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VOL. XLII LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 31,1919 NO. 46
EVENTS CONCISELY TOLD
INTERESTING THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
TOWN AND VICINITY.
I t e m s of Minor Mention, So to Speak
bjit of Interest to t h e A v e r a g e Reader
at H o m e and Abroad.
Monroe Miller was knocked down by
a bicycle, resulting in a laceration
below the chin.
One hundred and thirteen guaran
tors have been secured for next year's
Chautauqua here.
There were twenty-eight excursion
ists from this place who went to Wil-low
Grove on Sunday.
Edgar Meily, of Lexington, was
taken to the General Hospital, Lan
caster, to be operated upon for appen-dicitis.
Mrs. Annie Putt will move from
Orange street to Akron next Thurs-day,
where she will resume house-keeping.
The Hartranft-Kriebel reunion will
be held at Pennsburg, on Tuesday,
August 5. There are a number of this
clan around here.
The Landisville camprueeting, which
opened on July 24, will continue to
August 7th, inclusive. It is the fiftieth
campmeeting held there.
A member of the chautauqua tent
crew lost a package some place in
town. Would be considered a great
favor if brought to this office.
Employees of N. D. Sturgis' pretzel
bakery caught sixty willow bass on
Saturday, making a very pretty string
to show when they returned home.
The Ephrata band will be here on
Saturday evening. The Hopeland
band did very well last Saturday and
held the crowd throughout the even-ing.
Rev. J. W. G. Hershey bought H.
3- Meiskey's home on Spruce street
on private terms. Mr. Meiskey will
remain living there for the present
and has not yet decided where he will
move.
J. W. Bruckart receives Blue Moun-tain
huckleberries every Tuesday
a f t e r n o o n . Readers of the RECORD
desiring any should place their orders
a few days in advance. The price is
25 cents a box.
Julius, Homer and Louis Sturgis
caught thirty-seven mountain trout at
the Furnace Hills recently. "When a
Sturgis goes afishing the fish know it
and give up.
Dr. D. A. Long and Constable Lollar
•went to Mt. Hope to the home of Wal-ter
Hershey where the doctor recov-ered
a valuable hunting dog which had
disappeared from his home.
Local pretzel bakeries are turning
down big orders daily. E. A. Sturgis
received an order from Cleveland,
Ohio, for a thousand pounds to be de-livered
this week. Mr, Sturgis will
be able to supply only half that
amount.
The third annual outing of the So-ciety
of Farm Women will be held at
the home of Mrs. Martin A. Moore,
near Mt. Joy, Pa., Saturda5', August
2. A program will be rendered. Sev-eral
speakers will be present to deliv-er
addresses.
Having recently reduced the num-ber
of working hours at the Oneida
trap factory from 55 to 50 hours a
week, a further reduction, going into
effect on the first of September, calls
for 45 hours a week. This will not
reduce the pay.
Owing to the bad condition of the
road and poor lighting on West Lin-coln
Avenue Clayton Mundorf and
Amos Yerger collided with their teams
one evening recently. Shafts were
broken, harness torn and one of the
horses was injured by being badly cut.
If the case is pushed the borough is
liable to pay damages.
Clayton R. Groff, who was injured
in an auto accident on July 12, result-ing
in the amputation of a foot, was
brought to the home of his sister,
Mrs. J. W. G. Hershey, at this place,
from the General Hospital, Lancaster,
on Wednesday, He will remain here
until he is able to move about.
P. & R. Railroad detectives were in
town several days getting clues to
boys who threw stones at the signal
lights near the base ball grounds,
breaking the glasses. The reason the
detectives are hunting it up so close is
the liability of an accident when the
glass is broken, causing an engineer
to receive the wrong signal. The of-fense
is a serious one.
Little Interest
Shown In Com-ing
Primary
Candidates Will Have to Be
Secured for Numerous
Borough Offices
Little interest has been shown so
far in the coming primary election on
September 16, The following borough
offices will have to be filled: Three
councilmen. First Ward, one; Second
Ward, two. The terms of office of Dr.
