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YOL. XLVÏI LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1924 NO. 24
INTERESTING THINGS THVT HAPPEN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Alvin Keller baked 950 dozen
fasnaehts and S. C. Hassler also put
out a big number.
Mrs. Jerry Adams, of liothsviile, is
spending a few days with her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Agnes' Adams.
Mrs. Ellen Leib and Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Amer will celebrate their
birthdays on Saturday, 8th inst.
The 4Edison building will be oc-cupied
by the postoSice hire for one
year, when a place will be advertised
for. The new place, which will be oc-cuppied
after April 1, is smaller than
the present location.
Quite a few persons heard the ser-mons
on Sunday night around
Mohler's electrical store and even au-tomobilists
stopped on the street. He
has a power amplifier loud speaker
on his receiving set and it is giving
fine service. Mr. IVIohler handles dif-ferent
makes of radio outfits and is
specializing in the work.
L. K. Grosh, who had his office on
the second floor of the postoffice
building, will occupy a room on the
second floor of the Pfautz store. Dr.
C. E. Lane will move his dental
office to 65 East Main street. The
postoffice will be moved shortly to
the Edison Electric Co. building on
Broad street, as work in tearing
down the present postoffice building
will be started early in April. The
second floor of the Edison building-has
been remodeled for living-quarters
for Walter Saylor.
CUPID AT SWITCHBOARD
Telephone Romance to End in June
Wedding
A telephone romance which began
here last August will bring J. D. Tom-iinson,
of Trenton, and Miss Lee
Yeiser, of Lititz, Pa., to the altar in
June.
Miss Yeiser, a phone operator at
Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, met
her fiance over the wire when he
made frequent phone calls to the hos-pital
to inquire about the condition of
his mother, who had been injured in
an auto accident.
Tomlinson is said to have named
his bride-to-be "the girl with the
beautiful voice." He followed his tele-phone
calls with a personal visit and
won her hand. Tomlinsin is employed
by an oil refining concern.
Miss Yeiser, before going to Phila-delphia,
was an operator in the Bell
Telephone office at this place. Miss
Yeiser and her fiance were here on a
visit some months ago. She is a
daughter of Peter Yeiser, of Lititz.
Observance of Shrove Tuesday
Continues To Hold Interest
of Young and Old
Who Won the Cup?
Big Check For Tobacco
P. B. Rohrer delivered the last of
his thirty acre crop of tobacco with
a total weight of 51,622 pounds, to
Baker & Pfautz's warehouse at this
place. He received a check amount-ing
to $9,572.68.
Lancaster County Tobacco Growers
To Meet
The regular monthly meeting of the
Lancaster County Tobacco Growers'
Association will be held Monday,
March lOSh, at 2:00 P. M. in the r a mi
Bureau I4;>oms, W
Lancaster. Prof. F.
State College, will
mental work.
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on experi-
The silver cup, after being award-ed
to James Howard, of,, this place,
for the best record in the annual
County Scholastic Foul Shooting Con-test,
caused a controversy that is not
settled to date.
The judges all arrived at the con-clusion
that the result of twenty-five
tries resulted in a tie between Howard
and John Ford, of Manor High, each
having made „eighteen points. To de-cide
the contest each shot fifteen
more times, Howard beating out his
opponent by 12 to 8 points, making,
the totals 30 to 28 in favor of the
Lititz boy. On that basis the cup
was awarded.
After an intervening time of over
an hour and a half "Abe" Herr, a
former Manor High student, and not
a judge of the' contest, walked to the
score card and according to the
markers iound that Ford had made
19 baskets, but had had 26 tries. This
Herr claims was the result of mis-takes
by the official marker.
Under these conditions the Lititz
boy would not give up the cup but
issued ,a challenge to shoot the con-test
over. So far he has not receiv-ed
a reply. The cup is displayed in
Wertsch's window.
