Lititz Record

              THE LITITZ RECORD.
An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence.
VOL. XXXVI LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10,1912. NO. 4
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HAPPENINGS ABOUT TBE TOWN AND
VICINITY.
Short and Snappy Paragraphs of Inter-est
to Every Reader.
The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Roth and left a daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Habecker an-nounce
the arrival of a daughter in their
household.
With the tobacco crop safely housed,
farmers are now devoting their time to
cutting corn and sowing wheat.
On Saturday is Columbus day, a legal
holiday in the state, consequently the
banks will be closed on that day.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wolfer moved
to Sellersville, Bucks county, on Tues-
- day. They resided in Lititz about three
months.
John F. Longenecker on Saturday
sold a model 34, five-passenger Imperial
automobile, to Landis Herr, of Lancas-ter
R. D.
T. B. Holohan, attorney for S. M.
Huber, has issued an execution for $175
against Harry H. Firestone, of War-wick
township.
Out of 24 bantams which D. G. Wit-myer
had entered at the Lancaster fair,
he was awarded 23 ribbons, which in-cluded
11 money prizes.
A flock- of wild geese passed over
town on Wednesday evening, going in a
southernly direction, which is a sign
that cooler weather is coming.
Ex-postmaster S. C. Seaber has been
appointed Republican county committee-man
for this borough in place of Milton
Weidman, who moved to Reading.
S. E. Bushong, proprietor of the old
Lititz mills, is again supplying this com-munity
with his excellent corn meal,
which is largely in demand nowadays.
We acknowledge the receipt of an in-vitation
to attend the 50th anniversary
of the Normal Literary Society at Mil-lersville
on Friday evening, October
25th.
Mr. F. E. Schnerer produced a num-ber
of black raspberries grown in his
garden, which he brought to the RECORD
office last Saturday. They are quite a
curiosity at this time of the year.
There was a special car run from this
place to Columbia this morning for per-sons
going to the York fair, but owing
to the threatening weather many who
intended going remained at home.
H. H. Snavely entertained eleven
auto parties last week at his restaurant
He also served an oyster supper to
eighteen members of Morning Star
Temple Ladies of the Golden Eagle.
Jno. F. Longenecker and Jerre Bow-man
conveyed persons to the York fair
on Wednesday in their autos. Mr.
Bowman who makes a specialty of this
work, is constantly kept busy with his
two machines.
Miss M. J. Derr's Sunshine Circle of
King's Daughters with forty-two men-bers
reorganized with the following offi-cers:
Miss M. J. Derr, Pres.; Miss
Margie Kautz, secretary; Mrs. Charles
Seigel, treasurer.
At the annual reunion of survivors of
Capt. Hambright's famous 79th Reg't
volunteers, held at Lancaster on Tues-day,
it was decided to hold the next
reunion at Lititz. There are now only
180 surviving members.
A medicine show was held at the
fountain for several evenings and drew
large crowds. A black-face comedian
and the "doctor" comprised the troupe.
The latter was a clever magician and
between the two held the crowd. He
appeared to do a good business.
The regular monthly meeting of the
poultry association was held on Tues-day
evening. Prospects are very bright
for Lititz having a first-class show
again this year. Already eight silver
cups have been given as special premi-ums
as well as more than $150 in cash.
Bass fishing is at its heighth at the
present time and good catches are being
made. Last Friday William Kissinger
and Clayton Schmuck caught seven and
on Monday the former caught three,
one of which measured eighteen inches
in length and weighed over two pounds.
The Starch plant has been entirely
dismantled and the machinery sent to
Jersey City to a party who will make
the best out of it they can. What will
be the future of the large building only
time will tell, but we hear of rumors of
a new industry that might take hold of
it.
The regular meeting of the W. C. T.
U. will be held on Monday evening,
October 14, at 7.30 at headquarters.
Convention echoes, clippings from the
Union Signal and Our Message, and
other important business will make up
the evening's program. Come and
bring a friend with you.
The festival held in the market house
last Saturday afternoon and evening
under the auspices of Beck's concert
band was well attended and about $70
was realized. The band paraded around
the town during the afternoon and ren-dered
fine music in front of the market
house during the evening.
