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; coraes the thousands of dogwood trées present a creamy-white spectacle of blossoming at Valley
ear special efforts are being made to present programs ‘almost every day at thie historic camp-
Washington and his Continentals as a tribute to those days that gave us this nation.

erry Maids Class of the
Brethren Sunday School,
teacher Mrs. Edna Forney, held
their regularly monlhly meeting
at the home of Mrs. Grace, Maude
‘and ‘Erma Fornoff last Thursday
evening, April 16. The president
Miss Anna Bard, took charge of the
business period and during .the,
social hour the hostesses served a
luncheon to the following: Thelma:
Montgomery, ‘Janet Fornoff, Grace
Harry, Reba Roberts, Helen Kauff-
man, Janet Stair, Ruth Albright,
Frances and - Carolyn Mummaw,
Anna Bard, Marie Albright and
Fanny Siegler.
Mr. and Mrs. Christ Kauffman
= Jean, and Miss Ruth

maw; secretary, Ruth Staley; and
treasurer, Fanny Siegler, will
form their- regular’ duties at the
meeting,
Frances, Carolyn
Mummaw will have charge of the
hostesses, , Misses
and Sara Jane
The
social period.
Oliver Rettew, Mr. and ‘Mrs. Wil-
kur Rettew, Bertha Shue and John
Ginter have returned from a trip
to Camp Wheeler, Georgia, where
they visited Donald and Kenneth
Rettew. The two young men are the
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Rettew.
“The Women’s Bible Class of the
U: B. Sunday Sthool will hold their
‘monthly meeting on Tuesday eve-
ning at the home of Mrs. J. D.
Kauffman.
Mrs. Paul M. Metzler is spending
this week at Pittsburgh attending
the Grand Court of the Amaranth
Lodge.
The Orange Blossom Class of the
U. B. Sunday School, teacher: Mrs.
Paul Metzger, will meet at the home
of Mrs. Earl Albright’ on’ Tuesday
evening.
Sergeant Richard Snyder, station-
ed at Camp Livingston, La. is spend-

ing a furlough at his home.,
Mrs. Frank McCune and son Al-
bert, were visiting at Spring City, |
Penna. with Mrs. McClune’s daugh-|
ter.
The Ironville
UBCE .was held
Sunday evening at 6:45, Carolyn
Mummaw, presiding as president.
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By L. L. STEVENSON

=: Tork Days
Are Here Here Again

Lights of New York: As days
Ratio to Autos Found to grow shorter, Broadway blazes
Be About One to ae . The Main Stem now
begins to glare before the stenogs
| put on their five o’clock lipstick . . .
But even the biggest lights paled
before the recent display of the
aurora borealis Broadway's
lights may be swell, but there's
many a homesick kid who would get
a bigger kick out of seeing that one
oil lamp burning in the window of
a farm house . and Lyn Mur-
Every Three.

