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VOL. XLII LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7,1919 NO. 47
EVENTS C O M TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Item* of Minor Mention, So to Speak
but of Interest to the Average Reader
at Home and Abroad.
A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs.
I r a Nies 011 Sunday.
—Candidates for borough offices
a r e slow i n announcing- themselves.
Neffsville U. B. Sunday School picnic
•will be held at Maple Grove, Tuesday
August 12.
About ninety feeding cattle were dis-posed
of among farmers around here
t h e past week. They are bringing from
$9 to $10 a hundred.
William Levy of Lancaster bought 672
cases of 19x8 tobacco from a local packer.
He is satisfied that he could not have
picked up a better packing.
The charges b r o u g h t against Harold
Murr by E l i z a b e t h Zellers were with-drawn
at J o h n Malone's office a t Lan-caster
last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Keller gave a
party on Saturday evening to six sol-dier
boys, their wives and friends. A
fine luncheon was served.
Eighteen members of the Lititz Mo-ravian
choir spent a pleasant after-noon
at Sheibley's Grove on Saturday,
going there by hay wagon. They had
a regular picnic supper.
The E p h r a t a band gave a very fine
concert here on Saturday evening. The
instruments are well balanced and the
tone effect is very strong for the num-ber
of players. The Denver Band
will be h e r e Saturday.
Kenneth Witmyer is serving in the
mail service between New York and
P i t t s b u r g as an uncertified substitute.
Kenneth recently passed the civil
service examination for the mail serv-ice
and expects a call shortly.
A special meeting of the Lititz Fire
Company will be held on Wednesday,
August 13, when the invitation to
parade at Lancaster at the State Fire-men's
convention will be considered.
The local fire company has a member-ship
of over 300.
On Sunday, August 10, there will
be an excursion t r a i n over the Read-i
n g leaving- here at 5:12 A. M., for
t h e seashore; tickets being good for
A t l a n t i c City, Ocean City, Sea Isle
City, Wildwood or Cape May. The
f a r e f r om here is $2.40.
The following Lititz boys spent the
past week camping along the Conestoga
near Hunsecker's dam: HarlandHoffman,
Carl Reedy, Everett Loercher, Joe Sloat,
Walter Groff, John Lutz. They bad two
tents. On Sunday they entertained
eighteen guests.
Soldier boys should keep t h e i r equip-ment.
All of t h em probably tired
enough of t h e k h a k i now, but a few
year hence it will be different. Then
every ruan who h a s been in the ser-vice
will see something- new in his
old u n i f o rm and equipment. It will
be a present reminder of t h e greatest
experience of his life and something
r e a l l y worth while for his family to
cherish.
Ten cents a ton was added at the be-ginning
of this month for each 2,000
pounds of coal sold by local dealers. The
raise is in accordance with a scale of
prices fixed by the coal comp'any. On
September 1, another ten cents will be
added and again on October 1, it is ex-pected
that the price will remain station-ary
until next spring.
J. W. Bruckart presented the editor
with some peaches of the Carmen
variety grown at Jones' orchard near
Lancaster. The orchard is under the
supervision of Mr. Bruckart. We can
honestly say they were the best tasting
peaches we ate in a long time.
The fact was t h e f r u i t was so large
and nearly perfect that it was a t r e at
alone t o look at it. The peaches are
b e i n g sold by a team on the street.
Next week t h e peaches coming from
t h i s orchard will be free stone.
Miss Edith Driver of Versailles, Mis-souri,
and Miss Martha Mumma, of
Wooster, Ohio, left for their homes
yesterday after spending several weeks
here as the guests of Miss Ellen B.
Landis, daughter of H. Reist Landis.
Another recent visitor was Miss Gladys
Krabill, of West Liberty, Ohio, who
accompanied Miss Landis on a five
weeks' trip through Virginia Miss
Landis and Miss Krabill will attend the
Mennonite General Conference at Har-risonburg,
Virginia, on the 27th of
t h i s month. While the visitors were
Jiere they took many short side trips,
including a tour of the Gettysburg bat-tlefield.
