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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1884
Page
3
On Friday March 7, 1884 Watt Back conducted a funeral vigil and undertaker services on Main Street, serving local residents with standard burial arrangements and related ceremonies.
Local intelligence lists church services across multiple congregations including Moravian German and English rites, preaching hours, and Sunday school plans. It also notes public sales, horse and cattle prices, and upcoming real estate and bank stockholder meetings with local figures such as Geyer, Amer, and Miller.
To Our Patrons. In less than one month the first of April the annual settlement day will be at hand. We remind patrons to settle long unpaid bills, especially subscriptions, which have slowed since January. Expenses remain heavy and the printer’s bill should not be forgotten.
The East Penna Conference of the Evangelical Association accepts Col. Lick’s offer to erect Schuylkill Valley Seminary in Fredericksburg Lebanon County. Lick commits ten acres of land and a $20,000 gift if $5,000 is raised, with $3,200 already subscribed by Lebanon ministers in half an hour. An old nurse cites Acker’s English Remedy for coughs and bronchitis sold by De at’s in Lititz.
In Sharpf town the Reformed Missionary society met with Miss Kate A Krall and Misses Anna D Krall Agnes Lanse among readers and essayists. The question Is it well to argue about religious subjects sparked discussion by Mays Schaeffer Merts Brendle and Bachman. Protracted meetings in progress attract many youths, with praise and moral reflections amid weathering discontent. Heirs of Simon Thoma sold land to John Quarry for 1400 while Daniel Brendle plans retirement and his son John S. takes over the farm duties.
Rothsville Rambles reports March approaching warmer weather and improved roads after a storm. local items include a horse runaway near Simon Hostetter, property sales and rentals, band trips to Eden for a fair, cigars factory connections by telephone, and a local patent remedy advertisement noting Ackers Blood Elixir cures skin and blood ailments.
A letter in Oregon Opinion denounces male entitlement and praises marriage as an equal partnership. It extols a capable wife, warns against pecuniary dependence, and urges kindness and shared duties at home. Also reported are local notices on sales, weather, and community updates from Oregon.
A 19th century newspaper notice advertises discounts on dress goods at 10¢ per yard and prints at 5¢, plus 36-inch muslin for tobacco beds at 5¢. It promotes Havana tobacco seed, discounted plates and cups, wall paper samples, Wenger's Roller Flour at 8¢ per 4 lb, and mentions a marriage and local market updates with stock and currency notes.
Rev H H Semmel begins a catechetical class at Unionville urging readers to seek gospel truth and sabbathkeeping. The column mentions Lexington training for voyalists, three Unionville hucksters selling edibles, M D Keath buying property for 1000 dollars, and local notes on George Hichelberger, a campus accident, and plans to visit Southeast Corner Sanhedria. Also highlights agricultural pages, a Feb 29 birthday surprise for George B Shultz, and a large sale by Nathaniel Minnich. Mention of Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets and Blood Elixir sold locally.
A man recalls a heavy March snow on election day 47 years earlier that created splendid sleighing. John Seaber allegedly took his bride to Bethlehem in a sleigh, returning three days later, as bystanders confirm the deep snow and a snow plow used to open church passage.
The ad lists a wide range of goods including California Honey in the comb French Prunes and Turkey Prunes from the original cask at low prices three pounds for 28 cents and lower prices in ten pound lots. It promotes fresh-roasted coffees water-white coal oil fresh cabbage tomatoes and various garden seeds. It features Snyder's and Brubaker's flour corn meal buckwheat flour canned goods Githens Rexsamer brand corn peas beans and tomatoes priced at 16 cents. Eggs at 16 cents butter 18 cents and lard 16 cents with trade value for cigars.
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