A new concrete- crossing was put
down at the Main street entrance to the
Springs Hotel stables this week. It is
a big improvement at this much used
thoroughfare. There have been numer-ous
concrete crossings as well as pave-ments
put down about town this sum-mer
and they go a great way in helping
to make the town neater.
During the past week there have been
several very warm days for this season
of the year, and the thermometer at
times registered 80' degrees. Sunday
was an ideal day and everybody was
outdoors, many going to the hills in
search of chestnuts, which, however,
are not yet ready for the seekers, not
having had enough frost to open the
majority of the burrs.
How to properly handle dynamite, its
various uses and so on, will be demon-strated
in the Lititz moving picture
show on Thursday, Friday and Satur-day
evenings of this week, and no
doubt will interest many if not all. E.
G. Geyer, the Brunnerville merchant,
who handles dynamite, is taking an
active interest in educating the people
on this subject.
AUTO, TROLLEY AND OTHER ACCIDENTS
Several of Them of a
Nature.
Very Serious
John Gable Struck by Trolley Car.
John Gable, bartender at the Springs
Hotel, met with a serious accident on
Thursday morning of last week. He
had hired Frank Badorf's livery con-veyance
and started off for the Lancas-ter
fair. South of Kissel Hill where
the trolley track crosses the pike Mr.
Gable stopped to allow a car to pass,
after which he resumed his course, not
knowing that another car followed close
by, his view being shut off by a cluster
of trees along the road. Just as he was
on the track he saw the car and urged
the horse, who cleared the track. The
vehicle was struck and Mr. Gable was
thrown to the ground. He was soon
surrounded by passengers of the car
and helped on his feet, and the horse,
who was very gentle, was taken in
charge. Mr. Gable sustained a bi-oken
rib on the right side, besides bruises on
his hip, leg, shoulder and arm. The
buggy in which he was riding was badly
wrecked, but the horse escaped unin-jured.
Mr. Gable declares that the car gave
no signal or whistle as it approached
the crossing—not until the car was on
him.
Automobile and Team Collide.
Late Saturday evening while Ferry
Garber was returning to Lititz from
Lancaster the automobile of which he
was the driver and sole occupant collided
with a buggy driven by a man by the
name of Jones of near Kissel Hill. The
accident occurred near the Church of
the Brethren Home. The vehicles were
going in opposite directions and the
driver of the buggy was either asleep or
not in condition to drive a horse, as he
occupied the center of the road, when
Garber approached him and the latter
was unable to avoid the collision, strik-ing
the rear wheel and smashing it.
Garber then lost control of his auto and
it ran across the trolley track into the
bank on the opposite side. Neither of
the occupants were injured, but the
wheel of the buggy was smashed and
the automobile was badly damaged, a
spring being broken, axle bent and other
minor damage done.
Arm Broken in Fall.
Anna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Weidman, residing on Spruce street,
had the misfortune to fall from a chair
on Thursday morning of last week and
as a result her left arm was broken at
the wrist. Dr. J. L. Hertz reduced the
fracture. The young lady, who is un-able
to walk, has lost none of her good
cheer, however, and it is truly a pleas-ure
to converse with her, for, despite
her misfortunes, she appears to see a
silver lining on every cloud. Some time
ago the King's Daughters presented
Anna with a rolling chair and this has
lightened her burden to a great degree,
and permits her being taken about the
town in good weather.
Race Horse Broke Leg
Cepi Penns, a trotting race horse
owned by Grant Steinmetz, of Clay,
broke a bone above the ankle in the
left leg, while racing at the Lan-caster
fair on Thursday of last week.
The horse is a valuable one with a
record of 2.19J and was doing some fine
work at the various fairs held this fall.
There is a slight chance for his recov-ery
and he will be removed from Lan-caster
to Clay by an auto truck this
week.
