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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1883
Page
3
Local obituary notice lists Wa il Exex as an undertaker operating on Main Street Lititz Pennsylvania with address details recorded in the Lititz Record issue of Friday October 19 1883.
Local intelligence lists church services across denominations with times and pastors, plus community notes on incidents, local business updates, and curious items. A man injured by machinery at Leinbach’s mill is reported, along with farm and hotel notes, a railroad extension plan, and quirky local curiosities and ads.
Local briefs report assignments and creditor settlements in Lititz, expanding telephone lines, chestnutting trips by schools, and a Moravian Synod setback. Crime notes describe burglaries from a store cellar, with detectives chasing suspects. obituaries mention John Witmeyer and aging residents. business items include Sharp’s butcher stand auction and Reist’s stock upgrades.
A catalog offer from John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, will be sent after November 1. Multiple property sales include Charles A. Grosh estate sold for 1200 to Adaison Pfantz, and Peter Ammon buys a 32 by 200 foot lot for 300 in Lancaster. Other withdrawals and sales: D. D. Burkholder, Christian Hershey farm, Benjamin Badorf ground to his son, and Elam Roland sale on Spruce street. Also advertised are Acker's Blood Elixir and Celebrated English Remedy with guarantees, plus Fisher's stock of robes and blankets.
A cold blooded murder occurred at Columbia on Monday night. Henry Strack, 21, was fatally wounded by brothers Winnie and George Smith ages 20 and 18 in a dispute linked to a previous picnic quarrel. Strack died next morning after ante mortem statement naming the Smiths. The fugitives were arrested at Lancaster County Prison awaiting preliminary hearing after burial.
The Rothsville column notes diverse local happenings including orchard limb with numerous apples, tobacco packing sales to a Chicago firm, corn husking, deaths by dropsy, a party for Harry Neidemyer, and cigars and tobacco trades. It also mentions a ferocious hog incident, fire committee planning, legal service ads, and a Philadelphia German celebration summary with local gossip and divorce trends.
The Lilac club of Lititz traveled to Manheim for a baseball game. Umpire decisions were unfair, and after the second inning the Lititz team refused to continue, ending what promised to be a first class contest.
A collection of brief items notes subscriptions in advance, local printing quality, and ads for holiday goods at the Lititz drug store. It mentions December and Thanksgiving timing, home searches for April, and jokes about matrimony and ice cream signs.
The notice urges warm comforts for chill nights with heavy blankets and cotton flannels priced from 8 to 25 cents in white unbleached and colored. It promotes Allentown Woolen Goods, Zook’s Wool Yarn, Maryland Canned Goods Justin, and a promising library lamp line priced 2.50 to 10. It hints at a fall purchase and new items to come, with segars wanted in trade.
Contents include obituaries for Ella Regennas, John Swarr, and Mrs Shaeffer with ages and dates in Indiana and Pennsylvania. Stock quotations from De Haven Townsend Philadelphia, and a rough flour and grain market listing with prices for flour, wheat, corn, rye, oats, meal, butter, eggs, and meat products.
Local shop announces new stock including buckwheat flour corn meal canned vegetables and fresh fruit. Promises bright yellow sugar prices 60c and cheaper options plus fresh roasted coffee and meat hams dried beef and smoked beef. Also banner high test lye for quick hard soap and pickling supplies.
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