Lititz Record Express

              SPEND MONDAY IN LITCTZ SPRINGS PARK FOR GREATEST FOURTH CELEBRATION EVER HELD HERE
BURKHART'S
Town
T A t K ,
July the Foartii—Salesmanship
At Random
The new month has no charm
for us, except the Celebration—on
the Fifth and the Union Picnic. All
else is heat and sun and sweat, a
merrygoround of small swims in
the creeks and pools, boys at the
"ole swimmin' hole" in the clothes
of their nativity; tennis loses
some of its inner life, and follow-ers
of that medieval sport seem to
forget Ihe racquet and remain
home on cool porches, perhaps
catching drowsy phrases from
"Gone With The Wind" or "Of
Men and Mice".
The Fourth (pardon—the Fifth,
this year)—remember the day when
youth ruled the senses and that
busy day of days was one round of
water guns, ice cream, and fire-works.
Remember that first "two- !
for" we sported on the railroad1
tracks, how one of the fellows
grew slightly dizzy and tramped
carelessly on the society matron's
white shoe-tips? Oh, boy, what fun
we had then, lighting the candles
for a substantial wage and a pass
to the park. There is no memory !
but the past, no hope but the fu-ture.
What we did there is our j
secret, what our children do there |
will be our worry, and no regrets. \
The Great Illumination, the Fire- j
works (Niagara Falls, the Flag,
Washington and kindred subjects,
Maggie and Jiggs and later Pop-eye
and Donald Duck). The water-gun
fight with the gas house gang,
going home with wet shirt and
soiled trousers, (the first pair of
long ones). Remember?
Let this year's Celebration be a
happy and very hopeful'one; let's
think of the future . . . the now
inevitable BAND SHELL!
Clifford Rannels tells me that
his butchering days are over and
done. At present he is "holding
down" two jobs (Uncle Sam
doesn't know it), a hosiery sales-man
job and an office position in
a local establishment. "Cliff" is
one fellow who boasts that he has
found the golden egg of salesman-ship:
the customer says "no" but
after a few minutes sales-talk he
walks away with an order.
If you happen to pass the book
store on a Friday morning and no-tice
several people leaving the
store with long faces, you may
usually find the cause in the late
arrival of a certain weekly maga-zine
called LIFE. This magazine
'jrias become a mania, a chronic
longing, an institution, a habit.
Big Things Are Coming!
* * *
Fourth Celebration Monday,
and Union Picnic, July 15th
Vol. LX
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Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday, July 1, 1937 No. 43
Playground
For Children
Opens In Park
WPA Assists Local
Committee By Placing
Supervisors and Equip-ment
on Grounds; Local
Girl to Aid Work
Miss Roth Te- aered
Shower on Saturday
A supervised playground for all
children of town is getting under-way
this week in the Springs Park
and will open officially on Tuesday.
The playground is again sponsored
by the Community Playground
Committee of town and this year is
receiving full help from the WPA
of Lancaster.
Miss Mary Houck and Victor
Snyder, both playground workers,
have been sent here by the WPA
and are in the park getting the
lay of the land and planning their
activities. The^ have already
started games and will teach hand-work
when the playground gets
operating on a fixed schedule. All
work will be done in the mornings.
Beginning July 12, Miss Arlene
Demmy, of town, will assist Miss
Houck with the girls' a ctivities.
Equipment necessary for a play-ground
will be put in the park by
the WPA and a most successful
term is expected. Parents are
urged to send their children to the
park to take part in the supervised
playground activities.
Miss Dorothy Roth was tendered
a surprise shower Saturday even-ing
at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Linn Roth, West
Lincoln Ave. A host of her friends
attended and she received many
beautiful gifts.
Miss Roth will become the bride
of Curtis E. Belfore in the near
future.
Tax Report
For '36 Given
To Council
$11,178 of Duplicate of
$12,765 is Collected;
Leroy Bare Added to
Water Department
Force
Sportsmen Defeat
S. R. C. in Burro Ball
The report of the tax collector
on the 1936 tax djj^|icate and the
addition of another man to the
force of the water department
were features -of a busy meeting
of borough council Tuesday night
in the council chamber. All mem-bers
of council, with the exception
of Councilman Krick, and all of-ficials
of the borough attended.
