—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 1,1979
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Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
And now to tell you a bit
more about our trip through
Kentucky and Virginia. One
of the houses which I enjoyed
visiting was way out in the
country near a place called
Crab Orchard, Kentucky.
We probably wouldn’t
have stopped to see The
William Whitley House if I
hadn’t been driving. But
driving, driving wasn’t my
idea of a vacation-one day
we drove 560 miles from
Tennessee to our home.
Anyway, this was the first
brick house built about 1790
that was “west” of the
Alleghenies. Kentucky was
organized in 1776 as a county
of Virginia. At that time
raids by northern Indians
made life in the “western
country” a dangerous ad
venture. This particular
house had a small room in
the center of it that con
tained no windows but had a
fireplace and a small
stairway to the attic. We
were shown an opening in
the attic floor where the
children could be hidden in
an Indian attack.
Col. William Whitley who
built the house was a pioneer
scout and Indian fighter. At
one point he had been given
10,000 acres for winning
battles and he traded some
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of this land in order to build
this large brick house. It was
the gathering place for
frontier leaders such as
George Rogers Clark and
Daniel Boone. Col. Whitley
died in Canada in 1813 and he
was still fighting Indians.
Besides seeing the old fort
at Harrodsburg, Ken., we
also saw the log cabin in
which Thomas Lincoln and
Nancy Hanks were married
June 12, 1806. Abraham
Lincoln’s parents cabin is
now sheltered in a huge
bnck building. The cabin
itself is one small room
which appears to be
dominated by a hugh rough
hewn bed. There was very
little other furniture. In
contrast, nearby was a huge
mansion built by Major
James Taylor in 1830 and
which now houses an in
teresting museum.
To break the monotony of
driving, we did take a
walking tour of Lexington,
Virginia (we had to conduct
it ourselves or else wait
three hours), and we also
stopped at the Strasburg
Museum in Virginia. It
contained a bit of everything
from Indian artifacts and
Civil War relics to
blacksmith and potter shops.
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■ Societies I
Berks Co, Society 5
The August meeting of the
Berks County Farm Women
Society 5 was held at the
home of Mary Troutman,
Myerstown, RDI.
The meeting was opened
with Bible reading by Debbie
Mr. Farmer: The Ooebler dealers of Lancaster, Chester
and Dauphin Co.’s are sponsoring a bus trip to
DOEBLERS SEED FARM AND FACILITIES OF JERSEY
SHORE, PA on September 15,1979.
DON'T MISS:
1. 1500 acres of the finest DOEBLER’S PENNA.
HYBRIDS.
New Hybrid numbers growing -46 X -58 X -76 X -
800 A - 83XA - 89XA
Eight acre research plot of latest in new seed corn
combinations.
Latest development in automatic mechanical
tassel pulling machines.
Tour of new processing plant.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Please detach reservation slip on dotted line, indicate pick-up location
and return NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 11 to one of the local dealers
listed along with $3.00 for each reservation. Lunch is provided.
Ben. O. Stoltzfus, Honey Brook, Pa.
Blue Ball Fire Hall - Parking lot rear
Ephrata Interchange Rt. 322 & 222
Old Lancaster Shopping Center Rt. 501 & 30
Rheems & Milton Grove Interchange Rt. 283
Dauphin - west side of town on Rt. 322
DEALERS
DAVID CLEVENSTINE, 215-933-7838
St. Matthews Rd. R. 2
Phoenixville, PA 19460
KENNETH B. SELLERS, 215-347-2357
Box 365, Unionville, PA 19375
BEN O.STOLTZFUS, 215-273-3546
Box 217, Honey Brook, PA 19344
LESTER M. WEAVER. 354-5477
R.l, New Holland, PA 17557
DANIELS. MARTIN JR., 215-267-7977
R. 3, Denver, PA 17517
NAME
ADDRESS
Please indicate number of persons to be picked up at each location.
Pick-Up Return
Honey Brook-Ben 0. Stoltzfus 7:30 a.m. sharp 6:30 approx.
Blue Ball Fire Hall 7:45 a.m. sharp 6:15 approx.
Ephrata Inter. Rt. 322 & 222 8:15 a.m. sharp 6:00 approx.
Old Lane. Shopp. Center Rt. 501 8:45 a.m. sharp 5:45 approx,
Rheems & Milton Grove Inter. Rt. 283 8:15 a.m. sharp 5:30 approx.
Dauphin-E. side of Clarks Ferry Bridge 8:45 a.m. sharp 5:00 approx.
Arrive Doeblers -11:00 a.m. Leave - 2:30 p.m.
AMOUNT ENCLOSED @ $3.00 PER PERSON
Troutman. Anna Moyer,
president, presided over the
meeting. Fifteen members
and one guest announced roll
call by stating their zodiac
sign.
Orders for the ham on roll
BUS TRIP
PICK-UP LOCATIONS
sale are to- be given to
Carolyn Feeg one week prior
to the sale. It will be held
September 22. Beatrice
Zechman and Dorothy
Moyer visited our adopted
patients at Berks Heim for
the month of August.
The program for the
evening was presented by
Lone Darkes on different
zodiac signs. Members found
the meeting very in
teresting.
The next meeting will be
held at the home of Beatrice
Zechman on September 24.
After closing with the
Mizbah benediction,
refreshments were served
by the hostess.
Berks Co,
Society 6
A slide presentation was
given by Gail Koch con-
WILBUR W. KREIDER, 733-8381
R. 4, Lititz, PA 17543
J. ROHRER WITHER, 464-2628
1402 Eshleman Rd.
Willow Street, PA 17584
NORMAN 2EAGER JR., 357-2015
Box 3IOC R. 4, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
RICHARD lEIHINGER, 367-3642.
R. 2, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
cermng ttie multi-service of
Boyertown at the Berks
County Farm
Society 6 meeting held o *
August 21 at the home of
Mrs. Arthur Haas, Oley.
Plans were made for the
group to visit the AM
Philadelphia TV program on
October 23. They will be
shopping at the King of
Prussia mall for a day trip.
An invitation has been
given to the ladies to attend
an anniversary celebration
at Seven Springs Resort,
Somerset on October 17.
The president announced
that Mrs. Sally Hausman,
Boyertown and Mrs.
Richard Schlegel, Oley are
on the nominating com
mittee for the election.
There is an opening for a
county treasurer nominee.
The sales committee
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