OWL LAFES
A WISE OWL
I was invited to a party on Sat-|
urday night and when the liquid
refreshments had been passed one|
of the guests remarked: “This gin-!
ger ale doesn’t taste like ginger ale.”|
And the hostess (a flighty, tittering
blonde) confessed: “Oh! I forgot to
put the gin in it.”
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Sometimes a takes a wife
but she turns out to be
man
for a mate,
a skipper.
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A fellow from the Back Run went
to Philadel
when he registered at a
asked: “Mow much are your rooms
The hotel clerk answered: “Two
dollars up to seven.” The Back Run-
ner said: “Fine! I'm leaving at six.”
2 + 2 * »
over night:
hotel he
phia to stay
Recently had the pleasure of hear-
ing some Arctic explorers who had
just returned from the vaste
regions. The asked:
south this winter?” And the other
answered : “Yup. Going down tc
Iceland.”
one
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I naively asked: “Was it cold up
in the Arctic?” And one of the ex-
plorers exclaimed: “Cold? Cold?
Why when I first came home and
the doctor took out my appendix—|]
it was chapped.”
$2 5 5
And then the other cne added:
“Why the cold in the Arctic was sc
that couldn’t pat ow
I queried: “Why not?” He
intense we
dogs.”
explained:
wagged them.”
* * * * * ’
And I learned from them that it,
was the dogs, that accompanied the
Byrd expedition to the South Pole
that first discovered the pole.
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One of our cute little femmes
Lad a date with a Sporting Hill
\ boy. After several hours of sitting
\ at opposite ends of the divan, the
‘girl asked: “Do you want to start
»| Min,
frozen|*
Going];
“Their tails were frozen]
so stiff that they broke off if they}
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372
By S.L. HUNTLEY
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The Bulletin, Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday Morning, November 7, 1940
And Not Enough i in Between
SEEMED TO
PWAL, TH COVERS
FAR APART
BE TOO,
Aunt Min:
“This Here Public
Spearin’s Sure
Ziad 3
Embarrasin
I just guess I wuzn't cut out fer
public speakin’ no how some
folks gets right up’n sez the grand-
ed up if I jest has a couple’a words
to say in front’a people!
I wuzn't hankerin’ after the joba
introducin’ that visitin’ speaker any-
ways...but they all shushed the
job on to me bein’ president’a the
Ladies’ Aid'n sed... “Ah, come on,
’tain’t nuthin’... jest get up’n
say this here’s Mrs. Plane who'z
come all the way from Highspire
fer to bring us a message...’N then
sit down quick’n the rest’s all up
to her'n she'll start right in talkin’.
Well, I got myself all rigged up
pretty’s I could...I wore my red
silk'n I plunked some pretty arti-
ficial flowers on my left side near
the top'n I felt kind’a good. . . Thinks
I, wonder what this here Mrs. Plane
‘ooks like...wonder if she’s awful
highfalutin'n stuff...’N then in she
some. We wuz to sit at the speakers
able, where all the officers sits...
we thought we might as well put on
he agg like other people does...so
we rigged up the speaker's table
pretty with candles’n stuff. I wuz
enterpd into the spirit'a the evenin’
jo0dn when they sed “Min this
here's Mrs. Plane...I wuz flabber-
sasted...Thinks I... it's gonna take
wo whole chairs fer to sit this lady
she’d awful in needa reducin’
..but I didn’t let on nohow...'N
started inn
first thing I kowed there wuz a
beautiful little bouquet’a flowers at
my place'n in front'a the wisitin’
lady.
Well, I didn’t have no room no
place fer to pin my flowers on, see-
in’ how she put hers on her boosom
...fer I had sewed my artifical
flowers on my dress...so quick as
a flash I yanked them flowers they
gave me up'n stuck ’em right over
the Thonopreph fe nv loft ear with a hair pin. ..Y felt
3 Ye Sa y o = ie awful good with them sweet-smell-
assie disgustedly answered:
about time you started something?”
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Someone described “Shorty” Engle
as that guy up at Krall’s who is sc
small that if he were a garter it
would choke him.
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Uncle John hasn't been making
much progress with his rooster
training. Since he can’t train it
to walk on a leash he thought of
something else. Now, he wants tc
borrow our bird dog and try to teach
the rooster to point pheasants by
letting it watch the dog in action.
What next?
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Milt Demmy says he’s very opto-
mistic about the future, but he’s a
little worried....... cause he’s not
tan his optimism is justified.
* * * * .
