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VOL. XLY1I LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 NO. 23
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EVENTS C W L Ï TOLD
KÎERE5TWG THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
A dnughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne G. Fahnestock, of this
place, at the Lancaster General Hos-pital
last week.
Clarence Regennas is confined to
the house, a boil having formed on
hi a foot.
The rumor that Charles C. Weaver
had smallpox is untrue, as he has no
signs of sickness whatever and is at
Ins place of business as usual. He
conducts a modern and antique store.
He is at a loss to know how this
rumor started.
Griffith Schott, who was employed
at the American Stores Company's
:store at this place, was transferred
to one of their stores cn South Queen
Street, Lancaster; as manager.
William S. Sturgis and family
B»«ved to Reading yesterday, to re-side
at the corner of Yarnell and
f r a n k l i n streets, where 'Mr .Sturgis
will conduct a delicatessen store.
"Walter Smith will arrange the store
him.
The report was spread that Wii-
Mather's barber shop had been
on account of Mr. Mathers be-g
quarantined. That is a mistake
it is Mr. Mather's father who is
quarantine.
Syman Harnley, of the firm of
Bstkman & Harnley, was injured on
ttfc* leg last week when a board re-
Iwamded from a circular saw. He
silwiti considerably.
®n Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Harry Erb
•jrtertamed the following- at dinner
at their home on East Main street:
Samuel Musser and family, of Mt.
Jey; Jacob Bomberger and family,
Pksres Newcomer and family, of
Lititz.
Bonds for $100,000 are being is-sued
for the financing of the Animal
Trap Company at this place. There
is bo doubt but what this industry
has been one of the best paying pro-positions
in Lititz. The company is the
largest producer of mouse and rat
traps in the world and produces 60
per cent, of all traps of this descrip-tion
sold in the United States, The
net profits for the past year were ap-proximately
$55,000.
TO THE CITIZENS OF
LITITZ
The Board of Health of Lititz
Borough takes this means of
expressing its full apprecia-tion
of the response to the re-cent
emergency health order,
received at the hands of indus-trial
plants and right thinking
«itizens.
The Board especially wel-comes
the resolutions of con-fidence
and support that were
Toted it by the Borough Coun-cil
and by the Garden Spot
Post of the American Legion.
It is absolutely necessary
that our threatened epidemic
of smallpox be kept under
control by the Lititz Health
Authorities. If a possible
further increase of the disease
reaches beyond local control
the State will take the situa-tion
in hand and establish a
general quarantine on the town
and an embargo on all its pro-ducts.
The period established by the
general vaccination order of
February 20 will close Sunday
March 2, at midnight. All per-sons
who then failed to comply
•with the order after this time
will be dealt with according to
law.
All those who have been vac-cinated
must obtain certificates
from their physicians before
Monday morning, March 3rd.
LITITZ BOARD OF HEALTH
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—Nies Public Sale, which was to be
he'-1 this Saturday, postponed to
Saturday, Mar. 15.
Anniversary Sale Postponed
The Warwick House Anniversary
f-ale, to have been held this Saturday,
has been postponed until March 15,
if nothing else develops in the mean-time.
TWO CASES OF
SMALLPOX IN TOWN
Outbreak Came 18 Bays After
Dr. Newell Was Reported
—See our ad in this issue for new
Crosley Radio prices.—Scott's Book
Store.
Residents of Lititz woke up with
surprise on Sunday morning to learn
that smallpox, which was believed
at ail end, broke out again,
with two victims in Lititz and one
at Pine Hill. They are John K.
Mathers and Mrs. Joseph Miller, of
Lititz, and Mrs. Elmer Good, of Pine
Hill. A dozen persons who had visit-ed
these homes very recently are
quarantined in their homes. The two
Lititz persons who are afflicted at-tended
the meeting-» at which Rev.
Newell, the evangelist wdio first had
the disease, preached.
Sir. Mathers is not an objector to
vaccination but neglected to be vac-cinated
at the time of the first out-break,
as was the case with many
others in town. Mr. Mathers was em-ployed
at the linoleum, factory at
Lancaster. Since then practically all
the employees working there have
been vaccinated.
