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VOL, XLII LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7,1918 NO. 8
EVENTS M M TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Items of Minor Mention, So to Speak
but of Interest to the Average Reader
at Home and Abroad.
A pocket-book was lost in town.
Finder will do a favor by returning to
this office.
Quite a contrast this week is the low
death rate compared with that of the
past month.
The Moravian Sewing Society will
meet next Tuesday at its room in the
S. S. chapel.
Information concerning the sending
of Christinas boxes to soldiers will he
found on page 6.
Lititz Lodge No. 1050, I. 0. O. F.,
will have an installation on Monday
evening of next week.
Charles Regennas daily for some
time recently plucked ripe strawber-ries
from a patch in his garden.
Elias Vogel, proprietor of the Blos-som
Hill peach farm, was caught in a
circular saw with the right hand this
week, badly injuring three fingers,
N. D. Sturgis caught six salmon at
the river Saturday, the largest one
weighing three and a half pounds.
Charles Bricker caught one which
tipped the scale at five pounds.
Harvey P. Singer of this place has
recently been appointed an uncertified
substitute mail clerk and is working
between New York and Pittsburg.
While cranking an automobile on
Sunday John Mummert fractured the
right wrist. He resides with his
brother Joseph near J. C. Brubaker's
home, north of town.
Mrs. Jacob Shoemaker, who resided
here for the past twenty-eight years,
left this week and will make her home
with Solomon Heverling and f&mily
on Lititz Route No. 2.
Pfautz Bros, fall opening sale vail
be held from Thursday, Nov. 7, to Sat-urday,
Nov. 16, inclusive. Some big
values are offered. Don't miss seeing
advertisement on page 8.
Attention, Knights of Malta. Meet-ings
will again be resumed in the
lodge hall, beginning this Thursday
evening. No meeting had been held
since Oct. 3rd, owing to the epidemic.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ferry Garber, of
Lancaster, announce the arrival of a
baby girl in their home iast week. Mr.
Garber is a son oi E. U Garber, of
Lititz.
D. W, Withers returned from a two
weeks' trip to New York State, where
he bought a large lot of apples. Ke
disposed of a car of the fruit in town
this week.
Miss Eliza Buch reached her eighty-first
milestone on Tuesday and a num-ber
of neighbors called at her home in
honor of her birthday. She is an in-valid
for several years.
The picture show house will be open
here on Thursday evening and on Sat-urday
seven reels of pictures will be
shown, with Hackman's full orchestra
in attendance.
Thus far Wayne Grube lost 56 pigs
by cholera since the disease invaded
his pens. Some of them were ready to
kill while others were small ones. Mr.
Grube has only a few left. Hard luck.
A meeting of the local Retail Mer-chants
will be held at the Young Men's
Business League rooms next Tuesday
evening. This will be an important
meeting and every member is urged to
be present.
The late Harry Keith of Brownstown
left a will in which his son Chester
and a brother George are named as
the executors of his estate. The store
property and stock are offered for
sale.
A carload of baking chocolate, com-prising
8000 pounds, was sent from
the Ideal factory this week to the U.
S. Quartermaster's department. An-other
car is being filled at present for
shipment.
Emanuel Ditzler bought out the
good will and fixtures of the shoe re-pair
shop formerly conducted by the
late Harry Wagaman. Emanuel has
worked in the shoe factory for twelve
years and naturally knows a thing or
two about the shoe business.
The home of Mrs. Laura Grossman,
corner of Spruce and Orange streets,
was sold to Aaron K. Brubaker of Eliz-abethtown
for $4,200 through the
agency of Hershey & Gibbel. Mr. and
Sirs. Brubaker resided on Front street
some years ago.
Not only have leather shoes ad-vanced
in price but steel shoes for
horses are going up right along.
Blacksmiths used to charge a dollar
f o r putting on four shoes, now the
price is $i.75 to $=3.00, and they say-that
they will soon be forced to make
another raise.
Running into a mule with his auto
on Monday at Oregon Dr. E E. Evans
instantly killed the animal. The mule,
which was owned by Harry Hess, had
started to run on the street from the
barnyard. The collision threw the
animal against a stone fence. The
only damage to the car was two brok-en
glasses in the lights and a slightly
damaged mudguard.
