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TAIL IK Fifty Tears - Korellst's Death -
The Eighties saw many Improve-ments
in this community. Perhaps
the proverbial cold winters of
those years fostered communal
- thought and co-operation. At any
rate, Lititz "went to town". Derr
and Zook brought out the first
number of the Sunbeam (later the
Express). The Lititz and Roths-
Yille turnpike was built; a few
churches were constructed- And on
April 24, 1888, Lititz was incorpo-rated
as a Borough, with Mr.
Johnson Miller as the Burgess.
(Incidentally, Mr. Miller would be
a good subj&t for biography.)
"Johnson Miller, First Burgess of
Lititz". That's how it happened,
and this year we wish to celebrate
the event, and the results of that
action of 1888. Without our old
newspapers, we would be lost. For
only in them may we see what
happened since 1888. |
In celebrating events of this
sort, people have always resorted
to the pageant, and with good rea-son.
After all, the events of fifty
years can't be snared Into a three-act
play, or into a long windy
speech. Pageantry is a means by
which we can present' history "In
a row", one important happening
after another. And now there is
so little time, and so much to do.
Celebrations should be preambled
by much preparation. It seems to
1 me, the idea should . have been
presented last year, so that the
town would have time to prepare.
As it is, the pageant remains, and
I wish it luck.
American author Thomas Wolfe
died last week, and I lost my favo-rite
novelist. I don't suppose many
of you have read Wolfe; he was
only 37 when he died. He had only,
begun, in fact, having had pub-;
lished only two novels and several
short stories. His third novel
was in long preparation, and I|
hope to see It published soon. But
there was still so much good la
the iman, good realistic writing, as
American as the Constitution. The
newspaper accounts describe Wolfe
as a man "six feet seven inches
tall, who filled his ledgers while
standing, leaning on the top of a
refrigerator." That was Wolfe,
big, generous, and full of the Joy
of lie. Like others, he wanted to
go to Paris or Oxford to write,
then discovered that the place to
write was anywhere, "so long as
the heart, the power, the faith, the
desperation, the bitter and unen-durable
necessity, and the naked
courage, were there Inside him all
the time." Wolfe himself was. his
herb, Eugene Gant, and his own
life la plainly revealed in his two
novels, "¡Look Homeward, Angel"
and "Of Time and the River."
Read them some day, and discover
a great man, who died very much
too soon.
The' Czechs are strong-minded
people. They don't need the aid of
the Peaceful Sisters, France and
Britain. The Czech government
knows its people, and their minds.
Whether Adolf Hitler invades
Czechoslovakia or not, these peo
pie will not aid in a careless plan
for peace, which France and Bri-tain
are offering. And I don't
blame them. America would do
the same. Suppose the Italian
population of New York State
would wish to become a part of
Fascist Italy. Would we allow a
plebiscite? Emphatically, no. We'd
tell them to go to Italy, and drop
the matter there. And if Musso-lini
wanted to invade America,
we'd let him try, despite the in-terference
of peaceful sisters. The
. American people will fight in de-fense
of themselvs, but I hope, for
the sake of all Americans, she
won't fight for someone on an-other
continent, with another
language.
May I urge you all to support
the local High School football
aeam this year. The squad are a
bunch of serious, fighting fellows,
and I'm sure they want all of you
to see them play during the com-ing
season. Despite a few losses,
via graduation, the team looks
quite promising, and I am sure,
that, with the old zip and your
booster yells, L. H. S. will ring up
plenty of victories.
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Vol. LXI Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, September 22, 1938 No. 3
C. of C.
Elects 9
Directors
Christmas Decorations,
Fire Insurance Rates
Discussed At Annual
Meeting On Tuesday
Nine directors were elected for
the coming year by the Lititz
Chamber of Commerce at the an-nual
meeting on Tuesday night in
the fire house. ¡Seven of the men
are new, only two of the former
board being retained.
A nominating committee consist-ing
of Roy S. Reidenbaugh, Harry
W. Zimmerman and Raymond S.
Reedy was named by Elser Ger-hart,
the president. They pre-sented
the names of H. R. Wertsch,
A. L. Douple, Chas. K. Wolpert,
Elser Gerhart, M. C. Demmy,
Newton W. Buch, Paul A. Doster,
O. K. Bushong and E. D. Fulweiler
for directors. The report was ac-cepted
and the men were elected
by a ballot cast toy the secretary.
