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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1878
Page
3
Train schedule notes list southbound departures from Lititz at 2 04 and 12 02 am with Columbia and Lancaster routes and northbound departures from Lititz at 1 00 am 2 00 pm and 4 30 pm toward Reading and nearby points.
Religious notices include Monrovian and Luimegras services with English and German preaching. Bishop Duks from Cleveland to speak in German at Evangelical Church. Prohibition debate topics set for Tycon. Local tours, shipments, and arrests noted. Cigar manufacturing laws described. court cases include theft, burglary, and other sentences. A theft attempt at Mrs. Burne’s home ends without confrontation. Stauffer starts an English paper for youth in Milford Square with ad details.
The marriage of Fannie Shreiner to George Dennis of Lancaster filled New Haven with yearlong merriment. The couple traveled to Lancaster for the ceremony, then returned for a grand reception with multiple orchestras, a cannon salute, and a large feast for about 150 guests. A silver pitcher and other silverware were among the gifts, and the newlyweds planned to move to the Washington House in Manheim. The piece also recounts an old indenture fragment from Lancaster County, detailing a two year apprentice term with duties, schooling, and conduct requirements, signed in the 1700s.
Obituary notices describe the funeral rites for Lizzie Virginia Halecker at Rogers meeting-house with Lutheran and German services and mention her age and early death from typhoid fever. Also noted are the deaths of Mrs. Lucy Demmy at Pine Hill and the burial details at Moravian Church, plus the funeral of Christian Landis infant who died of catarrh fever after a brief life.
A mixed fragment notes revival progress at Litlv Evangelical Church Towanda cooking club for young ladies Worthy examples new county officers take office first Monday January school tax due December revival attendance high and unimpeded by doors opened loss of meat and produce from Mrs Shelly's cellar in an apparent nearby theft. local references to advertising, prices, and community updates appear throughout the clipping.
Thanksgiving is described as a day of thanks and feasting with ceremonies in churches. The Brownstown Evangelical Church will be dedicated on Sunday December 5 with Rev. E Bois and Rev. J M Oplinger. Col Frederick S Pyfer ex mayor of Lancaster dies at forty seven. Samuel Mellinger dies of apoplexy. Charles R Kreiter assigns creditors. Reading and Columbia Railroad pay train passes, company behind three months. Owen P Bricker attorney in town Saturdays and Mondays.
If you seek an overcoat or suit for yourself or your boy, visit our large stock of suitings and overcoatings. We buy for cash and offer low prices that will startle you. Come, look and see, you are not obliged to buy. Our gents furnishing goods include a complete assortment and very low prices. Call and compare.
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