PE ee eo hy gn ATW So A We hr hi TRE To Rey gmap rede a. 41 ol Council Drafts Ordinances For Town Planning-Zoning—Also Limit Main St. Parking Sat’ 690 Pupils Enrolled In Our Borough Schools On Tuesday The Mount Joy Borough ,schools opened Tuesday morning for a one- half day session, with a total enroll- ment of 690, school proper begin- ning Wednesday morning with 21 pupils in the High School who have not as yet called for their schedule, the approximate enrollment will be 265 with a total enrollment of 702. The school enrollment is: Classification Grade 1—Miss Grade 1—Miss Grade 2—Miss Grade 2—Miss Grade 3—Miss Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade Entire Total Grand Edna Charles Mildred Zink Ruth Heim Mildred Zink 4—Miss 4—Miss S5A—Miss Irene Ibach 5B—Mrs. Ethel Broske 6B—Miss Irene Hess 8—Mr. Encollment of Grade Elisabeth Heilig .......... 10 3—Miss Dorothy Kaylor Elisabeth Heilig .......... 12 Irene Heisey .. 6A—Miss Helen Phillips ......... 7—Miss Elizabeth Patterson Earl Kochenour High School Boys Girls 29 24 18 39 Grade Total 12 11 Totals 4 16 Girls 19 6 16 13 10 18 20 a i 19 37 25 25 31 31 61 47 School—Beys 226—Girls 211 PET Sou 23 Total Both Schools—Boys 351—Girls 339—Total 690 Pity “the Poor Geography Teacher! School opens—and with it what a headache for the geography teacher, Sudden changes in the boundaries of a dozen European countries caused by Hitler's military successes and Stalin’s expansion movement have rendered geographies and atlases out of date. And the result? “It’s a headache,” says Mrs. Virginia Bongart, a teacher in the Cook county public schools near Chicago, who is pictured above. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 64 Pigs In The Inter-County Round-Up Thirty-two members of three county 4 H Pig clubs will enter six- ty-four pigs in an inter-county pig round-up to be held Thursday to- day, September 5 at Wagner’s mar- ket, Elizabethtown R. D. 3. They will compete with thirty-eight mem- bers from three Dauphin county clubs. Club members will weigh their pigs from 7 to 10 a. m. (ST) after which they will enter them in the show ring in pairs, each member having entered two pigs. Officials will judge the pigs according to grade and market classification and at 1:30 p. m. the pigs will be sold at auction, Prizes will be presented to mem- bers of the clubs at a 4-H Pig club banquet to be held several days after the round-up. There will be cach prizes for the winners in each club, for the best pair of pigs from each county, and for the highest daily gain and highest total scores. Ee MADE A RECORD During the first six months of this year 890 persons were killed in this state by automobiles. Of that num- ber 419 were pedestrians. LOCAL SOLDIERS WILL GO FCR YEAR'S TRAINING Four residents of Mount Joy, members of Headquarters Battery, Second Battalion of the 213th Coast Artillery, Anti-Aircraft, will leave September 16th for Virginia Beach near Norfolk, Virginia. After a short preliminary training at this point they will go to Savannah, Georgia to complete the year of training as required by the Na- tional Guard legislation recently signed by President Roosevelt. First Lieutenant Carryl E. Stauf- fer and Privates Lloyd Zerphey, Winfield Hendrix and Harry Ress- ler are members of this unit. Cor- poral Sylvester Browning and Pri- vate First Class Andrew Landis, of Florin, are also members. Lieutenant Stauffer stated that there are openings in the Battery for chauffeurs, radio men and clerks. A Ms LOCAL LADY WON Miss Dorothy Detweiler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Detweiler, on N. Market St., was’ awarded the combination clock and radio Mon- day evening at Joy Theatre. Sent CE ——— INSTALLED AS PASTOR On Sunday morning, September 1 at the 10 o'clock cervice, the Eliza- bethtown Church of the Brethren installed Dr. M. Clyde Horst as pas- tor. Conference at Chiques Church Was Very Largely Attended More than 2000 persons attend- ed the annual Labor Day meeting, sponsored by the Board of Christian Education of the East District of Pennsylvania of the Church of the Brethren, held in the Chiques church near Manheim. A large tent was erected near the church to care for the overflowing crowd. The Rev. Paul H. Bowman, Jr, Bridgewater, Va., spoke at the three sessions and various conferences Ifa oo were held. Officers elected for next year’s meeting, which will be held at the East Peteresburg church are; Mod- Rev. Galen Blough, Ephrata; moderator, Rev. David Snader, Akron; secretary, Miss Mabel Eshleman, and treasurer, Ammon Stauffer. The moderator of Monday's meet- ings