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Man Of the Week: "Bob" Longo-necker,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John
F. Longenecker. Making a name
for himself in the hills of Cali-fornia,
where live the luminaries
of the silver screen. Subject: Lo-cal
Boy Hakes Good. . . .
FIRB DEP'T: Have you seen the
nifty new engine the Company
acquired last week? Complete with
cab, swell seats, and a searchlight
which, in shining, makes a figure
8. . . . Surely this engine will be
the pride of the county.
SOCIETY: Miss Arlene Hornber-ger
and Mr. Dean Spahr having a
difficult time getting started, while
sledding on a Cedar St. Hill the
other night. . . .
DRAMATICS: The Young Peo-ples
District No. 9 is beginning
work on the play "Cheerio, My
Deario", to be presented sometime
next month. Incidentally, both
Lillian and Harold McCreary will
be in the cast. . . .
BANK NIGHT: For the man or
woman who wins the new Chevro-let
which now stands in the patio
of the General Sutter Hotel. Feb.
1 is the day. . . .
CABARET: Conlin's open their
newly-constructed Hall of the
Dance, where swing nightly the
boys and girls of this town and
other towns. On the opening night
the out-of-town element predomi-nated,
proving that this local res-taurant
is becoming well known as
Swing Headquarters. . . .
How Do You Like
Our New Sign
On East Main Street?
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Vol. LX Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, Jan. 20, 1938 No. 20
Bus Service
To Lititz
About Feb. 1
Big Program of Music, Refreshments and Talks
Planned for Annual Fire Co. Smoker Next Week
Replacing of Trolleys Is
Approved by P. U. C.;
Same Schedules To
Be Used By Machines
Bus service between this place
and Lancaster will be started on
or about February 1, the Conestoga
Five men of the Lititz Fire Com-pany
are hard at work making
plans for what is always one of
•• the biggest events of the year for
the fire fighters—the annual smok-er,
which yearly follows the Janu-ary
meeting of the company.
The smoker will be held next
Wednesday at 8 sharp, the com-pany
holding its business session
early that night to make way for
the big event.
In the main the program to be
evening is going to be one of the
biggest yet held. Mr. Strohm will
be in charge of the program.
There will be plenty of music to
keep the party lively and the
speakers will be short and interest-ing.
Prizes will be awarded to
different ones for different reasons
and then the group, usflally seve-ral
hundred in number, will ad-journ
to the first floor and enjoy
some excellent refreshments. Sev-eral
details of the program are be-offered
to the firemen will follow ing kept a secret by the committee.
the lines of other years, but the, so all who attend can count on
Transportation Company announc- five m e n 0f the committee. Victor j some surprises,
ed on Friday. The schedule fol- Wagner, Chairman, Sol Strohm, C.! Every member of the local com-lrawed
by the trolleys will be used Walter Miller, Christ Koehler and j pany is invited and urged to
for the buses.
Announcement of the date for
tlie substitution of buses for the
trolleys was made by the company
i upon receipt of word from Harris-burg
that the Public Utility Com-mission
had approved the applica-tions
to change to buses on three 1
lines and also approved the pur-
Christ Nissley, are sure that the ! attend.
81 Students Placed
On "Progress Roll"
1 Prof. M. C. Demmy, principal of
the Lititz public schools, announc-
OUT OF TOWN: John Stein-beck's
"Of Mice and Men" running-strong
on Broadway . . . . Headed
for the cinema. . . . Same author's
"Tortilla Flat", adapted by Jack . _ i e
Kirkland, a flop. . . . Discontinued Local P e o p l e See
after four night's showing . . ! u ri i ! Train«
From Hollywood comes a Joke: W € W t l e C t™C l™1 1»8
Since producers cannot decide on
a Scarlett O'Hara for the picture
"G«ne With the Wind" (Remem-ber?),
there is a rumor that Walt
Disney will have the job of insert-ing
Scarlett into the picture. . . .
ed today that 81 high school stu •
chase by the state highway depart-.! d e n t g wQn p ] a c e s Qn t h e . . P r 0 g p e g3
ment of two rights of way of the R o U „ fm, i m p r o v e m e n t in t h e s e c.
transportation company. One of
these is the right of way along the
Lititz Pike and the other is along
thé Lincoln Highway from Lancas-ter
to Columbia.
