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Vol. LXIV Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., June 10, 1943 No. 32
Rev. Moore
At Conference
Of Brethren
NEW DEAN
Dr. Pfaltzgraf, Husband of
Violet Hackman ; Ap­pointed
A Missionary
The General Conference of the
Church of the Brethren was in
session June 2-6 at McPherson,
Kans. Because of curtailment of
food and travel facilities, the Con­ference
was restricted to delegates
and officials. Rev. James M.
Moore was a delegate from the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The attendance of 700 compares
with 6000 a t the last Kansas Con­ference
a t Lawrence in 1938..
In the opening assembly Mod
erator W. W. Peters, president of
McPherson College, spoke on the
Conference theme, “Brotherhood
Through Christ.” He declared
that brothehood was not a matter
of belonging to a certain organiza­tion
but was reserved for those who
had the spirit of Christ. He stat­ed
that Christian brotherhood wel­comes
into fellowship peoples of
all races and nations who have
taken on the spirit of Christ.
The Board of Missions reported
gains in interest and numbers in
India and Africa. Daring the Con­ference
the report came that one
missionary, H. Stover Kulp, en-route
by plane and ship returning
to Africa had arrived a t Gape
Town. Two others are to sail in
July. Many others are awaiting
the day that transportation is pos­sible
to rejoin their ‘comrades in
both India and Africa.
Eleven missionaries are interned
in China and the Philippines where
they had stayed by their work in
the face of danger. In 1937 three
paid the supreme sacrifice with
their lives. Missionary and relief
giving in the church totaled over a
half million dollars in the past
year. New missionaries were ap­pointed
at the Conference, sched­uled
to sail as soon as conditions
permit, among them Dr. Boy
Pfaltzgraf now taking his intern­ship
in the Lancaster General Hos­pital,
and his wife, the former Miss
Violet Hackman of Lititz.
SPORTS
DIGEST
By E. S. Dechert
For several months the editor
of the Record-Express has been
trying to interest me in editing a
sports column or two for his
weekly paper. I finally yielded
for two reasons: first, X think it
will! help the youth oi our com­munity
become more interested In
sports. Second, the boys in the
armed forces want to know what’s
happening in sports in Lititz and
ouir country, and lately they hav­en’t
been able to find much In our
local papers to satisfy their ap­petites.
It is a great privilege for
me to write this column realizing
that it will furnish much wanted
sports news for our many boys
who are in the service of their
Country.
Bowling—The Lititz bowlers
have put away halls and shoes for
another season. In another col­umn
of this paper their records
are printed. Russ Templeton,
president of the Lititz League, de­serves
ntuch credit for having
kept the league going under diffi­cult
and trying circumstances.
Unless the gas situation Improves
till next fall, the outlook looks
very dismal since there are no
alleys in Lititz, and Ephrata is too
far to walk. Dutch Long’s Clean­ers
really cleaned up this year in
the fast Ephrata Major League
winning all the prizes available.
Ask Dutch how he does it!
Baseball—Lititz baseball fans
have to be satisfied with softball
again this summer. There will
be no Legion team or league
functioning. The Lancaster ¡Roses
have attracted a large number of
Lititz fans at all their games. You
can’t witness -a Lancaster game
without seeing at least a half
dozen Lititz rooters in the stands.
Sofme fans have even ¡taken the
train to Philadelphia to see the
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Rev. T. Robert Rgssett
Moravian
Bible School
School Will Be Held Under
Direction Of Mrs.
Willis Fasnacht
The Daily Vacation 'Bible School
cf the Moravian Church will be
held from June 14 to June 25. The
school, under the direction of Mrs.
Willis Fasnacht, will serve the ages
from 4 to 15 in the following de­partments:
Kindegarten 4-5; Pri­mary
6-7-8; Junior 9-10-11; Inter­mediate
12-18-14-16.
In these busy days the Church is
happy to offer this opportunity to
parents of sending their children
to a place where they will have a
balanced program of religious edu­cation
and recreation. The ¡school
is not restricted to members of the
church but all children who have
no other church connection are wel­come.
