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VOL. XL III LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 29,1920 NO.
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Mrs. Lavina Hacker, who is 87 years
old, is seriously ill.
Old paper is now bringing a cent a
pound. Used oil barrels are being
bought up a t $2.25 and $2.50 apiece.
Mrs. Rudy Carpenter, of North
Cedar street, had a stroke on Sunday
morning. She is showing no improve-ment.
Mr. and Mrs. George Zimmele are
occupying Dr. H. A. Cuppy's home.
Dr. Cuppy l e f t on an extended trip in
t h e west.
MTS. Ezra Habecker announces the
engagement of her daughter Mildred
M. Meiskey to Mr. A. G.' McCreery of
Arlington, Va.
The stores of town will be open on
Wednesday of next week and closed
all day Thursday on account of the
Retail Merchants' picnic at Mount
Gretna.
The Lease amusement features,
which were here several weks ago, are
a t Manheim t h i s week and will remain
until Saturday. It is drawing big
crowds.
Christ Arndt, living near town, and
driver on S. C. Hassler's bread route,
t r o d in a nail on Friday, which pene-t
r a t e d the foot deeply. He is unable
to work a t present.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Luth-eran
Church will hold an all-day
p a n t r y sale in the basement of the
church on Saturday, July 31. Pies,
cakes, custards, bean soup, etc.
Twenty-five years ago F r a n k Mc-
Grann of Lancaster bought a "Stanley
Steamer." It was the first car ever
seen in Lititz and reputed to be the
f i r s t car owned in Pennsylvania.
The Lititz Band will be t h e a t t r a c -
tion here Saturday evening. They
will not give another concert here
f r om t h a t time until September, being
booked with out-of-town engagements
every Saturday.
Drilling was started for a well on
Martin Moore's lot along the Lancas-t
e r and Lititz pike, just outside the
borough limits. Excavation for a
house will be s t a r t e d this week. The
house will be two stories and stuccoed.
F r a n k Masser's stable, adjacent to
t h e E. Kleiner cigar f a c t o r y on Front
s t r e e t , is being altered to a two-story
cigar f a c t o r y to connect with the pre-sent
factory. It will double the pres-ent
factory and more employees will
be needed.
Elmer C. Ritchie had his old star
bicycle out of doors f o r inspection. It
is one of those high-wheeled "bikes"
with a little wheel in f r o n t , t h a t was
in style over t h i r t y years ago. Mr.
Ritchie used to ride it. The machine
cost about a • hundred dollars. It is
t h e only one around here. With a lit-tle
repairing it could be put in condi-tion
f o r riding.
One local store is selling granulated
sugar at 23 cents a pound. A grad-ual
dro-p is expected, following the
break in the New York sugar market.
Unexpected large receipts are believ-ed
responsible for the fall in price.
Raw sugar has been coming to New
York from Porto Rico, Java, Japan,
t h e British West Indies, South Amer-ica
and the Philippines.
Bass fishing has been poor since the
opening of the season, t h e water being
too muddy. Last week was the first
time t h a t is was worth while going.
Louis Haines took t h e lead by pulling
five out at Millway. Rev. W. K.
Fleck had one, H a r r y Showers two
and Chauncey Sturgis two. The water
has s t a r t e d to clear up and it is be-lieved
t h a t the fishing will be better.
Attention is called to the special
underwear sale direct f r om the Mel-dor
K n i t t i n g Mill on Spruce street, at
t h i s place. There a r e slight imper-fections
but t h e price is so low t h a t it
looks as if they were almost giving
them away. See adv. on page 5. Mr.
H a r r y Gingrich reported a b i g lot sold
since the announcement appeared in
the "Record" last week. Call at his
office.
A Lititz business man dreamed that
he was going to die at three o'clock
t h e next day, seeing as true as life,
t h e funeral procession and all that
goes with the obsequise. It so worried
him t h a t the next day a t the set time,
conforming with the dream, he went
to a doctor's office. When the time
had passed and nothing happened, he
went home, much relieved. His wife
greeted him with, "Well, I see you are
still among the living." He says he
hopes-he will never have such a dream
Mysterious Aquatic
Animal in Lutz Pool
Caused Bathers to Jump and
Shout as it Came in Con-tact
With Them
Because bathers were alarmed at
Lutz's swimming pool by something
b i t i ng their legs the entire pool was
emptied on Tuesday to see what kind
of an aquatic animal it might be.