was Dr. R. W. Schlosser, presi- dent of Elizabethtown college. erator, assistant MOST UP-TO-THE-MINUTE WE EKLY | LANCASTE R COUNT The Mount J oy Bulletin VOL. XL, NO. 14 Chief Executive Of The Chrysler Corporation It is with a great deal of pleas- ure and catisfaction that we an- nounce that Mr, Kaufiman T. Keller, a native of our borough, has be- come the chief executive of the Chrysler Corporation, the re- sult of a recent meeting of the board of directors. They abolish- ed the office of chairman of the board, held by tke late Walter P. Chrysler. In effect, Mr. Keller has had ful! responsibility for the company’s operations for more than two years since Mr. Chrysler became ill in May, 1938. He had been president of the corporation for five years. a Typhoid Case At FlorinTo Be Investigated Dr. A. J. Greenleaf, county medi- cal director, said Wednesday night he will conduct an investigation in an effort to determine the source of the typhoid fever which caused the death of Albert Russell Forry. thirty-five, Florin. Forry died Tues- day night in St. Joseph's hospital after an illness of two weeks. It was the second death from the dis- ease in the county this year, Dr. Greenleaf said. Mr. Forry was a son of Reuben and Minnie Forry, Manheim R. D. 1 and was employed at the Bachman Chocolate factory, Florin. He was a member of the Florin United Brethren church. Besides his par- ents, he is survived by his wife Mrs. Enda Forry; the following chil- dren, Albert, Jr., James and Edna; all at home; four sisters, Mrs. Aus- tin Richard , Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Lester Keebler, Manheim R. D. 1, and Blanche and Stella Forry, both of Manheim, and three brothers, Elwoed Hallam; Arthur, Elizabeth- town R D, 2, and Ralph, Columbia R D1, 275 Girls At 4-H Club's Big Meeting More then 275 girls, local leaders, and mothers attended the Girls’ 4-H club county roundup held at the Farm Bureau building, 812 N. Queer st, Lancaster, last Wednesday. Ex- hibits of clothing, food, and room improvements were displayed. Clubs attending were from Pen- ryn, Manheim, East Petersburg Elizabethtown, Donegal, Landis- ville, Rohrerstown, Paradise, Akron, Lincoln, East Lampeter, Kirkwood, East Drumore, Fulton, Little Bri- tain, Chestnut Level, Bart and Gap. The Flizabethtown third year clothing club won the cup present- ed by the Society of Farm Women. Other prize winners were: Best workmanship, first year clothing work, Penryn; second year cloth- ing work, East Petersburg; and third year clothing work, Elizabeth- town; first year food, East Lampet- er, second year food, East Drumore; first year room improvements, red ribbon to Chestnut Level. Judges were Mabel McDowell, state exten- sion clothing specialist, Miss Helen Mathias county extension agent of York county, local leaders, and for- mer 4-H club girls. Miss Marion Nolt, of Landisville, president of the 4-H club council, was in charge of the program, tg @ Pere COVERED DISH SUPPER The Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church are holding their covered dish supper on Tues- day evening at the Church, after which a public meeting will be held at 7:30 in the Church, when Mrs. Austin Fellenbaum will review, “Moments In Peking”. BE TWO MILITARY ROADS Two highways passing thru the county are listed as military roads. They are the Lincoln Highway and Route 222, Lancaster to Reading. The state proposes to spend $27,- 000,000 on 3000 miles of Penna roads. Problem On Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Morning, September 5, Auto Parking Here Quite Main Street: An Ordinance Restricting One Hour Parking Saturdays, 1 0 To 10, Will Be Passed—Other Councilmanic Affairs Mount Joy Boro Council met it monthly Monday ! & ening with all members present, Burgess Keener absent due to ill- ness. The minutes of the last regu- lar and special meetings were read and approved. regular session reported collec- of $3.00 dur- Burgess Keener tions to the amount ing August. The various committee chairmen usual reports. Supervisor Smeltzer reported he needs oil and Secretary Bailey was instructed to get bids and purchase made their same. Pumping engineer Shatz reported] pumping 119 hours by motor and | 174 hours by water power, a total | of 6,649,000 gallons during August. Mr. Chas. Dillinger, secretary of the Board of Health, reported no quarantines during August and eight health certificates received. Officer Elmer these arrests during Speeding 1, passing 3, inspection 1, parking (Turn to page 5) — @ Ee 18th Reunion Of Wenger Families The 18th annual reunion of all the Wenger