' 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 22, 1957 |ancaster i BY JACK REICHARD Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper 50'YEARS ago (1907) Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone STerling 6-2132 Lancaster Phone EXpress 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach Robert E. Best .. Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins.. Subscription Rates; $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 5* Per Copy The will of, Aaron B Stoner, late of Mount .Toy, when admitted to the Register of Wills office in November, 1907, revealed his entire estate was valued at about $15,000 He bequeathed $5,000 to the Lancaster Tiust Co which was to be held in trust for the de- Exposition Was Successful poor of ms notive town 1 The fund was to be known as the NO DOUBT about it The First Pennsylvania Livestock Aal ° n B Stoner Fund for relief v rmHr rmr nnminn of Mount Joys worthy poor Exposition was a success J ’ The ministers in active charge but that also ot the exhibitors, visitors, and many dignitaries of the following churches First who Visited the Exposition Presbyterian, Methodist Episco , Among the visitors was William Ogilvie, manager ot pa i ( united Evangelical, Trinity the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago He told Evangelical, Lutheran, United press representatives, “I’m most impressed by the progress Brethern, Church of God and St Pennsylvania has made m a first time venture " Mary’s Catholic, were to get an He sad the show taaht.es and the phys.cal plant placed Pennsylvania tar above many ot the other b g The remam( j er was g lV en to the held in the nation. Lancaster General Hospital for The editor ot the Polled Heretord World, William the endowment of a room Davidson, was also high in his praise ot the plant and ta cilities He added that the Exposition was the first time that justice Displays wisdom he had ever been in the Farm Show Buildings Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quanyville, Pa., uimer Act of March 3, 1879 However many more comments were heard in Ti monium, Md , as exhibitors and judges slogged through the ram and cold and mud at the Maryland State Fairgrounds where the Eastern National Livestock Exposition is being held They remembered the warm comfortable Farm Show Buildings that most ot them had just left As is true with any first tme trial, there were im provements that can be made. First among these is a better job ot scheduling Ani mals had to be moved out of Harrisburg on Friday to Ti momura This meant that many ot the city people who w anted to see the animals could not because of their work week and hours Another possible improvement—this one again tor the benefit of the town dweller—would be to arrange it so that animals would not be moved to the out-ot-doors tie-out areas until after the evening entertainment started This makes long hours tor the herdsmen, it’s true, but w e do not believe that the request is unreasonable There has been some criticism of the big play that the Polled Herefords received at the Exposition- But re member, this was that organization’s national show and sale It was a big event, and we think that they received no more than they deserved If the Angus national show and sale is brought to the Exposition next year, the blacks will in all probability re ceive just as much of the spotlight as the polled animals did ths year And we probably will hear the same comment on them getting too much attention The hog and sheep show's w ere some of the best that w e’ve seen in a long time This is partly flavored by the fact that many of the blue and purple ribbons came back to Lan caster County However in the swine division, more room is needed if the show' is going to expand to its fullest potential The Faim Show’ directors are naturally hesitant about mov ing swine out to the tiled floor of the mam exhibition hall where the sheep were this year Perhaps temporary struc tures or tents are the answer We also missed the commercial exhibits To us, one of the highlights of an event such as this is seeing some ol the bnght new gadgets that are available to make farming and animal raising easiei, less expensive and more profit able Pei haps the 1958 version of the Exposition will have a few more of these exhibits Exposition officials were impressed with the over whelming leception given by capacity audiences at every peifoimance oi the lodeo Attendance exceded the tondest expectations of the promoteis General chairman of the Exposition, Leon Falk, Jr, and sect etaiy of agi icultuie William L Henning Friday com mended the staff„of Penn State Umveisity, the county agents and otheis who hoiked hard to make the show “click ’ They said that they want to make the 1958 