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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1878
Page
3
Local notices list upcoming sales and real estate auctions in Warwick and Lititz areas. Items include real estate deeds, personal property, and village lots with improvements, plus sale bills printed at the Record Office.
Moravian and Evangelical services listed for Sunday with German and English preaching times. Sunday school reports include many named Reformed and Mission Sunday schools across Lancaster, Elizabethtown, Quarryville, New Providence, Maytown, Willow Street, Manheim, St. John’s, and New Holland with delegates named. Obituary notices follow for Augustus Hall of Warwick and Samuel Delbo of Litiz, with burial details and church affiliations. A child’s unusual bedtime-night episode near Akron is recounted, ending with a safe reunion.
The Moravian Church at Marietta hosted the wedding of Miss Mary A Regennas of Marietta to Albert M Zahm of Lancaster on a Wednesday afternoon. A large crowd gathered to witness the ceremony conducted by Rev. Nagle with Mendelssohn’s wedding march. The bride wore navy blue silk with bridesmaids Maddie Rickert and Lizzie M. Doerr. Afterward a reception at the parsonage and a tour to Eastern Pennsylvania cities followed the celebration.
The Litiz area reports multiple property sales near Lexington and Millport with buyers listed: Wm Shrines property sold to Mary Hacker for 1000 dollars. A R Worshey land sold to A B Hack ton & Co for 4100. Jacob M Sheets land to Jacob Bomberger for 3519. Jacob Helman estate land to Christian Lipp for 1650. Also notices about subscriptions, a loss on buildings and contents, the Litiz Record’s first year, and local croquet results for the Litiz championship. A public meeting is planned to raise funds for South’s yellow fever sufferers. Died Sept 1 at Millway: Mary Ann Snavely aged 26 years 3 months 12 days.
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