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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1883
Page
3
Notice from The Lititz Record dated Friday June 8 1883 announces Wa. H. Exos a local undertaker located on Main Street Littitz Pennsylvania offering funeral services and related arrangements. The ad names the business and provides contact location.
Moravian German and other church services listed for Sunday across multiple towns with times in German and English. Local notices cover cow butter yields, hail insurance efforts by Lancaster County Mutual, a jubilee celebration, church reorganization plans, Lititz school board actions, and obituaries for Mrs. Alice Reemsnyder and Mrs. Mary Hess with interment details.
The Lititz public schools closed in two parts over two days with extensive Grammar and Intermediate class ceremonies. Principal events included speeches by Miss Lottie Hacker and Miss Ella Hacker, musical selections, and a valedictory by Miss Ella Hacker. The Evangelical Association convention ran alongside, with discussions on theology and education, and local notices mention Lincoln locals, Masonry work, and town festivals.
Re-elected directors Israel Zartman and Martin Metzter of Penn Township Fire Insurance. Springs Hotel served over 800 meals last week. Lost gold lock, return requested. Various town anecdotes include a cat’s curious brood, a tobacco sale, planned Fourth of July preparations, and local improvements at Warwick House. Plus obliquely noted civic and church events and residents’ activities.
A mosaic of local notes mentions Josh Snavely’s wild fox, welcome rain on Sunday, rising fly numbers, a bountiful hay crop, active tobacco planting, robbers in Epichrata, disappointing shad fishing, strawberries and measles, cut worms harming corn, measles questions for children, printer's ink to grease trade, record potato yields, early spring joys, cherries and robins near, a summer resort mower exchange, Jerry Hahn selling cigars, Fourth of July cheer, school vacations, Columbia telephone exchange growing, hotel summer boarders, moral quips, Dutch Pinafore in Harrisburg, Buck & Bro. cigar sales, upcoming picnics, Creole suits and sales at Buch's, and news from the Columbia Inquirer and Philo. Record.
June arrives with heat and bustle as peaches figs and watermelons move in from the south and the sale of personal goods from Henry Miller estate highlights old relics found during house cleaning. The auction promises a glimpse of long buried furniture and bachelor’s odds and ends in a noted local sale next Saturday afternoon.
The firm highlights telephonic linkage with the Penna telephone system to attract customers near and far, promises to share its number in the next issue, and notes a broad inventory including Turkey Red Table Cloths, New Hamburg goods, Bridge Wood glassware, Michener meats, and mackerel.
T Shuby's Store promotes low prices on prints lawns ginghams seersucker and shirtings. It offers fresh groceries including Bethlehem flour Snyder's and Brubaker's flour and various meats and canned goods. The ad highlights fishing tackle rods lines hooks and sundry gear selected by Julius F. Sturgis.
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