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VOL. XLI LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31,1918 ISIO. 21
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Items of Minor Mention, So to Speak
but of Interest to the Average Reader
at Home and Abroad.
A large gauntlet found by Robert
Kling awaits the owner at the Warwick
House.
Edna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Ditzler, residing on Stroh avenue, who
is ill with scarlet fever, is convalescing.
Despite rumors to the contrary the
Senior supper will be held in the market
house on Saturday. Go and enjoy the
fine eats.
Strange as it may seem, eggs were
selling higher in Lititz recently than in
either Lancaster or Reading. What's
the reason.
Registry Assessor J. B. Young states
that he is particularly happy these days
since he has had electric lights installed
in his home.
Frank Badorf intends taking charge
of the Sturgis House on April 1, suc-ceeding
Samuel Hertzler, who, ic is re-ported,
will move to Harrisburg.
Mrs. Mary S. G. Buch, of this bor-ough,
has been granted letters of ad-ministration
in the estate of her hus-band,
Mr. Warren S. Buch, deceased.
Josephus Wallace, of Goshen, Ind.,
a native of Warwick township, in re-newing
his subscription to the RECORD,
states that he could not be without it
and has been a subscriber for 23 years.
While doing her Monday morning
washing Mrs. Rev. J. W. G. Hershey
had her right thumb caught in a wringer
of the electric washing machine. The
result was a lacerated digit, which re-quired
the services of a physician.
Eggs have dropped four cents per
dozen this week and are quoted at 60
cents by local merchants this morning.
A most welcome drop indeed, and house-wives
who do not have any to sell hope
that they may continue to descend.
A number of partridges were seen
about the center of town a few days this
week> undoubtedly having been driven
into town to seek shelter from the heavy
snow and drifts. If any of these beauti-ful
and valuable birds are within your
confines try and feed them.
Hiram E. Steinmetz, of Ephrata, and
a resident of this borough some years
ago, is now an inmate in the Lancaster
General Hospital. Mr. Steinmetz re-sided
alone in his residence at Ephrata
and recently friends found him in a help-less
condition and persuaded him to
enter the hospital for the winter.
Sleighing parties were very numerous
the latter part of last week and many
of them passed through town, some well
onto the midnight hour. Two sleighs
filled with High School scholars enjoyed
a trip last Friday night. The heavy
snowfall of Monday has checked ideal
conditions somewhat, for many of the
roads are almost impassable.
The annual report of the controller of
Lancaster county, Mr. Enos E. Mowrer,
appears on page 7 of this issue and it is
the usual interesting array of facts and
figures concerning the financial trans-actions
of the "Garden Spot." It will
be noticed that 87 veterans of the civil
war departed this life in the county dur-ing
the past year, among them a number
o: Lititz and its vicinity.
A sight possibly never before seen in
town was the carting away of wagon
loads of snow from the street in front
of East Main street business places.
Another unusual sight was the driving
of a coal term on the pavement so that
the coal could be placed in the cellar, as
the huge banks of snow along the gut-ters
made it impossible to drive to the
curb.
The will of the late Albert K. Long-enecker,
who died at his home near
Lime Rock on Wednesday of last week,
was probated in the court house on Tues-day.
,Hon. David P. McMullen is named
as the executor and the estate is to be
conserved intact for the benefit of the
widow and children. Mr. Longenecker
was the owner of three of Penn town-ship's
finest farms.
Red Cross Workers Made Many Articles
Some idea of the noble work which
the active members of the local Red
Cross Society are doing, can be gleaned
from the following list of articles made
during January, and which were taken
to Lancaster headquarters last week:
345 many tailed bandages, 50 of which
were contributed by the Penryn auxil-iary;
28 hospital shirts, 2 wash cloths,
16 dozen gauze wipes, 8 sweaters, 3
scarfs, 3 pairs socks, 1 pair wristlets
and 1 helmet. This generous contribu-tion
was most heartily received by the
Lancaster headquarters, for there can-not
be too many of these various articles
received. Officers of the local society
earnestly request that more women,
particularly some of those who joined
the Red Cross during the recent drive,
do active work. There is ample room
at the Young Men's Business League,
where meetings are held each Thursday
afternoon and evening, and the need for
the materials is urgent. Do your bit.
