Second Poultry Meeting Planned
“Market Stability and Pro-the use of computers, will in- faimers become more efficient
ducer _ Responsibility in the terest poultrymen, Irwin said, operators and to plan for future
Broiler Industry” will be the Two farm management meet- developments in their enter
topic of the second poultry in gs have been scheduled to help Pnses
education meeting at 730 p m. „ , x
Thursday, February 25 at the Tke first meeting has been
Farm and Home Center. Deon Asauith Honored for 7 '3OP- m - March 4at the
iseun F arm an d Home Center. George ,
Dr. Anthony Stemberger, n .»f Kwr Morgan, Lancaster attorney, will' :
Penn State poultry specialist, -/Vp FraitTtJ speak on “ Le S al Problems with
will speak on producer respon- entomology at the Fruit Re- g states and Taxes.” The m ■■■ - _ _
sibility and Dr. Filmore Ben- ®®^ a \ ta f e b universitv Arendt* speaker will also discuss' death Caym ailfl Hoillf* SfitS Allftlflll Snip
der, University of Maryland State* and gift taxes, why estate plan- 1101116 JOIS MUCUOII 3916
agricultural economics profes- Vllle > received tne inira annual imnortant and why
sor, will speak on market outstanding leadership awaid “ should bother with The Farm and Home Found ‘ donated to the Farm and Homo
stability. recently from the State Horti- „ ation has scheduled an auction Foundation All contributions
. cultural Association of Pennsyl- sale foi next week to raise are deductible for income tax
The meeting is the second of V ania. , money to pay off outstanding purposes
Lancastei County Poultry Asso- ll2th annual
’Marcels and £ ebt t s ° n the Farm and Home Auctioneers, who will donate
ciation and the Agricultural Ex- Center will feature Fied Ce _ n ‘ er ' . t ... . f services, are- J Everett
tension Service meeting in Yoik. Hughes, head of the Penn State The market Js scheduled to Kreider. Quarryville RDI, Carl
The award honors an indivi farm management department start at 10 am - Thursday. (Feb Diller, Lancaster; Clyde Wolge-
In urging attendance, Jay W. dual making the greatest con on the subject “Farm Transfei and continue all day at muth, Manheim RD2
Irwin, associate Lancaster Coun tribution to the fruit industry. Arrangements” with information Root ’ s Country Market and Auc- Besides the auctioneers, in
ty agricultural agent, said the p ro fessor Asquith was cited fol cor , eei , nincr nartnershins tlon 3 ust Route 72 between terested persons can make con
meeting should be especially in his accomplishments m develop- ° P , p ’ r Manheim and East Petersburg, signments with the following:
terestmg to broiler producers ing and adapting effective in- tracts > corporations, tax advan Items to be sold
covers “anv- Paul Cope, New Providence;
He also encouraged egg pro se cticides in relation to ecologi- ta S es - and installment sales thing under the sun” including Forney Longenecker. Lititz RD3,
ducers and persons interested in ca ] concerns. Jav w - - , . T farm machinery, household and Abe Root. Root’s Country
pu et re ng to t nd. He current jy developing an r . r . nJrii-nit.irni oa items , furniture, tools, equip- Market and Auction, Manheim
The experience, knowledge and integrated control program ‘ a ° cu tura a ° ent > ment, hay, grain and straw. RDI.
research of the speakers, as well using natural predators and re- urged farmer s to mark their All ltems may be sold on the Facilities for the sale are te
as their studies and seasonal deduced insecticides to keep down calendars now and invite friends usua i commission basis All or ing contributed by Root’s Coun
mands in broiler markets and mite populations on fruit trees, to attend with them. part of the proceeds may be trv Maiket and Auction.
