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In General
Briefly Told
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VOL. XLV, NO. 8
Mount Yow, Pa. Thursday Afternoon, July 2
26, 1945
Heavy Rains Cause Streams To Go On Rampage
Little Chickies Makes All Time High Flood Record
2 Bridges Gone —Roads
Washed Out—Much Crop
And Property Damage
Girl.
At Ironville
Pool Sunday
Dolores Fay Wright, thirteen, 318
Alley L, Columbia, drowned Sunday
afternoon at the Twin Oaks swim-
ming pool near Ironville. Her fath-
er, CPO Charles Wright, is serving
in the Pacific with the Navy.
Her body was found in eight feet
of water. Dr. G. P. Taylor Colum-
bia deputy coroner, said the girl
drowned when she suffered an epi-
leptic attack while in the pool.
Artificial respiration was admin-
istered by Kauffman and Richard
Spiece, Columbia Swimming Asso-
ciation until the Columbia Hospital
ambulance arrived. Physicians at
the hospital worked two hours try-
ing to revive the girl before she was
pronounced dead.
Dolores had left her home at
noon on a picnic with her brothers,
Kenneth, twelve; and Floyd, six,
and her sister, June, eight. Another
brother, James, fifteen, was swim-
ming at Rocky Springs pool at the
time.
She was a member of St. Peter's
Catholic Church, Columbia, and a
pupil in the fifth grade of the Cher-
ry St. School. Besides her parents
James Charles and Caroline T.
Wright, she is survived by her bro-
thers and sisters and her grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yarnell,
Columbia; Mrs. Samuel Rineer,
Lancaster and James Wright, Lan-
caster.
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Charge 3 With Theft
Of 30 Gals. Gasoline
Three county men were arrested
Monday afternoon by Cpl. Herman
Ries and Pvi. John Golden of the
Columbia sub-station of the state
police and charged with the theft
of 30 gallons of gasoline from a
road roller in Conoy Township Sun-
day evening.
The three are
twenty, and his brother,
liam Sprout, eighteen, Elizabeth
town R1; and Warren R. Nissley,
Marietta R1. The three were
ranged before Justice of the Peace
George A. Sell, Marietta, and com-
mitted to the Lancaster County jail |
in default of bail. Police said their
investigation is continuing and a
fourth suspect is expected to be
charged Wednesday.
Police said the gasoline was siph-
oned from a road roller, the proper-
ty of Roy Young, Lancaster R2, a-
bout 9:30 p. m. Sunday. Young is
engaged in work at the
Route 241, two and a
north of Maytown, where a
bridge is being constructed.
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RAY M. BRUBAKER, OF TOWN
WILL GRADUATE FROM MBI
Ray Mt: Brubaker, son of
Harry L. Brubaker, Donegal Spring |
Road, will be graduated August 2nd,
from Moody Bible Institute, Chica-
go. Member of the largest class ev-
er to graduate from the Institute,
Brubaker has just completed the
Pastor’s course.
From this class of 174 young |
people, 108 expect to enter mission-
ary service in Africa, Alaska, China,
Japan, India, Island World, Latin
America, Mexico, South America,
and various points in Europe.
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DISCHARGED AT INDIANTOWN
Technician Fifth Grade, Milton Z.
Demmy, of town; Pvt. Emil L. Shu- |
macher, Bainbridge, were discharg-
ed at Indiantown Gap during the
past week,
Paul David Sprout,
Ralph Wil-
ar-
site,
half miles |
new |
tn mt tli
on
Rev. |
lexceed $200.00,
Brief Nows Of
The Day From
Local Dailies
off the raticn list July 31.
stolen from Jonas Martin near Gap.
Simeon Esch, 19, near Gordon-
ville was badly injured when kicked
by a mule.
76,652 tons of bombs were dumped |
on Berlin. Is it any wonder those |
Dutchmen quit?
The 1945 firemen’s convention at
York has been postponed due to
travel restrictions.
During the past three years near-
ly 6,000 American soldiers married |
Australian brides.
