. my Grandfathers,
"by my Grandmother during the
PAGE FOUR
Historic Sketch And
Reminiscenses of
Mt. Joy And Vicinity
From Its Earliest Settlement to July 4, 1876
tit
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(Continued from last week)
- The Donegal folks were excited.
“Drums, colors, rusty halberds and
«guns were brought forth and fixed
“up for the coming contest.
At this old Church on a certain
Sabbath morning, after the ser-
mon, and before the congregation
separated for their respective
homes, all old and young, except
the Pastor, formed themselves into
circle around that tree, joined
hands, impelled them to exert
themselves to the utmost, to secure
freedom to the country, which
thhy solemly pledged to do, or
die in the attempt.
The tree encircled was their
witness to the vow. How well
" was that solemn pledge kept, the
men went forth to battle such as
could bear arms, the old men, and
the women and children labored
at home, to support themselves
and raise provisions for the army.
Coats, shirts, stockings, and every-
thing that they could make, they
_took pleasure is making for the
soldiers.
And now
BEER
for other incidents
connected with this old settlement:
The old Tavern House, on the
Lancaster and Middletown Turn-
pike at the west end of the Bridge,
where it crosses the Big Chique-
salunga creek, and always known
as the Big Chiques Tavern, was
and was kept
. whole time of the Revolution for
Em EW Ow Wm
my Grandfather Hugh Peden was
an officer and with the army. This
Tavern was on the old Continental
Highway over which the mail was
then carried on a horse and there
semi-monthly did the Post Man
stop to deliver letters on his
western trip. During the war, he
was anxiously looked for, and the
day on which he was expected to
pass made it quite a busy place.
Old men, women and children,
from the country around, far and
near would be there to get the
news and read their letters to
each other, which was generally
of a sorrowful kind, for their let-
ters told, who had fallen in battle,
who were wounded and who
were taken prisoners. Ah! How
often were hearts made sad, and
bright hopes crushed, for many of
the men who went from this
neighborhood and never returned.
Their bones lay long, bleaching
on many a battle field.
That old Tavern was the head-
quarters and stopping place for
the army officers. After the battle
of Brandywine and massacre of
Paoli, a part of General Mayne’s
army came this way, and encamp-
ed very near our town, on the
banks of our Little Chiques and
on the North side of the road.
Rupp in his history, makes the
encapment North of Elizabethtown.
This I know to be wrong for my
grandmother pointed out the place
to me, said she was often on the
ground to visit the poor suffering
soldiers, and assisted in supplying
the army with provisions, clothing,
and other comforts. The place
was selected because there was
plenty of water, beautiful springs,
and no lack of wood, and but a
little distance from a smith shop,
where guns were taken and fixed
up for the army. The blacksmith
shop was on the Manheim road
and about one hundred yards west
of the creek.
During the time the army re-
mained here, General Washington
visited it, and with a number of
the officers, held a meeting in the
‘Big Chiques Tavern’ It was a
secret one, the minutes were care-
fully sealed up, placed in my
grandmothers hands for safe keep-
ing, and sometime after my grand-
fathers return from the army, he
placed them in a cavity, of the
partition of one of the rooms,
where it was completely enclosed
by the laths and the plastering.
The owner of this Tavern when
repairing the house some years
ago, tore down the partition and
found the papers. They were sent
to a Masonic Lodge in Lancaster.
In old revolutinary times they
were very strict in the military
a member of @ company paid
fine and costs for three days,
fifty-two pounds ten shillings. This
| lines.
: . {Little Chiques creek and met one
_ I have in my possession a receipt
time that tried men souls. Say
what you please about ‘womens
rights’, and what they should do;
we generally find that they get on
the right side, and do right.
Their general character is to do
good. They, like our Fathers were
aroused to resent what was con-
sidered as insults to their rights;
they would not tamely submit to
the galling yoke the mother
country determined to impose, and
to prevent it, peacably as they
generally are, they argued that it
was right in these terrible times to
draw the sword for Liberty and
their Country.
the men. Their cry was ‘To Arms!
