Gettysburg Times (Newspaper) - December 30, 1925, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING People who are never worry about other people's business V WEATHER Cloudy Thursday THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Member of The Associated Press Truth Our Public Good Our Aim Read By Nearly Everybody In Adams County TWENTY-SECOND YEAR GETTYSBURG WEDNESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS Public Comfort Station at Court House Assured By Commissioners A County Board Agrees To Give To Public Fund And Maintain Rest Rooms Sub- scription Lists Being Circulated For Balance Of Cost By Group Of Individuals to provide a public comfort station in Gettysburg in the court house for the people of burg and Adams county as well as the thousands of tourists who come here yearly was launched today by a group of individuals who have sensed the need of this modern community improvement and service to the public i ment The Adams county ers have given the movement im- petus by starting the subscription list with an agreement to pay toward the cost of tion and also agreeing to tain it after it has been installed in the court house basement While the subscription list is being j is stated circulated among business people other public spirited citizens and of the town and county j the sponsors engaged in obtaining information concerning the j of the comfort station It j K hoped to announce the exact cost within the next few clays Presages Success j Although local trade and civic have realized thc need of public comfort station in burg and have discussed the of obtaining one for several cars it has remained for a few to get the intr toward actual establishment 1 he rest rooms under way And the quiet unobtrusive manner in which tion if your board will grant the use of that part of the court house and agree to maintain it after it has been installed It is the purpose of these signers to pay all the cost of installation the only part in which the county would have to incur expense being the maintenance According to leaders in the and persons circulating the subscription lists the plan is meeting with hearty and universal approval locally and little difficulty is being experienced obtaining tions The campaign for funds in OPEN HOUSE AT ENGINE HOUSE The Gettysburg Fire Department will hold open house at the fire engine house East Middle street New Year's afternoon and evening for all men women and children of Gettysburg and Adams county We hope that everybody in and Adams county comes to the engine house on New Year's day to see the recently completed the county's ambulance and fire Fire Chief James B men said this morning Small favors will be given to all men and women who attend the open house function the fire chief stated and plans are being made to have an G-BURG PRODUCT TO BE PART OF GIGANTIC SHOW Product Of Local ture Factories To Be Displayed At Chicago The Gettysburg furniture factories and the Hanover Cabinet Company all under the general management of orchestra furnish music in the M C Jones have entered exhibits of ing The open house will be from 2 o'clock until 9 o'clock it was stated YOUNG PRODIGY IS RELATED TO LOCAL COUPLE earnest will be made as soon as com- cy figures of the approximate cost jof the improvement are available it the products of the local factories in the annual winter furniture style show which opens in Chicago next Monday January 4 in the American j Furniture Hart i At this show of international fame in furniture manufacturing and ing circles the latest creations of America's premier furniture men will be exhibited to the re- tailers who come to Chicago from every state in the union and many foreign countries according to in- j formation received by The Times from of America at COUNTY FIREMEN MEET ON MONDAY The first quarterly meeting in 1926 of the Adams County sociation will be held here Monday evening January 4 it was announced today The meeting promises to be- one of the most important in the j tory of the organization according to James B Aumen president and all firemen in the county are being urged to attend At the business session which will be at the court house ments have been made for several speakers and and the complete gram of entertainment numbers were not available today but will be an- later this week the visiting firemen of the county will be entertained and given refreshments at the fire engine house Gettysburg Couple HOLD HEARING FOR HANOVERIAN Use 6000 Sq Ft Floor Space In the information from j Chicago that the local companies would be represented in the gigantic display of furniture of all makes and IRVING LOSES LUTHERAN GIRL COLLEGE SITE Board Of Directors Adopts Resolution To Erect New In- Five Councilmen Fail to Appear For Adjourned Session of Town Council Preventing a Quorum Councilmen Stock Snyder Rex Oyler and son Who Opposed Engine House Heating Plant Are Absent When Meeting Is Called To Reconsider Previous Action Of Rejection Gettysburg's borough council failed to meet in adjourned session Tuesday evening Five of the nine councilmen did not appear preventing a quorum and the president Frank Hadyn P Reinecker son designs Mr Jones said today that i the companies under his management of Mr and Mrs H P Remecker of Charles Myers Blamed For Death of Littlestown Woman Given Hearing in County Jail Consideration of Irving College at Mechanicsburg as the site for the Inglewood California and grandson square feet of floor space in the J proposed college for Lutheran women ture hart upon which the local com- panies have a permanent lease Mr Jones will personally supervise the of Mr and Mrs Levi Reinecker York street amazes California educators by reading and writing according to an interesting feature article which appeared on the first page of