Shrove Tuesday, of all days in the
year, is peculiar in the fact, that its
proper observance implies the con-sumption
of a certain article of food
—the highly esteemed palatable and
nutritious fastnacht. In hundreds of
homes in Lititz', housewives were en-gaged
Tuesday in their prepara-tion,
and when he returned home
for the noon meal, father was in-vited
to inspect and partake of the
product of her skill, piled on an im-mense
platter and devoted all his
energy to their demolition to the al-most
entire exclusion of all other
articles of food. Many school chil-dren
with knowledge of the morning
work of mother hurried home after
school was dismissed, and with pitiful
tale of being hungry received a gen-erous
handout before dinner.
There is apparently no falling off
of interest in the observance of
Shrove Tuesday in the matter of
fastnacht baking. Of time honored
antiquity, the present generation is
not a whit behind its predecessors,
the only difference being that years
ago the fastnacht was essentially a
home-made product, whereas at
present the bakers are helping
produce them on a big scale.
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Shot Groundhog.
News is Scarce.
No one wishes more than the edit-or
that smallpox, vaccination and all
pertaining to it were at an end. No
one can go out in town and pick up
news when everyone is talking these
two subjects. The people have got-ten
over the scare by this time and
now the arguments have started—
what this man said and what that
man said, vaccination and anti-vac-cination,
what one encyclopaedia says
and what another addition says and
so on until bedtime. How in the
world can a person pick up enough
news to give a diversity of reading ?
Next week if our readers can think
of anything else outside of these two
subjects inform the editor and save
him a lot of worry.
Lititz Business Men Suffer
Heavy Loss on Account
of Smallpox Scare
Lititz merchants and busi-ness
men suffer a heavy
financial loss due to the un-reasonable
reports circulated
around the county, causing
many persons to go to some
other town to do their busi-ness.
In local stores, in many
instances, sales have drop-ped
to a third of normal
business.
It is hoped that local per-sons
will give the home
stores and other business
houses their entire patronage
and not do any business out
of town that can be • done
here. Here is a test to stick
to your home town and g-iv3
it the prestige that it de-serves.
Local merchants are
stocked heavily, their mer-chandise
is reliable and in
the long end it will be to the
best interests to give, the
home man the preference.
Frank Rader shot a groundhog on
Wayne Grube's farm, near here, yes-terday.
It weighed over eight pounds
and the pelt will be mounted by At-wood
Kreider. Groundhogs are sup-posed
to be sleeping soundly in their
burrows, having holed in again on
February 2, seeing that the backbone
of winter would not be broken for
six weeks f r om that date. The meat
will be served on Harvey Krick's
table today. Some persons pronounce
the meat better than that of rabbit,
depending how it is prepared. Mr.
Rader stated that it is unusual to
shoot a woodehuck at this time of the
year.
THE FASTNACHT SONG
Tune—"The Old Oaken Bucket."
How dear t o my heart is the smell of
the kitchen
When Time brings us round to the
day before Lent;
The oven, the dough dish and all of
the fixin'.
The sizzling hot fat, which afar I
may scent.
Sometimes they were sweet and
sometimes they were not so,
Sometimes they were raised and
sometimes they were flat;
Sometimes they were good and some-times
I just thought so,
Those old-fashioned fastnachts that
swarm in the fat.
The old-fashioned fastnacht, the
rusty brown fasnacht,
The grease-covered fastnacht that
swam in the FAT.
Rev. A. V. Casselman.
Mrs. Walter Buch's Sister
Iowa
Died In
Rebecca M. Brown, wife of the late
Henry Brown, a sister to Mrs. W. H.
Buch, of this place, died at Waterloo,
Iowa, on Monday, aged 84 years. She
is survived by two sons, Reuben, of
California, and Henry, Wallula, Iowa.
Mrs. Brown's husband died over
twenty years ago. They were former
residents of Brownstown, this county.
Pair Mules Sold for $425.
The farm sale held by Andrew
Longenecker yesterday afternoon
along the Manheim and Lititz pike,
drew a big crowd in spite of the
rainy weather. Bidding was spirited
and it was considered a good sale.
Cows brought from $40 to $98, mules
from $196 to ?425 a pair. One lot of
steers sold for $9.10 a hundred and
another lot $8.20 a hundred, while a
choice little steer was knocked of at
$8.50. Turkeys were disposed of at
$3.50 apiece. A binder brought $100
and other implements brought good
prices. H. H. Snavely was the auc-tioneer.
He has booked every day up
to March 15, and was forced to turn
down a number of offers. The sale
amounted to $7100.
Oranges Going to Waste
Mrs. J. F. Stoner, who traveled to
Florida in the Shenk touring party,
said she was surprised to see the
many oranges going to waste. At
some places the ground in the groves
is literally covered with fruit, but
rather than sell under the price, the
growers will let them rot. At one
grove which the party visited they
were allowed to help themselves to
all the oranges they wanted. There
were two trees of King oranges, con-sidered
among the very best varieties,
which the visitors also preferred and
before they left the trees were almost
cleaned. The grower said that he
could sell only a small part of his
crop this year and the rest would go
to waste.
Sold His Fat Cattle
U. S. Delp, owner of a farm near
Lititz, sold hisi stable fed snow-white
steers to his brother, MaMon S. Delp,
a few days ago. There were fourteen
nead and ten cents per pound was the
price paid. The latter resold them
the same day to a Baltimore dealer at
10% cents a pound. The cattle were
fed 120 days and during that time
gained an average of 2% pounds a
day. Their average weight when sold
was 1327 pounds and they "were
beauties, too, according to the judg-ment
of farmers and the purchaser.
Lester Eaches To Engage In Busi-ness
In Reading
Lester M. Eaches, who came here
from Reading over ten years ago to
work "in the office of the Oneida Trap
Factory at this place, has resigned
his position, and will move to Read-ing
to take charge of the Eaches
Coal Yard Reed and Elm streets. The
yard was started 55 years ago and
for forty-two years it was conducted
by his father and a partner. For the
past several years Mr. Eaches' sister
was in charge and owing to health
conditions she can no longer give the
business the necessary attention and
for that reason is turning it over to
her brother.
Mr. Eaches, by his good nature and
squareness, has made many friends
and he will be missed in the town.
While here he was married to Miss
Lottie Kauffman, of this place. Sale
will be held on March 22 and the
family will accompany him to Read-ing
at once.
poimcl
A woman, 78 years old,
who was vaccinated for the
first time, saw a vacuum
cleaner standing in the
corner of the doctor's office.
She had never seen such a
contrivance before and she
looked, it over. She imagined
it was the mechanism used
in vaccinating and admitted
afterwards she grew hot and
cold in turns. " "If the doc-tor
had started that infernal
machine running," she relat-ed
to a friend, "I believe I
would have fallen over." She
was much surprised and
relieved when the doctor
simply scratched her with a
small instrument.
Three Thousand Citizens Have
Swollen Arms and Sore
Dispositions
Benjamin B. Hertzler was
78 years old on March 4. He
says he remembers clearly
when the coal yard now con-ducted
by W. H. Muth was
opened. The first week of
business there he came to
town with six horses for a
load of coal. The wheel
horses weighed 1700 pounds
each, arid none of the other
horses were under 1600. He
was only eighteen years old
then and felt elated that he
could drive such a fine team.
His father specialized in fat-tening
big horses. A team of
that kind passing thru town
would attract much atten-tion
-now.
The fumigating of the
Moravian Sunday School
building was rough on mice.
They were found stretched
on their back on the floors.
Just what mice can subsist
on in a Sunday School build-ing
is hard to say, and the
old saying, "Poor as a
•jhurch mouse," probably
holds goods. But they have
always been there and a
mouse running around dur-ing
Sunday School hours al-ways
caused amusement
among those present. Unless
they are restocked or mi-grate
there again the mouse
antics during the
will be no more.
sessions
Quite a number of Lititz
people heard Bishop C. L.
Moench's address over the
radio which he delivered in
the Stanley Theatre, Phila-delphia,
on Wednesday noon,
as one of the speakers at the
daily noonday series of Len-ten
addresses. His voice was
so clear and distinct that one
could almost believe he was
standing in front of you.
Bishop Moench was pastor
of the Lititz Moravian
church for a number of
years and is now a member
of the Provincial Elders
Conference with his resi-dence
in Bethlehem.
Spring.
Some robbins and bluebirds have
been noticed, seeds are being dis-played
in store windows, streams are
becoming higher, and man is growing
restless waiting for garden digging
time. Soon the reports of the first
spring flowers will be given and early
peeps will be hatched.
Base ball news has started and
spring tonics for that tired feeling
will soon be advertised.
Soon onion sets will be seen dis-played
in county stores at so much a
quart, followed by the first breath of
spring onions. Welcome the change
from winter, if such the past one can
be called, with its mud and rain and
deferred snows. We prefer the onion
season.
A Jubilee Meeting
This year marks the fiftieth of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. The county jubilee meeting
will be held in the St. Paul's Re-formed
church at Lancaster on Sat-urday,
March 8. Hon. John McSpar-ren
will be the speaker of the even-ing.
There will be three sessions with
a strong program for each.
Vaccination is beginning to do its
work. It is indiscreet to start an ar-gument
with any person who has an
honest to goodness inoculation in the
eighth day stage. He's like a sore-head
bear, ready to growl at the first
opportunity. With the arm aching and
itching, cold and hot chills running
up and down his spine, his tummy
out of order and what not, his best
nature has departed. He's waiting
for some fellow to slap him on the
arm so he can let some of his feel-ing
out of his system. A fellow with
a good-sized vaccination button re-verts
to the savage cave man. So far
no assault and battery cases have re-sulted
but we did see some fellows
explode orally, and say things that
wouldn't have been appropriate in
Sunday School. When such a fellow
is feeling feverish he blames th
Board of Health, the B'orough Coun-cil,
all the doctors, the State Medical
Board and the Legislative Body at
Iiarrisburg for his condition.
Tell some victim with an inflamed
arm that it is all for the good of
the community and he looks at you
as if he would enjoy seeing you in
jail or some other place that
wouldn't be comfortable for you.
The fellow who brags that he didn't
mind his vaccination a bit doesn't
get much credit from the others who
weren't so fortunate. The sufferer
who has an arm as thick as Jack
Dempsy looks at his friend as if he
was sorry he didn't have the same
dose as he had.
A stunt just now, when some fellow
makes a fuss about his arm, is to ask
to see it and then say, "That's not
half as bad as mine was." He will
then look disappointed or doubt your
word.
The victims like to get together
and relate experiences. One of them
related that he scratched his arm an
entire night while he slept. How his
unconscious self imparted this bit of
information is hard to determine.
Some complain that it gives them
sore spots, sore feet, headaches, and
peculiar sensations which they never
experienced before. A number of citi-zens
went to bed for several days.
A fellow with a mark as big as
half a dollar likes to show it to his
friends. It is now unusual to see three
or more men with their sleeves roiled
up comparing their marks. At one
business house a fellow pulled off his
shirt to better show the condition of
his arm. Some, hold their arm as they
talk and others keep up a steady
scratching.
Of course this condition is only
temporary. In several more weeks, by
the time the spring birds start to ar-rive,
it will almost be forgotten. At
the present time it is the main sub-ject
of conversation. One citizen
makes the suggestion that after it
has all blown over council should
pass an ordinance making a fine of
$5 for mentioning the word smallpox
or vaccination. He says he's filled up
with it
TWELVE LITITZ HOMES TAGGED
Inmates Refused To Be Vaccinated
/ and Must Stay Indoors Eighteen
Days
A survey of the town was com-pleted
by the Board of Health yes-terday
and at twelve homes where
persons did not comply with the vac-cination
demands, placards were
posted. They are forbidden to leave
the house for eighteen days.