families will be held in the Lititz Springs Park, Lititz on September 7, 1940. The program will begin at 1:30 Eastern Standard Time. The following exercises will be given: Zerphey reported August: stop sign! | 1, © 1, no Memorial Report, E. R. Wenger, Ephrata, Pa.; Musical trio, Julia Ann, Patricia, Mary Ellen Haas, West Reading, Pa.; address, Rev. Nevin Zook, pastor of the Ambler Church of the Brethren, Ambler, Pa.; Music on banjo, mandolin, ac- cordion, and guitar by “The Happy Pilgrims”, composed of Myrtle (Turn to Page 4) ————————— PLANE STOLEN IN JERSEY WAS EASILY REMOVED The silver monoplane which was stolen from a New Jersey owner and was abandoned after it made a forced landing near Elizabethtown was removed under its own power. Neighbors, who said they believed tte owner's representatives started it, were surprised that an ascent was possible in the rough field. They said it nearly grazed nearby trees. E. Hempfield Schools In Session Tues. The East Hempfield Township schools opened for the 1940-1941 school year Tuesday. The open- ing day of school was a half day session. The faculty for the township schools is as follows: High school, social studies and boys physical education, Amos R. Herr; mathe- matics and girls physical education, Miss E. Mae Shenk; commercial studies, Miss Caroline Greider; Latin and French, Miss Esther Withers; English, Miss Mary Lee (Turn to Page 4) rr A A Qs THEY ARE WHOPPERS Christ Hershey, of Breezy Height: Farm, west of Florin, brought two fine specimens of Irish Cobbler potatoes this office, the one weighing one pound and ten ounces Mr. Hershey says they were grown during the dry weather. A An LETTERS GRANTED Harvey Z. Sumpman, of Mount Joy township, and Rebecca Helman Mount Joy borough, executor of Emanuel R. Sumpman, late of Mt. Joy borough. to EAST DONEGAL SCHOOLS ANNOUNCE ENROLLMENT The enrollment of the schools of East Donegal Township was an- nounced Tuesday as follows: High school at Maytown, 375; Maytown elementary, 240; and George Washington school in Florin, 115. The figures were released by Sup- ervising Principal J. W. Bingeman. A total of 55 beginners are listed inthe township, 37 of them in the Maytown school and 18 at Florin.! The senior class at the high school in Maytown numbers 45. A slight increase in the enrollment of the district is expected in the next few days, the principal indicated. ————- Een MR. RALPH DUNCAN WILL REPLACE MR. STAUFFER Mr. Carryl Stauffer, ° science teacher and coach of the soccer, baseball and rifle teams in the local high school, will be replaced on September 16th by Mr. Ralph Dun- can, of Mechanicsburg, R. D. (Cumberland Co.). Mr. Duncan is a graduate of Eli- zabethtown College, Class of 1939. His major science, his minor, mathematics. In college he was an active mem- ber of the Science Club, school paper and a member of the Y.M.C.A. and is interested in sports. eee tl is TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS PLAN ESSAY CONTEST An essay contest for pupils of Pennsylvania’s high schools on “The Advantage of Home Rule in Local Government” has been an- nounced by the State Association of Township Supervisors. The county associations conduct local contests with each county essay winner qualifying for the finals in the State contest. The winner of the State contest will be invited to read the successful essay at the State convention of the sup- ervisors at Williamsport. meet C= 400 ATTEND FIREMEN’S PICNIC Despite the deluge of sain on Saturday about four hundred Fire- men attended the annual ° picnic held at the Cove Park. Turtle and chicken corn soup as well as ham, cheese and limburger sandwiches were among the tasty refreshments served. While the inclement weather put the “damper” on most of the usual evident everyone will activities it was had a good time. eee tll Cee PHILA. FOLKS VISITED HERE LABOR DAY Mrs. Sophie Callahan, of 1520 Mt. Vernon, Philadelphia, accompanied by her husband and daughter, Mil- dred Long and Mr. Fields, also of Philadelphia, motored to town on Labor Day and called at the editor's home. Mrs. Callahan wlll be remembered as Sophie Pyle Missimer, formerly of town. Miss Long is the daugh- ter of John Missimer. ABOUT THE SICK We are pleased to report that Mrs. O. K. Greenawalt, a patient at the Lancaster General Hospital, im- proving nicely after a recent opera- is M. | tion. We were likewise pleased to see Mr. Harry Charles, on Marietta St. make his first appearance in the east end Tuesday since his long and serious illness. Mr. Charles has been bedfast most of the summer. eel ee RUMMAGE SALE The Ladies’ Bible