening, Lowell Reiden-baugh,
a graduate, changed clothes
at home and on his way down
stairs tripped over a stair-pad and
only saved himself from falling by
grabbing the rail. But he dislocat-ed
his shoulder in doing so. His
father, Harry Reidenbaugh, load-ed
him in the car and started for
the doctor's office. But the car hit
one of the bumps on Cedar Street
and jolted Lowell's shoulder into
place again.
Tuesday was the hottest day of
the year thus far. Some ther-mometers
hit 100 in the shade,
Mrs. Emory Wagner, of E. Orange
Street, clerk in Trimmer's Store,
told neighbors last week that it
was too hot to clean house, and
that she would take off this week
for it when it would be "cooler."