Bathers were all of the opinion that
it was something p r e t t y big by the
way it f e l t . Many thought it was the
escaped alligator while others sug-gested
it was a snapper turtle. Mr.
Lutz, the proprietor, tried to calm
their fears, but a f t e r seeing one per-son
a f t e r another jump suddenly and
do s t r a n g e antics while in the water
with exclamations of f r i g h t , decided
it must be something more than ima-gination.
He realized also that it
was hurting his business.
A close watch was kept as t h e water
was drained out and many bravely
stood by ready to give assistance.
Nothing was seen. Just a bucketful
more of water remained. Then it
was that Mr. Lutz saw the "myster-ious"
thing. A little sunfish, about
two and a half inches long, was the
joker: With its sharp fins it had
been scratching the bathers. This
l i t t l e fish is still alive, being placed in
a water trough at Mr. Lutz's home.
BERKS NATIVE DEAD
—Just received a carlord of water-melons.
Leaman & Leed. —adv.
Jonas R. Pott Passes Away in Lan-caster
Jonas R. Pott, one of the best-known
cattle dealers in Lancaster
county, died at his home, 441 North
Duke street, last Thursday, of sar-coma,
a f t e r an illness of several
months. _ Mr. Pott was a patient at
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
f o r some time and only last week re-turned
from St. Michael's Hospital,
Toronto, Canada, where he consulted
a specialist.
Mr.. Pott was born near Yellow
Hciuse, Berks county, on. Nov. 12, 1879.
He first entered in business a s a store-keeper
at Douglasville and later mov-ed
to E p h r a t a , where he established
the Pott department store. After suc-cessfully
conducting this establish-ment
for a number of years he went
to Lancaster and formed a partner-ship
with Aaron Hoober, which lasted
f o r three years, the firm name being
Hoober & Pott. A short time ago
this firm dissolved and Mr. Pott be-came
the local representative of H. R.
Kennedy, Ltd., of Toronto, Can.
Mr. Pott was a f a v o r i t e among the
c a t t l e men and enjoyed a large pat-ronage.
He was a member of the
Lancaster Lodge of Elks and also of
t h e Hamilton Club. He was affiliated
with the Reformed church. Besides
his widow he is survived by one broth-er,
John Hunter Pott, of Reading, and
two sisters, Margaret, wife of George
Ludwig, of Pottstown, and. Jennie,
wife of John Snyder, of Olean, N. Y.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon f r om his late home. Inter-ment
was made in the Bergstrasse
cemetery near Ephrata.
FIRE AT HOME
OF H. S. MEISKEY
F
Discovered in Nick of Time—Hole
Burned in Floor
F i r e was discovered a t the home of
H. S. Meiskey on South Broad street
a t 4 o'clock Monday morning, caused
by a leak in the gas pipe. A general
a l a rm was given but the hose carts
were headed off before they reached
t h e house, as the fire was quickly ex-tinguished
with two buckets of water.
Mr. Meiskey had been in the cellar at
9 o'clock Sunday evening and had lit
a match to t r y to discover where the
gas was leaking. It evidently s t a r t -
ed a small jet of gas to burn which he
did not see. It melted a bigger hole
in the metre, the flame becoming larg-er,
and the fire burned through the
floor of t h e f r o n t room.
The daughter, Miss Anna Meiskey,
smelled smoke and aroused the rest of
t h e family. Besides the floor p a r t of
the washboard was burned as was a
chair, and the room was badly dam-aged
by smoke. The loss will amount
to several hundred dollars.
A. E. Lane, of Clay, in Philadelphia
Hospital
A. E. Lane, prominent merchant at
Clay, and well known in Lancaster
county, is seriously ill in the Univer-s
i ty Hospital, Philadelphia. Mr. Lane
is suffering with heart and kidney
trouble and dropsy. Members of his
family were in Philadelphia on Sunday
to see him. From last reports he is
improving. He is a brother to Dr. C.
E. Lane and Samuel Lane of this
place.
Abandons Lititz Springs Con-demnation
FREIGHT STATION ON
WATER STREET
The Philadelphia and Reading rail-road
announced its abandonment of
t h e condemnation proceedings start-ed
against the Lititz Springs some
weeks ago in a letter received by B.
