The Gettysburg Times from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Good Evening The man with highest wundlng title often docs the least work. THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Truth, Our Guide--The Public Qood, Our Aim Weather Forecast Cloudy, probably light snow In end north portions tonight and Sunday. Dm. tun rim MU 4:81 Dec 2--Mundijr. rlsm ESTABLISHED 1902 POTATOES AND APPLES REIGN ATSLOWMARTS 30 Farmers Attend Sessions With Moderate Supply of Products.

Member of The Associated Presa GETTYSBURG, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1935. Read by Nearly Everybody in Adams County GOOD SUPPLY OF CHICKENS Buying was slow in the Gettysburg and Fanners' markets this irorning, with a moderate supply of products offered by the more than thirty farmers who were in attendance. Apples and potatoes were plentiful. Potatoes were $1 and $1.25 a bushel, with apples bringing $1 and $1.50 a bushel for Jonathans; Baldwins were 15 cents a quarter peck; Staymen Winesap, 75 and 90 cents a bushel; York Imperial and Black Twig, 75 cents, and Grimes Golden, $1 a bushel; pears were 15 cents a half peck; quinces, five and ten cents a basket. Rutabaga brought ten cents a quarter peck; parsnips, 10 cents a bunch; pumpUins, flve and 10 cents each; turnips, 10 cents a quarter peok; endive, onions, radishes, teets and carrots, flve cents a bunch; parsley, three cents a bunch; celery, 10 cents a bunch or three bunches for 25 cents; spin- ich, 13 cents a quarter peck.

Other Prices Sauerkraut sold at the regular price, 15 cents a quart; sweet cider, 20 cents a gallon; apple butler, 25 a quart or 75 cents a gallon; Honey, 15 and 20 cents a comb, and cents a pint rendered; cab- five and ten cents a head; torse radish, ten and fifteen cents glass; butter milk, flve cents a juart; cottage cheese, 10 cents a jint; home-made soap, eight cents i cake; pop corn, one cent an ear. Eggs were 35 and 36 cents a doz- for standards, with pullet eggs winging 28 cents a dozen; butter vas firm at 30 cents a pound. Dressed chickens were plentiful md sold from J5 cents to sach; guineas were 75 to 90 cents and live chickens brought 18 ind 22 cents a pound. Several farmers had fresh pork it prices about the same as previ- usly quoted Sausage brought 25 md 30 cents a pound, with smoked ausage at 30 cents; scrapple. 10 md 15 cents a pound; back bones nd spare rbs, 18 and 25 cents a -ound; pork steak.

30 cents, and enderloin. 40 cents a pound. Lard fas 18 cents a pound or two pounds or 35 cents. S. S.

Attendance Shows Increase Attendances at flve Sunday schools in the county last Sunday showed an Increase of five over that of the same date a year ago. The following attendances and those ol a year ago were: St, James' Lutheran, 715-741; Methodist Episcopal, 134-114; Trinity, Evangelical- Reformed, 192-201; Church of the Brethren, 54-52; Salem United Brethren, Guldens, 48-30. GIVES $5 TO FUND The Mary Gettys Bebekah lodge of Gettysburg contributed $5 to the Gettysburg fire company's annual Christinas kiddie party fund The amount was inadvertently orrytted in the announcement ol the list of donors last week. ByrdAide Gets Medal Lieut. Robert A.

J. English (left), U. S. is shown aboard the U. S.

S. Nevada at Los Angeles as he received congratulations from Vice Admiral W. IX Leahy after being given the distinguished service medal for his part in the second Byrd expedition to the Antarctic. (Associated Press Photo) PRICE THREE CENTS Birthday Greetings The following Gettysburgians and Adams countians are celebrating their birthday anniversaries today: Hunter Harness. Steinwehr avenue, 42.

Fred Faber, Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Faber, Chambersburg street, 10. John L. Bushey, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Elaine Bushey, Biglerville R. D. Allen B. McDonnell, Gettysburg R.