Mexican Girl Will
Attend Linden Hall
Arrived Here Last Week
With Father—Their Home
Was Raided Four
Times
Adolfo Moya, of the State of Chis,
Mexico, was here several days last
week, bringing his daughter, who was
enrolled at Linden Hall as a pupil for
the coming year.. Mr. Moya i s progres-sive
Mexican and has an interesting
career. He is a rancher and store-keeper,
his home being in a district
which has been overrun by revolution-i
s t s and bandits. His place has been
raided four times, the last time he was
left with six cattle out of a herd of a
thousand.
On account of the danger he decid-ed
to send his daughter away. He and
the young lady traveled 200 miles un-til
they arrived at a depot. He ex-plained
that this interior country is
not so far behind the times. There is
an electric light plant there, of which
he is president, and in his home he
has an electric refrigerator and other
improvements. After leaving their
home they journeyed to Mexico City,
where they called on a Protestant
minister, inquiring about schools. The
minister at once suggested Linden Hall
as the best place.
They then came on to New York,
and wrote for a catalogue. They have
been in this country three months.
The young lady has already made good
progress in speaking English. During
the visit here the visitors were highly
impressed with the school and the
town. In fact Mr. Moya was so de-lighted
that he said he' would be well
satisfied to live here.
Litite Union Picnic August 14
The Lititz union picnic at the Spring
Grounds next Thursday, the 14th, will
be a big holiday for Lititz, and most
of the industries of town will be
closed. The following program has
been arranged:
Concert by Lititz Band, 1 to 9 P. M.
Amusements and peanut scramble,
2 to 3:30 P M. -
Free treat to the Sunday- School
scholars, 2:30 to 4 P. M.
Supper at 5 P. M. Free coffee.
Devotional services at 6 to 6:30 P.
M. at the band stand.
Klein Chocolate Team Will Play Hea-e
Union Picnic Day
The Klein Chocolate Company base
ball team will be the attraction here
on the afternoon, of the Lititz TJnion
picnic, Thursday, August 14. This will
be the biggest base ball event for Lit-itz
in years.
Stiffel-Freeman Employees Back To
Work
The Stiffel-Freeman Co. employees
who walked out the factory last
Thursday" resumed work Tuesday
morning of this week. The men asked
for a nine hour day and a ten per cent,
increase in wages. A temporary com-promise
was made by granting the in-crease
in pay at the same number of
hours as formerly. The regular meet-ing
of the directors of the company
will be held on August 11 when the
question will be officially acted upon.
No disorder whatever was reported.
Fifty men are employed there.
RECEIVED LAST SUMMONS
NUMEROUS PERSONS CALLED TO THE
GREAT BEYOND
Aldus R. Bomberger
Aldus R. Bomberger, a well-known re-sident
of this place, died Friday evening
about 7 o'clock at his home on South
Broad street, after an illness of about a
week, of arterial schlerosis, aged sixty-one
years, nine months and twenty-three
days.
Mr. Bomberger was born on a farm
near Rothsville and was a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Bomberger, who later mov-ed
to Lititz. Mr. Bomberger attended
Rickert and Hepp's Academy and the
Millersville State Normal School. He
started in the hardware business in part-nership
with his uncle Isaac Bomberger,
buying out the business from John Holl-inger.
After a partnership of a year he
became sole owner and continued for
thirty-six years.
He was connected with many public
utilities, such as the Lititz Water Com-pany,
the electric Light Company, the
Animal Trap Factory and the United
Telephone Company. He was a good
business man and was quiet in his de-meanor.
He traveled through Europe
twice, was in Mexico, Canada and was all
over United States.
Mr. Bomberger was married to Miss
Naomi Mary Seltzer, of Ephrata, January
2, 1905, He was a member of Moravian
Church, Lititz Lodge No. 253 K. of P.,
Lititz Lodge No. 1050, I. O. O. F., and
the Masons, of Manheim. The nearest
surviving relatives are his wife and one
sister, Mrs. Grabill B. Long, of Lancas-ter.