Mrs. Sara Jenkins, who had given
her services to many families during
the past month among persons who
could not afford to pay for a trained
nurse, has received compensation from
the local Red Cross Chapter. Mrs.
Jenkins worked faithfully, putting in
long and hard days, and did it without
a thought of pay. Outside of supplying
food to needy families this is the first
money expended by the Red Cross at
3soroe.
LITITZ BOYS
WOUNDED
Write of Their Experience
from Hospital
Ralph Downey Wounded
Ralph Downey, writing from some-where
in France to his mother at this
place, under date of October 5, says:
No doubt you will be more than
pleased to receive this letter, as I
know you are nil worried, for no doubt
you have seen my name in the papers
in the casualty list. I went into battle
early on the morning of Sept. 26 and
was slightly wounded in the back and
side. Was not shot but received
bruises from a high explosive shell
which, dropped close to me. Of the
four of us close together three went
down, one dead and two badly wound-ed.
I was thrown on some rocks and
in that way I was hurt, which occurred
Sept. 29. Am now in a hospital in
France. Hope to he o u t again shortly.
Your loving son,
RALPH DOWNEY.
Paxil Badorf Among' (lie Wounded
Writing from France under date of
October 5, Paul Badorf writes to his
mother at the Warwick House about
his episodes and injuries as follows:
Have been in the hospital since a
week ago to-day and was slightly
wounded on the head by an aeroplane
bomb in a drive. Have a few numb
fingers on my right hand so I'm doing
the best I can with my left hand. Am
able to walk around and eat anything,
so don't worry. Do not know how soon
I may be sent away from here. The
American nurses are very kind and do
all they can for us. In sending any-thing
to me I would suggest Ideal or
Hershey chocolate.
Your son,
_ PAUL.
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT BURGESS
Council Wont .Tell and five Town
Hasn't Remotest Idea
Now thatG. G. Diehm was elected to the
State Legislature on Tuesday it willmean
that he will have to resign as burgess
of the town and a successor appointed
by Council to serve during the remain-der
of his term. It is quite likely that
the borough authorities have given
this serious consideration, and if they
have any one under consideration they
have kept it so quiet that the people
in the town are without even a sur-mise.
They have the town guessing.
There" is no muifificent" pay connected
with the job, and the honor that goes
with it is neutralized by the ma&y an-noyances
and worries which the mayor
is subject to. Mr. Diehm has served
less than a year of the four-year term
but he declares he could write a book
about Iiis experiences.
If any person is hankering for the
job they have not expressed them-selves
and no lobbying among the
councilmen has been reported. It takes
a good man to hold down this job of
high mucky-muck and maybe Council
is still on the hunt. Every person is
entitled to a guess, "Who will be our
next burgess?''
When ROT. JOS. Baker Writes He Says
Something
The following brief but interesting
and encouraging letter was received
by our former townsman, Rev. Jos. B.
Baker, the well-known minister of a
flourishing Lutheran congregation at
Gettysburg:
November 1, 191S.
Dear Friend:
Enclosed find check for renewal of
RECORD. Couldn't do without it and
be a good pretzel eater. It tastes as
good as the old pretzels and is as re-freshing
as water from' the old
springs.
Was sorry indeed to hear of Ches-ter
Spickler's death. Convey my
sympathy to the family. For about a
month there has hardly been a day
when I have not had one or two
funerals ahead of me. Have two be-fore
me now. With best wishes, I
beg to remain, Your friend,
L_B. BAKER.
TRAP FACTORY BUSY
Twenty-Fire Carloads Lumber Are on
Hand—Picking- (Jp New Business
The Oneida Trap Factory is again
running with a full force of employees,
as nearly all the victims of influenza
are back at work again. Superintend-ent
Frank Dengate reports business
brisk and a good supply of new mate-rial
on hand, among it twenty-five
carloads of lumber. At one time it
was feared that the cutting off of Eur-opean
export trade ori account of the
war would reduce the output of the
plant, but this loss has been more than
replaced by increased business in this
country and exports to new fields.
