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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1878
Page
3
Local notices include rail timetables for trains going south from Litla at 9 00 a m 12 59 and 7 22 p m and trains north from Litiz at 9 00 a m 2 and 4 40 p m Religious notices follow with Moravian Evangelical and Lutheran services listed for Sunday and midweek prayer meetings.
Town items report a new lighting effort at the post office and a renovated Spring grounds look, plus a rising tramps through town and trout preservation concerns. The Wanamaker's Grand Depot profile lauds the vast, multi department store and its founder John Wanamaker, urging visitors to see the immense, varied stock under one roof.
A fragmented listing of local items mentions politics, weather, fashion, hunting, and notices. It notes a Republican meeting with torchlight procession this Friday, hunting rabbits starting, and farmers opposing gunning on their premises. It also references stores and local products like oysters and confections.
County News surveys a Lancaster resident Henry Culp age two who struck his one year old daughter with a cane fracturing ribs. It notes a diphtheria driven school closure at Kphereta with eleven pupils of forty eight enrolled. Also reports trenching contracts for Ephrata Water Works and multiple named contractors already digging pipes.
An aged citizen of Wast Earl township near Brownstown, Adam Brown, died at his home Monday night after a long illness. He was a tailor by trade and a longtime Evangelical Church member who attended Brownstown services for over forty years. His funeral was held in Brownstown on Thursday, drawing a large crowd to pay respects. Also noted is A M Bruckart building a brick tobacco warehouse with cellar finishing soon, featuring an elevator and tobacco press, promising local employment. Also a schoolteacher guidance of discipline and merit rewards is urged, and Workman Carper in Litiz advertise buffalo robes and wool blankets as new stock locally available.
Piano tuning offered on the first and third Saturdays in Lititz and vicinity and on the second and fourth Saturdays in Mantieim and other places. Orders by mail or at residence accepted. Also notes a marriage in Lancaster County and provides outdated stock market and commodity prices with local business references.
Lalgo announces election sites across Lancaster County with ward by ward venues in each district. Churches, public houses, taverns, and schoolhouses are named in Elizabethtown Strasburg Marietta Columbia and other municipalities for voters in Lancaster City and surrounding townships.
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