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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e Z iititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, March 4, 1965 7 c e n ts a Copy; $3.00 p e l y e a r b y m a ll
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D. Robert Buch Buys
Famed Pretzel House
The Julius Sturgis Pretzel
House at 219 E. Main St.,
known as the oldest pretzel
bakery in the United States,
has been sold to D. Robert
Buch of the Buch Music
House in Lancaster. The Pret­zel
House dates from L861.
Buch, who lives at 1696
Billview Drive, Beverly Estates,
near Lancaster, bought the
establishment from Frank S.
Ford, who had purchased' it
from the Sturgis family at
public sale last October. It
was sold at that time to set­tle
the estate of Mrs. Annie
E. Surgis, who died last July
at the age of ninety.
Buch said he plans to com­pletely
restore the house in­side
and out and return it to
its original state. First, he
said, he plans to meet with
the Historical Society to get
their ideas on what should be
done. The house is in a sec­tion
of Lititz zoned “histori­cal.”
The restoration, he said,
will take a couple of years,
and they will start with the
front, painting it, and will
probably sand blast the stone
and point it up.
Buch said he plans to make
it a real tourist attraction,
Police Enforce
Dog Ordinance
The borough dog ordinance,
requiring owners to keep
their dogs under control at
all times and not let them
run loose, will be rigidly en­forced
from now on, Police
Chief George C. Hicks said
yesterday.
He Said police Will not give
any more warnings, but will
immediately pick up any dogs
running loose, try to locate
the owners, and if unsuccess
ful, will take them to the
Humane League Shelter, Lin­coln
Highway East, and prose­cute
the owners.
Chief Hicks Said the most
recent complaint was made
Tuesday against John Schrein­er,
540 W. Marion :St., Who
was charged with letting his
dog run loose. Police picked
up the animal and took it to
the Humane League Shelter.
and will probably open it by
May. It possibly may be open­ed
on special occasions for
busloads of tourists earlier
than that. Pretzel making will
be demonstrated, and there
will be a gift shop. Buch’s
wife, Shirley, will manage the
establishment.
Bretzels Made in 1810
The manufacture of “bret­zels,”
(to use an old-time
spelling,) in Lititz, dates back
to 1810. This product was
first mianufactured here by
John William' Rauch, a baker
and confectioner who was
born in Lititz in 1790. Before
this time bretzels made at
Rothsville were peddled from
that place in a basket through
town by a man on horseback,
nicknamed “Dutch Charlie.”
Henry Rauch, a son of John
William, manufactured bret­zels
at the bakery later oc­cupied
by W. H. Bollinger.
The man who popularized
the business and the bretzel
School Expansion Costs
May Push $2 Million
Day of Prayer Service
For Community Friday
The Community World Day
of Prayer 'Service will he held
in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m.
-Lahr of St. Paul’s Lutheran,
iMrs. John Royer of Lititz
Church of the Brethren, Mrs.
John L. Berrier and Mrs.
The speaker will be Mrs. Wal- Rhine Brown of the 'Church
lace E. Fisher, wife of the of God and Mrs. Chester Mar-
E. Sturgis.
HISTORIC Sturgis Pretzel House at 219 E. Main St., known as the oldest
pretzel bakery in the United States, has just been purchased by D. Robert Buch, of
He Lancaster. He plans to restore the house to its original condition, and to continue
pastor of Holy Trinity Luth­eran
Church, Lancaster.
Mrs. Fisher is a native of
Pittsburgh, and a graduate of
'Gettysburg College, She also
did a year of graduate work
¡at Carnegie Institute of Tech­nology.
Her activities center
in Holy Trinity Church and
extend into the community.
As a member of the hoard of
the Lancaster Mental Health
Association she is the chair-tin
of the Lititz Evangelical
United Brethren Church.
Mrs. James G. Shannon, wife
of the pastor of the host
church, will present the speak­er,
and Rev. Shannon will pro­nounce
the benediction. Spe­cial
music will be presented
by Albert Ebbert who will
sing a vocal solo. Mrs. War­ren
Mellinger 'will serve as
organist. Women from all the
local churches will participate
man of the speaker’s bureau I in the prayer period.
learned ^the trade at" Henry the demonstration of pretzel-making which has been drawing tourists to the house. ----
Rauch’s bakery, and suggested
methods of improvement which —, _ rrr"tmgifii0XU Rare butter Mementoes
interested Jacob Kramer, who
furnished some capital, and
began to manufacture bretzels
himself in an oven located in
a residence on E. Main St.
of this organization.
