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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
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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rendered geographies and atlases out of date.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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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”.
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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{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.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith and
Mr. Adam Ruhl, all of York, spent
Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Leiberher.