Class of Trin- ity Lutheran Church will hold a | rummage sale in the Parish House | on September 27th and 28th. nee ll re. THE GROFF REUNION The Graff, Groff, Grove and Graeff family held its annual re- union at the Landisville Camp meeting grounds, Saturday. "| factory whose | a friend and ran into a trolley car. | MENNONITE SCHOOL TEACHER APPOINTED Miss Emily Kraybill, has been appointed as teacher of an of this boro independent grade school the Willow Street Ie school association, Approximately thirty { children will start classes Wednes- | day in a small building, which has | been reconditioned and refitted, in the rear of the property of Mis Carrie Stauffer, Willow Street. Many pupils will commodated when a new building is erected members of the tion announced Thursday | The .chool was organized so that Mennonite children more Bible teaching than is possible cponsored Mennonite Mennonite more be ac- associa- night. would receive in K.T. Keller; Lesson For Industry The BULLETIN is indebted to the Lancaster Sunday News for the following editorial which appeared in its current issue: “Elevation of K. T. Keller to top executive position of the Chrysler Motor corporation comes as no surprise to his friends in Lancaster county. It was the logical promo- tion of an able man. But there's one thing lots of peo- ple don’t know about Keller. He is the product of a small Mt. Joy owner made it a policy togdake in and train one boy as a machinist every year—regard- less of whether the firm needed more men or not. Keller started (Turn to page 2) Local Affairs In General Briefly Told the township schools. as an apprentice 1940 { home of Robert Gibble $1.50 a Year in — Man Is Killed Here By Cyanide Gas Lampeter Man Met Death While Fumigating Buildings on W. Main St. Iron Lung Fails To Revive Him 4-H. C. & T. CLUBS AT LEVI BRUBAKER’S The Willing Workers 4-H Corn and Tobacco Clubs met at the home Glen and Raymond Brubaker Mr. and Mrs. Levi Brubaker on August 27. Games were played and refresh- ments served, of sons of Many activities for fail were plan- | ned by the club and are as follows: On September 6th the Willing | Workers Club will hold a corn and | doggie roast at the home of Robert | and Jame: Singer, sons of Mr. and | Mrs. Paul Singer. This same club will also compete in a contest to be a feature of the} Black Barren Fair on September) 13th, | Members in the play are Dorothy | Hostetter, Ray Miller, June Miller, James Singer and Thelma Earhart. | The title of the play “His First | Shave” by Ronald Else. { September 24th the held meeting at is club mem- | the | , son of Lan-| bers will a Members of the pro- are: June Miller and Stanley Nis- dis Gibble. gram committee Joseph Hostetter sley. EA Qs TWO LOCAL YOUNG MEN JOIN NATIONAL GUARD Included in the nine men from the county, who enlisted in the two Lancaster units of the 213th Coast Artillery, Pennsylvania Na- tional Guards, Tuesday night as the | } umbia. The Harnley-Hernley clan held a| reunion at Manheim Saturday. 692 pupils were enrolled in the] Elizabethtown schools opening day. | A Lancaster motorist waved to. | Ephrata annexed 30 acres of land, ! 16 families and 50 persons to is boro. Three persons at Neffsville were! stricken quite ill from coal gas at their home. Two men were cave-in on the New Holland. The Oregon school township has been closed as economy measure, ! At the November election the] voters of Lancaster City will de- | cide for or against Sunday mov ies. | Mrs. Wm. Franklin, proprietress of an inn along the highway east of Lancaster, shot burglars the other night. The $5,000 higher any previous lected $57,415. injured by sewer project at, in Manheim an! at two fleeing | Columbia bridge tolls were during August than | month. They col- The Playground Season Closed Here Last Friday The fourth season for the play- ground closed Friday evening when some of the prizes were awarded to the olympic winners. A special ball game was cancelled because of inclement weather. Voting for the best sports in the junior and senior divisions scheduled for last week, but since there were no sessions because of the rain, the poll will continue Today those enrolled at the ground will vote at the grade school and the High School. The voting will be in charge of James Zeller and James Schatz, and assistant directors. The win- rers in each division will be given a trip to the New York World's Fair on September 14th. Bm I. AUTOMOBILE STOLEN William Mundeorf, Bainbridge, ported to Lancaster police Monday night that his sedan stolen sometime around 8:30 p. m. from a parking lot at Chesnut