The funeral was held on Monday after-noon
with services at the house and in
the Moravian church. Interment was
made in the Moravian cemetery.
Mr. Bomberger had recently disinterr-ed
the bodies of several members of the
family for burial on a family plot in the
Moravian graveyard and only several
weeks ago had a monument placed there.
The bearers at the funeral were Messrs.
William Amer, Amos H. Bomberger,
Adam B. Long, H. J. Pierson, Wm. H.
Muth and Dr. J. L. Hertz. Miss Bessie
Gingrich sang a solo.
Death of Henry Ravegum
Henry Ravegum died at nine o'clock
yesterday morning at his home a t Roths-ville,
f r om dropsy, in his seventieth
year. He is survived by the following
children: Mrs. Annie Snyder, of Bare-ville;
Mrs. Lydia Livering, of Lancas-t
e r ; Harvey, of Akron; Frank, of
Rothsville, and Minnie, at home; also
by two brothers and one sister: William
of Akron; John, of Ephrata, and Mrs.
Thomas Frank, of Disston.
Ben Knows How To Draw the Crowd
On account of unseasonable weather
last Thursday evening the concert at
Lutz's swimming pool was postponed
until the following evening. In spite
of the cool evening the place was
crowded with spectators who enjoyed
seeing the swimmers and hearing the
music. Mr. Lutz expects to have an-other
concert in several weeks.
Cop Was All Fussed Up
The borough policeman must be a
man of tact and j u d g m e n t . The other
day two y o u n g ladies approached h im
and asked if t h e y would be allowed to
walk t h r o u g h town in there bathing
s u i t s . That was a phaser, as the
swimming pool is only of recent ori-gin
and t h e r e are no boro laws govern-i
n g the subject. "Better wear rain
coats over the s u i t s , " the cop sug-gested.
"But we d i d n ' t bring any
a l o n g , " the p r e t t y maids exclaimed.
"You see, we are only here on a
v i s i t . " "Br, er, are t h e suits very
abbreviated? " said the poor cop, as
he wiped t h e sweat f r om his forehead
w i t h a handkerchief. He was much
relieved when t h e y told h im that the
s u i t s were j u s t ordinary. "Go ahead
t h e n , " said he, " u n t i l we see what
we shall s e e . ''
Death of Mrs. Sarah Weidman
Mrs. Sarah Weidman died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Carpenter
at Lexington on Tuesday afternoon,
aged 75 years. She had been ill for
some time, beginning with pneumonia
and followed by dropsy. She was born
on a f a rm near Lexington and resided
in t h a t neighborhood all her life. Her
maiden name was Lutz. Her husband,
Frank Weidman,died several years ago.
She was a member of Emmanuel Luth-eran
church at Brickerville. Two sons
and one daughter survive: Phares, re-siding
near Schaefferstown; Milton, of
Hopeland, and Sarah, married to Frank
Carpenter, with whom she made her
home. One brother, Benjamin H. Lutz
of Lititz, survives, and one sister, Mrs.
Hettie Shelly, of Lexington.
The funeral will be held on Friday
morning; service at the house a t nine
o'clock; ten o'clock at Emmanuel Luth-eran
Chureh, Brickerville, where inter-ment
will be made in the cemetery
nearby. Rev. F. A. Weicksel will of-ficiate.
Former Ideal
Man Building Big
Plant in Ohio
Site Covers 37 1-2 Acres; Plant to
Cost $300,000
People of Lititz who knew Benjamin
P. Forbes when he was office manager of
the Ideal factory of Lititz some years ago
•will be interested t o learn that the Forbes
Chocolate Co., of Cleveland, O., of which
he is secretary and general manager, has
purchased a site of 37J acres, where it
will erect a modern plant, the first unit
of which will cost in the neigborhood of
$300,000. The Forbes tract is located on
Ridge Road, within five miles of the
heart of the city, having excellent ship-ping
facilities and readily accessible from
one of the city car lines.
