Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, September 01, 1973, Image 23

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program of entertainment.
Wednesday at 1 p.m. there will be
a swine show and 5:30 to 8 p.m. a
pet show. This is for school age
children. Blanks to enter it are
given out at school. The baby beef
show is scheduled'from 7 p.m.
From 8 to 8:30 p.m. Lampeter-
Strasburg Elementary Band will
play. There will be a little pig
race from 8:30 to 8:45 p.m. From
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THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO MARKET
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Support The Lancaster Co. Swine Producers
Annual Banquet
then till 10,p.m. lawn and garden
tractor pulls are scheduled.
Thursday the schedule of
events includes dairy cattle
judging at 1 p.m. and the baby
parade from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
unless it rains and then it will be
held Friday at 10 a.m. It is
handled by the Willow Street
Women’s Club. They take care of
entries before the fair. Money
prizes are provided for it and the
Blue Ball Fire Hall
Blue Ball
March 23-6:30 P.M.
411 W. ROSEVILLE RD.,
LANCASTER
PH. 393-3921
pet show by the fair association.
A talent contest will be held
between 7:30 and 8 p.m. Martin
Mylin Junior High School Band
will perform from 8 to 8:30 p.m.
The Fair Queen contest will be
held 8:30 to 9:15 p.m. There will
be a girl from each class at
Lampeter-Strasburg High School
competing, eliminations having
been held previously at school.
The livestock parade will be held
from 9:15 to 9:45 p.m.
Friday the ever-popular All
Western Horse Show will be held
from 2 to 4 p.m. It is handled by a
separate committee and the
people who participate are
mostly local people. A calf roping
contest will take place at 6:30
p.m. The FFA fat hog con
signment sale set for 8 p.m. could
very well be the highlight of the
Fair this year.
Handiwork and baked goods
exhibits are located on the first
floor of the Community Building
and flowers in the basement. The
Community Building will be
demolished by next year and the
assoc ation will use the fire hall, i
Art, some farm crops, fruit, nuts
and canned goods are in the office
building. There are two com
mercial tents and the animals,
fresh vegetables and eggs are in
tents.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews are both
fair directors and serve on the
summer activity committee. The
family picnic was held August 9
on the fair grounds. It consisted
of a covered dish meal, games for
the children and a short business
meeting. It is a fellowship affair
held each year.
Fair workers find little time to
get exhibits ready for the fair but
Mrs. Donnelly plans to exhibit a
knitted sweater, an afghan and
some canned goods.
Dottie Donnelly and Edith
Andrews are both active women
in their community. Both are
members of Lampeter Fire
Company Auxiliary and Dotty is
Chaplain. Her husband helps the
fire company with their ac
tivities. The auxiliary meets once
a month. They help at two
festivals, serve food for two dog
shows, serve breakfast, sand
wiches, home-made pies and
cakes for the lunch Mother’s Day
and Labor Day Sunday, serve
refreshments for two shooting
matches and have food stands at
a couple sales a year. In the
spring they had a soup sale when
they sold chicken com soup by
the quart, pies and cakes and
they also had a garage sale.
Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly live m
Willow Street and have a 19
month old daughter, Jan Lynette.
John works at Alcoa in Lancaster
and is treasurer of their credit»
union. Dotty, who was a com
mercial student before she
graduated from Lampeter-
Strasburg High School, does his
bookkeeping. There are 300 in
their credit union. It is a savings
and loan union for Alcoa’s em
ployes. This is old stuff for Dotty
after working 10 years for Raub
Credit Corporation when she
worked in Raub Supply office.
Donnellys belong to First
Church of God, Charlotte and
Chestnut Streets, Lancaster,
where Dotty plays the piano for
Sunday School, helps in the
church nursery, is a member of
the Women’s Society of Christian
Service and is secretary of her
Sunday School class. John is one
of the secretaries of his Sunday
School class also.
John is a member of Southern
Lancaster County Sportsman
Association. He and a friend have
a hunting cabin in Franklin
County where they hunt deer and
turkeys and the family enjoys
going there in the summer. He
also loves to hunt small game,
has a Labrador Retriever dog
which he uses to hunt ducks and
he fishes a lot. He practices
taxidermy as a hobby, having
mounted several ducks and
animals for himself and a few for
a friend.
Dorothy is an expert seam
stress, having taken summer
courses for two or three years at
Singers. She does a lot of sewing
such as making dresses, suits and
made all the drapes for their
house. Sewing is one of her three
hobbies. Another one is knitting.
She has knitted since she was in
school. - She has made many
beautiful sweaters, some of
which she used as gifts, and has
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LEBANON
PH. 273-4506
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 1,1973
made six or eight afghans.
Her third hobby is gardening
She'' has a garden with her
parents. They just planted 250
celery plants. She does a lot of
canning for their own use.
Edith Andrews is the daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Garfield
Myers of Drumore Township. She
grew up on the farm and worked
outside then as well as after she
was married. She and Leßoy live
on a 75 acre farm on Penn Grant
Road, in West Lampeter
Township and own an adjoining
75 acre farm, part of which they
have made into a development
known as Hans Herr Village
There are many beautiful homes
in their development. They have
also restored, improved and built
onto the beautiful old stone house
in which they live.
They keep 45 to 50, mostly
registered, Holstein cows and as
many young animals. They have
a farmer who does their farming
Leßoy has been in the ex
cavating business for 36 years
and works all over Lancaster
County as well as some outside
the county. He excavates for
cellars for houses, schools and
industry, does terracing and
stripping farm land, bulldozing
and trenching. His shop and
office is in Willow Street. He
employs 25 to 28 men and one
office girl. Edith used to take
telephone calls and man the two
way radio between their house
and the trucks when he operated
from their home.
Andrews have three children.
Rose Mary married Beauman
Lackey from North Carolina.
They live on a farm in
Washington Boro and have three
sons. Rose Mary is a good
organist and plays for their
church in Millersville.
Burnell married Mary Ann
McCollough from Strasburg RD.
They have two girls and a boy.
They live in Hans Herr Village.
Burnell has been in the ex
cavating business with his dad
for three years.
Grace is married to Rev.
William Emery 111 who is pastor
of Eastminster Presbyterian
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