Women participating on the
program will be Mrs. Lester
His ¡product proved so popu­lar
that he soon enjoyed a
monopoly of the business,
which he carried on until his
death in 1897, with the excep­tion
of a brief period when
it was managed by Ed'win,
Walter and Nathaniel Sturgis,
and from 1885 to 1890 when
it was conducted by Thomas
H. Keller. In 1876 Sturgis had
the slogan, “The Only Genu­ine
Lititz Bretzels,” registered.
After his death the business
was conducted by his widow.
Mrs. Sarah Sturgis until 1904
when she sold out to her son,
Na-thamal .Sturgis, He was the
husband of the late Mrs. An­nie
Sturgis.
To Go To Historic Houëê
3 Fire Calls
To Morgan Co.
The Lititz Fire Company
Was called Monday to the Mor­gan
Paper Company for the
third time Within a week. The
other calls Were on Saturday
and Monday a week ago.
The most recent call, at 1:30
p.m. Monday, was to extinguish
a blaze in the same machine
where there was a fire last
Saturday. Chief Ammon Shel­ly
said he was told a piece of
paper dropped down on a light
bulb and ignited, and the fire
spread to the roof. A line
Was laid to the roof to Water
it down. The damage was
about $1,000, Chief Shelly
said. There was little or no
damage to the machine in Sat­urday’s
fire, he reported. It
was a different part of the
machine involved.
However, $1,500 damage was
caused when about 60 bales of
paper outside the plant caught
fire last Week.
The Fire Company also an­swered
a call to Beck’s ¡Serv­ice
Station, Front and Cedar
•Sts., at 10:30 p.m. Monday,
;when the oil burner ignited.
There was no damage, Chief
Shelly said.
The fire department will
draw up specifications for a
new fire truck to replace a
1952 utility and water truck,
Chief Shelly said.
The company will bold its
annual ham and egg ¡break­fast
April 10, and its annual
Horse Show August 1.
School Menu
Monday
Chili, saltines, cheese sand­wich,
applesauce.
Tuesday
Hot pork sandwich, corn,
relish cup, popsicle.
Wednesday
Grilled hamburg, beef rice
soup, lettuce wedge, peaches.
Thursday
Oven fried chicken, mashed
potatoes, green beans, apple.
Friday 7
Macaroni & cheese or ham-burg
& macaroni casserole,
peas cS; carrots, fruit cup.
Child Hurt In
Two-car Crash
A two-year-old boy Was
slightly hurt in a two-car ac­cident
on a rural road just
west of Lititz at 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
¡State Police ¡said Cars driv­en
by Mrs. Mary Rose O’Shea,
twenty-five, ¡Manheim R2, and
Mrs. Rebecca Grutoe, fifty-eight,
Lititz R3, 'collided, caus­ing
about $100 damage. Mrs.
O’Shea’s son, Timothy Patrick,
was treated by a Lititz physi­cian
for minor head injuries,
police said.
A hitherto unrecorded oc­casion
in the life of General
John A. Sutter recently came
to light, when 'a set of nine
bound volumes of Harper’s
New Monthly Magazine of the
year 18S5 which once belonged
to Sutter, were made ready to
present to the Lititz Histori­cal
Foundation. The books
are being presented by
Herbert Clausen,
Between the jges of one
of the volumes — which in
themselves are a practically
priceless find — is a program
for a reunion of Californians,
(“Associated Pioneers of the
Territorial Days of California,”
held in the Ocean Hotel at
Long Branch, N.J., on Sep­tember
8, 1877. The Associa­tion
had headquarters in NeW
York City. The occasion mark­ed
the 27th admission of Cali­fornia
into the union, anid
took place three years before
Sutter’s death.
Sutter was guest of honor
as a Pioneer of 1838, and
the address of welcome to him
Was made by the Hon. R. H.
MoKune, Mayor of Scranton,
Pa. Of interest to today’s TV
Jr., in honor of General Sut­ter.
