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That Handy Booklet — The Sale Season —Will Be Distributed This Week Dan Fail To Get A Copy — The
3 Cars Damaged
In a Collision
Here Wednesday
Three cars were badly damaged
the east end of
Wednesday
in an accident at
the pike bridge on
morning.
A Plymouth
sedan were
the latter attempted to
car in {ront just
the ea:t end of the
A Ford sedan, d-iven oy Patrol-
man Leaventhol of the Motor Po-
lice was approaching from the east
and a Foud
when
sedan
east
pass the
travelling
as he was
bridge.
and when he saw the passing car
blocking his right of way, he ap-
plied his brakes in an effort to
avoid a head-on collision, however
the three cars crashed.
The Plymouth driven by George
Summy, of Elizabethtown, had the
grill, right fender, bumper,
lights and rear wheel smashed and
the engine damaged.
The Patrolman suffered
ed leg and his car had
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RaphoSchools
To Conduct
Flag Salute
The Kapho Township School Board
met in regular Saturday at
Sporting Hill.
The treasurer reported receiving
the following: State appropriation
for transportation, $395.00; 1940 tax
$349.00; 1937 tax, $187.00; and $27.9€
liens filed, closing the 1937 dupli-
cate. Also $308.36 received {rom
the Clarence Schock trust fund.
The Directors hav: as yet de-
cided as to how they will use this
donation.
It was reported that all the direct-
hood,
an injur-
the left
ession
not
ors attended the State School
Directors’ convention at Harrisburg
Friday, Feb 7. Mr. Stanley Moyer
acting secretary, attended secre-
taries’ day Feb. 6th.
The Board decided that all tea-
sers should conduct Flag salute
laily following devotional period
Both teachers and pubils should de
this voluntarily before citizens and
patriotic organizations request tha
School Boards exercise their full
rights and power to enforce same
MOUNT JOY TALENT AT
PLUMBERS ANNUAL EVENT
Local talent furnished some of th
entertainment at the annual ban-
quet and ladies night, of the Lan-
caster County Master Plumbers as-
sociation, 'held Tuesday night at
Hostetter’s Play Barn.
Marion Bortzfield
town
Misses Vera Eby,
and Eleanor Brown, all of
played several accordion selections
These young
Miss Doris
band. Doris
vocal accompaniment.
Townships
Will Receive
$39962.49
Auditor General Warren R. Rob-
erts today authorized the paymen’
on March 1 of $1,062,500 to the
second-class townships in 66 coun-
ties of Pennsylvania.
This is to be the fifth paymen
from appropriation of $8,500,00C
made by the 1939 session of the
General Assembly from the Motor
License Fund to the Department o
Highways to be distributed among
the second class town:hips for the
maintenance and repair of town-
ship roads and bridges.
Four payments, amounting to $4-
250,000, were made from the ap-
propriation last year, and the pay-
ment to be made March 1, repre-
senting one-eighth of the appro-
priation, is the first to be made this
It is expected that similar
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et eet Ce
STATE POLICE PROSECUTE
LOCAL AUTO DRIVERS
Twelve motorists were prosecuted
by the State Police at Lancaster
among them being several from thi
locality. Norman Z. Heisey of town
and James M. Miller of Elizabeth-
town, were charged with drivin
uninspected cars.
Corporal John Aumon prosecutec
Benjamin Steckervetz, Jr., Moun’
Joy R. D. 1, on a charge of improp-
er passing.
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ladies are members of
Gorrecht's accordior
Siller furnished the
year.
LADIES TAKE NOTE
Mr. Albert “Pud” Hershey wi’
celebrate his seventieth birthday
on St. Valentine's Day, and is stil’
unattached.
leaving!
'GetsDonation
MOST -TO-THE-~MINUTE
WEEKLY |
The Mount J Oy Bulletin
LAN-CAST
COUNT Y Mount Joy High =r
Girls Are Placed ms
Second In Play
Fourteen loczl high school girls
| accomp nied by Miss Butzer, parti=
i cipate J in the annual Lancaster Co=
VOL. XL, NO. 36
Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Morning, February 13,
1941
$1.50 a Year in
High School play day pro=
am held Saturday at the YYW.C.A.