I
RECEIVED THEIR LAST SUMMONS
Sudden Death of Mrs. Kosanna Habecker
Mrs. Rosanna Habecker, widow of
the late Jacob Habecker, died very sud-denly
at her home a short distance
south of this borough, on Friday after-noon
about three o'clock, aged 57 years,
5 months and 8 days. Apparently in
the best of heal, h, Mrs. Habecker was
seated in the dining room a short time
before her death conversing with her
son Adam, of Kissel Hill. The latter
departed for his home and about 3.15
her youngest son John entered the room
and was greatly shocked to find his
mother lying on the floor. A physician
was immediately summoned, but to no
avail, as he pronounced life extinct, due
to heart failure. Her maiden name
was Galebach and she was born at Ann-ville,
Lebanon county. Her husband
died on August 24, 1904, at Kissel Hill,
where the family resided ten years
prior to moving to their present home
in April 1908. Deceased was a member
of the White Oak Lutheran church and
was a faithful and loving mother, whose
death will be mourned by all who knew
her. The following children survive:
Adam and Sue, wife of Charles Butzer,
of Kissel Hill; Henry, of Creston, Cal.;
Grace, wife of Pearl Cohick, of near
Lititz; Sallie, wife of Michael Ober, of
near Longenecker's meeting house;
David, Christ, John and Anna, at home.
One sister, Mrs. Sallie Youtz, of Leba-non,
and these brothers also survive:
John, of Lebanon; Edward, of Derry
Church; Fred., of White Oak; Jacob, of
Palmyra. The funeral was held on
Tuesday with services at the house
and at the White Oak Lutheran church.
Interment was in the adjoining ceme-tery.
Rev. J. V/. Bittner officiated.
Death of Ethel Irene Brookmyer.
Ethel Irene Brookmyer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rrookmyer, of
this borough, died on Sunday afternoon
at 12.45 o'clock, from inflammation of
the bowels, complicated by brain fever.
Her age was nine months. She was
ill for three weeks. She attended the
Fourth Primary school, and both St.
Luke's Reformed and Moravian Sunday-schools.
The parents, two brothers and
four sisters survive, as follows: Lloyd,
Chester, Myra, Edna, Anna and Alma.
The funeral was held on Wednesday af-ternoon,
with services at the house on
East Main street and at the Moravian
church. Revs. Geo. B. Raezer, of St.
Paul's Reformed Church, and E. S.
Hagen, of the Moravian Church, con-ducted
the services.
Death of an Infant.
Marion, infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Graul, residing on West
Orange street, this borough, died early
Monday morning from convulsions, aged
nine days. The funeral was held on
Tuesday afternoon with interment at
the Emmanuel's Lutheran church ceme-tery,
Brickerville. Rev. J. W. Bitt-ner
officiated.
Henry M. Schaeffer.
Henry M. Schaeffer died at his home
at Wyomissing, Berks county, on Fri-day,
aged 68 years, 4 months and 11
days, from paralysis of the heart. He
was a son of Peter Schaeffer and was
born at Rothsville. About 37 years ago
he moved to Berks county, for a num-ber
of years being manager of the farm
of the Bethany Orphans' Home at
Womelsdorf, and for many years being
employed at the Stony Creek mills.
Besides his widow, Julia (nee Strohl),
three children survive, all residing in
Berks county. A brother Isaac, of
London, Ind., also survives, as do these
sisters: Rebecca, wife of John Wom-mert,
of Lititz; Nancy, wife of Joseph
Bouder; Susan, wife of Cornelius Butz-er,
of Rothsville. Interment was at
Akron, this county, on Wednesday.
Sudden Death of Henry Mohn.
Harry Mohn, for nearly thii'ty years
keeper of No. 1 tollgate, on the Harris-burg
turnpike, dropped dead suddenly
about 6 o'clock Monday evening oppo-site
the fair grounds. He worked at
Long Park under Park Commissioner
John C. Dinan, and after supper on
Monday evening was assisting several
other workmen to unload cinde: s for the
park from a Pennsylvania Railroad car.
Suddenly Mr. Mohn dropped from the
car, dying in a few minutes. Dr. Hart-man,
deputy coroner, made an investi-gation
and decided that death was due
to heart trouble. The deceased was
fifty-seven years old. His wife is dead,
but a son survives, residing in the west.
