ot if it come pout its your licy Hartford Fir 1 has prompt; | ver a century, licy costs and. gley Co, | Building INNA. ndisville, Pa, htown, Pa, ILEMAN na. \ OUT, TION VY many omen are gging them- around, all it with peri- 2akness and [hey should that Lydia ham’s Tab- lieve rie ins and dis~ 25 cents. of Danville, o ambition Your Tab- nd built me ith. a es '- ave Your JARS faced | (BLE [OWN a wre ADVICE Roseville, prescribed > said they - least. I've ruschen is tention to e was no visely fol- Why don't -day (lasts a trifle). ful in cup WEDNESDAY, JULY 17th, 1935 THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO. PA. A pastoral scene in the Butler Valley on State Route 309 between Hazelton and Wilkes-Barre. in Butler Valley Penna. Department of Highways ca wy i The road which rims this valley has just been officially opened and is considered one of the greatest engin- eering feats ever performed by highway builders. Deep cuts through solid conglomerate rock and tre- mendous fills have transformed mountain route into one of the safest in the country. Peaceful farms and bustling coal mines are found side by side in this thriving Northeastern Pennsylvania country. This is the fifteenth of a series of ar- ticles designed to stir interest in Penn- sylvania’s advantages to the tourist. Prepared under the direction of War- ren Van Dyke, Secretary of Highways, this series aims to outline briefly many of the places and scenes, which are be- ing recognized by travelers from other states as outstanding items in itiner- aries of the United States. Pennsylvania as one of the most pic- turesque states of th Union will spread out one of its choicest scenic panoram- as to thousands of delegates and visit- ors to the American Legion State De- artment Convention on August 15, 16, and 17, with Wilkes-Barre as the host city and the Blue Hills and Poconos as the encircling mountains. It has been said, and there are those willing to prove it, tl .. the General John Sulli- van Trail out of Wyoming Valley is the most enthralling sight to engage the eye of the traveler anywhere in the world. There is something there of the threatening declivity of the Grand Canyon, but it is masked by verdant beauty and its locale is the Horseshoe Bend of the Susquehanna where it cleaves the Blue Hills with a mighty sweep and sparkles against the sky hundreds of feet overhead. The Royal Gorge itself seems to have found a counterpart, and at points either side of the historical stream there are peaks and crags in miniature but grandiose duplication of some of the famed heights of upturned land. This is only one of the: improved trails of Pennsylvania Highway De- partment that will be only a matter of minutes removed from the doors of the Pennsylvania Department Convention of the American Legion. There is the Susquehanna Trail, flanked by Camp- bell's Ledge and Tilbury Knob, the lat- ter remembered today as the last bit of of territory still in possession of the family of William Penn. From ledge and knob, history says ,the aborigine fluttered the smoke signals that called has wandering groups of warriors into concert or advised them of events in the only code known to the early Americans. Ten minutes from Wilkes-Barre the Susquehanna sweeps between precipit- ous mountains and then skirts its way about the seven hills that the Indians christened Shickshinny. There can be seen the rock where Queen Esther sac- rifled early settlers to the blood lust of the savages. There may be viewed the mouth of the cave of Old Toby, hermit friend of the first Americans, hiding away within view of the mounded towns of the Shawanese and always ready to advise the newly arrived set- tlers of any hostile move. Wyoming Monument raises a shaft of many-hued stones representatives of all the various kinds found in Wyoming valley, a mute testimonial to the cour- age of Butler and his men when they withstood at terrible cost the invasion of Tories and Indians in the Revolu- tionary War, finally to have the rem- nants of population saved by the ar- rival of General Sullivan and his troops, saviors sent by General Washington for relief of the beleaguered. The first coal-hole opens its black mouth at the side of Susquehanna Trail, memorializing the first of all at- tempts to give into commercial and in- dustrial use the black rock that later took its proper name of anthracite. The river bank at the other side of the road held the chutes that fed the boats which made a tedious journey by river and canal to the metropolitan district of old Philadelphia. In Wilkes-Barre itself is one of the finest museums in all the state. Every implement, every utensil, every form »f