Turning' Out War Work
In the wood-working department a
force of employees is busy turning out
war work, which will take four
months to complete. Machinery had to
be altered for turning out this new
work, and employees had to be in-structed
in the operating of it, but
everything is running smoothly and
government officials who inspected the
place from time to time- are well
pleased with the progress that is being-made.
It shows what can be accom-plished
when the occasion demands
and when it is backed up by Yankee
ingenuity and pep. The Oneida Com-munity
of New York offered its serv-ices
to the Government early in the
war from patriotic motives and is
working on six different articles,
handing the one contract to the local
branch because it was well equipped
to do .this particular work.
PERSONS CALLED TO THE
GREAT BEYOND
Nurse Died in the General Hospital
Miss Violetta Groff, a nurse at the
General Hospital, died at that institu-tion
Tuesday morning, from pneu-monia,
after a three weeks' illness.
She was first attacked with influenza,
which soon developed into the fatal
illness. Miss Groff wras born in West
Earl township, but had lived at»-Lititz
for the past eleven years. She was
twenty-one years, eleven months and
ten days old. About a year ago she
entered the General Hospital to take
up the nursing profession. She was a
member of the Church of the Breth-ren,
and is survived by her mother,
Mrs. Ada Groff, residing on East Front
street, Lititz; two sisters, Mrs. Edwin
Lutz, of Middle Creek, and Ada, at
home, and three brothers, Luke, Chris-tian
and Roy, at home. The body was
removed to the mother's home. The
funeral will take place Friday at 9 A.
M. at the house and will be private.
Interment will be made at Groffdale
cemetery, near Bareville,
William Miller
William Miller died last Thursday
night about 10 o'clock at the Lancas-ter
County Hospital from cerebral
paralysis, aged 35 years. He is sur-vived
by his father, Daniel T. Miller,
of Lititz, two brothers, Elmer, Lititz;
John, of Lancaster, and one sister,
Mrs. Herman Palmer, of Rome. De-ceased
was a member of the U. E.
church. The funeral was held on Sun-day
afternoon from the home of his
father on Spruce street, Lititz, with
services at 2 o'clock. Further services
were held at 3 o'clock at Longeneck-er's
Meeting House, where interment
was made.
ru
Frank Stonehack
Frank Stoneback died on Saturday
night at the home of his brother-in-law,
Calvin Hine,at Millway, from con-sumption.
The deceased who was 32
years of age, is survived by his moth-er,
Mrs. William Gebert, of Zieglers-ville,
Pa.; and the following sisters
and brothers: 'Isabella»,, wife of Calvin
Hine, Millway; Mrs. Elarry Boynton,
Reading; Mrs. Freeman Ritter, Boy-ertown;
Mrs. George Myers, Zieglers-ville;
Clara, Millway, and John, in
France. Funeral will be held on Fri-day.
Interment will be made at,
Sciiwenksvill(iv Bucks county, on Fri-day.
HANDY XAN TO HAVE AROUND
P. R. Bucher Can Do Anything From
Fixing- a Wash Line to Erecting' a
Telephone Line
By war and death Lititz is short of
electricians. In order to help, out the
situation Phares B. Bucher is back in
the electrical game again, having had
his experience at the time Lititz first
saw the light of the incandescent 25
years ago, being one of the directors of
the first light/ plant here. Recently
Mr. Bucher installed an electric sys-tem
on a farm and has been doing
work about the town. But that is not
the only thing he does, for when it
comes to being versatile Mr. Bucher
has all others in town beaten going
and coming. He can turn a hand at
plumbing, woodworking, building
bridges, supervising the building of
houses, can vulcanize tires, repair ma-chinery,
has had contracts for street
macadamizing, has boshed telephone
construction, erected pretzel ovens,
has been buying and selling potatoes
and apples by carload lots, erects
metal corn cribs, is president Of the
Board of Health, has covered Europe
and saw the greater part of the
United States, and has enough "pep"
left_to argue on any question with any
person who raises a point of dispute.
