—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 21, 1972
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Experience with Farm Records Handy for County Farm Women Treasurer
By Mrs. Charles McSparran
Farm Feature Writer
Mrs. J. Clayton (Dorothy)
Charles. Lancaster RD2, who is
finishing a two-year term as
treasurer of the Society of Farm
Women of Lancaster County says
“I’ve enjoyed the work. I love to
work with figures.” As county
treasurer she keeps the books,
prepares the treasurer’s written
report for the annual county
convention, collects county dues,
collects for the scholarship fund
and the migrant workers fund
and miscellaneous functions.
The county project this year is
the Lancaster Association for
Retarded Children. Their con
tribution will amount to well over
$l,OOO this year. Last year their
project was the Child Develop
ment Center.
She represented the county
Farm Women at the Fulton
County annual convention this
year and attended the meetings
of at least 12 or 15 different local
Societies since she was treasurer.
She visited sone of the Societies
more than once. She attended the
county board bi-monthly
meetings and was hostess for the
April meeting this year. The
county convention will be held
November 4 at the Lancaster
School of the Bible.
Mrs. Charles joined Farm
Women Society 23 about 11 years
ago and has been a very active
member ever since. She served
two years as their president and
has been on the ,ways and means
Mrs. J. Clayton Charles, Lancaster RD2, is preparing for
her treasurer’s annual report at the’Lancaster County Farm
Women’s convention.
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committee this year. This
committee has food stands at
farm and household sales and
sells vanilla and dish cloths.
Mrs. Charles was hostess for
the Society’s annual family
picnic this year when 60 people
attended. They also had a
business meeting and Earl Groff
showed pictures he took in
Russia. Society 23 selected
Dorothy as Farm Woman of the
Year and she will compete with
representatives from other local
societies at the convention
November 4. The county winner
will go on to the state contest.
Farm Society 23 has 21
members and they meet in the
homes of the members. They
support a Korean orphan through
the Christian Children’s Fund.
They provide treat money for
some children at Hamburg State
School. They buy birthday and
Christmas gifts for two children
there. They support the County
Farm Women projects. Their
main project is supporting needy
people in their local area.
The Charles’ own and operate a
65 acre farm, 50 acres tillable
ground, on Habecker Church
Road in Manor Township. They
keep 83 head of Holsteins, most of
which are registered. Forty-five
of these are milking and the rest
are heifers. They usually have
close to 550 pounds fat average
and one year their average was
569 in DHIA testing. Their prefix
for their herd is Carlos Villa.
J. Clayton is the fourth
generation to own and farm this
place. After graduating from
high school he took one year at
Millersville State College and
intended to go on to Penn State to
be an Ag teacher but conditions
at home made it feasible to help
there. After his father’s death he
bought the farm and has operated
it for 13 years.
They do not have regular hired
help Mrs. Charles helps at the
barn mornings and evenings. If
they need extra help for some
special jobs or to take over when
they are away Clayton’s brother
helps. By using a bale thrower
and a conveyor Clayton can do
the baling alone. He raises corn
for silage and alfalfa, then buys a
grain ration in a pelleted form for
his herd. He has a free stall, bunk
feeder set-up and a pipeline from
a milking parlor to the bulk tank.
They have three milker units and
can milk nine cows at a time.
Inter-State buys their milk and it
is shipped to Penn Dairies.
Clayton is a member of the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, the Holstein-
Friesian Association of America,
Inter-State Milk Producers Co-op
and Manor Young Farmers.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles have two
sons. John is 11 and is in sixth
grade at Millersville Middle
School. Tommy is nine and in
third grade at Hambright
Elementary School. Both boys
are taking piano lessons. They
had a flower garden this summer
and helped to work in the yard.
They feed the calves. They like
sports as does their dad. John has
a postage stamp collection. John
is the Fourth generation to have
the name John Clayton.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles are
members of the East Chestnut
Street Mennonite Church in
Lancaster. Clayton is church
treasurer. Dorothy is director of
the Children’s Department of the
Sunday School. They are plan
ning their Christmas program
now and will also give it at Water
Street Rescue Mission. She
taught fifth grade at Bible School
at their church this past summer.
She is also secretary of the
Evangelism committee. They
have services at Water Street
Rescue Mission the second
Wednesday night of every month.
They plan programs for any out
reach program. They had a
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fellowship supper this summer at
Charles’ when about 40 men from
Water Street Mission and about
70 church people attended. They
brought the men from the
mission there by bus. These men
mingled with the church people
and needless to say they enjoyed
the home cooked bounteous meal.
This committee is promoting
book rack evangelism by putting
tract holders in a couple stores in
their church area. They keep the
racks filled with good literature.
They take no profit from the
sales. The storekeeper gets the
profit.
Mrs. Charles is a member of
the Women’s Fellowship of the
church. Their main concern is
sewing but the church men have
been repairing condemned
homes in the southern part of
Lancaster City so they can be
lived in and the Women’s
Fellowship cleaned one house
after the men had repaired it.
These women also have a
mother-daughter banquet once a
year and have a program,
usually on a missionary line.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles are
members of the Hambright PTA.
They formerly belonged to Ann
LeTort Elementary PTA.
Clayton served as president and
Dorothy was on the hospitality
committee.
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