The teaching staff includes, Kin­dergarten,
Mrs. B. John Losensky,
Dianne Math, Nancy Bomberger;
Primary, Ruth Bender, Mrs. Wil­liam
Whitten, Margaret Yerger;
Junior, Mrs. Lloyd Smith, Margar­et
Buch, Louise Bear, Lena Risser;
Intermediate, Mrs. Martin Risser,
Thelma Lutz. Moravian music,
Mra. Edwin Kortz; Moravian Mis­sions,
the Rev. Etfwin Kortz; Girls
Handwork, Mrs. John Garber;
Boys Handwork, Willis Fasnacht;
Recreation, Mrs. Robert Girvin.
Rev. Bássett
Named Linden
Hall Dean
SUPPORT THE FIREMEN
New Official Will Take
Over Duties Here
June 15
Lnden Hall Junior College and
School for Girls has just announc­ed
the appointment of the Rev. T.
Robert Bassett of Midland Beach,
Staten Island, New York as Dean
and Assistant to the President.
Mr. Bassett, prior to his entry
into the ministry a year ago, was
engaged in Educational Work.
Bom in Philadelphia 35 years
ago, Mr. Bassett was .graduated
from the North East High School
of his native city. In 1929 he was
graduated with a B. A. degree
from Moravian College. His mas­ters
degree in English was obtain­ed
from the University of Pennsyl­vania.
He engaged in further
graduate study at Pennsylvania
State College in English, Music
and Art and at the University of
Pennsylvania in English.
He studied Theology a t Mora­vian
Theological Seminary and
was graduated with a B. D. degree
in 1940. .
For five years he was instructor
of English Composition at Penn­sylvania
State College. Six years
were spent at Moravian College as
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Miss Habecker
To Conduct
Music Recital
Pupils Will Play At Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel
June 16
Warn Bike Riders
To Get Licenses
Local bicycle riders Were warn­ed
today that little time remains
for them to ¡renew their borough
licenses for the ¡coming year—with
the -prospect of a lastiffilnute 'rush
cf juveniles upon the office of Bor­ough
Secretary Elam E. E. Ha­becker.
.
While borough official's have fix­ed
June 15 as the dead-line, ap­proximately
only 200 biko owners
had obtained new tags to-date.
This is less than half the number
issued last year when 651 ¡tags
were affixed to bicycles here.
At the same time, it was esti­mated
that the number of bicycles
In the borough has increased
slightly. .
Dorothy - S. Habecker will pre­sent
the following pupils in a Re­cital
-on Wednesday evening, June
16 a t the General Sutter Hotel.
Part One at 7:30
Donald Ruhl, Timothy White,
Audrey Risser, Patricia Steinman,
Patsy Lutz, Barbara Ann Kling,
Joanne Maharg, Virginia Ranck,
Joanne Wagner, Robert Hess, Su-sanne
Slosser, Joan Kemper, Lois
Reedy, Kenneth Tompkins, Keith
Tompkins, Jack Keehn, Doris Neff,
Sarah Muth, Gloria Benner, Mary
Jane Neff, Nelda Brubaker, Carl
Eckert, Peggy Muth, • Jane Bow­man.
Rhythm Band directed by
Jack Keehn.
Part Two at 8:30
Bette Behmer, Keith, Kenneth
and Thornton Tompkins, Gladys
Bomberger, Doris Leeking, Allan
Adair, Betty Jane Howard, Nancy
Lutz, Wilma Brubaker, Lorraine
Hess, Miriam Oberholtzer, Thelma
Lutz, Iva.Mae Bell, Robert Herr,
Richard Leed, Dorothy Herr.
The ushers will be Mrs. F. J.
Muth and Mrs. E. C. Bertolet, Jr.,
and Miss Amanda Meiley.
All music lovers are cordially in­vited
to attend.
The above photograph of the type of fire fighting equipment which
is protecting the homes of Lititz shows just where your money goes
when you support projects of the Lititz Fire Company.
The annual festival will be held Saturday when the best chicken com
soup obtainable anywhere will be offered for sale. It will be on the
basis of first come, first served, so be sure to get your soup early.
Music will be provided by the Lititz Community Band from. 7 to 19
P. M., weather permitting. The response to-date has been fine and
many chickens have been received.
