a ____4 fc LL SEs 1 Be 6 a a0 Union Vesper Seize, Sunday, Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m., In The Church, Rev. H. A. Minnich Will Deliver The Sermon 1 h C M O u ! 1 O B ull ( : 1 nN WILL FREEDOM SURVIVE VICTORY? Another year of war has drawn to a close. Volumes of thet MOST Ue - O-THE-MINUTE WEEKLY I LANCASTER COUNTY) AN EDITORIAL |oric will be written about the awful destruction of the past VOL. XLIV, NO. 33 Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday January 11, 1945 : > monthe., P s will be made to describe the suffer- $1.50 a Year in Adv ; twelve months. Puny efforts wi ance ing of the men of the armed forces, who face death day after Community Banks Elect Directors For The Year ROAD SUPERVISORS REPORT AUDIT COMPLETED The Auditors of Rapho Township Road Supervisors met Hill and report the account as: Total receipts, $28,660.07; Expen- ses $26,608.98, merce held its sixth annual ban- Local School Board segregates The Sico Trust Funds “The Boro School Board met in regular monthly session on Monday January 8th, having postponed the January 1st meeting, All directors but Paul Stoner were present. The board decided to segregate the Sico trust fund which has been received and carry the fund in a separate bank account. Supervising principal Mervin W. Brandt presented his report of at- tendance and activities and same was accepted as read The minutes of the previous meeting were read by Secretary Breneman and also approved as read. A. bal on January 1st of $18,- £92.81 wal by the finance committee. The supply committee reported that two cars of coal have been or- dered and the repair commitiee re- ported the stair treads in the high school replaced. Tax collector Metzler turned over $834.78 as collections since the last meeting, Bills amounting to $234.01 were read and approved for payment Eh fe —— Farmers’ Conservation Reports Due Feb. 15 All farmers enrolled on the 1944 Agricultural Conservation program who have complied with such con- servation practices as constructing diversion ditches, establishing con- tour strip-cropping and sod water- ways to control erosion on their own land, and consequent erosion on neighboring land. will have to report such practices to their coun- ty AAA offices before February 15 in order to qualify for payment un- der the 1944 Agricultural program. Reports of compliance in the use of small grain winter cover crops to control winter erosion on row crop land and reports of harvested (Turn to age 3) —— St. Joseph's Hospital Started County Drive Solicitation for the St. Joseph's Hospital building fund started throughout the county this week, as rallies were scheduled by leaders in the drive at a number of county communities. Meetings were slated at Columbia Ephrata, Farmersville and Landis- ville as the various county groups enlisted new volunteer workers for the campaign, which has a goal of $695,000 for a modernization and construction program at the hospi- tal. W. Hensel Brown, county chair- man, announced that early reports of the response to the hospital's ap- peal are “encouraging’, and added: “The county has a large stake in (Turn to Page ——— LEGION AUXILIARY MET "WITH MRS FRANK GERMER The American Legion Auxiliary met at the home of the president, Mrs. Frank Germer, on Tuesday evening, January 9th. Letters of appreciation were read from four children of Scotland School, Pa., to whom the Auxiliary sent Christmas gifts. Ten dollars was donated toward ear phones for The Naval Hospital at Philadelphia. After the business session, Mrs. Germer served delicious refresh- ments. quet and meeting at Hostetter’s Bangnuet Hall here Tuesday evening, January 9. Fifty-seven members » various Banks thruout this sessed valuation, $3,051,316.00 [sanding taxes $2,272.93. Township has 131.59 miles , of which 22.91 miles is re- ra by the State. sors care for 78.68 miles, and oiled six miles af stone road in 1944. than six miles of dirt road exists in National Bank and Trust Co., Mount Joy The annual meeting of the stock- [ the First National Bank and Trust Company was held on Tuesday in the bank building. Directors were elected as follows. and guests were present. Christ Walters, Clyde Gerberich. Charles Bennett, Simon Nissly and Maurice Bailey were elected as di- rectors to serve a three year term of office