F r a n k Kready, Esq., council for the
congregation of the Moravian church,
t h e owners of the Spring Grounds.
The bond of the railroad company
showing cause for proceedings, was
not filed.
Last Thursday the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad closed a deal f o r the
purchase of a t r a c t of land f r om the
Hershey-Leaman Company on the
south side of the railroad on Water
s t r e e t , extending about 400 f e e t along
the railroad t r a c k west of that street
to the properties of B. F. Lutz and H.
C. Seldomridge. The f r o n t a g e ex-tends
to the Lititz creek.
This will be the site of the new
f r e i g h t s t a t i on and it is s t a t ed on good
a u t h o r i t y that a passenger depot will
also be built there, abandoning the
present one. Possession to the new
site will be given October 1.
The decision of the railroad to give
up its claim to the Spring Grounds
w;as announced in the Moravian
church Sunday morning.
Petitions had been ready to circu-late.
A move was being made to se-cure
the services df James M. Beck,
Esq., of New York, former assistant
U. S. District Attorney, and a t present
corporation lawyer, a man of national
and international reputation. Hon.
Beck has always shown a deep inter-est
in Moravian church affairs.
The "Record" fired the opening gun
t h a t caused not only members of the
Moravian church, but the entire town,
to vigorously protest it. Other news-papers
took up the issue and the rail-road
company became aware that it
had stirred up a hornet's nest.
The following is a copy of the let-t
e r received giving the first informa-tion
t h a t the Reading had decided to
drop the Spring Grounds project.
July. 23, 1920
B. Frank Kready, Esq.,
50 North Duke Street,
Lancaster, Pa.
Dear Mr. Kready:
Your letter of t h e 14th was duly
received and submitted to the
President. Mr. Dice now directs
me to advise you that arrange-ments
have been made to pur-chase
the ground needed for our
' new station facilities and that
t h e plan to locate these improve-ments
on ground of the Moravian
Congregation will be dropped.
You and your clients will recog-nize,
we are sure, t h a t the origi-nal
plans f o r the construction of
t h e new station on land of the
Moravian Congregation were de-veloped
in the belief t h a t such lo-cation
was s a t i s f a c t o r y to both of
your clients and the community
a t large. As both the Moravian
Congregation and the community
now appear to be dissatisfied with
t h e plans t h a t were worked out
in the effort to meet their wishes,
our Management is glad t h a t the
opportunity to buy the necessary
land will solve the problem in a
manner s a t i s f a c t o r y to all parties
interested.
Yours very truly,
W. F. Kinty
General Solicitor.
Recalls When
the Bergdolls
Were Poor
Lititz Man Used to Visit
Them in Philadelphia
The Bergdoll mess paraded in the
papers at frequent intervals caused
John Zohn, who has his home a t the
P a r k View Hotel, t o recall some inter-esting
incidents about that family.
Mr. Zohn spent his early days in Ger-mang
and remembers when Mrs. Berg-doll's
f a t h e r , whose Christian name
was Seppeg, conducted a livery stable
a t Heidelberg. They were considered
poor people. Mr. Zohn came to Phil-adelphia
fifty years ago and o f t e n vis-ited
the Bergdolls with a nephew of
Mrs. Bergdoll. At that time the
Bergdolls were not rich. The founder
of the Bergdoll millions came to
America with hardly ten cents in his
pocket. He started working as a
brewery driver. Later with a p a r t n er
named Psotha they started a small
brewery in t h a t part of Philadelphia
known as Brewerytown. That was
t h e foundation of Bergdoll millions.
At the time Mr. Zohn knew the Berg-dolls
the two notorious sons Grover
Cleveland and Erwin Bergdoll were
not born.
Mr. Zohn said Mrs. Bergdoll al-ways
kept a close watch of the purse
s t r i n g s and it was not likely t h a t she
supplied her son $150,000 in gold to be
buried in the mountains of West Vir-ginia.
She was always a shrewd
woman in money matters,
Mr. Zohn said he could see no differ-ence
in guilt between the Bergdolls
and those who have been aiding them.
Mr. Zohn has three sons who served
in t h e U. S. a r m y against Germany.