35. Miss Theresa Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baiter, Orrtanna R. 6.

Harry R. Moser, 68 West Railroad street, 29. Russell L. Staley, 69 East Stevens street, 29. Clarence A.

Swisher, Gettysburg R. 35. Charles Schultz, McKnightstown, 52. Mrs. L.

U. Collins, Gettysburg. R. 1. Those who will observe their natal day anniversaries Sunday include: Miss Nancy M.

Keith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Keith, Carlisle street. Mrs.

J. Price Oyler, York street. H. J. Rothhaupt.

Baltimore street. Miss Anna Catherine Hoffman, Gettysburg high school junior. Christian E. 'Enterman, Iron Springs, 59. Mrs.

Thomas Walter, Fan-field, 69. Sunday--Mrs. Thomas Walter, Fairfield, 69. Religious Education Study Classes, Dec. 5 The Adams county council of re- igious education held its monthly teeting at the Y.

W. C. Friday vening, with H. T. Baker.

Littles- awn R. president, presiding. Plans were completed for a work- efficiency conference to be held the Lutheran theological sem- iary, Thursday. December 5. with essions at 2 p.

5:30 p. m. and :30 p. m. E.

Stanley Kendig. of the state leadquarters of the Pennsylvania ouncil of religious education, will in charge of the three confer- nces. CATHOLIC UNIT WILL DISSOLVE Court Directs 36 Members to Share in Financial Balance of $987.12. )aughter Born To Fortenbaughs A daughter was born to Dr. and trs.

Robert Fortenbaugh, West roadway. Friday afternoon. Both other and child axe reported doing icely. This is the Fortenbaughs cond daughter and third child, octor Fortenbaugh is head of the story department at Gettysburg Football FIRST HALF ARMY. 2X; NAVY, 0.

Thirty-six members of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Beneficial association, of New Oxford, will share in the distribu- Mon of $987.12. the balance remaining hi the treasury, by an order of Judge Donald P. McPherson in court here. Friday afternoon. Under the court's order, the association is dissolved, and the balance in the treasury is distributed among the 36 members, each of whom will receive $27.42, The court also signed an order amending the charter of Gettysburg college.

The principal change made by the amended charter is the limiting- of the terms of the 30 trustees. WILL ARGUE 5 CASES MONDAY Motion for New Trial, Action In Assumpsit and Others Are Listed. $24.56 Collected At Services Here Occupants Unhurt As Autos Collide No one hurt but two cars were damaged to the extent of $60 when the machines collided on the Fairfield road, half a mile west of Gettysburg, at 7:45 o'clock, Friday evening. The operators were Leo Redding, 39, Gettysburg, R. 4, and Claude H.

Miller, 21. of Littlestown. Both were going west. Redding attempted to make a left turn into a lane leading to his home just as Miller started to pass, according lo Patrolman G. S.

Harleman, of the local sub-station of the state highway patrol. MISSING TEETH CAUSE DENTIST MUCH TROUBLE Patient Waits in Doctor's Office for Dentures; on Wrong ARE FINALLY LOCATED HERE 20 AWARDS TO BE DRAWN FOR MONDAY NIGHT One Hour's Program Of Entertainment Will Begin at 8 O'clock. CHILDREN NOT TO BE ADMITTED The i weekly drawing in the Gettysburg and Adams county "BETTER BUSINESS A PAIGN" will be Monday evening at 9 o'clock at the Hotel Gettysburg annex, following hour's entertainment. Twenty merchandise awards will be given. Doors to the annex will open at 7.45 o'clock.