Within the next few days the
group will meet to elect officers.
Retiring directors are H. H. Diehm,
Chas. K. Keath, B- M. Leaman, L.
N. Moyer, Christ Nissley, Samiel
H. Nilss and R. M. Spacht.
The president reported that the
Chamber now has 83 paid member
and 11 who' failed to pay dues for
last year. On motion, the dues for
the coming year were fixed at $5,
the same figure as in effect this
past year. ^ •_./„,
The comriiittee which will han-dle
the Christmas decorations at
the square was asked to report at
the October meeting to outline its
plans for this year.
The Chamber voted to send let-ters
to the Lancaster Automoh''a
Club and to Roy Brownmillef, state
secretary of highways, about the
condition of the -part of the Lititz
Pike between the concrete lane«
South of town.
Fire insurance rates here were
discussed and a committee, con-sisting
of M. C. Demmy, B. M.
Leaman and S. H- Nuss, was auth-orized
to find out if underwriters
can not make a reduction here
because of the excellent protection
enjoyed by Lititz.
W. G. Eshleman was authorized"
to Investigate the possibilities of
sponsoring some form of enter-tainment
during the winter for
the benefit of the Chamber.
Pet Gray Squirrel of East Lemon St.,
Has Been Missing Since Sunday A. M.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Koehler of
East Lemon Street, are anxiously
awaiting the return of a pet gray
squirrel which wandered to their
home four weeks ago and had
been "living" with them from that
time up to Sunday morning.
When the Koehler's left their
home for Sunday School Sunday
morning the squirrel was in its
specially prepared box in the out-kitchen
of their home, but when
they returned Sunday morning the
pet was not there and has not
been seen or ¡heard from since.
Much anxiety is felt by the
neighborhood over the pet's where-abouts
and well-being. Fear is
expressed that it may have been
killed by a car. Mr. Koehler, how-ever,
is of the opinion that it
wandered into another section t>f
town and likely is being held
captive.
The squirrel has quite a long
histry. It was born in West
Chester, and fell out of a tree
when very young, being raised
through feeding with an eye-dropper.
The West Chester family then
moved to Lancaster bringing the
pet squirrel along. Unable to
care for it properly in a Lancaster
apartment it was given to A. A.
I Borough
I To Observe
50th Year
Ceremony To Take
Place On One Night
Of Annual Community
Show Next Month
A representative of Borough
Zecher to be liberated with other
squirrels in the local Park.
It didn't like its Park fellows
and wandered to the Koehler's
where it has since made its home.
The Koehler's had become quite
attached to it through some of its
cute antics.
Just last week Mr. Koehler took
it down to Dr. Richard Bender
when it had a 'heavy cold and this
ailment responded to treatment
immdiately.
It was fed regularly and was as C o u n c i l m e t w i t h t h e Lititz Corn-much
a pet about the Koehler m u n i t y S h o w Association, Monday
home as a dog or cat. It would e V e n i n g a n d a n n o u n c e d t h a t t he
crawl all over them in play and J ° T \ g 0 V ™ g b o d y . h»f d e c i d ed
would sit on their laps by the ° '»T
. h our„. When M. . rs. KT, oeTh,l er woul, d t„inv es0 1 of jt hae o L*it itz Show, Ojc. tober go i. nt.o t„h e garden the squirrel 20, 21 and 22, to commemorate the 5 0 t h a n n i v e r s a r y o f t h e i n c o r p o r a_
was always on her arm or should- t i o n o f t h e BorougK.
er for company.