Merchants Association to Hold Booster
Meeting
At a meeting of the Retail Merchants
Association, held at the Young Men's
Business League on Monday afternoon,
it was decided to hold a booster meeting
on Monday, February 11, at 2 o'clock.
Mr. William Smedley, secretary of the
State Association, will be present and
give a talk. It was also decided to con-tinue
closing the stores at 6 P. M. on
Monday,- Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings of each week, and on
holidays as during the past year. The
following officers were elected: Pres.,
H. R. Wertsch; vice pres., Howard S.
Young; secretary, John K. Carper;
treasurer, J. M. Leed. The executive
committee consists of C. R. Miller, W.
M. Amer, H. S. Dissinger and Robert
N. Pfautz.
EXAMINATION FOR LITITZ POSTMASTER
Will be Held at Lancaster on Wednes-day,
March 6. Only Residents of
This Borough Eligible for the $2,200
Position
The vacancy in the postmastership of
Lititz caused by the death of Warren S.
Buch, Esq., has been filled temporarily
by the appointment of Paul M. Seaber,
who had been assistant postmaster, as
postmaster. Mr. Seaber received no-tice
to this effect latter part of last
week.
At the request of the Postmaster Gen-eral
the United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an examina-tion
to be held at Lancaster on Wednes-day,
March 6, 1918, for the position of
postmaster at Lititz. This office has an
annual compensation of $2,200. ,
To be eligible for this examination an
applicant must be a citizen of the United
States, must actually reside within the
delivery of the office and have so resided
at the time the present vacancy occur-red.
Applicants must have reached their
twenty-first but not their sixty-fifth
birthday on the date of the examination.
Application Form 304 and full infor-mation
concerning the requirements of
the examination may be secured from
the postmaster at the place of vacancy
or from the Civil Service Commission,
Washington, D. C. Applications should
be properly executed and filed with the
Commission at Washington, D. C., in
time to arrange for the examination of
the applicant.
Without doubt a number of our citi-zens
will take the examination. While
the examination is conducted under a
Civil Service Commission the law gov-erning
the same gives the First Assis
tant Postmaster General almost abso-lute
power to remove an appointee from
the office at any time he deems it advan-tageous.
Naturally this means that the
postmaster will continue to be a repre-sentative
of the party in power.
NUMEROUS PERSONS CALLED TO THE
GREAT BEYOND
LOCAL RESIDENTS NATIVES OF FRANCE
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Doppelt Resided in
Alsace-Lorraine When Germans Cap-tured
It
None of our residents manifest more
interest in the great war than Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Doppelt, residing in the
Clayton Stehman home, corner of East
Main and Cedar streets. Both are na-tives
of France, born in Alsace-Lor
raine, and residents there when the
Germans captured it from the French in
the war of 1870. Mrs. Doppelt, as she
calmly sits and knits for the Red Cross
Society, of which she is a member, well
recalls how the Germans confiscated the
food and animals .when, they passed
through the town of her birth. The
residents were compelled to feed the
German soldiers and also nurse their
wounded, although none of the barbari-ous
treatment which has marked the
Boches advance through Belgium was
witnessed at that time.
Mrs. Doppelt made bandages for the
French soldiers during those trying days
Both she and Mr. Doppelt, then unmar-ried,
came to America with their par-ents
as soon as possible after the war of
1870. Mr. Doppelt is employed at the
Stiffel & Freeman safe works. Since
coming to this country 45 years ago Mr.
Doppelt has made several trips to the
land of his birth, but states that he
never would have returned to live there
as long as the province was under Ger-man
rule. The Doppelts have resided
in numerous sections of this country.
They have many relatives in France and
Mrs. Doppelt recently received a letter
from a cousin who stated that her three
daughters were putting in all their spare
time making bandages and doing other
work for the Red Cross Society in
France.
Farmer's Contrivance Helps Open Roads
Monday's snowfall again put the coun
try roads in an impassable condition at
some places and it is requiring hard
work to open them for traffic. Jacob
Bender, residing west of town, has in-vented
a contrivance for opening the
roads which is bringing fine results, as
a practical test on Wednesday showed.
He has attached a V-shaped drag about
3 feet in height to the rear of a flat dung
sled which is drawn by four horses.
The snow is pushed to the side of the
road and Mr. Bender removed some
drifts more than 3 feet in height in this
manner.