clothing in use by the Indians may be seen there, together with fossilized specimens that prove the genesis of coal and the alchemy of Nature that turned tree and shrub and fern, and even fish and flesh, into the deep de- posits of anthracite fuel. A model mine will be open to visitors, with expert guides to show them about the cham- bers and explain to them the methods by which coal, at a cost of eleven tons of water to every ton of fuel, is brought to the surface and prepared for civil- ized use. The old grate of Jesse Pell is still preserved in its original setting in Pell House. There was it proved that with flue draft the smokeless black rock could be made to give heat for comfort and cooking, an experiment that finally proved to eastern America that it had found a long-enduring substitute for the rapidly disintegrating wood. Newly opened to convention visitors isone of the marvels of highway con- struction, the Ashley Boulevard. The deepest cuts, the deepest fills, the greatest movements of mountain rock, all these marked construction of the boulevard over a three-year period. Death curves , deadly underpasses, treacherous grade crossings, traffic-de- fying ravines-and mountain gorges, all had to be overcome by engineers. The finished highway will for many years remain a source of wonderment to the traveler. At the very door of Wilkes-Barre the Bear Creek Boulevard negotiates the first of the Poconos, Wyoming Moun- tain, winds on through eye-filling scenery to Indian Lake and to Effort Mountain where another of the almost magical enterprises of road construc- tion is to be seen. Only two years ago it was necessary to close off Effort Mountain to travel through the months of winter. Today a modern concrete road has its worst grade at seven per cent for less than half a mile. By actual test a car may be driven at top speed from beginning to end of Effort road and to the Eastern turnpike without the least fear of danger. All these and more the Pennsylvania State Department of the American Le- gion offers delegate and visitor to the convention in Wilkes-Barre during the three days of August. Famed Harvey's Lake is eighteen miles away. Luther- land is reached in thirty-five minutes. The almost countless lakes, mountain rivers, trout streams, and resorts of all kinds in both the Blue Hills and Poco- nos are matters of such easy travel that any designated point may be reached within 30 minutes, allowing as many hours for such enjoyment as the visit- or may seek. “On to Wilkes-Barre” has come to mean “on to the most enjoyable ex- periences of Pennsylvania Legion ac- tivities,” judged from all the angles of convenience, hospitality, and sight- seeing. The Bureau of Publicity and In- formation of the Pennsylvania Depart- ment of Highways Harrisburg, will gladly answer inquiries concerning routes and destinations on receipt of a postal card request. I» The WEEK CURRENT EVENTS PHOTOGRAPHED FOR wl TIN FASHION NOTE: Pretty THE BULLE TONY AND GUS," hiding behind the ac- cordion, Saturday and Sunday on 52 stations of NBC's WJZ network following Amos ’'n’ Andy in most cities. Chamlee (left), Metropolitan Opera star, and George Frame Brown, Real Folks program. Their current show is a mixture of music, drama, and humor. Tony #55 is struggling for a career in opera, while Gus 8 is set on punching his way to the world's heavyweight championship. are heard every evening except: Ry FAs CONGRATULATIONS: Jose- phine Johnson, who with her first novel, “Now In Novem- ber’, won the Pulitzer Prize for that classification this year. In private life they are Mario who originated the Kitty Carlisle, movie star, models this regal negligee made of ice green satin, trimmed with ermine and very long fringe. DOMESTIC: Frances Drake, one of Paramount's beautiful plays an role in the kitchen, too. stars. most promising important and An expert, Just as she is before of delicious Jelly, fresh sugar and bottled n fruit the camera, Frances particu. 8 larly enjoys the diversion she made of from 32,7271 WORLD'S CHAMPION BUTTER-PRODUCING COW!