Five Vacation
Bible Schools
Held Here
Groups Will Continue
Special Classes For
Two Weeks
1943 Mercantile List
Published By Record-Express
The . ¡Mercantile Appraisement
List of Lancaster County retail
and wholesale dealers and busi­nessmen
for !1i94S is being publish-,
ed in this issue of The Lititz Re­cord-
Express. .
The Record-Express trikes con­siderable
pride In .being chosen as
one of the representative news­papers
of the state selected by
the Commonwealth of Pennsyl­vania
to publish this list, which
is to be found on pages two, three,
six and seven of this issue.
Publication of the list is to per­mit
alll merchants and others to
¡freely check the list in order to
see that no competitor is evading
the tax. Readers of the 'Record-
Express are requested to notify
the Department of Revenue of any
persons or firms that are engaged
in business, whose names do not
appear on the Mercantile List as
advertised.
The list includes retail and
wholesale vendors1 or dealers in
goods, wares, merchandise, com­modities.
or effects of whatsoever
kind or nature, keepers of retau-rants,
pool or ¡billiard rooms,
bowling alleys, pin- ball games,
etc., operators -of parks, theatres,
etc., brokers, auctioneers, agents,
factories, etc., doing busines in the
county.
The Hist this year ¡reveals that
Lancaster county businessmen
are- holding up under war condi­tions
in an excellent, manner, in­asmuch
as ¡the list contains ap­proximately
as many businesses
as that of last year. The ¡Mercan­tile
List constitutes a valuable
listing of those ¡in business in the
county at this time.
Five vacation Bible schools are
being held in Lititz this year. St.
Paul’s Lutheran opened on Mon­day
morning, the Evangelical Con­gregational
, registered on Monday
and opened on Tuesday morning,
the Moravian and United Brethren
will begin - work on Monday, June
14 and the Church of the Brethren
will hold their chool July 19 to 30.
All will continue for two weeks.
Rev. Charles Trunk is dean of
the school of St. Paul’s Lutheran
church which enrolled approxi­mately
one hundred children the
first morning. They will close with
a commencement in the church on
Sunday, June 30.
Other teachers n the School in­clude,
kindergarten, Mrs. Arthur
Bushong, Mrs. aJmes Kline and
Mrs. Warren Diehm;primaiy,Mra*
Edward Fulweiler and Mrs. Matdv
iec Gangwer; junior, Mrs. Clarence
Dengler and oJanne Snavely; in-etrmediate,
Mr. Trunk and Miss
Anna Leidich. They are teaching
“The Life of Christ.”
Eugene S. Dechert is superin­tendent
of the school of Evangel-icalnoiC.—
cmifiwyphrdlvbgketao
ical Congregational church which
enroled 73. He is asisted as fol­lows,
primary, Mrs. Charles Pen-ldeton,
Ruth Diehm and Mrs, Geo.
Eickel; beginners, Mrs. Edward
Grube and Mrs. Trego.
Mr. Dechert w'ill teach the jun­ior
department, Richard Grube and
Barbara Sloser will serve as sec­retaries;
Kathryn Helman will be
in charge of the music; and Gladys
Fry and Miriam Beck will serve as
assistants.
There will be a demonstration
service proceeding Communion
June 20 and a picnic will be held in
the Springs Park on Friday, June
18.
Morv’n Home
Officers Are
Re-elected
Miss Sophie Bricker Re-
Named President;
Names Various Committees
The Board of -Managers of the
Moravian Home ¡for Aged Women
held their reorganization meeting
in the Home parlor on ¡Monday af­ternoon.
The election resulted in
the- re-election of the ¡following
officers, Miss ¡Sophie Bricker, pre­sident;
Mrs. P .F. Snyder, first
vice-president; ¡Mrs.. Clarence
Grash, second vice-president; Mrs.
W. H. Muth, recording secretary;
Mrs. Harry ¡E. Bender, correspond­ing;
1. secretary; Mrs. Robert ¡Rus­sell,
treasurer.
Dr. D. C. Martin, physician; Dr.