Some time ago a Lancaster man
called up Mr. Bucher by phone and
asked him if he did anything else be-sides
building bridges. When Mr.
Bucher told him what he could do, be-ginning
with item, A and ending with
Z, the man thought he was fooling, got
angry and hung up the receiver.
Club Boys Had a Fine Time
Twenty-four members of the S. R. C.
were present at the club room on Hal-lowe'en
night. The place was dec-orated
with corn fodder, leaves and
pumpkins. After the lunch, consisting
of sandwiches, cakes, cheese, pretzels,
pickles, grape juice and what not else,
quite a few reported seeing ghosts
during the night. Victor Wagner, the
heavy-weight member, besides eating
of everything on the menu, was re-sponsible
for the disappearance of
fifteen sandwiches. There was singing
and the affair was enjoyed by all pres-ent,
TOTED FOR 52 YEARS
Henry J. Sealber Has Not Missed
Casting a Ballot Since 1856
Henry J. Seaber, over 83 years old,
voted on Tuesday for the fifty-second
year, and has never missed casting a
ballot since 1856. His first vote was
for John C. Fremont, the first candi-date
for president when the Republi-can
party was organized. Years later
he shook hands with General Fremont,
when he came here to attend the
funeral of John A. Sutter. Mr. Seaber
told the unsuccessful candidate that
he was sorry he had not been elected.
"I was sorry myself," replied tht Gen-eral.
vvith a smile.
Mr. Seaber, while enjoying good
mental- faculties, is partly paralyzed in
the lower limbs, so that for a number
of years it is necessary for him to be
conveyed to the polling place.
A NEW FIRM MEMBER
Mr. Willis Rader, of Allentown, is Now
Associated Willi the Record
W, Willis Rader, of Allentown, has
become a member of the firm of the
Lititz Record, in place of the late
Chester G. Spickler. Mr. Rader conies
here highly recommended, and al-though
a young man has had quite a
lot of experience in the printing busi-ness.
He learned his trade under Al-bert
O. Sturgis at Nazareth and pol-ished
up. in his work in city shops, so
that he is a thorough, practical all-around
printer. The Record, after
being handicapped since the death of
Mr. Spickler from numerous reasons,
is now in a good position again to turn
out efficient and prompt job work. Mr.
Rader will bring his family here in
the near future. The addition of an-other
man in the firm is necessary to
keep up the high standard of the Rec-ord,
as it requires more than one ex-ecutive
in order to do justice to the
editorial and mechanical work. The
new firm asks the public for a contin-uance
of the patronage accorded in
the past years to this office.
COAL CONDITION IX LITITZ
Better Now Than Last Year at This
Time
"'"The coal situation at present in
town is fairly good," said dealer Wm.
H. Muth, "and the prospects are that
the town will pass through the winter
without the shortage of fuel seen here
last year. However conservatism must
continue to be practiced as unforeseen
conditions may arise, and the supply
arriving is not enough to store up
much surplus at the coal yards."
Under present conditions consumers
frequently have to be satisfied with
other sizes and grades than what they
had been accustomed to use. A great
many more consumers are stocked up
for the winter than last year at this
time.
California Naval Man Yisits John A.
Sutter's Grave
Mr. Howard Hull, wife and child, of
Lancaster, accompanied by his step-brother,
Ensign Frank Link, of the
U. S. S Western Comet, were in town.
Mr. Link's home is San Francisco and
while in town went to the Moravian
graveyard to see the resting place of
Gen. John A. Sutter, his great-grand-father.
New Manager at Zion Home
Rev. John D. Brubaker and fahiily,
who resided' northwest of Manheim,
moved to the United Zion Home near
hare and today he will assume the
d% ties of manager. Mr. John Peiffer,'
the former manager, who served there
less than a year, has moved to Lititz
in Dr. C. E. Lane's house on East Main
street and will likely work here.
There are fifty inmates at the Zion
Home with applicants on the waiting
list.
Good for Linden Hall
Linden Hall Seminary now has the
pleasure of caring for and teaching 42
boarding pupils, besides quite a num-ber
of day scholars. Not only this, but
it has the guarantee of three more
pupils to come in a very few days.