show big gei and better The legislatuie of 1955 appropriated $5?),000 toward the 1957 exposition and the 1957 session provided the same amount for the 1958 show Tile skeletons of a herd ol 11 camels, found in Nebraska claim ed to be 3.000,000 ycais old, were slated to adorn the halls of the Coloiado Museum of Natural His- Ncw Style Endowment lory at Denver Once upon a time a wealthy college alumnus gave his al- NcSa was’a ma mater a gymnasium Now the college furnishes the gym desert of fine, blowing sand and the alumni are expected to provide the personnel tame fiom the strata of sand m Decatur Herald which the fossils were found. farming STAFF Fifty years ago this week a northeast gale swept the Atlantic coastline and wrought havoc in its path The fury of the -wind was accompanied by duving ram, mingled with snow, cutting hail and general disturbance causing destruction on land and sea. One death and a number of Publisher persons injured due to the fury r, of the wird-was reported . Editor Advertising Director Lancaster Countian’s Will Circulation Director Piovided For Town’s Poor Justice of the Peace C H Stov er, of Columbia, Pa, gave a hear ing 50 years' ago this week to Lewis Miller, who was charged by Mrs A. M Sherk, a neighbor, with the larcency of seven chic kens The fowls were claimed by both parties Finding it impos sible to make a decision on the testimony given, the Justice de cided to try out the old adage that “chickens will come home to loost”, which both parties con sented to The next evening, just before dusk, Constable Campbell took the chickens, a rosier and six hens, to a point inidwaj between the propsi ties of Mrs Sherk and Miller After scattering some corn on the ground he freed the chickens When the corn was con sumed, the rooster scratched the eailh and started off pioudly fol lowed by the hens, all headed sliaight toward the home of Mrs Sherk, where the chickens enter ed the hen house Justice Stover, while satisfied that Mrs Sherk was the owner oi the chickens, held the case under advisement * The following irrigated straw berry story appeared in an Idaho newspaper ‘in one year 1906 a Mr White, hung in Boise, had a slrawbeny bed of about a acie and a quarter in extent Fiom June 1 to July 7 he marketed 12,798 boxes, lor which he received $BO7 70 In September he marketed 42 boxes, winch netted him $lO while from the first of October on -the bed pioduced 2,447 boxes from which ho lealized $414 97 This is cci tainly making a living fiom an acie ol ground ’ Back in 1907 President, Theo dore Roosevelt sent a circular let ter to members of his Cabinet in loiming them that employees in their departments were'forbidden to be active in any elicit for his i (.'nomination for President 25 Years Ago This Week- ' Lancaster Farming according to' Director J D Fig gins of the museum Figgms said for many years the camels roamed the sands ana did not travel fast Large herds would leturn for weeks to the same bed of sand at night They would gather close together for rest and protection from night piowlers During this period that a herd slept on the same spot, some of them were bound to die And in such a place the skeletons were found which were brought to Denver for the education of the world Bobbed Hair Banned For Choir Singers Girls and women who sang in the choir at the annual camp meeting of the Kansas State Holiness Assn in 1932, were told they could not have bobbed hair and that they were to diess in modest fashion Women were lequested not to appear on the platform if they had- bobbed hair The religious services outlined were simple prayer meeting at 7 p m , follow ed by song service and preaching The afternoon session followed the same routine Motorists Get Free Gas When Tanker Upset When a large gasoline truck overturned* near Seattle, Wash , Background Scriptural I Corinthians Devotional Readings II Corinthians 9 6-15 Giving? Lesson for November 24, 1957 DREACHERS talk too much *■ about money, some people com plain It is veiy seldom that this complaint has good reason behind it If you don’t like a religion that talks about money a good deal, you’d better hunt up some other religion besides Christianity Read the patables of Jesus and see for youiself what a large numbei of them have to do with money The Chi istian religion is a te hgion of love Now love always involves giving Selfish, tight-fist- ed “love” is a contradiction Ev- Dr. Foreman erybody would agree to that The arguments or the misunderstand ings begin at this point: What is giving? Substitutes for Giving Theie is leally no substitute for giving, but people do try to mn substitutes under that name When time comes for a missionary offei ing, in almost any chuich you can hear some one somly speaking: “Why should we give to people who