S. R. Posey, Jacob and Henry Bom-berger
will expire. In the school
board the terms of office of Rev. H. R.
Gibbel and E. E. Eby will expire. Each
ward will vote for one assessor, one
judge of election and two inspectors
and jointly for a high constable.
Any person desiring to be a candi-date
for these offices can obtain a peti-tion
from the .committeemen and
secure the signature of ten voters in
the borough. The petitions must be
handed in by the 19th 0f August. So
far no petitions have been circulated
and local politicians fear it will be dif-ficult
to secure candidates for some of
the offices. It is rumored that some of
the officeholders whose terms expire
for school board and council will not
be candidates for re-election.
Lititz Boys Saw Fire-works
at Coblenz on July 4
Fine Trip Ahead
Henry, son of J. W. G. Hershey,
will leave Saturday or Sunday for
Chicago, stopping off at Pittsburgh and
Akron, Ohio, to visit' former Lititz
boys He will return home from Chi-cago
in a Hudson Super-Six which was
recently purchased and is in readiness
for removal in that city. He will be
accompanied home by his sisters, Mary
and Laura, and brothers Owen and
John, all of whom are students^at the
Bethany Bible School in Chicago.
They expect to reach Lititz about the
loth of August.
FIXE SOCIAL AT MEADOW 1..UVN
Held by air. and Mrs. Benjamin Grosh
—Orchestra Present
The biggest social event heid in Lit-itz
for a long time took place at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Grosh
on Tuesday evening when they enter-tained
125 guests on the spacious and
beautiful lawn. The yard was ilumi-nated
with Japanese lanterns, giving a
very pretty effect. Hackman's orches-t
r a furnished music throughout the
evening. Most of the guests were
from Lititz, although there were some
from Lancaster, Ephrata and Man-heim.
Several soldier friends of Mr.
Valentine Brobst were also present.
Charles Brobst served as caterer,
the luncheon being served on the lawn,
and consisted of chicken salad, deviled
clams, sandwiches, brick ice cream
and cake.
The picture of Fourth of July night
near Coblenz, Germany, was sent to
his: home here by Corporal Roy B.
Keller. The picture shows the star
shells, very lights and signal lights
used by the American army at the
front, and should be familiar to many
returned Lititz soldiers. The display
must have been beautiful and spectac-ular.
Another Lititz boy in the same
division as Corporal Keller, the Third,
is Victor Enck. ' ' Whitey ' ' Oberc, the
former Lititz catcher, is also in the di-vision.
To these boys, who saw thè
Fourth celebrated at Lititz, it must
have aroused fond memories. The
Third Division will start for home
early in August.
Corporal Keller saw hard fighting
but was fortunate in not being wound-ed
or having to go to a hospital. He
left for Camp Meade in October, 1917,
and was later transferred to Camp
Hancock. After two months of train-ing
in Europe he was in the engage-ments
in the Marne Sector, June 1 to
11, 1918; Belleau Woods, June 16 to
23; the Marne Sector July 1 to 29; St.
Mihiel, Sept. 12 to 16; Meus-e-Argonne,
Sept 26 to Oct. 31. He is in the army
of occupation since December 1, 1918.
NUMEROUS PERSONS CALLED TO THE
GREAT BEYOND
Death of Alfred M. Donple
Alfred M. Douple, a retired farmer,
residing on North Broad street, Lititz,
died at the General Hospital, Lancas-ter,
on Monday noon, aged fifty seven
years, four months and thirteen days.
He was taken to the hospital on
Wednesday of last week and was
operated upon for stomach trouble on
Saturday morning. He had been ill
about three months. Mr. Douple was
born at Brickerville, and managed a
farm two miles north of Lititz from
the time of his marriage to Miss Lou-isa
G. Lausch, which took place Feb-ruary
18, 1883, until about a half year
ago, when .he built a house on North
Broad street, and moved into the bor-ough.
He was a consistent member
of the Mennonite Church. The surviv-ing
relatives are the wife, five chil-dren,
Mrs. C. M. Bomberger, Jacob, R.