This is a larger number than the
school has enjoyed for many years,
thanks to Principal F. W. Stengel and
his good wife, who are leaving no stone
unturned to make the old institution a
success.
Draftees for November 15
Ephrata Draft, Board No. 2 will send
the following draftees to Camp Meade
on Friday, Nov. 15:
Eml. Ditzler, Lititz; John Ellis Swei-gart,
Ephrata R. 3; Robert M. Plank-enfield,
Ephrata; Walter Essinger,
Ephrata; Floyd F. Leicy, Ephrata;
Thomas Woodward, Caernarvon/ Har-vey
Haldeman, Akron; Levi N. Dulla-bahn,
Lititz R. D.; Howard S. Good,
Stevens R. 1; Chas. F. Reichard, Eph-r
a t a ; Schuyler M. Smith, Akron;
Amos A. Stauffer, Akron; John C.
Rock, Denver R. 2.
On the same date as above the fol-lowing
will be sent to Camp Crane,
Allentown:
Allen S. Haines, Lititz; Edgar Zel-lers,
Lititz; Frank C. Shoh, Roths-ville;
Harry W. Moyer, Vinemont;
Walter C. Hornberger, Lititz; Harry
Lorah, Bowmansville; Guy F. Bair,
New Holland; John H. Sheaffer, Lan-caster;
Clarence E. Wissler, Lincoln;
Luke K. Royer, Lititz; Lincoln W.
Christ, Ephrata.
Alternates
Spencer Frymyer, Akron; Chas. G.
Steffy, Denver R. 1; Clarence M.
Ernst, Lititz; Caleb Snader, Ephrata;
Floyd C. Reinlrold, Reading; Harvey
R. Dennis, Lancaster R. 5; Richard
M. Lippus, Ephrata; Walter G'etz,
Ephrata; Roy E. Kauffman, Neffsville;
Robt. Leicy, Blainesport; Jacob M.
Hackman, Lincoln.
G, G, Diehm Elected to State Legisla-ture
Lancaster county fell solidly in line
for William C. Sproul, Republican can-didate
for Governor, and in the state
the Republicans won by a big major-ity.
It is believed that Congress will
be controlled by Republicans.
Practically every township in the
county has gone for the Republican
party. Congressman Griest has been
re-elected.
The four candidates to the General
Assembly from this district are all
Republicans, among whom is G. G.
Diehm, of this place.
The votes polled in the First Ward
here follow: Republican 256, Demo-cratic
20, Socialist 2, Prohibition 13,
and split tickets 79; Second Ward,
Republican 1S5, Democrat 15.
TRAVELERS NEAR HI
A COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
GUNNING
REPORTS
Many Persons Come and Go by Train
Trolley, Auto and Other Conveyances
Mrs. Martha Huebener spent several
days at Witmer.
Mr. Walter H. Buch spent Sunday
at Quarryville.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Eaches spent
Sunday in Reading.
Mrs. Thomas Crist spent Sunday at
Ephrata, her former home.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sturgis visited
her brother at Reading on Wednesday.
Mr. P. E. Beck, of Harrisburg, spent
a short time here last week with his
father, Mr. Abraham. R. Beck.
Mrs. Paul Evans and son of Phila-delphia
spent several days in town
last week.
Mr. E. L. Garber and family spent
Sunday with his brother in West Don-egal
township.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Young of Man-heim,
spent Sunday with Mr. Lewis
Oehme and family.
Mr. Lemon Neidermyer spent Satur-day
and Sunday in Philadelphia with
his two daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ensminger of
Manheim visited her sister, Mrs. Mary-
Gingrich on Sunday.
Mr. George Sheneberger and family
took an auto trip to Reading, Quaker-town
and Red Hill on Sunday.
Mrs. William Walb of Philadelphia,
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Marks several days this week.
Mr. Israel H. Doster and wife are
spending" three days in Philadelphia
this week buying new store goods.
Mr. N. B. Leaman and family took
an auto trip to State College on Sat-urday
where their son is a student.