T. S. Grosh, the collector, made
his yearly report to the town rul-ers
and reported collecting $11,-
178.69 of the duplicate of $12,765.26
for 1936. He was granted exoner-ations
of $366 and the tax out-standing
is property tax $612,57
(Continued on page five)
Visiting out-of-town friends re-cently,
we had our lunch served
in the hostess lovely back yard
und«r an apple tree. Other friends
came in to join us—friends whom
I had not seen for years. There
were six women gathered around
the luncheon table. Our conversa-tion
ran along under these head-i
n g 8—our children—our husbands
—business—the New Deal—strikes
the Roosevelt-Dupont wedding
(will this one be a "take".)—the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor—
our newest jokes—the best short-ening
to use for pies—comparative
values of soap chips—our children
again—our weights—diets—clothes.
Is this a sample of women's
chatter?
On Sunday in the Lutheran
Church the choir sang the anthem
lustily, ending with two amens in
two-four time. A car passing in
the street answered with two
Berp-Berps also in two-four time.
My neighbor has not been sleep-ing
well. Is she in ill health? No,
her health is excellent. Did her
husband lose his job? Far from
it. Can it be her son has taken to
drink? You're wrong again, she
has no children. Her worry is no
trifling matter. It is this. Her
cat has taken to staying out at
night!
Woe is me! All night long she
keeps listening, listening for her
meowing Montgomery. Sometimes
as late as four o'clock, mind you,
her listening is rewarded and the
kitchen door is thrown wide for
prodigal's return. Peace reigns in
the lady's heart once more—she
sleeps—my lady sleeps.
The hard-riding bunch represent-ing
the Lititz Sportsmens Associa-tion
defeated the team of ihe Sus-quehanna
Recreation Club, 7 to 5,
in the classic burro ball game held
on the Springs Park Diamond
Monday night. As was to be ex-pected,
the ball playing was the
smallest feature of the game and
the more than 700 spectators got
laugh after laugh from the antics
of the teams and their mounts.
Receipts of the game were over
$100 and the Park Improvement
Fund will be about $30 richer be-cause
of the generosity of the two
organizations in staging it. Some
painful bruises and muscles were
nursed by the players for several
days, but no serious injury was
reported.
MARRIED 25 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. E. Spenser Fass-nacht,
of Lancaster, will quietly
celebrate the 25th anniversary of
their marriage at their home at
that place on Sunday. They were
married here in 1912 by the Rev.
Henry E. Fasnacht, a brother of
the bride.
Marguerite Bard Bride
Of Maytown Teacher
Mecca for Thousands of People Here All Day Monday to Enjoy Fourth Celebration
383 Voters
Register
On First Day
More Clerks Promised
For Two Coming Days
To Speed Up Work;
Only 14 Percent Put
Names On List
A Message
To Merchants
Lititz people are reading the
RECORD in its new form and
style, and more than that, they
are talking about it.
Last week we reported that
774 families in Lititz and 1000
on the rural routes get and read
the RECORD. Besides these at
home, about 800 more in the
county and other places are sub-scribers.
Six more subscriptions have
been received since last week,
30 that this week 1780 families
in Lititz and its immediate vi-cinity
are geetting this news-paper.
Do you, Mr. Merchant, realize
w h a A h i s means to you? It
mean^that nearly every person
in this rich and prosperous ter-ritory
wants this newspaper
and reads it. And it also means
that this newspaper is the
cheapest, the best and the ONLY
advertising medium you need in
order to reach these people.
Miss Marguerite Bard, of Front
St., and Jacob R. Risser, Maytown,
were married Tuesday morning in
Linden Hall chapel, by the Rev.
Dr. F. W. Stengel, headmaster of
the school. The ceremony was
performed in the presence of the
immediate families.
Miss Bard, daughter of Mrs.
Fanny Bard, wore a white organdy
gown in redingote style over taf-feta
with a lace collar of rasoline.
Her tailored maline turban had a
short veil. She carried a bouquet
of lilies of the valley and gar-denias.
Miss Bard was unattended and
was given in marriage by her un-cle,
Henry C. Brubaker, of Lancas-ter
R. D. 5.
A wedding breakfast was served
at the General Sutter Hotel follow-ing
the ceremony after which the
couple left on a short wedding
trip to the Pocono Mountains.