A brother Adam resides on the Harris-burg
turnpike. The deceased, by rea-son
of his connection with the tollgate,
was very well known. Many years ago
he. was a resident of Lititz, where he
learned the tinsmith trade with the late
James A. Miksch. The late Mrs! Eliz-abeth
Carper of this place was a sister.
The funeral was held on Thursday at
one o'clock at Rothsville, where inter-ment
was made in the Lutheran ceme-tery.
Woman Found Dead In Home.
Mrs. John Heagy was found dead in
the kitchen of her home, in Penn town-ship,
one mile south of Manheim, by
her husband Monday morning. She got
up early in the morning and went about
her work as usual. Just as her husband
was entering the yard of their home he
heard a thud as if some one fell, and
hurriedly entered the house he found
her lying on the floor dead. The cause
of her death was heart disease. Her
age was forty-eight years. She was a
member of the Church of the Brethren.
She is survived by her husband and
two children: Harry Heagy, proprietor
of the Keystone House, Manheim, and
Minnie, wife of Henry Helt, also of
Manheim. Her father, Jacob Henny,
living at Lebanon, and her mother,Mrs.
Annie Henny, living at Mt., Joy, also
survives as do several brothers and sis-ters.
The funeral will be held on Friday
morning at 10 o'clock at the church of
the Brethren, Manheim, with interment
in Fairview cemetery, south of Man-heim.
Revs. A. S. Hottsnstein and N.
B. Fahnestock will officiate.
Witnessed Tragic Fall.
Messrs. William A. Ditzler and War-ren
George, of this place, attended the
Trenton, N. J., fair last Thurday,. and
were witnesses of the tragic death of
Aviator Charles F. Walsh. The aero-plane
was at a height of about 2000
feet when Walsh started to descend
with the famous "spiral dip." The
machine broke and he was helpless to
avoid its falling, and landed under the
motor, causing instant death.
Social Events.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eckert enter-tained
the following guests last Sunday
at their home east of town: Clayton
Mundorf, wife and two sons, of Clay;
Mrs. Henry Behmer, and Mrs. Greenly,
of Owl Hill; Mrs. Morris Eckert and
three children, of Rome; Mr. John Kiss-inger
and wife, of near Lititz; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hornberger, Philadelphia;
Mrs. A. L. Hornberger, Lititz.
Miss Kate Martin gave a squab dinner
on Tuesday evening at the Martin home
on Front street in honor of Mrs. Herm-steadt
and Miss Myrtle Eckert, who
leave Friday, the former for her home
in New York and the latter to attend
school in New York. The following
other invited guests were present: Miss
Irene Bender, Miss Mary Huebener,
Miss Maggie Bricker, Miss Aumiller,
besides the Tobias Martin family. A
very pleasant evening was spent.
Mr. Emanuel Behmer, of Neffsville,
was given a package surprise on Sunday
in honor of his fifty-fourth birthday an-niversary.
He received 130 bundles,
large and small, as well as 48 post cards,
from friends living near and far. He
wishes to thank his friends for their
gifts.
Young Lady's Pocketbook Stolen.
Miss Virginia Marks, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Marks, of this place,
had the misfortune to have her pocket-book,
containing $23.50, stolen on Sat-urday
afternoon. Accompanied by her
mother the young lady went to Lancas-ter
to do some shopping. While in Bair
& Witmer's store she placed her hand-bag
containing the purse on a radiator
and went a short distance away to try
on a coat. When she returned the hand-bag
was missing. It was found later on
a table, but the purse was missing.
Pantry Sale.
The W. C. T. U. will hold a pantry
sale on Saturday afternoon and even-ing,
October 26. Home-baked pies, cus-tards,
cakes and other good things will
be for sale. Do not do your own bak-ing
that week but come to the sale and
buy what you need for Sunday.
Great Flocks of Blackbirds.
Each morning great flocks of black-birds
pass over . the southern part of
town, westward bound, and they make
enough noise to attract much attention.
Our well-known citizen Joseph Bollinger
claims there were 30,000 in a flock the
other morning by actual count. He
says that it is as easy to count the birds
as it was to count the people at the
Lancaster fair last Thursday. The
blackbirds return over town each even-ing,
en route for their roosts, some of
which are located in the Moravian ceme-tery,
but the majority are in a large
woods near Akron.
