VOLUME XXIV NO. 29 The Advertisers. in The Bu Shock Causes An Aged Man’s Death FORMER COUNTY COMMISSION. ER JACOB HENDERSON, OF MAYTOWN, DIED SUD. DENLY SATURDAY NIGHT QUARRYVILLE MEN MET WITH AN ACCIDENT HERE While driving home from work one evening last week, four men from Quarryville met with an au- tomobile accident which partly ruined their machine. They were coming toward town on the Marietta pike, when they struck a large tree which was laying across the road near the Eberle cemetery. The tree had been felled by Charles Ramsey for the Cemetery Association and before he could display a danger signal of any kind they came along. The car was only slightly damaged and the occupants escaped uninjured. DA mn gergsustained in an automobile ac- eluent on the Marietta-Maytown pike, killed Jacob Henderson, for- mer county commissioner and well- known politician of Maytown early Saturday night, Mr. Henderson received the fatal injury when a machine hired from Reich’s garage, Marietta, and driven by Roy Sload, of Marietta, skidded Accepts Call to Marietta U Rev. Charles E. Berghans, of Ridgefield Park, N. J., has accepted the call extended by the vestry of and crashed into a tree. St. John's Episcopal church, Mar- Two other occupants of the car, jetta, to become rector of that Robert and Charles Houseal, both parish. He also will have charge of Marietta, and the driver escaped of the Episcopal Mission in Eliza- uninjured. Immediately after the accident, in which the machine was rendered useless, a Marietta-bound automo- bile took the Henderson party to the office of Dr. J. K. Wagonseller, Marietta, where a hypodermic was administered to Mr. Henderson. But the treatment was in vain; (Continued on page €) i bethtown. He succeeds, in Marietta, the Rev. Allan P. Wilson, who resigned sev- eral months ago, Hall Association Pays 1st Dividend AFTER DOING BUSINESS HERE FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS, ~ STOCKHOLDERS ARE PAID 5 PERCENT) GREY IRON MAILED OVER $4000 IN CHRISTMAS CHECKS Several years ago the manage- ment of the Grey Iron Casting Com- pany here started saving funds for its employes. Any employe can join and leave as much of his or her pay stand each week as they | Mount Joy Hall Association at a special meeting Monday night, declared a 5 per cent dividend on desire. he firm pays 8 percent | its stock, the first dividend it ever interest on the money. | declared. This gives each of the On Monday checks were mailed | owning organizations a hundred to the employes and over $4,000 dollars. Mount Joy Hall was built was paid out. | by the Odd Fellows, Red Men, ee —— | Knights of Pythias and Golden The Bubble Eagles, each organization subserib- The people of Mount Joy have ing for $2,000 worth of stock. The only return these organizations had for their investment, prior to this an opportunity tonight to see that recent New York success “The Bub- ble.” To urce those who care for | dividend, was their lodge-room rent- the best in the way of entertain- | 21 at a nominal sum. There is a ment not to miss this irrisistable | bonded indebtedness on the hall of comedy should be as unnecessary as | $3,900. This bonded indebtedness to urge a hungry man to eat. Just originally was $4,000, but some drop anything you may be doing Vears ago one of the bonds was and go to see “The Bubble.” You, paid off. On its face it look as can’t afford to miss it. The price | though the hall cost only $12,000, is within the reach of all. but that is not the case, When Aen it was first occupied in 1896 it had cost in round numbers $16,000, and note and debts were carried for approximately $4,000, which in the course of time were paid from earnings. Betterments and improvements, such as fire escape, adding a story and attachement to residence in rear of hall, converting printing office into residence, fitting up basements, curb, electric lights, buying furniture, carpets and pian- os, ete., were also paid from earn- ings. The hall was built in the de- pressed times of the 90s, when me- chanics got from $1.50 to $2.00 a day and when brick in the wall of a building could be had for $15 a Flames Damage Local Milk Depot THE A. R. MARTIN PLANT ON, WEST DONEGAL STREET, SET ON FIRE BY LEAKING GASOLINE TANK © The A. R. Martin milk depot on West