Complaint Filed Against Gas Company
The Eby Shoe Company, Ltd., of this
borough, has filed a complaint with the
Public Service Commission against the
Lititz, Manheim and Ephrata Gas Com-pany,
claiming that the gas company
suspended operations on January 11, and
that some of the departments of the
shoe factory were unable to work be-cause
of the cutting off of the gas sup-ply-
When the gas company closed its
plant it was stated that they were un-able
to secure coal, which th» company
officials stated was on the way. But
the coal apparently have not yet ar-rived,
and Lititz and Manheim continue
without gas.
They Like the System
Last June the Ideal Chocolate Com-pany
made a patriotic move by offering
to pay 50 per cent, of all the First
Liberty loan bonds which their em-ployees
would subscribe for, the parties
subscribing offering to pay for their 50
percent, in weekly installments. On
Saturday four of the employees, name-ly,
James Engle, Irvin Eberly, Aaron
Eshleman and Abram Ellmaker each re-ceived
a $50 bond through the afore-mentioned
arrangements. They state
that they did not mind the small amount
set aside each week and the Ideal com-pany
gave them the opportunity of se-curing
another bond on the same plan,
which the four men readily accepted.
Other employees who accepted the com-pany's
offer will receive their bonds
from week to week.
Death of Charles A. Burrows
Charles A. Burrows, well known to
many of our citizens, died at the Lan-caster
General Hospital on Monday
morning, aged 80 years, following a
week's illness with a complication of
diseases. Mr. Burrows spent consider
able of his time in Lititz during the past
ten years. For the past few years he
made a living by conducting a small por-table
candy stand at North Duke and
East Orange streets, Lancaster. Mr.
Burrows was a well-educated man and a
member of the Socialist party. During
the latter years of his life he devoted
much time and energy to a campaign
for the founding of a State pension and
a home for aged persons. A son and a
daughter survive. The funeral will be
held Saturday at 3 o'clock at St. John's
Episcopal church, Lancaster, and burial
in the Lancaster cemetery.
MORAVIAN EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN
L. D. Himmelberger's Sister Dead , y
The funeral of Mrs. Sybilla Atkins,
of Reading, was held at this place on
Monday afternoon. The body arrived
here on the morning train. Interment
was made in the Machelah cemetery,
followedby services at the home of L.
D.Himmelberger on South Broad street.
Luke's Reformed church, Rev. Geo. B.
Raezer officiating. Mrs. Atkins died at
the home of her only child, Mrs. Fred.
Marks, Reading, last Thursday, after a
year's illness with a complication of
diseases, aged 51 years. She was born
in Berks county and her maiden name
was Himmelberger. The following
brothers and sisters survive: Louis D.,
of Lititz; Simon and Clara, of Lancas-ter;
Mrs. Jacob Ruhl, of near Master-sonville;
Mrs. Adeline Price, of Phila-delphia;
Washington, of Lebanon, and
Mrs. Michael Troutman, of Stouchs-burg.
Death of Cornelius Ruff
Cornelius Ruff, aged 85 years and 5
months, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, at
the United Zion Home, one mile north
of Lititz. Mr. Ruff was a native of
Germany and a printer by trade. There
are no surviving relatives in this coun-try.
Funeral services were held at 1.30
o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Zion
Home, with interment in the adjoining
cemetery. Father White, of Ephrata,
officiated.
Death of Henry Mohn
Henry Mohn, of Manheim, died at his
home at 11 30 P. M. on Thursday, Jan.
24, from a complication of diseases. He
was a son of the late Mr, and Mrs.
Henry Mohn, of Pine Hill. His age was
72 years. His wife died thirteen years
ago, and the following brothers and sis-ter
survive: Charles, Of Manheim; John,
of Millway, Edward, of Denver, and
Mrs. Sue Stauffer, of Kissel Hill. The
deceased was a farmer and dealt exten-sively
in horses, retiring from active
work about ten years ago. He was a
member of Selah Lodge, No. 657. I. O.
O- F., and Manheim Lodge, No. 587, F.
and A. M. The funeral WPS held on
Monday at the Manheim Evangelica
church, with interment at Fairview
cemetery.
