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41 Years Service to the New Holland Farmer’s Fair
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Mrs. Parke W. (Martha) Bowers, BareviUe, may have
served on a fair committee the longest of anyone for
Lancaster County fairs. She has been on the canned goods
committee for the New Holland Farmer’s Fair 41 years
and chairlady of it for 39 years. She is also a director of
The Farmers Day Association.
Mrs. Bowers has kept a record of the number of canned
goods entries since 1950 and last year they had more than
any year in that 23 year period. They had 509 jars of fruit,
meat and vegetables. She attributes it to the fact that
more people are raising vegetables and canning. This is
good in the light of food shortages around the world and
also cuts the food budget when prices are so high. Even
many urban families today are freezing and canning their
vegetables, fruits and meats and have found it not only
saves food dollars and provides a convenient and ample
food supply but also the quality is so much better than can
be bought in the food stores.
The 43rd annual New Holland Farmer’s Fair will be
held October 2,3, 4 and 5 with exhibits being received
anywhere from 2 to 6 P.M. until 8 P.M. Tuesday, October
1, depending on the department and in a few departments
Wednesday morning. The fair catalog with details will be
out a few days before the fair.
The canned goods department will receive exhibits
Tuesday from 2 to 8 p.m. They have 78 classifications
under fruits, vegetables, meat, pickles and relishes,
spiced fruits and dried fruits and vegetables. Serving on
the committee with Mrs. Bowers are Mrs. Paul Kochel,
Mrs. Harry Miller, Mrs. Stanley Tuck, Mrs. Mary B.
Nelson, Mrs. Stanley Rumianek and Mrs. Rebecca
Richardson. Their exhibit will be in the New Holland
Elementary School auditorium as has been in the past.
Judging will take place Wednesday morning.
Paul F. Houch, 255 Locust St., New Holland, is the new
president of the association, having moved up to this
position from first vice president this summer due to
illness of Dr. L. E. Williams. There will be a dinner
meeting of officers and committee chairmen September
24 to make final and complete plans for the fair.
Of interest to many people is the baked goods and candy
sale at 12 o’clock noon Wednesday. A sample of each
exhibit will be displayed throughout the fair but the rest
will be sold, the proceeds going to a worthy charitable
organization.
This fair will agam provide some fine entertainment
including three great parades. The Farmers Fair parade
will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday and will be in charge
of The Young Men’s Business League of New Holland. The
pet parade will be held Friday at 7; 30 p.m. and the baby
parade sponsored by the New Holland Farmers National
Bank and conducted by The Business and Professional
Women’s Club will take place Saturday at 4 p.m.
Generous prizes are offered at all the parades.
The 4-H Community Club will show their pigs Thursday
and following the judging all pigs will be offered at public
auction at 2 p.m. The tractor driving contest will be held
at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The Tug-of-War eliminations will
be held Thursday and Friday at 9 p.m. with the finals at 9
p.m. Saturday.
Kid’s Day is Friday with free rides on the amusements
in the center of town and a drawing at 5:30 p.m. The New
Holland Band will give a two hour concert in the evening.
Saturday the Farmers Fair German Band will move
around from place to place after 4 p.m. There will also be
other entertainment Saturday evening.
Martha Bowers, besides working with the fair, has been
active in other community organizations. She is president
of the Friendly Circle of Rural Women. Most of their
members are from Ephrata, New Holland, Bareville and
surrounding areas. Martha belonged to this group since
1935. They meet in the homes once a month except in the
summer. They give donations to Cleft Palate, Water
Street Rescue Mission, United Drive, Ephrata Recreation
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Center, Easter Seals, Ephrata Hospital and to needy
families. To earn money to finance their projects they sell
fruit cakes at Christmas time arid have bakeless bake
sales.
Mrs. Bowers has been a member of the Bareville Fire
Company Auxiliary since it organized m 1953. She served
as its president for 20 years and when she retired as
president about a year ago they presented her with a
pendant watch and a platter with a picture of their fire
house and fire engine. The auxiliary has rummage sales
and used to serve food at sales to make money.
