ADS An Old Dutch Custom THE KUTZTOWN PATRIOT [NOTICE" Serving The East Penn Valley For More Than Seventy-five Years • the tbove ... VOL. LXXVI KUTZTOWN, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1950 NO. 9 i h«v,„g cL^Jj • delay, to *• Tornado Causes IMAM. 217J Perk. Local Y. M. C. A. i**ding. Pa.. Ex£t ^SCL. Attorney «„ Opens Campaign Much Damage Near Visitors From 28 States. Canada. LC.T.A. NOTICE cGOW ti^ AN. 1^ For Total of $700 New Smithville th»t lettert of .J England And Canal Zone At First «*** °f the ibot *« granted to i2 State Organizations Serves Buildings on the Farm of - the estate 0f H„ r**d to make £? More Than 400 Here Frederick Herman Are frying claim, oraL N the said deced«i And in Topton Demolished Pennsylvania Dutcli Folic Festival f*" thes,me ^iS- s "Donations are arriving by every Ripping across parts of Berks and V ! co„ >, NotA mail, to the $700 campaign to further Lehigh counties from the west, a tor­ the Y.M.C.A. work among the youth nado last night left a path of roofless, [EN. Attornevi. s* Cradling and Garnering of Wheat, of the Kutztown-Topton area" reports wind-smashed buildings, uprooted trees KUTZTOWN CALENDAR Charles H. Esser, Advisory committee and snarled wires stretching from New I NOTICE chairman. Smithville to the Lehigh river, north of Making of Soap, and Roof-Thatching IF. WENTZEL U. Services of the YMCA are rendered Fullerton. Tonight—Patriotic Program—Grange r Berks Cou^y," £j through six Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y Clubs Hardest hit was the Fred Herman Tonight—At 8:30—Annual Meeting Berks County Goat Associa­ i the above est«» for pupils in the High schools of the farm located about a mile north of tion-—Rauch's Social Rooms, Fleetwood Demonstrated; Women Spin and Weave he undersignerfTii two towns. The "Y" furnishes needed Route 22 on the road to Hynemans- lestate are requested July 7—Kutztown Night at Russell Park. Carbondale. Honoring t delay, to w program materials and supervision. ville. |L. 390 Baldy St It also operates the Youth Center Herman, who suffered a lacerated George Rhoads £ M. WENfZEL! Displays Feature Pottery, Fracturs, Chairs, Milk Baskets, Fleetwood. Pa F7 in the Gonser Home, paying the super­ leg when hit by debris, said that he, his July 8—At 1 P. M. Tractor Contest, Grange—At Grange Hall 7. JOHN W. DRY visors and providing needed equipment. wife and daughter, Lillian, watched the July 8—Fire Company Auxiliary Picnic:—Park Flails and Oil Lamps; Program Offers First Rendition ling. Pa. *• Attendance varies from 40 to 50 per LJ-May2yfr twister, coming from the direction of Inly 8—Picnic—Grace E.C. Church School—Park Of Pennsylvania Dutch Spirituals; Many Books Sold night. New Smithville, lift a large cherry tree )S PAY " SOAP MAKING—The old farm art of making soap was revived at the Penn­ July 9—All-Day Picnic—Association oi American Boyers—Park The District "Y" program includes from the ground and toss it "a hun­ sylvania Dutch Folk Festival. It is being practiced here by Mrs. John Wet­ July 9—Leibensperger Reunion—Park Patrons from 28 states and the Dis­ Displays of spinning*, weaving, pot­ zel, left, and Mrs. Harper Schneck, both of Boyertown, while Lewis Shoe­ rallies, conferences, leadership training dred feet in the air" and then pluck trict of Columbia; guests also from the tery, ceramics, fracturs, decorated July 9—At 7 P. M. Community Vespers—Rev. C. L. Heckman, maker, Schnecksville, father of Dr. Alfred Shoemaker, of Franklin and Mar­ camps, discussion courses on life prob­ row on row of corn from his fields. Canal Zone, Nova Scotia, Canada, and chairs, a Rising Sun quik. Speaker shall college, noted authority on folklore, adds a bit of salty advice. lems, and youth in government proj­ The Hermans rushed into their a Welsh woman from Liverpool Eng­ Hoe-downs and fiddlers. Picnic (Bas­ -Call-Chroncile Photo ects. Eight from Kutztown and four house just before the wind lifted a 36 July 10—At 6:30 P. M. Picnic—Legion Auxiliary—Park (In case land, revelled in the first annual Penn­ ket games in the dialect. from Topton attended recent training ft. x 52 ft. bam into the air. It fell a of rain, at the Legion Home) sylvania Dutch Festival, which closed A scarecrow; a Schnitzelbank; a doll camps for new officers at Camp Look­ mass of shredded timbers around Her­ July 12—At 3 P. M. Berks Cemetery Association—Bruin's Choice Fourth of July night. Attendance to­ with a corn cob for a body, cornhusks Auslanders Revel in Funnel Cakes, Rivel out. Boys have served at the Model man's car which was parked in the —Summer Home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baer—Speaker. Hairy