Trolley tracks along both
stretches of road will be torn up
by the traction firm and repairs to
the road to Columbia will be be-gun
this Spring, the state has an-nraunced.
No time has been set
foir repairs to the Lititz Pike,
thiough that is expected soon.
al-
EDITORIAL: Every time I see a
(Quite a few local people were
among the crowds which thronged
the Lancaster station of the Penn-sylvania
Railroad on Saturday to
witness the arrival of the first
electric trains operated on the com-pany's
Main Line from Paoli to
noit yet finished.
basketball game in the L. H. s . Harrisburg.
gymnasium, I ask myself a que , Two trains,
tion. When will we have a new
gym, or a whole new school? If
an entirely new building cannot
be built, why not enlarge the gym-nasium?
Lititz Hi has fine basket-ball
teams, and opposing teams ad-mire
and fear them. But do they
admire the gym? I doubt it. There
are too many references to Lititz
Hi's "cheese-box", and issuing
from the lips of the defeated, the
word is not very pleasant to hear.
So why not enlarge the gymnas-ium?
At the game on Friday night
I heard a prominent businessman
of this town remark: "Sort of
crowded, isn't it Don't you think
we alumni ought to get together
and do something about it?" That's
the idea! But is there enough
spirit in that man to start the ball
of progress rolling? I hope so. I
am sure his efforts would be ap-plauded
from Fourth Avenue to
New Street.
What is holding us back—money?
Hardly; the money could be rais-ed,
if the citizens of the town
really wanted a larger gymnasium.
So why not look ahead? Here's to
a new gym, or better yet, a new
high school!
"The Metropolitan
Repress'',. Westbound at 11.33 A.
M.„ iind an Eastbound train at 1.49
P. M., were operated by electricity
on Saturday, but the company an-nounced
Sunday that all passenger
trains through Lancaster would be
electric within a week or ten days.
The electrification of the main
Dr. Bender Heads
Moravian Church Board
A W A R W I CK
W O M A N W R I T E S
line was completed for passenger
service far ahead of schedule, but R a ! p h E h r h a rt
the lines for freight service are b e r g e r ' B e t t y E r b ' C h a r l e s F r e d er
ond report period as compared
with the first report period.
The names are in addition to
those on the Honor Roll, which in-cludes
students who had no mark
below "."
Those on the Progress Roll fol-low:
Seniors, Ruth Carpenter, Jane
Deitrich, Harold Kauffman, Edwin
Krane, Clare Lane, Voilet Witmy-er,
Jean Weaver, Caroline George.
Juniors, Luther Hartranft, Emma
Hornberger, Wallace Lausch, Fran-ces
Meiskey, Helen Ruth, Romaine
Stormfeltz, Betty Wartsch; Sopho-mores,
John Brossman, Mary Su«
Bru baker, Martha Christener, Ra-chel
Coldren, Jean Dennis, Doro-thy
Dowhower, Norman Eckert,
Ross Haldeman, Renlen Hess,
Charles Hoff, Thelma Howard, Vio-let
Keath, George Kling, Martin
Kutz, Sara Elizabeth Leeking, Har-vey
Miller, Dorothy Myers, Eliza-beth
Ober, Herbert Pfautz, Bert
Rader, Beatrice Reidenbaugh, Bet-ty
Risser, Paul Ritz, Oliver Rose,
Carl Sammet, Catherine Sammet,
Alice Snyder, Ethel Stark, Leroy
Ulrich, Christine Underkoffer, Dor-othy
Walters, Betty Weaver, Ber-nice
Rettew; freshmen, Robert
Bachman, Jean Badorf, Robert
fiomberger, Phyllis . Breneman,
Charles Brown, Lillian Carpenter,
Ruth Carper, Warren Diffenderfer,
Richard Dull, Robert Ecenrode,
Raymond Eichel-
District Luther League
Worker's Conference
The Ladies Aid Society of St.
Paul'« Lutheran Chu*5h will bold
a pantry sale in the church base-ment
on Saturday, January 22.