Martha has been a member of the Conestoga Valley
Auxiliary to the Lancaster General Hospital for about 25
years and is a past president of it. They meet four times a
year and go to the hospital twice a year to sew. She used to
go to the hospital to sew and helped with their clam bakes.
Mrs. Bowers belongs to the Salem Evangelical Church
in Vogansville and to the Missionary Society. It is a non
denominational church.
mer’s Fair book and canned goods notebook in hand,
plans for a large number of entries this year. Some of
her African violets can be seen in background.
Martha, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Eh
Musselman, grew up on their general farm in Upper
Leacock Township. She helped in the fields to load wheat,
husk com, pick fruit from the trees and mowed wheat. She
used to have a garden where she lives but limits it now to a
few vegetables which she grows all around the edge of her
lawn. She freezes fruits and vegetables. She also grows a
lot of flowers such as bulbs that bloom in the spring, roses,
iris, hibiscus, gladioli, marigolds, zinnias, hardy sweet
peas and hardy begonias. She also starts African violets
and has many beautiful blooming ones as well as other
house plants in her house. She donates African violet
plants to the fire company auxiliary for their rummage
sale.
Martha attended Myers country school in Upper
Leacock Township and later worked as a silk weaver for
Storb & Snader Silk Mill in New Holland. One of her
hobbies is quilting. She quilts them for other people. She
did four last winter and will do at least two this coming
winter.
Mrs. Bowers took piano lessons and she says “I enjoyed
playing for my own amusement.” She has a baby grand
piano.
.She enjoys traveling. She flew to California this sum
mer, took a tour to Hawaii two years ago, has been to
Florida several times and saw the Parade of Roses and
the Rose Bowl game in California on another trip.
Mrs. Bowers says “I like to cook.” Here are some of her
favorite recipes:
SALAD DRESSING
1-3 cup sugar
1-3 cup com oil
1-3 cup catsup
cup vinegar
1 tablespoon paprika
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
Shake well. Vegetables stay crisp in this dressing,
MAYONNAISE
3 eggs beaten
‘'4 teaspoon salt
*/4 cup vinegar
v i cup sugar
Boil and later beat in 1 teaspoon prepared mustard.
CREAM CUSTARD PIE
3 eggs separated (Use yolks for custard, reserve whites
for meringue)
2 cups sweet milk
1 cup cream
’A cup flour
1 cup granulated sugar
Boil, cool and pour into baked pie crust. Use whites to
make a meringue. Mixture is thin but do not add anything.
It will be the right consistency when cooled.
CHOCOLATE CREAM DESSERT
2 scant tablespoons cocoa
J A cup cold water
IV4 cup milk
1 pack gelatine, soak in V* cup water
3 A cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1 cup cream whipped
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix cocoa with V* cup warm water. Mix with milk,
sugar and beaten egg yolks. Cook, then add gelatine. Set
mixture to cool. When set beat and add beaten egg whites,
whipped cream and vanilla.
PA. DUTCH LEMON SPONGE PIE
This is one of the best of the Dutch pies. First mix
enough of your favorite pie crust to line the bottom of a 9
inch pie plate.
J 4 cup melted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons flour
3 egg yolks, beaten lightly
3 egg whites, beaten stiffly
IVz cups milk
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Cream butter with sugar and flour. Add egg yolks,
lemon juice and milk. Fold in egg whites. Pour mixture
into the unbaked pastry lined pie plate. Bake for the first
ten minutes in a 425 degree oven, then reduce heat to 325
degrees and continue baking for 25 more minutes.
LEB CAKES (Cookies)
IVz lbs. or 3 cups light brown sugar
V 2 lb. or 1 cup shortening
1 pt. sour milk or buttermilk
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Mrs. Bowers, Bareville, loves to work with her
flowers and vegetables Here she stands by her zinnia