A feature of the Monday evening drawings will be the award of a cash prize of $10 to the person guessing the number of pennies In jar at the "BETTER BUSINESS CAMPAIGN" headquarters on Baltimore street. The Penny Guessing Contest Picks Winners In Community Business Move A set of false teeth cost a dentist five dollars in telephone calls, and a round tnp from Thurmont I was ooen to ever 5 ne who mss MAE to Gettysburg; caused an Emmits- 0 125 orth of merchandise VISITOR DIES HERE 12 HOURS AFTER ARRIVING Miss A i Hawk, Key-Mar, Passes Away at Home of Miss Ella Gilliland. LOCAL WOMAN PLANNED A VISIT Miss Annie Hawk, 72, of Key-Mar, Maryland, prominent church worker and substitute rural mail carrier, died at the apartments of Miss Ella Gilliland, Eckert building, Center square, at 9:45 o'clock, Friday evening, from the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage, suffered at 10:30 o'clock, Friday morning, shortly after she arrived in Gettysburg. Miss Hawk, accompanied by Mrs. P.

Roy Saylor, also of Key-Mar, came to Gettysburg Friday morning, to take Miss Gilliland back to Key- Mar for a visit, the two having been close friends for a number of years. Stricken at Car Miss Hawk was stricken as shs was helping to put some things in her automobile, parked on Cham- burg drug store clerk to be paged from the Arcade theatre in Waynes- from any one of the 72 participating merchants, has attracted con, boro; kept a patient waiting in the attention, and severe dentist's office for four hours plus th 8 uesses the number The collection at the annual discomfort of others involved th lar 3 ar navt Thanksgiving; union sen-ice here, I --all because the teeth were placed Thursday morning, was the smallest en the wrong bus in a Baltimore in five years, it was reported today. Thursday's collection totaled $24,56. In 1930 $4056 was collected and last year the offering totaled $30.89. Five cases are listed for arni- The CoUecti 11 te turned OTer to ment at a session of Adams county courts, Monday: The actions follow: Park Gardner vs.

L. Earl Miller, motion for a new trial. John Butt, for plaintiff; Keith and Sheely 'for defendant. Nell A. Nary vs.

Quay B. Nary, motion for judgment n. o. v. Keith and Sheely for plaintiff; E.

V. Bullet, for defendant. Raymond L. Carbaugh vs. Leroy S.

Reinsmith. action of trespass Keith and Sheely for ylaintiff; V. Bulleit. Esq. and C.

E. Stalfle, for defendant. John Guise vs New York Life Insurance company, action in as- the civic nursing association. SET DATE FOR CHARITY FAIR; Students at St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Give Proceeds to Needv.

The annual chanty fair given under the auspices of the Children of Man-, of St. Joseph's college. Emmitsburg will be held December 14 in the college gymnasium at object of the accumulate funds for the off Plaint motion to strike I Cumulate funas for rne nAmfc btneflt of Emmitsourg needy and terminal. last Wednesday Dr. F.

V. Sweav- ingen, of Thurmont, telephoned to Baltimore and instructed the agent at the terminal there that a package would rirrive and was to be placed on the bus leaving for Thurmont. It was urgent that the teeth be delivered Wednesday evening. The mix-up began when the small package containing the teeth given to the driver on the 4:30 p. m.

bus leaving Baltimore for Hagerstown by way of Westminster and Waynesboro instead of the 4 o'clock but out of Baltimore for Frederick and then over route 15 through Thurmont to Gettysburg The operator of the bus left the package which was addressed to the Thurmont dentist, at Treiber's pharmacy in Emmitsburg. When the driver of the other bus. en the Frederick route, arrived at (Continued on Page Two) affidavit of defense new matter and counter claim. V. Bulleit.