Advance] unty
Fire Company
From Masons
A meeting of the Friendship Fire Lancaster County's Rotary Trip-
company was held Thursday evening lets, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown, and
in the fire hall. The Masonic order Lititz, celebrated their 15th anni-
of this boro, offered the company ver-ary at a banquet and meeting
the dishes and silverwar: from the held Tuesday evening in the High
old Masonic Hall, and O. K. Snyder School auditorium. Principal speak-
presented two large tables to the er cf the program was Dr. Fiancis
srganization. Both donations were Harvey Green headmaster of the
accepted by th: firemen. Pennington School for Boys, Penn-
ington, N. J., who was introduced
by W. E. Nitrauer,
The company announced the free
patriotic movie: to be held in the supervising prin=
‘County’s Rotary Triplets
Mark The Fifteenth Year
by presidents of the clubs partici-
pating: Simon P. Niscly, of tewn:
David Landis, Elizabethtown; anc |
Benjamin Forrest, Lititz. Also or |
the program were Ralph Eshleman
this boro, who entertained the grou:
with chalk sketches; Mrs
Ada Fshleman, accompanied by Mrs
W. E. Nitrauer. The Rev. W. L
Koder of the Trinity Lutherar |
Church gave the invocation;
and soloist,
and
high school by the defense coun- cipal cf the Borough Schools. Dr. Walter G. Sloan led the group |
cil and offered to have posters The high-lisht of the banquet was | cinging, f
printed and distribute them as their he cutting of “three birthday cakes (Turn to Page 3) |
part in the Demccracy Days cele- TI SL SI IIT Ee SETI |
bration, RE-ORGANIZATION MEETING To
Four additional men were namec Brict Naws Of OF LUTHERAN COUNCIL
to the memorial committee: Samuel | - Tr nity : We
Crowl, Jokn Geltmacher, Lynn Mil- | SIMON P. NISSLEY I Ie r.nity Lutheran Church
The Day From Council held their re-organization
ligan, and Christian Miller. Eighteer |
ordered pur-
President of the Mount Joy Rot-
ncw fire coats were ary Club, lit the candles on the
Local Dailies
A fire that raged for five
did $500 000 damage at Butler, Pa
Howard J. Heinz, 63, head of the
chased. The matter was left in the | birthday cake as three clubs cele-
hands of the chiefs. | brated their fifteenth anniversary
reported twc here on Tuesday evening. hour:
faces
Chief Ray Myers
fires for the month of January, both
out of the borough. The trea- .
repor z 1, JORORED COPS ORDER firm of “57 varieties,” died Sunday
-urer reported a balance of $169.79 in| A ypoIST IS ARRESTED fam of "57 varieties, Jay
the general account; $68.80 in the | of ignoring & warning Jacksonville, Fla, had a light
entertainment fund; $2,703.04 in the | oo 0 pis Pisin c Merril snow fall Sunday. Its the tenth
building fund; and $3,729.13 in the | ode of Mavi if vince 197),
Wl |S y Maytown, was arrested The tates | 950.000 telephone
relief fund. The 1940 audit was Satwdav® night by Private A, E ie rates of 250,000 tel
read ¢ g OV Ss er ubscribers i » vicinity of Phila,
read and approved. of the Lancuster hesd- cribers in the iii of Phila
Seven new members were ad- quatters, and held for a hearing were reduced $630,000.00,
mitted: George Libschultz, James Justice of the Peace Hendrix A new $24€0630 plant for th
Diesel
at Coatesville.
manufacture of engines ig
Weidman; Stewart Derr, Clair Esh-
leman, Ray Haug, Amos U. Myers
and Raymond Cicero.
