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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1881
Page
2
The Phulitets Record announces it will publish regularly each Thursday afternoon and urges advertisers to submit with names and addresses for good faith. The note explains space constraints and the need to enlarge the paper to include more reading matter and advertising display.
Sympathy for Garfield feeds a rising relief effort with the field fund now aimed at 500000, up from 250000, as generous contributors swell the total for her maintenance. Garfield left an estate of 25000 and life insurance of 35000, with Congress likely to grant his family the 50000 yearly salary, totaling a substantial support package.
Immense crowds gathered as Cleveland paid final respects to Garfield with a four mile parade of civic and military groups. London and UK towns observed mourning with bells, crape, half mast flags, and services. Officials, churches, and stores joined in tribute as a vast procession and solemn observances highlighted this national event.
Poem laments broken promises of progress in a village history with references to a post office borough status new cars temperance and local parks. It critiques officials Murphy Ingersoll Lititz Springs and local developments with a refrain you can bet when I said it I lied.
The tobacco trade remains active as Pennsylvania holders push prices, while buyers shift to neglected Connecticut crops now sought with eagerness. Nationwide yields look weak with drought reports. crops in Kentucky and Illinois are below half, Tennessee under two thirds, and overall average around 65 versus 85 last month. Local sales detail multiple acre lots and prices, followed by obit of Mrs. Abram Brubaker and a long list of forthcoming sale bills and properties in Lititz, Rothsville, Maffray, and Warwick.
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