Five Guernsey cows in
near Ephrata, were killed by lightn-
ing Sunday afternoon.
The entire contract for parachutes |
at the Denver plant was cancelled
| by the Government yesterday.
| Frank E. Boyd, 42, was electrocut-
ed yesterday when his head touch-
ed an 11,000 volt line at Kinzer.
There are 49,711 union men idle
today due to strikes. Of that num-
The worst flood this section has
ever experienced occurred here on
Sunday afternoon. The Little Chick-
ies east of town, was never known
to swell to such porportions. And
flood damage was not only prevalent
around Mount Joy as many other
places suffered.
The editor patrolled the Little
Chickies creek {rom a point near
Mastersonville all the way to the
Susquehanna river, a distance of at
least ten miles, and appending are
his findings:
At Mount Joy
None of our oldest citizens can re-
member of the Little Chickies being
as high as it was Sunday. Traffic
on the Manheim road and the main
highway thru here, was tied up for
several hours. Something unusual
about Sunday’s flood was the rapid-
ity with which the water rose. Many
pasture
declare it came up three feet in 3 | ber 21,762 are auto workers at De-
minutes. troit.
At The Springs Craig Kennedy [Moorehouse, 45,
4 of Leola, committed suicide by
Here Old Man Flood just “raised
cain”.
The steel bridge on the Newtown
road was almost covered. There
was forty inches of water on the
first floor of the writer's summer
home The Springs. Outside the
building the water was a foot high-
er. The raging torrents placed a
large telephone pole on the bridge,
carried a 12-foot steel water wheel
several hundred yards down stream, |
lodged a steel lawn porch swing 15 | of the Funbar's son, Cpl. Jos-
feet from the ground on a tree, tore | eph Funbar, Europe.
the top off a portion of a stone wall, [For this reason they urge the finder
of mud, left |to please return it or notify them to
shooting himself in the temple with
a shot gun
Ninety percent. of the employes of
the Commercial Crystal Co. at Lan-
caster were released this week. They
did government work.
sedan in the garage under the house
was flooded up to the windows in
the doors, and a wheel and
washed away. This car is the prop-
erty
stationed in
and aside from tons
much debris strewn about every- | where it can be found, so that the
|
where. | car can be reconditioned before Cpl. |
The entrance to J. L. Swarr’s lane | Funbar’s return.
was torn away and at the home of | A 1939 Plymouth owned by Mr.
Jac. Lindemuth, the water was up | Troup, in the three car garage at the
to his stone residence for the first |Funbar residence was also badly
damaged by the flood waters.
At Walkers
At the boro property, the double
| brick dwelling tenanted by Walk-
|ers and Shearers, was flooded on
time in his recollection.
When the water was at its height,
two cows and a horse were seen be-
ing carried down stream.
A Severe Loss
st loss to the writer was | the first floor to a depth of eight in-
The greates
his entire library of several thous- Mrs. Walker’s gladiolas valued
than $50 were
and books, many quite costly. It in-
cluded a number of complete en-|and will probably be a
cyclopedias of 25 to 30 volumes each, | Two bushel baskets of jelly in glass-
variety of es were ruined, as were numerous |
{packs of dried foods. The living
|
| ches.
at more
103s.
total
together with a great
reference records. All were a com-
plete loss and cannot be replaced as
they were a lifetime collection.
Auto Carried Away
Just as the water was
[that escaped the flood waters and
{all the linoleum in three rooms had
raising | to be thrown away. A piano was al-
| en feed lost.