F. D., No. 2; Isaac, of Manheim; Al-fred
L. and Christian, at home; the
father, Jacob Douple, of Newmans-town,
and ten grandchildren. He is
also survived by a brother Samuel, of
Reistville, and two sisters, Mrs. Sam-uel
Derr, of Myerstown, and Mrs. Sam-uel
Shaub, of Schaefferstown.
The funeral will be held this Thurs-day
morning, with services at the
house (private) , at 9 o'clock and at
9:30 at the Mennonite Church. Inter
ment in the cemetery at Hess' Church,
east of Lititz. Bishop Noah Landis
and Rev. Jacob Hershey will officiate.
Paul Mohn,
Youngest Lititz
Soldier Home
Was Runner, One of Most
Dangerous Jobs at
Front
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A COLUMN TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH
WITH OLD AND NEW NAMES
T h e Stork Had a Busy Day
Three children were born on Mon-day—
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Otis
Sturgis, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs,
Jacob Risser, and a daughter to Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Sensenich. Dr. M. H.
Yoder was the attending physician
for the three children.
Stores Closed All Day
Next Thursday
On account of the picnic of the
local merchants' association next
Thursday, August 7, the Lititz
stores will not be open on that
day, but will be open the even-ing
"before. The merchants,
clerks and their families and
friends will picnic at Hershey
Park, starting out by automo-bile
at 7:30 A. M. sharp north of
the railroad.
All those who intend going are
requested to notify some one of
the committee, consisting of
Wayne Zartman, Ben Leaman
and Nathaniel Wolle. Autos
will be furnished for all mem-bers
and the families of- the as-sociation.
Friends of the asso-ciation
will : have to furnish
their own transportation. Each
family will provide its own
lunch as there will not be a
general table this year as for-merly.
A trip to Hershey should
provide ideal recreation and
from all indications there will
be a good many persons going.
Swimming Pool Notes
On Saturday evening there were
bathers in the pool until midnight.
Sunday afternoon three hundred were
in the water and the warm weather
has added to the number of bathers
during the weekdays.
The electric lights have added a fine
effect. The schute is proving very
popular.
The pool has been creating atten-tion
outside of Lititz. A man made a
special trip from Ephrata, saying he
intended to build a pool there and
wanted to get some ideas. The same
thing was true of a Lebanon man.
Picnickers at the springs are among
the persons who are seen there and
when the pool becomes better adver-tised
it should prove an added attrac-tion
in bringing picnickers here.
Maltan Picnic
The combined camps of the Knights
of Malta of Reading held their annual
outing at the Springs yesterday.
Eight hundred and eighty-eight
tickets were sold for Lititz in the
morning, while a great many came
on the noon train and there were about
eighty autos parked in the Springs.
The Princes of Bagdad wore the hats
of the order while others wore paper
hats of all descriptions and circulated
around the streets of the town. Prac-tically
speaking they had the keys of
the Borough. Quite a few of the
Readingites remarked that Lititz was
the only place to hold a picnic. The
pretzel bakeries did a good business
and many of the picnickers had big
pretzels tied to the lapels of their
coats.
The Lititz band furnished the
music. A little boy, not more than
nine years old, from Reading, stood
on the band platform and gave a num-ber
of selections on the cornet. The
young prodigy was loudly applauded.
Albert Gochenour, Fremont Hol-linger,
Robert Russel, who cook the
the coffee on special occasions in the
Moravian church here, such as love-feast,
etc., brewed the Java for the
picnickers. That the visitors were
pleased with it is attested by the fact
that twelve barrels were consumed,
besides which the coffee cookers re-ceived
many congratulations. Seven-ty
pounds of coffee, fifty quarts of
cream and twenty pounds of sugar were
used. The committee spent ¿1500 for
free refreshments, including 1000 quarts
of ice cream, three barrels of pretzels,
seven bags of peanuts and about twenty-five
cartons of popeorn.