Mr. Charles Young and wife of Man-heim,
visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. Birney Oehme on Sunday.
Mr. Howard Hambright, of Wil-mington,
Del., is spending part of the
week with his sister, Mrs. D. Wal.
Evans.
Mr. Floyd Bender and wife of
Spring City spent Sunday in town
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mil-ton
Bender.
Mr. Karl H. Hatch, of the Oneida
Community, Ltd., N. Y., and manager
of the Lititz branch of the business, is
in town for several vVeeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Urias Rollman and
daughter Muriel spent Sunday at
Stevens with their daughter Mrs.
Samuel Frederick and family,
Mrs. Samuel Berlin, of Berwick,
spent a week here with her mother,
Mrs. Thamar Gochenour. She was ac-companied
home by her mother, who
will spend the winter at Berwick.
Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Souders, of
Washington, D. C., spent from Friday
to Sunday with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. M. Souders. Mr. Souders spent
Saturday along the Susquehanna river
fishing.
John T Hallman, of Downingtown,
spent Sunday with William Snavely at
Rome and bought a pair of pedigreed
pups from Mr Snavely. Mr. Iiallman
reports rabbits to be plentiful in
Chester county.
Benjamin Bucher and family and
Elmer Bucher and family took a hun-dred
and fifty mile auto trip Sunday
to Quarryville, Maryland, Oxford,
Christiana, and home. The party spent
some time with Levi Bucher at Me-chanics
Grove.
Mr. H i r am McCauley, of Steelton,
spent Saturday in town as the guest of
N. G. Yerger and family. Owing to the
quarantine in Lancaster, Mr. McCauley
had to get off the train at Landisville
and was fortunate enough to see Yer-ger's
truck at that place and came to
Lititz in it.
Rev. Jacob Landis, of Fleetwood,
visited his father, Mr. pi. Reist Landis,
on Friday. Besides serving as pastor
at that place Rev. Landis is teaching a
number of branches in the public
school. There was a shortage of teach-ers
and when asked to help out the
situation he cheerfully accepted, al-though
it means some long days' work.
Rev. Landis taught at F. and M. Acad-emy
a number of years.
BAN LIFTED TUESDAY
Town is Almost Free of the Influenza
A Few Mild Cases
The infiuenza has run its course in
town and last week only four new
cases were reported, which were of a
mild nature. The ban was lifted here
on Tuesday noon and every place is
open. It was a long siege, the first
death occurring from the malady here
on October 8th, with no deaths this or
iast week.
With the schools it will be like
starting afresh after a summer vaca-tion
and will naturally take a little
time until tilings are running smooth-ly.
Most of the factories are running
with a full force of employees. How-ever,
some of the persons who are re-cuperating'
are still suffering from
weakness.
Monroe Meily, who had been very
sick, is out of doors again. His
daughter Esta. is past the danger point,
but it will be a long time until she has
fully recovered.
Rural mail men Paul Busliong and
Howard Studenroth were among the
influenza victims. Mr. Bushong re-sumed
his duties again this week and
Mr. Studenroth expects to be on the
job in a short time.
Rabbits Are Round,
and Scarce
Fat
Despite the fact that shells sell at
five cents a piece there was plenty of
shooting to be heard through the rural
sections. There were more gunners'
licenses taken out in Lancaster county
than ever, as the younger boys more
than made up for those in the U. S.
army.
The rain of Wednesday night had
moistened the ground, making trailing
easy, and the cool weather coming in
rendered hunting delightful.
The cottontails, contrary to expec-tations,
were in good condition. The
extreme warm weather led experi-enced
rabbit hunters to believe that
they would be thin and scrawny, but
the contrary was the case. Very few
small ones were seen, the larger num-ber
being round and fat.
The usual large number of trespass
notices were to be seen on farms
where there is known to be good hunt-ing.
This naturally restricts the shoot-ing
to a limited area although it is re-ported
that the hunters disregarded
these warning signs more than ever
this year.
The season for rabbits opened Nov.
1. and will continue up to and includ-ing
Dec. 15. A person may shoot 10 of
them in one day and 60 in a season.
