816-lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 13, 1996
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
This morning the sun is shining
after several rainy days. The house
is quiet except for the ticking of
the clocks. After working on the
farm a few hours, my husband has
decided to drive to the mountains
to “see” his camper. I doubt it has
run away.
He has always been very inter
ested in maps and studies them
like some people study the Bible.
When he drive on a toad hundreds
of miles from home, he remem
bers it 20 years later. So, since he
recalls roads, I don’t need to.
History has always fascinated
me. My mother often talked of
olden times and some of her sto
ries have been written down. If
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she were living, she would be
mote than 100 years old. Appa
rently, her mother was also good
at recalling stories of her youth as
she lived on a farm near
Farmersville.
Thus when a friend invited me to
her house to look over some “old
papers” I was glad to accept the
invitation. She keeps them in an
old feed bag with a ted rooster
printed on die front She pulled
out wills, deeds and sale bills. One
unusual name, to me, was Euse
bius Hershey. The last name is
familiar to me but not the first.
Farms were called plantations
and sometimes woodlots were
sold separately. About 1850 a
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207-acre property brought
$14,462.87(4 at a public sale.
Otter items listed as sold were:
chum buck $l, slop bucket .60,
stew kettle .90, butter print .25,
oven scraper & peel $l. bed cords
.90. snuffer .06, spice box .75,
night stool .01, pewter dish .30,
and pumpkin cutter .02.
Animals were sold too and an
old brown mare brought $5.12(4
while a red and while cow was
$27.50. I’m sure most of the small
items listed above are no longer
around but if they still existed,
they would be quite valuable.
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The Green Pride 4-H Club
recently collected 670 canned
goods and presented them to the
Milton Chapter of the American
Red Cross.
Chaitpeople in charge of vari
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Layton, Milton and Montandon
Elementary Schools, Milton
YMCA, and the Milton Daily
Standard; Jolene Nunn, Milton Sr.
High; Ben Messimer, White Deer
Post Office; Josh Messimer,
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Sean Snoddy, White Deer Baptist
and White Hall Baptist Church.
The club conducts several com
munity services each year. Green
Pride has 25 active members and
meets the second and fourth
Thursday of each month at the
Faith Chapel Church of White
Deer.
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can call the Penn State Coopera
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524-8721.
Since 1903