The offic:r found
sleeping in an auto parked on New
Haven street in Mount Joy, He
| awakened him and warned him not
Announced | to drive, the officer said. A short
time later Spade ctarted to drive
away, Discavage said, and he arrest-
said he Spade
being erected
A rubber eraser
from 8-year-old Robert
Ephrata’'s community
was removed
Kilhefner’s
hos-
ear al
pital,
When he walked into hospital at
: Harrisburg to see his wife and 2
Count ¢d him on a charge of drunken 1 0 = bons TP
driv day old baby, Leroy Hamaker, 26, of
ving. Williamstown was arrested for a
AMA Ct
Board No. 1 | LEON J. LEVY, ETOWN
Board No. 1 has| FURNITURE MAN HELD
Leon J. Levy, Elizabethtown
robbery at Hershey.
te
County Draft FORMER BOROUGH LAD
announced the following classifica-|
| : MISSED HIS TRAPEZE
tion list: | charged with fraudulent conver:ion i
| . Robert Showalter, twelve, son of
Class I-A | was held for court following af rd M ALL. Showalter. 1H
| Yori Be fare Yeo Vir, and Mrs. Alvin Snowalier,
Arthur Hollinger Hostetter, Flor- hearing Monday before Alderman S. Second street, Columbia, form-
in | Wetzel. that
: 'Drossoution Was brought by Levy's) 2 ly of this boro, has learned, that a
Henry Calvert Showalter, Th fi 1 B ghey G man on a trapeze doe:n't “fly thro-
; ° roy ss :
Joy R. 1. mer. srney ros ugh the air with the greatest of
| Harrisburg, who alleges Levy con-
Robert Ruben Royer, Manheim.
| verted $1300.73 of the firm's funds
ease.”
John H. Becker, Elizabethtown. TE { {Robert has a trapeze hanging in
\ yi whi urniture store ati . .
| Clarence Jacob Burris, Mount Ble x Sung 2 € store at, 1 e colar of his home and Satur-
Joy R. 2. BOO ow day morning he decided to exercise
George Willard Hercelroath, Mari- | a bit. He jumped for the swinging
eta. missed, and lanled on
fracturing his arm
trapeze, but
John L. Herr, Manheim R. The Affairs the concrete
Themas Harry Martin, Columbia between the elbow and shoulder and
(At Florin For also dislocating the member. He
R:1
vas taken to the Columbia hospital
vhere hc
James Miller, Elizabethtown R.
| "Pa st Week was treated and discharg-
ed.
floor,
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COLORED SINGERS COMING Miss Zelda Gehman is cn the sick Cr
TO E. FAIRVIEW CHURCH | list. PROBE AT NEWVILLE
On Sunday evening February 16th| Mrs. Lizzie Kraybill spent Tues-| PROMISED EY STATE
at 7:15 P. M. the East Fairview day at Lancaster. Dr. John J. Shaw, State Secretary
meeting at the parsonage last Wed- |
nesday evening.
At that
tion for
with the
William
John
time routine
the
following
Tyndall,
organiza- |
ensuing year began |
men serving: |
vice president: |
LCellingzr, secretary; Carl |
Krall, treasurer; James Metzler |
financial secretary. Property com- |
mittee, John Dellinger, chairman; |
Elam Myers anc} Sam Crowl. |
The Financial committee includes |
Jzmes Metzler, Carl Krall, Bruce |
Wolfe, Clyde Eshleman and Carl
Sheafier, |
rr et AP Ane
Red Rose 4-H
Clubs Held
Their Banquet |-
The annual banquet of the Red|
Rose 4-H Baby Beef Club and 4-H|
Lamb Club was held at the Stev- |
ens Hause, Lancaster, with Melvin |
Rohrer, Lancaster R, D. 4, serving |
as toastmaster.
A 990-pound Hereford steer was)
served, which was fed by Wilbur!
Gantz, a club member, of Mount |
Joy R..D. 2, purchased for the club|
at the annunal round-up in Decem-|
ber, and held over for the banquet. |
The following program was ren-
dered:
Piano prelude, by Edna Rohrer,
Lancaster R. D. 4; accordion solo, |
James Endslow, Marietta R. D. 1;|
4-H Club quartet composed of Edna
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DA rn
REPORT OF ANIMALS
KILLED BY AUTOMOBILES
C. Emerson Rohrer Farm Bureat
Auto Agent, who travels many miles
of our highways weekly
the following animals killed by autos
reports
{| White, volunteer, Manheim R
| Irene M. Waldron,
street New York City,
Will You Be
Just like Grandmother used to make—a 1941 version of the years-ago
sentimental Valentine which young and old alike will stuff into mail boxes
on February 14. Not elaborate or frilly in style, this year's Valentine nev-
ertheless bears the quaint, old-fashioned ‘‘hearts and flowers”
of course, receive their annual cordial
they deliver the sweetest merchandise the
of love. And letter carriers will,
doorstep welcome, for, after all,
in all the world!
NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN
Lester Mellinger Ellinger, Manheim
: 7 sr. volun- 3
t bi Beh Lee Mumper, yo ei Mountville's tax rate was fixed a Mr. and Mrs. George Halbleib.
Se id Wayne, W. Ree VO!-1 tour mills. Henry street, are celebrating their
n arietta; Ray Fame | i i
wnteer, Ray Roads Gam Nineteen more men enlisted Mon-| tenth wedding anniversary Febru-
ber, Columbia R. 1; Jay Galen ... lary 17th
the Lancaster recruiting {ay (th.
day
station.
{ Shelly, Manheim R. 2; Lester Kay-
lor Fogie, Columbia R. 1; Franl
Barltow Kapp, Elizabethtown; Jay
| Reed Snyder, Mt. Joy R. 2; Howard Sia
{ Allen Edmonds, Manheim; Ralph|™
Leslie Kriner volunteer, Marietta: pi
Ol 112¢
Joseph Anthony Streushiugh,
unteer, Elizabethtown: George
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FORMER RESIDENT GETS
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Howard E. Coolidge
merly of this boro, now of 10 East
83rd street, New York, and Mi :
of 460 West 2d4th|S'Ened
a realtor, for-|~
obtained
marriage license Saturday in the
ruary 22, the couple said.
— tl Wi iis
LETTERS GRANTED |
My Valentine?
.
Miss Annie Martin, seventy-six
LEFT FOR CAMP FRIDAY L ! tf ,
ocal Affairs i
i The following young men fron eesti ilies
Ccunty District No 1 left Mount in G | . . TR
: WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
{Joy by train last Friday: enera Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hossler
Ralph E. Hawk, Elizabethtown celebrated their anniversary on Feb-
Briefly Told
George
r
beth
{ Municipal Building there. They will
be married in New York on Feb-|"""%"
re ancaster, in which 285 girls took
part.
For thas second year in succes-
Manheim Boro girls won
the cup, which is awarded on merit
of the number of students partici-
proportional to the number
of registrants, skill in execution in-
cluding rhythm, unity, authenti-
city of costume and characterization
of people portrayed.
Second to the Manheim girls who
vepresented Holland, were the local
who pdrtrayed a Nor-
The girls
sion, the
pating,
gates
Mountain march.
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wegian
§ Mortuary
| Record In
This Section
Miss Nora B. Bard, 57, of Co-
lumbia, died Friday.
Oscar Myers Keller, 86, Wrights-
ville, died 32 hours after his wife's
death.
Wm. Edward Reese Jr. aged one
ar, of Marietta, died in the Col=
{ umbia Hospital.
Grace Grumbine, 12, of Elizabeth-
died last Wednesday at the
Lancaster General Hospital.
town
Mrs. Mary A. Ruhl
Mrs. Mary Ann Ruhl, eighty-nine
widow of Jacob R. Ruhl, died at
after a lingering illness at
home of her grandson, Charles
at Manheim.
message |
Friday
May,
Martin
Misc Annie
ruary 14th,
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hagenberger
Plunkett, 26, on the Mari- | Fairview street, town, will cele-
wa- kicked on the heac|brate their sixth wedding anniver-
ary on February 14th.
Fy . et eee
Fackler, tularemia victim
| MR.
AND MRS. ALVIN REIST
itown, hac recovered and
1 SNTERTAINED FRIENDS
rk of Lam-] Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Reist enter-
rail-| guests to dinner and Sunday
vening, after which they enjoyec
( ( of Lan-)2 led ride.
Mr. and Mrs, John
Toppin, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Erb, Wil-
bur and Fred Erb, Miss Janet Nissly.
