Another dollar winner This week’s winner of the $1.00 story prize is Donna Loucks of Marietta, who sent us the story about Paul A. Brady III and his 17 1/2 Ib. trout. The story is on the back page. Vol. 78, No. 25, June 21, 1978 1 eet dd fda 0 wo 0 un 0 t One of these young ladies will be E Miss Mount Joy The four young ladies pictured above will compete for the Miss Mount Joy crown on Saturday, June 24th, at 8:00 PM in the DHS auditorium. They are, from top to bottom, Tammy Duke, Linda Sherk, Monika Nissley, and Lori Thomas. STORY ON BACK PAGE. = 0 wn Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. They taught them to write in 1899 at Maytown High, says man who remembers Howard Frysinger At a glance, Howard Frysinger looks like a vigorous man in his early seventies. After one makes his acquaintance, he seems much younger. In fact, Mr. Frysinger is 98 years old. He graduated from Maytown High School in 1899, and he was on hand for that school’s reunion at Hostetter’s dining hall in Mount Joy last week. After displaying a hearty appetite for both food and conversation, and after greeting several octogen- arians with lively cries of ‘Hi there, young fellow,” Mr. Frysinger read a ten-minute oration to the various younger genera- tions in the hall. The speech, entitled “The Behistun Rock,”’ was publicly read for the first time on March 28, 1900, at the first meeting of the alumni association. Mr. Frysinger was a boy of nineteen when he wrote the speech. It is a ringing moral exhortation to the generation which came of age at the dawn of the twentieth century, written in the grand and ornate Victorian tradition. One seldom hears such lan- guage nowadays, possibly because we have acquired a taste for lean sentences, and possibly because we lack the skill to cram a hundred words into a sentence without sacrificing clarity, force and precision. We hope to reproduce ‘‘The Behistun Rock’’ in next week’s issue. In the meantime, you will have to accept on faith our as- sertion that Mr. Frysinger was, at nineteen, already an accomplished craftsman of English prose. Mr. Frysinger never got a college degree, and doesn’t claim to have been a brilliant student. ‘‘They used to teach us the English language in high school,’ he observes. *‘l met a young lady the other day who told me that she was an instructor at a university. I asked her what she taught, and she said, "eons: and com- position.’ Can you imagine that—grammar and com- position, at the university level!” Jacob Engle Last week one Jacob Engle dropped by the Times’ office. We say ‘‘one’’ because he is one of several Jacob Engles who have lived in the area over the years, starting with the Jacob Engle who helped found the Brethren in Christ Church in the 1700’s; he is buried near Reich’s Church along Bain- bridge Road. We followed Mr. Engle to the tiny cemetery, and saw a plaque on the stone wall surrounding it, which said that the wall had been erected in 1878, the centennial year of the Brethren in Christ. Now that the 200th- anniversary of the church is at hand, the wall has been repaired and the weeds pulled. The present-day Jacob Engle is one of a group of about 60 local people who, led by Jacob Herr of Safe Harbor, got together to. fix up the gravesite of some of their forebears. OF (140 0" > \\ YR z] J = y 8 vie \)e yO ' , Wy gALEY ) Re. tL Wy SUSQUEHANNA 1TMES FIFTEEN CENTS Lots of get-togethers : F - > Photo shows Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Murphy at their big fiftieth anniversary party at Glossbrenner Church last weekend. There were plenty of reunions last week. The Carver family got together in Marietta, the Mount Joy class of ’38 got together, Maytown High alumni held a big bash, and the Donegal Society held its 65th reunion. We’ve got those stories inside this issue. Jacob Engle poses with the gravestone of Ulrich Engle, an uncle of the Jacob Engle who founded the Brethren in Christ in the 1700’s.
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