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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
4
An old newspaper notice warns editors proprietors and advertisers to submit items by Wednesday afternoon for Thursday morning press. It requests writers provide name and address for good faith, and notes subscription rates and mailing details in Likitz PA.
Grand Jury proposed separating colored prisoners from whites at the Lancaster jail prompting protests from nearby residents. The letter-writers question democracy and warn segregation challenges citizenship rights while praising colored soldiers and urging lawful maintenance decisions by the Grand Jury.
The piece calls for the Kaiser to be banished from Europe and moved to a derisive voyage to Belgium to witness war crimes. It urges Germans abroad to stay away and suggests a punitive end, including sending him on a yacht named Lusitania with a skull and crossbones, denied port access.
A critical line questions who deliberately started the war and casts nations as outcasts, framing a grim fate for the seas and the world. The phrase labels certain powers as pariahs of the ages, provoking a stark moral reckoning.
In Lancaster County, farmers wives and daughters labored in fields during the war, planting, tilling and harvesting crops. They received little public recognition yet were the uncrowned heroes who filled gaps left by scarce male labor and sustained food production.
The article records two deer shot by Mr Bing s and son in Pew Jersey species with four prongs. It notes a special meeting for Clay Circle No 63 B of A in the P 0 8 of A hall on Thursday at 7. Also mentions residents visiting relatives and flu confinement, high school events, basketball win 31 15, school director visits, and a revival invitation at St Pauls church.
Mrs A N Landis and Mrs Susie Kellar joined Miss Maud Montyer's funeral in Schaefferstown on Sunday. Several groups visited relatives in Denver and Lincoln Lineol. guests included the Shirk, Dusginger, and Hartman families. Private McK Wiser Gerhart from Camp Greenleaf Ga is promoted to corporal.
Rotsville Tems Washington Camp No 559 P O A will hold a boom session Thursday evening December 19 1918 with twenty five candidates to be initiated by Camp No 459 degree team. Neighbour camps invited. Also notes social visits and a Lutheran Church program The Spirit of Christmas to be rendered by Tullar Meridith at Christmas program and Ladies Aid Supper planned for December 21 1918.
Discussions on making airplanes invisible from ground observers through transparent materials. Proposals include using nonintroductible celluloid for wings and fuselage and flying at low altitude to hide the plane. A muffling tax on engines is noted as a potential restraint. Observers would see in all directions.
Emerson R. Groft of Mobile Hospital No 12 in France recalls the joyous Paris welcome after four years of hardship. He notes the French people finally enjoying freedom and expresses personal pride in learning French during wartime service.
Jacob Gibbel of the Aero Squadron writes from France to his parents about an Oct 18 trip to St. Malo with fifteen companions for a seven day vacation. They stayed in a top hotel, enjoyed meals, and joined M C A excursions to Quinard and Milo. He notes Vanderbilts and Astors summer homes in Quinard and describes St. Malo’s old city walls and scenic views.
President Wilson awards the Congressional Medal of Honor to Col. Charles W Whittlesey Capt George G McMurtry and Private Thomas Neibaur for actions in World War I. They led the Lost Battalion of the 308th in the Argonne Forest enduring five days under siege. Neibaur also earned recognition at Cote de Chatillon by stopping an enemy advance despite fatal wounds.
Hiram Markley butchered a pie for Samuel Bucher weighing 3 pounds and one for Nathan Snyder at 550 pounds. Scott Meiley, blind, visited friends at Alberts near Allentown. John Beamesderfor and family from White Oak visited John Buck on Sunday. Lexington residents attend revival meetings at Middle Creek with Rev Vader in charge. Nathan Keller and daughters Florente and Wel en from Lime Hock visited Kara Kline and family. Florence Bomberger visited Emanuel Bomberger near Manheim.
The fourth quarterly conference will be held at the Evangelical church with Rev. T Wentz presiding. Saturday business at 2 PM, Sunday School 9 AM, sermons at 10 AM and 2 PM with communion. Public sale of store property of the late H L Keith on Dec 21, plus a Hudson Six. Auction of store goods on Dec 24 at 6 PM. Christmas service by Immanuel Evangelical Sunday School on Dec 2 evening. Influenza cases reported. Local notes include visits, travel, and social events.
The notice recalls multiple survivors tied to Wissler's Mill Ephrata Willow Street Brunnerville and Brubrickville with funerals set in Brukerville Brickerville and Elm. It mentions Scott Shreiner dying Sunday at Manheim from influenza at age 19, a Church of the Brethren member and Bond Foundry Company employee, with services planned at his Halfville home and grave at Grarbhill Elm.
The article contrasts naval gunnery timing on warships with different navies fire rules during rolling seas and notes a shift by the British practice to fire on the upward roll. It then discusses the 1916 Gorgas commission to eradicate yellow fever, outlining suspected infection zones in South America Africa and the disruption caused by the US entry into war, with plans to resume later.
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