The new Forbes plant will be situated
in the midst of one of nature's beauty
spots. A little river winds its way through
wooded banks. The Forbes employees
will have unusal opportunities for recrea-tion
, while every facility will be arranged
in the plant for t h e welfare of t h e workers.
Contracts are now being awarded for the
most modern type of equipment.
Although the Forbes Chocolate Co, was
not organized until November, 1916, the
business has outgrown its present quart-ers,
making it necessary to erect a new
factory, where the output of chocolate
liquors, coatings and chocolate bars can
be greatly increased.
Mr. Forbes has just returned from a
trip to Europe, where he studied the ex-port
situation, investigated the foreign
chocolate business and incidently secur-ed
some fine export orders for his house.
Mr. Forbes traveled over large areas of
the devastated sections of northern
France and Belgium.
Business Change
I wish to announce that I will discon-tinue
the practice of dentistry in Lititz
and that my office has been transferred to
Dr. Herbert Cooper. May I take this
means of very kindly thanking all for
the courtesy and hospitality shown me
during my stay with you. It has indeed
been very pleasant and for many reasons,
it is with deepest regret that I leave you.
Dr. Cooper comes here highly recom-mended
and most efficient in the appli-cation
of modern methods in dentistry
and I most conscientiously refer my
cliental to his care.
WARREN A. WOOD, D. D. S.
Dr. Coopers home is in Brownstown
and he is a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania, and also took a post-grad-uate
course, so that he is well qualified
to do all kinds of dental work and well-advanced
in the latest methods. Dr.
Cooper is ambitious and energetic and we
are confident that he will build up a fine
practice here. Dr. WTood left town this
week and it is likely he will locate at
Johnstown, later to specialize in his work.
Dr. Wood had been here about a year
and a half.
Samuel W. Woomert
Samuel W. Woomert died Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home near
Petersburg, aged 71 years. Death was
due to stomach trouble after five months
illness. Deceased was a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jonothan Woomert and was a mem-ber
of the Mennonite church at Peters-burg.
He was a veteran of the civil war.
His wife and two children survive, Mrs.
Samuel Knight, and Harvey E. G., of
near Lititz. These brothers and sisters
also survive, John, Lititz; Jacob and
William, of Reading; Mrs. John Landis,
Lititz, and Mrs. Lewis Haynes, Ephrata.
The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon
from the late home, with further services
in the Millport Mennonite church. In-terment
in adjoining cemetery, E. B'
Beck Funeral Director.
The funeral will be held on Sunday
afternoon at 1.30 at the house and at 2
o'clock at the Lutheran church.
Death of Mrs. Susanna JTiisser
Mrs. Susanna Musser, widow of
Jacob Musser, died on Friday evening
at her home at Rothsville. Death was
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Cat Runs the Scales
A cat owned by Mr. and Mrs. Frank
B. Buch has discovered a novel way in
which to attract attention. When Sir
Thomas takes a notion that he wants to
go out the house he jumps on the piano
and runs up and down the keys. Tom
has found that the plan works fine and
persists in coutinumg running the scale
until his wish is granted. The other
night at 1 o'clock he did the trick. The
only thing the owners fear is that be
might take a notion to mew to it and even
howl, which might produce a weird effect
during the midnight hours.
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A COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
Many Persons Come and Go by Train
Trolley, Auto and Other Conveyances
Don't Monkey With the Soldier Boys
For several nights sorfle marauder
has been seen in the back yards of
residences on Spruce street. Seven
chickens disappeared from the home
of Levi Erb. There- are a number of
returned soldiers on that street and
they state that the guilty person had
better take heed as they are deter-mined
to put a stop to it and make tile
neighborhood a safe place to live in.
Ladies" Society Had Time at Bungalow
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Luth-eran
Church, almost a hundred strong,
spent Saturday at Snavely's bungalow
along the Conestoga. Some went early
in the morning while others followed at
noon taking baskets of edibles along and
eating on the lawn at supper time from a
large table. The motor boat there was
kept running steadily, while others tried
canoing. Some went bathing and others
fishing, but all reported having had a
fine time. The bungalow is located at a
pretty spot along the creek, close to
where the Lititz stream empties into
the Conestoga. The society extends
their thanks to Mr. and Mrs. H. II.
