Lititz Record

              Vol. LYIII LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1935 No. 47
Lititz Could Get
WPA Projects
Some Wondering1 If Council
Plans Any Improvements;
Would Pay Labor Costs
Petitions Against Liquor
Store Here Will Be Sent
To Harrisburg On Monday
Local people have been wonder-ing
if Town Council has planned
any public works projects to take
care oi our unemployed and people
on relief both in town and com-munity
under the Federal Works
Progress Administration.
Lancaster, York and Berks Coun-ties
are placed in District 7, of the
Works Progress Administration for
Pennsylvania and offices where ap-plications
for projects are received
has been opened at 616 S. West Elnd
Avenue, Lancaster. This office will
handle all applications for the Dis-trict.
If our Borough is contemplating
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Playground Value Told
To Rotarians At Meeting
The value of playgrounds to- the
youth of a community was laid be
fore the Lititz Rotary Club by Miss
Irene Keener and Leon Bissinger,
both of town, at the weekly meet-ing
of the club in the General Sut-ter
Hotel Tuesday evening. The
speakers are in charge of the su-pervised
play that has been operat-ing
for several weeks in the local
Park under the auspices of a group
of town women.
Miss Keener told of the recrea-tion
afforded the boys and girls of
5 to 8 years1 of age and the girls
'rom 8 to 12. Mr. Dissimger's talk
lealt with the work he is doing
vith the boys from 8 to 12.
A feature of the meeting was the
.bservance of the birthdays of four
iembers of the cluib: Dr. Chas. A.
-and'is, John M. Miller, Dr. H. E.
lender and Joseph B. Wissler. The
itter, who is on vacation, missed
ie dividing of a birthday cake
mong the remainder of the club.
Petitions protesting the estab-lishment
of a state liquor store
here, circulated in s|tores, homes
and churches last week and this,
will be forwarded to the State
Liquor Control Board at H arris -
burg on Monday.
The petitions carry the names
of several hundred local men and
women in an effort to forestall ac-tion
in placing the store here.
Just what effect the petitions
will have is problematical. One
local pastor in answering a ques-tion.
as to what he thought their
effect might have, gave little eti-courageiment
saying that things of
this kind are usually "railroaded"
through in spite of all protests, but
that the petitions will show the
Control Board that Lititz does not
want a store here, and that we have
fought the placing of one here by
our petition®.
"The authorities doubtless have
the legal right to place the store,"
Dr. W. V. Moses, of Bethlehem, Pa.,
visiting pastor at the Moravian
Church, told the local congregation
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Births
Mr. and Mrs. Charles 0. Butzer,
of Eiphrata, formerly of town, an-nounce
the birth of a daughter last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Franklin
Eiby, of Wayne, announce the birth
of a son, Benjamin Franklin Eby,
III, Friday. Mrs. Efby is the for-mer
Miss Dorothy Elby, of town.
Schedule 3 Softball Games
The AlliLititz sofltjball team will
play Quarryville this evening on
the Lutz field in the east end. To-morrow
night Neffsville will come
here for the first of a five-game
series,
Monday night the fast-going Mt.
Laurel team, now leading the Lan-caster
league, will play here. This
team is considered the fastest in
the County.
Vriplet Calves, Proud Mother
; Doing Well on Helman Farm
Canada no longer can claim all
e honors, for Brunnerville has
epped forward with triplet calves
at have been attracting attention
r miles around this section. And
,'plet calves are almost as rare
the animal world as quintuplet
bies in the human.
Sunday, two weeks ago, Ernest
ihnan, of the albove-naentioned
Lage, was mosit surprised upori,
;ering his barn to find the anti-ated
"blessed event" of a pure-ed
Guernsey of triple importance
¡wo heifers and a bull. The no-r
seemed very complacent, not
raping the significance of what
I happened. Now, however, she
idly displays them before all
tors to the barn.
Although the birth of triplet
calves is unusual, the survival and
perfect health of »11 three is more
unusual. And they do look like
three healthy offspring, as they
romp around the stall, or gaze
wonderingly at their visitors. They
are about normal size, two being
almost identical and the third a
trifle smaller.
The matter of names has not
bothered the Helman family, so we
have taken it upon our shoulders
to christen them. After much
thought and weeding of such com-mon
combinations as Tom, Dick
and Harry, or Kate, Duplicate and
Triplicate, as being unsuitable to
the sexes, we decided on—where
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Town
T A I K
The time is at hand for our
Community Show committee to be
thinking aibo-ut plans for this year's
event. Our date, the last week-end
of October, will likely be the date
of our annual affair here if we are
going to have one this year. This
week-end has been the date of our
Shows for the past few years.
Some communities have announ-ced
the dates of their Shows. West
Lampeter usually has the first one
of the season, and has announced
Septeber 18 as its opening date.
Manheim will stage theirs the
week-end following. Both Manor
Township and New Holland fairs
are scheduled for the same dates,
October 3, 4 and 5.
Columbia has taken October 8 to
10 as their daite, and Ephrata will
stage their Show the same week-end.
Mt. Joy will likely choose the
week-end of Oct. 17, since their
Show has always ¡been held the
week-end before ours.
-Since J. Clayton Brubaker has
been spending every day of the
week except Sunday at the Farm
Bureau office in Lancaster and will
not be able to devote the time to
our show this year that he has
given as president of the Associa-tion
in the past, we understand that
he is going to as<k to be relieved as
president of the group. He did this
last year tout the Association re-fused
to accept his request. If they
do not re-elect him this year when
he asks to be relieved as president,
care must be taken that he be given
some responsible job or two, for J.
C. is entirely too valuable a man
to our Show to let him slip out of
our fingers.