Many Lititz persons went to the
Springs in the afternoon. The aver-age
^out-of-town picnic seldom attracts
th/local population. j
Burgess Has His Troubles
When Burgess Norman Badorf con-sented
to become Burgess of Lititz
with all the honor and dignity that
goes with it, he had no idea of the
many incidentals. This week he re-ceived
a message by wire to come to
a certain street and remove a cat that
had come to the end of its ten lives.
From all reports he did not go and if
he is picked out for any more cat in-terments
he said he is liable to use
some straightforward language. In
the future he wants it understood that
he has no idea of running around the
town burying cats, regardless of the
salary of fifty per year.
New York Workmen l i k e the Country
Henry Tuttle is the foreman of a
gang of ten steam-fitters and electric-ians
of New York who came here te
make alterations at the chocolate fac-tory.
The city "boys" like the novelty
of the country, the fine air and coun-try
"eats," and will be here for several
months. "The only thing that gets
us," said one of them, "is that it is so
quiet. It's so quiet here, that I
thought a burglar was trying to break
into- the window the other night, and
when I investigated I discovered it
was a mosquito." "Fine work here in
the country" is the way the foreman
puts it.
Death of Wayne Bear
Wayne Bear, proprietor of the Ore'
gon hotel, died at 1 o'clock Saturday
morning, in his fiftieth year. One
week ago he was able to attend to
business and appeared to be in good
condition, but upon starting for the
kitchen he suddenly dropped over.
Some days later he was again able to
be about, but Friday evening again
suffered a stroke and had to be re-moved
to his bed, from which he did
not rise. The deceased is survived by
his wife, who was Miss Emma Stark
before marriage, and a daughter, Hat-tie,
wife of Nathan Tarbeli, of Oregon;
also two brothers, John Bear, of Ore-gon,
and Jerome Bear, of Denver, Col-orado.
The funeral took place on
Wednesday, with services at the house
and in the Rothsville Lutheran Church.
Interment was made in the adjoining
cemetery.
Samuel K. Wolf
Samuel K. Wolf, aged 79 years, 7
months and 22 days, died at his home
at Akron, of infirmities of old age,
being confined to bed for the past six
weeks. Deceased was a life-long resi-dent
of Akron, and was the last of the
Wolf family. He was an active mem-ber
of Grace United Evangelical
Church. Mr. Wolf is survived by his
widow, Fannie (nee Fisher), and two
daughters, Mrs. Edwin Smith, of
Akron, and Mrs. D. W. Bickler, of Ply-mouth,
and 13 grandchildren. Funeral
was held on Monday morning. Inter-ment
was made in the Evangelical
cemetery. Rev. S. A. H-eisy officiated.
Paul Mohn, son of Christ Mohn, who
enlisted at the age of sixteen, and saw
almost two years of service in the
army, returned home, having been
honorably discharged. He was a mem-ber
of the Fifth Division and wears
three service stripes. Although he
was made a runner from the very be-ginning,
one of the most dangerous
jobs on the front, and saw his com-rades
fall on all sides when the regi-ment
was nearly wiped out in the Ar-fonne
Forest, he escaped without a
scratch. On one of the roads over
which he passed twenty runners were
shot down in one day, but he got
through safely with the message.
Snipers picked off the runners and at
night many were caught by German
scouting parties.
He relates that when they were tak-ing
a town a sniper stationed in a
church steeple is credited with pick-ing
off seven of their officers. An
American discovered the location of
the sharpshooter, crawled up and tak-ing
the German unaware, threw him
out the steeple.
Another thrilling experience he had
was when an officer and himself be-came
lost. To make matters worse a
barrage fire started behind them. To
push on would have meant to run into
the Germans. There was one chance
left—go back through the curtain of
fire. Both got through, but how, he
says, he never will be able to tell.
Many Persons Come and Go by Train
Trolley, Auto and Other Conveyances
More Soldiers Home
Charles Krick, who was a second-class
gunners' mate in the navy, came
home for good on Tuesday. He had
been in the service two years and had
been in France and England.
Other Lititz boys who are now
home are Isaac Gray bill, Clyde Nixon,
Paul Spangler, Paul Matthews, and
Jacob Heilman.