| Femco Johanna Bess Fayne, nine-year-old registered Hol. stein cow, has Just completed an official test which has established her as the highest record-holding cow alive. Her record is 1,525.5 pounds of butter in 365 days, churned] r pounds of milk. United States have ever produced over 1,500 pounds of butter in a year and Bess Fayne is the only cow in the world to have passed that mark twice, having produced 1.510.75 pounds in 1832-33. Be: Murphy, publisher of the Minne of Femco Farms at Breckenrid GEE! LOOK. IT!: A youth. ful Ontario angler lands the first fish: of his tife. ‘And is he thrilled? Well, |- Just ask any fisherman. Only five cows in the | Fayne is owned by F. E. | lis Tribune and owner ! in Western Minnesota, | arm here she is one_of th records of over 1,000 CONNECTICUT DIGS INTO PAST HISTORY Observes 300th Anniversary of Its Settlement. Washington. — Connecticut is bub- bling over with enthusiasm during the celebration of its tercentenary. Every town in the state is digging up its past history. Recent anniversaries observed in connection with the tercentenary are the Bristol sesquicentennial and the two hundred and seventy-fifth year of the Hopkins Grammar school in New Haven. “Netherlanders, not the English, were first on the Connecticut scene,” says the National Geographic society. “They sailed up the broad Connecticut river, mapped part of the ceastline, and later established a trading post near the present site of Hartford. “But rumors of the fertile lands and mild climate of the Connecticut valley had reached the Plymouth colony. Set- tlers from Massachusetts hurried down from the north, set up a rival post on the river, and in 1635 founded the three towns of Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford, nucleus of the colony. “The fundamental orders adopted by this little group marked the beginning of constitutional government in this country. Later, when Connecticut del- egates played an important part in the shaping of the federal Constitution, their state became known as the ‘Con- stitution State. Included Wide Territory. “Under the charter of 1662, granted by Charles II, the Connecticut colony included Long Island, and stretched westward from Narragansett bay to the Pacific ocean! The Wyoming val- ley in north central Pennsylvania, and the Western Reserve in Ohio (near the present city of Cleveland) were con- sidered part of Connecticut even late in the Eighteenth century. The New Haven colony, founded in 1638, had not been consulted when this charter was procured, and it took three years to persuade its people to unite with the Hartford group. Hartford was made the capital, but from 1701 to 1873 New Haven shared the honors as joint capital. “Geography molded Connecticut's fate. It is a little state (the third smallest in the Union), broken into smaller units by topography. The wide valley of the Connecticut river, running north and south through the center of the state, separates the rough uplands of the eastern and western portions. Long after the coast and central valley was settled these high- lands remained a wilderness. They consist of a series of hills and ridges, high in the north and low near the coast, paralleling the southward course of rivers and streams. “Rocky hillsides and narrow valleys made large farms impractical in Con- necticut. Only the Connecticut valley was particularly suited to the rals- ing of staple crops, such as tobacco. So the state became a land of small, independent farms and diversified crops. Agriculture in Connecticut was never easy. Many Important Industries. “That is why the people turned to industry as the best available source of wealth. Here again geography cramped them. The state has water power but few minerals. The old Granby copper mines, never very prof- itable, were turned into a prison dur- ing the Revolution. Salisbury’s iron mines were more successful. They have been worked for two centuries, furnishing ore for Revolutionary can- non balls and for the anchor of the Constitution. “Lacking raw materials Connecticut has concentrated on the manufacture of brass and copper products, machin- ery, firearms, ammunition, typewrit- ers, and innumerable small articles; tableware, tacks, machetes, coffee per- colators, rubber boots, needles, pins, hooks and eyes. “Bridgeport’s industries lead them all and New Haven is not far behind. The latter owes quite as much to Eli Whitney as to Eli Yale. After the inventor perfected the cotton gin he turned to New Haven, Another New Haven man, Charles Goodyear, discov- ered the process for vulcanizing rub- ber. “A century ago Connecticut was a sea-going country. Shipbuilding, whal- ing and China trade brought wealth to coastal villages and river ports. Many of the vessels that carried forty- niners around the Horn were built at Mystic. Essex launched the Oliver Cromwell, first ship in the U. 8, navy; and Wethersfield built the Desire, first American vessel to cross the Atlantic. But times have changed. New London is now a submarine base, and the fish- ing industry confines itself chiefly to the oysterbeds of Long Island Sound.” Old Serbian Mine Yields Secret of “Magic” Sword Jelgrade.