Baked goods and vegetable soup
will be sold.
The Annual Workers Conference
of the Lancaster District Luther
League will be held on Monday
evening, January 24th, 1938 at 3
o'clock in Emmanuel Lutheran
Church, Pine and Walnut Sts.,
Lancaster.
There will be Conference groups
for the following Secretaries: —
Junior, Intermediate, Missionary,
Educational, Life Service, Pub-licity,
and Administration (For
Presidents).
All Leagues are urged to send
representatives for each group.
ich, Norma Good, Catherine Ham
mer, Pauline Hannley, Geraldine
Hollinger, Ellen Lane, Tom Lea-man,
Clarence Maharg, Julia
Marks, Julia .Moore, Carl Nagle,
Esther Ober, Marguerite Shaub
Mary Snavely, Richard Stark, Eu-gene
Steffy, James Whitcraft, Grace
Wolf, Eloise Yerger, Elwood Zug.
Dr. Harry E. Bender was re-elected
president of the board of
trustees of the Moravian church at
a meeting held on Tuesday even-ing.
Lloyd Hess, the new member
on the board, was elected vice-president.
The other officers re-elected
were as follows, Guy Bom-berger,
secretary; Paul Bomberger,
treasurer; William Zeller, financial
secretary; Victor Wagner, choir
director; Mrs. Kenneth Witmyer,
organist; Mrs. William Fasnacht,
assistant organist; Elmer Ham-mond,
Sexton.
The Rev. Byron K. Horne paid
tribute at the Sunday morning ser-vice
to Wilson M. Grube in view
of his 26 years of service as
trustee of the Moravian congrega-tion
and superintendent, of the
cemetery.
In the latter capacity Mr. Grube
helped in the selection of more
than $7,000 worth of graves in the
cemetery. The cemetery has been
enlarged several times since he
took charge. Frequently it was
necessary to shovel snow many
inches deep to find the location of
the plots.
The town's Christmas decorations
were so beautiful this year, that
we are sorry to have them taken
down, but we suppose it must be
done.
The measles spidemic has spread
to Rothsville. Thanks be to Lititz
says Rothsville—sarcastically.
Katie and Aaron are some of the
dear old patriarchs of Swartzville,
that is, if a woman can be called
a patriarch—same as a man, and
we know no good reason to the
contrary. Katie is a cook par ex-cellence—
head chef of the hard-working
Ladies Aid—and we were
very lucky to be permitted to
board at their home while teach-ing
school in that vicinity, years
ago.
Along about this time of year
sometimes earlier, we get a letter
from Katie saying, "Come and help
us to butcher next Tuesday. That
is the day that suits Jake Schlap-pig."
He is the semi-professional
butcher who works among the
neighbors. You should meet Jake
sometime; he is quite a character,
but more of Jake later.
Whenever possible we accept
Katie's invitation. As our car
stops beside the barn we see steam
issuing from the spring house and
know that the stage is all set for
the big event. Katie is wearing a
black "twilight" on her head and
an old brown coat and stout ga-loshes.
When the day is set to
butcher—be the weather cold, fog-gy
or rainy—they butcher, regard-less.
Katie has already worked
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Union Evangelistic Campaign To Start
Here On Sunday With Dr. Owen Preaching
Rev. John F. Owen, D. D.
Trap Co. Sales Meeting
To Be Held Later In Spring
Many Here Subscribe
To Paralysis Fund
ENTERTAIN AT DINNER
Mr. and Mrs. Elser Gerhart,
South Broad Street, entertained at
dinner, Saturday evening, in honor
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner of
Manheim. The guests were, Mr.
and Mrs. Turner, Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Moyer, Manheim, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Harnish and son,
Elvin, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy McCarty
and daughter, Alma, David Har-nish,
of Leola, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Wissler and daughter, Thelma, Mr.
Solicitations in Lititz for the
National Infantile Paralysis Fund
are meeting with splendid success
and the committee extends its
thanks to the public for the courte-ous
reception and generous atti-tude
toward the fund.
