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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1884
Page
3
Local column chronicles diverse town happenings including musical interests, a large barn project, domestic dispute under tension, a curious case of telephone linkage, steam powered operations, and related rural anecdotes. Names, exact places, and precise dates are scarce but the item preserves local flavor and indicates varied 19th century Lititz life.
Local notes report Jacob Kittle of Lexington with a three year quince tree bearing 62 fruit. Religious notices list Moravian German preaching and evangelical sessions. Real estate remains flat with many properties not selling. Local firms like Bareville and Hager & Bro. advertise fall announcements. News covers accidents, social visits, and community events including school openings, crafts, and a large Lebanon Fair excursion with 125 tickets sold.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union will hold its next meeting Monday evening the 6th at 7 30 in the Moravian Sunday school chapel. Delegates to the Lancaster temperance conference on October 3 are listed from the Union Moravian and Evangelical groups. On Sunday evening a runaway horse attached to a buggy caused excitement on Main and Broad streets until a Lancaster man restrained it without injury.
Round trip tickets priced at $10.50 cover a three day journey to Niagara Falls Buitajo and Watkins Glen with through trains from Litiz Rothsville Millway Akron and Ephrata. Tickets allow stopoffs at Allentown Reading return. excursions include a ride around the Switchback and a Pine-ride option. Separate through train departs Luits at 6 45 A M with pickups at Rothsville Millway Akron and Ephrata. Includes ads for local goods and notices of local incidents and mischief in Lititz and Warwick areas.
Mr. Win Johnson of Huron Dakota writes his wife suffered acute bronchitis for years. He tried many remedies before obtaining a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds, which he says permanently cured her. The bottle is guaranteed to cure throat lung or bronchial tube diseases. Available at Liita Drug Store. Large size $1.00
An abrasive antique ad promotes Buckien's Arnica Salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. It lists prices and the Lutite Drug Store Arch Street Philadelphia and references Acker's Blood Elixir sold at Lititz Drug Store. It also mentions hotel rates and traveling public provisions in a cluttered promotional notice.
A traveling photographer from Utica has toured two weeks The man’s outdoor cabinet photos draw strong patronage, though the name remains unknown Miss Mamie Weigley of this place studies at the Hagers town school The Reformed Missionary society held a September meeting with lively debate on the highest style of woman and noble Christian influence A Lutheran church sale of carved woodwork is planned and a Blaine and Logan club is urged in Heidelberg township The St Pauls Reformed Sunday school mission service urged fuller participation and greater contributions to missions The Shadderstown community is praised for hospitality and clergy praise Rev Fertigler may move to Brickerville if needed The third commandment sermon by Rev Fernster emphasized profanity and perjury as twin vices Local music news addresses the Citizens Band and a Lancaster music tournament update
Obituaries recount John Keller of Lititz who died September 24 at the county hospital and was buried at Lititz Moravian cemetery. Benjamin Brandt, 55, died last Saturday near Mannheim, with nine children left. interment at Kreider’s meeting house. Susan Carpenter, wife of Frank Carpenter, Warwick House proprietor, died after six months of galloping consumption, aged about 48, with two daughters and a son, and buried near Mechanicsburg.
A Saturday evening pistol misfired injuring Isaac Shaeffer and brushing Phares Garner, a narrow escape warns boys to avoid firearms. A Republican mass meeting is planned at Millway Park Hotel on Wednesday October 8. Local events include a five cent cheese sale at Heitler's, religious services by the New River Brethren at Millport, real estate sale at Millway, a Blaine and Logan pole rising near N N Bender's cigar factory, and a forthcoming pole raising at Zook's hotel. Other items mention a quiet wedding, returns from Kansas by several men, school enrollments, a large sweet potato, home improvements in Oregon vicinity, and various local notices. An entertainment attempt at a church faced opposition from trustees, while medical anecdotes praise Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve with local drugstore ads.
A Brunnerville hotel property was withdrawn at 4550. Several Brunnerville area parcels changed hands, including Moges Habecker’s estate sold near Brunnerville for 1400, Levi Books’s Hallville property sold to Daniel Z. Graaigg for 2200, and multiple Hartranft tracts totaling 4020 and 2505 and 681 to various buyers. John Keeler’s small farm sold for 1587, Amos Kiing bought a Spruce Street lot for 600, and Henry O. Buch’s Owl. Bill property sold for 3000. John Brubaker’s deceased estate sold for 3200 to Anna Birkenbine. Also notes on residents’ health, local visits, a first birthday celebration, and several regional market observations.
WOLLE offers indigo blue prints varieties, white and colored blankets from 80 cents to 2.25, cotton flannel, delaines, sewing machine needles three for 10, Student Lamp at 4.00, new chamber sets arriving, glassware and coal oil cheap by the barrel, mackerel by weight or package, and seeks cheap sugars. Robt. N. Wolle.
TSHUDYS STORE advertises fresh roasted coffees, Ferris celebrated hams and smoked beef, bulk Lawns at 4 and 8 cents, and Wadsworth Martinez Longman pure prepared paints. A letter from R Sloan touts cheaper fare paint and plans future orders for thirty five houses, endorsing Wadsworth Martinez Longman products.
Historical issue listing a store inventory of stockings and undergarments with local names. followed by multiple public sale notices for real estate in Lititz including a limestone tract, a two story house with outbuildings, and a Lititz Brewery property, with schedule details and contact agents.
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