the Los Angeles Evening American The i article is accompanied by a large While funeral services were being v r TT j T photograph of Hadyn Jr It is cap- held this afternoon for Mrs Bertie Southern California Boy of A Ebaugh wife of William F 2 Amazes Educators by prominent Littlestown and contains an explanatory Charles Myers Hanover j note at the bottom of the picture Pens Daily Note to Mother was virtually abandoned Tuesday The board of directors meeting in display in Chicago and assisting him j Philadelphia which has been seeking will be members uf the sales ul a luxation for the new college adopted An- they are going about it presages of the program the arrival j whom a jury named as p of another tourist season n the responsible for her death was being ec Inglewood ion of those who are acquainted with j given a preliminary hearing at the the local factories including Louis Dorson and William Berdine The Chicago news dispatch to The Times giving details of the furniture show further 775 Exhibits There are today over 775 separate exhibits in the world's largest ing Leaders in every line display the details of the program The subscription blanks being contain the following To the of Adams County Gettysburg Pa Dear The undersigned taxpayers of and Adams county re- call your attention to the following There is needed here a public service station for the of our own community tho people of the county coming to Gettysburg and the tens of thousands of tourists need has been felt for a time but with the growth of the town and the increase in traffic ft has be- come more keenly felt during the past summer than ever before Room In Court House There is in the east end of the basement of the court house ple room for the installation of proper comfort station facilities both for men and women the place is centrally located and could be made easily accessible from the street Pay toilets would partly defray the cost of a of the station and the upkeep would not run much above thus revenue We the undersigned agree to give the amounts set opposite our names for the construction and equipment of such comfort Adams county jail i Funeral services for Mrs Ebaugh j were held at 1 o'clock from her late i home on South Queen street j town and were largely attended The i Rev Earl G Kline pastor of Re- i Reformed church near df which the deceased woman was a member officiated Burial was in Mount Carmel Littlestown The Ebaugh home filled floral tributes from relatives prodigy in Reading and Writing spelling out newspaper headlines The article as published in the Los Angeles newspaper reads Tot Pens notes to Mother spells out Evening Herald Headlines Two-year-old Jerry Reinecker Jr has astounded Los Angeles cators with his remarkable ability to read clearly and write legibly though only two candles appeared on his birthday cake August 20 last Hadyn P a resolution voicing the opinion of the board that a new institution shall be erected The officers of the board were em- powered to obtain options on sites Besides Irving College several other institutions had been ered by the board from time to time Finding it impossible to crystallize opinion on any one site the board adopted Tuesday afternoon's Councilmen Snyder Stock Oyler Dickson and Rex were absent President Peckman and Councilmen Schnurman Dougherty and Koch were present at o'clock when the meeting was to have been called to order Secretary Ross Myers Burgess Olinger and Borough Solicitor Swope were also present for the adjourned session The main item of business scheduled for discussion was the proposed heating system for the engine house which was re- December 4 by the councilmanic body Since then the firemen presented a petition to President Frank Peckman ed by approximately 1000 Gettysburg voters calling upon cil to rescind its action in rejecting A B Plank's lowest bid for installation of the new heating plant President Peckman declared before calling the adjourned meeting that he would lay the petition before the councilmen at Tuesday night's meeting t Law Requires Quorum 1 The same five councilmen i voted to reject Mr Plank's bid for in- of the heating plant were absent Tuesday night They failed to put in an appearance for the ad- session With only four councilmen present it was impossible to conduct business of the borough the law requiring a quorum and in this instance five members of council constitute a quorum Just why the councilmen did not appear at Tuesday night's meeting is a matter of conjecture Councilman RECEIVED HERE Bituminous and Anthracite Sub- Fuel lem in Gettysburg Say Dealers their products in natural home roundings where the visiting dealer and buyer may see the furniture as resolution as a solution of the it will appear in the homes of his community The next meeting will be held at The concerns whose sales j the call of the church quarters are located in the Hart Women Give Advice transact about 75 per cent of the To aid in the consideration of the tal business of the furniture industry j problem the board called into the Furniture of every type and de- session a number of prominent will be shown ranging from 1 theran women The resolution was i i tt 1 i J 1 V the lowly kitchen chair to the adopted after listening to their ad- Bituminous coal in many iarge cities living room set in various price vice classifications Anything and rr anthracite coal has been shipped into Gettysburg in more than two months a survey of local coal dealers Stock said Tuesday morning that ho reveals With winter riding on the crest absence of hard coal ordinarily might work a hardship on many local families but the use of bituminous and anthracite substitutes according to local coal dealers has banished many of the problems of the burning question planned to attend the council meeting