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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1885
Page
3
Local notices describe church services at multiple Lititz venues with times and lay details, plus excursions to Atomic City Ocean Grove and Lone Branch and a public sale at Brugnerville coach works. A Brownstown race and a Quoit Pitching dispute prompt local letters and a horse tale ends with a reward offer.
The column records community items including meeting notices for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, a bread price change at Mrs Smith's store, an anniversary among Lititz Moravians, and rail/tram travel to Bethlehem. It notes unclaimed letters, a loaned blue wheelbarrow not returned, a new bakery project, barber shop changes, a joke about marriage, and local business and rail developments along with the new tramp law and penalties.
Coad han d Sacrifices. Ezra F Landis of Cherry street Lancaster Pa offers second hand boilers and engines at low prices. The Peerless Traction Engine and the Success Portable engine are highlighted as lagin work ready. Contact Mr Landis by call or mail for options and deliveries.
A heavy Saturday afternoon storm from Speedwell to Columbis damaged corn and tobacco across the county. Lightning struck a Landisville frame barn, burning it with tools and a horse. Flooding washed soils, toppled tents at Tandisville camp meeting, and caused widespread crop losses and road washouts. A Philadelphia tornado killed seven and injured many.
A Letter to the Oregon correspondent defends Mr. Stauffer against a critic, praising his character and youth. The piece also reports on a Friday visit to Lizzie Frankfort’s Oregon store, a local rifle club outing, and a Sailite to Penryn Park excursion with hundreds of riders, noting a pleasant picnic with scenery, boating, and a Moravian dispute over attendance.
The Lancaster County Fair Association met on Monday to discuss the upcoming September fair. Reading & Columbia Railway agreed to route a train north during fair week, aiding visitors from that region to return home in the evening. Cattle stalls booked range from four to fifty nine, with exhibitors expected to exceed last year.
Lancaster residents and visitors frequent Lititz, Manheim and nearby towns. Updates include re appointment of Dr O T Hhebener as State Trustee, weddings, travels, new Lutheran congregation talks, Tincon Evangeli cal Sunday school event, and local word bits on crops and weather.
An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best salve in the world for cats bruises sores alvars salt rheins fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It claims to positively cure piles or money refunded per box and notes sale at the store.
Wolle flour and grain market corrected weekly by Burr and Shally list prices for corn eggs lard and butter. Stock quotations reported to noon by De Haven Townsend bankers include cattle hogs sheep and dairy goods with current bid and ask figures for Philadelphia and surrounding markets.
TSHUBY'S STORE presents a catalog of soaps perfumes and bath products including White Castile Club Bath Glen Honey Royal Windsor Palm Glycerine Jersey Oat Meal Owassa Bath King Cream White Honey Manilla Violet Cologne Palmer Ilouse Palma Rosa Sulphur Ninety six Turkish Bath tiderflower and Zenithia Shaving Soap.
Philadelphia and New York price rivals pledge cheap carpets and rugs. Offers include Brussels, ingvaing and Smyrna rugs, oil cloths, stair carpets, and steam cured feathers. All items cash sale with no extra profits for nonpayers. customers invited to inspect for themselves.
The only Lititz seller offers the Genuine Aurora Carpet Sweeper by John Givler Co Lancaster authorized agents for Lancaster city and county. Nearly five hundred sold in the area. The sweeper makes no noise or dust and keeps carpets in order. A thoughtful birth day or wedding present. See goods and prices. Our buyer secures bargains for two stores with low cash prices. Store connected with telephone exchange.
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