The squirrel, answered, to the The full, nature. o.f the Cou, ncil ,s name of. Dopey"„ and if it was in program has not been disclosed, n o r h a g t h e e x a c t n i g h t b e e n s e t.
the backyard or immediate vicinity P r e l i m i n a r y p l a n s > however, call
would quickly respond to a call. f o r a p a r a d e j f o l i o w e d b y speaking
It was never penned up at the f r o m o n e 0f the stands,
Koehler's home and would come I n q u i r i e s a r e a l r e a d y c o m i n g i„
and go as it pleased, always being f o r c o n o e Ssion space for this year's
in its good soft bed Mr. Koehler Community Show, and local people
had made for it at bedtime. and organizations are asked to
It is greatly missed by the g e t in touch with Harry Gorton
Koehler's and grown-ups and early for choice spaces.
children in that vicinity and they , W e s t Lampeter is holding its
are hoping that wherever it is it annual show this week-end, and
"Tum Back the Hands
of Time" Saturday Night
Our yearly chance to retard time
in its flight comes on Saturday
night for Daylight Saving Time
will officially retire for this year
when we retire.
Set back your clocks and watches
then, for on Sunday everything—
churches, buses, trains,—will oper-ate
once again on Standard Time.
Fair Weather Today
After 5 Days of Rain
Lititz Fire Insurance Co.
Lauded For 50 Years of
Service At Banquet Here
First Deputy Insurance Commissioner of
State and National Association Official
Preise Steady and Conservative Growth at
Celebration Attended by 200 Agents and
Friends in Fellowship Hall on Saturday
will be treated kindly.
Boys' Day Marked
At Trinity on Sunday
ZECHER—METZGER
Miss Katherine Metzger, of Lan
caster, and Arthur A. Zecher, of
town, were married on Tuesday,
September 13, at Hagerstown, Md.,
by the Rev. Scott Wagner, D. D.,
pastor of the Reforihed Church
there. Following a wedding trip
through Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia and Western Pennsyl-vania,
they returned here and are
•now at home in the Harris Apart-ments
on East Main St.
Mr. Zecher, the local representa-tive
of the Lancaster Intelligen-cer,
is well-known here and is
active in the Lititz Sportsmens
Association and in civic enter-prises.
ZINK—MELLINGER
Wr. and Mrs. L. J. Mellinger, of
East Front Street, announce the
marriage of their daughter, Mary
Elizabeth, to John Zink, son of
George Zink, of Mt. Joy, at Mont-gomery,
Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 13.
On Sunday, the young men of
Trinity E. C- Church will be in
charge of the entire day's services.
Several fine solo selections and
group numbers will be featured
on the morning and evening pro-grams,
including vocal and cornet
solos by Dillon Putt and William
Hornberger, several choral num-bers,
and a clarinet duet by Fred
Behmer and Alfred Keller.
Henry Heydt, of the Lancaster
School of the Bible, will be the
principal speaker during the morn-ing
service, and the additional
speakers' names are being kept
secret until Sunday. The leaders
ior the day will be Willard Adams,
Harvey Artz, and Alfred Keller.
The young men of the church
extend a cordial invitation to all
visitors and members to attend
the day's services, and take a part
in the worslhip.
Community Nurse
Reports 194 Visits
Tendered Surprise
On 14th Birthday
next week-end will be the Manheim
and Millersville Shows, with "New
Holland, Columbia and Ephrata
following on successive week-ends.
I The annual Lititz Show always
ends the County Community Show
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Moyer, of season.
56 Lincoln Avenue, entertained at '
a birthday surprise-party in-horitih ••••> 1
of their daughter Pauline, on her Jf Squirrels
14th birthday on Saturday evening. _
The guests included Gladys ' e s ^ e r * o n • • •
Hoover, Ruth Bender, Norma
Steely, Betty Hoffman, Vivian Fel- Don't think you are being mls-ker,
Pauline Harnley, Gladys and taken for a nut, but telephone to
Gloria Wike, Betty Lou Jones, a member of the Lititz Sportsmens
Betty McCreary, Rosine Keath, Association.
Lois Burkholder, Ivan Moyer, Mrs.
A. E. Burkholder, Bruce Burkhol-der,
of Lititz; Sarah Louise Hos-tetter,
of Lebanon; Katie and Sadie
Moyer, of Penryn; Mr. and Mrs,
B. W. Gonter and Roberta and
Jesse Gonter, of Manheim.