Appropriations the Manheim Fire Co., Jno. E. Melhorn, Joseph B. Host- E. W. Newcomer, i . Wolgemuth, John M. Nissly Gingrich. The reorganization effected Wed- nesday morning follows: Eby, president; vice president; Dr. Clyde Gerberich, Amos H. Risser, Robert Schro!l and Harry Walters. extremely interesting talk on the Outlook in Europe with particular stress on Russia. Mr. Ramsey se- Officers are, Abram David Spickler, etl A le cured his information first hand Frenisip Fi Fire Co. Banquet And Meeting Friendship Fire Company banquet in the Fire Charles R. Shirk, E. W. New- R. Fellenbaum. having just recently returned from foreign duty. Myr. Ramsey also an- swered many questions asked by the members of his audience. assistant trust officer; Warren Bent- and Joseph T. tellers; Arlen Hilt stenographer and r; Ruth Brown and Janet Ear- and Charles , messenger and janitor. I'nion National, Mt. Joy I. D. Stehman, singing of the national anthem and invocation by Il. N. held a turkey organization were Arthur Sprecher, uary 4th. One hundred ninety-five members attended. Ralph Eshleman of $290 as of January 9th B. Brubaker, Harry Crouse, Solon Barr and Christ Herr , John B. Nissley, Yeltew, Martin S. y the reading of the min- group singing of America. The Affairs At Florin For Past Week First National, I s of the previous meeting, which were approved as read. Chief Ray Myers reported the ap- rs, W. Scott Bushong, | paratus in working order and ready swered during the month. also reported that the air raid sirens were donated to the Defense Council and that $11.00 was Hoffman and G. Maytown National, Maytown William Mun- Saturday eevning at the “Hang- The Chief made an urgent : |Out”, at Florin Hall, spending the for more help to fight and to help! return the apparatus in proper con- The reorganization follows: evening in playing games and aancing First National Bank, Marielta way of entertainment will be added John Orth, George P. . Barr Spangler, E. Memorial committee ed ten deaths during the year Spi [neice for the young folk (hie ious hamburger sandwiches, Tingley, Frank Ziegler, 4 ry gle) =e funeral sprays, a total of $74.50 a profit of $289.48 from the {held December (Turn to page 4) Sais terol peters {onic d Brethren Church met at the . B. Scott Fritz and home of Mrs. Augustus Shetter on { Tuesday evening reorganization Tingley was reelected ' E. Donegal T. Schools hom Ei Plans Future s| es So ———— —— ror COUNTY BOROUGHS GET SEWAGE ORDERS SISTERHOOD BIBLE MET THURSDAY EVENING . Sisterhood Bible Class of St. the East Tones: al OE re School | Board will be held Friday evening, boroughs to prepare Post-War sew- home of Mrs. tage treatment facilities. Columbia John Haines with Mrs. Donald Waser : dumps ils sewage into the Susque- Evangelical Church hanna river and Christiana runs its January 4. After the business meet- sewage into a nearby creek. Future assemblies luncheon was served ¢ announced as follows: Water Board Jan. 17 additional mu- . 12, Chalk talk by Rev of nm, Hs nicipalities will be considered. The campaign includes plans to compel . Charles Latchford, ham Bell” (2 P. Council Program. . William Weldon, Newpher Smeltzer, Mrs. Earl Myers, Jacob Geltmacher, Shirk, Miss Maggie VISITED BY THE STORK ig Jasketball game . High Basketball game Osteopathic Hospital last Wednes- y rick, Mrs. Cora Eberle, Joy Rl, a son at 11:47 a. m Wed- nesday, at the Lancaster Osteopath- John Haines, ic Hospital. Speaking Class. High haskeiball team rt Program—Public SHOT 127 DUCKS, 16 GEESE AT FOX ISLAND, VIRGINIA pathic 2nd Mrs. Myer wi has completed : " . : | Scores of past games were as fol- from a 3-days duck hunting trip to | Pp 8 ia, where he was MRS. KCDER TO PRESIDE AT EXECUTIVE MEETING 3 Mrs. Lester Koder will preside at [and Lee Clark Stetson, Hope Ranch, | an executive meeting of the Wom- | Santa Barbara, Calif. en's Missionary Societies of the Lancaster Conference, Lutheran |ard Lorrayne C. Mumma, Mt. Ministerium of Penna, at Trinity JR2 Chapel, Lancaster with morning and afternoon sessions. Department secretaries and .rep- resentatives of fifty-one socities the guest of Mr. (Turn to page - . | ot every thing he had in- ) i ———— lr low temperature, which ideal | | WIL L HOLD FOOD SALE r. 127 ducks consisting | brant | Mount Joy. will held a food sale in { Booth’s