while Councilmen Snyder Rex Oyler and Dickson stated that it would be impossible for them to be in at- tendance Councilman Koch could not be located yesterday to secure a ment regarding whether or not he would attend but it was learned Bituminous the most widely used i through his friends that he would bo substitute here is selling from to a ton While prices of the soft present At noon Tuesday five Peckman Schnurman coal has risen in several nearby towns and announced and cities to as high as a would be present This would no advance has yet been made or is I have constituted a quorum in prospect here local dealers assert i When the meeting was scheduled to and friends of Mrs Ebaugh ay first at- to the esteem m which she was on Second Page ond birthday off the alphabet before a party composed of his mother and neighbors Then he demonstrated his ability Continued on Second Page IS IN HARRISBURG PALLBEARERS FOR MRS L S MEALS I Roy E Zinn Hanover street re- A appointed Tuesday as mercantile 4 IN Hii W o praiser for Adams county was called to Harrisburg today for a conference I with Auditor General Edward j l tin under whom the mercantile 1 in the state is conducted j All other mercantile appraisers in the various counties were also called the conference today to discuss their work viewed and inspected on one of the sixteen exhibition floors The Furniture Club of America the social center of the industry on I the floor of the Hart according i to Morgan W Price executive tary will be host to the visiting re- 1 tailers on the evening of January 11 i when a large banquet followed by en- 1 and dancing will be given j This is the outstanding social event of the show and is attended by ing- figures from every section of the country The Rev Dr John Henry Harms pastor of the Church of thc Holy Communion Philadelphia is president of the board and presided at the meeting The Rev William A Kump of Chambersburg is secretary Included among the women in at- tendance Dr Mary student secretary of the board of education of the United Lutheran Church of New York Mrs W F Moorehead Salem Virginia Mrs August Pohlman Mrs D Burt is selling as high as and a ton it is claimed be called Councilman Stock was the only one of the five who had said they would be in attendance F Seebach Mrs C P Wiles and Pocahontas bituminous coal failed to put in an appearance the fields of West Virginia one of other four being present the best forms of soft coal selling j Sought Heating Plant locally at a ton l Members of toe local fire A steady and ever-increasing those who the Pe mand is being noted among local coal calling upon council to rescind dealers for manufactured anthracite i its action relative to the by pressing the waste in mining ition of a heating plant were hopeful anthracite This fuel is being sold that favorable action would be taken here at a ton burns slowly flame and is generally con- by coal men as It is and with a steady m at last night's meeting When the good j councilmen failed to appear ing the holding of the only rival Funeral services for Mrs Ida Staley Meals who died Saturday were held at her home in Harrisburg Tuesday at 1 o'clock the Rev R B Gulp pastor of Immanuel j The appraisal of all retail business terian church officiating Interment I places in the county for the purpose j was jn the Bendersville cemetery I of determining the state mercantile tax will be begun in Adams county j within the next few weeks by Mr Zinn it is stated Four nephews of Mrs Meals were pallbearers They were Edward Peters Sterling Peters Philip Houck and I Dale Meals I nent 01 buun Ik T I l VET WHO FOUGHT i Merger of Y HERE SUCCUMBS Churches Inaugurated By Local SEEKS DATA ON TOURISTS HERE Superintendent of Battlefield Guides Seeks to Learn ber of Visitors Here In 1925 Miss Dorthea Hess of Philadelphia Mrs H M Rossman New York Miss Laura R Swope Erwinna Mrs James P Reese Lutherville land Mrs Virginia Sease Parian b on thc road i burg Miss Sara van Gundy Trti The SELLS BUNGALOW Charles H Fissel has sold son Fire Chief Aumen declared he had no statement to make other than that the five councilmen who failed to appear for the have refused to consider the request of 1000 voters of Benjamin Edward Davis resident of Waynesboro died Sunday morning at o'clock at the home of his son Charles Davis Death was caused by the infirmities of old age He was aged 86 years For the past four years he has been confined to his bed Mr Davis was a veteran of the Graduate Rev Dr F H Knuble Members of Lutheran churches in Gettysburg and Adams county are in- watching a movement which three o has been launched to merge the largest end wealthiest Civil War having served three years Lutheran churches in New York City and six months with Co C Two of thc properties in the vania Infantry While with this out- merger are in the heart of fit he participated in the Battle of Gettysburg He was a member of the Church of God of Oak Hill Maryland He is survived by six Mrs Thomas Gibson Columbia Mrs Frank Bowers Frederick Maryland Mrs George Engle Mrs Thomas West James T and Charles A Waynesboro Funeral services were held this morning in the First United Brethren church at Thurmont The cortege left the house at 10 o'clock The Rev B D Rojahn officiated Burial in the adjoining cemetery There ii thc natural pride of cood printers who have good types and presses to work with in every job of turned out by Thc Gettysburg Timed of people own thr Atwater Kent for demonstration today Manhattan and use of the equity from the three properties which is expected to to more than would to erect a skyscraper theran building The Rev Dr Frederick H Knubel president of the United Lutheran Church in America and graduate of Gettysburg College and the Seminary here a member and former pastor of the Church of the