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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1883
Page
3
The Thelititz Record notes local business activity as undertaker William H. Exck operates on Main Street Libtez with services announced for the community.
Local intelligence reports German Lutheran and Moravian worship times, scattered religious services, and a note on postponed Lititz K of P excursion to Bethlehem. It also covers a fatal popcorn incident, new postal notes, a Reading hatmaker’s wife death, court peace pledge, post office moves, local youths and stone throwing, Rothsville ramblings, curious farm produce, a March arson case verdict, and pike bridge concerns.
In Reading last week Mr. K R Hacker sprained his foot while Jeff Keener builds a cattle scales on his lot behind Christ Dutt’s house. Weddings loom and a yearling heifer from the Seminary died after sinking into a field hole. A plain gold ring with initials may be recovered by the owner calling the office. Martin Groff’s new barn raised midweek. Canary birds advertised at the Sturgis House. A farm laborer in Penn township faced a moral misstep, later blamed on another. The real estate market grows, with private and public sales listed. Frederick Essig cut his hand at a grain separator but escaped injury. Rainfall and harvest picnics bring mixed outcomes as drummers arrive by train. A clover stalk with forty four leaves found in Penn township. The Lancaster Inquirer is noted for infrequent delivery. A camp meeting under Bishop Seybert faces rowdy interruptions. Adaptat. A accident befalls W H Bac near Lancaster, horse and buggy damaged but he escapes serious harm. Daisy Hacker’s daughter surprised by 27 friends. A Beitzinger chicken laid twenty three eggs from March hatch, plus nine after a pause. An annual picnic is planned at Millway with music, refreshments, and fireworks on September 8.
A long fragment from Unionville area notes cover local events. Fire at Robt. N. Wolfe’s store nearly sparked a disaster. misaddressed tax notices and a missing owner puzzle, plus town gossip about crops, a buggy accident, a runaway horse, a bicycle collision with a pedestrian, and small town entertainments and meetings.
Three years after a prior break in, burglars again entered the Steinmetz store and dwelling. They bored doors and windows, pried a padlock, and stole eight dollars in silver, a few silk handkerchiefs, knives, spectacles, and combs. A hatchet and lever were left at nearby sites, suggesting late night activity around two o'clock.
WOLLE Lanes announces a varied stock including Hand Lamps Stand Lamps and Library Lamps priced from 2.50 to 10. Mason’s Fruit Jars 1.10 per quart 1.40 per two quarts. Wire Screen 24 to 34 inches. Jeans for men and boys. New stock added. Canned peaches 15 cents a can sugars and coffee offered. Pineapple hams 17 cents. Orders filled promptly.
Several marriage notices appear from August 1883 with Levi C. Hacker and Annie Mabala Dies of Clay Township, Addizon B H Zartman and Mary Isadore Keath of Lancaster, Henry G. Posey of Linglestown and Annie E. Gerhart of Belky County. Also notes reference school bells returning, local ads, and requests for real estate sale bills from Recorp.
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