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NUMEROUS PERSONS CALLED TO 1HE
GREAT BEYOND
THIEF ENTERED HOME
Left Homer Bushong Without Single
Pair of Trousers
A thief entered the home of Homer
Bushong at Landisville last Friday
night while he and his family were
sleeping. The t h e f t was not discov-ered
until they arose in the morning
when Mr. Bushong found that there
was not a p a i r of trousers l e f t in the
house for him to wear. A neighbor
gave him a p a i r until he could go to a
store to make a purchase. The total
loss is about $245, including two new
suits bought only several days before,
one of the outfits having been the
p r o p e r t y of Edgar Butzer, of Roths-ville,
who was visiting there, three
pair of trousers, a gold watch, $70 in
money and many little things.
E n t r y to the house was made by
prying open a shutter in the dining
room. No clue has been discovered.
Mr. Bushong is station agent a t Lan-disville.
He is a son of Samuel Bush-ong
of Rome.
Social Event
On Tuesday evening a number of
members of the class of 1918 of Lititz
High School gathered a t the home of
Chandler Ruhl, i t being his 21st birth-day
anniversary. A fine luncheon
was served. Chandler received a
number of useful g i f t s . Those pre-sent
were Ruth Gundrum, Grace Stur-gis,
Thalia Hershey, Miriam Russell,
of Lititz, Mae Haverstick, Dorothy
Long, of Neffsville, Herbert Huber,
E a r l Brian, Morris Trimmer, Paul
Leaman, Leon Keath, Wiliam Ringer,
I r a Zartman, Miles Fasnacht, Albert
Pierson and Chandler Ruhl of Lititz.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Strohm enter-tained
at a barbacued dinner a t their
home 113 Lemon street, t h e following
guests: Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Weid-man,
Mrs. Mary Strohm, Mr. Henry
Keller, LeRoy Pfautz.
Henry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benja-min
Lutz, entertained fifteen of his
boy f r i e n d s l a s t F r i d a y in honor of his
eighth birthday. A f e a t u r e of the
many good things to eat was a birth-day
cake with eight lighted candles.
The a f f a i r ended by Master Lutz tak-ing
the boys to his f a t h e r ' s swimming
pool f o r a swim a s his guests.
The Zem Zems Were Here
Three thousand Knights of Malta,
their families and friends, of Reading,
were here on a picnic yesterday, com-ing
in twenty-four coaches made up in
two sections. There were two hun-dred
automobiles on the grounds. The
L i t i t z Band furnished the music.
Coffee, ice cream, pretzels, peanuts
and novelties were distributed among
the .members free.
Fremont Hollinger and Albert Goch-enour
cooked the coffee, amounting to
twenty-one barrels, and requiring to
make it 109 pounds of coffee, 30
pounds of sugar and 64 quarts of
cream. Five barrels of pretzels were
also distributed, and peanuts by the
bushel.
Most of the men wore a blue fez
cap, while the women and children
had paper caps. It was a lively, hap-py
crowd. Many townpeople were
out a t t h e p a r k to see t h e fun.
Mrs. David M. Graybill
Mrs. Anna Erb Graybill, wife of
David M. Graybill, died very suddenly
and unexpectedly a t her home in L i t i tz
on Monday morning, aged 48 years, 9
months and 18 days. She and her
husband had gone away on Sunday
and Monday morning she was up and
about as usual attending to her house-hold
duties, while her husband, who is
president of the Lititz Spring Na-tional
Bank, went about his affairs.
About 9.30 o'clock, while conversing
with a neighbor she complained of
feeling drowsy and upon entering the
house a p p a r e n t l y went to the sofa in
her s i t t i ng room. About an hour l a t er
her husband upon a r r i v i n g at the home
found her lying on the floor in f r o nt
of the sofa, and he saw her draw a
f ew more breaths as she expired. The
husband had telephoned to t h e house,
but received no response and surmised
t h a t something was wrong.
Death was caused by apoplexy ac-cording
to the physician who was sum-moned.
She was the only daughter
of the late Henry R. and ^Elizabeth
Erb, both deceased. She was born
and raised at Pine Hill, Warwick
township, and for the last fifteen
years has been a resident of Lititz.
She was a graduate of Linden Hall
Seminary,, Lititz, and an active mem-ber
of the Alumnae Association. Mrs.
