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Title: Historical and pictorial Lititz ..
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Zook, John G
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Publisher: Lititz, Pa., Express Printing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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began the manufacture of underwear shortlyafter the organization of the Keystone Mills. A short time previous to the organization of the knitting mills, Garber,Reist & Nissley established a creamery on North Alley. This concernoperates a number of creameries and branches. The celebrated E. D.print butter which they manufacture is one of the best known brands of fancytable butter that is sold in the Quaker City markets. The individual membersof the company are E. L. Garber, J. G. Reist, E. G. Reist and C. L. Nissley,all thorough business men and regarded as four of the most substantial men innorthern Lancaster county. Another widely advertised product that has helped in no small degree tofamiliarize the name of Lititz is the W. C. E. Cough Drop. These coughdrops are on the market since 1893 when W. C. Enck began their manufac-ture on a small scale. In 1 899 Mr. Enck associating with J. R. Cibbel, theywere manufactured for some years under the firm name of W. C. Enck & Co. (214)
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Mr. Enck having withdrawn from the firm, continues to manufacture themhimself. The merit of W. C. E. Cough Drops has so increased the demandfor them that the sales last year amounted to forty tons. After dissolving part-nership with W. C. Enck, J. R. Gibbel started the manufacture of all kinds ofcandy. This business has greatly increased duriug the past few years. Two important internal improvements came almost simultaneously, waterfacilities and electric light, the one in the beginning and the other during theclose of the year. The Lititz Water Company was organized January 1893,succeeding a siniilar concern which, however, only furnished water for streetsprinkling purposes. A large standpipe 1 00 feet high by 20 feet in diameterwas erected west of the park, which is filled with fine well water by meansof an engine. A. R. Bomberger, D. E. Light, A. B. Long, J. C. Brobst, D.R. Buch, S. W. Buch, T. R. Kreider, W. M. Amer and J. H. Bombergerare the present directors. (At an election, 1

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