Local Notices and Travels in Lititz 1881
Lititz records travel schedules for the R and C railroad south and north trains with daily depart times. It lists church services at Mooravian Tevangelical and Seformed Bethany Ephrata plus Minnonants excursion to New York and Coney Island with three day round trips. Public sales and curiosities, plus local shop notes and a promo for the Library of Universal Knowledge conclude the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnonants
New York
Coney Island
Litita
Marshall Hall
Atlantic City
Camden and Atlantic
Cape May
Republc
Atlantic
Elder Place
Lititz
Arauine
Library of Universal Knowledge
American Book Exchange
Publishers
Like a cool place to sit in summer heat
A reader expresses preference for shade and a refreshing brook, favors street sprinkling to reduce dust, and hopes people keep promises. He cites punctuality, good conduct, and courteous hearings as ideals, admires birds and flowers near homes, and notes summer showers improve mood. He looks forward to greenbacks, gold, crops, bright faces, and fine buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Lightning Strikes Schreiner on Farm Near Rome
During a fierce storm Mr. Frank Schreiner, working on Menno Hess’s farm near Rome, narrowly escaped death when lightning struck the house spouting and split a rear gate. The current passed through his watch and leg, singeing hair and tearing a boot, leaving a red mark on his side. A nearby wheat shock burned, and a man in Wrightsville was killed by a lightning strike while standing in a doorway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lranrsyixe
Frank Shhreister
Menno Hess
Schreiner
Wrightsville
York County
Thomas Whiteleather
Dusty streets blamed on town stinginess and neglect
A letter complains that sprinkling the streets to curb dust is underpaid and poorly managed. Mr Miller earns $16 monthly plus expenses, hindering thorough dust control. Residents urge each person to contribute $1 monthly. other notes list visits, social calls, and local notices from Lititz, Pa.
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Miller
Lititz Echoes From a Busy Town of 1881 Delights and Dramas
A Lemuel Whitman style column notes local curiosities in Lititz including editorial quips on a revised Bible edition, a family bath time joke, and a mould on towels. It reports Mr Miles Hatlacher's departure for Canada to buy horses, a plan to douse a spring committee, and a post office boom. It covers a mill grove picnic, a thumb injury from a cog wheel, a hay fork accident, and a serious arm wound from a manure fork. Weekly items cite Sunday school celebrations, local court cases, rising coal prices, fashion trends, harvest prospects, and the town’s curiosity about creamaries, stockings, and Atlantic City excursion plans.
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Lititz
Baby
Miles Hatlacher
Canada
Millway + grove
Cyrus Kline
Brunnerville
William
Jefferson Grosh
Fruitville
Bowman
Neffsville
H. Ef. Miller
Jefferson Keener
Marietta
J. Peter
New Haven
Mosey
Manheim Sentinel
Atlantic City
Rocking Horse
Middletown News Debuts As Local Paper Promises Variety
A new weekly, Middletown News, eight-column folio, published by I. E. and A. E. Hoffer, appears with neat typography and local reading matter. The note praises room for a live paper and hopes for success, while ads tout patent remedies like Burdock Blood Bitters and Thomas Electric Oil with testimonials from Milwaukee and Lititz drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
I. E
A. E. Hoffer
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A&c
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Jaca
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Columbia House
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Reading
R.R
Joel Hutton
Kemper House
Masonic Temple
Hutton
Lititz Springs
H. E. Miller
Somerset County
Rapho Township
Abraham Brubaker
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Manheim
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Owern P. Bricker
Wm. Milchsack
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Monroe County
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Josiah Snavely
Rome
Jennie
Wm. H. Rice
First Moravian Church
H. H.tshudy
Lawrence Brickenstein
Baltimore
H. A. Brickenstein
Bella
Nannis Young
Lutherville
Miles Hallacher
E. de Schweinitz
Hi. M. Leibert
Bethlehem
P. EH
John H. Clewell
Urichsville
Ohio
Charles Nagle
Charles Haughman
John Bender
Menno M. Fry
Delaware Water Gan
T. J. Stewart
Trenton, N. J
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Liita
Joseph Snyder
Habustown
Bergstrass Lutheran Church
Henry
D.C. Tobias
Levi Wissler
Clay Township
Ezra Wissler
J. H. Seiling
Brickerville
Emporium
Geo. Dodge, Sr
Eraporium
Sam Lewis
Ira Mulholland
Albany, N. Y
Lexington Union
Hiram Kline
Adam B. Bear
Rohrerstown
Levi Sensenig
Board of Return Judges
Sensenig
Charles Myers
Francis
Acarce
Morket
Minwaukee
Kittie A. Hume
Grove Street
Milwaukee
Thomas’ Electric
Liita Drug Store
Dan'l Plank
Brooklyn
Tioga Co
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Associated Press
Berks
Lebanon
Lehigh
Enxstiern Penna
Columbia Rt. BR
Cis
Robert N. Wolle
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Millway
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South Third Street
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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co
United N. J. H.R. and Canal Co
Northern
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Hestonville Pass
R. R. Co
Pitts, Tit, & Bult. BR. R. Co
J. Barr
Litite Steam Mills
Coun
H. H.eles
Locher
Chas. A. Locher
East King St
Vancaster
White Hall Station
Dauphin County
Highspire
White House
Mary A. Stoner
Dauphin Co
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Mary Snavely
Warwick Township
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Buffalo
N.Y
Lifita
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Martin Rudy
Gruggists
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Boloro
T. A. Milchsack
F. L. Krauskop
N. Mulserry
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Lancaster Organ Manufactory
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Alex. McKillips
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