—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 2.1970
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Kirks Mills’ Flying Farmers
Mrs. Harry Wilson selects anthems for her church choirs before Wednesday even
ing rehearsals.
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a full set of pedals and an old
fashioned square piano and
Stacks of music.
The Wilsons’ faim home was
built in 1814 by Thomas Furmss.
He was a large land owner and
had a son, Gardner, to whom he
gave a large grant of land in
Township, near and around
Fairfield Their present acreage
consists also of the Whitson
farm, Kirk Brown farm, Edith
Conrad farm and two fields of
the Pennell farm. They named
this farm “Brookside Farm” for
Mr. Wilson’s home farm in Val
ley Forge.
He was born on that farm
which was Lafayette’s headquar
ters in the Revolutionary War
His grandfather left that farm to
the University of Pennsylvania
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Wilsons have lived on Brookside drive-m window which makes it
Farm for 14 or 15 years very convenient for their custo
,, , . „ . „„ mers to pick up milk.
Mr Wilson keeps 75 to 80 e v
milking cows. He has a mixed Mr. ajid Mrs. Wilson woik at
herd but largely Holstems They the store part time, jugging and
have one hired man and the processing the milk, and have
children help with barn work two girls who work for them,
and milking and Mrs. Wilson They handle some other dairy
helps in the fields. products such as cheese and
.. .. „ „,, . buttermilk, meats, bread, pota-
They seil practically all their toeS| potat o chips> etc . Mrs. Wd
-4h^ U | h eir , k Ug son assists her husband with
. , . 8 Mil j c Barn at 0x " their store and farm accounts
ford Any surplus is sold to a
cheese factory. They have their This jug store is just a short
own processing plant where they hop from their farm in their
pasteurize and homogenize the Cherokee Piper plaijie which
milk It is sold in gallon and they keep at the Oxford Airport
half gallon jugs They have a and have a landing strip on
their farm. They bought this in
1965 and both Mr. and Mrs. Wil
son arc licensed pilots. Their
son, Henry Ritter 111 (Corky)
has started training to pilot it
and their daughter, Judy, is
interested in piloting.
Mr and Mrs Wilson joined
the Flying Farmers in 1964 and
Mrs Wilson was chosen as Penn
sylvania Flying Farmers queen
in the summer of 1965. Two
weeks latei she was ci owned In
tel national Flying Farmers
Queen at Omaha, Nebraska This
kept her busv that year travel
ing 40.000 miles in their Chero
kee plane and they were gone
fiom home 134 days She visited
30 chapteis, 25 of which weie
official visits wheie she spoke
They took each of the children
to some of these meetings and
had Judy and Roxy along for
the last thiee weeks
Ruth sajs bemg IFF queen
is mostly just plain hard woik,
wilting speeches and a column
in their national magazine each
month plus encouraging wives
of members to learn to pilot. The
first runner-up in the I.F F
queen contest is called a Duch
ess. She also encourages wives
first to land a plane then to
learn to pilot it. The present
queen is from Arizona and the
Duchess is from Ontario.
Among Ruth’s souvenirs is a
silver bowl from the Pennsyl
vania chapter for - being -I.F.F.
queen, beautiful pins for chap
ter queen and-1 F.F. queen fur
nished -by the Cesna Plane Co.
of Wichita, Kansas, her tiara for
chapter queen, a typewriter for
I F.F. queen and a trophy from
Mr. Piper of the Airplane Co. at
Williamsport for people who get
a license. She received this in
1966. She also received cash
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736 E. Chestnut St., Lancaster
SPECIAL VALUES
OUTDOOR CLEAN-UP PLASTIC BAGS
3 Bushel Capacity 10 for 80c
5 Bushel Capacity 6 for 80c
7 Bushel Capacity 4 for 80c
BASEBALL SHOES $5.45 n*
With Metal Cleats
BOYS’ WITH RUBBER CLEATS $4.40 Pair
LADIES’ LEATHER
LOAFERS
Dark or Light Colors Pair
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL
INFANTS COTTON CARDIGAN
SWEATERS Each
Size 6 Months to 3 Years
CLOSED ASCENSION DAY MAY 7th
Clothing, Shoes, Housewares, Hardware and
GOOD'S STORE
1 mile North of Route 23 Along Route 625
R' D. 1, East Earl, Penna. Ph. 215-445-6156
awards. The I.F.F. tiara passes
from queen to queen.
Mr. Wilson has lust been ap
pointed Legislative Agent for
I.F.F. As such he will fly to
Washington as necessary to try
to secure legislation to benefit
private plane owners and farm
ers and will write a column in
the I.F.F. magazine each month.
They have a membership of
around 9000 in I F.F. It is the
second largest to Aircraft Own
ers and Pilots Association. I.F.F.
will meet this year at Ames,
lowa, next yeai at Alberta, Can
ada and the following year in
Pennsylvania.
Wilsons started farming on
Pomona Hill Farm at West
Chester, then were on a farm at
King of Piussia Harry was in
training with an oil company
awhile He used to belong to the
Toastmasters Club in Lancaster.
Mr and Mrs Wilson’s oldest
daughtei, Dana, graduated from
Solanco High School in 1965 and
is a ’69 graduate of Messiah Col
lege, Grantham, having taken
her senior year at Temple Uni
versity satellite campus in Phil
adelphia She is an English ma
jor doing student teaching at
Newark High School this sem
ester while attending the Uni
versity of Delaware and will
teach school this fall. She has
no inclination for flying.
Beverly graduated fromi So
lanco and does office work in
Lancaster. Henry 111 is a fresh
man at Shippensburg State Col
lege" in Business Administration.
He is in their brass choir and
concert band.
Judy, 15, is a Solanco fresh
man and loves horses. She has
a half Arabian horse and a pony.
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