Graybill was a fine type of woman.
Her courteous a:nd kindly manner to
all without distinction, her affection
f o r little children, and her regard for
old people are things that have left
their impression. (Mrs. Graybill had
planned to accompany her husband on
a long western t r i p next month.
The funeral will be held f r om her
l a t e home at 2 o'clock this Thursday
afternoon followed by services in the
Middle Creek meeting house. Inter-ment
will be made in the adjoining
cemetery. Rev. D. Martin Schweitz-er
of E p h r a t a and Elder Cyrus Gibble
will officiate.
Back From Germany
Lititz Cigarmaker Was on
Ocean Liner as Interpreter
Mrs. Harvey Shoemaker Committed
Suicide by Hanging
Mrs. Harvey B. Shoemaker, 38
years old, of Lititz, a patient in the
insane ward of the Lancaster County
Hospital, committed suicide in her
room at the institution by hanging
herself with a bed sheet to a steam
pipe. Her body was discovered about
7 o'clock last Thursday by a hospital
a t t e n d a n t .
Mrs. Shoemaker was taken to the
General Hospital in February, was
home for several weeks since, but it
was necessary for her to r e t u r n again.
She was at the county hospital since
J u l y 3. She was born at Rothsville,
living in Lititz about a year. Mrs.
Shoemaker leaves her mother, Mrs.
Henry Madlem, Rothsville; her hus-band,
of Lititz; f o u r children, Elwood,
Emory, Alma and Morgan. She also
leaves two brothers and four sisters,
as follows: John Madlem, Lititz;
Henry Madlem, Rothsville; Mrs. John
Ravegum, E p h r a t a ; Mrs. Martin Zwal-ley,
Brownstown; Mrs. H a r r y Neider-myer,
Brownstown; Mrs. Amanda
Griffiin, Lititz.
P r i v a t e services were held at the
home of a relative at Rothsville with
f u r t h e r services at the Rothsville
Lutheran church, on Sunday. Inter-ment
was made in the Rothsville
cemetery.
Philip Reichert, employed a s a cigar
maker at the Rush factory, is back
again a f t e r being away for several
months, during which time he had
been in Germany. He served as an
i n t e r p r e t e r aboard the steamship
Manchuria, which docked at Ham-burg.
He speaks t h e Spanish, Swiss,
German, Polish, Bohemiaij and sev-eral
other languages. He had spent
considerable time in these countries as
a workman. Ship crews coming into
port in Germany a r e not allawed liber-t
y but Mr. Reichert was fortunate
enough to see something of the city.
There is extreme poverty among the
people. Children came t o the ships to
gather the offall, breadcrusts and even
p o t a t o peelings. The rich did not
seem to be effected, as could be told
by prosperous appearance of the best
hotels and r e s t a u r a n t s and amusement
places. He saw all he wanted to see
of Germany and its poor people and
t h e children whom he said no one
could help but pity. Food is rationed
out and everything is under military
rule of the allies. People are not al-lowed
to congregate on the streets.
Some industries are busy but others
a r e idle. All this, together with the
political disruption makes one glad to
get away f r om Germany, even a f t e r a
short stay such as he had, said Mr.
Reichert.
Mr. Reichert received his education
in New York, spent twelve years in
the merchant marine, five years in the
U. S. navy and t h r e e y e a r s in t h e U. S.
army. There are only two countries
in the world he has not seen. He was
in Greenland on a whaling expedition
and has seen life in every clime.
LITITZ SINGERS
APPEARED AT 7
SERVICES SUNDAY
Mrs. Fianna Eberly Married in Cali-fornia
Mrs. Fianna Eberly, widow of Jonas
Eberly, who left f o r Upland, Califor-nia,
t h r e e weeks ago to visit a sister,
was married on Tuesday of this week
a t that place to a man named Sweig-a
r t . A l e t t e r was received f r om Mrs.
Eberly by a L i t i t z acquaintance, mak-ing
a brief mention of the marriage
but lacking in detail. Mrs. Eberly
did not say anything about her coming
m a r r i a g e when she l e f t , but undoubt-edly
had that purpose in view, as she
took along a very fine dress. Mr.
Sweigart is a son of a former Sun Hill
resident.