Donegal street was badly dam- aged by fire Thursday noon, the blaze destroying a one story brick and frame building. The fire was discovered by Mr. Martin’s son, who at first tried to put it out with ashes, [ thousand. Today three times that The fire started when a large gas-|Sum would De considered cheap oline tank sprung a leak and drained | During the last five years several into the furnace pit, causing an thousand dollars have been spent explosion. for repairs and improvements and The flames spread rapidly and |the seats, which originally were volumes of smoke poured from the|too low, increased. The year just roof and could be seen for several |closing shows larger receipts than any year in the history of the hall, hence the dividend. When the hall was first contem- plated a proposition was made by the promoters to build it on the Borough Park, the corner where the post office stands, and after 50 years allowing the building to revert to the borough. Council accepted the proposition, but put miles. The fire had gained considerable headway when the firemen arrived, but they soon had it under control. The residence adjoining was on fire several times but very little damage was done. ” The fire damaged all the ma- chinery in the two buildings which will have to be replaced. The loss is considerable and is|Such restrictions on their permiss- partly covered by insurance. ion that the organizations bought | Although the fire put quite a|the present site and built thee in- stead. “crimp” into Mr. Martin’s plant, he I —— served his many customers regularly Friday morning. Grass Plot Fire ’ The section men on the Penna. R. R. were burning the dried grass along the cut in the vicinity of the South Barbara street bridge Monday when some one sent in a fire aalrm and the firemen responded but were not needed. The employes were carefully guarding the flames. mee ~~ John McSparran Resigns John A. McSparran, of Furniss, this county, retired as Master of the State Grange at the biennial session at Reading. Mr. MecSparran was proudly displaying a Hamilton watch and chain, valued at $200, which was presented to him at the closing session of the Grange as a token of esteem. He served the Grange for the past ten years. ME A Ne Frank & Bros. Sale C. S. Frank & Bro. will hold a public sale on their premises on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 20th, when they will sell eight head of cows, a lot of home-raised and shipped turkeys, geese and ducks, al- so 325 bushels of choice apples and 75 baskets of Florida Oranges and Grape Fruit. ——— 0 ERI. CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Programs relative to the Holiday season will be rendered in the var- jous grades of our borough schools during the afternoon of Dec. 23. Parent patrons and friends are invited to attend the rendition of these programs. Programs will be- gin about 1:30 P. M. en mm A AI —— Taken to the Hospital Mr Paul Garber, on North Bar- bare street, was removed to the hospital at Lancaster, last week and operated on for a rupture. He was taken to the hospital by Dr. W. Tobacco is Selling Tobacco has started to thove. A number of crops were sold in the vicinity of Strasburg and the price paid was 20 cents. The crops which were sold at that figure were A adelphia; Mr. Kolb, Mr. and Mrs. Willis H. Boyles, Lan- caster; Mr. and Mrs. Milton G. Me- Elroy, Mr. and Marietta; Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Sta- ley, Florin; caster; Raymond H. McElroy, Miss Beatrice McElroy, Elroy, 2 Sara H. Fuhrman, Lloyd H. Fuhr- man, Wilber Fuhrman, Alvin Kunz, Martha Kunz, Benjamin H. Staley, Howard Freeze, Florin. were beautifully decorated for the occasion. age is enjoying fairly good health. — lletin De The Highway Dept. PLAN WAS LONG ADVOCATED AND URGED BY THE LAN- CASTER AUTOMOBILE CLUB The plan recently tried out by the Highway Department of mark- ing roads at grade railway cross. ings, to protect the traveling public has long been advocated and urged by the Lancaster Auto Club, and the plan now of marking meets with the hearty approval of -the Club. The main objection to any plan of marking heretofore has been the excessive cost of maintainance. Some time ago, the local Highway Supt. asked the Club to suggest some plan of marking, and it would be