Norman Hertzler landed at Hamp-ton
Roads, Va., from France, and is
expected home shortly.
LITITZ TOURISTS REACHED CHI-CAGO
Dog
The Zeni Zems Are Coming
The Zem Zem Siesta 77 of Lancas-ter
County is busy making arrange-tients
for the picnic at the Lititz
Springs on Friday, Aug. 8. According
to a circular letter, coffee, ice cream
cones, peanuts, balloons, hats, etc.,
will be furnished free. The- advance
literature says a joyous delegation
will be present from Mt. Joy. White
Stars (females included) are coming
from Hopeland. Terre Hill will be on
hand all fussed up and so on. The
Zem Zems never fall asleep when
they are on a picnic. A rooster chase
promises fun for the women and there
are numerous other contests on the
program.
New Drug Store Proprietor
Curtis Hensel of Philadelphia has
bought out the good will and fixtures
of J. E. Charles drug store on the cor-ner
of Main and Cedar streets, taking
possession last Thursday. Mr. Hen-sel's
family will move here during the
next month.
Mr. Charles said he had not definite-ly
decided where he would go to from
here.
Death of Mrs, Jacob Kline
Mrs. Elizabeth Kline, wife of Jacob
Kline, died suddenly Monday morning
at her home at Ephrata from heart
trouble, aged 78 years. Deceased was
a native of Wabank near Millersville,
prior to her marriage was a Miss Eliz-abeth
Eisenberger. After her marriage
she lived for a time in lVIoline, 111., and
Logansport, Ind., but for the last 40
years had been a resident of the
northern end of the county. Mr. and
Mrs. Kline quietly celebrated their
60th wedding anniversary at their
home last November. Besides her
husband the following children sur-vive:
George W., Reading; Lillie, wife
of Frank Naddeo, Ephrata; Oscar,
Denver; Bertha, wife of H. H. Mc-
Chesney, Gary, Ind.; Elsie, wife of H.
H. Bradvcamp, Lancaster. The funeral
will be held this Thursday morning at
10 o'clock with all services at the
house. Interment will be made at
Denver Rev, C. A. Mutch will of-ficiate.
Aged Resident Died at Brethren Home
Henry Schwartz died at the Breth-ren
Home, Neffsville, on Thursday
evening, due to infirmities of old age,
after having been confined to bed for
three weeks, aged 88 years, 3 months
and 22 days. He had been a resident
of Manheim for many years and came
to the Home during March of this
year. He was a pump maker by occu-
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Rides on Tool Box and Attracts
Much Attention
The Lititz tourists, the Gibbel broth-ers
and Harry Weidner, who are
traveling to the Pacific coast in a Ford,
are having a fine time. One of the
cards received here was from Michi-gan
City, Indiana, "saying that they
visited the Chillas family, relatives of
the Gibbels. At Aurora, in the same
state, they visited John Royer and
family, also relatives. They still have
the dog, Jack, who rides on the tool
box and attracts attention wherever
they go. They say he is worth all the
trouble he gives them.
Under date of July 25 they dropped
a card from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, say-ing
they crossed the Mississippi the
day before. Cedar Rapids is the home
of Quaker Oats and puffed rice. Thev
camped on the outskirts of Council
Bluff, Iowa. So far they had no trou-ble
with the machine, not even a punc-ture.
One of the cards said that while
camping a man came and looked over
their outfit and when he learned that
they were from Lititz invited them to
the house for a meal, which offer they
took advantage of. The -family had
formerly lived in Lancaster. The last
card received was from Chicago, hav-ing
pitched camp on the outskirts
there.
Miss Mary Hershey in a letter home
writes that the boys paid her a visit
in Chicago and that from all appear-ances
the trip is agreeing with them.
It is her opinion that the dog is en-joying
himself as much as the rest of
the party.
Band Concert Tonight
This Thursday evening the
Lititz Concert Band will be at
the Lutz swimming pool and
will give a fine program. An
immense crowd is looked for.
This attraction will be free.
Mr. Lutz, the proprietor, is not
content to do things by halves,
and on a warm summer evening
a band concert should prove a.
trump card.
