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Mrs. J. Richard (Nancy) Garber, Elizabethtown RI,
will represent Lancaster County in the Pennsylvania
Farmers Association’s Regional Ladies Day Out speech
contest to be held July 14 at Penn Ram Inn in Carlisle.
Lancaster County will be taking a bus load to the all day
affair. The subject for each and every speech will be “My
Hope For Tomorrow” and may last no longer than four
minutes. In order to enter, the contestant’s husband must
be a member of the PFA. Contestants can memorize or
read their speech. Mrs. Garber will expand on different
qualities she would hope to develop in the future and will
talk from notes.
Mrs. Garber, having taken eight and ten week courses
at the Y.W.C.A. in Lancaster on “Art Of Conversation And
Voice" and “Poise And Self-confidence” within the past
year, has some advantages. These were two hour classes
for one evening a week in which the students learned to
express themselves. They had voice range exercises,
learned new words and put them to use and learned how to
think on their feet.
This is not the first experience for Nancy to take part in
the PFA Ladies Day Out Regionals. She sang in a trio with
Mrs. Dale Heistand and Mrs. Richard Shellenberger and
accompanied on the guitar by Mrs. Shellenberger at the
Penn Harris, Camp Hill, in 1972 and their trio placed
second. Their trio known as the “Milkmaids” originated
in Farm Women Society 29 where all were members. They
sang secular music and provided entertainment for
banquets, parties and conventions.
Mrs. Garber has been very active in other facets of the
Ladies Day Out also. She served as co-chairman with Mrs.
Michael Grove Jr. in organizing Lancaster County’s
Ladies Day Out-Heritage Trail Tour April 23 of this year.
The tour included five local homes and Donegal Mills She
also served on the flower committee for three years,
making flower arrangements for the banquet tables
Nancy has been a member of Farm Women Society 29
about five years and served as president in 1973 and 1974.
She is on the Ways and Means committee this vear. They
Country
Corner
Canning Lids Aren’t
What They Used To Be
Well here we go again l It seems as if every day
we receive some new type of information on
canning supplies and their availability While we
tried to inform our readers last week on the
availability, this week we are offering a caution
concerning some new types of canning lids
With the increased demand for canning lids,
some companies have started marketing a dif
ferent type of lid They are usually white in color
and are screw type lids similar to those found on
peanut butter or mayonnaise jars The companies
will not guarantee the lids and give little or no
instructions on how they should be used If you
however, do buy the lids it is advised that you
follow these instructions
In any case good luck l Lancaster Farming will try
to do its best to keep you informed on the latest
information concerning canning this season
Do not use m the pressure canner Use only in a
boiling water bath canner
Can only fruits or pickles in jars with these lids
Treat these lids like the zmk lid Put lid on the
jar, tighten, then unscrew '/«”
Place jars in canner and have boiling water
come up to the neck of the jar Don’t cover the
tops of jars
Increase processing time 5-10 minutes
When removed from the canner, tighten the lids
To test for a seal, lay a piece of cardboard across
the lid. If lid is depressed m the center the jar is
sealed
Combines An
by
Mrs.
Charles
McSparran
Farm Feature
Writer
with: Melissa Piper
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Insurance Career With Farm Life
nude sandwiches (or their sub sale in the spring and have
food stands at local farm sales. They have about 24
members from the Maytown, Marietta, Mount Joy and
Elizabethtown areas. They hold their meetings in homes
for the most part but they held the last one at the Lam
caster Cleft Palate clinic. They provide a program and
furnish small gifts for Bingo at Conestoga View once a
year. They had a birthday party at Pleasant View Rest
Home in April. They also donate to the Cerebral Palsy
Foundation. Nancy says "We really have a lot of fun in
Farm Women. I really have pleasant memories." Farm
Women Society 29 is noted for their homemade bread.
They supplied it for the past three years for the County
Farm Women convention luncheon. Nancy has also been
active on the County Farm Women level. She served on
the program committee for the 1973 convention and on the
nominating committee for the 1974 convention.
J. Richard and Nancy Z. Garber are the third
generation to own and operate their 88 acre farm on
Bossier Road, in West Donegal Township. Dick was born
and raised there. His grandfather Simon Garber, followed
by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Monroe E. Garber who now
live at Mount Joy R 2, also owned and fanned it. Through
the years there has been one landmark on the lawn that
distinguishes it. There is a very unusual vault type spring
house which is still used to cool things. It has a very cold
spring which provides excellent water for the family. Mrs.
Garber says “Dick and I certainly enjoy what our
heritage has bestowed upon us. We find old relics and
antiques on the farm that we use in accenting our home. In
the fall season we are blessed with a luscious crop of
English walnuts and chestnuts from an orchard that
remains on our property. Also our unique spring on our
lawn brings back many fond memories of yesteryears.”
Garbers have been fanning 9 years and have 55
registered and grade Holstein animals, 38 being milking
cows. Nancy takes milk samples once a month. They are
in the owner-sampler program whereby Joan Snyder, a
DHIA milk tester, picks up the samples and sends them to
Penn State University to be tested. Garbers raise the bulls
for meat for the family and neighbors. They grow com,
alfalfa, barley and wheat. They have no hired help. Nancy
helps when necessary in the milk house, to unload hay and
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straw, assists in discing and has a vegetable garden.
