—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 16,1971
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Mrs. James Garber Active Mount Joy Housewife
By Mrs. Charles G. McSparran Mr. and Mrs. Garber have five
children Julie is in ninth grade
Mrs. James M. (Martha) Gar- at Manheim Junior High School,
Iber, Mount Joy RD2, wife of a taking a college prep course,
beef cattle feeder and mother s tie helps her mother and also
of five active children finds Mrs Wayne Miller, who runs a
time not only for community gues t farm, with housework,
activities but also puts her j u jj e collects old handbags and
creative talents to use by en en j oys knitting She knitted a
gaging in many arts and crafts scarf and beret and a dirndl
" The Garbers bought their 132 skirt with her mother’s help
acre farm ten years ago but lost She has had Hereford steers in
ten acres to the state when the Red Rose Baby Beef and
route 283 by-passed Mount Joy Lamb Club for two years and
They have also been farming has been in the Mount Joy 4-H
140 to 150 acres of nearby farms Sewing Club three years She
where they grow largely corn expects to be in both clubs this
■and hay They buy Holstein year also
bull calves and keep them until Phillip is twelve and is in the
they weigh 1200 to 1400 pounds seV enth grade at Manheim
then sell them to Baums, Ehz- j um or High School He had a
abethtown, who make bologna Hereford steer in the 4-H club
They have 40 bulls at the pres f as t year and plans to have an
ent time, also 150 to 200 Angus other one this year He takes
and Hereford steers They gu i ta r lessons
finish about 300 steers a year Beverly, eleven, is in fifth
Mr. Garber also sells Weaver g rad e at Elm Tree Elementary
Star silos They are of poured school and enjoys writing
concrete He was at their booth s t o nes She was in the 4-H sew
all this week at the Pennsyl mg c lub last year and served
vama Farm Show as president She expects to be
James is the son of Mr and ln second year sewing this year.
Mrs. Monroe Garber of Mount She takes piano lessons She
Joy and Martha is the daughter hkes to help her mother with
of Mrs. Menno (Florence) Sau household choies
der, Lititz, and the late Roy Roger is six and enrolled in
Stauffer, Lititz, who originated Elm Tiee kindergarten He
the business known as Stauffer’s helps entertain his one year old
of Kissel Hill Stauffers opened sister Melissa
their first roadside stand at the Mr and Mrs Garber are mem- iv/r V( . Oarher shows two
Kissel Hill location about 30 bers of the Pennsylvania Farm- d under beveled glass
years ago Prior to coming there e rs Association and Mr. Garber seeas ’ unaer oeveiea glass.
Mr. and Mrs Stauffer lived on was serving on the membership
a nearby farm. There were this month. -He was vice- and helps with Parent Teachers
twelve children in the family, president of PFA for five years. Organization of which Mr. Gar
six of the family are in the Mrs Garber is on their flower her is president,
business and three are on committee and as such makes Martha is vice-president of
farms. There were two sets of flower arrangements for their Farm Women Society 27 and
twins, Mrs. Garber being a twin convention and banquets. The has served on various commit
sister of Mrs Arthur (Mary) committee functions about three tees.
Sweigart, Mount Joy RDI, Mrs. time s a year. Mr. and Mrs. Gar- she was a helper last year for
Garber helps her family at busy ber served on the host commit- the Mount Joy 4-H Sewing Club
seasons and loves to do it. The tee at the PFA convention No- and served three years as a lead-
Stauffers now have three loca ve mber 8-11 at the Penn Harris er f or the club She helued in
tions Besides the original one, Motor i nn , Camp Hill, serving second year se wing. Last year
they have one on route 222, one Pennsylvania foods to the dele- they had twelve gir i s ln sec ond
Bide north of the Lancaster gates aild gues ts. . ; , year sewing and 30 the year be-
Shopping Center, and one m Mrs. Garber is room mother fore . Mrs John Nissley is the
Rohrerstow.i. f or Roger’s kindergarten class leader for'the whole Mount Joy
4-H Club sewing group.
Mrs James Garber holds a kissing ball she made with
hundreds of hemlock cones and decorated with teal blue
ribbon. On the bathroom wall, in the background, are
plaques made from corn planter discs. She is wearing a
raspberry dress she knit.
Mr. Garber is serving on an
advisory board for the National
Central Bank.
‘Garbers are members of Boss
ier Mennonite Church, between
Mount Joy and Elizabethtown,
where Mr Garber is a trustee
and assistant superintendent of
the Sunday School
A project of the family each
year is raising sugar peas. Last
year they planted 25 pounds of
seed and they didn’t have a large
crop but the year before they
planted fifty pounds of seed and
produced 200 bushels of sugar
peas They sold them through
Thomases’ roadside market on
route 230 and local stores, also
through Stauffeis at Kissel Hill
This is quite a job to stake and
tie them up and to pick them
Each year they have a nice
garden and have some extra
corn, string and lima beans to
sell Mrs. Garber does some
canning and a lot of freezing
of the vegetables
This may all sound like a lot
of work but James and his
father recently panelled their
basement and they have a pool
table in there for relaxation
Jim also enjoys plajmg golf and
hunting. He is a member of a
nine-man hunting club
Mrs Garber does her own
papering and painting and does
her own interior decorating
Their large farm house is about
200 years old and she has re
tained many of the beautiful
old features yet modernized the
kitchen and bathroom and
decorated the other rooms with
interesting and decorative color
schemes and wall treatments.
Added to this in every room are
pictures she made from dried flowers and sprayed weed
various kinds of decorations she fastened them on jar lids with
has made Quick-set, then sprayed' the
She makes' Arrangements from whole with gold paint. "Again
dried flowers, weeds and grass* using Quick-set she fastenetkfour
es, milk weed pods, pine cones, °* them on the ,
nuts, .gourds, .artificial as well above the other, placed ia ’gold
as fresh flowers arid artificial medallion at the bottom, turned
f rU it. , . bottom corners of the ribbon up
- to form a V end and used^JUjold
biie puts into use old discard- r~ . „„ ~
ed household items and parts tasse 011 } h * V
ol .farm machinery. Probably was turned down an inch or so
one of the most unusual decora- a " d a J°' d a
tions may be found in the f dge ; a httf
strangest location 'id thlir home * 6
but the effect -.is sailing and hangmg is complete. She made
most attractive. Their bathroom two of the f and h , aaone
has been remodelled with beau- ing 011 each sld sL of the * r I ' vlng
tiful dark wood cabinets and room archway. You can go from
moss green tile and ’ fixtures. room to room in Garbers home,
With this Martha used a green “d spot one unusual arrange
striped wallpaper. The unusual ment after another which Mm
decoration is made from three tha has f mad *' als °
discarded corn planter discs orders for and sells aU kinds o£
sprayed with dusty rose paint, anan gements
then a piece of moss green rib- Mrs Garber started with a
bon woven around the open glass lemon reamer, fastened
spokes and an artificial cat and some old glass jars and sherbets
kitten (a flower) sprayed green, on top and covered the whole
fastened in the center. These with papier-mache then sprayed
aie hung, one above the other the whole thing with a dull blue
Another unusual arrangement P aiQ t and antiqued it. These are
13 made from a yard long piece used as candleholders.
of about a six inch wide dark Martha took a course at
green striped ribbon She used Stauffers to learn to make dried
dried weeds and floweis and (Continued on Page 24)