Lititz Record

              An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence.
VOL. XXXV LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14,1911. NO. 13
HAPPENINGS ABOUT TBE
VICINITY.
TOWN AND
Short and Snappy Paragraphs of Inter-est
to Every Reader.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Nelson moved to
New Holland this week, where he works
in a bakery.
A shooting match for turkeys and
geese will take place at Rome on Satur
day afternoon.
A national bank examiner was here
this week and made an examination of
both our national banks.
It's a girl since last Saturday morning
in the home of Addison Wilson, and the
parents are very proud of the newcomer.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hossler, who mov-ed
from this place to Parkersville,
Chester county, have returned to Lititz.
Rev. J. W. G. Hershey, whose leg
was amputated on November 22, is at
present in such good condition that he is
able to sit up.
A daughter of William Sturgis lost a
pocketbook containing about 90 cents on
Saturday, Dec. 2, and would greatly
appreciate its return.
Horace Stnrgis found a pocket book
containing a sum of money on E. Main
street last week which the owner can
recover by proving propery.
The High School will hold lyceum, on
Friday evening; Dec. 22, in the High
School room, at which time appropriate
Christmas exercises will also be ren-dered.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bollinger intend
moving to Rothsville in the near future
into part of the large house formerly
used as a furniture store by J. A.
Heitler.
From all accounts there will be
large home-coming during the holiday
season. Many have already sent mes-sages
that they will be here for a
certainty.
It is rumored about town that the
corn starch factory at this place has
been sold to the U. S. Asbestos Mfg.
Co., but those who are in a position to
know deny the report.
As a rule turkeys and other fowls are
not as scarce nor as high in price as
they were a year ago, yet even with re-duced
prices many people cannot afford
to have turkey at Christmas time.
Isaac Lorah shipped nine horses from
the Warwick House stables to Jno. D.
Bear at Blue Ball on Tuesday. One of
them a black draft horse, fattened by
Cornelius Kreider of Penn township,
was the finest horse seen in this vicinity
in many a day.
The continued high temperature has
had the effect of making chickens lay
beyond expectations and as a result
eggs have taken a very welcome drop
in price, and are quoted at 30 cents a
dozen this morning by local merchants.
A real Christmas present indeed.
A number of our townsmen visited
the exhibits of eight of the western
states which were on view in five cars
at Lancaster for two hours on Tuesday
morning. The governors of several of
the western states are accompaning the
special train on its tour of the East.
John Leed's annual carpet rag party
came off last Thursday evening. There
was a baker's dozen there, but many
invited ones failed to put in an appear-ance.
However, all went well and
many rag balls were sewed. Ice cream,
coffee and cakes wound up the evening's
busy gathering.
The legal season for shooting rabbits,
squirrels, pheasants and partridges
closes on Friday. More cottontails were
bagged by local nimrods this season
than for many years, but owing to
abundant cover, many more remain,
and we presume will be about in - goodly
numbers next year again.
The recital given in the Linden Hall
gymnasium on Saturday evening by
Miss Sylvia Gilbert, the elocutionist,
was one of the best entertainments of
its kind ever given in Lititz, and those
who failed to hear the young lady indeed
missed a rare treat. Never before did
she appear to charm her audience to the
extent of Saturday night. Miss Grace
Copeland, pianist, who assisted Miss
Gilbert, also performed very charming-ly
and to the delight of her hearers.
LITITZ TO BAVE AN OIL STATION.
So Say Representatives of Company
Which Sold the Red-Looking Oil
Here the Past Several Days.
Representatives of the American
Independent Oil Company, of Harris-burg,
had two carloads of coal oil at
this place the past several days, which
they found no trouble in selling to farm-ers
and others. This company claims
to be fighting the trust and they sell
direct to the consumer. Gallon samples
were given out free for trial and appar-ently
proved satisfactory, judging by
the amount sold. The oil is claimed to
be the best triple refined product and is
sold in 50 gallon tanks at 8J cents per
gallon. Unlike the other coal oil, it is
red in color, and in appearance greatly
resembles wine.