The nine volumes of Har­per’s
hre in excellent condi­tion
and were apparently
brought by Sutter from Cali­fornia
after his home burned
down there in 1865. lit is
probably safe to assume that
the magazines were rescued
from the fire — among the
few possessions which es­caped
the flames. He came to
Lititz in 1871. The books were
later presented to Dr. John
H. Sbcnk who in turn gave
them to Elmer V. Clausen,
now eighty-five years old. He
has given them to his son,
Herbert, who in turn again.
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Woman Hurt
In Fall From
2nd Story
Mrs. Joan Clair, twenty-three,
354 E. Main St., was
seriously injured When she
western fans, is the fact th at! fell from a second story win-one
of the musical selections! dow of her home Monday af-
Although this service was
arranged by the Women’s De­partment
of the Warwick As­sociation
of ¡Churches, both
men and women are invited
to attend.
Two File Petitions
For Primary Election
Ruth Wetzel, Lititz R4, has
filed a petition for nomina­tion
on the Republican ticket
as tax collector for Warwick
township. ¡She formerly served
as both tax collector and jus­tice
of the pCace, but a ¡new
state ruling forbids one per­son
to fill both offices.
Edna M. Carvell, 237 Noble
St., Lititz, has filed a petition
for nomination on the Demo
cratic ticket for inspector of
elections in the Second Ward
was “Bonanza March.” The
program notes the fact that
a complimentary Hop (dance)
would be given that night by
Charles and Warren Leland,
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ternoon. She was taken to the
Lancaster General Hospital
where she was admitted to the
intensive care unit.
According to members of
her family, Mrs. Clair was
found unconscious on the con­crete
pavement in front of
the house between 3 and 4
p.m., with her four-year-old:
son sobbing -beside her, so!
that no one ¡knew just what urday, March 6 from
time the accident had hap­pened.
They said she regained
consciousness Tuesday morn­ing,
and told them she Was
GIRL SCOUT EXHIBIT: Kay Shelly, Lititz R2,
(left) and Nancy Bear, Lititz Rl, both members of
Junior Girl Scout Troop 250, Brickerville, are shown
with the miniature campsite which their troop will
enter in the Rolling Hills Neighborhood Round-Up to
be held Saturday in the Warwick High School. The
troop leaders are Mrs. Robert Shirk and Mrs. Donald
Steffy.
Announce Program For
Girl Scout Round-Up
The program for the Roll­ing
¡Hills Girl 'Scout -Neighbor­hood
event to !be held on Sat-
1 pjm.
to 5 p.m., in 'the cafeteria of
the Warwick High School, has
been announced toy Mrs.
: George 'C. Hicks, general ch-air-preparing
to -clean the second ! man S'he is assisted toy Mrs.
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story window when her foot Max Hoffman and ¡Mrs. John
caught on something and she j ®aT„(Jhoer ^' af_f a.i r Will open a,t ,1 plunged out the window to
the concrete below. She is the
wife of W. Eugene Clair.
Mrs. Clair suffered from a
concussion, but no bones were
broken, according to X-rays
taken at the hospital, mem­bers
of her family said.
BUCKING TRAFFIC
Patricia A. Zereher, 125 E.
Lincoln Ave., Lititz, Was
charged on March 2 by Of­ficer
James Fritz before Jus­tice
of the Peace Paul F.
Diehm, with bucking traffic-on
N. Cedar St.
p.m. with 'the flag ceremony
planned and carried out toy
the four senior ¡girls Who have
been ‘chosen to go to the
Round-Up this summer. ¡They
include Joanne Eshelman, Jo-
Beth Long, Charlotte Houchin
and1 Brenda Weik.
The demonstrations Will toe
presented toy the following:
1:30 p.m. Brownie Troop 264,
Troop committee member,
Mrs. David -deWald; 1:50 pirn.
Brownie Troop 392, leader,
Mrs. Clair Zug; 2:10 '¡p.m.
Brownie Troop 256, ¡Mrs. ¡Clyde
Gehman, leader; 2:30 p.m.
Brownie Troop 316, Mrs. Rich-w
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A TOUCH OF NOSTALGIA: Here’s the way the
Lititz (Evangelical) United Brethren Church on North
Cedar Street looked in 1905, fourteen years after it
was built in 1891. (One can almost hear the traditional
little boy drawing his stick along the . ket fence!)
