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IBBERSON’S
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b : 1660 SOUTH MARKET STREET
od ELIZABETHTOWN, PA 17022
Open Monday through Friday 9 am to 5:30 pm
Saturday 9 am to 12 noon
Thursday and Friday evenings by prescheduled ;
appointment only. Call 367-2724.
(20 J \MANHEIM PIKE, EAST PETERSBURG
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Where Our Customers Send Their Friends
AUCTION S make the difference if
marketing livestock!
NEW HOLLAND
difference in auctions!
MONDAY—8AM--Fat Hogs
10 AM--Horse Sale
1:30 PM--Fat Steers, Bulls, Cows & Veal
WEDNESDAY—12 Noon--Hay & Straw
12:30 PM--Dairy Sale
1:00 PM--Feeder Pigs
THURSDAY—11 AM--Fat Steers, Bulls & Cows
4:30 PM--Sheep & Veal
New Holland Sales Stables, Ir-.
New Holland, Penna.
Abram W. Diffenbach, Manager Phone [717] 354-4341
EMERGENCY
EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SERVICES MEDical CALLS
Available Day & Night atur ay eingen
COLUMBIA HOSPITAL and Sunday
7th & Poplar Norlanco Health Center
(Emergency Entrance) (Mount Joy Area Only)
[USPS 055-530]
Box 75-A, R.D.#1, Marietta, PA 17547
Published weekly on Wednesdays
[52 issues per year]
Telephone: [717] 426-2212 or 653-8383
Publisher—Nancy H. Bromer
Editor—Diane L. Krantz
Advertising Manager—Kay Kauffman
Marietta Editor—Hazel Baker
Mount Joy Editor—Cherie Dillow
Vol. 80, No. 3, January 16, 1980
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second class mail under the Act of March 3, 1879
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[Outside Lancaster County—$6.50/ year]
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State Representative Ken Brandt presents a congratulatory letter to Lettie Long who celebrated her one
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hundredth birthday last Tuesday. Miss Long looked at the greeting, smiled and said ‘‘they come up with
something new all the time, don’t they.”
Lettie Long was 100 years old Tuesday,
January 8; Rep. Brandt pays her a visit
Letitia ‘‘Lettie’’ Long was
100 years old on January 8.
However the event was
really celebrated Friday,
January 11, when State
Representative Ken Brandt
presented Lettie with birth-
day greetings especially for
persons having lived a
century.
Lettie was born and
reared on New Haven
Street, Mount Joy and
worked as a bookkeeper for
Lancaster Fireproof and
Paint Company for S0 years.
While employed in Lan-
caster, she resided on Lime
Street but upon retirement
moved to Vine Street..She
moved to Elizabethtown in
1954 with her friend and
companion Esther Shaeffer.
She has been a guest at
Obituaries
SAMUEL B. BAKER
Samuel B. Baker, 88, of
Mount Joy R2, died at the
Lancaster General Hospital,
where he had been a patient
for five days.
Mr. Baker’s wife, Agnes
Lehman Baker, died on Oct.
11, 1975.
Born in Rapho Township,
he was the son of the late
Samuel S. and Susanna
Brandt Baker. He was a
member of Trinity Lutheran
Church, Mount Joy, and a
lifetime resident of the area.
He retired from farming in
1966.
Surviving are two daugh-
ters: Dorothy B., wife of
Clarence H. Lehman, Mount
Joy; and Edith E., wife of
Franklin B. Greiner Sr.,
Mount Joy R2; six grand-
children and five great-
grandchildren.
EARL E. CARVER
Earl E. Carver, 82, of §
South New Haven Street,
Marietta, died in the
Whitehall Convalescent
Center following an illness
of eight months.
Mr. Carver was a veteran
of World War I, serving in
the U.S. Navy. He retired
from the former Olmstead
Air Force Base, Middletown
in May 1959.
He was a charter member
and past commander of the
William Brenner Post 466,
American Legion, Marietta.
