IQ—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 15, 1957
Champion Baby Beef Brings 5.77
Per Pound; Reserve Stays in County
The reserve champion steer at
the Southeast District 4-H Baby
Beef and Lamb Club Roundup
stayed here in the County as S.
J. Hildebrand, Strasburg, paid
53 cents a pound for the Here
ford shown by Dorothy Groff, R 7
Farm Women 10
Plan Philadelphia
Shopping Trip
Farm Women 10 met Saturday
al Salem Reformed Church Rohr
erstown Mrs. Noah Getz was hos
tess.
The Rev Elbert Smith led de
votions. Mrs. Smith sang several
selections and a duet with Mrs
Smith.
Slides of ‘'California m Bloom”
were shown by the Rev. C R.
Heisey, Elizabethtown
Canned fruit and jellies were
brought to this meeting to be
donated to Cnspus Attucks Cent
er
The following contributions
were made $25 to United Drive,
$lO to Muscular Dystrophy; and
$lO to 4-H delegates from Lan
caster County who will attend the
4-H Club Congiess in Chicago.
Two busses are chartered for
Dec. 4 |or a trip to Philadelphia
to see fmerama and to shop at
the latge department stores.
Busses frill leave the terminal at.
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LOW PRICES
American Flyer - Lionel
“027” Track, 15c “O” Track, 20c
Low Prices For Everybody
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Lancaster.
The Grand Champion brought
77 cents a pound and was bought
for Acme Markets by George
McMillan, beef buyer for the
supermarket chain.
The average for the 241 steers
sold was $28.20 a hundredweight,
$1 24 less than a year ago, and
$l2O over the top for prime
cattle at Chicago Thursday.
The steers weighed a total of
242,215 pounds and brought a
total price of $68,312. The aver
age weight per steer was 1,005
pounds.
The top Shorthorn steer,
shown by Terry Petticoffer, R 3
Elizabethtown, brought 35 cents
a pound from Standard Packing
Co, Linden, N J. He was a spe
cial banquet purchase for Diana
Motors, Elizabeth, N J
Only 31 of the steers were
brought by local buyers. Of
these, two were bought by Stock
Yards Inn and one was purchas
ed by Lancaster County National
Bank to be donated to the Red
Rose 4-H Baby Beef Club for its
annual banquet.
Buying the largest number of
steers in the Lancaster area was
Kmzler and Co, Lancaster Pack
m gfirm, with 13 Four steers,
including tha reserve champion,
were purchased by Hildebrand
and Lancaster Packing Co. took
home three.
Kilheffer’s Food Market, Lan-
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THE WINNING PEN OF three lambs at win gave Lebanon County a clean sweep
the Southeastern District 4-H Baby Beef of livestock championships this year Pre
and Lamb Show at the Lancaster Stock viously Lebanon County entries had won
Yards Thursday was owned by William the baby beef and barrow championships-
Hartman, R 2 Lebanon. Young Hartman’s (LF Photo)
caster, bought two as did Da
gen’s Super Market, Willow
Street Single animals were
bought by Richard Hollinger,
Roy Mull and John Plank, all
of Lancaster, and Musser Lock
ers, Buck
Topping the sale purchases
was the Schuderberg Kurdle Co.
Baltimore, with 33 animals for
a total of $9,248 Consolidated
Dressed Beef Co, Philadelphia,
bought 29 and Standard Packing
Co , bought 24.
During the morning proceed
ing the sale, the lamb show was
held Showing the grand Cham
pion pen of three lambs was
William Hartman, 13, son of Mr.
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ANOTHER WEAVE SHOP FIRST!
Weave Shop - Warehouse Carpet Store
and Fri. Evenings, 7 - 9 P. M.; Sat., 9 A. M. - 5 P. M.
Every Week - Day Afternoon, 1 - 5 P. M.
Tues.
Every Week (Saturday AM) a room-size rug will be placed on auction
display in our Warehouse Carpet Store Display Window—you are invited
to inspect the rug and submit your secret bid in the sealed bid-box which
will be opened every Friday evening at 8 P. M. High Bidder will be
notified by phone or mail if not present when bid-box is opened.
HOW TO BID:
Merely print your name, address
and telephone number, and the
amount of your bid on any piece
of paper and deposit in sealed
bid-box.
Every week another rug goes on auction display—we believe it will pay
youto watch our warehouse store window and bid on the rug of your choice
—you may make the best bargain of your life.
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|| Daily Mon thru Sat., 9A.M.-5 P. M. Mon., Tues. & Fri. Evenings, 7to 9 ||
and Mrs Robert Hartman, R 2
Lebanon. His victory gave Leban
on -County a sweep of the grand
championships at Che three day
show, as a Lebanon County girl
took top honors in the steer divi
sion.
And again Lancaster County
had the reserve championship
A Pen of three Hampsihires
shown by Richard 'Toews, 11,
son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Towes,
R 2 Lancaster, filled the runner
up spot.
Champion Chevoits were
shown by Chester Cohick, R 1
Camp Hill
J P. Warfel Inc, Lancaster,
paid young Hartman 30 cents a
WEEKLY RUG AUCTION
Legitimate Auction on NEW RUGS
342 N. Marshall St.. Lancaster
pound for the lambs at the auc
tion sale m the afternoon. They
weighed in at 295 and were pur
chased for Samuel Hippey, Wil
low Street.
The reserve pen, weighing 400
pounds, brought $27 50 a hund
red and went to Consolidated
Five Chevoits offered by Cohick
brought the same price at the
same weight
Average for the 32 lambs sold
was $27 72. SI 46 above last year.
In the baby beef sale, the
bidding bogged down after the
champions were sold, and only
after much chiding and work on
the part of auctioneer Abram
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! WHEN TO BID
Any time convenient store
need not be open—drive by, see
rug in window and drop your
secret bid thru mail slot on front
door it will fall into sealed
bid-box.
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