A large stone addition was constructed in 1933 at the
side and rear of the church as an educational building.
The spire and belfry were removed in 1944 when they
were damaged by lightning. Mrs. Mabel Light, 37 E.
Main Street, whose late husband, Rev. J. C. U. Light,
was pastor at the time of the construction, still has
a nail from the steeple. The Rev. Frank A. Nickel is
the present pastor. The picture is from the collection
of Mrs. Estella M. Hornberger, 227 S. Broad St,
Fire Company Auxiliary
Starts Membership Drive
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Lititz Fire Company will be­gin
the 1965 membership
drive on March 5.
The Auxiliary through vari­ous
fund -raising projects
helps to support the Fire
Company. The meetings are
held the first Thursday of
every month at 7:30 p.m. in
the Fire Hall. Formerly the
ladies of the Auxiliary con­ducted
a door-to-door mem­bership
drive but this year a
new procedure will be tried.
Membership posts will be at
the ¡Farmers National Bank
and the Conestoga Bank from
11 'a.m. to 1- p.m. on Friday,
March 5, also -at Harry’s Shoe
Repair Shop all day, and at
the Eire Hall from 11 a.m.
to 7:30 p.m. Those who are
not able to pay -dues on March
5 will be contacted at a later
date. All are urged to pay
their fifty cent dues on March
5.
ard Miller, leader; 2:50 p.m.
Junior ¡Troop, 261, IMrs. Rob­ert
Rihn, leader.
3:10 p.m. Junior ¡Troo-p 250,
Mrs. Robert ¡Shirk, leader;
3:30 p.m. Junior Troop 243,
Mrs. IIvan Raveguim, leader;
3:50 p.m. Cadette Troop 260,
Mrs. Jack Davis, leader; ¡Ca­dette
Troop 245, ¡Mrs. Robert
Bender, leader.
The following Troops are
entering exhibits: Brownie
288, leader, Mrs. Wesley Shad­er;
Brownie 252, Mrs. Robert
Gregory, leader; Junior Troops,
241, Mrs. Do n a ld Rannels,
leader; 248, ¡Mrs. Wayne
Schreiber, leader; 251, Mrs
Paul Paes, leader; 246, Mrs
Addison Gery, leader.
Cade'tte Patrol 250, (Mrs.
Robert ¡Shirk, leader; Cadette
Troops 260, Mrs. J-a'ck Davis,
leader; 247, ¡Mrs. William
S'haripless, leader; 258, Miss
Marth'a Gundrum, leader; Sen­ior
Troop, 262, Mrs. Richard
Yot-ter, leader.
¡Six winners will toe chosen
by the following judges: Mrs.
David .Young, -Mrs. Charles
York and Mrs. Willy dePer-rot.
Zoners Approve
TV Repair Shop
Two ¡members of the -Board
of Zoning Adjustment Tues­day
night approved a request
for a special exception to the
zoning code involving the es­tablishment
of a television re­pair
stoop. The third ¡board
member was opposed.
The request came from
James F. ‘Harbison, 232 Front
St., Who wishes to set -up the
repair shop in a garage at
311 E. 2nd Ave.
Board -members Barton Kent
and Wallace Hofferth, presi­dent,
approved the request
provided Harbison adheres to
the following condition : no
interference of nearby TV re­ception,
no excessive noise,
lights placed so as not to
cause glare, no advertising on
the premises, no truck traf­fic
in or out, no outside stor-
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In a massive try to meet
the ¡burgeoning educational
needs of the area, the War­wick
Union School district is
in the midst of what might
be close to a $2 million dollar
expansion program.
They have just completed
an addition to the high school
which cost $605,000, and are
planning a new seven-room
addition to the John Beck
elementary school which is ex­pected
to cost about $365,000.
Bids will be called for about
April 15. These two projects
come to $970,000.
A little further in the fu­ture
is the proposed 20-roo-m
elementary school at Kissel
Hill, for which ¡school officials
won’t yet make a guess, even
an “educated" one, at the cost.
Besides the 20 classrooms, it
will include a kitchen, dining
room, health and office suite,
all-purpose room which will
double as auditorium anid gym­nasium,
a library, and a spe­cial
room for county teachers,
such as the county psycholo­gist.
-Bids Will be asked in
June, and the target date for
completion is August, 1966.