The bride is a graduate of Lin-den
Hall Seminary and Wilson
College, Chambersburg and taught
(Continued on Page 6)
Only a small percentage of vot-ers
of Lititz put their names on the
permanent voting list on Tuesday,
the first of three registration days:
fixed under the new state law. And
those few found that registering
was a task which required, in some
cases, almost an hour's time.
On the two coming registration
days, however, better service is
promised, for more registrars will
be provided and the hours for reg-istering
will be from 8 A. M. to 11
P. M.
Of the 2700 potential voters here,
only 383 registered, 163 in the sec-ond
ward and 220 in the first ward.
In the first ward 120 registered
Republican, 39 Democratic and 4
under other parties. In the second
ward 120 registered Republican, 39
Democratic, 1 Independent and 3
other parties.
William G. Eshleman and Mrs.
Bertha Pfautz were the first ward
registrars and Elam H. Risser and
Mrs. Viola Kruschinsky in the sec-ond
ward.
Howard Young Breaks
Ankle In Fall Here
Howard S. Young, well-known
radio and piano dealer, of town,
suffered a fracture of the left ankle
and bruises yesterday afternoon
when he fell from a ladder while
erecting a radio aerial at the Bow-man
home on Centre Street.
He was taken to St. Joseph's
Hospital, Lancaster, where the
fracture was reduced.
New Pastor
Is Elected
By Parish
Dr. G. B. Ammon, of
Lancaster, Named by
Three Churches of
Brickerville Charge;
Rothsville to Elect Later
Heavy Rain Here,
Lightning Hits Pole
Local People Back
From Southern Tour
A heavy rain and electrical storm
struck Lititz last evening about 5
o'clock, but little damage was re-ported.
The rain fell in torrents
A party of local people returned
on Sunday from a tour which took
them into eleven states and cov-ered
2447 miles. They are Mr. and
Mrs. E. Guy Brubaker and child-ren,
Wilma and Nelda, and Mr. and
Mrs. C. M. Brubaker.
They left here Saturday a week
ago and after covering 350 miles
stopped at the Natural Bridge for
the night. After that they took
their time and visited Virginia,
West Virginia, North and South
Music Supervisor
To Sing On Stage
Joseph W. Sheckard, supervisor
of music in 'the Lititz Schools, has
accepted a, position as leading
tenor with the summer Gilbert and
Sullivan company organized by the
- department of music of Wesley an
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Ken-1 University, Middletown, Conn,
tucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Maryland Rehersals start today and Mr.
. „ „ , . and Pennsylvania. They toured'-. k d , c t h e r e Monday night
ported. ram f a m o u s g »end-. ^ ^ The company will
for a time and continued several for New York i v
Dr. George B. Ammon, assistant
to Dr. A. L. Benner, pastor of
Grace Lutheran church, Lancaster,
has been elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of the
Rev. F. A. Weicksel in the Brick-erville
Lutheran Parish.
The Parish which consisted of
St. Paul's at Penryn; Emmanuel,
Brickerville; Zion, Akron and Je-rusalem
at Rothsville, has been
decreased to only three charges
and Rothsville will be independent.
The Rothsville congregation is
having supply ministers and hopes
to elect a pastor sometime during
the next two months.
Mr. Ammon will occupy the par-sonage
on West Orange street af-ter
remodeling is completed.
Union Picnic
Committees
Are Named
Industries Asked to
Observe Half-Holiday
Thursday, the 15th, for
Annual Event of Five
Local Churches in Park
Plans for the annual Union pic-nic,
to be held at the Springs Park
on Thursday, July 15, got under
way this week when the Union
Picnic Organization met and ap-pointed
nine committees to arrange
the event.
A new feature will be special
entertainment furnished by home
talent, and a committee consisting
of Eugene S. Deckert, M. C. Dem-my,
Dillon Putt and Frank Longe-necker
was appointed to arrange
it. Eight other committees wers
selected.
The organization decided to ask
the industries to declare a half-holiday
in order that the entire
membership of the five participat-ing
churches could attend in the
afternoon.
Alfred Douple, president of the
association presided. Ben Leaman
is secretary.
