Boyertown tour features old farmhouses, mills
BOYERTOWN The Boyer
town Area Historical Society will
hold its first Old House Tour on
Sunday, June 21st from noon to 3
p.m. including visits to large
farmhouses and former mills.
Organizing the tour are Mrs.
Richard Groff, chairman, Mrs.
Michael Butler and Mrs. E.
Kenneth Nyce.
The tour covers 10 privaie
residences and one church, all in
the Boyertown area. Open that
afternoon will be the Most Blessed
Sacrament Church, Bally, which
dates to 1743. This historic Church
maintains an excellent museum,
and organist William Nash will be
playing the Church’s renowned
Krauss organ.
Several of the private homes on
view were formally commercial or
public structures. The home of Mr.
and Mrs. Bruce Sands was a one
room schoolhouse, and the Vic
torian style home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ellis Westervelt was the railroad
depot at Barto.
Other homes on the tour are
typical Pennsylvania farmhouses,
sturdy stone or brick structures.
Among them are the 22-room home
of Mr. and Mrs. LaVeme Moser;
home of Mr. and'Mrs. Lawrence
Jilks, which has six fireplaces; and
Weeds will tell
FAIRFAX, Virginia Have you
done a good job of liming? Have
you applied enough lime? Was it
spread evenly? Weeds can help to
give you the answer to these
questions.
During the next two months walk
over your fields and look for
weeds. Look for a pattern of
growth. Is the field weedy all over
or do they grow in strips? Do you
find the weeds on the knoll or high
spots but not in the low areas? ~
The pattern of weed growth can
tell you something about your
Lining program. An under-limed
field will tend to be weedy all over.
Also, weeds appearing on knolls
but not elsewhere can be an in
dication of under-liming. A poor
job of spreading may result in
weeds growing in strips.
But don’t jump to conclusions,
look carefully and study the area.
The same conditions can be caused
by a poor job of spraying her
bicides. Spraying skips leave
weeds in strips. Low spraying
rates, too little or too much
pressure, and of course, using the
wrong material will result in poor
weed control.
Many herbicides "are “deac
tivated” by acid soils. Therefore,
even though you do everything
right in spraying you may get poor
results. Take a soil sample from
those areas where weed control is
poor. Have the soil tested for
acidity. The answer can help you
do a better job next year.
Honey unit to meet
MANHEIM The Lancaster
County Honey Producers
Association will meet on Thursday,
June 11, at the home of Dan Fit
zkee along Hosier Road in
Nauraanstown, near Manheim.
Hives will be opened at 6:30 p.m.
A business meeting will be held,
along with a discussion of summer
management and honey removal.
All interested persons are invited
to attend. Bring a lawn chair.
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the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Haddad, which has an early
springhouse.
Several tour sites combme 19th
century architecture with in
novative 20th century additions,
including the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Duft, one of the oldest on the
tour; the creatively landscaped
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Gladieux; the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Lea, which has a
solarium connecting the original
1856 house to a mdoem addition.
Two of the sites involved mills.
One is a former grist mill, now the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Romaker, and the other, the home
of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Butler,
features an 1861 grist mill and
eight-sided beehive.
The tour includes buildings that
span several centuries and en
compasses a number of ar
chitectural styles. Ticket are $5
and should be purchased by June
15. Send checks to Mrs. E. Kenneth
Nyce, El Franklin St.,
Hechtelsville, Pa. 19505.
Refreshments will be available for
an additional |2 donation.
Proceeds above costs benefit the
Boyertown Area Historical
Society.
This Victorian home of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis old houses in the Boyertown area on June 21,
Westervelt, which will be included in a tour of is the former railroad depot at Barto.
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