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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27th, 1931 THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO., PA. PAGE FIVE
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OOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOO0 : Authorities Differ on LOCAI DOINGS 1
Promise Made by Soldier's Mercy Appeal ’
Old Cubero Several theories have been advanced |
to account for the military phrase to ryon Ss arage
#give quarter,” meaning to spare the
By LEETE STON & '
y STONE life of an énemy in one's power. A (From page 1)
French writer named De Brieux as Mount Joy, Pa.
(© by McClure Newspapar Syndicate.) serted in 1672 that the phrase to “give | Chambersburg. :
. : quarter” arose from an agreement be- Mrs. Ruth Fackler gave a birth- Florin Pa
ACK ODELL was tired and sick of | tween the Dutch and Spanish whereby | day party at her home on Friday ’ .
Just about everything at home. | the ransom of a soldier was to be & [evening for her daughter, Bernice,
He yearned for far fields and a new | quarter of his wages. Thus, accord who was the recipient of many,
dons oe ile girl | ing to this theory, where a captured | gifts both useful and beautiful.
g a 0, : : :
de fad g y ped soldier begged for quarter he offered |The evening was spent playing The repair and service
g since with a dancing master. | hig captor a quarter of his pay to ith d Eli-
games with prizes awarded to department has been put
That is bow It happened that life | spare his life; if the captor turned |,aheth Lehman, Mary Brooks and in ch
shunted him down to the southern | down the offer he refused to grant A very delightful in charge of Mr. C. W.
edge of Arizona at this time when his | quarter. This theory, as the Oxford | po = 00 Fo © TH 4 | § a first class me-
emotions were as arid as that blis- | dictionary points out, is at variance guests Including the following: chanic of 14 years’ exper-
fers Sosy, = was about the first | with both the spirit and sense of the Goldie Hershey, of Elizabethtown; ience on all makes of cars
of September; hot as blazes, and the | phrases to give and recelve quarter. ? hh i i
i iti . ‘88 : Mary and Ruth Brooks, Mary Witt-|{ especially Cadillac, La
A general clean up week in all Boroughs and Cities has rattlesnakes and scorplons thereabouts | Since “quarter” 1s applled to pince, | 10“ Pg! NC Shale, Faith || Salle, Studebaker, Chrys-
were plenty active. and the tents or barracks whera |.’ te a : y Kk 1 ' ’
qs : Jack went to a little copper-mining | soldiers are lodged are called their | ichler, Doris Zitzer, Helen Baker, er and Buick.
been requested by the authorities at Harrisburg and the Ho 0d At. lS, airy Ser op outers #79 Taiged ate gle) tele | Lewin,” Dorothy Weis ; :
| Job helping out the mine boss. He Juan “quarter” originally referred to er, Barbara Landvator, Frances wis experienced m
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Council of Mount Joy Borough desires that the week of May put up a pretty fair imitation of a | the sending of captured troops to an ig Bernice Facer i Io iy Body re-
a yi bo Sie Big ring 2541716) QUATIOF OF Place 18 Hn samp Thon Bel va Fike oo v Fender work, etc:
- 143 t was during a poker game one | or fort to be held until liberated, ran- S ’ i i
25th be observed a clean-up week. We ask that the Citizens night that Jack Odell first heard of | somed or condemned to slavery. | Robert Fackler, of town. This gives our many
i. : Old Cubero across the line In New | Therefore, It this theory ls correct, customers the opportun-
of Mount Joy join in this very commendable movement Mexico. Every day far away shim- | giving a soldier quarter at first meant ity to have their cars ser-
mering in the solid heat waves, he had | sending him to the quarters of the viced and repaired by one
: $ : : : seen the mound-like hills behind which | eaptors, while to refuse him quarter adapted to give the best
and look after their properties including their cellars, out tay. Lo die Ata Imm: RE RDIN service at the most Tea:
‘You know the story, don’t you, | Another theory deserves mention. One sonabl i
13: i, e prices.
buildings, &c. Destroy all matter that may harbor the bey?" One of the bunch shot the | of the meanings of “quarter” is friend- -
question at him, ship, amity, or peace. It has been may 27-2t
. . . “Can’t say I do,” Jack answered. suggested that to beg quarter origi- rom page »
breeding of flies and mosquito. “Well—it looks as If it lay just mext | pally employed the term in this sense Gertie Groff, all of Mount Joy. :
door behind those silver hills—but it's | and meant to ask for peace—Path- | Services were held Monday after- |" 3
| what's in between that matters. The | finder Magazine. noon at the home and later at Mt.