Death of Mrs. Clayton Gibble
Mrs. Anna Gibble, wife of Clavton
Gibble, a prominent merchant of Man-heim.
died at her home in that borough
on Thursday, Jan. 24, following a short
illness from a complication of diseases.
The deceased was 56 years of age, and
was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John Merkle. She was a member of
St. Paul's Reformed church, Manheim,
and an active worker in its various de-partments.
Her husband alone sur-vives.
The funeral took place Sunday
afternoon, all services being held at the
home. Interment was made in the Fair-view
cemetery.
Death of Child.
Harry Vernon Sheaffer, aged 7 months
and 13 days, died Sunday afternoon at
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Sheaffer, residing in Penn town-ship,
about a mile east of Manheim boro.
Death was caused by tuberculosis. His
parents and five brothers and sisters sur-vive,
all at home. Funeral services were
held Tuesday afternoon at the home of
the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Sheaffer. Interment was made at Long-enecker's
church cemetery, one mile
west of Lititz.
Will Begin on Sunday Morning with Dr.
Thomas Penn Ullom, the Evangelist,
and Mr. John F. Burkhart, the Singer.
Everybody is most cordially invited to
participate in the eyangelistic campaign
to begin in the Moravian church on Sun-day
morning. Services will be held each
Sunday morning and evening and every
evening during the week, excepting Sat-urday.
The services will be held in the
Sunday-school chapel. Next Sunday
morning's subject will be, "Loyalty to
the Highest;" in the evening, " Does
Lititz Need a Revival?"
Funeral of an Infant
The funeral of Abram H. Hershey, a
son of Naaman and Lizzie Hershey, of
Penn township, two miles north of Man-heim,
took place last Saturday after-noon
with interment at Graybill's meet-ing
house near Elm. Death occurred on
Wednesday, January 23, and was caused
by liver trouble. The parents and two
sisters survive.
Death of Mrs. Fianna Blickensderfer
The death of Mrs. Fianna Blickens-derfer,
widow of the late Jacob Blick-ensderfer,
occurred at the home of her
son, John Coldren, at Reading, on Mon-day
morning at one o'clock. She was
ill but six days and bedfast only one
day, dying from the effects of acute
bronchitis. Her age was 87 years, 2
months and 12 days. Mrs. Blickens-derfer
was born near Lexington, War-wick
township, and was a daughter of
the late David and Veronica Kreider.
She was twice married. Her first hus-band,
Abraham Coldren, to whom she
was wedded in 1856 by Rev. William
Stein, of Lancaster, died in 1884. The
couple were residents of this borough
for many years. Her marriage to Mr.
Blickensderfer was performed by Rev.
C. L. Moench, and the couple resided at
Oakland, Missouri, where Mr. Blickens-derfer
died, after which the widow came
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Dr. Thomas Ullom
Thomas Ullom, A.M., B.D , the evan-gelist,
comes here highly recommended,
and Rev. Crosland, the local pastor, has
received many testimonials concerning
him and his work. He has had years of
experience in the various fields of church
work and secured most gratifying re-sults
wherever he has appeared.
The musical director, Mr. John F.
Burkhart, of Lancaster, is a gifted mu-sician,
and a Christian gentleman. He
had charge of the organization and train-ing
of the large choir which rendered
such valuable service during the Stough
meetings at Lancaster.
All who were members of the choir
during the meetings last year and any
others who feel disposed to help, are
asked to assist this year. Five hundred
copies of "Familiar Songs of the Gos-pel"
have been secured especially for
this evangelistic campaign, and will be
sold at 5 cents per copy.
MONTHLY MEETING OF BORO COUNCIL
Chief Burgess G, G. Diehm Requests
Support of Councilmen to Enforce
Ordinances
Town council held its regular monthly
meeting on Monday evening with Chief
Burgess G. G. Diehm and Councilmen
Haverstick, Frederick, H. H. Bomberg-er,
J. H. Bomberger and Dr. Posey
present.
Chief Burgess Diehm requested the
hearty co-operation of the councilmen
in the strict enforcement of all laws
which make for the betterment of the
community and outlined his policy for
the administration. His remarks were
very well received and the councilmen
are determined that the chief burgess
shall be endowed with sufficient power
to enforce all ordinances and regula-tions.
Steps will be taken to discon-tinue
the practice of having teams stand-ing
along the main streets of town after
certain hours at night.