nevei give to us 9 Why must it all go one way 9” As a mattei of fact, missionary gifts don’t all go one way; but let that pass The objec tion just quoted shows that the ob jector doesn’t want to give, all he wants is exchange But exchange is not giving Heie we aie nearly at Chustmas time, and all aiound us are people who talk about Christmas “gifts” when what they leally mean is a Chustmas ex change Anothei substitute something like this is investment People talk about dividends fiom the mis sion field, they like to feel that by upping then contubution ten dol l.us thej will get a dividend in the shape of one moic soul saved But the woik, the tiue woik of the Chustian chuich, is not like that of a business A lailway can cut olf a tram that is not making mon- ' 25’ years'’ago~{his ’ ‘ ’metor vehicle -operators'"Became the recipients of hundreds of gal lons of free fuel. The truck had to empty its 3,000 gallon contain er before it could be towed out of a ditch. Scores of motorists stood by to receive the gasoline as it was drained out Throughout the Middle West, in the tall of 1932, there was a steady back-to-the-farm trek of young men and women, who, a few years before had sought fame and foitun® in the cities According to Wood Netherland, piesident of the Federal Land, Bank at St Louis, economic con ditions forced young people, who were drawn by the glamor of the city and its high wages, to return to the farm with a sad story to tell the'-home folks Many elderly peisons, who had decided to spend their last years surrounded by the comforts and conveniences of ■ city life, had been shorn of their incomes and also were returning to their form er homes i\ctherland declared the city to-farm movement was the larg est and most far-reaching in the history of ihe Middle West. Farmers m the Pleasant Grove and Fulton Township areas were driving over the newly improved section of an oil bound all-weath er highway extending from the Maryland line to the intersection with U S Route 222, near Wake field, 25 years ago this week. The improved stretch, covering a dis tance of 378 miles, was con structed by local labor under di rection of State Highways De partment engineers at a cost of $18,900 ey; but a church has no right to cut down a missionary’s salary be cause he can’t show as many con versions as the next missionary down the liver An old cripple who can never be cm ed, is just as worthy an object of Christian giving as a cuppled child who can be cured. Prying it Loose Parting with your money isn’t giving it If you aie being held up and aie relieved of your wallet, you don’t take credit for being generous with bandits. If you sit down and wnte the government a laige check about the middle of next April, nobody can be fooled into thinking you aie giving the United States anything; you are meiely paying your tax And may be you wouldn’t even do that if you didn’t know it was a case of pay —or else And yet people in the ehuich will take ciedit for be ing gracious when they are only paiting with money they’d much lather not pait with This is not to say that the church ever- robs any one But sometimes a church will assess its membeis so much a membei It will be known who pays and who doesn’t, so the man pays, but he’s really being held up, he is paying only because ha can’t help it What has to be pried out of a man is newer a gift! True Giving “Let all that you do be done in love,” Paul said This holds for giving as for anything else In 1 Connthians 13 Paul had already said that if a man actually gave away eveiy single thing he owned, even if he pi esented his own body as a sacnflce to be burned on a gieat altai, but did this without love, it would amount to nothing at all The. love of which Paul speaks is not a natural thing, that is to say, without the Spirit of God this love cannot exist Ordinary -love is so difteient from this that the New Testament uses a dif ferent woid foi it Theie is an ocean of difference between “love” that demands some kind of retum, some reward, some dividend, and love that pours Itself out without even asking for return. Such love is a rare sight, you say’ To be sure it is, and that is why true Christian giving is so rare. This is not to say that a church should tun each of its contributors thiough a thud-degree examina tion—“ What was your motive?” — befoie it will accept a cent But eveiy chuich ought to be-working to educate its pbople out of being exchangers, investors, prestjge giabbers, quota-filleis, Lady Boun tiful*, into the joy of giving from puie Chust-like love (Based on outlines < o'prrlffhted br lha Division of Christian Education Na tional Council of the Churches of Christ In the L’ S A Released by Community Press Ser\ice )
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