Dr. H. H. Newell, the evangelist
with his brothers held his,first ser-vice
here on Jan. 27, having come
from Youngstown, where there were
one cr two cases of smallpox in a
mild form, in a city with a popula-tion
of 137,000. Dr. Newell was not
well when he came here and a week
later he preached under great phy-sical
distress, a rash having broke
out on him. On Feb. 6 his case was
pronounced smallpox. These 'present
cases left an intervening gap of
eighteen days.
Up to the present time no new cas-es
developed although there have
been a number of wild rumors. On
Tuesday the Lititz Board of Health
circulated the town with regulations
which they deemed best in order to
stop the pox disease from spreading.
Since then doctors' ofiices have been
crowded until midnight by persons
waiting their turn to be vaccinated.
Doctors have visited some of the fac-tories,
resulting in a hundred per
cent, vaccination, while other fac-tories
sent their employees to the doc-tor
during working hours. By this
time practically the entire town has
been vaccinated.
The Board of Health feels encour-aged
with the results so far. The pox
patients are doing as well as can be
expected and are M no serious condi-tion.
The public schools of Lititz, Linden
Hall .and the industries are .continu-ing
as usual. The morale of the town
is fine and things ;are moving along
as usual, with the exception of special
gatherings which .have been ferbid-den.
This includes church and Sunday
school, lodge sessions, sales and ath-letic
contests. The thing the Health
officers a r e working- for is to prevent
the quarantine of t i e town, wihich
would be the worst hta'dship ever im-posed
on Lititz.
At the Miller home a son, 'Paul and
wife of New York, visited there on
Saturday as well as Miss Marie
Bergstressex, of York. Mr. Miller and
wife returned to New York and were
vaccinated at once. He is allowed to
go to work font is examined every
other day by a medical authority.
Mrs. Joseph Miller, who has only a
mild case of the disease, is over the
critical stage.
Following are the regulations by
the Board of Health:
1.—All persons who attended the
Union services held in Lititz during
the month of February and all others
who have not recently had a success-ful
vaccination must be vaccinated
immediately. Failure to comply with
this order will result in a personal
quarantine, the breaking of which
is punishable with a fine of 5100 or
a jail sentence of SO days.
2.—Industrial plants may be op-erated
only if their managements
comnel all employes to be vaccinated.
3.—All churches and Sunday
schools are ordered closed.
4.—All general gatherings for
social, athletic or business purposes
are forbidden.
"It is further recommended that
a physician be consulted on the least
sign of illness and that there be no
visiting among the sick.
"These regulations are order to
avoid, if possible, a general quaran-tine
of the town and all its products.
"They are drafted with the co-operation
of the health officers of the
county and of the State. They will
be strictly enforced until further an-nouncement
is made."
Proposed Farmers National Bank at Lititz
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—Special Sale on all leather
Boston Bags at Pfautz Bros, store
this week.
The Farmers National Bank an-nounced
yesterday, the award of con-tract
for a new bank building to oc-cupy
the site of the present Post Of-fice
building and open driveway. The
contract was placed with Hoggson
Brothers, of New York City, who
furnished plans for the building and
will start erection April 1st, 1924.
'The new building" will be of
Georgian Colonial design built \of
field s;tone .secured from a nearby
quarry and laid up in broken range
line. The face of the building will be
enhanced with limestone .columns and
pediment .and .colonial entrance treat-ment
for the entranceway.
It will be an individual building,
providing basement, bank floor and
front and rear mezzanine for the
exclusive use of the bank. It will be
approximately 42 feet wide and 84
feet .deep.
Planning wisely for the future, the
Farmers National Bank have arrang-ed
the building so t h a t at any time it
will be a simple matter to extend the
structure to the rear.
The intei-ior of the building is laid
out on the 'island' plan with the
Working- Space in the center sur-rounded
by commodious Public Space
on three sides. Such an arrangement
works best with no cages so that the
seven wickets which pierce the count-er-
screen serve for various functions
rather than being devoted to exclu-sive
use of departments.