Atonement one of the three mentioned in The proposal is that the skyscraper building shall be at least thirty ries high that the first four stories shall be given up to a church and that ill the other stories shall be used for headquarters of national state and Lutheran organizations j Tho congregations in thc proposed Control Licenses of battlefield guides for 1925 expire on Thursday and William Storrick superintendent of the force of men who direct tourists over famous battlefield today fixed January 20 as the last day for renewing permits for 1926 At the same time Mr Storrick an- that no for guide ly received an offer of for its property the Church of the Ad- vent Broadway and Seventy-third licenses will be held this year thus street which is believed to be valued departing from an annual custom of at and the Church of years standing According to Atonement which about a year ago Mr Storrick the reason no lid i a i- sold its property at avenue and street The latter gation is now worshipping in a small chapel which it built on leased erty at 15 Hamilton Terrace Among its worshippers is the Rev Dr lion will be held this year is that there is a reserve list of men awaiting places on thc guides roster and that the number is larger than the New Jersey Miss Sara van Gundy d of j The next meeting of the National Cathedral School 1 1926 borough council is scheduled for ton Miss Ruth Immel dean ot A January 4 Women of Wittenberg College Councilmen Dougherty and Koch Springfield Ohio will retire from the board with the end of this year Mr Dougherty completes 12 consecutive years ice as a member of the cil while Mr Koch finishes his ond term W A Miller succeeds Mr Dougherty in the first ward chair while Clinton E Tawney former T popular clerk to the Adams county commissioners Mr Koch in Special Hunting Season Proves Disappointment Says Reports of the killed during the number special of open deer enough to cause crop damage censes were issued to landowners upon application without charges but non- j landowners were required to pay I son in six counties in this section are being reported very slowly of- at the state game said yesterday From the meager reports ever they estimate that the bag of deer will fall far below whiat had been anticipated To sportsman who feared and to farmers and ists who hoped that the son would thin out the deer tin themselves of the opportunity the second ward cense fee of Deer Damaging Forest Landowners in the sections where the special season was opened arc under the law to kill deer caught damaging crops or trees and retain the carcass but reports to the Extra Dividend Is Paid By Bank The Directors of the First National Bank of Gettysburg at a regular meeting declared the dividend of two per cent and tions where their raids on cropls have ben most damaging the season has Continued on Second Page I been a disappointment erick vH Knubel president of the Apply Coat Of Paint To Court House Corridors United Lutheran Church in America who before his election to this office was pastor of the church The Church of the Atonement of which tho Rev Dr Theodore George Harlwig is the pastor has already voted unanimously in favor of the The special season was created by to ascertain the success of the special the game commission in sections of season I Adams Cumberland Franklin Deer are so numerous in the 1 i commission show that few availed and of the opportunity on all outstanding stock of Seth E Gordon secretary of the commission has not as yet returned to Harrisburg from an inspection trip Harvey Bushman with a force of men this morning began the of the corridors of the court house Hotel Holy Trinity church West nnd Sixty-fifth street which it is understood Park 1 M J A W v w merger and the building project Dr for the work was iet to Mr is looked upon as the father Bushman at the regular weekly ing oV the commissioners on Tuesday Tho present contract calls for the painting of only the corridors but it is expected that several of the offices in need of paint will be touched up afterward chief promoter of the plan The official board of both the Church of the Holy Trinity of which the Rev R Paul Scherer is the tor and of the Church of the Ad- vent of which tho Rev Dr Augustus is pastor have agreed to call special meetings of their tions to consider thc questions ii always delivered when at Tho office ingdon Mifflin and Perry counties It was open for killing of all deer state forest which com- prises a large part of Cameron the institution Both dividends are1 the holders of record December 31 1925 and payable January 2 1926 This makes a total dividend paid to holders of tha bank 1925 eleven per cent A V i including those without visible ty and parts of adjoining counties from December 18 to 22 inclusive that they have become a menace to The game expectation young trees on forest plantations had been that approximately 3500 cording to reports made yesterday to deer would be killed in the six the department of forests and waters ties estimating kills of 800 each from Forester Hogeland of Cumberland and Adams 750 from Franklin 500 from Huntingdon 400 from Perry and 300 from Mifflin In Adams county only 81 were ed The special season waa declared by the game commission under provisions of a law which gives it authority in Sections where are numerous Snow which covers the COUPLE BURNS TO DEATH By Press Berlin New Jersey Dec bodies of Milton Catts 48 and his wife burned to a crisp were found in the ruins of their hame near hero early today When you need printing that is Forest has made food hunting di for the deer and they are fc on tops of young trees on time to lamd reports that between 10 and tn Thc per cent of the young trees on the j plantations in the district have been Stow imt out tlM it by thc deer county
