• I Farm Women Societies Society 4 Meetings for the second quarter of the 1973 season for Society of Farm Women 4 will be held at the home of Mrs. John GARBER OIL CO. TEXACO HEATING OIL BURNER SALES and SERVICE MOUNT JOY, PA. Ph. 653-1821 Gingrich, East Petersburg on April 28 when the Gene Swords family will present a musical program. Mrs. Harold Miller will lead devotions. Mrs. Landis L. Huber will be co-hostess. Small appliances will be demonstrated by Mrs. Ruth Marsh, home economist in the Penn Manor Schools, on May 26 at a meeting held in the home of Mrs. Alvin Musser, Columbia R 2. Mrs. A. R. Sheaffer will be co hostess and Mrs. Charles Newcomer will be in charge of the devotional presentation. Society of Farm Women 19 will be guests of Society 4 at a lun cheon meeting at 12:30 on June 23 at the Mountville Brethren Church. Phyllis T Ballinger will present “For When Dinner Was ;»x*k*:*:*:*:*:*k^^ $ & i Served”, a program on the eating customs of our ancestors. Mrs. Paul Metzger will lead devotions. Summer programs include a family picnic at the Salunga Pavilion on July 28 at 6-30 p.m.; a special activity to be announced for August and a night for the husbands on September 22 at the Harvest Drive Farm Motel and Restaurant, Gordonville R 1 A program by Opera Workshop members will be featured. Richard S King will lead the Invocation A surprise program is planned for 1 -30 p m on October 27 at the home of Mrs. Robert Garber, Hollywood Heights, Columbia R 2 when election of officers for 1974 is set The annual Fall Auction is also planned Mrs. Charles Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3,1973 Newcomer will be co-hostess and Mrs. Richard Wile will lead devotions. Mrs. Elmer Schroll will take members on a “folding chair” tour of Europe during a meeting held November 24 in St Paul’s United Methodist Church, Mountville. Mrs Charles A. Shellenberger and Mrs. D L Shellenberger will be hostesses. Mrs Wilbur Kauffman will be in charge of devotions. The end-of-the-year meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Martin Greider Lancaster R 2 at 12:30on December 29 when a post Christmas party is planned Mrs Robert Garber will plan seasonal devotions. A covered dish lun cheon and a gift exchange will be featured. Society 11 Farm Women Society No 11 held its meeting recently at the home of Mrs. Abram Herr, Kirk wood. Mrs. Freeda Huber, president, presided. Interesting reports were given of the Farm Women Convention held at the Farm Show in Harrisburg. We are so happy to see our Capital City so sparkling clean and repaired after the terrible flood they must have ex perienced And a big thank you to all folks who had a hand in preparing the Farm Show buildings and exhibits Society 26 Farm Women Society No 26 met recently at the home of Mrs Homer Geib, Manheim RDI Co hostess was Mrs Amos Landis Mrs Alvin Herr led the (Continued On Page 28) 25
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