store on Saturday, J and 16 geese was the bag. { 13, from 10:00 to 12:00 in the morn- LETTERS GRANTED John G. Longenecker, this boro, administrator of Esther B. Longe- necker, late of this place. Mabel Hiestand, Ephrata, and Donegal Twp. ARRESTED FOR NON-SUPPORT |ing Elmer Zerphey arrested | {Irvin M. Kaylor on Saturday morn- | ing on a warrant issued by Squire David Markley, Reading executors Hockenberry on a charge of non- | Mrs. Jacob R. Brubaker, of Katharine Markley, latte of East support by Josephine Kaylor. Kay- |lor posted bail for court. ——— BROODER HOUSE BURNED house on the farm of DEEDS \ J) BE RECORDED Clinton McCurdy to Abraham S. Shaffner and wife, premises in May- town for $3,000, Manheim, was destroyed by fire It was unoccupied. Chamber of Commerce Holds Annual Banquet The Mount Joy Chamber of Com- During the business meeting The tellers are Clinton Eby, Jr, Mr. E. C. Ramsey, world travel- rand news correspondent gave an The meeting opened with the New members admitted to the R. Greider, Samuel Dock, and The treasurer reported a balance Guests at the banquet included D. The meeting closed with the “Hang-Out” News Over twenty young folk, enjoyed This week a new feature in the a Ping Pong table has been do- On the refreshment list is the de- MISS VERA EBY ENTERTAINS AT SHOWER FOR MRS, J. L. RICF Monday even- , in honor of Mrs. John lee Rice : for table decor- ations was green and pink. . serve: streamers running down to the ta- Miniature parasols of pink and green were favors. the luncheon marshmallows corn popped at the living room fire- 'r, Shirley Eby and rl @ Ens E. C. Ramsey Spoke Before 3 Audiences Here On Tuesday The Tuesday meeting of the Rota- 'y Club was quite a gala affair as twenty-three Rotary Anns, and six visiting Rotarians present, Elizabethtown r and G. B. Bitzer, ve Lancaster club; also four guests, guest of Harry Nissley; ¢ one member of the armed for- The speaker was Mr. E. 7, noted war correspondent, news were admitted, the largest number | in any month since the Club was | organized forty years ago. During | Thi S ti M the year 2,304 new members were | IS eC ion 's ortuary admitted and the renewal rate was | ® pe these figures to ol N u m © yo uy 5 Rec cord In board of directors at their January | We cl di i Nn a S This Section meeting S. Edward Gable, pres- | Ramsey spoke to the high school in » forenoon, and also at the Cham- banquet in the one of a definite subject, on the different phases of the war, + soldier, the part Russia is playing, public at the door. Try them, you which will be served and sold to the | | [will go back for more { | | Ladies Aid Society of the Florin A meeting of the Shining Star J. Weidman moved from ee Eee eer The State has cited two Lancaster At a session of the State Sanitary lustry to cease polluting streams the state - DQ Oe Pvt. and Mrs. James Hockenber- this boro, a son at the Lancaster Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bixler, Mt. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Myer of Strasburg, a daughter at the Osteo- Frey a Hospital, Lancaster, January | Mrs. June Risser. ee © from forty-four leongregations will { crushed to death between a pile of | WEDDED FIFTY YEARS postmaster hear reports and transact business. | iron pipe and a load of steel at the | Marietta Depot Thursday. rr A A Ae (Turn to page 2) ——— — Insurance Co. Enters 90th Year of Service At the annual meeting of the Mt held on Monday, . | Magill, of Leola, was flown to Bost- . on for an operation. Landis, and John A. Myer. G. Carpenter was elected to fill the death of | ville. press $41 at a public sale at Half- 1| was injured when a car in which | of the company for past thirty-five years. 