Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, May 15, 1971, Image 19

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church one Sunday and the next
week the other congregation
used it.
They have a pavilion and cook
house, a bandstand and all kinds
of playground equipment. This
year they are building an 8 foot
addition to the cook house, re
doing the bandstand and build
ing more tables.
This project is still financed
with soup sales They nave one
each year in April and one in
October They cleared $540 at
the last one. They make 300
gallons each time and get 80
cents a quart Richard Wanner
and Rube Shelly make the soup
which sells out in four hours
time. People bring containers
to put it in Edna said the best
customer she had bought $l5
worth of soup
The ingredients they use for
300 gallons of soup is 900
pounds of chicken hens and 37
dozen eggs They use 13 eggs
and 12 cups of flour and salt to
make nvels To each 20 gallon
kettle they use 50 pounds of
chicken, 4 gallons of whole
kernel corn, 2 gallons of crush
ed corn, handfuls of salt and a
one dollar box of saffron. They
also sell 110 pies, cakes, whoopy
pies, pumpkin bread, fresh eggs,
gladioli bulbs and pumpkins
All the work at the grove is
donated It is used for reunions,
church services, class meetings,
picnics and is rented out to
other groups besides the
churches.
Mrs. Loose was the daughter
of the late Mr and Mrs George
L. Evans of Buckerville. Till
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15,1971 —
Penryn, but sometimes it has
been held at Looses when
she was 14 years of age, she was weather was bad Only a couple
raised on a 13 acre faim, where dozen attend it now
her mother and two children Edna is a member of the Jcru
did the farming She went to s alem UC C Church at Pen-
Fairview Elementary School r yn, president of her Sunday
and Ephrata High School School class and a member of
Fairview School has a re- the Ladies Guild
union every summer. Originally (Continued on Page 24)
it was held at the school and as
many as 200 attended Later it
was held at the picnic gro' e at
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