Lititz Record

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VOL. LV LITTTZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1932 No. 48
6 Standpipe "Rings"
Weidet! in Posilion
Third Of 15 Section Stack In
Place; Job Will Be Solid
Casing When Finished
Six rings or sections of the new
standpipe on W. 3rd Ave. are now in
place and work is going ahead more
rapidly on the remainder of the 15
rings. Each section is 6 ft. 10% in.
wide and is about % inches thick at
the bottom, tapering to about a quar-ter
or less at the top of the pipe.
The hoisting of the rings and the
work of getting them in place is
drawing a number of people to the
site. Once the sections, which arc
in three pieces, are in place, the,",
are spot welded to hold them there
When all the sections are up, the
workmen will start at the top and
complete the welding, making the
stack one solid piece.
Before a section is erected, holt;
are bored in to hold the scaffolding
the workmen perch on to do thei
welding. Then as the seams art
closed on the way down, these hole;:
too, will be welded shut.
Dr. Crosland To Preach
Farewell Sermon Sunday
The Rt. Rev. E. S. Crosland, D.D
will preach his farewell sermon to hi
Lititz Congregation preparatory t.
leaving next week to take his new-charge,
the Moravian Church, at Nev.
Dorp, Staten Island.
The sermon will mark the end o:
more than 16 years of ministry hen
by Dr. Crosland, during which tiiru
he was elevated to a Bishop of tht
Moravian Church and was honorec
with the Doctor of Divinity degree
from Franklin and Marshall College.
The RECORD wishes to extend its
best wishes to Dr. Crosland for a con-tinuance
in his new work of the suc-cess
that has marked his ministry in
Lititz.
festival Saturday Night
"BE OLD HILL-BILLY"
"I)e Old Hill-Billy," popular radio
entertainer of a Lancaster station,
who will appear in person and will act
as master of ceremonies at the .festi-val
Saturday night two miles south
of town, under the auspices of Lititz
Springs Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars. He will be assisted by the
local Green Jug Hayhackers.
A refreshment stand where all man-lier
of good things will be for sale and
numerous other concessions and
amusements will be on the grounds.
The festival will open about 3 o'clock,
and the Veterans are working to have-something
doing every minute.
Special trolley service has been
obtained for the event and besides the
regular trolleys out of here at 6:30,
7:30, 8:30 and 9:30 Saturday cars will
run at 7, 8 and 9 to the festival, along
the Lititz Pike, just over Kissel Hill.
Cars will run from the grounds to
Lititz regularly at 10:20 and 11:20
and extras at 10:45 and 11:45.
R. R. Crossing Repaired
Much needed repairs to the Broad
Street crossing of the Reading Co.
were being made yesterday. Large
holes had been worn in the paving
between the tracks and these are
being filled in with stone and tarvia.
Ushers' Picnic Today
The annual picnic of the Ushers'
Association of the Moravian Church
will be held this afternoon and ev-ening
at Buch's Mill. Games will be
played and a fine lunch and refresh-ments
served.
Spend Vacation Here
Miss Ruth V. Nooney, Mrs. Robert
D. Nooney and Roy C. Nooney, all of
Springfield, Mass., arrived here Mon-day
to spend this week with Walter
G. Nooney, of the Morgan Paper Co.
While in this section they plan to see
some historical points of interest.
Clean Sweep Sale of Men's Suits
now on at HARRIS & CO., Lititz, Pa.
Receive Large Order
The Simplex Paper Box Corp. has
received a large box, order which
will furnish steady employment in one
of the divisions of their plants for a
month or more. The order is for quite
a few m illion Christmas gift boxes for
Lucky Strike Cigarettes. The board
for the boxes is lithographed in Phila-delphia
and sent here where it is
stamped into a modified form of the
Simplex box.
The gradual improvement of busi-ness
throughout the country has been
felt here in some ways, with manufac-turers
finding new inquiries and with
now business coming in. Rumors are
that a shirt factory will soon start
operations here and that several of
our large plants will increase their
running time.
Mrs. H. J. Smith Wins Prize
At P. P. & L. Cooking School
The electric cooking school conduct-ed
Saturday night in Lititz Fire „Hall
by the Pennsylvania Power and Light
Company and the electrical dealers in
this locality proved to be one of the
most instructive and interesting dem-onstrations
of its kind ever presented
in this section. A crowd of some 200
guests attended and were well re-warded
by the new recipes and the
valuable information which Miss Lur-etta
A. Usner, Home Economist, pre-sented
about electric cooking in gen-eral.
The Lucky Number for the door
prize was held by Mrs. H. J. Smith,
of Lititz, who went home the richer
by the latest model Everhot Econ-omy
Electric Cooker. Food cooked
during the class was also awarded as
prizes to holders of lucky numbers.