Rev. F. W. Stengel, at Linden Hall,
had several "run-ins" with the Board
of Health and Dr. Howard Witmer,
and when asked by the Health Of-ficer
if the pupils there were vaccinat-ed,
replied, "That is my business."
However, from what can be learned,
the pupils there have practically all
been vaccinated.
No new cases of smallpox have
Wen reported and people here are
hopeful that it is near the end. The
smallpox patients are improving
nicely.
TRAVELERS M
COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
Parent Teachers' Meeting
The regular meeting of the
Ephrata Township District was held
Wednesday evening, February 27, at
the . Bethany Schoolhouse, which was
filled to its utmost capacity. A very
fine program was given. John Mink,
president (pro tempore) of the asso-ciation,
and minutes by the secretary,
Miss Edna S. Brown, of the last
meeting. The program: Singing,
Bethany Schools; Flag drill, pupils of
Bergstrasse school under Edna S.
Brown; recitation, Ruby . Wilwerth;
dialogue, pupils of East Akron school
under Miss Myrtle Witmer; Mother
Goose memory verses with illustra-tions
by beginners of B'ergstrasse
school; recitation, Melvin Snader;
reading, Bethany primary school un-der
Mrs. Galen Hess; dailogue,
Bethany Secondary.
Mr. D. W. Geist was the principal
speaker of the evening and he gave
a very interesting talk on "Value of
Parent-Teachers' Meeting."
The next meeting will be held
sometime in March and a committee
was appointed to decide the date and
program.
Miss Laura Arnold, of Reading, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. L. N. Moyer.
Miss Gladys Stoner is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Lloyd L. Lively, at Blue-field,
W. Va.
Mrs. G. L. Hepp spent three weeks
with her daughter Mrs. D. D,
Kilgore, who was sick at her home at
Woodbine, York county.
Joe Doster, of Lancaster, O., spent
a short time here with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Doster. Joe is em-ployed
as a window decorator for one
of the Penny chain stores.
Mrs. Walter Spickler, of Spring-field,
Mass., returned home last week
a f t e r spending some time here and
also visiting a sister at Lancaster.
Mrs. Adeline Demmy, housekeeper
for W. H. Buch and wife, on South
Broad street, is spending the Week
with her daughter, at Brickerville.
On Saturday she will dispose of all
her household goods.
Chester Ritchie, while on a busi-ness
trip to Reading this week, met
Ambrose Pannabecker in a store. He
introduced himself to the proprietor
as coming from Lititz when he was
told that there was a former Lititz
boy working there. He was then in-troduced
to him. He was the young-est
son of the late Jesse Pannabecker,
well-known in Lititz and vicinity
many years ago because of the
"ft-icks" which he did and was a town
character.
The three Newell brothers, evan-gelists,
who held forth here recently
until smallpox overtook one of them,
were given their liberty at the Lan-caster
County pest house on Monday,
They came here the same day for
their trunks, but could not move
them yet. They were brought here by
residents of Wormleysburg, near I i a r -
risburg where they were taken for a
reception before returning to their
home at McKeesport, Pa.
Native of Lititz Died In Colorado
Inter-Class Games.
Inter-class games are being played
in the High School this week among
the boys and girls. On Tuesday even-ing
the Junior girl team defeated the
Senior girl aggregation by the score
12 to 9. The Seniors, with only one
Varsity player against four Varsity
players out of five on the Junior team,
made a much better showing than was
expected.
Last evening the Sophomore boys
played the Senior boys. The score
was: Seniors 7, Sophs. 17. A close
game was played the same evening
between the Freshmen and the
Juniors, the "Freshies" winning by
22 to 21. The Juniors were ahead un-til
near the close of the game. The
faculty team will challenge the win-ner.
Joseph B. Pfautz, died at Denver,
Col., on Sunday, aged 50 years. He
was a native of this place, leaving
here 24 years ago and was not here
since. He was a son of the late Isaac
G. and Maria Pfautz. Deceased is
survived by a wife, a son and two
daughters, and the following broth-ers
and sisters: W. M. Pfautz and
Charles A. Pfautz, Lititz; John M.
Pfautz, Pittsburgh; Isaac Pfautz,
Philadelphia; Mrs. A. J. Boyd, Lan-caster,
and Mrs. Paul T. Schultz,
Emaus. Funeral services and burial
took place at Denver.
Lititz Man In Auto Accident
George Reifsnyder, of Lancaster,
was injured while driving a Ford se-dan,
when his car was struck by the
Ford truck of the Lititz Paper Box
Co., operated by Charles Peiffer, near
Akron last Friday morning. The truck
struck the Reifsnyder car with such
force that it turned turtle in a near-by
field. Reifsnyder was cut about the
left hand and also suffered a frac-ture
of the index finger of the right
hand. Peiffer escaped with minor in-juries
about the head. The injuries of
the men were dressed by Dr. J. F.
Mentzer, of Ephrata. Both automo-biles
were badly damaged.
Wm. Stauffer Has Mail Contract.
William A. Stauffer was the suc-cessful
bidder for the carrying of the
mail between the postoffice and the
P. & R. railroad and the trolley line.
He started work on March 1, but ow-ing
to injuries from a fall on Tues-day
is now. off duty.
—Our Easter Greeting Cards are
noW on display—Scott's Book Store.
Hubby Hauled Wife In Wheelbarrow
The creek which flows through the
eastern end of town, which under
normal conditions is ankle deep, the
other day overflowed its banks. When
a woman from that part of town re-turned
home the water covered the
street. Her husband used his wits
and was prepared for the emergency.
He had a wheelbarrow in readiness
and with a smile he told his wife to
sit in while he hauled her thru the
mud and water without a mishap.
Thoughtful man.
Legion Games Uncertain
When St. Joe will play here de-pends
on quarantine conditions. Fri-day,
March 15 is being considered if
it is possible to play then.
No definate action has been taken
about the third game with Millers-ville.
Millersville wants to play on
St. Joe floor. This Manager Habecker
wil] not accede to, but suggests Con-vention
Hall or any other neutral
floor. Millersville evidently is stalling
#or time.
RECORDINGS
—Now for March winds.
—Basketball was knocked flat here.
—March is the first spring month.
—Lent began yesterday.
—They tell us that rents have gone
up in Lancaster. Nothing startling.
—Business men in town are com-plaining.
There is a reason for it, too.
—The doctors had their harvest the
past several weeks.
—The plumber is the busiest man
in town the year 'round.
—A hypocrite is a man with gold
fillings in his false teeth.
—March came in like a lamb. How
will it go„oui ?
—How quiet our town was last
Sunday.
—Even the prohibitionists is apt to
indulge in a little whine.
-Even the girl with a broken
heart will forget all about it if she
develops toothache.
—A speaking likeness of a woman
is one in which you can almost hear
her talk.
-Florida tourists are gradually
moving northward; so are the wild
geese.
—The smallpox scare is wearing-off—
but there are still plenty of sore
arms.
—Things are getting so that many
folks won't work unless they can do
their jobs in easy chairs.
—Claimed by the kids that they
could be more prompt at school if
they were supplied with automobiles.
—It is dangerous in these times for
a public official to be seen oiling his
automobile.
—It might be a good idea to keep,
an eye on those folks who claim that,
everybody is dishonest.
—The Little Red Schoolhouse is
said to be disappearing, but its grad-uates
are constantly being heard
from.
—The backbone of winter is said to
be broken, but its hind legs deliver
a few kicks once in a while.
—The Board of Health works for
glory, and sometimes they don't even
get that.
—It's a poor wind that don't blow
some good," said a town doctor re-cently.