To Arms! We will do what we
can in the glorious cause. We will
remain at home to do the work,
and help so far as we can to sup-
port those who are suffering in
the common cause. They did raise
money—furnished clothing and pro-
visions, and all they could to assist
in securing our liberty. Yes they
scorned to be slaves. They held
their ‘Tea Parties’ but that kind of
Tea, that England wanted them to
pay tax for, they would not use.
These meetings generally wound
up with a song composed by one
of the women. I feel sorry that
I can give you only the last two
I heard my grandmother,
my mother and aunts sing it when
I was but a little boy, the lines
are.
Fine Dittany our woods adorn
The girls shall cut and dry it.
And now for something about
our own Mount Joy. Though not
an old place but at the west end
of our Borough there stood an
old Tavern house, which was
burned down some years ago. It
was there in Revolutionary times,
on the Old Continental Highway.
It was known as a great place ail
over the country, and in good
‘Auld Ireland’ too.
That house from time immemorial
was kept as a Public house.
There was always a ‘Cross Roads
there and still known by that
name. It was the stopping place
of the Irish Emigrants on their
way to the Donegal settlement.
Their usual enquiry on their way,
was for the place they called the
“Three Crosses”, “The Cross Roads”
“Cross Keys”, & “Cross Land
Leddy.”
At that place tor a very long
time, the military trainings were
held. At one of these trainings,
during the Whiskey rebellion sev-
eral persons spoke loudly in favor
of the insurgents, declaring them-
selves ready to go to their assis-
tance, and urged all to join them.
A few days after, these men were
arrested, and taken to Lancaster,
but had the matter quieted by
pleading that they were on a
‘Spree’, that had they been sober
their conduct would have been
different.
In that old house there was
many a jolly frolic dance and fight.
The eastern part of the town
was laid out in 1812 by Jacob
Rohrer, who was long a justice of
the Peace in this place. The lots
were disposed of by Lottery, and
called Mount Joy, but called
Kohrerstown for a long time.
Richland, in the westend of our
Borough, was laid out, in a few
years after, and disposed of in the
same way, and the intervening
ground at intervalsince, and all
now comprises the Borough of
Mount Joy.
It was a small place when 1
first came here but child as I then
was, I remember it very well all
the houses, the woods and frog
ponds in the plot of ground now
comprising the Borough. There
were but twenty houses two tav-
erns, one at each end of town, two
blacksmith shops, one store, one
tailor and one shoemaker shop but
neither schoolhouse nor church.
The only place where public
worship was held occasionally, was
in a house put up by the ‘Leders’
from the Presbyterian Church, and
called Log Hall,
It stood near the bank of the
hundred yards from the Turnpike
bridge where it crosses the creek.
It* was “also. our school house.
After the last war with Great
Britian, when Peace was proclaimed,
we had a jolly time here. Every
house in town, F nt and Back
bring to the front something to FC
show what the women of this|nursing visits were made to 417
neighborhood did during the patients. 1185 visits were made to
They held Public
meetings, and were as patriotic as
sight. This town and neighborhood,
ANNUAL REPORT OF VISITING
This Visiting Nurse District is
a branch of the Lancaster Associa-
tion which is a participating agency
of the Welfare Federation. This
District covers East Petersburg,
Manheim, Elizabethtown, Mount
Joy, Salunga, Landisville, and ad-
joining areas.
During the last calendar year
ending December 31st, 1937, 1970
Metropolitan Life Insurance pa-
tients, 76 to John Hancock Lifer In-
surance patients and 709 to Com-
munity patients, of which 281
visits were free. $297.75 was col-
lected in fees.
Calls for Nursing Service are
received daily by Mrs. Unkle at
Ruhl’'s Drug Store at Manheim,
Garber’s Drug Store at Mount
Joy, and Dierolf’s Drug Store at
Elizabethtown.