Frank E. Kieffer, Local District
manager for the Pennsylvania Power
and Light Company, and other Com-pany
officials were gratified at the
results of the school and at the size
of the turnout. They expressed a hope
that even a larger crowd would at-tend
the next one, which, it is under-stood,
will take place in the near
future.
Trolley Leaves Rails. Hits
Pole, Wrecks Power Service
Power and light service in Lititz
were disrupted Tuesday afternoon
when a trolley car jumped the track
at Kissel Hill and rammed into and
broke off a pole carrying wires of the
Pennsylvania Power and Light Co.
The electric service was restored in a
short time and the trolleys were run-ning
on schedule again Tuesday eve-ning.
The car left the rails on what is
known as the North Kissel Hill curve
and rammed the pole. The motorman,
A. L. Kauffman, was not injured, al-though
the front of the car was dam-aged.
A bus took the passengers to
Lancaster.
Warn On Auto Inspection
Chief of Police Kreider and other
police officials of the State have been
notified that they are to urge prompt
inspection of machines by drivers who
have neglected thus far to have their
cars inspected in the second period,
which began July 1.
While garages report that many
owners have declared that they intend
to wait until the very last minute, the
State threatens to take action against
them and advises all to have their
ears inspected at once. Local garages
are and have been ready to do this
work for the past month.
¿6 Talk ??
Do You Remember .
When the Swan Hotel at
Roths ville was sold for
$18,500? That was 25 years
ago.
Your sixteen-page tabloid form of
"Record" is a big improvement. Your
issue of August 4th revives those fa-miliar
lines, "How dear to my heart
are the scenes of my childhood, when
fond recollections present them to
view."
The article of Mr. H. H. Bomberger
covers scenes of my youth and when
he writes about "five roads converg-ing
at Pennville, now Ejbm," that re-minds
me that Penn and Elizabeth
Townships also met in the center of
those converging roads and caused the
school children to travel in two di-rections.
I traveled the "Airy" road
to Airy Hill school. The numerous
snow storms in those days necessitat-ed
two expeditionary, forces from the
village to bring the children home
from school. In those good old days
women wore as many as six petti-coats.
Recently it was discovered
that the horsehair chairs and sofas in
use at that time necessitated so many
petticoats.
According to the Newport road ar-ticle,
Warwick Township dates back
to the year 1729, 3 years before the
birth of George Washington.
On August 4, 1932, at the George
Washington National Masonic Me-morial,
near Alexandria, Va., the
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Youth is Arrested
in Bad Check Cases
Arthur Frey, Of Near Town, To
Have Hearing Tomorrow
Before Squire Shissler
Arthur Frey, a young man living
near town, was arrested Friday at
Long's Park, Lancaster, on charges
growing out of thè passing of alleged
forged checks on merchants here and
in East Petersburg. Frey will have a
hearing tomorrow evening before
Squire A. M. Shissler.
Frey is alleged to have given Wil-son
Hacker, manager of the local At-lantic
and Pacific Tea Co. store, a
check that was returned by a local
bank with the notation that the sig-nature
was not genuine. He is also
alleged to have given a similar check
to a merchant in East Petersburg.
Following the report of the swind-ling
of Walter H. Buch and W. M.
Amer here, Constable Jacob Singley
started working on the case and the
clues soon pointed to Frey. When
word was received that he was seen
in Long's Park, Singley went there
and arrested him.
Frey was brought to Lititz to con-front
the merchants who had accepted
the checks. He is said to have admit-ted
writing the checks received by
Hacker and the East Petersburg mer-chant
and another one that was pas-sed
in Lancaster, but would not admit
the two given to Buch and Amer, al-though
the latter men were almost
certain that he was the same man.
He was then taken to Lancaster to
prison.
Dates For Community Show
To Be Set At First Meeting
Selection of the dates for the 11th
Lititz Community Show will probab-ly
be the first order of business when
the members of the Community Show-
Association and all others interested
meet in the Fire Hall, Tuesday eve-ning,
August 30. Quite a few of the
other towns that hold community
shows have already set the time for
their shows.
Selection of officers will also be lip
at that time, and the first meeting
should get the work of the show off
to a good start.
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New Teacher Elected
At a special meeting of the Lititz
School Board, held Friday night in
the High School, Miss Floy Schlos-ser,
daughter of Dr. Schlosser, head
of Elizabethtown College, was elect-ee!
to teach in the borough system for
the coming term. Miss Schlosser will
take the place of Miss Emma My-ers,
of Philadelphia, who has mar-ried
and resigned her position.
Several candidates for the position
were interviewed by the Board prior
to the selection.
LUTZ POOL—All school children
Thursday and Friday 5 cents, others
10 cents anytime.
In This Issue . . .
Church News on Page 12.
Classified Ads on Page 5.
50 Years Ago on Page 11.
SPORTS on Page 9.
PERSONALS on Page 8.