Donald and Henry Reist of Mt, Joy;
Mics Mary Carolyn Greider, Martha
and Warren Reist, of Landis-
ville; Edith Carper, of Manheim;
Miss Ann Wea and Mrs. Anna
rer of Witmer; Robert Reist, of
; Robert’ Keene, of Lancaster
yy Brubaker, of Strasburg.
esi serene
Guests were:
Jane
r
el
LASKEWITZ DIED;
Church of Brethren will present the | Mrs. Pearl Miller, of York, ir|of Health, has promised that |," during the month | John I. Sauble, Manhein TE DAR EA tiie HT A LOCAL RESIDENT IS
Spurlock Singers, colored radio and | visiting Mr, and Mrs. Harold Bull-| plaints made by residents of New-| | administrator of Aaron M. Sauble| FORMERLY OF THIS BORO , ENY
. : 2 : of November and December, as | . | | CHARGED WITH LARCENY
concert artists, of the Superlock | re. ville about the odors produced by sellows: ERIE : late of Rapho township. i Horry 1 ol} Chief of Police, Elmer Zerphe
2 : : an tn en, er : 3 ollows: 9 rabbits, 10 skunks, 2 op- | SL : . lel ol ice, Eimer Zerphey
School of Music, Philadelphia, un-| The Ladies Missionary Society | the rendering plant of the Harris-| 5 cats. 7 chickens. I | Benjamin L. Moyer, Manheim R.|this pl Monday al|...octed Nathan Williams, of town,
The a ill sist of! Mrs. Harold Buller who was ill 3 le” wh oe loved today | month of January, 5 cats, 8 rabbits “Ft Baie For. Mt Joy. anc i oy fol also of town
e program Wi consis . 0 Was ible” it was learned today. . Ethel B. Stauffer, Mt Joy, an ect i of 1 ams
: : oy be ar : : [3 chickens, 1 owl, 4 pheasants, 1} ; = HE lefault of bail, Williams was
lassic, sacred songs and spirituals | with the flu is improving at thiz| A complete account of the above huni the Union National Mt. Joy bank } ne ed to the county prison for a
The public is cordial invited to | writing. mentioned complaint was published 5 LL | executors of Henry M. Stauffer, late h fore J stine of the Peace
“ear these well trained voices. {Miss Mary Hamilton is spending {in last week's Bulletin. . Sx a. is of Mt. Joy. U nA sin
A Wp | the week with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur — es Ms | | “wees | our ANNUAL SALE BYDR etl eee to the tir fT. La bets Monsey =
NORMAN B. KOLP BUYS | McCurdy, at Palmyra. RAPHO MAN RANKS [READY THIS WERX MANHEIM MAN’S CAR koi rE elt a
CHRIST SHERK PROPERTY | Mr. and Mrs. Luke Kiefer of Mill- | 2X\p GROWING TOMATOES | By the end of this week that handy | ggyppED ON ICE HERE eran Dep on
Mr. and Mrs. Norman B. Kolp, re- | ersburg, spent Sunday with Mr. and| David O. Boll, Manheim R. D. 2 booklet, The Sale Season, published | nN gH Hostetter, florist of Man- Seni GF rem.
iding at Hershey the past six years | Mrs. Christ Melhorn, | yanked second in Pennsylvania | annually by the Bulletin for many | heim was driving east on Main = >t —————— SPELLING BEE AT HOSSLERS
purchased on private terms from|{ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Diffenderfex J; among growers producing the largest | will be ready for distribution | 54 (he Gerberich Fact-'.. ©. GARBER REEL} ps Leek re So hold. ite
realtor B, F. Peffer, the brick bun- | (Turn to Page 3) yields of tomatoes during 1940. While there are not near the| ory, on Tuesday mor S hn; Sans > NAAR elling bes on We doy evening
galow on Chocolate Ave. Florin | With a crop of 2.9 acres, his aver. | average number of spring sales | car skidded on the ice and cra dnl a Feb ait 7 ny
Pa., belonging to Christ Sherk Jr | MET WITH AN ACCIDENT age production was 14.98 tons per ! thruout this locality, the eastern and | into a parked car belonging to Norman LE. Garber of town : Th - the choo) will
Posession will be given on or before | Mrs. Amanda Rutt formally a re- | acre, of which 65 per cent were U | lower end of the county have more | Earl Ks an, St, Lancas x : tations