According to the representatives the
company will establish an oil station at
this place in the spring of the year,
where all their products, such as oils and
greases, will be received and teams will
traverse the surrounding country with
them. The site of the station has not
yet been selected, but will, of course,
be along the railroad. Three tanks,
each having a capacity of 10,000 gallons
of oil will be erected.
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WHILE GOING AT A HIGH
SPEED.
RATE OF
THOSE WHO RECEIVED THEIR LAST
SUMMONS
For the Benefit of the High School.
Judging from the way the tickets for
the entertainment "Ye Olde Folkes
Concert, ' ' to be presented in the Linden
Hall gymnasium on Friday evening,
being sold, there will be a large audience
present. As stated in last week's REC-ORD,
the play abounds with laugh-mak-ing
scenes and will be well worth seeing.
It will be given for the benefit of the
Lititz High School by a caste of fifty
Lancastrians who produced it very suc-cessfully
at Lancaster on two occasions.
Change of Foremen.
John F. Shreck, for the past two
years foreman of the Kinports cigar
factory at Lititz, resigned, and is now
employed as foreman of the Globe Cigar
factory, this borough, E. Cohen, pro-prietor,
he having assumed charge on
Wednesday. Charles Bixler is at pre-sent
in charge of the Lititz factory.—
Ephrata Review.
Entertained Their Friends.
Dr. and Mrs. J. Paul Roebuck, of
Lancaster, and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Grosh, entertained friends to the num-ber
of forty at the home of the latter
on S. Broad street, this borough, on Fri-day
evening. Five hundred was the
prevailing pastime and the following
proved the most elever manipulators of
the cards: Ladies—1st. prize, Mrs. D.
W. Gray bill; 2d., Mrs. F. Snyder; gent-lemen—
1st. prize, Mr. Warren S. Buch;
2d. Mr. P. F. Snyder. A fine luncheon
was also served and the evening proved
a very pleasant social function. Guests
were present from Baltimore, Lancas-ter
and Lititz.
Florida Tourists.
From all accounts Lititz and vicinity
will send quite a large number of tourists
to Florida this winter. P. B. Bucher
will spend several months there again
and in all probability he will have a
number of companions from here.
Others have the fever and if half go
who speak about it this section will be
well represented in the land of perpet-ual
summer and we warrant to say that
not one will return displeased.
—Fancy Pillows, Head Rests and Doi-lies
at Miller's store.
Among The Sick
Mrs. Charlotte Bachman is seriously
ill with pneumonia at the home of her
daughter Mrs. W. K. Bender east of
town. Mrs. Bachman is the oldest lady
in this section, having attained her 92
birthday on May 29 last.
Mrs. Dietrich Bupp is confined to bed
with a Serious attack of pleuro pneu-monia.
Mrs. Moench, wife of Bishop C. L.
Moench, of Bethlehem, was taken seri-ously
ill on Thanksgiving Day while
visiting her daughter at Brooklyn, N.
Y., and she is still in a critical condition.
She has been removed to the Brooklyn
hospital. The immediate cause of her
collapse was due to gall stones and she
is expected to submit to an operation
as soon as her strength permits.
Mrs. J. C. Rhode went to Philadelphia
last Friday to have her eye treated at
the Wills Hospital. Her one eye is
entirely gone and the other one is in
danger.
Where is the Deer ?
The deer which was set free at the
Clay hotel on Thanksgiving day, and
captured on the following Sunday by
Israel Bomberger and a young man by
the name of Witman, on the former's
farm near Zartman's mill, is having
quite an eventful career. Since the
capture Mr. Bomberger had the deer
under lock and key in his stable. On
Tuesday morning when the owner went
to feed the fleet-footed animal he was
gone, and the staple holding the lock to
the door was pulled out.
Incidentally W. U. Hensel, attorney
for Grant Steinmetz, proprietor of the
Clay hotel, who held the chase, on Tues-day
issued a replevin against Mr. Bom-berger
to recover the deer, valued at
$75. When Deputy Sheriff Stump went
to the Bomberger farm on Tuesday to
recover the deer he found the animal
was missing. It is supposed that the
deer is now running at large somewhere
in the northern end of the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Bomberger Had
a Narrow Escape from Serious if Not
Fatal Injury.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Bomberger,
of Warwick, had a most thrilling exper-ience
on Monday evening, when a buggy
in which they were seated was crashed
into and totally wrecked by a fast-going
automobile.