talled 30,000, including those who for a dress, cornsilk hair. Legislature at Harrisburg; and girls have structure. Sanders came from Sunbury, Rehobeth Beach, Schnitz en gnepp; fasnachts by the attended sessions of a Model United "It's lucky this house was made of July 13—At 2 P. M. Reading Hospital Auxiliary—Park Flemington and Peterboro New Jersey, thousands; shoofly cake "soft on the Soup, Schnitz Pie and Blue Balsam Tea Nations. Many have also qualified for brick," Herman declared. "These walls July 13—Card Party—Legion Auxiliary—Legion Hall by plane, to return laden with fasnachts bottom;" Kutztown clams. certificates in the "Teen Talk" course. are 12 inches thick and they shook like and shoofly pie. Books, pamphlets, "The Pennsyl­ "Auslanders" from nearly 30 states | July 14—At 6:15 Picnic—-Young People's Missionary Society—Pool ning; and on the Fourth of July they Patrons are asked to send their do­ leaves." vania Dutchman," the official program, July 14—Lions—Leinbach's Hotel So successful was the four-day event reveled in schnitz pies, cheese cus- j got up at five to complete the thou­ nations to Chaiman Esser, whose assis­ Every window in the Herman home souvenirs. sand ordered for the "Breakfast in that by unanimous consent of the last- tards and shooflies at the Folk Festival. I tants are Allan K. Grim, vice chairman; was broken by the gusts of air. Soil from luly 21—V.F.W. Auxiliary Carnival—Lyons Carnival Grounds Ballads, folk-songs; the cream of Berks" broadcast. "Folks wanted mo­ night "tent" audience, a second annual They waited patiently for and watched j Russell Oswald, secretary; Paul De- the fields packed sand-blast fashion, Fersammling talent; and "Parra" tales lasses mostly for the spreadin' " they one is scheduled for approximately the with keen interest, the making of fun-; Long, treasurer; Mrs. Edwin Angstadt, against the south side of the porch same time next year in Kutztown. in the dialect. report, "and we also sold about 100 (Continued on past seven—column three) pillars. nel cakes and schnitz en gnepp. They j pounds of coffee." WEDDED 65 YEARS Chief interest centered in the crad­ Mike fright on the part of the Pa­ Inside the home, pictures littered the East Penn Observes triot editor at "Breakfast in Berks." also drank gallons upon gallons of i The Aid Society of St. Paul's Re­ ling and garnering of wheat, roof- Blue Balsam tea, some for the first: floor where they had dropped from the A Church service, the sermon in the pro* formed, here, served approximately 1,- Ruth Bonner Names shaking walls, chairs were pushed helter- thatching, the making of home-made time, others admitting as they reached; soap, and the demonstrations of weav­ dialect, the worship in High German. 100 schnitz en gnepp platters, and skelter, and broken glass crunched un­ Fourth of July in How shall we ever tell all about the for a second glass, "Haven't tasted it ing and spinning. i>n<** sold nearly a thousand raised cakes. Division Chairmen der foot. first annual Pennsylvania Dutch Folk since I was a child!" Some of the members also got up at Vivid descriptions of the tornado's A Variety of Ways The Patriot Wunnernaus records Festival in the history of America, Women of four Churches did valiant i five in the morning to make the "baked work on the Herman property was given her reaction to the Festival on this sponsored by the Pennsylvania Folk­ duty in filling orders, their menfolks; goods." Of Woman's Club by Robert Gehringer, who lives to the wise: lore Society, headquarters at Franklin serving at the stands, paring potatoes The Woman's Guild of Zion's, rear of the Herman farm, and Howard Superb weather with only a heavy and Marshall college, Lancaster. teV tt* : 1 behind the scenes, and managing trans­ Windsor Castle, in three days, sold Wessner, who watched from the win­ Park Has "Better Day Than shower at the close of the wheat-crad­ The Jacob Hartman wheat field, near portation. about 800 "pieces" of milk tarts, ling. Program of Music Follows dow of his house down the road. Last Year;" Activity the fairgrounds, re-echoed, on the Among those who sold "the or-i shoofly pies and cheese custards, some "I saw timbers flying more than a A continuous program that brought Also at Airport Fourth, to the whet of the scythe, and dinary" at refreshment stands, were j of the members on "all through the Installation Conducted hundred feet in the air," Wessner de­ new knowledge and understanding; the swing of cradles, as representatives the Lions, the KHS Band, the Fair night" duty to make that total pos­ belly laughs; nostalgia. By Mrs.