Esq. for plaintiff; J. Donald Swope, for defendant Littlestown National bank vs George W. Spangler. Petition to aside sheriff's sale John Batt.Esq.

for plaintiff; C. W. Bucher for defendant. teen made Contest Closes Tonig-ht The Penny Guessing Contest closes ac 10:30 o'clock this everxng, gjid over the week-end the pennies be counted, to ascertain the exact number, after which ttie thousands of guesses will be checked to determine the winner. The "BETTER BUSINESS CAMPAIGN" headquarters on Baltimore street, where the merchandise wards were on display since the campaign opened, will close finally fcas not progressed to the point o-f 1A Viie- a.iTa.inmrr Throws Arctics Through Window Someone tossed a pair of men's.

to provide for them a happy Christmas. In the morning there be a basketball game arranged by the freshmen between the Marillac and Seton teams Following the game all classes will join in decorating the prym for the fair. After the fair, the Juniors will serve a supper in the natatonum. This will be followed by dancing at 7 o'clock TVith sales at the various tooths. A special feature of this year's DEATH CLAIMS MRS.HOSTETTER Complications Are Fatal to 77-Year-Old Widow on Fridav.

Mrs. Addie Hostetter. 77. of Samuel Hostetter. died at noon.

Fri- the Table" I da at tfa home of her nephew. good arctics through a front win- There will be empty baskets and I Charles Martin. Fountain Dale, of dow at the home of Ralph Wood- i od to fill foodstuffs of all ward. Ridge avenue, at 12:45 o'clock kinds and toys for the children this morrune Two other outstanding features complications. Mrs Hostetter was a daughter of the late John and Isadore vy i i i i i Awakened by the noise.

Woodward v. ill be an entertainment by the Nunem aker. of Zora. armed himself with a shotgun and, sophomores and the singing oi Tl one sistcr Mrs Ired several times at a man fleeing i Christmas carols by the senior class at 10.30 o'clock this evening, and the various articles TSUI be returned to the participating merchants, the winners may procure them at the end of the campaign. Another enjoyable program of entertainment is being arranged for the Monday evening drawings 1-ast weed's entertainment was so greatly enjoyed by the large crowd.

that there was a general demand for a repetition of numbers along the same lice. Prograni At 8 P. M. The program of entertainment will go on promptly at 8 o'clock and continue for an hour, when the drawing for 20 merchandise prizes, offered by merchants in Gettysburg and Adams county, who are participating in the "BETTER BUSINESS CAMPAIGN," will be 1-eld. Upon the shoulders of this little i faersburg street in fropt of the Eckert building.

Paul A. Oyler, Chambersbur- street, who noticed the woman's distress, and several ether men carried Miss Hawk to Miss Giffiland's apartment- She was unconscious fnra the time she was stricken and did not regain consciousness before died. Dr. Roy W. Gifford was summoned and rendered medical attention.

Born in Maryland. Miss Hawk, who lived, with Mr. and Mrs. Rooert Gait, of Key-Mar for the past 40 bom in Carroll county. She was a memb-ar of St.

John's Lutheran church, near Littlestown lady rests the responsibility of drawing the winning coupons from the large m'Olving wire basket in v.hich is deposited each week tickets of participants in Adams county's "BETTER BUSINESS CAMPAIGN." And every time she pulls a ticket from ttie heap, she reveals a winner of one of the many valuable prizes being offered by merchants. She performs her work in a highly efficient manner and popular with the crowds. She is three years old and while she knows her "A C's," her education she can decipher the names! and always topi an ac ive --on the coupons so that there is no possibility of her playing favorites in the drawing. Mary Elizabeth is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Rose, 243 Baltimore street. Her father is employed at the furniture factory. Her grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry E.

Rose. Gardners R. near Mt. Tabor and Mr. and Mrs.

George Caskey, West High street She will continue to dp the drawing every Monday night until the campaign ends. Many Stores to Open Evening-s Beginning Monday and continuing until Christmas, a majority of Gettysburg merchants will keep their The awarcung of the $10 cash stores open tne evemngsPwlth to the person guessing the number of pennies in the jar at the "BETTER BUSINESS CAMPAIGN" headquarters will take place after the drawings for the merchandise prizes. the lighting of the town's Yuletide street decorations. Friday evening, and payment by local banks of Christmas savings clubs next week, merchants feel they should be ready to share in the growing volume of Children will not be admitted to Christmas business. the annex Monday night unless they are accompanied by their tvho will be held responsible their conduct.

for! Under the amended charter, terms parently went wild. across the fields, but the shots ap- in caps and couns. Additional fea- -Aill be the huce Christmas Lucy Keiper. of Lancaster. Funeral services Monday after-1 noon at 1:30 o'clock at the Martini County Man's Brother Dies i SEEK BIDS FOR SCHOOL ANNEX "Woodward told state police, who Pie presided over by the investigated the unusual incident.

