— Lancaster Farming, Sal 46 Ida’s Notebook May Ist! The memories of newspaper clipping on getting up early May first Lancaster which I men and going outside very tioned last week. quietly, so as not to disturb „ anyone, and washing my Th fi population in 1860 was face in the dew are quite 17,603 but there were 13 fresh in my mind. This was a newspapers being published method of getting rid of a either daily or weekly. There sprinkling of freckles across werc 2' libraries and 2300 my nose. It worked - pupils were in public schools, probably because they were However, there were 4■> ready to fade anyway and private schools including an not because I Slowed the African school and a Ger superstition of not tailring to uian and English school for anyone before going outside, those who wanted instruction It’s odd how certain things -i® Hie German language. - remain with us years after we hear them. My mother “Four-roomed houses, on often said, “Even a blind pig good streets, are renting at finds an acorn once in a about $l5O per year and those while.” She used this in the suburbs at from $7O to statement when she was $80,” says the article. This correct in some area of sounds more like a monthly family discussion. So often rate now than a yearly rate, others are 100 percent correct, based on scientific One thing that really evidence, so that when I’m surprised me was the mining right, beyond a doubt, lam of roofing slate, marble and reminded of her long ago magnesia in the county. I’ve comment. always thought of Vermont Pd like to cite a few more mentioned. Guess we must items from the 1869 expect changes in 100 years. Activities Tuesday, May i banquet at the Rothsville Society 23 meeting at 6 p.m. Fire Hall 6:15 p.m. at the Meadow Hills Saturday, May 8 Dining Room for a Society 19 meeting at 12 noon mother - daughter at the Farm and Home banquet. Center to entertain Thursday, May I Society 6. Society 20 meeting at noon in Society 25 visiting Get the Robert Fulton Inn. tysburg. Society 17 meeting at 7 p.m. Society 2 meeting at 1:30 at the Willow Valley p.m. Restaurant for a mother- Society 7 meeting 2 p.m. for daughter banquet. plant and food sale. Friday, May 7 Society 18 meeting at 1:30 Society 1 mother-daughter p.m. Ways with windows course offered by PSU How to treat or not treat' windows in the home is often puzzling to the homemaker.. Draperies, glass curtains, blinds, shutters, or no treatment at all are now reasonable choices for home decorating. Ideally, a well-designed window would need no treatment or covering since it is part of the entire ar chitectural design of the house. Few people, however, live in an “ideal” home where no window covering is necessary. Because of the varying needs of a family and the changes in weather conditions, it is important to be able to control privacy, •light, heat, and ventilation at windows with some window covering. The question is, what kind? To help homemakers evaluate their needs for window treatments and how to create the right effect, Penn State offers a correspondence course on Ways with Windows. To help create in dividuality in your home, send for the course WAYS WITH WINDOWS. Send $4.50 to WINDOWS, Box 5000, iturday, May 1,1976 4HOSHHI llll^^ when marble quarries are University Park, Pa. 16802. Make your check or money order payable to Penn State. Compact Mini-Diesels Ranging from V/z H.P. to 20 H.P. HOOVER DIESEL SERVICE Fetter Diesels Sales ft Service Ph. 215-445-6272 or 717-354-7469 RD 2 New Holland. PA 17557 Low-wattage water Heater .. .an electric water heater replacement Want to save electricity? Think LOW WATTAGE! If you should ever need an electric water heater, for instance. A low wattage unit is a smart move. What it does is combine the advantages of heating water with low wattage heating elements at a slower rate while offering big 80-gallon capacity to serve your family’s needs. Meanwhile, you’re saving with lower thermostat settings and tank insulation designed to keep water hotter, longer. How do you identify a low wattage water heater? Ask your dealer to show you the models which qualify for the PP&L “LOW WATTAGE WATER HEATER” label. Uw w»w«|i Bttfrk W«t»r u / whose time has come An Energy Saving Message from PP&L I , - I *
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers