■Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 19,1970 22 Former Farm Wife Sells Christmas Trees for 12 Years “0 Christmas tree, 0 Christmas tree, 0 evergreen unchanging, A symbol of good will and love.” , , ~ „ Mrs Lefever has sold Chnst- By Mrs. Charles McSparraii mas trees for about 12 years Farm Feature Writer she buys all her trees from a This German caiol fills the loc ?l grower and they aie cut air just now The Chnstmas ar - d brought light in to her tree has been celebrated in song She sa y s '■be price is about the and legend since the time of its same aa las^, 0 y _ e ; f 1 ' pnc f® first adoption as a Christmas range from $2 75 to 54 50, with symbol in the days of Luthei a f * w small ° nes SZ o 0 M f os cf them are foui feet to six feet To one lady in Lancaster Coun- but she has some seven or eight ty it means jostling four to feet tall. eight feet Christmas trees from she has them at her home, place to place so each customer in the downtown section of town might select the tree best suit- There is just a path through «d to his or her fancy the middle of the trees in her She is Mis Lloyd (Lauia) Le- back yard and they are lined up fever of 120 E State Street, along the side of her house and Quarryville She has the Scotch in the front She also has oodles pine, Austrian pine, White of branches for decorating Also spruce and a sampling of White Wiley Howett handles some for pine for a few customers who her at the bus station downtown prefer them wheie he sells candy, soft This year the White pines aie d *’ mks > cigarettes, cigars, etc. not as rich a green as the other used to make spiays but varieties she has she sa y s - ‘ !t was to ° much for By and large evergreen trees me t 0 d 0 are exceptionally green and ex- She recommends cutting a tra thick this year due to abun- little off the base of the Chnst dant rams all year mas trees and putting them in She does not stock blue water immediately to keep them spruce and Douglas fir as they fresh are too expensive for most of Mrs Lefever, the daughter of her customeis They are slow the late Mr and Mrs. Jacob growers which necessarily makes Lmdecamp, Unicom, grew up them cost more to produce Mrs on the farm and her husband Lefever, herself, prefers the and she farmed for Clarence long needled Austrian pine Girvin, Abram Herr and Mrs However, the Scotch pine is the Emma Stively, Coleram Town biggest seller. ship Laura worked outside as Mrs. Lefever is seated beside one of her china closets of dishes and little knickknacks. OPEN I EVERY NIGHT I I 8 I « I I I " * i I CLOSE DEC. 24 AT 5 P.M. LATE SHOPPERS i SEE US FOR YOUR GIFTS. I HOME APPLIANCES I I Carl & Parke Groff | r 149 E. Franklin St, New Holland, Pa. i B I Mrs. Laura L. Lefever, Quarryville, Christmas trees. A few of her Scotch pines exhibits one of her beautiful white spruce can be seen in the background. Le'evers moved to Farß Ave much as in the house She always had chickens and a gar den and did lots of canning nue, Quairyville, and resided there for 32 years She said, “I missed my chickens when I moved to Quarryville.” After leaving the farm Mr. Lefever ran a milk route for 15 or 16 years, gathering up milk from farms and delivering it to Penn Dairies in Lancaster Later ho worKed for the fertilizer plant and at Stoners Inc Co in Quarryville and at Armstrong Cork Co, in Lancaster He also was in the junk business Mrs. Lefever has two sons, Donald and John, both living in Quarryville She belongs to Wesley United Methodist Church of the Mount Hope Cucuit. She was formerly moie active than now and served as president of the Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service, taught a Sunday School class of nine and ten year old girls and for eight years was in charge of their Children’s Day and Christmas programs She has been a member of the Quarryville Fire Company Aux iliary and donated and helped at some of their suppers. She also was a former member of the Quarryville American Legion Auxiliary. One of her favorite past-times is attending auction sales. Through the yeais she accumu lated many antique dishes and pieces of furniture, also little china dogs. She had a sale of some of her furniture and china last fall. She "has a black poodle-colhe dog which keeps her well enter tained and beneath her Austrian pine Christmas tree is a stock ing filled with goodies for Tink er Mrs Lefever has a number of house plants, including African violets, Thanksgiving cactus, Amaiylhs lilies and geraniums Other years she grew zinnias, marigolds, scarlet sage, asteis and snapdragons which she exhibited at the Southern Lan caster Co Communtiy Fair She also exhibited yellow tomatoes, ihubarb, baked goods and fancy work. Her fancy work includes crocheted doilies and edgings, embroidered scarves and some tatting She has collected 150 prize ribbons since the fair or ganized in 1950 A couple of Mrs Lefevers favorite recipes are rhubarb custard pie and a sponge cake which won prizes at the fair. SPONGE CAKE 5 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 cup flour 1 scant teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon lemon extract Separate eggs andvbeafey£o|9& beaten yolks- into beaten egg whites. Fold sugar in. Fold in flour and baking powder. Add flavoring. Bake in a slow oven (about 300 degrees) for one hour. RHUBARB CUSTARD PIE 1 cup cut-up raw rhubarb (piled up) Scald rhubarb and let drain while you prepare the following ingredients -2 beaten eggs , 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons flour Mix flour and sugar, add beat en eggs, then melted butter. Stir rhubarb in last. Pour into unbaked crust. Bake at 450 de grees for 15 minutes and lower temperature-to 325 degrees un til custard is set. Makes a B inch pie.
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