I a refreshment table that he believes the man who threw sophomores: the jnf the arctics a Negro. i iVla T. here the juniors will have Chnst- cifts for member of the of six trustees will expire each year, and their places filled by the remaining members on the board. The Adams county law library association was civen $150 additional to pay for books by an order of the court. The association annually receives $300 for books.

By an orUci MI the court. Clair 1 Laughman. of Adams county, whoj County Treasurer "William I has been confined to a state hos- Shields lodav announced thai hu; pital. will be returned to the county I office in the court house will be Hoysradt. of Xew York city, further sen-ices at the Methodist Episcopal (church at 2 o'clock, the Rev.

E. I TJoT- Conrad, pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Montere officiating. Interment in! Licenses Tonight popularity contest controlled by the seniors. E. Shanefelter.

65. Han- East Berlin to Accept over, died Friday morning at four: Bids Up to 10 A. M. on Hawley o'clock following an illness of sev- December 14 era! days. Mr.

Shanefelter was a son of the AXNOUXCE ENGAGEMENT The encasement of Aliss Caroline for final disposition of a charge of larceny against him. You CAN Bt TO -fEMPfATioN BvT You HAVE. FIND YOUR OWN GUI'. Arrest Motorist On Code Charge Glen Lauehman. of Gardners, was arrested.

Fridav evening, bv a state hiehway patrolman on a cnarcc of faiJinc lo slop before crossing UK- Lincoln hichway at Cross Keys. information was laid before Justice of Ihe Peace- W. D. Myers, New Oxford. Spends S476.70 In Election Campaign Rennet, of Llttlestown.

republican eandidate for clerk of the courts, spent $47670 Sn his eampsucn at the ejection. aooordinc to expenv fl-- ernant filed in the office of F. PaJmer. eV-rt of the eonrts Renner. i whose assessment bv the I emantv eommiltoe was $300, has no unpaid obligations.

open from 7 lo 8 o'clock toss cranddauchter of the laie Dr. E. J. Caledonia Man Is Convicted of -Charge Sealed proposals will be received late Pius M. and Martha Snyder by the East Berlin school board Shanefelter.

and was born in Fred- until 1 o'clock. Saturday morning jenck. Maryland. July 9. 1870.

He I December 14. for the construction was a ciEarmaker by trade. His and equipping of an addition to the 1 -ife. who before marriage was East Berlin school building. Bids Clara AHerta Sterner, preced- 'must be submitted separately for ed him in death in January.

1927. the general contract, for heatinjz Russell GselLnear Caledonia, was' TM plumbl1 Shanefclter and Roy E. Shanefel- for electrical work. for Jlw issuance of hunt me li- Wolff, formerly a member of the censes, prcparaiorv to the openinc faf a theolocical seminary. convicted Friday In the Franklin w-TMTM-.

i Th, of the Monday Jo Edward Lu- county criminal court of charges of KaS me to noon today. 4.4ft, Jhenalle. 31 d. been an- breaking and entry and larceny piattebun: Xew York. works' admiration and to me had been Ad- nouuccd Tho weddmg will toke I toe theft of chickens from the farm Fnd Mls Emroa ipar by the East Berlin school dis cms countv in the MVIJIC.

of Amos Newcomer at Duffield and one Bradlev's Shane- recent ceneral elec- acquitted of a of receiv- Mt 'Amateur 99 Contest Blank my iwmo in Use 1 "Amalour Nijiht" oon- 1o hdd in tho Hotel Gettysrmrjr Anm-x. Monday evening. IV A ADDRESS I I I 1 of AMATEURS: burtr, 'i'fo 1o Times, tion, voters in East Berlin approved i ing stolen goods, which srew out of FvncrAi services Monday mom- $34-000 bond issue for the addition I the same case found not me at 9 St. Joseph'sCath- Jo school buildmc. i guilty of the count of recn-rinc Hancn-er The rector In Angnst stolen goods.