Did you see that dear ole’ lady
walkin’ around town on Hallowe'en
night? She was so sweet and quite
and reserved until...... she walked)
under Sheetz’s windows and got
“ducked” Boy! Did she let off
steam! Now, Becky, the boys were)
only havin’ fun — Besides — you
shouldn't go round ringin' people’ s|
door bells then things like that]
wouldn’t happen.
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One of the free-for-alls Ij
ever witnessed was the peanut
scramble for masqueraders in Dar-
renkamp’s ‘oyster house.
considering lost hats, torn cosit
scratched legs and tramped f gers|
everybody had a swell time. When
it was all over the crushed pea-
nut shells and confetti on the floor{—
looked like Sloppy Joes.
* ®* x * =
best
” AT
INO
If any of you gals were “dated up”
by a slick, dapper dressed sport an
Hallowe'en night, don’t be too dis-
appointed if he doesn’t turn ug
‘cause it was a certain West Main
St. lady who lives just about five
doors above the bank.
* * % =»
Well, did you vote the right way?
Did the election suit you? Me- I just
{and
ins
in’ posies up there on my head...
thinks I, Min, you're sure decked
out with fragrance tonight! .., 'N
then scein’ some'n the ladies sorta
smilin’ at me...it jest dawned on
me....... I plum fergot that lady's
name. ..!
My heart started in thumpin’
fierce!... Oh, fer land sakes thinks
I... what's her name?...The time’
soon arrivin’ fer me to get up’n in-
troduce her to all this here gather-
in'n I can’t think’a her name!...'N
then it dawned on me... I kowed
it wuz sumpin’ about flyin’ mach-
ines..’n I gets up'n sez..Ladies, it
affords me happinessn honor to
present to you Mrs. Blimp!”
'N I'll never ferget the look she
give me... “I beg your pardon my
dear, sez she... I may be slightly
oversize. harldy do I deserve
the name'a Blimp...it's Plane...if
you please”. ..’N from then on I felt
reduced to a atom in chagrin'n
humiliation.
I'll never go in fer public speak-
in’ no more...’N I still feel a little
(sick in my from it!
GE ——
{LOCAL BASKET BALL TEAM
IS “RARIN’” TO GO
The Mount Joy basketball team
has organized for the coming year
interested in booking
with independent
in the county. They are
willing to enter the Class B county
league if arrangements can be
made. The team consists of form-
+ high school players and is man-
os by Jack Bennett, South Mar-
ket street.
are
games other
sat on the fence till i it was all ove:
and then fell on the winning side
It saves a lot of argument.
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Gerberich, (Clyde, Jr.)
our West Main Street big game
hunter spent all day Saturday in
the field and what I mean he cer-
tainly bagged a hunter's prize. One
whole day’s work netted him ex-
actly—one pigeon.
Clippy
A WISE OWL
est things'n stuff but I get all mix-|
High School
Basketball
Schedule
Twenty-eight candidates, six of
them lettermen from last season,
reported to Coach C. Casper Krei-
der at the first basketball practice of
the year at Mount Joy High school,
Monday. This year the team has
hopes of bettering its record of last
year when nine victories and three
defeats earned them a second place
tie with Elizabethtown in Section
No. 1 of the County League.
Lettermen around whom the
team will probably be built are
Clarence Newcomer, center, Frank-
lin Zink, Marshall Gemberling and
Robert Hawthorne, and
James Zeller and James Eshleman
guards. These men with the ex-
ception of Gemberling have played
together under Coach Kreider since
forwards,
they left the eighth grade.
Those who reported for the
initial drill were: Seniors, Lloyd
Swarr, Robert Germer, Robert Haw-
thorne, James Eshleman, Franklir
Zink, James Wolfe, Clyde Fenster-
macher, Bruce Brown and Clarence
Newcomer; juniors, Clayton Heisey,
Asher Beamenderfer, Marshall Gem-
berling, Winfield Zerphy, Harold
Fellenbaum, Ragnar Hallgren, Ken-
neth Ney, Paul Stauffer, Mack
Shupp and Robert Stoner; sopho-
mores, Harold Bender, Robert Pen-
nell, Jack McClellan, Russell Leib
Clarence Roth, William Gibbons,
James Roberts and Gerald Sheetz.
The team will open the season
Friday, November 15, when Wes!
Lampeter will be entertained on the
Mount Joy court. The following
Friday the alumni will be played
with Wrightsville following, Tues-
day, November 26, at Wrightsville.
The league season opens Friday
December 3, at Maytown when East
Donegal, Traditional rivals of the
red and white, will be played.
The complete schedule is as fol-
lows:
Nov. 15, West Lampeter at home.
22, Alumni at home.
26, Wrightsville away.
Dec. 3, East Donegal away.
6, Marietta away.
10, Manheim Boro at home.
13, East Hempfield at home.
20, Elizabethtown away.
Jan. 3, Rothsville away.
7, Lititz away.
10, East Donegal at home.
17, Annville at home.
24, Marietta at home.
28, Lititz at home.
31, East Hempfield away.
Feb. 7, Elizabethtown at home.
14, Manheim Boro away.
21, _Rothsville at home.
IRONVILLE
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Albright.
Miriam Heagy and Richard Snyder.
motored over the Dream Highway
to Irwin and return on Sunday.
John A. Kauffman, has returned
home, after being at the General
Hospital for several weeks.
Drew Mummaw is still a patient
in the General Hospital Lancaster,
with a broken arm.
A regular meeting of the school
board of West Hempfield town-
ship, will be held in the Norwood
school house on Saturday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kauffman, and
Glenn, Benjamin Weaver and Char-
les Gingrich, motored over the
Dream Highway to Somerset and
return on Sunday afternoon.
Services in the Ironville UB
church on Sunday. Sunday school
at 9:30 AM Regular worship by the
pastor Rev R. G. Becktel at 10:30 A.
M. C. E. a 6:45 P. M. Mrs. Gordon
Mummaw president, Jacob Kauff-
man leader, at 7:30 P. M. the choir
of the church will give a musical
with a number extra talent assist-
ing.
On Wednesday evening at 7:30 P.
M. a prayer service will be held in
the Ironville UB church, with Geo.
Rost, leader.
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SESSION HERE NOV. 7th
A session of the Leaders’ Train-
ing Course of the Susquehannock |
District Boy Scouts will be held in
Pennsylvania’s small game season
For
many it opened an hour earlier as
opened Friday, Nov. 1 at 9 a. m.
they just couldnt wait.
The usual large army of hunters
were afield and just why so many
strangers flock into this section is
difficult to explain.
nearly all adjoining counties,
Dauphin, Lebanon and York coun-
ties, limited around Mount Joy.
In one corn field there were at
least thirty hunters who took turns
in squads of five each to cross that
Gunners from
also
field.
The gunners found the usual
abundance of pheasants, rabbits
scarce except in spots, very few
quail and more grey squirrels than
usual in the wooded sections.
Appended is a partial list of their
success:
Rab. Pheas.
Chief of Police Elmer
ZerpDREY 1 2
Wallace Zerphey ...... 2 2
Jerry Rendig .......... 2 2
Dr, J. N. Newcomer 4 2
Dr. John S. Gates ..... 2 1
Hen Schatz ........., 1 1
Sheetz
Mrs. Roy Sheetz ....... 2
{Roy Sheetz ........¢... 4
| ory
| Ed Weaver ............. 1
tJack Germer .......... 1
{John Roth
| Warren Snyder
John Germer .......... 1
{Charles Bailey ......... 1
| Peter Good 4
{ William Dommel, Jr. .. 4
{ William Dommel, Sr. .. 1
Martin Nentwig 1
Ray Myers 3
Harry Caslow 1
Leon Alleman 4
Simon dissley ......... 3
S.A 0
Clarence Grissinger .... 1
Dr. O. G. Longenecker .. 0
| Newpher Smeltzer ..... 2
Rev. W. IL. Koder ...... 1
2
0
3
2
0
1
2
2
2
2
1
1
4
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1
Dr. W. L. Shoop ......
Elwood Martin
Lioyd Swarr
Leaman Swarr
Paul Stoner
Robert Stoner
Rcescoe Hassinger
Joseph Schroll .........
Tim Schroll
Lester Mumma
Daniel Fackler
Roy Spahr
James Berrier
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National
Corn Husking
Champion
The Corn Belt acclaimed a
national husking champion in Irvin
new
Bauman Illinois farmer who became!
the nation’s top “farm athlete” on
his third try at Davenport, Iowa.
He bested 20 opponents in the
17th National Cornhusking cham-
pionships yesterday to capture the
title that eluded him in 1935 and
1938, when he finished second.
Bauman, a slend>r 27-year-old
tenant farmer, set a record of 46.71
for the event. The old mark of
41.52 was“established in 1935. The
new king of the nubbin pickers
operates a 160 acre Central Illinois
farm near Eureka, is married and
| has one child, a boy of three.
He won the Illinois State title
twice, but this year finished second
to Ecus Vaughn of Piatt county
The latter scored 41.62 for fifth
place in the National derby,
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MARIETTA STORE SOLD
On Saturday afternoon Mary C.