Judging on the costs of the
-high school and Beck school
additions, the Kissel Hill
school could conceivably ¡cost
$750,000 more or less. Pre­liminary
drawings have been
made by Frederick R. Shenk
and Lee V. Seibert, architects,
Old Mill Road, Wyoimissing,
Pa.
There are also indications
that property -will be pur­chased
in the Sutter Village
area for future expansion in
that direction, when and if
needed.
Demmy To Run
For Councilman
M. C. Demmy, 419 S. Cedar
St., will run for nomination
on the Republican ticket for
reelection as a member of
borough council, it was learned
yesterday. He represents the
Third Ward In Lititz .Bor­ough
Council, to which he was
appointed in 1961 to fill a
vacancy.
Other Republicans who ¡are
expected to file petitions for
nomination from the Third
Ward include Lloyd Smith,
311 S. Broad St., for inspector
of elections, and John W
Witmyer, 317 |S. Cedar St.
for judge of elections.
TO START CONSTRUCTION
J. D. Eekm-an, contractor.,
expects to start actual con­struction
of North Broad
Street about March 15, Bor
ough Manager George D
Steedle said yesterday.
Political Shenanigans
Thicken “Plot” Of Show
Osteopathic Guild
To Meet Tuesday
The Lititz Guild ¡to the Lan­caster
Osteopathic ¡Hospital
will meet Tuesday, ¡March 9
at 7:30 p.m. at ¡the ‘home of
Mrs. Bessie Keller, 112 Front
St. with Mrs. Charlotte At­kinson
as do-hostess.
Final plans will be made
for the food sale to be held
at ¡Stauffer’s Market, -Kissel
Hill, (Saturday, March 13,
starting at 9 a.m.
The Peace Corps, Poverty
Corps, Revenue Agents, and
most of Washington- D.'C.’s
greatest minds find their equal
when they meet up with
“Granny” Shiasher and her
Kissel Hillbilly clan in Aim-hues’
6th annual musical show,
“Kissel Hillbillies,” scheduled
for Friday and Saturday, Ap­ril
2 and 3 on the Warwick
High School stage. ,
The show features singing,
dancing, and real hillbilly di­alogue
with a Lititz area
flavor.
“Reginald Rainpants,” played
by Bob Hess, finds himself
pursued toy beautiful moun­tain
gals. While “Gran-ny”
Smasher (Joan Darlington) is
helping her daughter “Salina”
(June Slmith) trap him in
matrimony, her son “Adam”
(Ralph Smith) is plotting the
building of a new “still” by
the ¡government’s Poverty
Corps.
Intrigue and comedy supply
all the ingredients to make
this a fast moving, action-packed,
musical comedy.
Max Hoffman, ¡show chair­man,
points out that early
ticket sales are the highest
ON DEAN’S LIST
Robert B. Donmoyer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Don-moyer,
Lititz 'Rl, is on the
dean’s list at Susquehanna
University, ¡Selinsgrove. He is
a freshman liberal arts major.
yet for any Amtou-c show and
urges those wanting tickets
-to obtain them as soon as
possible. Tickets are available
at McElroy’s and Glassmyer’s
or may be purchased from
Amtouc or A BCD members.
Community
Calendar
Mar. 4, 6:30 PM. — Radio
Club, Recreation Center.
7:30 P.M.—¡Fire Company
Auxiliary, Fire House.
Mar. 6, 9:30 A.M. — Girl Scout
Display, Warwick H. S.
Cafeteria.
1:30 P.M. — Farm Wom­en
Association, Recreation
'Center.
8:00 P.M. — Rotary Trave­logue
Film, H.S. Auditori­um.
Mar. 7, 2:00 P.M. — AB'C
Show Rehearsal, . entire
cast, Recreation Center.
Mar. 8, 7:30 ¡P.IM. — Odd Fel­lows
Lodge, I.O.O.F. Hall.
8:00 P.M. — Senior Board,
Recreation 'Center.
Mar. 9, 9:30 AM. — Recrea­tion
Holiday for Women,
Recreation Center.
6:00 P.M. — Rotary Club,
Recreation Center.
7:00 P.M. — Women’s Vol­leyball,
Elementary School
Gym.
Mar. 11, 6:30 P.M. — Radio
Club, Recreation Center.