i worst desert in the country. There's Joy United Brethren church. Inter-
| been two tried to make it in my time ment in Eberle’s cemetery. NO i 1¢ 'E
O | an’ never been heard of since. An | Single Copies Scorned
i why do they try—ask me that? Well :
Vr : : by This Book Borrower Phares H. Metzler
| it's this way, buddie. Personally, { As a general rule, book publishers | Phares Metzler, Salunga, after a We ote to serve .eur
think it’s the bunk ! Jut some old in this country depend mainly on lend- | long illness of complications passed many rien s and patrons at our
| gesers rat hiew n hese 2 Tew Soars ing libraries for their sales. In Den- [away on Sunday. He left a wid- new store in the rear of our for-
| 2%0 a i of 2 5) hou 2 40 mark publishers are taking more dras- |ow, Lizzie Weisenhelter Metzler mer store. (Entrance on East
® ® bi el gr J mine oI {here tic steps. One firm there is trying to | formerly of York, one brother side.)
Q BY ho. 2 pe be Arles oi mah prevent libraries from lending its | Samuel, Seattle, Washington, and
B R G E S S Q both 2 mm ED 2 in Ye books unless they pay double the or- [two sisters, Mrs. Isaac Kolp at the ANY REPAIR WORK OR
{ st wi —just wi 1a ; :
UV Car tne he dinary price for them. Here, as condi- | Oreville Home and Mrs. Isaac
8 | goa Tora han to igh Mong he in tions are at the moment, the libraries | Stauffer of Hammer Creek. His age CONTRACTING
: hy Pa te ood pn are the publisher's best friends. There | was 67 years, 3 months and 13 PHOTO FINI
Q Role. he’d ever seen because 4) A are very few people who want to buy | days. Funeral on Thursday at 1:30 NISHING
Q trust him Fair tole t it's books, and large numbers who want | o'clock Standard time at the home AND ENLARGING
Q dragged two got Hin oy ton Wid to borrow them. The greatest book- | with public services at the Landis-
| that no one's ever heard tel of since” | in history, however, lived at | ville Lutheran church. Burial in the Painted Pictures
<Q | “Give He thts cards = Wik a time when people who wanted books | Mennonite cemetery at Salunga. %
| uy response. But he lay awake an | had usually to buy them. He was the | For many years the deceased Given Prompt Attention
| that night thinking of the promise of duke of Somerset, who wot pro was employed as a truck driver
i \ rele rdw e > Toor ; z
| Old Cubero. Of course it was “tne | tector in the reign oF . . |for the New Standard Hardware
! bunk.” this cf had said: bat borrowed the whole of the books in | here.
! on wy a5 of oy a a i 2 the London Guildhall library, loading S H MILLER
| Pl a to aot oo iy oo them onto carts and taking them Mary G. Shearer . .
® ia gh tory IL e away to read at his leisure. And he Mary G. Shearer ey a ,
| sides, if he could cross that desert and Se one. Thiel i ary GQG. earer, Mastersonville, W. Main St., MT. JOY
p i come back alive it would put him in hever Ie ange. win 104 to died at the St. Joseph’s hospital,
| a oF 3 _| years ago a manusc longing where she had 5 oy to
A | E = eave) 0 tion with all these min this collection was found. 1t is the Whos So ae
| 2 i) 0 oll 1 only survivor.—London Mail De oe 5; on
00 e ns Jack Odell was nearly thirty and he gg sday ner oR oe age was | o °
had lived an adventurous existence in 08 years, 3 months an days.