Nearly 100 percent of the per-sons
interviewed have purchased
tickets, which are for the paraly-sis
fund and not for a dance ov
ball. Every cent contributed is
appropriated for the fight against
the disease, as indicated on the
back of the tickets.
Besides the names of subscrib-ers
listed last week, the following
have also aided the fund: Mrs.
Mary Steiner, Arthur Evans, Ray-mond
Evans, Miss Lizzie Habeck-
The annual meeting of thé Sales
Representatives of the Animal Trap
Company of America, usually held
"in January, will be deferred until
later in Spring. . This meeting
brings together all Sales Repre-sentatives
of the Company for tho
discussion of plans for the year.
This company, manufacturers
and distributors of Animal Traps
shipped to every state of this coun-try,
"Canada, Alaska and through-out
the world, finds selling seasons
gradually changed due to laws en-acted
for the control and protec-tion
of fur-bearing animals. The
company is foremost in advocating
the passage and enforcement of
sensible laws which will perpetu-ate
and increase the fur crop. Not
so many years ago most seasons
for trapping opened early in the
Fall and often extended to Spring.
This brought to the market large
quantities of unprime and low
value pelts.
Today, many states do not per |
mit trapping until January 1. The
changes have altered the selling
seasons. This year, the Sales Rep-resentatives
for the Animal Trap
Company will defer their trip to
certain sections of the country un-til
the seasons for trapping are
over. The dealers and wholesalers
are then in position better to fore-cast
their needs.
Week of Prayer services
being held this week in
Lititz Churches as a pre-lude
to the Union Evan-gelistic
Campaign, to be-gin
on Sunday, are being
well attended, a fact whicii
augurs well for the suc-cess
of the coming series
of services.
At the meetings this
week, local ministers have
been addressing their own
congregations on subjects
leading up to the evan-gelistic
services. On Sun-day
evening, the Rev. John
F. Owen, of Columbus,
Ohio, will take up Hv
work and address a com-bined
audience nightly for
two weeks.
All of the campaign
services will be held in
the Moravian Fellowship Hall, at
7.30 on weekday evenings and at
7 on Sunday evenings. Circulars
announcing the services were d;s
tributed through the various co-operating
churches on Sunday and
an invitation to join in them was
extended to all. Dr. Owen is con-sidered
a foremost speaker and
his talks will be highly instructive
and inspirational.
A feature of the meetings will
be the singing of a great chorus
made up of members of the choirs
of local churches. The Ministers
Association of Lititz and Vicinity,
under whose auspices these ser-vices
are being held, again invites
all church singers to join this cho-rus
for the special evangelistic
services.
More Light
Discussed
By C. of C.
Comfort Station Also
Is Talked Over At
Meeting; Membership
Now Up To 95
Cold Weather Here;
Mercury Close to Zero
Temperatures of close to zero
in town and below zero in nearby
places were reported yesterday
as the first really cold wave of the
winter hit Lititz.
Ill town readings of 2, 3 and 4
degrees above zero were numer-ous
and the temperature rose only
a ^ittle during the day. In Penryn,
4 degrees below zero was reported.
The Sunshine Class . of E. C.
Church will hold a Chicken Pattie
Supper in the Church basement,
Saturday Jan. 22, 1938. Price 35c.
and Mrs. Tobias Stehman, Mr. and Ier- Tallman Brubaker, Mr. and Mrs.
SIX SERVE AS JURORS
READS PAPER ON SONGS
Six persons from Lititz and vi-cinity
served as jurors at Common
Pleas court at Lancaster this week.
They were Jacob E. Eshleman,
Lititz; Abner R. Grube, Rothsville;
Daniel B. Henry, Manheim; Jonas
S. Risser, Lititz R. 5; S. L. Strohm,
Lititz R. 3; Daniel G. Witmyer,
Lititz.
Mrs. Walter Hershey, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Herr and daughter, Vera,
of New Danville, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Harnish, Mr. and Mrs. Da-vid
Harnish, Nine Point, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Harnish, Miss Mary
Harnish. of Lampeter, Mylin and
Evelyn Harnish, Millersville, Miss
Frances Sechrist, East Petersburg,
Milton Esbenshade, of Strasburg,
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Douple, Mr.
ind Mrs. David Harnish and Ira
Yeagley, of Lititz.