The accident happened about two
miles north of Lancaster, at a spot com-monly
called Sunnyside, on the Lititz
and Lancaster turnpike. Mr. and Mrs.
Bomberger had driven to Lancaster and
were homeward bound, when, as they
were ascending a small hill at the above
named place, an automobile was seen
coming in the opposite direction. Na-turally
Mr. Bomberger drove to the
right of the pike as far as possible,
When the machine was several yards
away from the vehicle it suddenly was
guided directly in its path. Mr. Bom-berger
shouted at the top of his voice,
but it was of no avail and the fender of
the auto, a large touring car, struck the
front wheel on the left side of the buggy,
ran up over the axle and crashed into
the dasher of the buggy.
Mr. Bomberger kept a good hold on
the lines, but in doing so was pulled out
over the dasher by the horse, which was
freed by the impact, and landed on the
pike. The horse ran to the rotary near
Neffsville, where he was caught.
Mrs. Bomberger was thrown off the
seat of the buggy and completely turn-ed
around. She was pinned between
the seat of the conveyance and the
fender of the automobile. It is a re-markable
fact that neither Mr. Bom-berger
nor his wife were hurt, beyond a
few slight bruises. The horse also es-caped
injury. The vehicle, however,
was totally wrecked, and the occupants
of it returned to Lititz in Jerre Bow-man's
and D. W. Graybiil's autos, which
came the way.
Strange to say the buggy did mot up-set,
as the auto was under the fore part
of the vehicle and it could not tilt, al-though
a rear wheel was lifted over a
hedge fence along the road.
The antomobile is owned by Mr. Gray-bill
Long, of Lancaster, and was driven
by his chauffeur, William Ray. The
owner was not in the car at the time of
the accident, although his wife was one
of the occupants. The chauffeur claim-ed
he did not see the buggy until a crash
was unavoidable, owing to the poor
lights of the machine. Mr. Graybill
telephoned his regrets to Mr. Bomberg-er
and wife late Monday evening and
promised to amend matters.
The buggy was brought to the Bom-berger
home in a spring wagon several
hours after the collision and the remains
of it have been witnessed by scores of
people. It was a practically new vehicle.
Christmas Trees Galore.
There are probably more Christmas
trees offered for sale in Lititz this year
than ever before, and if this can be
taken as a criterion, the majority of
homes will have some sort of a "putz."
All in all the trees are just as fine as
could be, being well filled out and green.
Moss is also to be had at reasonable
prices.
Our Market.
The local market last Saturday was
well attended by patrons, but farmers
are getting less, owing to the fact that
provisions, especially vegetables, are
going out. Dressed poultry was quite
plentiful at the usual figures. Fresh
pork sold at from 15 to 18 cents a pound.
Eggs were 39 cents a dozen, butter 38
cents a pound, same as last week's
prices.
Has Gone to Her New Home.
Miss Gillern, the nurse of Mrs. E.
Kent Sims, of Indianola, Miss., came to
Lititz last Friday for the purpose of
taking Mary, the 12-year-old daughter
of Mr. Harry Hacker, to her new home.
Before the death-of Mr. Hacker's wife,
which occurred on July 16, Mrs. Sims,
while boarding at the Moravian Home,
where Mary was doing light housework,
took a liking to her and decided to take
the girl to her home to live with her at
some future time, although she did not
adopt her. Since the death of her
mother, Mary had been making her
home with Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Beck.
She is an unusually bright little girl
and was well liked by all who knew her,
who are sorry to see her depart. She
will have the opportunity to become a
highly cultured lady, as Mr. and Mrs.
Sims are very wealthy and have a fine
home in Mississippi.
Mrs. Sims was Miss Rose Hess before
her marriage. She is a graduate of
Linden Hall Seminary and a daughter
of Col. Frank Hess, a retired army
officer, both being well-known in Lititz.
Mrs. Joseph H. Shank.
Mary, wife of Joseph H. Shank, died
at her home at Manheim last Friday.
