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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1884
Page
5
Sunday services at Union chapel Ephrata and New Haven. Liberty Cornet Band of Manheim serenades locals. Lititz notes include sensational gossip about Lydia Pfautz, Linden Hall Seminary reforms, and local clergy reports. Community events cover Lititz public schools closing, town sports, and upcoming July 4 plans at Lititz Springs.
Oregon and Vicinity reports a well attended immersion last Sunday with a thunderstorm threat. Notices note G Bear intends shipping horses to Virginia, strawberries at 10 cents a quart, and reflections on kindness, gossip, shade trees, and civic quiet in Unionville. A local shooting mishap ends with a gun cap removal. resident William Burgess dies at Speedwell. Jas Adair grows wheat tall with fine strawberries. local meetings, baptisms delayed, and the Graybill gathering draws crowds despite rain.
A Lancaster region roundup notes a drowning near Adamstown averted by chance. Plans for a Lancaster crematory advance with $2,000 subscribed and site costs $1,500, capital stock set at $5 per share. Subscriptions come from York, Harrisburg and West Chester. A Lancaster County child is born with ears. A medical intervention ends a protrusion incident. Local land sale: Isaac Miller’s Lexington property sells for $427 to Daniel Felker. A Pine Hill cow calves at 104 pounds, both calf and son later die. Derby bar found near Lexington. owner to reclaim. Local ads promote Acker’s Dyspepsia Tablets and Fisher’s lap robes and buggy whips.
A daily column surveys hotel cooks and wages, notes a Lancaster man arrested for defrauding a horse owner, and laments weak mindedness while praising Westward curiosity. It reports rural egg collecting among Lititz boys, rising demand for tropical fruits, and a Warwick township trend toward bell-equipped country schools with three schools already using bells.
The Cigar Swindler case centers on Jacob Seacrist of Dallastown who shipped cigars to Hagerstown to be paid before delivery. Snavely, using aliases including Hess and Holl, swindled railroad authorities, aiming to resell at a profit. He was captured after a brief逃, brought to Hagerstown, then York, with links to Rothsville Lancaster County. Also noted are a tax collector named John F. Smith jailed over unpaid funds and a series of local notices and society items.
A merchant announces an annual excursion to New York and the Hudson to West Point on Thursday June 19. Round trip tickets are valid three days and cost $4.50. Trains depart Lititz at about 4:25 A M. Details available in station circulars.
An old advertisement promotes buying a pound can of Silver Star Baxixe Powder at Wolle's with a ticket inside each can for a piece of silver plated ware. The page also lists low prices on canned goods, flour and grain market prices, and stock quotations from Philadelphia and nearby exchanges with varied commodities and livestock prices.
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