Suavely for their courtesy in opening
their bungalow to them and the many
other things done to make the day so en-joyable.
Lititz Auto Tour-ists
Met Former
Lititz Boy
Son of Rev. Maurer Also on
the Road to Frisco by
Auto
Mr. Howard Young and f a m i l y are
s p e n d i n g t h e week at Mt. Gretna.
Miss Marian Holtzhouse left this
week to spend a month at Chester.
Dr. S. R. Posey and family are
spending the week-end at Atlantic
City.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Graybill of East
Main street spent several days at Atlan-tic
City.
Mrs. Morris Seaber and son Richard
are spending the week with Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Seaber.
Mrs. Gideon Kahl of Lancaster spent
Sunday with her parents 'Squire and Mrs.
A. B. Reidenbach.
Mrs, Birney Oehtne and Mrs. Ellis
Spickler and children are spending
t h e week in a cottage at Mt. Gretna.
Miss Ella Dyer, of New Brunswick,
N. J., is spending the week with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Sturgis.
Mr. Morris Doster, of Philadelphia, a
former resident of Lincoln, spent last
Thursday in town. He has resided in
Philadelphia for twenty-two years.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dussinger spent
a week at New Brunswick, N. J., visiting
Mr. and Mrs. John Dyer and returned
home on Monday.
Miss Delia Hornberger, a nurse at the
Woman's Hospital, Philadelphia, came
here last Thursday to spend two weeks
as the guest of Mrs. Sara Jenkins.
U. S. Delp, Samuel Lane, Phares and
Elam Bucher left Tuesday by automo-bile
for Beech Lake, Wayne County,
to fish for pickerel. They will return
tomorrow.
Mrs. Amanda Royer of Kanakee, 111.,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Caroline
Grosh. Mrs. Royer is the daughter of
the late John Oehme and was born in
Lititz.
telephone 'op-erator,
is oil duty on a two weeks vacation.
Today Miss Keller leaves to spend ten
days with Mrs. William Eader at Freder-ick,
Maryland.
Miss Maude Kofroth left for Philadel-phia,
having accepted a position as diet-ist
at a Jewish Hospital, Philadelphia.
She is a recent graduate of Drexel
Institute.
Miss Edna E., daughter of Mrs.
Lizzie M. Brubaker, left on Saturday to
visit at Huntingdon, Tyrone, and then
will go to Chicago, where she will join
the Hershey brothers and sisters, accom-panying
them home by autombile, ex-pecting
to be here in two weeks.
Myrtle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson Gibbel, is s p e n d i n g t h e week
with uncles and a u n t s in Lancaster.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Rosenburg of
Hartford, Conn., are spending some
time with Lititz relatives, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Dreifus and Mr. Charles
R o s e n b u r g and family.
Misses Catherine Miller and Ruth
Eaton, of Philadelphia, were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Regennas.
Visitors at t h e same home at present
are Mrs. Regennas' mother, Mrs.
Frances Miller, and Misses Sarah
Sauer and Myrtle Seller, all of Vir-ginia.
Walter Heilman, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
visited his mother, - Mrs. Charlotte
Heilman. During the war he served
at the Curtis aeroplane plant at Buf-falo,
was released four months ago
and now holds a civil service position
at the same place. His brother Jacob,
v^ho recently returned from France,
accompanied him to Buffalo on a visit,
leaving Tuesday.
Lloyd Rader, who recently returned
f r om overseas, spent Saturday and
Sunday here with his brother, Mr. W
Willis Rader, of the "Record." He
was in the 19th Field Artillery of the
F i f th Division, and was a wireless
operator. His home is at Belfast,
Northampton County. There were a
number of Lititz boys in this division
but he never learned to know any of
them.