Prizes were won by Pauline
Hernly, Gloria Wike and Ruth
Bender. Refreshments were ser-'
ved. I
Tax Collector
Issues Statement
Officials of the association have
found that the population of the
squirrel colony in the Springs
Park is increasing rapidly—very
rapidly—and that the little fellows
are spreading over town. Some
people like them frisking around
their lawns and trees and even in
their homes, but others do not.
So if you are one who does not
' care for a squirrel companion,
i get in touch with a member of the
\ association who will come and
Five days of rain have thorough-ly
saturated and chilled Lititz as
well as the Eastern seaboard, but
fair weather is predicted for to-day.
Rain began faling on Saturday
morning and each day since has
been damp and chilly with rain
most of the time. The bad wea-ther
came in the front and wake of
a tropical disturbance which threa-tened
to hit Florida but veered off
to the North causing loss of life
and property damage in the Newi
England Coast States. Farmers
w*lcomed the rain. Most local
homes were foried to start furnace
fires to remove the chill and damp-ness.
Many Inspect
Photo Salon
Many local people have viewed
the prints of the Central Penna.
Photographic Salon, on display
this week, from 7 to 9.30 in the
evenings, in the basement of
Spacht's furniture store on East
Main St- „ ,There is. no admission
^charge and the prints will remain
here until Monday.
The Lititz Camera Club, under
whose auspices the prints are be-ing
shown, will hold a meeting
on Monday night. John W. Fritz,
of Lancaster, will talk on "Filters"
and motian pictures will be shown
by Chas. E. Krick and Dr. S. J.
Leicey, both of town.
CHILDREN WIN PRIZES
get the animal or animals,
don't trap or kill them.
Please
Prize winners in the label saving
contest at Hollinger's Plee-zing
Food Store on New Street, which
closed Monday, were as follows:
Wagon to Richard Walters; roller
skates to Lynford Owens, Phyllis
Deckert and Howard Cochran; pen
and pencil sets to Geraldine Car-penter,
Ruth Badorf, Patsy Stauf-fer,
Eugene Hornberger and Cyn-thia
Keener.
Miss Edna Miller, the Commua-iay
Nurse, reported 194 nursing
visits at the meeting of the Com-munity
Chest Board held oa
Thursday evening in the Hershey
and Gibbel office.
Six families were on relief ur-ing
the past month, four being re-tained
from the past month and
two new ones added.
Thirty-five dollars worth of free
service in the Lancaster General
was reported for the month, the
lowest for several years.
John Hershey, the ' president,
presided at the meeting.
ELSIE GETZ
ODD FELLOWS TO ELECT
The Lititz Lodge of Odd Fellows
will hold election of officers at
its meeting on Monday night and
will also practise dart baseball. A
good attendance of members Is
desired.
Miss Elsie Getz, 32, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Getz, of
Lebanon, died in that city on Tues-day
evening.
She is survived by a brother,
Earl, three sisters, Mrs. Henry
Shenk, of Brickerville, and Flor-ence
and Lillian, at home, and by
a number of relatives in this
section.
Services will be held at 1:30 Sat-urday
afternoon at Rollin's funeral1
c l o u d of Lititz
home, Lebanon, with interment in"
the Moravian cemetery here.
Raymond -S. Reedy, local Tax
Collector, issued a statement this m /ii i u , . , _ . .
week to correct the impression Clyde Hendricks Explains Growth
created by a news item which ap-peared
in the city paper last Sat- Of Carnations Before Lititz Rotary Club
urday. |
Mr. Reedy advises that he was
not a party to that news item and Production of a carnation in a
is collecting 1938 taxes only, greenhouse requires about two
which are due October 1.
Load People Surprised
At Cottage Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Morris McClovd,
Front Street, were tendered a sur-prise
by the following persons at
their cottage at Brownstown last
Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Graybill
Brian, Mr. and Mrs- Ralph Piatt,
Miss Gladys Dunn, of Lancaster;
years or more of work, W. Clyde
Hendricks, of Spruce Street, toli
j members of the Lititz Rotary Club
; Tuesday night in an address A i
his classification at the weekl/
; meeting of the group in the Gene-ral
Sutter Hotel.
