Lititz Record Front Page Parish Notices
Undetermined fragments show local Lititz notices including undertaker on Main Street. Specific names, dates, and events are not readable. preserved: community notices and local business references.
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1884
Page
3
Undetermined fragments show local Lititz notices including undertaker on Main Street. Specific names, dates, and events are not readable. preserved: community notices and local business references.
Local intelligence lists Moravian and German Baptist services on Sunday across multiple parish stations including Chaybill Molhler and Nettsville with various times. It notes a Reading Dramatic Combination play Buzzard or the Outlaws of the Ephrata Hills coming to Reading, reports on the Mite Society festival profits, and mentions legal cautions, burglaries, and political meetings in Lititz and Warwick, along with local church revival progress and several brief community updates.
A collage of town items reports burglaries and cautions, band meetings, a centennial stone house, house fires, cattle deaths, real estate moves, sleighing weather, and local business updates. Highlights include Levi B. Zug purchasing Samuel High’s property, Lititz band plans, and a Moravian church depot agreement in negotiation.
Levi Dadendorf narrowly escaped when a bull charged from behind as he carried corn to the house. His wife struck the animal with a rail, the family dog arrived and tore at the bull, forcing it to yield. Dadendorf suffered no serious injuries. Also reported: fox chase at Shaeffers town hotel, new telephone links and schoolhouse delights, a marriage in Miller residence, and local tobacco dealers Klopp & Kegerrise buying crops with uneven prices.
Reader describes an inept barber visit at eight in the evening with long waits, persistent sales pitches, rude chatter about current events, and a request for a blood stopping remedy. The text touts Ackera Blood Elixir as a cure for skin ailments and other conditions, endorsed by Dr. J. G Brobst.
The piece reports on a Literary Society- Mew Candidates meeting in Unionville, local school progress at White Oak with 40 pupils and a near perfect attendance, and community happenings. It notes tobacco commerce, a tragic murder of Bernard Short, a cigar factory burglary thwarted by Tobias Stauffer, and Grand Army of the Republic events in Lancaster with a welcome address by Major Reingebtl and a response by Commander Osborne.
Mr. David Habecker sells Rothsville store to H A Seldymridge of Lititz and plans to close out his stock at greatly reduced prices. The buyer will take over next April as Habecker offers bargains aimed at saving customers money.
Acker’s English Remedy is praised for coughs croup diphtheria or brouphitis and sold by Dry I C Brobst. The notice warns those who spread false reports about the sleighing party to retract their statements or face penalty.
Personal notices detail visits and travels of Mrs. Wilson Baum's sister Mrs. Seidel and others including Mr. John W. Mohr of Reading Dr. Conrad of Robesonia and Mr. George Barr of Philadelphia. Also reported are birthdays travels illnesses church activities and a runaway horse incident near Mechanicsburg.
A Tuesday gathering at John Brener man's house brought together fourteen women and three men who helped with wraps and ball packing. Public sales at Jacob Dominy's rear Lititz drew large crowds as farm stock and other items sold well, with proceeds of 901.35 dollars amid local festivities and games.
Election in one week from next Tuesday. Hints and notes on commerce, subscriptions rising, a Middletown butcher made a 23 yard sausage, auctioneer Evans calling sales daily, and discussions of wages and paving. Local items include banks paying interest, houses in demand, and rail or street notes.
A historical ad lists canned goods with prices such as tomatoes corn peas and pineapple, plus dried fruits and prunes. It promotes Wenger's Roller Flour, notes grade distinctions, and highlights cold snap driven blanket and underwear sales. Local produce terms, market quotes, and various merchants and rail lines are interwoven with miscellaneous prices and items.
Engineer Slaymaker said the Reading and Chesapeake Railroad will be built with bonds negotiated. Pennsylvania Railroad and New York partners plan to construct along the lower town route, awaiting confirmation by wire. The forecast reflects a hoped, yet unconfirmed, development in local rail service.
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