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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1883
Page
3
Public notice from Lititz announces Wat H. Ewen, undertaker, located on Main Street, Lititz, Pennsylvania. The announcement references services and location details for the funeral business and associated inquiries.
Local notices cover religious services in several denominations at New Haven White Oak Bricker ville and Brickerville with times in the afternoon and morning. Legal tip makes note of attorney Brigker in town Saturdays and Mondays. Festival and fairs include a Moravian strawberry event netting sixty dollars, horse sale records and a Philadelphia Atlantic city excursion on July 4 with $2.30 round trip. Post office moves to Seams building with lock boxes. pipe line tests to Millway and expanding tanks anticipated. Seminary commencement guests attract visitors and reunions. train misdirection tale at the station highlights traveler confusion. Postmasters face restraints on leave and must appoint sworn assistants. local birthday celebration for Charles Hacker.
Prof Shaub presided over the annual teachers examination for Lititz and Warwick, with directors from both townships present. The class of thirteen included eight females, and orthography words were tested alongside arithmetic and geography questions. Certificates were awarded to all but three.
The largest and best crop of grass will be harvested this year while wheat lags behind. Tobacco and corn look good. Hessian fly damage to wheat modest. Reports include hail insurance meeting in Quarryville, robin nests, bicycle riders, strawberry plant orders, a horse treated by Dr. Bender for lockjaw, and reorganization of a Reformed church congregation. Local farming, auctions, and community happenings fill the page with brief items from Rothsville to Manheim.
Harrisburg resident J Monroe Kreiter and Lancaster uncle Joseph Dorwart aged 82 spent Sunday in town. Miss Kate McGinnes of Lancaster visits Mr H B Beckler. Lancaster's T F Gill photographed in town. Emma Huber Jennie Grosh returned from Millersville for teachers' exam. Professor W E G Waltz resigns to join Japan mission. Harry Greenawalk visits old friends. George Grim of Philadelphia's Grim’s Sons makes town with orders. Mrs M M Grosh of Dauphin visits friends. Miss A V Grosh elected primary school teacher in Lititz. Malverville Musings describe a 4 ft clover stalk and peculiar boxwood tree. An old house site dating to 1763 noted. A lightning fire destroys a bank barn near Matersonville. Spring picnic dates announced for various churches and groups including Columbia Presbyterians, ALB, Evangelical Lutherans, and Reading German Lutherans. Columbia Methodists picnic here first of season.
A reader gathered miscellany notes from Lititz about local actions and opinions including post office changes, Sunday ice cream sales, Fourth of July plans, and nuisance firecrackers. A Dramore town ship pursuit ended with John Johnson captured. Bill Green escaped. A fire at J W Hollinger’s house resulted from fireworks, lighting a bed in a second story room. A Fisher’s ad line closes the column.
Burglars struck three spots in the Brunnerville area on Monday night. Dr. Hertz’s Lexington home window was entered, a shop window was pried, and Mrs. Sabina Eberly’s Braunerville residence was entered. Nothing valuable was taken. The trio fled through the entered window in each case.
WOLLE advertises adjustable Win dow Screens for any window with measurement service and quick fitting. Green wire screens 24 to 34 inches wide at reasonable prices. Also Jelly Tumblers Mason jars glassware Queens ware Pine Apple hams 17 cents a pound closeout potatoes 50 cents per bushel white sugar for canning. Telephones expanding trade. Up-town Warwick customers urged to place orders through our large stock. Our best judgment will fill them.
TSHUDY'S STORE lists prints at 5 6 7 and 6 cts lawns at 6 and 8 cts. It promotes ginghams seersuckers and shirtings, fancy hose for all ages, mosquito nets, new frese groceries, and sugars coffees. It also markets Bethlehem Roller Process Flour Snyder's Brubaker's Flour, various meats and canned goods, and adds a fishing tackle line curated by Julius F Sturgis with rods, reels, hooks, lines, floats, and more.
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