3. Coble was re-elected Presi- Simon K. Behm, Vice-Presi- [$110 PER ACRE FOR Landis, Secretary and (Turn to page 6) Our Cord Basket For The Week Ralph Lutz spent with her parents. | rear 25-ACRE FARM {acres of land, partly located in Leb- {anon county along the macadam road leading from Mastersonville to | “" Eas with Ralph Lutz at Parkesburg. Mary Myer at the Osteopathic | hospital, on Saturday. rr etl Qe MARRIAGE LICENSES Joy | manded and placed on probation | TRAPPED SIXTEEN RABBITS in sires Mt. Joy Sportsmen's Association - —- plans to Joy [trapped 16 rabbits and released | NAMED ASSESSOR This will {them in Rapho, Mt. Joy and East| Harry LL. Heisev | Donegal townships. The agents are Ra Was named to 3 | Charles Vogel and Newpher Smelt- Henrv as | zer Township A A ern KILLED AT MARIETTA DEPOT caster, Mr. and Mrs. Amos S. Earhart, {Mount Joy R, D. celebrated their | RATE INCREASE DENIED Lancaster Junction, were found {50th wedding anniversary on New| The FUC of | Year's Day. They were entertained | denied the Flizabet thtown Water Co. garage at Manheim. They left the Silver Springs, is reported a prison- |at the home of their daughter, Mrs. | permission to increase its rates from motor running to keep warm and er of war in Germany. "Roy E. Shelley, Milton Grove. ‘$2 to $3 per quarter. were asphyxiated by the fumes. day, year after year, far from home and loved ones. Actually. | Reich’ S Evangelical there are no words that can adequately sum up 1944, the most critical year in American history. Church Elects Officers The astounding thing obout the home front is the fact that | except for the families of service men, it lives normally and has At the congregational meeting | | conception of the horrors of war. Communiques from Wash- held at Reich’s Evangelical Congre- ington on the price of toilet paper or some other trivial item fill gational Church Sunday nig » | : 5 i 3 ch Sunday night the | og columns in the press. Social security planning, “full” following officers were elected to | employment and dizzy talk of a contented postwar world, with Sunday School officers: J. D. Ro- | all the worries assumed by a benevolent government, arise | land, superindent; Sylvester Shu- [from the American scene like a haze from a swamp. Clear, man, assistant superintendent; sec- | unqualified thought on the subject of personal freedom, is al- retary, Lester Roland; assistant sec- retary, Helen Tressler; treasurer, | Lau Tressler; pianist, Martha Ro- land; assistant, Dorothy Roland; li- | of oppression and government by small cliques loom larger and brarians, Nancy Woods, James | darker over the world. The United States is no exception to Horst; assistants, Kenneth McMil- | this trend. Much of our postwar planning is a crazy mixture lian, Shirley H » Dep: an lirley Rice; Home Depart- | of initiative and bureaucrertic paternalism. The con- ment, Superintendent, Minnie R. Demmy; Cradle Roll, superinteri ent, { most totally lacking. | As the war moves on, country after country sees the spectre | flict between those who believe in state socialism and would Mes. ‘Edward. Charles, {have the government take over basic industries. and those who Church officers: Trustees, Ray | believe in the superiority of privately owned enterprise, has led Burris, C. S. Brandi, Sylvester |to rash promises. Many on both sides apparently believe that Shuman, John D. Roland, Edward | the crux of the issue is a full stomach, with the result that a ma- Charles; ushers, Lester Roland, Roy Bixler, Roy Bernheisel, Brady, Johns: assistant ushers, Lan | outpromise the cther unt’l it has become rank heresy to suggest ler, Ray Burns, George McMillian; | that there may «at times be lean going in the future. terial value has been put on freedom. Each side has striven to pianists, Martha Roland, Dorothy | Millions expect government to furnish them jobs, to guaran- ole The SEAR ‘lass leader | : . Roland. The present class leader | too pegee time prices, to protect them from the insecurity of com-s and assistant were chosen in Ha to | petiticn. They should remember that the more they ask of serve two years. The Rev. C. Don- ald Waser, Manheim. is v £ | government, the less freedom they will have. If government pastor of the church. | ends by owning most of industry and employing most of the QF | * ———— | people as well as regulating the lives of the remainder, freedom | will become a mockery. As Robert S. Henry, eminent writer Lancaster Auto Club historian, observes: “The right of nonconformity is ultimately the most important Has 16,371 Members | | of human rights, but I doubt if it can long exist independently The year 1944 was a banner ove tof the right of private property. After all, te man who owns for the Lancaster Automobile Club. | nothing, and has no hope of owning anything for himself, is un- Despite rigid motoring restrictions | der a terrible handicap in expressing untrammeled individual- and a