Messrs. Ralph Cole and Paul Badorf
spent Sunday at Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. Weidler Bender left
today to spend the remainder of the
week at Mt. Gretna,
Mr. Howard Kauffman of Philadel-phia
' spent Sunday with his mother,
Mrs. Laura Kauffman.
The Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Masser, of
Orwigsburg, are visiting the former's
brother, F. A. Masser and family.
Miss Clara Miksch of Nazareth spent
the past week with Mrs. Mary Miksch
and mother, Mrs. Lavina Hacker.
Mr. Paul Schmuck of Annville spent
Saturday and Sunday here with his par-ents,
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Schmuck..
Miss Mary Focht of Philadelphia, an
aunt to Mrs. H. H. Beck, is a visitor
in town.
Frank Meiskey, who recently re-turned
from France, left to seek em-ployment
in Philadelphia, being a ma-chinist
by trade.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wenrieh, Mr.
and Mrs. Evan Flickinger and son, all
of Robesonia, motored here Sunday to
visit Mrs. Annie Putt.
Mr. H. A. Bailey and family of York
stopped off here for a short time with
friends on Tuesday while 011 their
way to Ephrata by automobile.
Mr. John Hertzler made a trip in
his auto from Philadelphia to this
place to visit his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Hertzler, on Wednesday.
Mr. Paul Bomberger returned home
after a three weeks' visit through the
west, going as far as North Dakota.
He spent some time at Indianapolis,
Chicago, and St. Paul.
Samuel Lane, Phares and Benjamin
Bucher, and David Snavely, took a
long auto trip Sunday, going through
the Lykens valley, Pine Grove, Millers-burg,
Rehrersburg, Fredericksburg,
Lebanon and Harrisburg.
Mrs. Kate Gates, Mr. H. Luke Grosh
and Mr. John Young and wife Dr.
Young, all of Philadelphia, motored
here to spend Saturday and Sunday
with Mrs. Caroline Grosh. Dr. Young
holds a prominent position at the
League Island Hospital.
Mr. Harry Musselman paid a short
visit to Lititz the latter part of last
week. Although he moved away from
Lititz a number of years ago Mr. Mus-selman
still takes an interest in the
town and keeps up his membership in
the Litifz Fire Company.
Mrs. F. E. Wilcox and daughter,
Miss- Davis; Miss Mary Clark and the
Misses Mary and Elsie Lenher, of Me-chanicsburg,
Cumberland County, mo-tored
to Lititz on Tuesday. The
Misses .Lenher will spend some time
as the guests of Miss Martha Derr.
The rest of the party left for home the
following day.
Mrs. John Stultz and daughter Erla
came here from Charleston, South
Carolina, to spend some time with, her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Buch.
Mr Stultz is employed in the govern-ment
ordnance department in that
southern city and expects that his
work will soon be ended. The govern-ment
has over 800 warehouses there.
Miss Mary Reidenbach, daughter of
'Squire and Mrs. A. B. Reidenbach,
left on a vacation trip covering three
weeks. Her first stop will be at Wash-ington,
D. C., where she will visit her
niece, Miss Pauline Milchsack, who is
a government employee, and from that
city Miss Reidenbach will go to Cov-ington,
Virginia, to visit Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Lacy.
David Grosch, of Kansas City, is
spending his vacation visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Grosch
at Lancaster. Mr. Grosch will render
a selection in the Moravian church at
Lancaster on Sunday morning. The
parents were residents of Lititz for
some years and the son was here on a
visit during that time. He is a fine
vocalist.
Prof. G, F. Lavis and wife, of To-ronto,
Canada, are spending several
weeks here with Mrs. Lavis' parents, •
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Marks. They
left their home on June 21, spending
some time with his parents at Morris-burg
Canada, then went to Montreal,
Buffalo, New York and from there to
Lititz. Prof. Lavis is principal in a •
public school and teaches languages.
Mr. Willis Marks, wife and child, of
Reading, visited in the same family on
Tuesday and Wednesday, coming here
in order to attend the picnic yesterday,
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