PAGE FIVE THE BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, PA. Wednesday, September 9, 191 AN INTERESTING TRIP | EXPERIENCES OF A FORMER MT. the pond: | JOYAN, MR. J. C. CASSEL | The following very interesting let-| I hope ter was received by Mr. W. W. Cassel from his brother, which we returned from E¥rope, ar. Does ©00000000 Pe) © OOD 000 Cal |My dear bjrother you received my letter 8lad to have our townsman written from the 8. S. Baltic, on 00000000000000000O000000000000000OOO00COOROOOOOORO@OOOO@OOOO@Q |i = & i ine tron ancaster’s United Fashion Show Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday September 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th introduce latest American and foreign Autumn fashions in Millinery Suits, Coats, Capes, Street and Evening Gowns, Accessories. A Special Invitation to the people of Lancaster Co. by the Merchants of Lancaster JE ONT OY bres Open Saturday Evening ial Attractions Each Day in the City’s Leading Stores la former Mt. Jovan, and tells of his riving in New York Saturday last. at least a month longer in order to friendly foreignor. In order that you inside by putting a thousand men in- {experiences /of his recent trip across We had a pretty rough experience have witnessed at close range the may have some of the particularsof to it with axes and chopping down abroad on account of the war, and - various movements, in which Jim our tour I will give you a brief out. the staterooms and all the furnish- Roginoke, Va. Aug. 25, 1914. particularly on account of the women Was very much interested. Of course line of our experience. who were in our party we are very there was some danger, owing to the We left New York July 1st on the We had a very delightful trip across reached home safely; great excitement and antipathy to all S. S. Acquitania, the most luxurious the ocean, arriving in London July hut if Jim and I had been alone we foreignors, except Americans and the ship in the world, which, upon the 6th, where we spent a week sight would have remained in London for liability of being mistaken for an unm 'declaration of war, was torn to pieces seeing and in addition to seeing all of @OOOOOO® ings and converted into a man-of-war. the interesting features of London we London to Paris and return and an international polo game, We also had ia steamboat trip up the Thomas and return. We started from London on our automobile tour July 13th and had a most delightful tour of 1300 miles, including the best of England. We [were never treated better in our lives and I do not believe there is a more beautiful country in the world. We returned to Iondon and then ‘motored from London to Paris, ar- riving in Paris July 23d. The ex: citement there was beginning to grow then but after war was declared it became very serious and it was not safe to be on the streets, which were crowded with soldiers and sightseers and at night there were frequent RHEEMS Harry L. Heisey Hauis Ove Bushels of Wheat With Four Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schroll ann the birth of a son Sunday mor Rev. S. S. Shearer of this plaq livered a large number of bask his choice peaches last Monda Mrs. Susan Wolgemuth and Minnie Groff returned from ( Grove, after spending a week. P. N. Kraybill and daughter witnessed the fire at Mount Joy day morning which attracted from all parts of the County. Mrs. Jos.'W. Kraybill spent] day last.week with her sister, Lizzie Stauffer of Mount Joy. During the next 10 days there be 16 acreg of ‘potatoes raised or Landis Bros. farm where the re are favorable for a large yield. Samuel E. Garber reports hd the largest crop of tobacco tha ever housed. Saturday he ha loads housed and nearly two acres to cut. Church of the Brethren held regular Sunday morning services risks, owing to the opposition upon | the part of some people to the war; | but as a rule there was great en- | thusiasm. After considering the situa-| tion T decided that for the safety of | the women folks we should return to] London as quickly as possible, as] deserted our automobiles there and took the first train for London, but not without encountering diffi- culties. I will never forget the ex- perience we had in getting from the tel to the railway station and get ting on our train. Everybody was fighting for a position. All foreigners wished to escape but by hard fight- we arranged to get aboard our which was crowded from one he other, and we also man- get our baggage, which a any people, in fact, the ma jority of them lost. We arrived in London that night and remained there following up the war situation until J we succeeded in getting passage on! the S.S. Baltic for home after having | engaged passage on three other lines, all of which were taken off. The Baltic was, of course, greatly over-| Rev. Mohler of Elizabethtown Rev. Samuel Eshleman of near tersonville officiating. Owing to the grapes being plentiful and’ the sugar high in the wine makers in Donegal cla barrel of wine will cost nine dol an increase of four dollars over Last Friday and Saturday two large days around the Rail The Farmers’ Association rece feed, one car oats, loaded a nur of car loads of hay. D. G.:Bri loaded three cars with hay, Wednesday evening, Sept. 2nd a J dozen ladies and a few gentl 0 Elizabethtown, sprung a sury upon Mr. and Mrs. John Kessel of this place. The event was c4 a Marsh Mellpw toasting party, w was highly appreciated by all A the electric storm approached, ¢ ing a stampede for the Trolley tary, where they furnished music the neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hernley, H. H. . Bard, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Kraybill attended the funeral of 1 Elizabeth Stauffer Tuesday mor crowded and all we could get was | at Mount Joy, with intermen steerage, which was as rough as it |Kraybill’'s cemetery. could be eleven hundred people | The Landis Brothers stone crowded into a space ordinarily oc- plant is completed sufficient to cupied by four or five hundred. Tif orders, Last week the Ex-Sen | food was the roughest I ever saw,|Cameron farms redRivedwri {fish and boiled cabbage served on|0 the same plate, tea and coffee served waiters would dish the gravy out { with their hands and the real emi- ! grants, who ordinarily travel in the steerage, ate with their hands iffstead of with knives and forks, Later we managed to get transferred to the second class cabin, which was not 'much better, owing to the great (crowd, but it gave us a better place !to sleep; but Jim and I slept out on the deck all the way over for ten | days, during which time we did not have our clothes off. While we pre- served our health, for which we are thankful, I was pretty well exhausted by the time I reached home. Jim, | however, enjoyed every minute of the experience and objected very much | [to any complaint upon the part of (others. He took a philosophical view (of the force of circumstances and | tried to persuade everyhiidy to be satisfied with the conditions. I could tell you of a great many amusing as well as sericis incidents ne apers have not been exaggera- will relate just a few of them. one case a lady, who was in iris with her two little girls, one nine and the other six years of age, wished to get togl.ondon, as we did, nd came into the hotel] where we were stopping the following day after we arrived there and stated that when she got to the station in Paris she was shoved into a com- partment of one coach and her chil dren into a compartment of another | coach and when she arrived at channel she was pushed along with the crowd onto the boat and sup- posed that her children would be on] the same boat, but when she got to the other side and waited for the people to disembark she found that her childrtn were not on and it hap- pened in some way that the coach (her children were in was switched out of the train somewhere between Paris and Bologne and when we left London she had not yet located her’ children. Of course, she was almost out of her mind. In another case a friend of ours and in order that you may know that | the reports you have read in the! Bologne to take the ferry across the their Donegal farms) (&0) late loading 2 or 3 cars| to us from a watering can. The | the ar future. Harry L. Heisey, the Donegal I burner- and farmer, has the recorg delivering the largest load of Wj to the D. G. Brinser warehousg far for 1914. Monday noon on the scales with 2 mules alld horses attached to a wagon that tained two hundred and se bushels and fifty five lbs. of whe eel Cres PLEASANT VIEW Corn cutting is near at hand. Tobacco cutting is in full swi I. S. Hollinger and C. L, Grei spent Saturday evening in Mt. J Leander Gantz and wife visited the home of David Greiner, Aaron Brandt and family vis] in the home of Menno Risser | Sunday. eg] | Potatoes made an advance of [ per bushel in the large mar | Saturday. 4 | Miss Helen Springer teaches | Wheatland school which opened Monday. a A Lancaster firth of “tobaccc ps: purchased several crops 1 ¢ at less than nine cents and Mrs. M abethtown, visited an family Mas sp hom price " wheat is still whicl akes the farm vho retains his cro look somo pleasant. Ed Eshleman bought a I H. gasoline engine from Reed & Son | Lawn. He had the same put in { eration and uses it for pumpi water. The following were guests Norman Myers on Sunday: Mr. a Mrs, Amos Bricker, Mr. and M Amos Hess, Misses Anna Reichd bach, Naomi Bricker and Edna H sey, Messrs, Charles and Geo. Ba er, Daniel and Edmund Gerlod Frank and Jos. Foreman, Isaac H linger, Harry Wood, Millard, Hd shey and Clarence Greiner. ——eell Eee Delightfully Entertained Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Eshleman near Risser’'s Church, entertaind these guests at their home on tH from Roanoke, who was traveling in Germany, came into our hotel in TL.on- don, not knowing that we were there and stated that after undergoing great hardships he managed by bor-| rowing money and riding and walk: | ing to get to London and was with: | out money or clothing, both of which we provided, all of his baggage hav- ing been lost. And there were hundreds of simi: lar cases. J. C. Cassel. | Use the Telephone We have both phones at our office. When you have a news item call the Bulletin office on either phone. We will be glad to take the news and publish jt. Your ' neighbors will b lad print. ug Pa POOROCOOCOROROROOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOECEEEEEEEEEEEOEEOEOOEOEOEOEEOOOEEEEOEOROOROPOOROPEEEOROOEOREOEEPEOROREECOCOEEEEE® Crystal Spring farm on Sunday: | and Mrs. Wm. H. Garman of Ea Petersburg, Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon 1 Garman and daughter Dorothy lene of Lititz, Mr. and Mrs. C. Garman, son Lloyd and grandso Earl G. Eshleman of Florin, My Mrs. Michael Shearer of HI town, Mr, and Mrs. B. K. Bq Miss Cora Gruber and Mess Kolp, Clarence Greiner an Hershey. In the afternoon autoed to the home of Jag ”, i 1 \_/A ‘Flower Show show, under the er County d in Heimenz pd 7. > 0000000000 SEV] Never self to fir You props | made a + bile. Some is one of ducement;