3 \ SUSOUEHAN1.aA I'TMES Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. Vol. 76 No. 48 December 1, 1976 Beautiful homes on Marietta candlelight tour FIFTEEN CENTS Santa comes to town Santa Claus visited Mount Joy last week to find out what local kids want for Christmas. For an exclusive interview with Santa see back page. Tom and Barbara Smithgall, 13 S. Pine St., Marietta, space.The Smithgall home will be featured on this year’s have removed “interior walls from their 19th century Candlelight Tour. : home, to create a spacious, comtemporary living ““Christmas by Candle- ter. At the site, high on a The cat who lives with Wayne and Jackie Madsen has a good view of Market Street, Marietta, from the chair in the Madsens’ living room. light”, a tour of houses in the Marietta area, will take place on Sunday, December S; from 2 10 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Marietta Restoration Associates, the benefit will include twelve locations on its itenerary. Persons taking the tour may start at any point along the route but no partial rates are available. A brochure including a map is included in the ad- dmission price ot $2 and can be purchased at most locations. Light refresh- ments will be served at the Community House by members of the Marietta Lions Club and their wives. Proceeds from the event will be used to further Lions Club projects. Addi- tional information may be obtained by contacting Mrs J. R. Baker, Marietta. These Marietta struc- tures will be open on the tour: “Sylvan View’’, the re- sidence of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Jackson, Mount Pleasant Road, was built in 1850, by the late Henry Musselman, an Iron Mas- terrace with formal gardens sloping toward the river, the visitor is at once attracted to the ornate iron railings found on the front of the white brick struc- ture. The charm and bal- ance of the rooms are emphasized by the high ceilings, fireplaces and hand made doors through- out the first floor. Many family heirlooms make this home a point of interest. Just beyond the eastern edge of Marietta, in the area now named Donegal Place, are rows of two-story brick buildings that once housed foundrymen and their families. The great Marietta iron foundries, seven in all, loomed nearby and stretched from here to the base of Chiques Rock. Nestled among these hous- es is the gunshop of Charles Heistand whe is an American rifle maker or gunsmith. In one room of his shop Heistand, hand forges the long barrels and firing locks. The second room is lined with benches covered [continued on page 12] at the annual football Booster Club awards banquet last week. Quarterback Kevin Bradley (standing) won the Most Valuable Player award and the Outstanding Back trophy. Mike Leas won the Outstanding Lineman trophy, and Al Newlin won the Jesse Mooney award. Story and statistics on page 2.
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