considered. A plan was immediately submitted by Executive Secy., Knox. This was practical though not elaborate and probably would have answered the purpose but not as well as the plan recently tried out by the department on the Quarryville road at Pugh’s mill, Mylin’s Corner and Refton, where (Continued on page 6) Ea. Held on Gambling Charge John Kerers, proprietor of the American pool room, Elizabeth- town, and Jack Hornafius, proprie- tor of a restaurant in the same town, have furnished $500 bail for a hearing before Alderman Hinden on charges of gambling and allow- ing gambling devices to be operated on their premises. I ee Assets Are Sold The assets of the Lancaster Co. Tobacco Growers’ Company have been sold to Jacob Bowman for $107,000, being equal to $5350 a share, par value $5.00 The liquida- tion of the Company was ordered at a recent meeting of the stockholders. The Company had been in business for four years and paid an annual divident of 8 per cent. — Eee Moved to Landisville | Aaron Gutschall moved his family and household effects to Landisville on Monday, from his former home, on North Barbara street. Picked From Our Weekly Card Basket PERSONAL MENTION ABOUT THE MANY COMERS AND GOERS IN THIS LOCALITY Messrs. Frank C. Hord and Neal McElroy, of Cambridge, Mass., spent Monday with Mrs. Sarah Brady. caster, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. David L. Harnish, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shaeffer, of Elizabethtown, visited the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Siller, on West Main street, on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Beckley, and Mr. and Mrs. George M. Govern, of Lebanon, visited Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Hetrich and family, on Sun- day. Harry Wagner Jr. and William Hetrich Jr. attended the booster meeting of the Lititz Beaver Tribe, No. 1072, Lone Scouts of America, held in the Malta Temple at Lititz, Friday evening. BR FAMILY REUNION AT HOME OF MR. AND MRS. CHAS. STALEY A family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Staley, in honor of the latter’s father, Hon. Washington L. Hershey, who celebrated his eighty-first birthday anniversary. Mr. Her- shey is a veteran of the Civil War, and among the few members left of Lieut. William H. Child Post, No. 226, Grand Army. An elegant dinner was served to the following: Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hershey, E’town; Mrs. N., D. Berntheisel, Phil- and Mrs. Charles Staley, Florin; Mr. and Mrs, John Lancaster. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Fuhrman, near Marietta; Mrs. Abe Kunze, Ben. Detweiler, Lan- Miss Hazel Me- Washington H. Fuhrman, The tables Mr. Hershey despite his Is Marking Roads f Albert Fike and force are treat- Mrs. Clara Harnish and son, Ray- | mond, spent the week end in Lan- | ferred to the committee on Public permanent ship roads. at Marietta, revived prepared and introduced into Legislature at the 1925 sessions by Hon. M. R. Metzger, of Middletown, Mount Joy Bullet Mount Joy, Penna., Wednesday, December 17, 1924 Deserve Your Holiday COL. REITZEL ENTERTAINS His ability as a hunter being doubted by his neighbors and friends who laughed to scorn his claims of having killed anything as small and rapidly moving as a quail, Colonel Quintin O. Reitzel turned the laugh on his scofers when he treated them to a quail and rabbit dinner at his home in Salunga Tuesday evening. Guests at the dinner included General E. C. Shannon, of Colum- bia; Captain H. Edgar Shertz, Mil- lersville. Register of Wills, A. P. Newell, Samuel W. Diller and E. H. Levan, of Lancaster; J. E. Miller, A. M. Eshleman, J. M. Trout and L. H. Mease, of Landisville and Harry Lump, of Salunga. The honors of hostess were shared by Mrs. A. M. Eshleman and Mrs. Reitzel. Local Doings Around Florin ALL THE UP-TO-DATE HAPPEN INGS FROM THAT THRIVING AND BUSY VILLAGE THE PAST WEEK The William Weidman garage is nearing completion. Mr. L. W. Mumma is erecting a bungalow on Church street. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Stoll visited friends at Harrisburg on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Dyer called on friends at Philadelphia on Mon- day. Mrs. James Hilt resigned her posi- Factory. Mrs. Nissly Gingrich and son, visited friends at the County Seat, on Monday. Mr. Christian Malehorn and fam- ily spent Sunday in York county, with his father, Mr. Charles Stiner, of Elizabeth- town, spent Sunday with the fam- ily of Harold Buller. Miss Frances Masterson was re- moved to the General Hospital at Lancaster for treatment. ing the Miss Elizabeth Brubaker property to a coat of paint. Mr. Eli Arndt, Sr., Eli, Jr. John Weidman spent Saturday Perry County, hunting deer. Miss Jane Zeller, Misses Harriet, Helen and Jane McElroy were Sat- urday visitors to the County Seat. Mr, Leonard Walker, local ticket agent, attended the Masonic banquet at Coatesville, last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Geyer are spending several months in Harris- burg with their son, Mr. Irvin Gey- er. and in Mrs. Amos R. Nissley left Tues- day for Tampa, Florida, where she will join her husband and spend the winter. Mrs. H. L. Stoll was removed to the General Hospital, at Lancaster, last Saturday. At this writing she is improving. (Turn to page Four.) River Road Again Being Discussed RIVER ROAD ASSOCIATION VERY ACTIVE—BIG MEET- ING AT MARIETTA TO- MORROW, THURSDAY EVENING IS The River Road Association, made up of hundreds of citizens and tax payers residing within the various municipalities in Lower Dauphin and Lancaster counties, was represented by I. Kunttzelman, of Bainbridge, president; Rev. W. A. Ellis and Mr. Engle, also of Bainbridge, at the meeting of the Middletown Auto- mobile Club, held in the council chamber at Middletown, last Thurs- day evening. It will be remembered that in 1922 the River Road Association was formed and sponsored by the local Auto Club and March 27, 1923, Mr. Brown, of Mount Joy, introduced Bill No. 1162 at the 1923 session of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, held in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg. The bill was re- Roads March 28, 1923, but conse- quently did not become a part of the Sproul State Highway System, due it was said, at that time on ac- count of lack of funds to make improvements on town- The Association will meet on Thursday evening, December 18, at 7:30 o'clock in the community house when efforts will be and interest brought to bear in order to have another bill the M. Workman. ) only average quality. Subscribe for the Mt. Joy Bulletin recently elected a member. AT QUAIL AND RABBIT INNER tion at the Nissley Swiss Chocolate | Joseph’s hospital to see Mr. Joseph against a similar exhibit to be as- has been confined to the house for is slightly improved. elected president County Road Supervisors and Coun- bring out his exhibit at Mt. Joy. We ty Auditors Association at Lebanon | want to assemble the State exhibits last Friday. Iowa, here, Shearer, who is ill. er is girl, who was Miriam Chandler, be- for David fore her marriage. the Grey Iron Works here is being! motorized. being connected with and will oper- ate each machine, Sunday afternoon, Dec. 21st, from | one to four o’clock to receive mail| from train No. 1 and distribute] Mt. Joy High School Boys and same. Girls basket ball teams will jour- i — iney to Elizabethtown where they $1.50 a Year in Advance Trade--Tlerchandise and Prices Are Right MT. JOY BANK OFFERS | CUP FOR BEST CORN Vv The Union National Mt. Joy Bank is the doner of the silver lov- ing cup for the best display of Lancaster county corn that will be made at the County Farm Products Show to be held here, Friday and Saturday, January 16 and 17. The News Journal is offering a similar cup for the best display of tobacco and the First National Bank of Mt. Joy has made a liber- al contribution for cash prizes. In addition to the two cups and cash prizes for county exhibitors there will be an inter-county corn contest between York and Lancas- ter for which a cup is offered. nes rm at pe Meets Monday Evening The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet on Monday even- ing Dec. 22nd at the home of Mrs. John Stoll. A Christmas program is being prepared. Let every mem- ber be present. Many Are Drawn for Jury Duty LIST INCLUDES MEN AND WO- MEN FOR SERVICE AT THE FIRST TERMS DURING COMING YEAR Drawing of jurors for the first term of Court here in 1925 was conducted on Saturday by Judge: Charles I. Landis, Sheriff Levi F. McAllister, and Jury