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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1881
Page
3
Lititz Local Intelligence reports travel schedules for trains to and from Lititz, church services across several denominations, a new Columbia clock in the grammar school, and notes on local events. It covers excursions to Healing and Switchback, civic gossip, a tobacco crop sale, postal card advice, and petty mischief along Main Street.
A brisk 30 mile daytime journey through heat and dust begins in the Furnace Hills. We glimpse Elizabeth Farms ruins from a wildfire and pass Sheafferstown’s old village life. The Lebanon Valley shows thrifty farms and red barns as drought grips the north. Rain is sought. wells dry while a Lititz doctor offers medicine. Obituaries note Rev. Fett of Moravian church and Mrs. Mary Arnold, each mourned in large, respectful gatherings.
Read in Reading Eagle an exploration of Bethlehem's Moravian roots from 18th century emigration under Count Zinzendorf to the church led life. It describes their communal rules, music, schooling, and enduring rituals plus the shift to a modern industrial town and a note on temperance.
Advertisers urge beginning fall promotions and announce fall stock arrivals as merchants prepare for cooler weather. Cattle prices rise ten percent from last year and pine lumber tracks a steady climb since 1879. Township schools start next Monday and long winter coats will be in fashion. A humorous note on sleeping out land and snoring appears alongside weather and farming hints. An ad promotes Burdock Blood Bitters for various ailments at Lititz drug store.
Norine tHE Eveets Gibbs of Buffalo writes of Burdock Blood Bitters improving chronic blood, liver, and kidney diseases with personal use and a dropsy case. Price one dollar, trial ten cents, Lititz drug store sells. Jacob H Bloomer Virguille N Y reports Thomas Electric Oil curing a swollen neck sore throat in two days and a wife’s inflamed foot in twenty four hours, sold at Lititz drug store.
The Lititz advertisement touts Splendid smoked beef at 25c per pound and Splendid Cheese at 16c per pound, along with Valencia Raisins 32c per pound and various coffees. The note also mentions a carpet samples display for the upcoming fairtrade and a sale of goods amid a lengthy list of local notices and market quotes from September 1881.
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