LOCAL RESIDENTS GOING TO OTHER
PLACES.
You and Your Friends Who Come
and Go for Business and Pleasure.
Mrs. J. C. Jenkins spent several days
in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Thomas Marks spent several
days at White Oak.
Mrs. Ella Lacy is spending the week
with relatives at Williamsport.
Mrs. Charles S. Nagel, of Lancaster,
spent Monday with friends in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Simcox, of Kinder-hook,
visited Lititz relatives for a few
, Mr. Henry Marks of Lancaster spent
Sunday with his brothers in this bor-ough.
Mrs. Lena Helman, of Lancaster,
spent Sunday with her many friends in
town.
Mrs. Geo. D. Clarke and son Donald
are spending several weeks at Stewarts-town.
Miss Myrtle Eckert leaves to-morrow
for New York to resume her studies in
music.
Mr. Ed. Hippel has returned to town
after a month's visit to his father at
Cereta, W. ya.
Mrs. Rev. J. Paul Shultz and Mrs.
Rufus Boyd of Bird-in-Hand were in
Lititz on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hornberger of
Philadelphia spent from Friday to Sun-day
here with relatives.
Miss Robbins Warner, of Harrisburg,
a Linden Hall graduate of 1912, is visit-ing
Miss Mary Reidenbach.
Rev. J. W. Woehrle went to Philadel-phia
this morning to attend the State
Sabbath school convention.
Messrs. Wm. A. Ditzler and Warren
George spent Saturday to Sunday at
Kutztown visiting the latter's mother.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Spenser Fassnacht,
of Shillington, spent several days with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.Fass-nacht.
Mr. R. B. Kauffman, a sailor on the
U. S. battleship Utah, is enjoying a
two-weeks' furlough with relatives at
this place.
Messrs. Ivan Hernley and C. J. Louks,
of Scottdale, spent several days with
the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Hernley.
Mrs. Mary Kennedy, wife of Judge
Kennedy, of Youngstown, Ohio, is visit-ing
her mother Mrs. E. S. Young at the
Moravian Home.
Miss Katie Miller, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Simon Miller, left on Wednes-day
for Goshen, Ind., where she expects
to spend the winter.
Mrs. Mary Ford, of Wilmington, Del.,
spent Saturday in town with her sister,
Mrs. Lemon Meily. She had not been
in Lititz for twelve years.
William Sturgis spent a few days in
town visiting relatives. He recently
traveled through the western states and
is employed by an advertising agency.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dreifus are visi-ting
their daughter and other relatives
at Washington, D.C. Their son Percy
and wife have taken charge of the store
during their absence.
Graybill G. Diehm went to Yew York
city on Wednesday where he intends
seeing the world's series championship
game of base ball between the New
York Giants and Boston Red Sox today.
Mrs. Catharine Reinhold and grand-daughter
Miss Rhea Shenk left on Wed-nesday
for Lansdale, Montgomery coun-ty,
where they will attend the wedding
of a daughter of the former's son, Rev.
D. G. Reinhold.
John N. Hetrick and Dr. W. F. Klein,
candidates for Congress and the State
Senate, respectively, on the Bull Moose
ticket, accompanied by a number of
friends, spent Tuesday in town in the
interest of the party.
Mrs. Frank T. Elliott, of Hagerstown,
spent from Thursday to Monday here
with her sister Mrs. W. M. Grube. Her
mother, who had been visiting Mrs.
Elliott for two months, accompanied
her to her Lititz home.
Mr. D. W. Withers leaves on Sunday
for a two weeks trip to New York state,
where he intends packing several thous-and
barrels of apples which he will sell
in this vicinity by the barrel or carload
lots to anyone desiring them.
Mr. George Fritz, aged 87, who has
his home with Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Fisher, felt so good and youthful that
on Wednesday morning he left for York
to see the big county fair and spend a
few days among friends in his native
county.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sturgis of Tucka-hoe,
and his friends Hugh Conyngham
and son, of Ocean City, N. J., spent
spent several days with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Sturgis. Mr. Sturgis'
sister, Mrs. Martha Delbo, alsojpaid
him a visit over Sunday.