Charles Dimeler, who was around
Springfield for over a year, has returned
to Lititz. He drove a candy truck. He
was in the U. S. Army service training
camp two days when he was taken sick
with influenza and after recovering re-ceived
his discharge papers, also a check
from the government for $2. This sum-mer
he pitched ball for the team repre-senting
the candy company where he was
employed which was in a league repre-senting
industries of Springfield. Twi-light
games were played. Charles has
now become a member of the Lititz team.
That t h e L i t i t z t o u r i s t s on t h e way
to the coast by automobile should
meet a former L i t i t z boy also travel-i
n g by machine with t h e same desti-nation
in view, and that they have
now decided to travel t o g e t h e r , is one
of t h e happenings of the road that
h a s led t r a v e l e r s to say t h a t this old
world is not so large after all.
Jacob and John Gibbel and Harry
Weidner, while s t o p p i n g off at Fort
Collins, Colorado, were surprised to
meet Carl Maurer, son of Rev. J. E.
Maurer, of Stoyestown, Pa., who,
w i t h a friend, is v i s i t i n g at t h a t place.
They made the t r i p t h e r e in a Ford.
The young man resided here while
h i s father was pastor of St. P a u l 's
L u t h e r a n church. The l e t t e r did not
s t a t e fully, but it is supposed that
h i s attention was attracted to the
L i t i t z partjr by t h e L i t i t z p e n n a n t on
t h e machine. The party stayed to-gether
w i t h young M a u r e r ' s relatives
t h a t night, the Lititz boys s t a t i ng
t h a t it was t h e first bed t h e y slept in
since l e a v i n g here t h r e e weeks ago.
As Carl a n d h i s f r i e n d want t o con-t
i n u e their visit a l i t t l e longer the
L i t i t z boys secured work near there
so t h a t t h e two a u t o parties can join
forces and travel together. So f a r t he
L i t i t z i t e s have had no troubls with
t h e i r machine, b u t made some needed
repairs on the other car, requiring
about three hours. Now that the
two p a r t i e s will travel together they
expect t o have a royal time.
Out of the Army Now
Homer Zwally, w h j j ^ j ^ s t e d ^ a t J J l S ,.
very start of the war and is still in
the service, has worked up to the
position of second lieutenant. He was
here on Tuesday. He said he did not
get across as he was used in instruct-ing
recruits.
P e r r y B. Kofroth, who was at Co-lumbus
Barracks, received his honor-able
discharge and returned home. He
will remain here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. P. B. Kofroth for about a
month.
Paul, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P.
Miller, who served in the U. S. navy al-most
two and a half years, received his
honorable discharge. He is considering
a job in the merchant marines.
Homer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Madi-son
Schnerer, returned home for good
after having engaged in active fighting
during the allied offensive. He was a
member of the 60th Infantry of the
F i f th Division. "I never expected to
come back," said Homer. "At the
Meuse River almost a third of our
company was either wounded or killed
in less than an hour." Homer says
he will stay home for awhile until he
becomes used to civilian life.
Lieutenant Norman B. Hertzler, who
did laboratory work in the- U. S. army
and for six months attended a French
University, being quartered with an
instructor and his family, received ail
honorable discharge and is visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob B. Hertz-ler.
At the university, relates Nor-man,
the boys organized athletic
events and cheered like at American
colleges. It was something new for
the French people and at first they
weer shocked by what they thought
was the Americans' lack of serious-ness.
When they learned to know the
boys better they said they liked their
frankness and jolly disposition. At
the town at which Norman stayed they
gave the American soldiers receptions
and quite a bit of jealousy was caused
among the town people until the sol-diers
were' formed in small groups so
that more families could entertain.
Norman says that by living with a
French family he learned to speak the
language real well and has the high-est
opinion of the people
l e t t e r s Uncalled For
Letters addressed to Mrs. John Dis-singer,
Mrs. Ella Dawson, Mrs. John
Hagy, Miss Elizabeth Rock, Mr. J. A.
Doverspike, Mr. Elmer Hilton (2), Mr.
Walter Hess, Mr. Sylvester West, re-main
uncalled for in the Lititz P. O.
The Merchants' Association left
for H e r s h e y t h i s morning; t h e stores
will be closed all da v.