The Visiting Nurse Association
wishes to take this opportunity of
expressing their sincere apprecia-
tion to these Druggists who have
given of their time and effort in
helping to extend this service t
the community.
Local Oil Men
Protest Flood
Of Legislation
Emphatically protesting against
the burdensome taxes placed upon
the oil industry and its customers,
fully 175 oil men held an enthu-
siastic meeting at Odd Fellows’
Hall, Lancaster and formed a per-
manent organization to be known
as the Lancaster County Division
of the Associated Petroleum In-
dustries of Pennsylvania.
The membership of the newly
formed organization is composed
exclusively of those who derive
their living in whole or in part
from the petroleum industry, ex-
ecutives ‘and laborers, alike, being
eligible.
The oil industry and its custo-
mers have been the target for a
terrific load of taxation and regu-
lations designed to restrict high-
way transportation they claim.
The very life of the industry is
threatened. In organizing, they are
duly restricted. Our motorist cus- 3
tomers,
If registration fees and state gaso-
line tax revenues are considered
as a unit, Pennsylvania motorists
are paying one of the highest rates
of any industrial state. The free
use of the highways is being un-
duly restrictee. Our motorist cus-
fomers are willing to pay their
share of taxes, but under present
conditions, they are paying more
than their share. One-quarter of
our state gasoline tax revenues is
used for non-highway purposes
Every cent of motor funds should
be devoted to highway construc-
tion and maintenance.
Mr. H. E. Garber, local Atlantic
dealer, is a member of the Public
Relations committee as is also Ira
Newcomer, Richfield dealer at El-
izabethtown.
al) A
HIGHWAY LIGHTING TO
CUT NIGHT ACCIDENTS
According to a report recently
issued by L. J. Schrenk, General
Superintendent of the Public Light-
ing Commission of Detroit, through
improved lighting on 31 miles of
streets the ratio of night accidents
to day accidents in Detroit has
been reduced from seven to one,
to 125 to one. “These results”.
the report states, “show that night
traffic accidents can be materially
reduced with adequate street light-
ing. There is no doubt that a
properly designed street or high-
way lighting system will provide
safety at night equal to that by
day while traveling at the same
speed.”
Adequate illumination along the
highways is the only solution to
abnormal night accident rates on
rural highways, Mr. Schrenk be-
down, back and front, all was lit
up.
To make the illumination com-
plete and cap the climax, a scaffold
suspended by chains, high up on
some trees, very near to where
the Presbyterian Church stands.
The floor of the scaffold was well
graveled and sanded, a large tar
barrel with tar in it, placed on it
and fired up. It was a beautiful
sight, sending its light all over
the town. It was the grand center
of attraction and place of gather-
ing of all the people. A‘ grand
gathering it was, for all that could
get to town, from far and near, old
and young were in to see the
furnished their quota of soldiers
streets, and wherever there was a
window large and small, up and
for the army.
NURSE, MRS. SANCTA D. UNKLE travelled and hazardous portions of
THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO. PA.
heavily
and lighting on
{ highways must be regarded as an
! essential feature of highway con- |
| struction. Admittedly, he says,such
{lighting costs money, but studies
'by state highway departments and
casualty underwriters show that
the absence of lighting may cost
two or three times as much as the
lighting. In addition there is the
humanitarian value of the acci-
dents prevented by lighting.
nl A
INSTALLS NEW NATIONAL
HONOR SOCIETY MEMBERS
The newly elected members of
the Honor Society were installed
by the old members on Friday,
during the assembly period at the
Fast Donegal High School, May-
town. The new members installed
officers of the society are: presi-
| dent, Anna Sload; vice president,
| Helen Brandt; and secretary, Kath-
arine Sperla. The sponsor is Mr.
Adams, the senior class adviser.
The present members were cho-
sen from the standpoint of Leader-
chip, character, scholarship, and
service.
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