John W. B. Bausman, an attorney and president of Farmers First Trust Co., turned to C. Emlen Urban to design a commercial and residential building he was having constructed to
There’s a fur coat hanging in the dusty attic of The Rawlinsville Brickhouse. It’s been up there for decades. Katie Schatz-Stuart — who in April bought the circa 1851 Holtwood
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In late March, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Walker, of Gap, died of complications following influenza. In early April, Sarah Haldeman, of Rapho Township, died of complications following influenza. These are snapshots of the ongoing toll.
Flu deaths devastated the agricultural community. âNothing has ever afflicted this county that has affected farm calculations more seriously than this dread disease,ââ Lancasterâs Semi-Weekly New Era reported on Jan. 25, 1919.
The pandemic of 1918-19 lasted longer and affected more people in more serious ways than we remember. Those who continue to deny the enormity of the current crisis might consider what happened before.