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The great Muddy Creek picnic
will be held ¡Saturday, and as in
other years will again be attended
by many thou,sands. It very rarely
rains on the day of their picnic,
which is one thing they can be
thankful for. It seems' to me there
isn't anything "messier" than a
rainy picnic, if you know what I
mean.
Although many of us feel that
we have had enough rain for
awhile, those with farms around
our town are hoping for more. This
has been a peculiar season in some
respects, and while the result thus
far has been good, it is feared that
any continued dry spell now would
do a lot of damage.
We have had just enough rain to
keep things growing nicely.
The corn is, coming along fine,
farmers "report, with the stalks be-ginning
to show tassels and form
ears. The toibaoco, also, is doing
well and disease has not appeared
in any alarming quantity. Where it
has, farmers have been able to con-trol
it. The potato crop looks-good,
although it is reported other-wise
in Lebanon County.
The wheat yield was good in all
sections of the county.
Town Council Transacts
Routine Business In July
Session Tuesday Evening
Transaction of routine business
occupied the time of Borough
Couincii at its July meeting Tues-day
evening. AH Councilmen, Bur-gess
Brehneman and Secretary E.
E. Haibecker attended.
Parking signs were ordered for
several locations in the Borough
and the street commissioner, H. M.
Kofroth, was ordered to paint curbs
and gutters showing 15 foot park-ing
restrictions at street corners.
The street 'committee reported
general repairing to streets and
alley®, weeds -r emoved and grading
on North Walnut and Apple Sts.
The water committee reported
puirtps in operation 490 hours,
11,376,000 gallons of water pump-ed,
5- meters installed, 1 talp made
and outstanding waiter rent $745.93
The light committee was author-ized
to place two lights on West
Third Avenue and two in the vic-inity
of the new Bad'orf Shoe Co.
plant.
Receipts of $663.99 were report-ed,
and the following bills approved
and ordered paid:
H. M. Kofroth, $112.50; Addison
Harding, $80.60; Harry Engle,
$66.33; Frank »ready, $25.03; Int.
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Donats Preparing
To Sail For Africa
Missionary And Family Will
Leave Baltimore Next Week
On Long Trip To Liberia
Local Fishermen Have Poor
Luck On Sea Fishing Trips
Two local fishing parties, 10 in
the one group and nine in the
other, went deep sea fishing over
the week-end and did noft have such
good luck, as on previous trips.
Wm. B. Fry, Frank Lon.genecker,
Domer Brenner, Lester Balmer,
Russel Temipleton, Harry Mobler,
Charles Wagaman, Samuel Walters
and Wm. Gerhart fished at Bowers
Beach on Saturday and only caught
135. They reported the water too
rough.
The other grouip consisting of
Jacob Snyder, Elmer Beck, Albert
Go'chenaur and son Fred, Jacob
Kauffman, Jo'hn Kauffman and son
Abel and Henry Hess, of town, and
Samuel Giveler, of Elsitonville,
"angled" Monday at Little Creek,
Delaiware, aind caught only 140.
Both groups were disappointed
in their catches for they were the
poorest they bad ever experienced
deep sea fishing.
Contractor Finishes Store
The contractor has completed his
work on the new American Sfore
building, beside the Lititz Theatre,
and the keys to the building have
been- turned over to the new tenant.
The manager of the local store
said that he did not believe they
would be able to do business in/the
new store until the end of next
week, and possibly mot until the
second week, as considerable shelv-ing
and painting ibath inside and
out, must still be done.
With four large wooden cases, a
smaller one and a trunk packed
with their belongings, the Rev. and
Mrs. Joseph K. Donat, of North
Broad Street, are ¡rapidly complet-ing
preparations to sail from Balti-more
Thursday of next, week, for
Africa, where they will (become
missionaries, of the Lutheran
Church in Liberia.
But) busy! as they are with packing,
they are more (busy saying good-bye
to their many frielnds here and
thanking them for the gifts they
have received.
They, with their young son, J.
Kenton, Jr., will leave Lititz on
Thursday morning by machine for
Baltimore, from which port they
will sail at 5 P. M. that day for
London, reaching the. British capi-tal
ott the 19th. For the next ten
days ¡fchey will finish purchasing
supplies, tour London and go to
Amsterdam, from where they will
sail on a West African Line
steamer. They will reach Monrovia,
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To Reorganize Auxiliary
Mrs. .Sara Jenkins will return to
Lititz next week from her Cale-donia
Calbin, where she is spending,
the summer, to reorganize the local
Auxiliary of the Lancaster General
Hosipital. Mrs. William Shand, of
Lancaster, will be the guest of hon-or
at the meeting, the time and
place of which will be announced
next week.
Class To Hold Picnic
The Sunbeam Class of St. Paul's
Lutheran Sunday School will hold
its annual picnic this evening at
4 o'clock in the Springs Park. All
members of the Class, their hus-bands,
friends and families have
been invited.
Our Meat .Store on East Main
Street is open daily. Any boy or
girl making a purchase of 18c or
more can swim at the pool for 5c.
Hamburg is 18c a pound.
B. P. LUTZ & SONS.
A young woman was sent to the
store by her mother for chair
seats. She explained her return
empty-handed by saying:
"I went to four stores for chair
seats and none of them had your
size."
Two girls met the other day and
in greeting the first touched the
second on the shoulder. She scream-ed
a girlish scream and said rue-fully,
"Oh, my suniburn."
'Look," she added, showing her
peeled upper arms, "I'm coming
out in a new model—streamline."
"You mean scream-line," punned
the first.
—LUTZ POOL will be c*pea on
warm evenings. 5c, 10c and 15c.