Commissioners, Eli Good and James F. Simpson. A large number of women are includ- ed in the lists. A wheel was filled in November. The drawing included jurors to serve on the Grand Jury and Quar- ter Sessions Court, the week of January 19; Common Pleas Courts, the weeks of January 26, February 2, and March 9. The 264 jurors drawn are as follows: Grand Jury, January 19 John Witmer, Rapho township. William Mundorf, Bainbridge, Quarter Sess’ons, January 19 John Rahm, Mount Joy. Mt. Joy Sponsors Nellie Long, East Hempfield town- . it ship. : P d FE h h Wm. H. Weller, West Hempfield ro uce X 1 1 S township. A COUNTY CORN AND TOBACCO SHOW WILL BE HELD IN THE MARKET HOUSE JANUARY 16 AND / 17, 1925 rv Bertha Vogel, Rapho township. Edward Ream, Mount Joy. (Turn to page four) ee eee rt ron sr Deeds Recorded S. Nissley Gingrich to Paul Bradley, lot in Florin, $3750. | Announcement was made that a Katherine D. Tuck to Joseph E.|county-wide corn and tobacco show Tuck, property in Salunga, $1. { will be held in the market house, Harry B. Guntryman to Amos R.!in this boro, Friday, and Saturday, G. Herr, property in Mount Joy town-|January 16 and 17. An inter- ship $1. | county corn contest between Lan- Amos R. Herr to Henry B. Gun-| cater and York will be a feature tryman and Lizzie S. Guntryman, of the event. property in Mount Joy township, | The show has been made possible $1. through the co-operation of the SD BE |First National Bank of this place Removed to the Hospital with a committee of farmers and citizens. It is believed this event Joseph Brandt was taken to the Saint Joseph’s Hospital, on Satur- day, to be treated for a severe at- tack of pneumonia. Re will be the forerunner of an annual show that will be featured in dif- | ferent sections of the county each | year. | Cash Prizes Cash prizes to the amount of $150 will be distributed throughout the Balance for Distribution | There is a balance for distribu- : : top 25 sealants ad i es different classes. The News Journal 1 . Be Sey ie will offer a cup for the best exhibit Piece | of tobacco and it is expected that a cup will be forthcoming for the | ! county corn display. The committe on arrangements General News for . ' consists of County Agent Floyd W. Quick Reading Bucher, Norman E. Garber and | Henry Eby. The Lancaster County { Tobacco Growers’ Association is | INTERESTING HAPPENINGS | FROM ALL OVER THE COUN- TRY FOR THE BENEFIT OF BUSY PEOPLE supporting the show and the entire { exhibit of their annual show, which i takes place Monday, January 12, SE rote , will be placed in competition in the An effort is bein: made to raise several classes that will be opened $100,000 for the C lumbia Hospi-: to any grower in the county. tal. | In the corn exhibit there will be Mr. Charles Wealand is painting five cash prizes in each of the 10- and papering the business office of ear classes in Yellow Dent, White the Bulletin. { Cap Yellow Dent and Lancaster Seven automobiles were burned County Surecrop. In the 30-ear when a garage at York Haven was classes, which will cover the above destroyed by fire. mentioned three varieties, there 22,000 people were killed on the Will be three cash prizes in each highways thruout the United States class. In the single-ear classes to date this year. there will be cash prizes in each of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Gingrich the above varieties and also in visited Mrs. Emil A. Meyre at the White Dent. St. Joseph Hospital on Sunday. | All Kinds of Tobacco Miss Helen Shultz receivefl a The tobacco exhibit will consist beautiful doll given away with the of Broadleaf tobacco only and there News Journal. It is over two feet will be classes, in which four cash high. awards will be made, in Wrapper, Mr. Philip H. Dewey, of Tioga Binder and Filler types. County, is the new State Grange| York county will send a display master who succeeds John A. Mec-| of ten 10-ear entries of Lancaster Sparran. Golden Queen corn, the product of Mr. Aaron Metzler was at St. ten individual exhibitors to compete Brandt, who has pneumonia but is sembled in Lancaster county. For getting along nicely. { this event a silver loving cup is in Frank Shultz, of this place, who competition. “It is hoped,” said County Agent some time, due to lead poisoning, Bucher yesterday, “that every far- i mer contemplating exhibiting either was ‘corn or tobacco at the Farm Pro- Show at Harrisburg will C. C. Gingrich, of Lawn, of the Lebanon ducts | at Mt. Joy and forward them di- | rectly to the State Farm Products { Show at Harrisburg.” A CR een Ae eee. Visiting Father Who is Ill Harold Shearer of Ida Grove, | is spending a few weeks] They Were Whoppers visiting his father. J. L.