He was also a member of the
Local Chapter 301,
N.A.R.F.E., the Ashara
Lodge 398, F&AM, and the
First United Methodist
Church, all of Marietta.
He was the husband of
Lillian M. Buchanan Carver.
The son of the Late Wilson
and Fannie Marley Carver,
he was born in Marietta and
had been a lifelong resident
of the town.
He and his wife had
celebrated their 60th wed-
ding anniversary last Oct-
ober 4.
Surviving in addition to
his wife are the following
children: the Rev. Earl C.
Carver, Langhorne; Leona
J., wife of Paul H. Lenhard,
Millersville; Alice C., wife
of Bill T. Davis, Florence,
S.C.; Joyce M., wife of Fred
Loewen, Alomogordo,
N.M.; L. Frances, wife of
Robert W. Larson, Fairfax,
Va.; and Sonja L., wife of
Joe Bates, York.
Also surviving are 17
grandchilren, 13 great-
grandchildren, and one
sister, Mrs. Chrystal Walk-
er, Pottstown.
LUTHER HOPE LEESE
Luther Hope Leese, the"
infant son of Mark, Ill and
Pattie Shaub Leese, 11 East
High Street, Maytown, died
at birth at the Lancaster
Lehman’s Nursing Home,
Rheems, ‘since July 1978.
Although confined to a
wheel chair, Lettie enjoys
the ‘‘programs’’ offered at
Lehman’s. She attends
Bible study hour, does
limited reading and looks
forward to visits from her
two nephews from Eliza-
bethtown, Rus and Walter
Hein, Paul Hein, a nephew
General Hospital.
Surviving are paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mark M. Leese Jr., York;
maternal grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Shaub,
Mount Joy; and a sister,
Tara Lynn Leese, at home.
ELSIE MAY SCHROLL
Elsie May Brayman
Schroll of 206 Glad St.,
Marion, Ohio, died on
December 20, 1979, in
Country Estates Nursing
Center, Marion. She was 91
years old.
The widow of Wilson H.
Schroll, she was born in
from Philadephia, and her
niece Sue Bostian, from
Joplin, Missouri.
When presented with her
congratulatory certificate by
Representative Brandt last
Friday, Lettie only smiled
and said, ‘‘they come up
with something new all the
time, don’t they. I like this.
It’s very nice.”’
Mount Joy and left the area
in 1923.
Surviving are six sons:
Charles 1., Millersville;
Wilson H., Paulden, Ariz;
David, Phoenix, Ariz;
George W., Plymouth, Ind.;
Robert D., Ocala, Fla.; and
Daniel, LaRue, Ohio; three
daughters: Mrs. Anna
Toombs, Mrs. Helen Sly and
Mrs. Mary Blevins, all of
Marion; a sister, Mrs.
Florence Aukamp, Lan-
caster; 22 grandchildren; 44
great-grandchildren; and 10
great-great-grandchildren.
Nine children preceeded
Mrs. Schroll in death.
Mount Joy Area Historical
Society to meet next Jan. 21
William Neyer, collector
of old tools, will be the guest
speaker at the January
meeting of the Mount Joy
Area Historical Society on
Monday, January 21st at
7:30 pm. The meeting will
be held in the Borough Hall,
Main Street, Mount Joy.
Mr. Neyer will explain and
describe the oddities of old
tools—their origin and use.
W. Bennell Heisey will
preside at this initial
meeting of 1980, which will
also introduce the following
fellow officers for the new
year: Robert Peiffer, Vice
President; Vera Gingrich,
Secretary; O0.K. Snyder,
Treasurer; Charles Mowrer,
Historian; Robert Shank,
Membership Chairman;
Trustees, Marian Brubaker,
Ralph Berrier, Carmella
Koser, Kathryn Crider,
Robert W. Eshelman, Alvin
Koser and Alternate, Harry
Hendrix.
The public is cordially
invited and refreshments
will be served.
—Helen Barto
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