| many parts of the world, but that trip When Eggs Were Cheap Death was due to complications. E P 0 C
NOW 00 ome mime i, Tor] Tie og oS art |, oso Souter, 7 Se
Lov 3 0 ubero ws ie races eak- | Abram and Priscilla Greiner and a
i i ele which frequently graces the break S
something new in his experience. fast table, is not usually associated | member of the Brethren in Christ FLOWER GARDEN
i By day © could be home, somehow. with bridge building, says an article church, Surviving _are the follow- RHEEMS. PA
He slept and swayed in the saddle in the Edinburgh Journal. Nevertheless ing brother and sisters: Ephraim y -
half the time, coming to full conscious- the upper North Water bridge which | Greiner and Mrs. Isaac Brandt of Extends an invitation to visit
iii I M ness often enough to take a pull at spans the river North Esk near Mont- | Mastersonville;s Mrs. John Wenger, their flower gardens now. Won-
Come In and Make Your the water bottle when his tongue felt rose, contains this strange ingredient Rapho township, Mrs. Phares Krea- derful long-spurred Columbines
: . : lection Bef as big as a baseball in his mouth.. The | | "0g" opie The bridge was con- | dy, Elstonville. Services were con- are in bloom, Daisies, Tulips,
Do not allow your heating system to lose its effi- Selection Before the little pack-mule plodded along so con- | 2 1760 and at that peri- | ducted from the home on Sunday Busies wi many
4 scientiously behind with the five-gal- | hd Aa y fer 4 > other hardy flowers. ants at
th Sgr ! od egos were costing about one penny | afternoon, and later in the Breth- ons pW
ciency by dirt and scot. Take advantage of this op - ton water keg roped on his back. But Bo en ri Toes ve {Tem 0 ‘Chriss in reasonable prices
portunity and have it cleaned with our electric vac- oice atterns | the nights! Long hours of cessation | =, qo of any special food value. | the adjoining cemetery. may 27-1t J
f 1 { of motion, of striving to sleep in that Hundreds of dozens were brought from — me me
uum Iiurnace cleaner. . dead, dank atmosphere. Once he wak- : : \ 6 >
7 A: he village of Fettercairn and the
Are All Picked Out ened from a firful doze, under a sun ae district to the scene of MT. JOV HIGH JUNIORS
3 3 that was like a two-edged sword, to | , . ; ; ENTERTAINED THE SENIORS
This equipment enables us to clean your furnace nal was. uk ged. , the work and mixed into the mortar, i
: . worl ia : i find a huge rattlesnake coiled, five feet thereby increasing its tenacity and as- on N av rani jors
any time at your convenience. Our work is guaran. { from ts head. I f suring durable workmanship when the 0 Yonqay ibis fs isi
: yo 3 Then came the afternoon, crossing entertained the Seniors of Mount .
nd] 0 QE fe < I are reas ‘ 3 > | pridge was completed.
teed to give satisfaction. Rates are reasonable. Get | : : a Le hits of roe ori Lridze wis comp Joy Rich Scoot to & perly given an Betore Placing your order
our terms. | W T 0 ous valley of rocks beneath, when the = the High School. elsewhere, see us.
BISS al ring 0, little pack-mule bearing the water “Centers of Population” The program, given in the auditor. | Crushed Stone. Also manufac
MERCHANT TAILORS Hine 03 Some Jem load Sones By senior of Sp by om Songivied OF Swamy, ot { ig oe Consrae Blocks,
- : Ew it Teh Hay statisticians, is meant e boil 2 Hy dillinger; Family Album, Harriet Mc | Sills anc intels.
106 E. Vine, LANCASTER, PA. rocks below. For three Jnhutes Jack | which the totad population of a dis Elroy and Lester Mumma; Shadow |
Odell listened te the pitiful moans of | tot or country is conceived to bal I © $50 toaehor on]
pain and watched the precious water { ,, . In oth r words it is the center | iptures: oRtest tor youl
: * ince. Worcs Prof. Nitr: Play, “Stuttering
S| 2% 2 fro » broken cask tur he rocks eravity of popu on, assuming : : [ : 4
; 3 | 3 or The ) on Gi igh the roc of gravity f De ] \ 1 I | Se Treasurer Hunt, J. N. Stauffer & Bro.
of | . dark around its wreckagce—then he that the district is a plane and that | a 2 : |
° emptied five shots from his revolver | o 1 unit of population has the same Eat wore served in the Syme | MOUNT JOY, PA.
{ into the faithful animal. putting it | Suppose all the people of the nasium, which was de corated in |
; oo : | out of its misery. He took the last United States are conceived as rest oreen and Ww 5, the Senior Class |
FLORIN, PA. double-drink of water from the flask | on a weightless plane having the colors, using white snowballs, 2
| over his shoulder. half-heartedly re | in and shape of the United States. eanut scramble was enjoyed | 01 tin 0 y
Phone 151B4 M22. Joy S788 loaded his revoiver, and weakly | gpa center of population would be the 60 teache's and students. Sp 9, RE fing and
| climbed back on his stumbling pinto. point where the plane would halance TTT : Tinning
When Jack Odell stumbled back to | on a single suport.—Pathfinder Maga You can get all the news of this : :
consciousness he was certain his trou | gine, locality for less than three cents a Hot Air Heating
bles were over and that he had, with week thru the Bulletin.