She had been ill for the past eighteen
months with Bright's disease, which
caused her death. She was a member
of the Zion Lutheran church. Besides
her husband she is survived by two
daughters: Mrs. Harry Ritter, Miss
Bertha, at home, and one son, Edgar,
all residing at Manheim; also two sis-ters,
Mrs. David Walter, Pine Grove;
Mrs. John Baustic, Lebanon, and one
brother, Frank S. Ritter, of Penn town-ship.
Her maiden name was Ritter,
being a daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Ritter, of Penn township.
The funeral was held on Monday morn-ing
at Zion Lutheran church, with in-terment
in Fairview cemetery. Rev.
Geo. D. Clarke, of Lititz, officiated. The
Shank family formerly resided in Lititz
until they moved to Manheim about ten
years ago.
Mrs. Alice Singley.
Mrs. Alice Singley, wife of Christian
Singley, died Monday morning at her
home, in Manheim, aged forty-four
years, from pneumunia, after a two
weeks' illness. She was a member of
the United Evangelical church. She is
survived by her husband, and two chil-dren,
John and Lena. Her mother,
Mrs. Lucetta Engle, of Manheim, and
the following brothers and sisters sur-vive:
Charles, of Manheim; John, of
Denver; William, of Emaus; Robert
and Mrs. George Beilman, of Napier-ville,
111., and Mrs. Lizzie Martin, of
Chicago, also survive.
Organization News
There will be a special meeting of
Stevens Post No. 517, G. A. R. at head-quarters
on Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock, for the purpose of electing
officers.
The Lilac Club, a newly organized
club of fox hunters, requests the REC-ORD
to return thanks to the members of
the Blue Ribbon club for their kind
assistance at the recent chase.
The 'Pastime gunning club will hold a
"shoot" at their traps on the base ball
grounds on Saturday afternoon. All
gunners, whether members of the club
or not, are invited to participate.
Odd Fellows to the number of about
50 enjoyed an oyster supper given by
the local lodge after the regular session
on Monday night. The menu consisted
of oyster soup, fried oysters, cold slaw,
celery, crackers, pickles, coffee, and the
like. The Odd Fellows have a "feed"
every once in a while, but the money
to furnish the eatibles does not come out
of the order's fund, as those who enjoy
the goodies "chip in."
The Ladies' Sewing Society of the
Moravian church made a net profit of
$29 out of its sale of needlework, etc.,
last Saturday.
Birthday Surprise Party.
Roy, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Yeiser,
was agreeably surprised at his home on
Broad street on last Friday evening by
eighteen of his friends, in honor of his
twenty-third birthday anniversary.
The evening was most pleasantly spent
in playing various games and partaking
of refreshments. Those present were:
Misses Clare Brenneman, Iva Ulmer,
Ethel Daily, Belle Eckman, Esther
Haas, Messrs. Albert Butler, Paul
Snead, Guy Eckman, Clarence Seiber,
Howard Ruhl, Wm. Frankford, Charles
Cassel, Claude Daveler, of Lancaster;
Misses Rhea Shenk, Noami Caulwell,
Lela Yeiser, Messrs. J. Paul Enck and
Clarence Bard of Lititz.
Mr. Bruckart's Carnations in Demand,
Owing to the dry unfavorable weather
during the past summer, the carnation
plants throughout the country did not
do well while in the- fields. The result
is a shortage of cut. flowers with many
growers this season. J. ,W. Bruckart,
the local trucker, and florist, has receiv-ed
and accepted an offer from a Lancas-ter
florist to tske all the carnations he
can spare from now until after Easter.
This will explain why Mr. Bruckart has
advanced hie retail prices. However,
he still offers his goods for less than
they can be bought in Lancaster.
LOCAL RESIDENTS GOING TO OTHER
PLACES.
Making Improvements.
John F. Longenecker is building a
frame addition 45x40 feet, to his auto
garage. Part of it will be used for the
machine shop. The structure will be
modern in every respect, so as to enable
Mr. Longenecker to better accommodate
autos and do all kinds of repairing. It
will have a concrete floor and in the
machine shop a pit is being made so
that the employees can sit or stand
under an auto, doing away with the
tiresome position of lying on the back
when repairing cars.