WASHINGTON.—In a civilization
dominated by automobiles, stream-
lined Diesel trains, and giant air-|
| liners, the bicycle is staging a re-
markable recovery of popularity,
| according to the department .of
| commerce.
The bicycle’s reappearance re-| ray, that young salt who gave up | poles apparently were a network of township, - on Saturday evening,
| calls its prominence 40 to 50 years the high seas for the high C’s, avers | chevaux-défrise, a protective line April 25th at 7:30. Everybody is
| ago, back in the ‘gay nineties,” there's no more welcome light than | of iron spikes, which the defend. [APril 25th at 7:30. Everybody
| when the cycle was almost a family
| necessity. Then the automobile ap-
| peared and the bicycle almost van-
lished from the United States, ex-
cept for its use by children.
| This contrasted with some parts
of Europe where adults and chil-
| dren alike were making constant
| use of the bicycle as a major means
of transportation. that for sheer beauty you can’t beat
European governments promoted spotlight.
the bicycle as a substitute for the PE
automobile and thus as a means t0| Seen With These Old Eyes:
conserve gasoline, it is said. The Simone Simon and her mother an-
manufacture of cars required steel kling along Fifth avenue—Frenchies
| that was badly needed for guns and getting an eyeful of American
the countless machines that give the styles . . . Emma Otero, Cuban
modern army its great speed and soprano star, getting out of a cab
| precision. to talk with a mounted officer on
‘Wheels’ Popular in Capital. the care of his horse during the
The United States government is winter . .. . She was brought up on
| not subsidizing its biéycle manufac- a ranch and has owned a horse
turers, but the curtailment of pas- since she was four . . . Frank Fay
| senger automobile production is in and Jack Benny laughing about
{its own way encouraging civilians something while eating at Lindy’s
to return to their ‘‘wheels.” . . Andre Kostelanetz ambling
Even here in the capital city, the through Rockefeller Plaza and ex-
use of bicycles is on a noticeable Plaining the sights to a friend . .
lincrease. Though few people, even The friend is Alec Templeton, blind
‘now, come to work in this manner, Pianist . . . Kay Kyser, with Wal-
the parks and shady roads on the 9orf restaurant waitresses hovering
outskirts of the city are sometimes around his table . . . and the usu-
packed with cyclists. The rental of ally reserved hostess bringing over
“wheels” for amusement has be-|a shaker of black pepper . He
come a profitable enterprise. recently came back from Hollywood
Government clerks, students, even ind likes to regale the girls with
officials are using the bicycle for capital fables. -
that which comes from a friendly
lighthouse just outside your harbor
. Londoners visiting New York
aver you don’t really begin to appre-
ciate lights until you have been in
a black-out . . . and some of our
own doughboys who've had to drive
through inky darkness in maneuvers
are ready to agree . . . Actors hold

Defenses Plan of 1777
Is Revealed by Dredges
PHILADELPHIA.—Dredges work-
ing on the Delaware river have un-
covered an ingenious but unsuccess-
ful defense planned by George Wash-
ington to protect Philadelphia from
the British in 1777.
The dredges and shovels, used in
a reclamation project by an oil con-
cern, first began to bring up iron-
snouted poles sunk in the river bed
in rock-weighted wooden pens.
Officials consulted an old map of
the city and learned that the course
of the Delaware had changed some-
what since the days of the Revolu-
tion. They alse discovered that the
{Our Heartiest
Congratulation
We want to eongratulate each of
the following for having reached
another birthday:
April 30
Louisa Schock, Frank St.
Joe D. Brown, Manheim.
A
REUNION PROGRAM AT
LINCOLN SCHOOL HOUSE
There has been arranged an in-
teresting program to be given at
the Lincoln school house, in Rapho
invited. No admission fee.
The program is sponsored by Mr.
C. Emerson Rohrer.
OC
BAKED SALE APRIL 25
The American Legion Auxiliary
will hold a baked sale on Saturday,
angles, pointing down the river. A | April 25th, from 9 to 12 o'clock in
channel was left for American | the Donaven building, East Main
ships to clear and a long chain was | street.
stretched across at the channel
point.
ers of the city strung across the
river to keep the British ships from
moving up the channel.
During high tide this line of spikes
was under water and any English
ship approaching did so at the risk
of having its bottom torn out. The
*‘spikes” were 33 feet long, and
placed in the boxes at 45 degree

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Manheim Boro High school de-
. | feated E. Hempfield Hi Tuesday p.-
Newly Formed Air Force lie Bad
To Test Warning Service |
WASHINGTON.—The war depart-
ment announced that the newly