These committees were named:
Games, 9 years and older, Anna
May Pfautz, Charles Regennas, Jr.,
Margaret Kofroth, Quentin Keath,
Esther Zartman, Mrs. James Shaef-
(Continued on page five)
Miss Rader Tendered
Surprise Shower
. . . ed the highest peak in the Smokey Q Qn L o n g Isi a n ( i later this
h Z S J Z l s S u c k T p * l e in back fountains, Klingman's Dome, 6400 m o n t h a n d m a y t a k 6 a n extended
Lightning struck a p a e in back { a Qn L o o k . engagements there,
of the Keath Planing Mill Co., but ^ M o u n t a l n , a c e n e of t h e battle ^ ^ ^ « ^ by J u r y „,
of Chattanooga; Lincoln's . . ^ ^ „ m ..I o l a n t h e ",
Thousands Will Celebrate
Fourth In Springs Park,
Great Program Planned
Famous Allentown Band, Candle Display,
Hobby Show, Baby Parade, Trout Exhibit,
Two Ball Games and Fireworks Will Draw
Throng Here On Monday—Final Arrangements
Are Being Completed For Big Day
little trouble resulted. Light and
power current was cut off in town
for a short period.
"Pirates
CHANGES VACATION PLANS
Due to a change in his plans,
American Flag and Firefly and saw
Mammouth Cave and "Heritage",
Dr. H. J. Herr will be absent" from the home of Andrew Jackson,
his office on E. Main Street only They report a very pleasant and
ten days, instead of two weeks as enlightening trip,
announced last week. He will at- —
tend the American Osteopathic INSTALLS AIR-CONDITIONING
Association Convention at Chicago
and will be away from July 3 to 13. R- M. Spacht is installing the
newest type of air-conditioning in
saw
home, the "Old Kentucky Home," t ^ penzance", "Mikado". "Pina-famous
racing stables and horses, ^
including Man O'War, Crusader,
Make a purchase of 19c or more, the funeral home he opened this
Get a ticket for pool for 8c. past winter. The installation is in
Hamburg steak 19c. charge of the D. K. Möhler firm of
Lutz, Phone 9181W. We deliver. Lancaster. -
fore", ana others. Mr. Sheckard
starred in Gilbert and Sullivan
productions while a student at
Ithaca Conservatory of Music,
Ithaca, N. Y.
GETS POSITION IN CAMP
A surprise kitchen shower was
tendered Miss Margie Rader by
Miss Anna Mae Pfautz and Mrs.
Louis Huebener on Thursday night
at the Rader home on East Main
Street.
The guests were Miss Mary Hue-bener,
Mrs. R. A. Gross, Mr. and
Mrs. Alonzo Diller, William Diller,
Miriam Royer, Mrs. Elsie Becker,
Gene Becker, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie
Rader, Mrs. Sam. Seaber, Mr. -and
Mrs. Carl Stubbs, Mrs. Elizabeth
Stubbs, Gloria Stubbs, Mrs. Sally
Templeton, Mr. and Mrs. John
Martin, Katherine Martin, Mrs. Ida
Pennypacker, Mr. and Mrs. John
Shantz, Ida and Marion Shantz,
Geo. H. Pennypacker, Beatrice
Pennypacker, Mrs. Martin Hoff-man,
Mrs. Rufus Reist, Shirley
Leaman, Jerry Leaman, Miss Mary
Heiserman, Mrs. Emory Wagner,
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Rader, Miss
Pfautz and Mr. and Mrs. Huebener.
Miss Rader and Mr. Pennypacker
will be married in the near future.
Miss Catherine Rohrer, of R. D.
5, has been appointed dietician at
Camp Cannedion, a Y. W. C. A.
camp in York County and leaves
tomorrow to take up her work
there. She will be gone about six
weeks. The camp contains about
100 girls.
Thousands and thousands of people will be drawn to
Lititz on Monday for the greatest Fourth of July Cele-bration
ever held* at the Lititz Springs Park.
Music by the famous Allentown Band, entertainment,
the unique candle display and the fireworks have been
advertised far and wide and a crowd only exceeded by
that attending the Community Show is expected. The
Allentown Band is considered the finest musical organiza-tion
in the entire State.
The Park itself is in good shape
and, barring another flood like the
one two weks ago, will' be all
cleaned and ready for the crowds.
The floor of the new bandshell will
be ready, as will the new drinking
fountain, the first of the improve-ments
being sponsored this year.
New features this year will be a
hobby show, baby parade and ex-hibition
of trout. Each one is cer-tain
to attract a lot of attention:
The celebration will be ushered
in as usual by the ringing of
Church bells at 5 A. M. At 10:30,
on the Park diamond, the first ball
game will be played, the Lancaster
Good Ball Games
Here On Monday
Baseball will again be one of the
attractions of the Fourth of July
Celebration here it was decided
Monday night at the meeting of
the Lititz Springs Committee, when
permission was given to the White
Sox, of the Lancaster County
League, to play on the Park Dia-mond.
