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Undertaker Wa A Exee operates on Main Street Litics Pa offering funeral services and interment arrangements.
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1884
Page
3
Undertaker Wa A Exee operates on Main Street Litics Pa offering funeral services and interment arrangements.
Local items report various Sunday services in multiple towns including Ephrata and Buckeye areas with German and English sermons. Community notices include jurors selected for April to May terms, visits by residents, and election chatter around Lititz and Petin.
Nealed news notes list multiple small items from Lancaster area including advertising by Sam Myers a candidate for county commissioner and stock arrival by Allen Zag. jobs and sales at Kauffman Beckler. a pole accident on a telephone line. T Jeff Hartranft continuing carriage making. assignments of property for creditors by Keeler family. census thanks from A Herr Smith M D. Abe Buzzard rumor. sale withdrawals. Moravian Synod May sessions. Peter Adams illness. public sale of horses by J W Baker & Bro. tobacco sale by Samuel Foltz to California buyer. old heirloom egg sold. telephone exchange move. baseball club meeting planned.
The article mentions worsening roads, mumps in the neighborhood, schools closing in two weeks, many town changes planned for April, new houses on Church Street, church services by Umbenhen and Mishler, a visit by County Superintendent Prof. Brecht, and the death of Charles Carpenter at about eighty, with interment at Reamstown.
A.Danner digs cellars for five more houses in Kitchen Town and Miles Goda frames a two story house on Broad street. J. W. Baker to erect a Broad street dwelling adjoining Goda. Johnson Miller moves into his new home bought from Mrs. Shelly and plans a second story addition. Horace Biemesderfer builds a new house on Orange street. Grube and Seaber carpenters work on site. A large two story tobacco warehouse of 8. M. Long & Co. in Manhaire borough and over 300 cases of tobacco were destroyed by a fire about 2 o clock yesterday morning. The highest market prices for property were insured. details on Poultry and Pigeons in Lititz could not be learned.
The Brickerville column reports the widow Mrs. Sydney Miller, widow of Joseph Miller, died after a long cancer battle, with her funeral in St. Paul’s Reformed church and a will directing most estate to her niece’s children. It notes church and civic matters including Zion’s Lutheran church remodeling plans, bank stockholders election, new business leases, and local industry changes amid dull times.
The Harrisburg Independent notes Lancaster County leads in personal crisis reports. observers link this to a local tendency to self harm before death’s demands. It highlights crude methods such as hanging from attic rafters, beams in barns, or trees in orchards as common in the region.
Mrs Elizabeth B Halderman died in Harrisburg at age 95 after a long life rooted in the Moravian church. Born Elizabeth Jacobs in Lancaster city she married Frederick Keller in 1819 and moved to Lititz with seven children and thirteen grandchildren. Her funeral was held at the Moravian church and she was survived by five children including Hiram Keller ex mayor of Williamsport.
John 8. Givler & Co. proclaims earnest business with an immense stock and wide advertising. All goods are plainly marked and sold at one price. Customers can pay the same price as neighbors and from any salesman. Readers are urged to remember this house when visiting Lancaster. Also notes Acker's Blood Elixir and Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets sold by Dr. J. R. Brobst.
Citizens heard the Sanitary Committee report on autumn fever cases with few facts found. The meeting urged strict street cleanliness and discussed incorporating Lititz as a borough to gain legal sanitary authority. A five member committee was formed to study incorporation feasibility and seek legal counsel.
A varied sale lists 10c dress goods, 5c prints, tobacco bed coverings, Havana seed, and discounted plates and wall papers. Wenger’s Roller Flour priced at 80c per 4 cwt. Notices include marriages March 13 1884 and March 19 1834 and a weekly Lancaster produce market report with prices for butter eggs lard and more.
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