Lancaster Agway store, working with the pounds of Trim horse feed to the wagoneers at nial Commission of Pennsylvania who was Circle M Ranch. Here William Suloff, driver for the :ial sponsor of the pilgrimage, supplied 600 store, loads feed into the feed wagon. YOUR VENTILATION CENTER rfr'lC \ FANS TO FIT THE SMALLEST OPERATION TO THE LARGEST. USB E. M. HERR FDR LIVESTOCK & POULTRY FACTORY ENGINEERS AVAILABLE TO MAKE UP BLUEPRINTS AND SPECIAL APPLICATIONS. WE HAVE A SUI WE SELL, SERVICE AND INSTALL full line parts dept. R.D.I, Willow Street ' Hi rest hmb *9/ y * > USED FANS IN STOCK EQUIPMENT, INC. 717-464-3321 [Continued from Page 16) the one for my being on the trip in the first place.” Explaining how she got started on this venture, Hazel says that she always wanted to tour the country and see it slowly, so when the' chance came up for her to go on this trip, her daughter encouraged her to go. " “And, now, it’s my daughters and my grand children I’m making this history for, not myself. Now, I want to get home to them,” she says. Hazel’s history-making events may have been for her progeny, but her ex perienced are principally for herself. She says that she has never met so many nice people in her life. “You know how you feel sometimes, when you are at home you don’t even want to leave the house for fear of this and that,” she mentions. But then she goes on to say how the wagon train revived her spirit and her faith in man. “One little lady told me that she broke down and cried when she saw us all coming down the road she had such a feeling inside of her - you know?” Hazel drawls. “And, I told her, ‘Honey, I know just what you mean. I felt it the whole way here-’ ” Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 3,1976—17 Wagoneers The Qther side of the story Hazel’s exuberance is YOUR PIONEER SALESMAN IS READY WITH SUPERIOR SEED AND SERVICE • Hybrid Corn - high yielding single and special crosses. • Alfalfa Seed - for any rotation or plowdown. • Forage Mixes - A mix for every need (pasture, hay, haylage, greenchop or green manure plowdown). • Hybrid Sorghum - grain, forage, and sorghum - sudangrass hybrids. Don't Delay. See Your Pioneer Salesman To-Day! , Al(a „ a ® Registered trademark of Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc Des Moines. lowa. US A balanced, however, by a diametrically opposed feeling in the wagon train. The riders of Loretta Lynn’s wagon out of Tennessee were apathatic and ready to go home. Tommy Freeman and Joyce Moon, who became connected with Loretta Lynn’s wagon through a friend of a friend, said, “Well, it’s been all right until the last couple of weeks.” What happened in the last couple of weeks? “Ah, they always want you to sign those books and ride through the towns,” Tommy said. The books he is referring to are scrolls which most towns along the route have made up and signed by the citizens. These scrolls are then presented to the wagon train and will be kept for posterity in the archives of Valley Forge. For some of the riders, the formal ceremonies have gotten tedious, and they just want it over with. Others wanted it over with, but now that they are nearing the end, wish it wouldn’t, be coming to a close. For Joyce Moon and Tommy Freeman, the only spark of enthusiasm they showed, came when they said, “We’ve only got three days to go and we’re coun ting them down.” [Continued on Page 18|
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