The Fall Season of the Year a Pleasant
Time for Goers and Comers
Mr. Paul Evans, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. William Weaver of
Reading spent Sunday with Lititz rela-tives.
Mr. C. C. Rudolph, of Lostant, 111., is
visiting Mrs. Anna Drybread at War-wick.
Mrs. Addie Laughlin, of Baltimore,
spent from Friday to Tuesday in town
with friends.
Mrs. Lizzie Shick of Reading spent
several days here with her sister, Mrs.
W. H. Buch.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Grosh of Lancaster
spent Sunday here with her father Dr.
J. C. Brobst.
Rev. Henry F. Lutz and son Russell,
of Millersville, spent Tuesday in town
with relatives.
Mr. John Leed spent Saturday and
Sunday with his son Spencer at Her-shey,
Dauphin county.
Mrs. J. F. Stoner and children spent
several days at Lebanon. Mr. Stoner
was also there on Sunday.
Mr. W. E. Fasnacht, superintendent
of the Ideal Chocolate factory, made a
business trip to New York last week.
Mr. John Hertzler, of Philadelphia,
spent several days in town with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hertzler.
Miss Naomi Buch, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Buch, of Westpoint,
Va., is visiting relatives at this place.
Mr. Herbert Bauers, employed by
Hershey-Leaman Co. as a carpenter,
spent Saturday and Sunday at his home
at Riverside, N. J.
Mr. W. Hi Enck and daughters Mrs.
Wm. Zellers and Mrs. Daniel Groff at-tended
the funeral of a Mrs. Reuben
Kline, a cousin, at Wrightsville on
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer C. Ritchie and
son Lloyd visited their daughter Mrs.
Harry Dissinger, at Campbelltown on
Sunday. A family dinner in honor of
their newly wedded daughter and hus-band
was given.
John T. Witmyer and wife, living
near Longenecker's meeting house, last
Sunday entertained the following visi-tors:
Menno Eberly and wife, from near
Ehrisman's meetinghouse, Rapho town-ship;
Daniel Whitcraft and wife, from
near Brickerville; Monroe Witmyer,
wife and children, Akron; Isaac Singer
and wife, Akron.
Mr. B. A. Hadsell and daughter Idora,
left on Wednesday for New York from
which place they sail today for Mexico.
Mr. Hadsell conducts excursions to
Mexico every once in a while, for the
purpose of selling land. Miss Hadsell
will remain with a brother in Mexico
until Spring.
Mrs. Abram Lefevre, Mrs. McKinley
Weaver, of near Oxford; Mrs. William
Lefevre, Mrs. Pauline Weaver, of
Quarryville, Mrs. David Meiley and son,
of Mt. Airy; Sherman Weaver, of near
Manheim, and Samuel Weaver, of Clay,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Haines on Sunday.
Mr. I. H. Dickson, of Chicago, the
western representative of the Ideal
Chocolate Company, was here from
Sunday to Wednesday, when he left for
New York. Mr. Dickson has been with
the Ideal a number of years and sells
more goods than any of its salesmen—
in fact nearly as much as all the others
combined.
Mrs. H. P. Fry, Mrs. Kate Lutz, Mr.
and Mrs. Israel Bear, Mr. Ezra Habeck-erand
Mr. Aaron Habecker attended
the funeral of Mrs. Anna Frankhouser
at Adamstown on Saturday. Deceased
was a daughter of the late Samuel
Strunk and was born on the old Shreiber
homestead near town, but moved with
her parents to the eastern end of the
county before her marriage. She was
66 years of age.
Great Game of Basket Ball.
A basket ball game that promises to
be one of the greatest of the season
will be played at this place on Saturday
evening, when the locals will be opposed
by the Mohnton five. Last year our
boys were no match for the Berks
county boys, who have a very fast team,
but it's dollars to doughnuts, that it
will be a close game on Saturday. Roy
and Bert Bohler play with the visitors.
Our Street Crossings.
Most of our street crossings need
looking after by the boroughjauthorities.
They are too low and during wet wealher
are so covered with mud that they are
hardly fit for use. Of course we know
this is unavoidable to some extent, but
if a little more attention was paid to
this end instead of spending so much on
practically unused streets, the public
wouldn't have reason to talkfquite so
much.
THE COMING POULTRY SHOW.
Will be Held in the Linden Hall Gym-nasium
from December 26 to 30.
The seventh annual exhibition of the
Lancaster County Poultry, Pigeon and
Pet Stock Association will be held in
the Linden Hall gymnasium at this
place from December 26 to 30. From
present indications this year's exhibi-tion
will eclipse any of the former
shows held by this association and at
least 1800 birds will be entered for com-petition.
The chickens entered here are
none of the "scrub" variety, but the
kings and queens of the poultry yard.
It is know as "Pennsylvania's Quality
Show," and its reputation is more than
state-wide.
One of the features of this show is
the special cash premiums offered by
members of the association and others,
and more than $200 in hard, cold cash
will be given to the winners. Money
makes the show go and the glitter of
gold will lure the foremost breeders
in the country to exhibit their birds
here.
Lititz for many years has been a
centre for fancy poultry, due largely to
the successful shows held here. It is a
well-known fact that nowhere are so
many good birds found in so small a
radius as in Lititz and its vicinity, and
a poultry show could be held here with
all local birds equal to the average in
number and comparing favorably in
quality With the best.. Many winning
birds are raised each year in this sèc-tion
and many sales are made to fanciers
who well-know the worth of a bird from
the bretzel-famed town for exhibition
purposes.
Messrs. Chas, T. Cornman and F. W,
Corey will be the judges. As both
have been judges at the Madison
Square, New York, show for a number
of years, exhibitors can feel assured
that their enteries will be fairly placed.
Although the show attracts a good
number of people from neighboring
towns the attendance by the local resi-dents
is light. If is because so many
love to see chicken only when on the
platter? Why not see the birds in all
their style and glory and beautifully
marked plumage, from the proud little
bantams to the monster Brahmas, which
will be a feature of this year's exhibit.
The association is composed of well-known
townsmen and deserves home
patronage. The officers are: Dr. J. L.
Hertz, president; Wm. Rapp, vice-president;
Wm. E. Fasnacht, secretary;
F. B. Buch, ass't secretary; D. G. Wit-myer,
treasurer.
As usual a banquet will be served to
the exhibitors, and the poor pencil
pushers will be included, on Wednesday
evening of the week of the show. Choice
roast turkey will be the mainstay, and
it is said Secretary Fasnacht offers a
special premium of one pound of the
famous Ideal bon-bons to the exhibitor
eating the most turkey. All attending
will be weighed "before and after tak-ing."
A Champion Porker.
Frank J. Gantz, residing near Pine
Hill, slaughtered a hog last Thursday
which tipped the beam at 589 pounds.
This is a good record when it is con-sidered
that the porker was fed only
twice a day. Who can beat it?
Farmers' Institute to be Held Here.
A farmers institute will be held in the
Linden Hall gymnasium on Wednesday
and Thursday, January 3 and 4. These
conventions are a great benefit to all
tillers of the soil and cost them noth-ing,
as the State makes an appropria-tion
defraying the expenses of the
speakers who come here. Several
eloquent and able speakers, among
them Dr. Ferar, of Penna State college
and Prof. Menges of York will address
the local institute, the subject of the
former being "Tobacco." Poultry,
cattle and almost everything else of in-terest
to the farmer will be discussed.
The session will be open to the public
and no admission will be charged.
Mild Weather.
The weather prevalent during the
past week has been remarkable for this
time of the year and the temperature
has been extremely mild, the mercury
touching 65 degrees on several occasions.
The frost which had penetrated the
earth to a depth of at least six inches
during the recent cold weather has dis-appeared.
Jacob Heineman, who has
charge of the repairing of the local
section of the Reading railroad, reports
finding hundreds of ants beneath the
ties, which is unusual at this time.
Probably more people are suffering with
colds now than in mid winter, as is very
damp and unhealthful. It is hard to
dress correctly for the changeable '
weatheJ condition; heavy clothing ;:iS;V
changed for lighter too abruptly and •
houses are apt to be overheated.'
As a result, there are a great many
persons affected with the cold and
grippe.