Dick’s parents share in it also.
Nancy’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Zimmerman,
Elizabethtown R 3. She and her four sisters and one
brother grew up on their small truck farm where they
grew tomatoes and strawberries and raised about 5000
broilers and hogs. Nancy helped with the farm work at
home. Zimmermans sold the farm 10 years ago and built a
home. Now Mr. Zimmerman is a contractor and builder.
Nancy was graduated from Lancaster Mennonite High
School where she took the academic course. She worked at
Christian Life Book Store on Market Street.
Elizabethtown for six years and since over holidays and
vacations.
Garbers have two sons. Donovan is 7 years old and in
second grade in Rheems Elementary School. Douglas is 5
and will be in Kindergarten at Rheems Elementary
School this fall.
Nancy started in the auto insurance business about two
years ago and is just in the process of introducing fire
insurance policies. Her father-in-law was in the business
for Goodville Mutual Casualty Company whose home
office is at New Holland. He wanted someone in the family
to take up the business. Nancy went to night school twice a
week at University Center of Pa. at Harrisburg for 9
months. She passed “Fire and Allied Lines” and
“Casualty and Allied Lines” and is licensed in both. She
works with Mr. Garber in the business and has her office
in her home. They write auto policies only for non
drinkers. She is also in her first year of a three year term
as a Notary Public. She says, “That gives me a unique
identity, to be an insurance agent and also a farmer’s
wife. I love it.” Her father-in-law also has charge of
Lancaster County Mennonite Aid. It is a hospitalization
group plan the Mennonites have in which they share the
burdens of each other.
Richard has been a member of the PFA for 9 years, is a
member of Inter-State Milk Producers where he ships
milk and is a member of the Elizabethtown Chapter of
Young Farmers and serving on their project committee.
Nancy was a 4-H leader for the cooking club of the
Mount Joy Chapter for two years. She gave it up when the
children were small She does volunteer sewing for the
State Hospital for Crippled Children, Elizabethtown,
about two days a year. She makes clinic gowns and out
patient clinic robes.
Garbers are members of Elizabethtown Mennonite
Church on S. Spruce Street. Nancy is an instructor in the
Nursery Department of the Sunday School. There are two
instructors and they provide craft material and Bible
stories for 3 and 4 year old children. She sings second alto
in the church octette. They sing for special meetings at the
church. She also sings in the ladies trio. Richard is a
member of the Homebuilders young married couples
class. Both of them participate in the summer service
Rl. a licensed fire and casualty insurance agent
and Notary Public, returns to her office in her farm
home.
project which is volunteer work, providing games each
Friday of the month for the State Hospital for Crippled
Children at Elizabethtown. Different ones take turns
going there. Nancy directed two plays at church this past
spring. The one was an Easter drama put on by the youth
group on Palm Sunday night. The other was an anabaptist
play the youth put on Memorial weekend at Lancaster
Mennonite High School. Their son Donovan took part in it.
It was a Mennonite celebration bringing back the crafts of
450 years ago.
Garbers attend PTA meetings at Rheems. Richard
plays baseball on a community team every Tuesday
night. His cousin, Gene Garber who is a relief pitcher for
the Phillies, grew up on the next farm to them. The
Garber family belongs to a private swimming pool near
Maytown and do a lot of swimming. It is hard for them to
get away on vacation because of their dairy but they go to
tiie ocean or to the mountains in Tioga Co. where Dick’s
father is a member of a hunting club.
Nancy has many hobbies. She says “I dabble in almost
any craft. I enjoy natural materials.” She had made
decoupage pictures, della robia wreaths, dried flower
pictures, decorates ceramic eggs with decoupage then
covers them with glass particles. Her most recent cratt
was making Williamsburg bouquets which she did
through a workshop at Kissel Hill. She does her own
papering and painting. She is doing her bedroom now in
Williamsburg style. She enjoys sewing for herself and
makes drapes for her house. She enjoys house plants. She
has a lot of spring flowers. Her chief summer hobby is
pruning the shrubbery. She also mows the lawn. Donovan
is starting to help mow the lawn.
Mrs. Garber loves to cook. She is sharing the bread
recipe Farm Women Society 29 uses for bread for the
county convention luncheon. She deems it a pleasure to
make it for her family and also uses the recipe to make
sandwich rolls. Her friends and neighbors have ordered it
for special occasions. A delicious complement for the
bread is her homemade apple butter. She also gives us a
very rich ice cream recipe, lasagne recipe which makes a
nice hot dish for a summer covered dish outing and a
chicken a la king recipe which is an ideal main dish for a
buffet style meal:
Homemade Bread
Mix in a large bowl:
3% cups lukewarm water
2 pks dry yeast
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Mrs. Garber, who enjoys crafts made from
natural materials, made the colorful Williamsburg
bouquet she is holding and the large della robia
wreath on the wall.