ARMY FOODSTUFFS
FOR THE P
Erery Resident Has Equal Chance—Local.
Postmaster Waiting for Blank
Forms
Arrangements for opening sales on
August 18 of army food supplies direct
to the people have been completed.
Every postmaster in the country will
take orders.
Postmaster James J. Huebener is
expecting blank forms for ordering
within a few days.
Arrangements for opening sales on
August 18 of army food supplies direct
to the people were completed by a con-ference
of officials on Saturday. De-tails
were worked out by Assistant
Secretary of War Benedict Crowell, E.
C. Morse, acting Director of Sales of
the War Department; A. L. Mercer,
Assistant Director of Sales; Fourth.
Assistant Postmaster General Blakes-lee,
Geo. L. Wood, Superintendent of
the Rural Mail Service, and George
Landick, Jr., Chief Storekeeper of the
Postoffice Department.
The fact that every postmaster in
the country will take orders meaas
something like 58,000 booking offices
for the sale of the surplus army
stores.
Every resident in every city, town,
hamlet or rural community will have
an equal chance to buy the food of-fered.
It is in excellent shape. The
meats were packed f r om the best cuts
obtainable; the vegetables are stand-ard
commercial packs. All of the
commodities were Government in-spected
and prepared in accordance
with army specifications.
The entire responsibility of the or-ders
and deliveries of the goods will
be assumed by the Postoffice Depart-ment.
The Department will requisi-tion
the subsistence f r om the War De-partment
111 case or carton lots.
schedule of prices at which the surplus
food stocks of the army will be. sold,
as follows:
Meats
Corned beef, No. 1 can, 30 cents; No.
2 can, 50 cents; six pound can, $2.
Roast beef, No. 1 can, 29 cents; one-pound
can, 41 cents; two-pound can,
60 cents; six-pound can, $2.20. Corned
beef hash, one-pound can, 23 cents;
two-pound can, 40 cents. Bacon in
crates, 34 cents per pound; in twelve-pound
tins, 36 cents per pound.
Yegetables
Baked beans, No. 1 can, 7 cents; No.
2 can, 13 cents; No. 3 can, 18 cents.
Stringless beans, No. 2 can, 11 cents;
No. 10 can, 48 cents. Corn, No. 2 can,
50 cents; six-pound can, 11 cents.
Tomatoes, So. 2 can, 11 cents; No. 2%
can, 13 cents; No. 3 can, 15 cents; No.
10 can, 45 cents. Pumpkin, No. 2 can,
6 cents; No. 3 can, 9 cents; No. 10 can,,
24 cents. Squash, No. 2 can, 6 cents.
Changes in Real Estate
J. D. Redcay sold his property com-prising
a modern bungalow, known aa
"The Echoes," with a lot of ground
21? by 408 feet on East Front street,
to J. G. Moore, of Lancaster, for
$4,500. Possession will be given April
1, 1920.
H a r r y Brubaker bought the two-s
t o r y f r a m e house f r om H. J. Pierson
a d j o i n i n g his property on S. Broad
street, for removal. Mr. Brubaker
will buy a lot s h o r t l y and use some of
t h e b u i l d i n g material for t h e erection
of a house. By the removal of the
present house Mr. Pierson will have
a big addition to his lawn, enhancing
h i s fine residence.
E l l i s Spickler has purchased a two-s
t o r y house on New Street f r om John
Widders. Possession will be given
April 1, 1920.
A double two story frame house on
Marion street, belonging to R. O. Mel-zer,
was sold at public sale on Satur-day-
to Mrs. Anna Carper, of Penn
township, for $2,760, The fine house
at the corner of South Broad and
Marion streets was withdrawn at
$5,700.
The Keath P l a n i n g Mill Co. pur-chased
the brick b u i l d i n g along the
railroad, last used in making shell
boxes for t h e government, f r om F, S.
Dunkle of H a r r i s b u r g . According to
t h e deed recorded at Lancaster the
price was $500, subject to a m o r t g a ge
of $4,000.