Bought Real E s t a t e a t Ephrata
John McCloud, of Lititz, purchased
a t private sale from Abraham Bru-baker,
a two-story frame dwelling
house, located at No. 210 W. F r a n k l in
s t r e e t , E p h r a t a . He bought it for his
son James McCloud, now living at
Hopeland.
L i t i t z May Receive Government Meat
The Government has acted to reduce
t h e high cost of living by offering an
opportunity to sell meats at a cheap
price to the people. Lititz is entitled
t o a s h a r e of this meat, which includes
corned beef, roast beef and bacon.
The Government guarantees it. Re-tail
dealers are asked to handle this
meat to help keep cjown the cost of
high living. Postmaster Huebener
would like to see Lititz get its quota
and if the stores do not take action
will ask council to take it up as they
did in previous Government sales here.
These sales in the p a s t were a big suc-cess
here.
Sang in Lebanon and Berks Counties
Before Big Audiences
The Lititz male chorus had a full
day on Sunday, singing a t four differ-ent
churches and a chapel during
seven services—at Kleinfeltersville,
Newmanstown, Womelsdorf, and the
orphans' home at the latter place.
At Womelsdorf they sang in t h e Luth-eran
and Evangelical churches. The
people who heard them expressed their
appreciation of the fine singing and
were publicly thanked by the various
pastors.
To many of the chorus the most en-joyable
p a r t of the trip was the visit
to the Womelsdorf Orphans' Home.
They sang for the children and in re-t
u r n the children sang f o r them. The
superintendent called for the three
Reidy children who were there to
come f r o n t and he introduced them to
the leader of the Lititz chorus, Mr.
Hiram Reedy.
There were fifteen men in the
chorus, including Mr. Melvin Huber
and Mr. Bachey, well-known singers
of Neffsville. Messrs. Victor Wagner
and Bachey sang several solos which
f e a t u r e d among the singing.
The chorus members were enter-tained
in different homes at Womels-dorf.
They left here by automobile
at 8 in t h e morning and returned about
10 o'clock in the evening.
TRAVELERS NEAR AND EAR
A COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
Bass Was Kind to Bank Cashier—
Jumped in His Boat
Cashier James Breitigan has done
b e t t e r than many expert fishermen
this season by returning home last
Thursday with a bass. The fish
jumped in his boat and a f ew hours
l a t e r was in the f r y i n g pan. Mr.
Breitigan, accompanied by Ralph
Gross, was rowing a boat on the creek
a t Millway, taking out for a ride a
number of children, as there was a
small gathering of local people who
went there for an outing. As t h e fish
flopped in the boat the little girls
screamed. After some quick action
on t h e p a r t of the cashier he managed
to capture it.
Sold "Whopper" Pretzels at 15 Cents
Apiece
Knights of Malta picnickers almost
swamped Sturgis & Haines, bretzel
m a n u f a c t u r e r s nearf the Spring
Grounds yesterday. The demand was
f o r pretzels of unusually large pro-portions,
f o r souvenirs. Fifteen cents
a pretzel was charged and 1,785 were
disposed of. The employees worked
most of the afternoon on these mam-moth
twists but could not make them -visit, will be among the speakers
f a s t enough to supply all who wanted
them. '
Coming Events
The annual reunion of the Fasnacht
family will be held on the Spring
Grounds on Saturday. It will be an
all-day a f f a i r . Rev. H. B. Fasnacht,
of Schuylkill Haven, is president of
t h e association.
The Muddy Creek celebration will
be held Saturday, Aug. 10, near
Swartzville. The Ringgold Band of
Reading and the Iroquois Band of
Lancaster, have been engaged to f u r -
nish the music. Rev. Dr. Davis B.
Schnader, president of the North
J a p a n College, who is in America on a
of
t h e a f t e r n o o n . It is t h e l a r g e s t gath-ering
of its kind in t h e state.
Miss Ella Light left Saturday to
visit f o r some time at Port Kennedy.
Mr. and Mrs David Fass spent front
Saturday to Monday at Lebanon and
Midway.
Mr. J . B. Young spent several days
of last week in Lehigh and Northamp-ton
counties.
Benjamin F a s s is visiting his broth-er
John in Philadelphia and the two of
them will go on a trip to Niagara
Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, of Phil"
adelphia, are spending the week with
his mother, Mrs. Catherine Smith, on
Spruce street.