Joseph N. Wissler, Esq., who was
elected secretary at the previous meet-ing
of council, resigned, owing to the
press of other business. Joseph B. Herr
was elected as his successor.
Water Superintendent Miller spoke to
council concerning the condition of the
water plugs, owing to the severe cold
weather, He stated that he had tested
some of the plugs and found that they
were not frozen up. It was deemed ad-visable
not to let the water run from
them, for they would be more likely to
freeze under such conditions, as Mr.
Miller discovered through experiment-ing
with one of the plugs.
The ordinance governing the trim-ming
of shade trees was passed finally.
Vouchers were ordered drawn in favor
of :
Edison Electric Co., temporary
service at fountain $ 5 86
W. H. Greek, January services... 30 00
Buffalo Meter Co., waterworks
supplies 28 99
Walter Miller, January services 75 00
Pittsburgh Meter Co., water
works supplies 22 15
Samuel Steffy, services at foun-tain
6 00
B. F. Fralich, concrete work 130 32
Edison Electric Co., December
street lighting 195
Independent Telephone Company
phone rental 13
Garlock Packing Company, water
works supplies 6
Worst Snow Storm of Winter
Monday marked the worst snow storm
of the present winter. Following a fall
of a few inches on Sunday, it began
snowing during Sunday night and the
downy flakes descended with much ra-pidity
until Monday noon. Estimates as
to how many inches of snow fell vary
from 6 to 12 inches. That is not a mat-ter
of much consequence, however, for
sufficient snow fell to block traffic. A
trolley car arrived here about 7.30 in the
morning after a hard trip, but did not
attempt to return until late in the after-noon.
Many roads were drifted to an
impassable extent and although the
rural route mail carriers started out on
their routes they were forced to return
to the post office before noon. Many
persons who were unable to work in the
factories spent the day shoveling snow.
Banks from 4 to 6 feet high are common
sights along the sidewalks and this win-ter
promises to be a record-breaking one
when the snowfall is considered.
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COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
Many Persons Come and Go by Train
Trolley, Auto'and Other Conveyances
Mr. Clarence Kreider and bride, of
Coatesville, spent Sunday here.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reinhold, of Lan
caster, spent Sunday in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ritchie, of Phil
adelphia, spent Tuesday here with his
parents.
Mr. Elam Fasnacht visited his broth-er,
residing in Ephrata township, and
who is ill, on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewi3 Oehme and child
spent Sunday and Monday at Manheim
visiting Mrs. Oehme's parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoff, of Leba-non,
spent Sunday here with his mother,
Mrs. Maggie Wentworth.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brookmyer, of
Freemansburg, are visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Brookmyer.
Miss Susan Zimmerman, of near Camp
Hill, Cumberland county, spent a week
in this vicinity with the various Bucher
families. ,
Paul Ritz, employed at the Eddystone
plant of the Baldwin Locomotive works,
visited his mother, Mrs. W. H. Greek,
on Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Cameron Weitzel and family, of
Manheim, and Mrs. William Woodworth,
of Reading, were the guests of W. M.
Weitzel and family on Sunday.
Mrs. Fred. Wheeler, of Lancaster,
was the guest of E. L. Garber and fam-ily
on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Hess, of Lancaster, also spent Sunday
at the same place.
Mr. Charles Maze, of the state of
Wyoming, who recently buried his father
and sister at Manheim, spent several
days in town with relatives. Mr. Maze
is the owner of a ranch in the f a r west.
Chief Burgess G. G. Diehm and Mr.
John Badorf left yesterday for Camp
Hancock, Augusta, Ga., where they
will visit the Lititz boys in training
there, among them being Mr. Badorf's
son Paul.
Mrs. D. Wal. Evans spent Wednesday
and Thursday of last week at Wilming-ton,
Del., where she attended the fu-neral
of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Albert
Hambright. She also spent several days
with her son Paul Evans and family at
Philadelphia.
Mr. James Goldthwait, employed at
the Gloucester, N. J., ship yards, spent
Sunday and Monday here with his wife.
He brought a number of views of the
huge ice jams in the Delaware river
where the ice is from 24 to 32 inches
thick and numerous steamships are grip-ped
in its clutches.