Sheetz, trustee in the estate of Hon-
oria Ulman, deceased, sold two lots
of ground with a one- story frame
store property in Marietta. Same
was purchased by Richard Daveler
for $355.00. Mr. C. S. Frank was
the auctioneer.
erm ——— i Gi
Politics acquaints a man with
strange bedfellows.
A deer ran thru a plate glass win-
dow of an Erie business place.
A ringneck pheasant flew thru an
open window of a Lancaster home
Monday.
C. R. Mowrer, Lancaster, was ac-
cidentally shot in the leg while
hunting in Adams Co.
Francis W. Baumgardner, 33
Mechanicsburg R 3, was found dead
in the woods near New Cumberland.
He was accidentally shot.
Four Mount Joy high school
teachers bagged a pheasant on the
way to institute Friday
when the bird flew against the side
of the car driven by C. H. Glad-
felter. They gave the bird to a
boy who lived nearby.
morning
John Zink, of town,
bird by hand after a
several minutes through a
field. It had been wounded by some
hunter,
caught a
chase of
corn-
Simon Nissly and John Booth, of
town closed the windows of their
car on the way home from hunting
to make sure a bird would not fly
in, Earlier in the day the men had
seen a bird fly into a field and they
walked the field hunting for it. When
they were nearly ready to give up
the hunt, Simon stepped on the neck
of the bird which was hiding.
When Calvin Kramer, local postal
employe, left for the hunt, his wife
told him to be sure to get some-
thing they could eat ior supper. His
fellow whrkers asked Calvin's
daughter Friday evening how her
daddy made out. She replied
“Mother had to go to the but-
cher’s.”
Curley Hendrix has a doggone
funny story to tell about how he
tried to save a little rabbit's life
Ask him about it.
Quite a number of hunters are
seeing a large buck deer near town
during the past ten days but den’t
let them kid you. The writer has
a full sized mount standing in the
his game propagation
looks real it fools
bushes
area and it
most of em,
on
SO
An
Mount Joy High School here No-
vember 7,
Subscribe for the Bulletin,
CIRCUS CLOWNS TO ACT
AT AUTO CLUB SHOW
Stunts by professional clowns wili
be an added attraction at the annual
fall entertainment and membership
rally to be held by the Lancaster
Automobile Club in Maple Grove
field house on Friday evening, Nov-
ember, 15. The clowns, formerly |
circus performers, will begin their |
frolic while the audience is being)
seated and will continue at intervals |
throughout the evening. |
The clown show will be one cf the |
seven-act vaudeville |
performance booked from high- |
class theatrical circuits. Comedy |
skits, . song and dance acts and |
novelty numbers will be included
in this program.
A concert by the Armstrong Male
Chorus, comprised of fifty Arm-
strong plant employees under the
leadership of Albert H. Spinner.
will be the opening attraction on the
program, An orchestra directed by |
Ernie Stanziola will play. |
The entertainment and rally will
be open to members of the Club and
their wives. Motorists who joined
the Club the past month and mem-
bers who secured a new member
during the month will be honor
guests, occupying reserved seats.
eee tll) Gere
THE LOCAL HUNTERS
PAY FOR THEIR ERRORS
Nine hunters paid fines totaling
$105 as the annual small-game hunt-
ing season got underway in the co-
unty Friday.
County Game Protector John M.
Haverstick, while checking autos at
the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge,
said he stopped an auto bearing four
York county hunters who had load-
ed guns in their auto. All of them
were fined $25 each, he said.
Deputy game wardens also fined
other hunters in other sections of
the county $1 each for wearing un-
signed licenses, Haverstick said.
i A Merman
PUBLIC DANCE, NOV. 29th
The Young People’s Fellowship,
of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will
hold a public dance on Friday |
evening, November 29th, in the
high school auditorium. |
Music will be furnished by a
well known orchestra. Admission |
will be thirty-five cents and a prize’
will be given.
RN i
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features of a
the - Marticville
campaign. It resulted in the col-
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received 168,960 coppers.
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Mt. Joy St., West of Barbara,
one block north of Route 230.
Quarryville
W. State St., on U. S. Route 222
TWO MEN CHARGED
WITH THEFT CF DOGS
Charged with the theft of two
hunting dogs in recent weeks, Her-
bert Garrison, 19, and Noah Via,
both of Elizabethtown R. D., werc
held for court Tuesday night in $1000
bail each at a hearing before Justice
of the Peace Milton P. Gatchel of
Middletown. Garrison and Via are
each charged with two counts of
They were arrested by
Police.
larceny.
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