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formed air force combat command !
would carry out large-scale opera- |
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tions along the eastern seaboard to
test the
ness”
tem.
The department said that thou- |
sands of volunteer civilian workers
would co-operate with the aircraft
:warning service at strategic points
in the area as part of the mancu-
“alertness and effective. |
of the air raid protection sys- |

vers.
Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons,
commander of the combat com-
‘mand, will direct the activities of | pes TA!
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the first interceptor command with ]
headquarters at Mitehel Field, Long Straight Rye ¥il:key, 36 Proof,
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The meeting opened by singing; pleasure. dnd td i 1 Bird as land adn 0id, The Old Quaker Company, Myranceburg, Indiona
“ ’ “ The .commerce department ex- : Addenda: Mclie lan arclay :
J gh sl He sed The pects an unprecedented demand on ‘and James Montgomery Flagg Stimulate your business by adver- | READING THE ADS Stimulate your busin®s by adver-
To ot the Yor is Jesus”. The bicycle mianufacturers—a demand Sketching pretties in the wind in |tising in the Bulletin. tising in the Bulletin.
scripture. ACTS 41:47; was read by that plants with their present fa- Rockefeller Plaza Wendell i
Ruth Von Stetten, Carolyn Mum- cilities might not be able to satisfy. Willkie in the Casino Russe . . . an |
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maw offered prayer, and the mem-
“Rock of
bers closed by
Ages”.
singing
On Tuesday evening at 8 O'clock
a defense meeting will be held in
the Ironville U. B. Church.
a
SOUND PROGRAMS HELP
Rural sociologists at the

ion to the value of
program for
meeting the
citizenship.
Penn-
sylvania State College call attent-
construction
rural organization in
needs of the times.
These will help to build mo:ale.
provide social and recreational aids,
stimulate service, and promote good

LIBRARY maintained in Ice-
land by American Red Cross
; keeps. our boys supplied with
nly good raading during
ge long winter nights.

LEADERS of major
farm organizations
gather to plan a fight
against John Lewis’
drive to organize dairy
farmers. Above (I. to r.)
H. E. Babcock, A. S.
early diner watching waiters
set up tables around his corner-nook |
seat . . . Pola Negri catching stares |
while humming to herself on ls
Roosevelt dance floor — it’s bad |
Emily Post . . . and Paul Hartman
complaining about an east side |
swank spot. “It's not the food that !
bothers me but the high cost of leav-
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The industry is in a favorable po-
sition with reference to raw materi-
als, it said. Crude rubber for tires
can be obtained, and as for metal,
2,000,000 bicycles would require only
35,000 tons. This is negligille if
(compared with large quantities of
such materials needed for manufac-
‘ture of automobiles, the department
pointed out.
10,000,000 in Use.
Officials estimate that 10,000,000
bicycles are in use in the United
States today, a ratio of about one
to every three automobiles. The 1940
ing!” Song writer Irving Caesar
in the midst of a hot argument at |
Leone's going to the piano and with |
a few bars convincing dissenters
{that the song, *‘Amapola” is prac-
Sealy. the same as ‘‘Green Eyes”
A : rh Kenneth Roberts, author of |
Ss : at 1,325,0
production is estimated at 1,325,000 “Nor thwest Passage” and
other |
thrillers, dining with Sinclair Lewis |
at the Bedford Inn and dropping the |
information that he is working on a |
story of Thomas Hooker, founder of |
Connecticut.
and this year the production prob-
ably will show
they said.
The American bicycle has never
been an object of foreign trade prin-
| cipally because it is much heavier
| than those manufactured in Europe
and Japan and the consumer abroad
refuses to purchase it. In countries
where the bicycle is used extensively
, Tor transportation, it has been found
practicable to keep its weight at a
minimum.
The American bicycle has many
attached devices, such as multi- |
$ and some not so pretty. |
speed, brakes, horns, tool boxes,
balloon tires, headlights and some- YT oa
times even gasoline motors. This & That: The Andre
ters, Patti, Maxene and La Verne, !
leave for Hollywood after the first !
of the year Patrons of mid- |
a sizable increase,
* * *
Laie Fall Signs:
ers with their little stoves on carts |
standing at various corners .
The switch to large brooms by the {
street cleaners . . . The disappear-
ance of the colorful sidewalk cafes
. Sweaters on dogs . .
on the backs of pretty
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Bicycle production has
an increase in Americ
when manufacturers
inaugurate