Mrs. Frank Burkholder and chil-dren,
Mrs. Emma Miller and |Miss
Laura Miller are spending a week at
Wildwood, N. J.
Mr. James Sharp, wife and two
children, and Mr. Jacob Sharp, all of
Ephrata, spent Sunday with Mr. Ad-dison
Harding and family.
Albert Bruckart, employed as a
landscape gardener in Philadelphia,
spent Saturday and Sunday here with
his p a r e n t s , Mr. and Mrs. J . W. Brack'
a r t .
Mr. and Mrs. Lemon Neidermyer
spent Sunday with Mrs. Neidermyer's
s i s t e r Mrs. N a t h a n Imber a t Ironville.
Mrs. Imber broke her ankle several
wee.ks ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shott, Missi
Margaret Ralston and Mr. Martin
Koegle, all of Philadelphia, were in
town on Sunday, making the trip in a
Cole Eight.
Miss Winifred Huber, a student-nurse
a t the Methodist-Episcopal Hos- •
pital, Philadelphia, is spending a vaca-tion
at the home of her parents, Mr-and
Mrs. S. M. Huber.
Mrs. Belle Brink, of New York, who
spent. two months here with hei?
mother, Mrs. E. S. Young, a t the Mor-avian
Home, has gone to t h e home of
her sister a t Youngstown, Ohio.
The following Lititz persons attend-ed
the Madlem-Showalter reunion at
E p h r a t a on Saturday: Mr. and Mrs.
George Harman, Mrs. John Wagner
and daughter Amelia, Mrs. John Mad-lem
and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Oehme and
daughter Sarah, and Mrs. Harry
Wertsch and four children l e f t f o r Mt,,
Gretnii on Monday, to remain there
ten days. They are occupying Rev,
J . M. Walter's cottage.
P. B. Bucher, Samuel Lane, David
Snavely and J. F. Stoner took an auto
t r i p to Virginia last week, spending
two days sight-seeing and returning
on Friday. They were at Richmond,
F a i r f a x , Bull Run and Luray Cave.
Mr. Joseph Dreifus returned f r om
Ocean City Saturday a f t e r spending'
several days there. He was fishing irf
t h e bay every day during his stay;
going out in a row boat. One day h£
and his son Dr. Percy Dreifus landed
eighteen flounders.
Paul and Charles Kreider left for
Philadelphia on Tuesday to visit Dr.
Warren Wood and will then continue
their trip to Atlantic City. This
Thursday Paul will leave f o r Oneida,
N. Y., where he will t a k e up his new ,
office duties in one of the Oneida in-dustries.
Mrs. Thomas Hensel, of Lykens.
Dauphin county, spent f r om S a t u r d a y i
to Tuesday here with her brother Cur-tis
Hensel, the druggist. The l a t t e r ' s !
daughter, Agnes, accompanied her
aunt on the homeward trip and will
spend a week or more with her g r a n d - :
mother a t Wiconisco, Pa., n e a r Lykens.
Mrs. Merton Crouthamel of Butler
is here on a six weeks' visit with her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. J: W. G. Her-shey.
Mr. Crouthamel, who is a
teacher in the high school a t Butler,
is expected here in t h e middle of Au-gust,
and will leave f r om here for
Lansdale t o visit his parents.
Mr. H a r r y D. Buchter of Orange
s t r e e t went to Rothsville Saturday to
see his first and only grandchild, a
baby boy having been born at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kieffer
recently. Naturally Mr. Buchter feels
highly elated. Mrs. Ed. Eshleman and
Mrs. George Bowers also of this place,
spent Saturday afternoon a t t h e same
home, Mrs. Eshleman being an aunt
to the new arrival.
Rev. William P f a u t z was called sud-denly
on business to Walnut, Iowa,
He took his boy William with him,,
who will visit his grandmother at:
Blair, Nebraska. Rev. P f a u t z expects
to r e t u r n in about a week. His wife
is at Lititz at present. Rev. P f a u tz
is p a s t or of a church at Welsh Run.
The congregation there presented him
with a . F o r d coupe, with which he:
came to Lititz before s t a r t i n g on his;
western t r i p Sunday.
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