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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1883
Page
3
The Littitz Record issue from Friday July 6 1883 lists Wat Hiner and Badertal titz names and locations in Pennsylvania. The readable fragment references local residents and places without fuller context or events.
Local notices cover religious services in MorayrAy English and evangelical German and Lutheran churches, a kitchen fire near John Stauffer’s Main Street, and upcoming excursions to New York Coney Island and Atlantic City. Womelsdorf Band serenades at the Record office. sixteenth visitors at Sturgis House recall Bedford Springs reunions. new Warwick House sign across from the hotel.
Local column reports warm weather, weddings, and a flurry of town activity. Notes include tobacco sales, a new plankwalk, recent fights, arrivals and departures of residents, church and school updates, and a call for readers to share personal notices. Names like Rev. D. C. Tobias, H. E. Miller, John R. Bricker, and Miles Hallacher appear amid community events and auctions.
Mrs Anna Bomberger born Harrisburg May 31 1800 died at her Rothsville home on Saturday aged 83 years 1 month funeral at Middle Creek Meeting Alpileus Groff of Neffsville dies at 68 after congestion of the brain and a lititz exile excursion to North Carolina announced with rail fare details plus notes on the trade dollar controversy and a G A R encampment at Manheim with tents and bazaar and a note on local business publicity impacts.
The Lititz celebration drew a large crowd despite heat and liquor limits. A quiet, orderly day featured three bands, speeches by H R Reist and A Wilson, and a disappointing illumination and fireworks display. Incidents included a near-robbery attempt by two men from Reading, a serious fall injuring a boy, a man injured by a moving train, and a theft of 81 dollars and notes from a cigar worker named John B Well.
Lancaster clerk M W B Keller of the county recorder’s office, parading with George H Thomas post 84, was severely injured when he leaped for a passing train and had his right leg crushed. The leg was amputated below the knee after arrival home. Also reported are Children’s Day services, local injuries, trout decline, and various brief town notes on crops, weather, and commerce.
Jesac Sassaman, president of Crystal Ice Co, Reading, says two daughters died in a strange way after a young man believed to be consumptive courted them. The first daughter died after a year of courtship and illness. two years later the younger also fell ill and died last Friday. The town discusses whether consumption is contagious as the man nears death at Easton. the Sassamans' kin were never affected.
Fry’s advertises adjustable window screens fitting any window, green wire screens 24 to 34 inches wide, at reasonable prices. It notes jelly tumblers and mason jars in good supply, glassware and china stock expanding, Pine Apple brand hams at 17 cents per pound, white sugar for canning, and that ordering by telephone is easy for up-town and Warwick customers. The shop pledges careful filling of orders and invites calls.
Market weekly report lists prices for flour and grain commodities. Entries include butter, soap, duck weights, and various grain terms. Prices appear garbled with several misspellings and incomplete data. Strong entities include market names and units, though some figures are unreadable.
TSHUDYS STORE advertises prints at 5 6 7 and 8 cents lawn fabrics ginghams seersucker cheviots and shirtings and fancy hose for all ages. Mosquito netting new groceries Bethlehem flour Snyder and Brubaker family flour and various meats canned goods plus a complete fishing tackle line selected by Julius I Sturgis including rods reels lines hooks floats and accessories with straw hats half price and a few bushels of potatoes offered at 50 cents per bushel.
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