Gsell was assessed the Very Rev James A. Hujer. will I and specifications for the the oos-ts In that case by the officiate. will be made in i i ilt Olnct cemetery. Hanover.

now stands convicted in two cases involvinc chicken OOrXTtANS WED HERB i i havinc found cuilty at the Oc- Elaine A. Showers. ArsndtsvUje. I lobrr term of court of a charce of and Enola C. Luckenbaugh.

rfcesvmc rfolen chickens. He still 3, mamed by i faces J-RO additional rharees of re- the Rev. Spencer W. Aungst. pastor may be secured from the president of the board, Paul Lerew.

of East Berlin, or from the architect. Bernard Starr, of Har, church Key-Mar. For thft-past 30 years, Miss Hawk was substitute rural mail earner at the Key-Mar postoffice. Funeral on Monday Surviving are two uncles. Samuel Hawk, of Littlestown, and James Hawk, of Wnghtsville, and a number of nephews and nieces.

Funeral services Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Gait home in Key-Mar, the Rev. A. Longenecker, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, near Littlestown, officiating, assisted by the Rev. T.

T. Brown, pastor of the Tajneytown Presbyterian church. Interment at St. John's church cemetery. XMAS LIGHTS MAKE BIG HIT Elaborate Decorations Draw Favorable Band Gives Concert.

Gettysburg's new Christmas street decorations, officially turned on at 7:30 o'clock Friday night by Burgess Wilbur J. Stallsmith. meet the general approval of merchants and townspeople. Just as the Blue and Gray band of Gettysburg started, playing stirring selection Friday night In front of the Hotel Gettysburg Burgess Stallsmith pushed the switch that Ignited the hundreds of lights extending across the four main streets of town, one block from the square. Hundreds of people were on the streets to witness the official turning on of the lights and many motorists rode out the various streets and then turned around to approach tti- square to get a better view of tie colorful sight.

S3Z Is Needed Some expressed the belief that. some lights should be placed on t-v flagpole in the oval aroi this mom- ing C. A. Bixta-. chairman of the committee, said that he would a huge electric light fastened to ttie -op of the staff.

Other lights may arranged up and down tbe if sufficient additional costtnbui are forthcoming. Thirty-two dollars In st-Jl unpaid and the- cwnmit. upon made another appeal to-lay i cv-innc stolen coods Jamrs' Lutheran church, at jt of a Each bid must to ao so at one- so by crrtiacd of not tew bills mcurred to per of the amount of the TO AIMM5ESS ROTARY Cronmodore TV E. rvi-MAnl dirrcior of Kai.onal Cross. Washington, T) C.

viil be the speaker at 1 the parsonage. Thursday morning at i JO.30 o'clock. They were unattended I bid The minimum -a-aw rate to be on thf project will be jn ac- cordanoe with tboso established by WPA director COrNCIL MEETING Work will Mar.od or. the recular December of within five davs after the anJ toe street decorations cwi be paid at onoe. The street lights will bf turned on at 5 o'cTori each afternoon will bum until midnight or aiMs- until after New Years.

Many are of ihe Roury club council will be held Monday oonlract is awarded and tto the exterior of tortr stores f.1 the W. C. Monday evening me at 7:30 o'clock at the fire engine entire addition nvict be completed add So nxwt color- i at 6 clock. i house. on or before Aumist is isofi ful Christmas display.

on or before August 15, 1936. NEWSPAPER!.