The morning game will be at
10.30 when the Sox will meet the
Moun'tville team. Sammy Hale, a
Mountville player, was once a
member of the Phila. Athletics.
The afternoon game will be with
the Gap team. Gap now stands
second in the league, while the
White Sox are 'third.
Admission to the game will be
25c and the diamond will be
reached by going through the park.
The park admission of 25c will al-so
be paid, but a ticket can be ob-tained
from the gatekeeper which
can be used to reenter the park
any time during the day.
(Continued on page four)
Trout For Park Stream
To Arrive This Morning
Rotary Club Installs
Officers at Meeting
'New officers of the Lititz Rotary
Club were installed at the weekly
meeting Tuesday night at the Gen-eral
Sutter Hotel. Paul H. Bom-berger
is president, Rev. J. Harold
Mumper, vice-president, T. T.
Dussinger, Secretary and Walter G. mited
Nooney, treasurer. Other members
of the board are K. E. Witmyer,
A. L. Douple and Rev. Byron K.
Home.
The secretary read a resume of
the year's activities and a past-president's
pin was presented to
Rev. Home, retiring president, by
Dr. F. W. Stengel.
Dr. Charles A. Landis, whose
score was exactly that of the se-cret
number of the blind bogey,
was declared the winner of the
golf tournament held Thursday at
the Overlook course. Dr. H. J. Herr
and Mr. Nooney, with scores of 79,
were tied for second.
A number of interested specta-tors
are expected to be at the Park
this morning at 11 o'clock when
the trout from the State Fish Hat-chery
are scheduled to arrive by
truck to be placed in the stream.
The fish will be placed in the
water' in separate "pens" for the
different species, as soon as they
arrive. Close to 200 rare specimens
are expected in the shipment, and
they are to be left in the stream
permanently, however, for over the
Fourth of July, they will be separ-atsd
so that visitors may see the
various species of trout. After the
Fourth, however, the screens will
be removed-and they will be per-to
intermingle and run the
length of the stream as they please.
CLASS HAS PICNIC
TO STUDT IN PITTSBURGH
H. Richard Musser, of St. Jos-eph's
Hospital, Reading, will leave
today for Pittsburgh at which
place he will study Psychiatric
Nursing. He will affiliate with St.
Francis Hospital and will be gone
three months.
John Firestone entertained the
Primary Boy's Class of which he
is the teacher at a picnic in Her-shey's
meadow on Thursday after-noon.
Those present were: Billy
Bingeman, Bobby Peiffei* Stanley
Sheneberger, Ray Forney Jr., Al-vin
Geib, Junior Badorf, Donald
Mohler, Mr. and Mrs. John Fire-stone.
TRAFFIC LINES REPAINTED
Borough workmen repainted the
white traffic and parking lines at
the square yesterday. The founda-tion
of the'fountain plot was also
repainted and now presents a
gleaming appearance.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. Harry J. Herr will be away
from his office on E. Main St. from
July 3 for ten days, resuming his
practice on Tuesday, July 13.
2t J i pd
"Murph" Spickler has turned
chicken fancier in a big way. He
put White Rock and Rhode Island
Red eggs under a White Leghorn
hen and got Barred Rock and
Brown Leghorn chicks. The secret
is his.
The other morning Bill Stauffer
had visions of an unusual treat.
He stopped at Charles Krick's gas
station and saw a sign "Coca Cola
6 gallons 95c'*. Just as he asked
for some he saw the word "Gas"
was included In the sign.
Tuesday morning B. M. Leaman
was hunting a slot in which to
mail a letter in the Farmers Bank.
When M. C. Demmy and Roy Rei-denbaugh
questioned him, he ad-mitted
he thought he was in the
post office.
What charming young blonde,
now a member of the Gretna Play-ers
company, played in "horse
operas" in Hollywood!
One of the good-looking male
members of the Gretna Players
company, has a beautifu singing
voice. Can you tell who it is?
Wihat little lady is the very pic-ture
of what the well-dressed
young boy should wear?
(Answers—Beth Marion, Ralph
W. Chambers and Margare* t><<-
field.)