Hunters report seeing more quail
than for some years. Squirrel are
scarce in the hills, accounted for by
the lack of nuts.
Rabbits all in all are not over atund-"
ant, and while there are many good
records, quite a, few gunners met with
disappointment. There is still plenty
of cover, making hunting difficult.
Gunning season would not be com-plete
without the annual joke of some
person shooting at a stuffed rabbit.
This season Correll Sturgis was the
victim and he enjoyed it about as
much as the one who played the joke
on him. What helped to fool Correll
was that he had seen a rabbit run at
almost the same place several days
previous.
The champion gunning party from
this section was Israel Doster and son
Joe, Clarence Dillman, and Isaac
Weidman. They bagged forty nice rab--
bits.
Fortunately there was no serious
accident to mar the day. A gun bar-rel
exploded when it was discharged
by Roy Weaver, and although badly
bursted, the gunner was not even
scratched, although badly scared for
the time being. He can give no cause
for it.
Atwood Furlow came home last
Friday from a gunning trip with seven
rabbits for his share of a day's trip.
Henry, Newton and Abram, sons of
Rev. J. W. G. Hershey, came home
Saturday after a trip to their uncle's
f a rm near Christiana with thirty-eight
rabbits. There were seven in
the hunting party and the total bag-was
fifty-five.
Irwin Graybill, R. D. No. 2, had a
good record the first day by shooting-nine
cottontails. He had a good
chance to fatten his game bag, as he
chased up two coveys of partridges,
but did not shoot into them, as he be-lieves
this kind of game should be
conserved.
Wayne Longenecker, who traveled
all the way to Adams county, return-ed
with one rabbit. Wayne says he
can do better than that at home be-fore
breakfast.
A party comprising Frank and Arlie
Rader, Samuel E. Lane and son Sam-uel
shot nine rabbits and two wood-cock
on the first day.
Emory Wagner and Harry Sesseman
had a good day by shooting four rab-bits
ana four partridges.
Guy Buch had a bag of eight rab-bits.
Guy does well every year.
Raymond Michael is the king of
gunners this year, as he was the only-one
who reported shooting the limit,
ten rabbits.
Arthur Rosenburg had a good re-cord,
getting seven rabbits.
Frank Spickler shot three rabbits
and David Woy six "at Colebrook,
They reported that they saw a Leba-non
gunner shoot a fox.
Eugene Weidler and Arlie Rader
downed five partridges and a. rabbit
on Saturday.
Other rabbit reports were: Lemon
Furlow 3, Clayton Keller 4, John
Wa.gner 4,
Monroe Longenecker, of Denver,
•spent Friday shooting around Lititz,
his old home territory, and took five
rabbits home to show, the boys.
Hunting in Adams county, which is
generally considered good, showed no
such condition this year. The follow-ing
party returned from that county
with a bag of eleven: John, Elmer and
Norman Badorf and Wayne Longe-necker.
William Kissinger, the pretzel manu-facturer,
got six the first day and five
the following day. Vermont Meily
shot four in a day, and Harry Show-ers
nine in three days. Pretty good
for the pretzel bakers.
Lewis Haines brought eighteen home
from the Susquehanna river section,
after a two days' trip. They were the
biggest rabbits seen in town.
D. W. Dietrich, of Lancaster, the
well-known insurance man, and for-mer
Warwick township pedagogue,
sent word to Lititz that he bagged the
limit on the first day. Must have
charmed 'em with his smile.
A. E. Binkiey, son Roy and Mr.
Brookmyer, of Neffsville, and three
other gunners from other places, shot
78 in York county on Friday and Sat-urday,
INTERESTING NEWS OF THE BOYS
U. S. SERVICE
Pithy Paragraphs of Up-io-Date lafor«
mation From a Wide Radius
Jacob, son of Mr. and Mrs. John R.
Gibbel, has been sent from England to
France, where he is a first-class chauf-feur.
Harold Weidman, who is serving as
cook, went over the top with the 79th
Division. Some of his pals were on
the casualty list.
Two Lititz soldier boys who are on
their way "across" or probably landed
by this time are Clyde Nixon and
Lieutenant Harry Marks.