Messrs. Hiram Demmy and Jeffer son
Wagner spent Sunday with the former's
sons Frank and Hiram at the McGrann
farm near Lancaster. Hiram has
charge of Frank McGrann's prize-win-ning
poultry and has had unusual suc-cess
in raising Black Minorcas this sum-mer,
having a great many fine chickens
of this variety.
Clayton Wagaman, of Warwick, and
Robert Witmyer, of Lime Rock, return-ed
home last week, after a trip as far
west as the Pacific coast. They were
gone almost two years and traveled in
many states, learning and seeing much
of interest. Recently they worked in
the Singer sewing machine works at
South Bend, Ind.
Lititz Man on a Rampage
Charles Matthews, residing on Cedar
street, this borough, went on a rampage
Saturday, and it resulted in his arrest on
the charge of cruelty to animals and
malicious mischief, preferred by Liv-eryman
A. D. Sahm of Manheim before
'Squire J. B. Stroh of that borough.
Constable Keiffer served the warrants.
Matthews went to Manheim Saturday
and hired a horse and wagon from Sahm
to drive to Bismark, Lebanon county.
Matthews failed to return and the liv-eryman
was in a quandary about his
property until he received a message to
come to Lititz. He was informed that
his outfit was here, much the worse for
having been used.
Matthews, it is alleged, became intox-icated
and drove all around the northern
end of the county. He finally landed at
this place, where he disregarded the
fact that Cedar street near the paper
mill was closed, owing to the construc-tion
of a new bridge, and drove over it,
badly wrecking the vehicle and injuring
the horse. He plead guilty to the charges
and an amicable agreement has been
reached between him and the livery-man.
Night Watchman Prevented a Possible
Robbery.
Persons residing in the vicinity of
Broad street and Juniper alley were
awakened by the report of two shots
about 1.45 A. M. on Tuesday. They
were fired by Night Watchman Clar-ence
Kreider, who, while making his
beat about the town, saw a man acting
suspiciously in the neighborhood of I.
S. Buckwalter's laundry. Kreider com-manded
him to halt, but the' fellow took
to his heels. Kreider fired two shots,
none of which apparently took effect.
Several men residing in the vicinity
arrived on the scene in short order well
armed, as they thought it was another
attempted burglary at Herrón & Co.'s
store, two attempts to rob the store
having been frustrated within the past
year. The watchman with these men
then conducted an investigation but
found no trace of an attempted theft.
It is the supposition that the man ap-prehended
was one of a party of thieves
who intended operating in that part
of town.
There are good reasons for believing
this, as Mrs. Russel heard a team pass
in the alley at her home, a short dis-tance
from Juniper alley, shortly be-fore
the shots were fired. She is cer-tain
she heard geese honking in the ve-hicle,
which may have been stolen
somewhere while the thieves were en
route to this place.
Leon Lutz also claims to have seen a
suspicious looking character loitering
in the vicinity shortly after midnight.
Snake and Fish.
A citizen of Lititz while walking
along the banks of the Hammer creek
with a number of friends Sunday had
an interesting experience. A snake
about two feet long came swimming
across the stream with an object in its
mouth, which upon observation proved
to be a three inch fish. One of the on-
Inokers took a stick and threw the snake
to the other side of the stream, where-upon
it left go of its prey and to the
surprise of all, the little fish, apparent-ly
uninqured, swam off in one direction
and the snake in another.
Our Market.
The local market was not near as
lively last Saturday as it had been for
some Saturdays previous, owing perhaps
to the fact that the opening hour waa
getting a little too early for many
patrons. Besides this several farmers
have dropped out and instead there were
empty tables. However, there were
plenty of vegetables on sale, celery
being quite in evidence and very fine at
the usual prices. Green corn also was
plentiful at from 10 to 15 cents per
dozen ears. Dressed chickens were
numerous—mostly spring stcck, but no
fat ones among them. Eggs sold at 31
and 32 cents a dozen, butter 34 cents a.
pound