The first floor of the building pro-vides
President's Office, an attrac-tive
Ladies' Room, Safe Deposit De-partment
with Coupon Booths and a
combination Safe Deposit and Fund
Vault. A Committee Room is also pro-vided
at the rear of the Public Space.
The front mezzanine floor will be
finished as an open balcony and
serve as a community room while the
rear mezzanine will contain the Di-rectors
Room, men's lockers, etc. It
has been possible to provide all nec-essary
banking facilities on the first
floor and mezzanine floors so that the
"basement contains no banking equip-ment.
The banking room walls will be
decorated in a soft, warm buff and tan
color with a panelled treatment, ceil-ing
to be old ivory, the whole pre-senting
an harmonious and fitting
background for the counterscreen
with Its black and gold marble base,
bronze wickets and ornamental plast-ers
and cornice.
The main banking room will be pro-vided
with four bronze ceiling fix-tures
and with individual lights for
the desks and Working Space. Di-rectly
opposite the front entrance
door and placed in the rear balcony
railing, there will be a large clock
visible from all parts of the banking
room.
The vault specification clearly pro-vide
for all emergencies, the walls are
to be 18 in. thick reinforced with
railroad rails built up in log cabin
style, with a 1% in. steel lining. The
vault door is made of 12 in. solid steel
and measures 17 Vi in. in thickness. It
will be further protected by Duplex
Electric Vault Protection and day-light
raid alarm.
The construction is scheduled to
start about April 1st, 1324, and prep-arations
are already being 1 made by
Hoggson Brothers to push the work
forward as rapidly as possible.
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Columbia .'had a smallpox
epidemic twenty-two years
ago. A Lititz man who was
living there at the time said
that the first information he
had of the outbreak was
when he saw a man, a well-known
character about the
town who worked at odd jobs
and drank between times,
going down the street with
a bag. He explained as he
passed along that he was
trying to catch a colored
man who had the smallpox.
The victim became seared
and tried to elude the health
authorities and gave them a
merry chase and besides no
one was keen about laying
hands on him. In all there
were 103 cases in a period
covering about two months.
Those afflicted were placed
in a pest house on the out-skirts
of the town. Dr.
Moiney-, a doctor just out of
college, who had located at
Columbia and had a poor
practice, tended to the pa-tients
exclusively. There was
not a fatility among them
and this fact made a repu-tation
for the doctor and in
a short time he had a paying
practice. He then joined an
artic exposition and after
that located at Wrightsville.
Disappointed by a love af-fair
the doctor who saved
the lives of a hundred and
more by his courage and
skill took his own life.
People in Columbia who
passed thru the epidemic re-member
the gloom that was
in the town. Business men
thought at the time that
business in Columbia would
be lost permanently to some
degree. But it died out and
was soon forgotten by other
incidents in the town's af-fairs.
The only smallpox case in
Lititz in the past, within the
memory of old residents oc-cured
about fifty years ago.
There were only two cases
and did not spread. The af-fair
was kept quiet and many
residents living here at the
time were not aware of it.
"No person is susceptible
to smallpox so long as he is
in a state of health. Every
human being can be protect-ed
from smallpox if he has
sufficient air, sunshine,
wholesome work, good food
and interest,in life. These
g'ive immunity."—February
issue of Physical Culture.
Two Lititz women came to
a local doctor to be vaccinat-ed.
The doctor informed
them that they would be the
next ones and that shotild
g-et their sleeves rolled up,
so that he would not be de-layed.
When the doctor ap-peared
again he discovered
that they had not made a
move to follow his instruc-tions.
The doctor, in a ques-tioning
voice, asked them
why they had not done as he
requested. The room was full
of other waiting patients,
and cue of the women in
question after looking around
the place, replied, "You see,
doctor, we want to wear
evening dresses." The doctor
said nothing but motioned to
them to come into his private
room.