Mrs. Dohner of Rapho Township Likes to Make Things
By Mrs. Charles McSparran of material but can hardly find
Farm Feature Writer rime to sew for herself
Talented, generous, industri- rs Dohner makes her own
ous and hospitable are a few P d tterns an d m order to use
terms we might use to describe sm „ P ieces °f material she
Mrs, Walter Dohner, better usua “J r has to piece the gar
known to her friends as Mamie, men *- s She is quite a genius at
who lives on Cider Press Road camouflaging the seams with
in Rapho Township biaids, laces, ribbons, bindings
Mrs Dohner spends every Md A nsertlons ..
spare moment sewing and raak- She has one 100 m upstairs in
ing articles to sell and gives her house that no one gets to
every penny to her church mis- see because it has so much
sionary budget. It amounts to material and odds and ends of
around $4OO a year and her various kinds Anyone who does
articles are very reasonably even a small amount of sewing
priced knows how necessary it is to
She burns plenty of midnight a place that ca ” be shut
oil doing this work. She gets * rom the rest of the house
all the materials given to her s^ole supplies,
because she gives all the pro- Mrs Dohner sets up a table
ceeds to missions. a nd sells the things she makes
What does she make? Chil- at th eir church picnics and
drens dresses, skirts and blouses, many people go to her home to
womens and children’s robes, bu y them Mr and Mrs Dohner
gowns and bed jackets, crib are members of Ruhl’s United
blankets, covers for electric Methodist Chuich, foimerly
toasters, mixers, can openers buhl’s EU B Church, which
and for tissue boxes, pot holders, bas around 500 members
§prons, pin cushions, neck rests, Mrs. Dohner belongs to their
hassocks, padded garment hang- Missionary Society and is serv
ers.,- bags for clothes pins and mg as vice president. The Mis
for nylons that look like dresses sionary Society gives $1,500 a
of • undergarments, stuffed year to help support a man
snakes and hobby horses. and his wife who are .mission
--These-garments and articles aries. In their monthly meet
are not just thrown together, but ings they tear sheets -and roll
ate well made, and are- made of them into bandages The society
perma pressed materials, 'qußt- Campbelltown: “Rest Awhile
ed nylon; brushed nylon, nylon Home” and the Lititz United
tricot, acetate, batiste etc. They Methodist Home. They also put »/r rv u - u c u i • .• , ~
are most attractive. programs on at the Old Dunkard . Mrs- Dohner shows a few hassocks, pm cushions and pot holders she made. The small
The also makes her own Home near Mastersonville. P in cushions are nice for favors,
clothes. She says she has stacks Mrs. Dohner taught a class
of young women in the Sunday angels on it but he never erect- there ever since. They har®
School for 16 years. ed it as it burned in their barn sold t>ff a lot'to their son wher®
Mamie, the daughter of the fire. - he built his home,
late Henry and Anna Shearer, When he retired from the Mr. Shearer was a waterfmdef
was born and raised on a 65 farm, he bought the property oi renown
acre farm in Rapho Township, where Dohners now live. The ...
There were 11 children in the fence and gate posts are still in Atter “is death it became
family but all except she and front of their house, as is a very necessary to dig another well on
three brothers died as young unusual and intricate hand eir P ro Per as a blast of
children. She was the only girl carved red sandstone archway ,? nai ?. u f ruin fh their well So
and the youngest of the family, leading from the highway to p r ®- Dormer decided to try her
They kept cows, chickens and their house. It has an angel face luclc wa t ef f in dmg
pigs. She took care of the pigs at the top, flowers and birds Evidently, she indented her
and recalls how she loved to on the sides and an urn of father’s ability to do this and
crawl into the pens with the flowers in the center. The posts has located underground water
little pigs They raised their beneath it are also hand carved, sti earns for many people. She
own shoats and fattened about He said he had a dream in which can even tell how far under
-20 hogs a year he saw the tombstone and the' ground the stream is flowing by
Mr. Shearer was also a stone archway and that’s where he suspending a button over a half
mason. He cut and laid stones, got the idea. glass of water, first letting the
mostly for barn forebays. He Mr and Mrs Dohner lived button dip into the watei. The
also carved red sandstone and with her parents after they were button swings back and forth
' made stone fence and g'ate posts, married but her parents didn’t from one side of the glass to the
’ Mrs. Mamie Dohner dries apple snitz on her coal ranges 'i,He carved a tombstone for his live very dong. Afterward, they other and by counting the strok
and.sells .them, , . children’s graves with eight bought the nilace and have lived (.Continued on Page 30)
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