To tcwn dining-rooms have taken to
campaign to show the value of the oe his bata
- ie i? Upping waitr vith defense |
wheel” as a means of transporta-| xe {
stamps . . Me Davis, who has |
tion, health and pleasure. £4 i
played for every President since
One of the important factors Con-| Harding, has heen approached to |
tributing the industry s growin book of First Family song |
has been the youth hostel move- 1 on the Boston
ment. In Europe this s system of in- : s! Remember |
expensive, supervised, overnight 223 it's your neck that's traveling g at
commodation for hikers an de c S| preak-neck s Yad Chinese
proved popular and after b jon Vegetables grow bigger and better |
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troduced in the United States in 1934 Long Island than they do in |
has grown into a major organiza- p.ip native land . . Experts say |
tion. it's the soil. |
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Californian, Aged 91,
On Guard: Bea Wain went apart.
ment hunting recently with one idea
READERS
ATTENTION!
We are continually striving to make
The Bulletin more interesting and if you
will, you can help us a lot.
In the belief that many of you don’t
grasp the idea of just what constitutes
NEWS, here’s a list of what we want:
Has Anyone
Lelt Town—Embezzled—
Died—Eloped—Mairied—
Had a Fire—Had a Baby—
Sold a Farm—Had a Party—
Entertained—Got Drowned
Had Been Ill—Moved to Town—
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Takes Course in Flying
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Aaron
F. McReynolds is learning to be an
airplane pilot at the age of 91, al-
though he has not learned how to
{drive an automobile yet.
Pasadena’s first cily clerk and as-
sessor, celebrates each added year
of life by going up in a plane piloted
! by his own grandson, Charles F.
McReynolds, aviation writer.
‘Cesundheit’ Sneeze by
Brakeman Halts Railroad
OGDENSBURG, N. Y.
Clark, New York Central
brakeman, was able to

Goss and E. A, O'Neil.

BLANCHE DIVERS,
beauly contest winner
joins the war produc
tion effort by learning
acetylene welding in §
an aviation plant at
Alliance, Ohio.

— John
railroad
smile and
{ show his teeth because a train was
stopped and passengers and crew
helped him find his upper plate,
which had flown out a window when
he sneezed.
A Case of Modesty
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
though the regulations of St. Mary's
university require that registering
students must submit three photo-
graphs, Jack Vondee turned in six
pictures of himself. “Three for the
registrar and oe for each of the
girls in the office.’ :
“That'll Teach Him!

' DENVER.—Alson Johnson went
ce out to his chicken yard. ‘A rooster
‘gnd © x ; vas i
ik cont flew”up and gashed a vein in his
2 hand. Johnson ate him for di nner,

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Pdtronize Bulletin Advertisers.
De Chin il iD a i
in mind—a spare room that could
be used for developing pictures. She
found an ideal place in the Eighties
and in the course of discussing cer-
tain renovations informed the build-
ing superintendent that one
would be used as a dark room.
that, the super informed her that
she would have to supply additional
references.
“Why should a dark room make
any difference?’ asked the sur-
prised songstress.
“Got to be careful these days,”
was the explanation. Spies, you |
know.”
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End Piece:
that a colored bootblack who covers
the Fifties late at night startles
drunks. He wears a mustache, bu
only on one side of his face.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)

| Farm Ministry Admits
An Error in Spelling

LONDON. — The agriculture
mii 'y made an error in an-
noun ; a plan to “improve a
considerable area of land near
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iliogogogogoch;; Wales.

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spelled “Llanf wllgwyngyli-
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Bought a Home—Got Bit by a Dog—
Had an Operation—Committed a M urder—
Painted Their House—Fell From a Plane—
Had an Auto Wreck—Fixed UJ p Their Home—
Or Any Unusual Happening—THAT’S NEWS

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