Mr. Lang, of New York, one of the
leading members of the American To
bacco Company, spent Wednesday in
town as Dr. H. A. Cuppy's guest. Mr.
Lang was on his way south. Despite
the town being snow covered Mr. Lang
was much impressed with it and intends
visiting here during the coming summer.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Betzner, their
two children and maid, of Kitchener,
Ontairio, Canada, arrived in town last
Friday to spend a month or more with
Mr. Betzner's parents, Rev. and Mrs.
Jonas Hess, and other relatives herea-bouts.
They report that there is more
snow hereabouts than in the far north,
although there has been colder weather
there.
Rev. F. W. Stengel preached in the
Chanceford, York county, Presbyterian
church last Sunday. Rev. Francis Ha-gen.
who had been pastor of the church,
has received his commission as a lieuten-ant
in the Chaplain Corps of the U. S.
navy and has gone to the naval training
school at Newport, R. I. His family is
residing with Mrs. Hagen's parents,Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. L. Hepp.
Mr. William Howard, of Bayard, Ne-braska,
is visiting his brother Jacob
Howard on East Main street. Mr.
Howard is a son of the late Jacob
Howard. He left Rome, east of town,
when a boy of 16, twenty-five years
ago, and this is his first visit to Lititz
since that time. Mr. Howard has been
in practically all of the western and
northwestern states, and has been in
Wheatland, North Dokato, 100 or more
times, not knowing, however, that our
former townsman, H. L. Eschbach, who
is also visiting here, resided near that
place.
Attended Farmers' Meetings
This section of the county was well
represented at the annual meetings of
the State Board of Agriculture and a
number of allied organizations at Har-risburg
last week. Prominent agricul-turists
were present from State College
and other institutions and the meetings
were profitable ones for all. There were
a number of fine displays, including corn,
fruit, poultry, eggs, butter, wool, bees
and the like and motion pictures were
also shown. The demonstration of trac-tors
to show how machinery may take
the place in the fields of men who are
drafted was a feature. Last Thursday
the following persons from this locality
were present: J. Clayton Brubaker,
Wm. Strohm, Willis; Gibbel, Menno,
Frank and Adam Burkholder. They
made the trip in an auto. On the home-ward
journey their auto became stuck
in the snow and it required about an
hour's shoveling to free the machine.
THRIFT ESSAY CONTEST FOR CHILDREN
Three Valuable Prizes Offered to In-crease
Interest in National Thrift Day
Next Monday
Sunday, February 3, is National Thrift
day, which this year will be observed on
Monday, February 4. Never in the his-tory
of the world has the demand for
thriftiness been so urgent, and if the al-lies
are to win this war for democracy it is
imperative that the citizens of the Uni-ted
States, and reader, remember that
means you and your fellow citizens of
this and every other locality, become
more thrifty. Thrift is practical patri-otism
and observing thrift day is prac-tical
thrift.
Stress is being laid upon the observ-ance
of the day in the public schools of
town. Mr. J. H. Breitigan, cashier of
the Farmers' National Bank, is offering
three prizes for the best essays on
"How I was Successful in Practising
Thrift." The competition is open to all
school children of Lititz and surround-ings
between the ages of 12 and 19
years, and doubtless many of the school
children will participate. The first prize
is $5 00 in gold, second $2.50 in gold,and
third $1.50, All essays must be handed
in to the judges not later than Monday
next, and the awards will be made as
soon as the judges have completed their
task. The judges are Miss Anna K.
Miller, principal of the Lititz public
schools; Mr. J. G. Zook, of the Lititz
Express, and Mr. C. G. Spickler, of the
Lititz RECORD. The prize essays will
be published in the local papers.
As a nation we are learning the lesson
of thrift and find it well worth while.
The first steps in this direciion neces-sarily
have been Acquired in the hard
school of war. Increasing prices were
not always met by increasing wages.
The gap between income and expendi-ture
had to be bridged. Sacrifice or save
became the rule which many thousands
today follow.
This change of the individual's view-point
is gradual and therefore the more
permanent. Instead of living up to the
last penny earned, more and more Amer-icans
are thriftily putting pennies to
profitable use.
Ways and means have been found to
avoid waste and extravagance, to save
food, clothing and other necessaries as
well as that all-important item, money.
Thrift, which was too long regarded as
something mean and niggardly, is now
held in high esteem throughout the coun-try.