| William Miller on Thursday killed Harold Shear- two large hogs for residents of a former local Ironvillee The one he butchered Mummaw weighed 408 "| pounds and that killed for Cleon {Staley weighed 404 pounds. Each yielded four cans of lard. of | snl A cies: married to ! BC Will Motorize the Plant This week the entire plant Direct From Florida Messrs. C. S. Frank & Bro. will ‘received a carload of Florida oranges {and grapefruit which they will sell {from the car here. For particulars i see their ad on another page. open | na At E’town Friday Nght Individual motors are] re et ere Sunday Mail The Post Office will be A i Mary Jane, ‘Road We Must All Travel Sometime MANY WELL KONWN PEOPLN HAVE PASSED TO THE GREAT BEYOND Frederick Hermann died at Co lumbia. Harry N. Myers died at Manheim, aged 84 years. John Guistwite died at Columbis, aged 82 years. Mrs. Gwynne Smith died at Co- lumbia, aged 56 years. Mrs. Caroline Greenawalt died at Columbia and was buried at Sil- ver Springs. Frederick Mumma, aged 76, of Columbia, died in the county hospi- tal. He will be buried at Ironville Thursday afternoon. Milton Capp Milton Capp, of Elizabethtown, died in the St. Joseph Hospital Sun- day evening of a complication of diseases. He was 40 years of age and is survived by seven children. Mary Jane Meyre infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil A. Meyre, of Lancaster, was buried Wednesday morning in Greenwood cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Meyre have the symse pathy of a host of friends. Mrs. B. S. Portner Mrs. B. S. Portner died at her home in Elizabethtown on Saturday. She was 80 years of age and death was due to a stroke. Beside her husband these children survive: Mrs, Robert Albright, of York; Agnes, at home; Ziegler, of Maytown; Clayton and William at home. Fu- neral services were held from her late home today. Rosella May Frick Rosella May, one year old daughe (Turn to Page 4) Many Will Render Xmas Programs SOMETHING EXTRA SPECIAL BY SEVERAL OF OUR LOCAL SUNDAY SCHOOLS—ALSO BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Christmas public and to the of our Appropriate season, many cial programs which will be ren). dered on the dates appended. Washington Grammar School The Washington Grammar School, at Florin, on the East Donegal township side, will render an intere esting Xmas program on Tuesday evening, Dec. 23, beginning at 7:48. There are many interesting nume bers and the gram should please all. Union School House A Christmas program will be rene dered Tuesday evening, Dec. 23, at 7:30 at the Union School, south of Mt. Joy, along Marietta Pike. Frances Musser and Erla C. Bear are the teachers, The program is a good one, Elm Tree School The following program will be rendered by the pupils of the Elm Tree School, at the Elm Tree house on Tuesday evening, December 23, 1924 at 7:30 P. M.: Song—By the school. Recitation—Signs of Christmas, Exercise—Merry Christmas. Recitation—What does Johnny want? Exercise—The song, the star, and the story. . Recitation—A possibility. Dialogue—Examination Day. Dialogue—What is Christmas (Continued on page five.) An Apology Owing to the great demand fow Chrismas advertising space in the Bulletin, certain news has been crowded out this week. We hope: our readers will overlook this for & week. BN We Need an Operator We are in need of a linotype operator at this office. Any lady, with enough ability to operate & typewriter, can do the work If you want a steady position, call at once at the Bulletin office. tf. Sn A Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Miler, on West Main street, celebrated It pays to advertise in the Bulletin ‘will play the E'town Boys and Girls. [ last Thursday. their sixth wedding anniversary ter of Frank and Ellen Frick, on Hopewell street, died Sundey evenee. — — ing from convulsions, aged 11 Sunday schools are preparing sl J Geng