April 1st. | cident of Florin, Pa. now re:iding S. Grade No. 1 and 35 per cen’ | than usual. | Fenders on both cars were dam- ! C Si Tt x be ratigic and
Mr. Kolp has accepted a posi- | on Route 1, Gulfport, Miss. tripped No. 2 no cu lls. The | books are yours for | the asking | aged. 1 ral infor-
los ing he wo Joy Farmers and fell in her home dislocating her | ESS i
airy Co, Ine. here, | right shoulder and fracturing he: | FREE MOVIES, FEB. 18 os
TT |left arm between the Sh Fi re Company Auxiliary | BY LOCAL DEFENSE COUNCIL Dress
PAID FOR MARRIAGE | . | The Mount Joy Defense Council os of near Pen-
YICFNSF WITH PENNIES | Her many friends in this vicinity V d A L Th d y will present “The YT which were
With 295 pennies: and one nickel | Wish her a speedy recovery, she is 2 site t itz urs ay Civilization”, a full el te it broke all
Robert E. Buller. twentv-five, thie | Subscriber of the Bulletin, and en-| Fifty-five members of the loca’|sented with a beautiful cardigar | motion picture, and a ¥en NITV EXERT] when they tin-
wlace, and Jean L. Kauffman, six-|ioys reading it very much. Fire Company Auxiliary motored tc | sweater donated by a Lititz firm. Mrs | “The March of 1e Com Mn EX rah : t 650 and 657 pounds
teen, of 319 Lancaster avenue, Lan- | Sse { Lititz in two chartered busses last | Irvin Smith, Jr, likewise received | High School Audi n, Tuesday ORGANIZATION MEETIN es] ively.
~aster avenue. Lancaster, bought | CARD PARTY FEE, 20 Thursday where they were lavishly E cardigan as the winner of a guess- | evening, February 18, 1941, at 7:30 The date fo: zal A
‘heir marriace license at the office | BENEFIT SCHOOL BAND entertained and dined by the Lititz | game. {P. M. It is absolutely free. Hl | nity | THEY WON CASH
~f Register Wille A. Z. Moore. The Parent Band Club will hold | Auxiliary. Each guest received several love- ts y has 1 The Metzler, W. Main St.
They needed $2.50 for the license | 3 card party in the High School on| About two hundred ladies from |ly tokens including a tin box of SPECIAL MATINEE OF meeting is cash at Joy Theatre,
~nd 50 cents for the affidavit of the | Thursday evening, Feb. 20th at £|this boro, Penryn, also a guest | chocolate pastilles from the Wilbur | WALT DISNEY HITS Feb 17 sht. Katharine Ney and
~rosnective bride's father, John W |P. M. This card party is for the nd Lititz attended the Suchard Chocolate Company, of! Joy Theatre will hold a specia hi Grove, both of ‘town,
Kauffman. | benefit of the School Band. Please | | Lititz; a Valentine; a trowel from | matinee on Monday, February Rog » Nissly of Florin, won
eet een | give them your help. program was | the Animal Trap Company, of that at 3:30 P. M.,, when they will show oy ch. :
TAKFS HIS OWN LIFE TS iene ontests stag- | place; and a pocket bill-fold from | the Walt Disney Hits: Ferdinand SHROVE TUESDAY SUPPER —- Ee
Dr. Harry B. Young. 45, of Her- | BIRTHS ! between ten | the Morgan Paper Co. Division. The Bull, Donald’s Lucky Day, Th: i | MOTORIST PROSECUTED
fron n Penryn
‘hey, former Lancaster countian. | Mr. and Mrs. James Markley, N. | 1 ar bY
~ommitted suicide in his garage | Market &t., town, announce! ithe | Martha Heicey and Dorothy Zer-
Sunday by the carbon monoxide | birth ¢f a son, Saturday, Feb. 8 at phey, both of town, were the last
route, | home. ones standing and each was pre-/ ladies.
A delicious hot luncheon was
served and the evening pronounced
a definite success by the visiting
| Feb, 17.
and
Ugly Duckling, The Three Pigs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Remember the date, next Monday | P
|
Ii ment.
Horac: We
agner, Mount Joy R. D.
1, charged with driving too fast for
ase- | conditions, was prosecuted by
Lancaster police.