Reason, common sense, self-preserva-tion—
call it by any other term, if you
will—demands that the people of this
country wake up on the first Monday
morning in February with the idea of
performing at least one thrifty act. The
result cannot but produce incalculable
good for the individual no less than for
the nation.
Monthly Meeting of the Society of Farm
Women
The monthly meeting of the Society
of Farm Women will be held on Satur-day
afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. Hiram G. Minnich, about two
miles southwest of Lititz. The feature
will be a Good Health talk by Dr. Eliza-beth
Bricker, and there will also be
other entertaining numbers on the pro-gram.
Farmers' wives and daughters
are cordially invited to attend.
M AND HAVY NOTES
INTERESTING NEWS OF THE BOYS IN
U. S. SERVICE
Lititz Boy on Ship When
Killed
Six Were
The Rabbits Wear Flags
Miss Anna Frederick, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Frederick, of Ne-vada,
Missouri, former residents of this
borough, in writing to a local relative
states that the huge jack rabbits are so
numerous in that section that soldiers
from a camp nearby, as well as civilians,
are amusing themselves by capturing
the bunnies and, after sewing small
American flags in their big ears, letting
them run again. Therefore, if rabbits
are seen hereabouts which seem to be
very patriotic by wearing a flag it can
safely be concluded that they came from
the "show-me" state.
Paper Money Received from Gen. Sutter
Councilman H. H. Bomberger showed
us a number of paper currency notes of
small denomination, such as was in cir-culation
many years ago when silver
coins were at a premium. They are in
good condition and one of them, a three-cent
note, is especially prized by Mr.
Bomberger. It was given him in 1874
by the late Gen. John A. Sutter, when
he resided in the house now occupied by
Charles H. Kreider, and is believed to
have been one of the last of these notes
placed in circulation hereabouts. Mr.
Bomberger got the note as payment for
a cup of cheese with which he regularly
supplied Gen. Sutter.
Will the Ground Hog See His Shadow?
Saturday will be ground hog day,
when, according to tradition the ground
hog will awake from his long nap and
emerge from his liar. If the sun is
shining and he sees his shadow he will
become frightened and scurry back to
his hole, there to resume his nap for six
more weeks, during which time winter
weather will prevail. On the other hand
if the skies are overcast and he does not
see his shadow he will remain outdoors
and winter's backbone will be broken.
Neeeless to state we've had enough of
winter during the past two months and
the hope is almost unanimous that Sir
Ground Hog will not see his shadow.
There is danger however that the ground
hog's hole is snowed shut and he will be
unable to emerge. We hope for the
best. ____
New Dentist Coming Here
Dr. W. A. Wood, a dentist, has leased
part of the second floor of the J. E.
Charles pharmacy, and will begin active
practice on Saturday or Monday. The
young man comes here highly recom-mended.
He is a graduate of the Uni-versity
of Pennsylvania Dental School
and has been practising with Dr. Snyder
at Lancaster. Dr. Wood has all the
latest equipment for his work.
Lloyd Keller, a sailor on the U. S.
battleship Michigan, accompanied by
Mr. McCreel, a fellow sailor, spent Sun-day
here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Keller, residing on South Spruce
street. The Michigan has done consid-erable
deep sea cruising since Lloyd is
on it and the young man has had some
thrilling experiences. A few weeks
ago while in mid-ocean the vessel was
caught in a very heavy gale and a cage
mast fell, killing six men, the first ac-cident
of its kind in the navy. Lloyd
fortunately was some distance from the
falling mast and escaped injury. At
present the Michigan is at the League
Island navy yards, near Philadelphia.
The following boys in khaki who went
to Camp Meade from Lititz and vicinity
spent Saturday and Sunday here: Paul
H. Bomberger, Isaac Brumbach, Alfred
Douple, Thomas Fralich, Frank Hess,
William Keller, Floyd Rader and Edgar
Strohm.
Roy B. Keller, who had been stationed
at Camp Meade, has been transferred to
Camp Hancock, Georgia, where he is a
member of a motor truck company.
Albert O. Bruckart, who recently
completed a six weeks' stores course at
State College, spent a week here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bruck-art.
At the young man's request he
was inducted into the Enlisted Ordnance
Corps of the National Army and assign-ed
to the Watertown, Mass., arsenal,
for which place he left on Wednesday.