Quay, son of Phares Enck, stationed
at Camp Dix, was home from Saturday
to Monday. He is in the Quartermas-ters
Department and drives a truck.
Dr. Yoder has not up to this tim(5
received any information as to when
he is to go to Camp Greenleaf, Ga,, to
serve on the medical staff. Dr. Posey
is still sick and therefore cannot go to
Camp Crane at Allentown.
Paul Brunner, who is in the Naval
Reserves at Camp Meade, is doing ma-chine
work. He has been up in an
aeroplane on two occasions. Paul was
seen in Lancaster recently and is loot-ing
fine and is continuing to grow.
John Schmidt, formerly of this place,
and who had been employed at Bru-baker's
garage, is a, corporal in the
truck service in France. His address
is Co. D, 4th Supply Train, Am. E. F.
He writes that what he had learned
about auto repairing here has been a
great advantage to him.
Morris C. Brumbach, R. D. 5, Liu.
received the first communication from
his son Isaac last week since May S<
The young man writes that he was on
the fighting line and has traveled over
the greater part of France. He is in
the infantry and was in training at
Camp Meade and Camp Forest.
The following young men who are"
taking military training at F. and M.,
Lancaster, were home recently: Arthur""
Evans, Guy Hershey, Guy Bomberger
and Paul Rapp. The other Lititzites
there, Lloyd Brookmyer, Leon Keith,
and Floyd Stark, were on duty.
Mr. Alfred Doupie, who is in the
Headquarters Division at Camp Meade,
was home over Sunday with his "br-ents
on North Broad street. The
young man will enter the officers'
training school.
Robert Furlow wrote from France
that he would like to be back home dur-ing
the rabbit season. He relates that
he was out walking in the fields when
he heard-a dog barking, and when he
looked in that direction he saw that the
hound was giving chase to a rabbit.
That reminded him of home.
Theodore R. Shields, familiarly
known as "Ted" in athletics; died on
the 10th of October in France from
infiuenza. While attending Moravian
College, Bethlehem, he appeared here
on numerous occasions'as a member
of the basket ball team of that col-lege
and later was coach at that place.
His clever playing distinguished him
among the many visiting players who
appeared here.
Roy Miller, who was wounded in
France, and is in the Baltimore hos-pital,
writes that his wound is healing
slowly but he is feeling all right. In
spite of the long time he has been con-fined
in various hospitals he says he
is not sorry he went over the top. The
thing that attracted his attention most
in France was the poverty of the great
mass of the people. Roy Is looking
forward to the time when he can come
home.
James Carper and Geo. Miller, who
were employed at Akron, Ohio, wrote
to their parents at this place that they
expected to leave on Wednesday oi
this week for the Great Lakes Train-ing
Station, having enrolled in the
Hospital Corps. They had intended
going in the merchant marine service,
but that branch of the service appar-ently
is full at the present time.
Within a short time Ralph Kauff-.
man was in Lititz first in a soldier's
uniform and then in a sailor's uniform.
He had been working in the refrigera-tor
plant at Camp Meade. When the
Lititz boys left for France he was kept
on the job and he was unable to go
with them. Lately he managed to get
transferred. He came here to his sis-ter,
Mrs. Irvin Smith, on Wednesday
of last week, in a soldier's uniform,,
left for New York in civilian clothes,
and came home the latter part of the
week in a sailor's outfit. He reported
at New York yesterday and hopes to
get across. Pie served in the navy be-fore.
Has the Nerve of Bally Marks
Extracts from a letter by Miles H.
Marks, a former Lititz boy, are taken
from a letter which appeared in the
Lancaster New Era. as follows:
Have had some narrow escapes
since last writing you and was laid up
about two weeks by getting slightly
gassed and losing my voice for about
a week. Had a little rest at a field
hospital and am all right now. Am
traveling with the 111th Amb. Co.. mv
old bunch, for five days already to a
new sector, and am having a big time.
My nerve is the same as "Bally"
Marks' was in the civil war. Lost»
everything but the clothes on my back
in the last action, but have complete
new outfit again.
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