¡Harry E. Bender, E. ¡L. Garber,
and A., L. Donple, advisory board;
Miss E. Magdalena ¡Bricker and
Mis« Mary Huebener, auditors;
.Mrs .Harry ¡Gorton was elected a
member of the board by the as­sociation.
Misa Bricker appointed the fal­lowing
committees1, household,
Mrs., Norman Badorff, Mrs. ¡Muth
and Mrs. Snyder; contribution,
Mrs. Chester Keith, Mrs. G.
Eugene Long, and Mrs. Grosh, in­mate,
Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Bender
and Mrs. Lloyd Hess; application,
Mrs. Graybill Bitzer, Mrs. Gorton,
and Miss Bricker; finance, Mrs.
Russell, Miss Bricker and Mrs.
Snyder. !
Pageant To
Be Presented
On The 4th
‘Queen of the Candles'
To Feature Park
Program
Elaborate plans are being made
to present the pageant “The
Queen of the Candles’ as a feature
of the program on July 4th in the
Springs park.
Dorothy Sing was chosen as
queen by a vote of ¡the senior high
school students. The court in­cludes,
Gladys Carpenter, Alverta
Zartman, Gloria Keath, Marian
Royer, Flora Adams, Gladys Wike
and Marian Foreman.
James Witmer ¡will be the crown
bearer. Miss ¡Pauline Moyer, the
queen of last year will place the
crown on the new queen’s ¡head.
The train hearers will be David
Landis ¡and Jack Hackman, and
Bruce Weaver and Robert Ham­mer
will serve as heralds.
iMiss Mary Huebener Is direct­ing
the pageant assisted by Miss
Agnes Hensel and Mrs. Marguerite
Airntz. Miss Margaret Hower Is
in charge of the costumes. The
program includes Oimer Bushong,
Joseph Carl, Carl Workman, ¡and
E. C. Bertolet.
./ ADDRESSES ROTARY
That we must be ready to com­bat
poison gas attacks even though
they may not seem imminent, was
emphasized by Dr. Page" M.
Schildknecht, senior gas officer of
Lancaster county in an address
before members of the Rotary
Club ‘Tuesday evening.
. Announcement was made that a
testimonial dinner will be held on
June 22 for Miss Anna K. Miller
by both the Rotary and Lion clubs.
Dr. Landis Tangier, retired presi­dent
of Millersville Teachers’ Col­lege,
will be the speaker.
RETURNS TO CAMP
Three-Choir Concert
At Moravian Church
On Sunday evening at 7:00 P.
M. the Senior, Young People’s
and Junior Choirs will present a
concert of sacred music in the
church. The choirs are directed
by Mr. Victor 'Wagner, Mrs. Ed­win
Kortz and Mrs. George Keehn,
respectively, with Mrs. Kenneth
Wit'myer and Mirs. William Fas­nacht
organists.
This event is the climax to a
busy winter and spring season and
brings to a close the regular sched­ule
of choir work for the summer.
Hot Weather Brings
Flood Of Complaints
Hot weather this year produced
a new and different ¡ty.pe *of crop—
annonymous eomplainers, accord­ing
to Burgess Menno Rohrer.
“Last week ¡1 received more an­onymous
complaints than ever be­fore
since ¡1 became burgesb, “¡Bur­gess
Menno Rohrer asserted.'
■“These ¡complaints covered, a.
wide category of subjects ¡but none
of them' contained the signatures
of the writers. I always like to
give consideration ¡to all compla­ints
and do what I can about
them.-
“¡But Iff the writers won’t give
me their names, there Is very lit­tle
that I can do. Names of per­sons
lodging complaints are al­ways
kept confidential,” he ¡con­cluded
assurlngly.
H. S. BAND TO PLAY
IN FLAG DAY PARADE
Members of the High School
Band, which will participate in the
Flag Day Parade in Lancaster
Sunday will take the 12:55 P. M.
bus Sunday, M. C. Demmy, an­nounced
today. The band and
drum majorettes will form on N.
Duke St. between Walnut and
James Streets at 2 P. M. Instru­ments
will be sent to Lancaster
Saturday and will be given the
band members a t the Lancaster
¡Storage Company, 342 N. Queen
St., Sunday............. .....................