| out deserving it, blundered to heaven Tr
| His head was on a little plot of green Asset ° -
erass and an ice-cold cloth rested An interviewer asked J. P. Morgan Bill Scholin BROWN’S TIN SHOP
| blissfully on his temples. A voice. | {f he found the delights of living on y
emanating apparently, from a vision | his country estate compensated him Is Phone 109R2
of feminine loveliness that Bent so | for the time and trouble occasioned . 33 West Main St., MT. JOY. PA
| licitously over him. was saying: In going to and from his New York B k id : *
| “You're better now! Don’t be | eifice, a ng
| afraid! You've conquered the worst “Indeed they do,” replied Mr. Mor
desert in the Southwest. Father found | gan heartily. “Country lie hye nig
| vou nearly dead out in the rocks. And | dividends in rest and health, Yet, to The Following Can be Had at ;
| ne likes you—your face. I mean. He's | me, these are not the greatest assets. 4 E HA VE
| eoing to have you help him mine our | I find that the best part of country
| i lost gold here because he says ne ‘fe lies in the people you don't meet. Warren H. Greenawalts ! Al IT Y
p i knows you are a mining and — —_— Store
( 2% | he says he knows you're honest. Oh, a {
| : 1 > pn attor she r Hip v r . ~
Sanitary Cleaners | please say Soman) You're be i i $ In Bis pO War] 211 W. Main Street M 0 A I S
| aren’t you? Tell me! Please say some £ irkstone, Pass, England, Marl
and Dyers || a Atkinson, landlord of the Kirks ne Sg GE | ie
Panama Hats $1.00 | i “I'll say I'm better; but I'm in heav- | In, 2ave instru to § on : DOUGHNUTS ........... 20c a _
Ladies’ Spring Coats $1.50 | | en. or somewhere. 1 died a long time | that his body should be cre: ine tie 5 Boi K og I J M t M k t
ac Sp g Coats ....., 50 i on 0 In: the highest Zr BUNS 15¢ a Doz. | Arai s viea arKe
Children’s Coats .......... $1.25 i | On no. vou didn't” the vision | land, en top of a mountain 2500 fect | BREAD | . 5 and 10c Loaves | wast Main St. MOUNT JOY
Gents Coals Retsil 3.2% i | spoke happily. “Youre in Old Cu- hos S64 a3 wad that his Savane | may 27-2t |
Gents Suits ............. $1.25 3! pero water hole. and I'm taking care | MOUNT 1 Stor ae ot a i om :
Special on Gents Hats.......50 wf you.” more work after carrying asies | | :
x poo at i 2 : och " just keep on takin’ care o | to the grave. Nest Ng Theis
HARRY F. BROOKS i | me. won't you?" And Jack Odell sank mere PREVENT h E
: 8] into his first natural sleep for eight She Was All Right { those Up to the Minute Styles,
Er ee] FLORIN, PA. bi avs ' il as igh a | { By Expert Barber
| 2 241 : wo business men met on the street | |
! | iE and exchanged the usual comnioi |
; avg a "ENCE SCHOCK. —| “To Fit the Crime” | W. F. CONRAD
PE LAR > ol ome ; oe. i When England's Henry | found in “Well, how is everything over a HEAD COLDS | 30 W. Main St. MT. JOY. PA.
Aree ; > | | «125 that 94 “moneyers.” who had vour. house?’ inquired the Arst af -
. : 5 | i al y coin one, t y 1 | fw Q
| | teen allowed tg oin money had tabiv. . Hamilton
| : Hoped the coins, as he | 900 ther stared imnocently at his -youcandoit) sane
HENRY G ordered their hodies to be likewise “Oh, she's all right » he said. Electric Clocks
| \ CARPENTER vked Gown the street Zonk | ®1 0 to $25
mmm Ld - the nose, mout | i
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"NSURANCE - M( | NT JOY FA. i and throat. An
&very Kind of Insurance except life anywhere in Pennsylvania, With H. G. Walters Gephardt-Shellenberger | DON Ww GORRECHT
| Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Coble and| wfjss Esther Shellenberger, daugh- and you won't JEWELER
Nast | daughters, Margie and Jean; Bud Es-|(or of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Shell- have colds.
. | 5 oN ¥ | penshade. of Middletown; Mr. and | of Oak Land Mills, Juniata HOW ARE YOUR SHOES?
A Se i : > Mrs. John Roth and sons, Clarence {comnty, became fhe bride of Harry DON'T WAIT TOO LONG
. and John, Jr.; Miss Myrtle Roth, Ab-|, :
; { Mr. and Mrs. Jno 30¢, 60¢ BRING THEM IN
| UMBE [ce Cream, Groceries and ram Nornhold, Charles Roth, Miss | Gephardt son of Mr. and Mrs. Jn and $1.00
H. B.|A. Gephardt, of Elizabethtown, R. D.,
Mount Joy, Pa
1 Pearl Schroll, Mr. and Mrs. SHOE
Confections Arntz and sons, Gerald and Robert, recently. Rev. Charles M. Fahl pas- REPAIRIN
Ee —— YT TT —_— BRANDT BROS and Miss Dorothy Detwiler were tor of the Gospel Sh. There is no Deter way Sook G CO.
. i S y Mr. and Mrs. H.|bethtown, presided an use your business an by local news
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