—A prospector examining wedieval mine workings in Old Ser- bia believes he has solved the mystery of the ‘magic swords which would cut through the armor of the enemy” with which many of the legendary he- roes of the Serbian Middle ages were armed. In an old working from which iron had been extracted he found a piece of metal which is probably the oldest piece of special steel known. He tried in vain to bore a hole in it and finally sent it to Vienna to be examined. Analysis proved it to be a nickel steel of peculiar hardness. The circumstances under which it was found suggest that it is at least 1,000 vears old—950 years before nickel steel was rediscovered. eel ees. Provide Summer Shelters Many pullets are overcrowded during the summer months, being housed in hot, stuffy brooder houses. Special summer shelters are being used by many poultrymen to relieve this con- dition. Details for construction of such shelters are contained in circular 132, issued by the Pennsylvania State Col- Lancaster Stock Market CORRECT INFORMATION FUR- NISHED WEEKLY BY THE PA. BUREAU OF MARKETS FOR THE BULLETIN Local fed fat steers in fairly liber- al supply, market opening at about steady prices on all grades compared with close of last week. Grass fat steers not moving on early rounds; prospects these fat grass steers and heifers will sell 25 lower than last Friday. Bulls in demand at firl pri- ces. Cows plentiful, prices barely steady. Stockers and feeders in good run, a fair number of buyers in the yards; prices holding steady with the close of last week. Liberal sup- ply of calves on hand, prices holding steady. Hogs in fair supply, top prices on Westerns 11.25; locals 10:75 and 11.00. Lambs slow with fair re- ceipts; southern lambs selling 8.75- | 9.00; locals 7.75- 8.50. Receipts: 2657 cattle, 268 calves, 357 hogs, 440 sheep. STEERS Choice 9.50-10.00 Good 9.00-9.50 Medium 7.75-8.75 Common 7.00-7.75 HEIFERS Choice 8.00-9.00 Good 7.00-8.00 Medium 6.00-7.00 Common 4.50-6.00 COWS Choice 6.75-7.50 Good 6.00-6.75 Common and medium 4.50-6.00 Low cutter and cutter 3.00-4.50 BULLS Good and choice 6.50-8.50 Cutter, common and medium 4.00-6.50 VEALERS Good and choice 8.50-9.50 Medium 6.50-8.50 Cull and e~mmon 4.50-6.50 FEEDE! & STOCKER CATTLE Good and hoice 7.00-8.00 Common { 1d medium 5.00-6.25 HOGS Good and choice 10.50-10.75 Medium and good 7.25-8.25 SHEEP Choice lambs 8.75-9.25 Medium to good 7.00-7.50 Common lambs 6.00-6.50 Yearling Wethers 5.00-5.75 Ewes 1.50-3.50 Choice local lambs 7.75-8.50 Transplant Celery Now Celery for fall and winter use may be set out until the middle of July. Fordhook-Houser-Emperor, hollow stalk resistant strain of ascal, and Easy Blanching are the varieties preferred in the order named. them. it is read. THE lege. Ths circular may be obtained from the College or your county agent. ADVERTISEMENTS Must Be Seen and Read eo 0 @ 0 o Every advertiser likes to believe that his advertising will be seen—uwill be read. But how many readers of a given medium actually read the ads? How many, for that matter, even so much as see them? Circulation figures, milline rate computations, how- ever, impressive, do not provide the answers. The clue is in time. Meaning—the more time the reader gives to the reading of a publication the great- er the certainty that he will see the ads—and read Recently, O. B. Winters, vice-president, Erwin Was- ey & Co., said: “I know from experience that a good country weekly is read from cover to cover by literally evvery one in the community it serves.” Why? The answer is—time. Country newspaper readers find the time to read their local papers. They can be depended upon to see ads—and read them. People never read a large daily paper as carefully or as thoroughly as they do a good weekly. Let us serve you in placing your advertising where MOUNT JOY ‘When The First of Every 3 \ Month Arrives On the ing out—the 1 company, and a you have paid eve yourself first. OWN YOUR OWN'HOME AND PAY YOUR RENT TO YOURSELF BY USING THE - of every month, when bills fall due, you begin pay- ord, the gas and electric company, the telephone zen others get their share. When you are through, dy but yourself. Try this plan instead—pay BUILDING & LOAN PLAN You will find that you are able to manage without cheating yourself. This plan is the most ceMgin and economical way and makes you feel that you are getting sognewhere financially. USE MOUNT JOY BUILDING & EQAN ASSO. To Finance Your Home Under supervision of state Banking departrifent “on Jno. E. Schroll, Pres. Henry G. Carpenter, ¥, Pres. E. M. Bomberger, Sec. . R. Fellenbaum, Treas. NEW LOW ll gine ‘blue coal’ —buy now ~save money Wolgemuth Bros. Phone Mt. Joy 220 FLORIN, PENNA.“ _ April‘ BULLETIN
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