and Chris- was play- captains re- was | Battalion | decapitated on the { at Shank’s Ferry. { Pa.; got underway, | of May- recruiting campaign were: Dean Robinson, | town, and William McGarvey of | Florin. Both men enlisted in the Second Headquarters battery, commanded by Lieutenant Carryl| | Stauffer ‘Brief News of ‘The Day From Local Dailies In a daring daylight holdup at N. J., bandits stole $25, 000 of town. Trenton, in cash. Four auto persons were injured in an mishap at Brickerville | Monday. An unidentified The first frost of the season was] visible in the northern tier Thurs- day night, August 29th. Three aged near Lebanon, brothers 24, of i when their car crashed into a bus. re es WITH E. E. BAKERS Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Baker enter- tained over the past week end, these guests: Mr. and Mrs, Walter Baker and daughter, Maryn, of Cheltenham Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Boll- inger and daughter Joan, of Hanover Pa.; Mr. and Mrs Wilbur I Beahm Phila.; Mr. Mrs, Joe Albert Pottstown; Mrs. Fanny Hostetter Manheim; Mr. Norman E. Becker and son Michael, Hanover Pa. eel Qe THE HOLIDAY TOLL There 514 killed in the United States for the 3-day Labor Day hol Of that number 325 were killed by just 97 Mr and were iday. auto, more than last year. A A rn AT KISSEL HILL SUNDAY. Mr. Ben. Forry, Hill entertained guest at their home Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Hinkle W. Main St. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Ierley and on Jerry Russell and Mrs. of Kissel of Middletown; Mx a and Mrs. H. S. Overdeer and daugh- ter Barbara Ann of Newport News Va. A Ar tian streets. The car bore license tags 988G. Stimulate your business by adver- tising in the Bulletin. man was found | railroad tracks] 18, 23 and| were killed! J Carl Franklin Long, thirty-three, | of Lampeter, was fatally poisoned by hydrocyanic acid gas early Fri- day afternoon as he was opening up a house which had been fumi- gated. He died about 2 p. m. in the Lancaster General hospital, where he had been placed in the “iron lung” in an attempt to revive him. Long, an English teacher in the John F. Reynolds Junior High school and his brother-in-law, Richard J. Andes, of Haskel Drive, | Lancaster, had fumigated the homes of Andrew Brown and Carl Germer West Main Street, (Turn to page 2) on Mortuary Record In This Section Abram C. Stauffer died at Lan- caster aged 96 years. Mrs. Marian Kendig Brady, 65, wife of Edward Brady, died at Col- A Mrs. Elizabeth H. Miller, 73, wife of Albert H. Miller, died at Silver Springs John B. Musser, died aged! 101. Lancaster ‘Cc Susan H., wife of John N. Landis, | of Neffsville, died at St. Joseph's Hospital aged 41 years. She was a daughter of Reuben M, Shearer and | the late Kate Habecker Shearer, of | Mt. Joy Route 1. | Mrs. Zilla Wilke | Mrs, Zilla Wilke, forty-five, 248 | College Avenue, Elizabethtown, | died at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday in the J General hospital. (Turn to page 6) er —— {BIRTHS r. and Mrs. Christ Fair announc- oo BE birth of a daughter on Mon- day. | Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Becker an- nounced the birth of a son on Wed- | nesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Greiner, of | Mastersonville, announce the birth | of a son last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Kraybill, of Rheems, a daughter at 9:27 a. m., | Sunday at St. Joseph’s hospital. | Mr, and Mrs. John Hiestand of Maytown announce the birth of a | son at the Lancaster General Hos- pital Friday. | Mr. and Mrs. F. Dewey Horna- { fius, of this place, a daughter at 6:26 a. m., Sunday at the Lancas- General hospital. of Middletown, He was a native of ter The Affairs At Florin For Past Week By Pau! Diffenderfer Mrs. John Raffensberger is im= proving at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sheaffer mov=- ed to Mt. Joy last week. Mr. Amos Herr bought the Leroy Wenger property on Saturday. Miss Pauline Crowll spent the week end at Pottstown visiting her Uncle. Mrs. Katie McCauley and daugh- \ter Joan spent last week at Mt. Gretna. Miss Margaret Eichler, spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Adah Eichler. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brenamen spent several days at Niagara Falls and Canada. Mrs. Lillian Hamilton and Mrs. (Turn to page 5) tll A Arner, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith and Mr. Adam Ruhl, all of York, spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Leiberher.
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