•James R. Johnson. E. D. Fulweiler
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Keehn, Miss
Mary Huebener, Mr. and Mrs.
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Rotary Club Adds
Three New Members
New Lititz Fire Engine Is Streamlined
And Has A Nifty Cab For Drivers
are stream-
For home-slaughtered Meats. Sau-sage
and Pudding—go to LUTZ.
Country Pudding, 18c lb. Hamburg
Steak, 19c lb. Phone 9181 W.
We deliver. adv.
A young bride of town made ice
cream Sunday afternoon and a lit-tle
later decided to make chocolate
. syrtiB* tor it. $ §he looked through
every cook -book and recipe'book
, she,'had but ctfuldf find no direc-tions
for making the syrup. About; and Norway; Slavic, consisting of
Miss Dorothy S. Habecker, East
Main Street, had charge of the
Folk-song Travelogue presented by
the Musical Arts Society in the
Iris Club, Lancaster, last Wednes-day
evening.
Miss Habecker prepared and
read a paper on the origin and
Characteristics of Folk-music in
ihe following countries: Celtic,
consisting of Scotland, England,
Wales and Ireland; western Eu-rope.
consisting of Italy, France
and Spain; Germanic, consisting
of Austria, Germany, Switzerland
to give up, she told her' dilema to
her husband, who suggested she
look on the cocoa can. She did
and found it.
\
Bolhemia, Hungary and Russia, and
American. The musical program
consisted of vocal, violin and piano
numbers.
/
Each Week
The RECORD
Has a Guaranteed Circulation
of 1800 Locally Because
A The Record is bought on Subscription by ' that1 many-'
people living in Lititz and on the Lititz Rural Routes" Re-sides
the 1800 distributed to these local subscribers, full)'
-700 more go to others in this and other states.
The 'Relord gives a lot for its small subscription price
and small advei^ising rate.
And not the least of what it gives is a dependable
Buying Guide to every member of the family through the
advertising it carries.
Three new members were admit-ted
to the Lititz Rotary Club at its
meeting Tuesday evening in the
General Sutter Hotel. They are
Prof. James Stengel, Michael Ket-tering
and W. Clyde Hendricks.
The program for the meeting was
in the form of an old-fashioned
"mellerdrammer" entitled "The
Fate of Little NelJ," and wjis en-acted
Dr. Chas. A. Landis, Dr,
H. P,/'Minnich, B. G. Forrest, A. L.
Douple, T. T. Dussinger, John G.
Hershey and B. D. Fulweiler.
ON VISIT HERE
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Green, of
Washington, D.' C., and Mr. and
Mrs. Paul T. Quick, of Pocotello,
Idaho, are stopping at the General
Sutter Hotel. .
Mr. Green and Mr. Quick, mem-bers
of the U. S. Biological Survey,
Ji»ve just «completed-a tour of New
England and are studying the
manufacture of traps at the Animal
Trap Co.
—Have several desirable prop-erties
in Lititz at $4,000. Also have
some money to place on 1st mort-gages.
£. E. Habecker, Real Estate
Dealer, E. Main St. ad
Even fire engines
lined!
Take one glance at the new ei-gine
just delivered to the Lititz
Fire Company and you'll exclaim,
"What! Is that a fire Engine?"
Yes, it is a fire engine, and it is
as different from other engines as
Lititz is from other towns.
First of all, there is a cab on
the driver's seat, something very
modern in the line of fire engines,
and your first impression is that
the large engine is nothing more
than a truck.
The new Seagrave is standing
beside' its older sister in the fire
house and is just about as long
ahd wide as the other one. Its cab
makes it higher. The radiator is
sloped a bit toward the front and
the fenders are as round as tf»e
newest streamlined automobile.
At each front corner of the cab
are two small but powerful search-lights
and in the center of the
front of the cab is a small red
light. Thi3 light swings in the
form of a figure 8 to let all and
sundry know that the approaching
vehicle is a fire engine. A large
motor driven Siren is. mounted on
the left side of the cab, just below
the cowling, and at the same place
on the righit is a bell, th-e cord for
which, rubs into tlier gab*
The-windshield is divided in the
middle and comes to a point there.