CHILDREN’S DAY SERVICE
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A special Children’s Day service
will be held in the Trinity Evangel­ical
Congregational Church Sun­day
evening at 7 P. M. Special
music will be presented by the in­termediate
and primary depart­ments.
The program also will include a
clarinet olo by Donald Mohler and
vocal selections by Kathryn Hel
man and Iva Mae Bell.
BANKS CLOSED MONDAY
Local ¡banks will remain closed
Monday, in observance of Flag
Day it was announced today.
C. OF C. TO MEET
The June meeting of the Lititz
Chamber of Commerce will be
held Tuesday night, in the meet­ing
room of the Lititz Fire House.
There wiH be discussion of import­ant
matters and a good attendance
is urgqtf.
, Pfc. James E. Weaver spent a
12 day furlough at home with his
wife and parents. He returned to
camp at Mexia, Texas.
His wife, the former Miss Dor­othy
Habecker, will reside with
him for the time being.
AWARDED MEDAL
Tech. Sgt. Monroe F. Musser, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Musser,
Water Street, who has been award­ed
the U. S. Air Medal for merit­orious
achievement following a
series of bomber raids over occup­ied
France and Germany. Mossier
is the radio operator aboard one
of the big bombers. The award
was received “omewhere in Eng­land”
according to a letter just re
ceived by his parents.
Lutherans
Win Opener
At Softball
STEFFY APPOINTED
CO-ORDINATOR
The appointment of Thomas W.
Steffy as OPA tire inspection co­ordinator
for this district was an­nounced
this week by the Ration
Board at Ephrata. He will have
charge of all tire inspection sta­tions
in seven townships.
VISITS HERE
¡Miss Miriam Tippery, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Guy S. Tippery, of
Altoona, spent several days with
her college room matte, Mis« Verna
L. Kreider, 128 E. Lincoln Ave.
Mias Kreider is now spending
esveral weeks visiting her fiance,
Sgt. Glenn C. Imber, of Denver, at
Clovis, New Mexico.
Defeat Moravians By
Score Of 19 To
Nothing
On Monday, June 7, the Sunday
School Baseball League opened its
second season with George Sipe,
manager of the Moravians, and
.Salm Snavely, manager off the Lu­therans,
using so many ¡players
that the sCorebook couldn’t ¡hold
them all. The Lutherans, fielding
a veteran team, minus only Kreid­er,
star pitcher, now in the army,
overpowered the Moravians by the
lopsided score of 19-0.
Johnny Keeler’s tricky windup
and speedball were too much for
the youthful Moravian team who
¡collected ¡only four hits which
were so scattered that no runs re­sulted.
Keeler was pretty much
the whole show as he also belted I
a home run into deep ¡right field. I
A large crowd witnessed the
game and many expressed ¡the
hope that more youngsters he used
in ¡the lineups of all teams in the
future.
Score ¡by innings:
No Ordinance;
Dogs Again
On The Loose
Borough Measure May Be
Brought Up This
Month
That the failure of borough
council to pass the proposed dog
ordinance has resulted in a sec­ond
flood of complaints of animals
doing damage to gardens, was re­vealed
here today.
While complaints for a time had
all ¡but disappeared, the new 'wave
of protests, ¡while not as great as
¡that of a few months ago, again
has borough police In a dither.
With the borough minus an or­dinance
and inasmuch as we do
not have a dog-catcher to control
things ¡according to the state law
regulating stray dogs, borough
police are more or less helpless to
take effective steps, Burgess iMen-no
Rohrer admitted reluctantly.
According to a number of local
gardeners, many dog-owners kept
their animals tied immediately af­ter
it was announced that an or­dinance
was being drawn up for
the borough.
These same gardeners revealed
that owners again ¡became lax al­most
from the moment that it was
learned that borough council ¡had
refused to consider the proposed
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TWO LITITZ SOLDIERS
MEET fN AFRICA
Mrs. Ross Neideigh received a
letter from her son, Benjamin,
who has been serving in the arm­ed
forces In Africa for the last
six months. He said he met no
one from Lititz until recently
wbe nhe walked in a Re dCross
center and met Joe Sheckard.