big decrease in the number of | ity, He is without a place for his foot to stand upon, in opposi- cars in operation in Lancaster coun- ty the Club reached an all-time | high in membership. The total paid up membership as of January 1st. 1945, was 16,377, a gain of 1,652 for | ever, let too much government destroy the freedom and hope of the year. tion to the conforming forces of the collectivist state.” Our people could lose everything of material value as the | price of victory in this war and still have a bright How- ; the individual to build again and there is no future. The right In December 482 new members | of ownership is more important than ownership itself, ident said “this membership growth | | Harry W. Righter, 59, died at his (Turn to Page 2) Jeanette Holey | home in Columbia, Sunday. mrt ts Ip Te John Stoll Jr. | Claud K. Musser, sixty-five, died Miss Jeanette Heisey, daughter of suddenly at his home at Elizabeth- OCa airs Mr. and Mrs. Harry Heisey of town. Rheems and Mr. John Stoll Jr: son Mrs, Cora Fink, seventy, Eliza- In General of Mr. and Mrs. John Stoll of 671 bhethtown, died at the Lancaster Union St, Lancaster, Pa were Ceneral : Briefl Told { married Wednesday afternoon Jan Charles E. Garman, fifty-nine, | Y 13 at the residence of Rev. Roy S. Suprerintende : i - in the office of the perintendent of the Elizabeth in Elizabethtown, Forney. Rev. Forney officiating, town Water Co. and a former chief | using the ring ceremony burgess of the borough, died while | The attendants were Mrs. Geral- shoveling snow on the company’s A Dutch cupboard sold for $130, | dine M. Barr sister of the bride, property about 10 a. m. Sunday. and Miss Kathryn Jane Gantz —— studio couch $71 and a tobacco |° A child of Mr. and Mrs. Richard | Maggie Lee Sumner | Anna RL Haverstick Maggie Lee Sumner, Elizabeth- Dorothy Weisser, 27, Columbia, [Norman J. Smith town RD, died last Thursday fore- Announcement has been made of ncon after a brief illness. Death {she was riding crashed into the [ the marriage of Miss Anna R. Hav- wag caused by pneumonia. She is of a bus at Marietta. { erstick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs urvived by her parents, Mr, and il Wisin | Lee H. Haverstick, Maytown, and WM:s. Sidney Sumner. | Norman J. Smith, son of Mr. and - | Mrs. G. € th, Mt. Joy Rl, 4 «CQ | Mr Smith, Mt. Joy I Jacob S. Snyder John A. Shell, Columbia RD, paid | Which took place at 2 p.m. SUN": Jacob S. Snyder, eighty-eight, [$110.25 an acre for a farm of 125|day Dec. 31, in St. John's Lutheran oo4 Ny Bayhara St., Mount Joy, died Church, Maytown The Rev. ciated. A banquet for 55 guests was at 1 u. m. Monday at his home af- several weeks’ illness. Born in il Township. his parents | Lawn, at public sale by B. S. Stauf- h 1d a: Tovieiter’s banquet hall were the late Christian and Fannie on Tuesday afternoon.. Thirty Sete = : Stauffer Snyder. He had been a {acres are pasture and woodland. F. | Mi Dy ob d “€ farmer in former years and was a |B. Aldinger called the sale Musser Leghorn Farms, Mount Joy, oppor of the Mennonite Church. | A li and Mrs. Smith at Mac-It Parts Co., +, . ; His wife. who before marriage was | TWO HARRISBURG YOUTHS Lancaster aa Lizzie Forrey, survives. He was week end | HEARD IN JUVENILE COURT |. the last of his fmailyy. WO PROSECUTIONS vy Joseph Smith, seventeen, and = Pol Gas Funeral services were held this Martin | Jack Coyle, seventeen, both of Har- De Dace : SEER afternoon with burial in Kraybill’s | . rel} I'tsS wo rosecution the yast visited | risburg, alleged members of the| ps I ol (Turn to page 3 week, beth before Sq Hocken- —— “Black Diamond Gang” arrested in the holdup at Ira K. Newcomer's service station, at Elizabethtown, on { November 30, were severely repri- CHORUS WILL PRACTICE The Community Chorus will ractice at the High School Monday vening at 8:00 P. M. this is an im- ant practice and all members > urged to attend. The chorus ive a concert in March. be the last practice at which new members will be accept- 1 until after the first concert. I —— MAN AND WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN MANHEIM GARAGE Walter Guy Rohrer, 40, Manheim, and Mary Elizabeth Ellinger, 33, AA AS —— A tember 9th Harrisburg Thursday dead in the rear seat of a car in a
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