Windshield wipers are on both
halves, separately controlled from
the inside. The steering wheel is
on the left side in this engine, and
there is room for about four per-sons
on the wide, red-leather seat.
Instruments for operating the ma-chine
and the pumper are mounted
inside the cab.
The words, "Lititz Fire Co."
adorn the engine and on each door
is a reproduction of the Springs
head. These were painted from
photographs taken in 1910 by
Phares Koser and were executed
by an 82-year-old artist. •
Below the driver's seat and on
the outside of the cab are the con-nections
tor the pumps along with
the guages and regulating levers.
Along the top of the engine in
back of the cab on the left side
are ,the large pieces of hose for j
connecting to fire hydrants and on!
the right side are ladders and j
hooks. The space Immediately be-1
hind the cab is fitted for carrying
firemen on a seat running across
the truck. The remainder of the
rear is divided into three length-wise
sections. The sections on
each side carry hose while the sec-tion
in the center provides a pas-sageway
to the seat and a stand-ing
place for other firemen. |
On the large rear step of thej
engine are extinguishers, lights1
and other,- firerfigliting tools. At
A discussion of the public com-fort
station which borough council
proposes to construct grew ani-mated
Tuesday night at the Janu-ary
meeting of the Lititz Chamber
of Commerce but concluded with-out
action on the part of that or-ganization.
Although sentiments opposing the
station were presented to tha
group, some of the members pres-ent
approved the plan with souni!
arguments. However, since there
was no knowledge of the plans for
the station, nor any of its cost and
upkeep, the Chamber had every
confidence in the councilmen to do
what is best for Lititz.
Discussion of brighter street
lights for those parts of town not
lighted by the standards occupied
a portion of the meeting. It was
suggested that the 400 candlepower
lights in the standards be redaced
to 300 and the lights on other
streets increased, a plan which
would keep the current consump-tion
at the same figure it now is.
More data will be collected on this
matter before action is taken.
Street-numbers on homes
were also discussed, with
instances of duplication
omission of numbers being cited.
The Chamber appointed a commit-tee,
consisting of Louis Huebener
and M. C. Demmy, to investigate
the matter with a view to having
all houses numbered properly and
all streets marked with name
plates.
Expenses of $131.31 were report-ed
by the committee which erected
the Christmas decorations on the
square. The committee also re-ported
$65 subscribed from mer-chants
and other interested per-sons
to pay for them. Solicitation
of the fund is not yet completed
and more will undoubtedly be turi
ed in. The same committee, H.
Wertsch and Roy S. Reidenba-chairmen,
Ben H. Weber, Carl
Workman and B. L. Sharp, was
continued in force to plan and
erect the decorations for next year.
Three new members, James H.
Breitigan, Krane Bros., and James
D. Stopani, were elected, bringing
the membership to i>5.
Funds Needed To Pay
For Christmas Decorations
To all merchants and to oth-ers
who have contributed to the
fund to pay for the Christmas
Decorations at the Square, the
Lititz Chamber of Commerce ex-tends
a hearty "Thank You."
Expenses of the decorations
were' $131 and so far $65 has
been contributed.
To others who will be ap-proached
by the committee for
donations, the Chamber extends
a hearty invitation to help de-fray
this expense. From many
sides praise was heard for the
decorations this year and it is
believed that everyone liked
them and was glad to hare
them. If you have not contrib-uted
anything for them, chip in
a little, to H. R. Wertach, Roy
S. Reidenbaugh or Ben H.
Weber.
SELLS LOCAL PROPERTIES
E. E. Habecker, real estate
the >top of each side of the rear are agent, reports the sale of the dou-two
move -searchlights.. ble two-story frame dwelling at
The engine arrived here late last 422 and 424 E. Main St., for Henry
week after several days' delay be- L. Shenk to Mrs. Mary Y. She"'
cause the freight car in which it and Miss Irene Shenk.
was riding broke down. The car He also sold for W. G. Keller th
was taken to Allentown for re- dwelling at 327 Front St. to Ear»
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