There was a grand Lititz reunion.
*Mid The Turmoil
Lutherans |1|4|2[0.|i5|3!4|0|0| 19
Moravians |0|0|0|0'|0|0|0|0!'0| 0
Ihren meet the Evangelicals at 7
P. M. and on Monday, June 14, the
Moravians and Brethren clash.
Standing Of the Teams
Team W L Pot.
Lutherans 1 0 1.000
Brethren 0 0 .000
Evangelicals m 0. 0 .000
Moravians 0 1 .000
AUTO STAMPS ON SALE
The 1943 Federal Motor Vehicle
Tax Stamps go on cale at the Post
Office toddy, June 10, all motor
driven vehicles will be required to
have this stamp attached to the
windshield by July 1.
Burgess Rohrer Appeals For
Jalopies For War Effort
The full cooperation of Lititz
citizens and officials in the region­wide
drive to intensify the scrapp­ing
of jalopies for war production
during June was pledged to the lo­cal
salvage committee and the
Scrap Processors Salvage Branch
of the War Production Board to­day
by the Chief Burgess, Menno
Rohrer.
“Last year,” said Burgess Roh­rer,
“the emphasis of the Scrap
Processor’s Salvage Branch was
placed on movement of scrap out
of the nation’s automobile grave­yards
and the yards of scrap deal­ers
and into the steel mills, there
to be convered into the substance
of guns, ships, tanks .and planes.
“Efforts were concentrated
largely on the job of speeding up
the wrecking of jalopies and
movement of the scrap. With , all-out
cooperation from the scrap in-dustry,
that effort has succeeded,
with a 60-day turnover of jalopy
scrap achieved in most of the-na­tion’s
yards.
“Up in the front line in this
year’s battle for scrap is the indiv­idual
jalopy owner. The auto
graveyards have moved thous­ands
of tons of scrap in the past
few months and are ready to move
more thousands of tons. It’s
time to move up the next batch of
raw materials—jalopies that are
now rusting away in garages, in
barns, in yards, and on the streets
and vacant lots.
“I therefore appeal to every citi­zen
of Lititz to do all he or she can
as a patriotic American to effect
the recovery of critically needed
iron and steel from automobiles in
this community which are no long­er
serviceable for transportation.
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Ed. Stroble is the latest off ¡the
local Victory Garden casualties.
Ed. was working on his garden
several days ago and thought ¡that
by protecting his shoulders from
¡the sun, he was doing alright.
However, he got such ¡a severe
¡burning of ¡the knees and legs that
he could not walk up to the Re­cord
office Wednesday for the an­nual
Fire Company donation and
had to send the Misses. “Now be
careful what you say about it be­cause
I don’t want to Hose my hap­py
home,” the Misses warned.
* * *
Johnnie Cooper sent a sympathy
card to a friend last week—and
then learned the next day that it
was somebody ellse’s brother who
had died.
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Everybody for blocks was awak­ened
and confusion ensued around
five o’clock Wednesday morning
when a short-circuit caused the
horn of an automobile parked in
•front of the General Sutter hotel
to blare forth Into the night. When
the horn began blowing intermit­tently,
Mrs. W. ¡M. Grube thought
somebody was in trouble and ¡call­ed
the police. Lights went on from
one end of Main Street to another.
Finally the owner, sound asleep in
the hotel ¡throughout all ¡the noise,
was aroused and he succeeded in
putting an end to the noise. “For
a moment it sounded as though
Gabriel was blowing his horn,” Dr.
Hagen commented Wednesday.
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According to their friends, Mr.
and Mrs. Jake Eshleman have
found a solution to the ban on
pleasure driving and the crowded
buses as well. They were seen
hitch-hiking the other day. What
their friends now want to know
is whether they got a hitch-hike
back again.
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Bus seats are at such a premium
¡these days that many persona
board the bus as it enters town
and then ride around town.
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Was Jean Moyer embarrassed
the other day. ¡She started out
with a pan of table scraps to feed
the chickens, ffargot where she
was going and carried the ¡scraps
all the way to Brukhaft’s store.
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