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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1883
Page
2
The Lititz Record voices sharp criticism of the Pennsylvania Legislature and its extra session, arguing costs of $3,000 daily for 92 days while urging immediate adjournment. It condemns the prolonged session, praises saving state funds, and notes local Springfield Springs grounds could be improved for greater appeal.
Lancaster residents oppose the street light poles that line North Queen and main streets, urging underground wiring for a cleaner look. The piece also notes the opening of the theatrical season and its appeal to theatre fans amid broader reflections on progress, pensions, and natural disasters. It covers Krakatoa activity, Vesuvius warnings, and recent earthquakes, then moves to a church site at Wachovia settlement and the history of the early Brethren community, urging renewed home-based effort. It ends with local industry notes on Salem’s growth, tobacco trade, a new mineral spring, and Warwick’s claim of no saloons, followed by reports of a large fire in Columbia and a fatal neck injury in Dover township.
A correspondent visits Moravian Salem and Bethania in Pennsylvania, describing graveyards, church festivals, and a sermon by Rev Rand Thaler. He notes German and English communion, large cakes at the lovefeast, and compares Moravian farming, forests, and timber with Lancaster County methods, ending with Bethania and Old Town observations.
An old advertisement lists various goods and prices at a local drug store including laundry soap, bath brick, stove polish, porous plasters, chocolate, hair pomade, paints and oils, cigars, musk lozenges, walking canes, condensed milk, sponges, chamois skins, and Hecker's Farina with a challenge to city competition. Also notes real estate sales: Sarah Conn de d property sold to Rev. H. A. Brickenstein for $1585 and Addison Pfantz selling a lot near A. M. Bruckhart’s residence to Harry Long for $130.
Attorney Owen P Bricker offers consultations on all legal business Saturdays and Monday mornings at 15 East King Street Lancaster with reduced rates to two dollars per day. The note highlights hotel convenience for travelers near business centers and depots with regular streetcar access.
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