Mr. Sicner To Go To Texas Again
J. F. Stcner, who made a trip to
Texas several weeks ago in the in-terests
of the Small Investors Oil
Company, of which he is treasurer,
will leave again shortly. He is wait-ing
for a telegram, announcing the
"shooting" of well in which he is in-terested.
Seeing a well "come in" will
be a new experience for him.
TRAVELERS HEAR AHD FAR
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TSUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW M I ES
, Boy Hurt While Coasting
Lester, eleven year old son of
Sherman Steffy, cut a long gash in
his leg- while coasting. It required
sixteen stitches to close the wound.
In past accidents he had both arms
Samuel Kluckner, of Philadelphia,
is assisting Frank Keller in his bar-ber
shop.
Miss Fredericka Kling spent Sun-day
at Lancaster visiting relatives.
Miss Caro Crosland, of Bethlehem,
spent several days here with her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Cros-
> land, at the Moravian parsonage.
Miss Viola Leib spent Saturday
to Sunday morning with Harry RuM
and family at Lancaster.
Mr. and Mrs. Phares Siaisc.hue-e
visited at Reading on Saturday and
Sunday.
Elmer Heineman, of New York,
spent Saturday and Sunday with, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Heine-man.
He is purchasing agent for the
Hoffman-LaRouche Chemical Co.
Christ Glaus attended the funeral
of Mrs. Charlotte Glaus at Lancas-ter
. on Tuesday. Mrs. Claus, who
was S3 years old, died on Friday.
Leon Glaus and Ray Dillman r -
cently started to attend Temp', a
University, the former taking up a
course in art work and the laitc-r
taking up a business course,
•Floyd Bender and three children,
of Pottstown, spent Sunday with the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D,
Milton Bender.
broken
Trap Told the Story
Last week one morning Isaac
Becker, living south of the Spring-ground,
found his chickens all huddled
together in the hen house. Ucon in-vestigation
he found a dead chickcn
among them and a hole in the floor.
Next night he set a trap and the fol-lowing
morning found he had trap-ped
an opossum, which he killed. The
following night he set a trap again
and on entering the poultry house
next morning found a cat entrapped.
Pussy, fortunately was not badly
hurt, and upon being released, ran
away as fast as it could. Mr. Becker
preparsd the 'possum for the table,
and it provided a fine meal, repaying-him
for the loss'of the chicken.
-SUDDEN DEATHE OF
_ MRS. IVAN S. BUCK WALTER
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Buckwalter, aged
43 years, wife of Ivan S. Buckwalter,
of Center street, Lititz, died sudden-ly,
at her home Tuesday afternoon, at
1:20 o'clock, from a stroke of apop-lexy.
She had been indisposed for
three weeks and died while in bed.
At noon she told her husband that
she was not feeling well. They wex-e
married about 21 years ago, moving
to Lititz with her husband twenty
years ago. Before marriage she was
Elizabeth Rohrer. Deceased was born
at Eden.
She was a member of St. Paul's
Lutheran church the Ladies' Aid So-ciety
and the Woman's Missionary
Society. Sh e is survived by her hus-band
and the following children:
Enth, Edith and Richard, all at home.
Her father, Abram S. Rohrer, of
Seattle, Wash., and three brothers:
Clayton, Milton and Abram L„ all of
Seattle, also survive. Funeral ser-vices
will be held on Friday after-noon
at the late home, and will be for-th
e near relatives. Interment will be
made in Maehpelah cemetery.
Deacon Chosen by Lot
Landis Brubaker, at a meeting- held'
at the Hammer Creek meeting House
of the Mennonite denomination last
Thursday afternoon, was chosen
deacon by drawing slips from a book.
There were eleven candidates The-,-»
was a good atten in ° r c
instructions given
fore the drawing
preaching. Mr. Bi
the meeting house.
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Lititz to Play St. J->6
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the Prefix!
i wivii the
one game
33. The third
•1 mia series will be
fought out on a neutral court on
Wednesday, March 5, it was announc-ed.
St. Joe will play here as soon ,->•
it is possible to definitely arranf
—See Pfautz's fine line o'