Mr. Warren Fry, of Ephrata, who took
the same course at State College, ac
companied Mr. Bruckart to Watertown.
Mr. Abram G. Bucher spent the latter
part of last week in town calling upon
his many friends. He was en route to
State College, where he will take a
course of instruction for the Ordnance
department of the army. Mr. Bucher
has the best of wishes of his many
friends.
Joshua Reber, the cost accountant at
the Stiffel & Freeman safe works, this
borough, has received notice that he has
been placed in class one by the draft
board of Williamsport, where the young
man previously resided. This means
that he will likely be called to the colors
in the near future. He has resigned his
position and will leave in a few weeks
for Chicago, 111., to visit his mother.
Likes the Navy Better Every Day
Emory Neidermyer, a sailor on the
U. S. Prometheus, whereabouts un-known,
writes as follows to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Neidermyer:
Somewhere, Jan. 13, '17
We enjoyed moving pictures this
afternoon and expect to do likewise this
evening. Have received the ditty box
and sweater, as well as cakes and candy,
which sure tasted mighty good. Had a
good Xmas with turkey for diriner. In
the evening we entertained British,
French and American sailors with box-ing,
singing, dancing and moving pic-tures.
Suppose the weather is cold up
there while where we are it is more like
spring. Like the navy better every day.
DR. HERTZ MAY SOON SAIL FOR FRANCE
Wants Tubers at $1.10 Per
Some weeks ago the RECORD publish-ed
an item stating that potatoes of fine
quality were selling at $1.10 a bushel in
this locality. The item was reprinted
far and wide and on Wednesday morn-ing
we received a letter from a resident
of Altoona, in which he stated that he
was in the market for a barrel at that
price. The writer is acquainted with
H, S. Dissinger, and the latter will en-deavor
to send him a barrel of tubers.
that is the watch-word
of the day. Prepare yourself and
family against the disagreeable snowy
and rainy weather. Let it snow or rain,
you'll keep dry and warm in one of our
water and wind-proof coats for men or
ladies. You don't buy a "cat in a bag"
in this store. Settle that question with
the Lititz Shoe and Clothing Store.
Has Been Kept Busy at Southern Camp
and May be Promoted to Captaincy
Soon
Dr. J. L. Hertz, of this place, who is
a first lieutenant stationed at Camp
Shelby, Miss., is enjoying good health
as is his wite and little son John, who
went south several months ago. He
expected to sail for France last month,
but the date was postponed. The fol-lowing
is a letter received from Lieut.
Hertz by Jeweler H. R. Wertsch:
CAMP SHELBY, Miss.
Dear Harry:
It never rains except when it pours
in the Sunny South. It either does not
rain at all or rains enough to drown us
all. I have been teased so often that I
am fat and "Dutch," and I tell fellow
officers that our Lancaster county cooks
are the best on earth. When they
tasted some of the goodies so generously
sent me recently from the old home
town and vicinity they agreed that I was
right. When officers get a box from
home, and it often happens, we all share
in the gift. One officer recently receiv-ed
a box of grape fruit and another a
box of oranges from hi3 father, who has
an orange grove in Florida. We have
plenty to eat.
The Red Cross is very good to our
soldiers, particularly our patients, as
they send us tooth brushes, tooth paste,
sweaters and other useful articles.
There are 75 Red Cross nurses here,
many of them who have been superin-tendents
of hospitals and who have
earned and could earn nearly as much in
a week as they now receive in a month,
but they are "doing their bit" as we all
are for our country. When I opened
the box from home 1 could not help but
have tears in my eyes as I thought of
the kindness of the folks who sent it.
I at once telephoned for Mrs. Hertz,
who is in the city 12 miles from camp
and she and our youngster John shared
the goodies with me.
It is raining as I write. Have just
returned from the city and built my fire
in my 12x12 quarters, no ceiling, no-plastering,
on cellar, paper sides with,
newspaper. I hunt pine knots which
make the hottest fire 1 have ever known.
There are plenty of them on the lands
surrounding our barracks. For a month
or more we had to buy tallow candles
for light, but we have electric lights
now. We have 20 wards and 10 more
are now being erected, while many im-provements
are being made, but do not
expect to be here to enjoy them.
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