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Merry and Happy join herd
Darvin Rodgers of Marietta R.D. 1 got two new additions
to his dairy herd over the holidays. Heifer calves were
born on both Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Photo above shows Darvin Rodgers, Jr. holding Merry
Christmas (right) and Happy New Year (left).
Both Merry Christmas and Happy New Year are
registered Holsteins.
In post-Civil War times,
the Cameron mansion near
Donegal Springs Road was a
favorite meeting place of
America’s most powerful
politicians.
Simon Cameron, the pau-
er's son from Maytown
who founded an industrial
empire and served as
Lincoln’s secretary of war,
maintained the mansion as a
“summer residence.’’
National heros like Gen-
eral U.S. Grant were enter-
tained at the mansion. So
were Donegal farmers and
Maytown blacksmiths.
Simeon Cameron was nev-
er more pretentious than he
had to be. At one elegant
party in the mansion, he
wore a Prince Albert coat
with a white hyacinth in the
lapel—but he neglected to
clean the mud off his
farmer's boots.
Since the mansion didn’t
have to be very fancy to
serve Simon's purposes, he
didn’t try to improve the
place too much.
However, when Simon's
son Donald inherited the
mansion, he added an
outkitchen, a smokehcuse,
Holding school bags in photo above, from left to right, are: Gary Troop, Dwight Miller,
Debbie Witmer, and Elvin Shenk. School supplies in front of group will be sent to each
African student.
“Tools for Schools’’ go to Africa
by Zelda Heisey
Instead of exchanging
names and buying each
other gifts, students at
Kraybill Mennonite School
decided to give rather than
receive this Christmas past.
The students didn’t know
just what to do, so they
contacted the Mennonite
Central Committee and
asked for directions.
The MCC sent several
ideas to Kraybill, and from
those ideas a ‘‘Tools for
Schools’’ project was begun.
Guided by their teachers
and administrator Leon
Good, all students partici-
pated.
“Tools for Schools’ kits
(144 of them) were assem-
bled for shipment to African
schools where Mennonite
teachers are serving.
The kits include four 8 1/2
X 11 inch spiral notebooks,
four unsharpenéd pencils,
one plastic metric ruler, and
one box of crayons or
celored pencils.
The Economy Shoe Store,
Elizabethtown, provided
plastic drawstring bags for
the kits.
Some mothers decided to
help by making bags from
different materials and de-
corating them.
There is a request for
15,000 kits of this kind
according to the MCC.
Leon Good, administrator
of Kraybill School, spent
three years in the African
country of Somalia. He
worked as a part-time
teacher and agricultural
development worker.
Good says the paper
shortage in Somalia is so
acute that stores use old
newspapers to wrap pur-
chased articles.
He said, ‘l used my palms
at times for my grocery list.
Students use charcoal for
writing in some cases.’’
underground refrigeration
vats, huge gates and a
carriage house. Still unsat-
isfied, Denald installed an
unheard of luxury—indoor
plumbing. The plumbing
system was fed from an
elevated water tank that was
unique in its time.
According to legend, the
mansion also became
haunted around this time.
The Cameron mansion
The owner, some say,
drowned a pregnant tenant
farmer’s daughter in the
springs behind the house.
Jim Helm, who manages
the Cameron estates today,
has never seen any sign of
the ghost.
The estates are owned by
Elizabethtown College.
Mary Hale, who inherited
the estate from Denald’s
January 14, 1976
Storied mansion now an educational center
daughter Mary, sold the
mansion and grounds to the
college in 1961. Mrs. Hale
alse gave the college
$60,000 to turn the mansion
into a conference center.
The rooms where the rich
and powerful once danced
and bargained far inte the
night, are now used for
cellege seminars and church
group meetings.
Stephen Bailey heads 3-county
citizens band radio social group
by Hazel Baker
Stephen M. Bailey, West
Market Street, Marietta,
was elected president of the
Tri-County Citizens Band
Social, Inc., for the ’76 term.
Tri-county is a non-profit
organization dedicated to
furthering the use of citizen
band radios.
All members must have
applied for a F.C.C. radio
license and must own their
own equipment. Activities
are planned with the family
in mind. In the past the
group sponsored dances,
hay rides, picnics, Christ-
mas Carol sings and other
events.
A record hop, a fund
raising event for two or-
phaned children from
Quarryville and a C.B.
jamboree are planned.
Meetings are held the third
Saturday of the menth at 8
p.m., in the Centerville
headquarters.
Qualified citizens are in-
vited to join the greup and
may receive directions by
monitoring channel 4 or 15
on the third Saturday of the
month.
Larry Herman, Wrights-
ville, was elected vice-pres-
ident, Linda Murphy, Co-
lumbia, secretary, Nancy
Herneisen, Manheim, trea-
surer, Elwood Stark, Co-
lumbia, Norm Bergnark,
Mount Joy, Irvin E. Ney,
R.D.#2 Columbia, Gerald
Kirsh, York and Bruce
Herneisen, Manheim are
the trustees.