Lancaster * County is known
throughout the East as the carna-aion
center he said in his talk,
because the soil here is limestone
and is very good for carnations.
Those flowers, along with chrys-Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Brian, Mr. and anthemums and snap-dragons re-
Mrs. Bailey and children, Glen and q u i r e a n a l k a l i n e so11 l i k e l l m e"
Mary, Mrs. Elsie drove, of Mt. Joy;
Mr. and Mrs. John Brian, of Eden,
Mr. and Mrs. C. Earl Brian, of
Manheim; Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Smith, Lester Haines, Mr. and
Mrs. David Brian, Miss Kathryn
Light, Miss Margaret Longeneck-er,
Richard, Paul and Luther Mc-
—Oyster Supper, Sat., Sept. 24,
Rothsville Lutheran Sunday School
Hall, 5 to 9. Auspices Ladies' Aid|
Society. Oysters in all styles,
Vegetable Soup, Hot Beef Sand-wiches,
etc. • adv
SHOOT TONIGHT, IF . .
stone, while hydrangeas, azaleas
and roses require an acid soil.
Soil, he continued, for a green-house
is prepared two years in
advance. The ground chosen is
sowed in grain, which grows and
is plowed under, and the follow-ing
year more grain is sown. Af-ter
that has grown, the ground
can be brought into the green-house.
It is then placed in benches
six inches deep and raised about
two feet off the ground- Tests
If the weather permits, a shoot have shown that raising the
will be held this evening at the benches allows a better clrcula-traps
back of the Springs Park tion of air, which helps rooc
by the Lititz Sportsmens Associa- growth.
tion. in the meantime, (Mr. Hendricks
declared, the young carnation
plants have been prepared. Carna-tions
are not propagated from
seed for they do not breed true
that way. Cuttings are taken
from old plants, are trimmed and
set in sand, which has been- treat-ed
with potassium permanganate
as a fertilizer, and,in four to five
weekd they develop roots. Then
the plants are moved into other
boxes, about 60 of them to a box,
where they are trimmed to insure
better growth. In the Spring, the
plants are set out in the open field
and again are cultivated. About
the middle of August, the planter
which by this time should be stur-dy
and healthy, are brought into
the greenhouse and put into
ground treated with fertilizer so
that the root growth will continue.
The plants, according to Mr.
Hendricks, are then ready to
flower, but much care must be
taken with temperature and mois-ture
in the greenhouse to insure
good results.
During nights, he said, the
temperature must be about 50 and
during dark winter days, the
temperature should be about 50 or
lower. If plants have' too much
heat on dark days they become
'Continued on page four)
Glowing tributes were paid to
the Lititz Agricultural Mutu .1
Fire Insurance Company and to J.
W. G. Hershey and Henry R. Gib-bel,
the two men who were more
responsible, perhaps, than any
others, in helping the company
grow to its present size and posi-tion,
at the 50th anniversary cele-bration
of the local firm in tha
Moravian Fellowship Hall on Sat-urday
afternoon. i
The tributes were from men who
came 'here especially to attend the
dinner and help in the celebration
of the company's Golden Anniver-sary.
They knew both Mr. Her-shey
and Mr. Gibbel and have
watched the company grow through
many of the past years.
Henry P. Cooper, of Indianapo-lis,
Ind., secretary of the National
Association of Mutual Insurance
Companies, of which organizaaion
Mr. Gibbel Was president at the
time of his death in 1927, lauded
the service and guidance rendered
to the company by Mr. Hershey
and Mr. Gibbel and spoke of the
standards Of IntcSgMty and hdftesty
set up by them for this and future
generations to carry on.
E. S. Joseph, first deputy insur-ance
commissioner of Pennsyl-vania,
told also of knowing and
dealing with Mr. Gibbel and Mr.
Hershey and of the work they per-formed
to make the company what
it now is, one of the ten largest
mutual fire insurance companies
in the state.
Despite the rain and bad weath-er,
more than 200 agents, their
wives, friend« and invited guests
came here for the banquet. Many
arrived early to pay a visit to the
company's offices at 13 East Main
Street and to talk with the officers
and directors.
As the guests ¿ntered the hall
for the banquet, each was greeted
at the door by the officers of the
company and H. W. Masters, its
special agSnt. At a table just in-side
the door, the guests received
registration Cards and lapel cards
bearing their names and addresses.
Many old friendships were re-newed
and new ones made as the
crowd awaited the call to the
dining hall.
At one O'clock tlhe banquet pro-per
began, with the speakers seat-ed
at the head table, the directors
of the company and their wives at
the first two tables in the hall..
An excellent' roast turkey dinner
was served by the women of the
Moravian church.
After the guests had reached
their places, Henry B. Gibbel, the
secretary of the company, called
upon Dr. H. K. Ober, of Elizabeth-town,
a director, for tihe invoca-tion.
As the dinner began, Mr. Mas-ters
and members of the office staff
of the company distributed gifts
to the agents and guests. Each
agent received a black leather
wallet upon which was stamped
the seal of the company in gold.
Others attending the banquet re-ceived
small metal scratchjpaper
holders, on the aop of which was
an enameled picture of an Amisli
family.
A trio consisting of Marguerite
M. Weidman, piano, Morris Baker,
violin, and Richard McCloud, flute,
all of town, played during the
dinner.
Thè eating concluded, Mr. Gibbel
introduced Henry H. Koser, of
Landisville, president of the com-pany,
who welcomed the agents
and guests and spoke of some of
the incidents which occurred dur-ing
his connection with the or-ganization.
B. Frank Kready, of Lancaster,
the solicitor of the company for
many years, spoke briefly about
his work with Mr. Gibbel and Mr.
Hershey and congratulated the
company on attaining 50 years of
service to the community and sur- /
rounding territory.
Mr. Gibbebl introduced the di-rectors
of the company, J. Bitzer
Johns, of Denver, vice-president;
J. M. Miller, of town, J. Frank
Denlinger, of Gap, Charles H.
Aument, of Quarryville, and Amos
N. Landis, of Lincoln. Also in-troduced
to the group were John
G. Hershey, of the firm of Hershey
and Gibbel, Mr. Masters, the spec-ial
agent, and Mrs. IAttv
and Mrs. Florence Gibbel.
The Rev. Byron K. Home, pas-tor
of the Lititz Moravian Con-gregation,
gave a very interesting
talk on the history of Lititz, ex-plaining
the religious background
and the mode of life here years
ago. A short sketch of Lititz,
written by Rev. Home, appeared
in the menus.
More of the early history of the
company was presented by Owen'
Hershey, the treasurer, and fol-lowing
that, Mr. CoCper was in-troduced.
"First of all", said Mr. Cooperf
"I want to congratulate you upon
this occasion. I also want to bring
to you the best wishes of the
National Association as well as
its congratulations. How few in-stitutions
span a half century!
Many die in infancy. Compara-tively
few go far beyond their
silver anniversary and many do
not reach that. Mr. Henry R.
Gibbel and Mr. J. W. G. Hershey
and those associated - with them
builded wisely. There are ample
reasons to support the belief that
Henry B. Gibbel and Owen Her-sey
will carry on as wisely as did '
their fathers.
"The progress of your company
has given it an enviable position of
leat^rship. Such leadership brings
responsibilities you cannot es-cape.
How important that yoa
depart not from the fundamentals
which have made your company in
particular and mutual insurance in
general the shining example of
unselfish endeavor! Herein lies a
golden opportunity to lead aright.
Many are forgetting the ways
the past. Many are adopting the
ways of their competitors. Let us
emulate their virtues. If we fol-
(Continued on page five)
W. C. T. U. TO MEET
The W. C. T. U. will have its
regular meeting at the home of
Mrs. J. C. H. Light, N. Cedar St.,
on Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—Make a purchase of 19c or more
and get a ticket for the pool for
8c; Beefsteak, 32c; Hamburger,
19c; Frankfurts, 25c; whole chuck
roast, 20c. LUTZ, Phone 9181-W.
We Deliver.
A. A. Zecher, of town, was mar-ried
last Tuesday but he isn't ac-customed
to it yet.
Yesterday he and his wife came
from Lancaster to Lititz on a bos.
He got off and walked away with-out
paying her fare.