Jac. Lindemuth’s lane when the
| water drowned the motor. The boys
|
At John Zeager’s
| were commanded to get out of the | At the Zeager
car by Mr. Lindemuth and shortly {house on the right side after
the water rolled the car |ing the Manheim bridge, there were
ioff the highway and down thru his 52 inches of water on the first flocr.
meadow for quite a distance. | The electric refrigerator floated a-
The Pumping Station | round the room until Zeager
| There was eight inches of water | sever ral men succeeded in jamming |
on the top floor of the pump house it into a stairway. A white enamel
at the boro water works, Veteran | cook stove and coal oil stove were
| covered by a faot of water and met -
mud.
residence, the first
and
| ches er than ily on record. |al cabinets were coated in
| There was 38 inches of water on | Several hundred pounds of hog
|the first floor at the Schatz resi- meal, baled straw, etc, were lost
dence. | Mr. and ‘Mrs. Zeager were away at
{ The furniture was removed Bot Ji start of the flcod but managed
{the floor coverings were ruined. |!to get into their home
45000 gallons of clear filtered | raging waters reached
water was spoiled by the flood. All| | They estimated their damage at $500
| motors at the pumping station were | Lightning Followed Wire
| removed and dried, settling basins | A stroke of lightning followed
{cleaned and Supervisor Smeltzer | ho electric wiring into the Roy
{and his gang certainly deserve cred- | Ament resident on N. Market St. |
|it for cleaning up as quickly as they | ,nd burned out a bridge lamp,
did. Water restrictions were re-
| moved at midnight Wednesday. | black.
At Funbar’s | On Pine Street
Here the water was so high that| The residents on the East end of
only a few inches of the concrete | Pine street sent in an SOS call early
top of the Manheim road bridge was | in the afternoon and our .
| visible. At Jos. Funbar’s the water responded. Considerable
| was up to hs porch. Damage to|was done there.
{ furniture in the basement, such as | Mr. and Mrs. Howard Boyd, who
| refrigerator, kitchen cabinet, elect- | reside in the Morris Stauffer prop-
iric, ete, and quantities of jelly, will lesty, were at Beulah Heights when
A 1938 Plymouth (Turn to page 6)
its height.
firemen
dzmage
Gas cooking and heating stoves go|
Seventy-five mixed chickens were |
tire |
inundated |
| room furniture were the only pieces |
several boys tried to get thru near so damaged and a quanity of chick- |
cross- |
before the |
leaving a place on the floor smoked !
Visited By The Stork
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Putt, 121
W. Main St., this boro, a daughter,
Saturday.
and Mrs. M. Funk, West Main
at the Os-
Sun-
at home
Mr.
this boro, a son,
Lancaster
street,
Hospital,
| day.
Mr. Mrs.
|
{ Flizabethtown R
and Joseph Huntzinger,
2, a daughter at the
| Osteopathic Hospital, Lancaster, on
| Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, McCurdy,
Bainbridge, a daughter at the Gen-
| eral Hospital Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Trostle, E.
{ Donegal, Marietta R1, a at 5:01
Monday, at the Columbia Hos-
son,
m.
{ pital.
Pvt. and Mrs. Robert E.
joi Rheems, a son at 1 p. m
day at St. Joseph’s Hospital,
caster.
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Nissley, of
| Rapho township, a son last Wednes
|
Hoover,
. Thurs-
Lan-
day at home.
A
248 New Clubs
Organized In
Rotary In Year
The speaker for the day
day’s Rotary meeting was Prof. Mer-
chairman of the maga-
vin Brandt,
committee,
club on “The S
ence”, as taken from a recent copy
of the “Rotarian” magazine.
who spoke to the
an Francisco Confer-
zine
ent from the armed service. They |
Arthur Zerphey, and A.
a member of |
were Cpl.
J. Withers, Phm.
ithe Waves. President Sroop stated
from
that
added
3/c,
» report Rotary Internation
|
al showed last year
were to Rotary, and
of these was organized In
clubs
| that
the Philippines Islands.
the
direction of
one
| week music committee
under the
| Ralph Eshleman, took a poll among
the number they
| would like to sing best of all from
Last
members, on the
{the otary song book. Each mem-
[ber listed five choices of songs. To- |
| day he gave a report on the poll
| Practically all members of the club |
participated, with a total of 68 dif- |
[ferent song suggested. The first to
{win top honors on this Hit Parade.
| were first, “Home on the Range”,
with 23 votes; second place, “Grand-
{fathers Clock”, and third place was
[“Rotary”, Ralph read to the club
| the first cighteen winners.
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| BRETHREN PLAN TO SHIP
WHEAT TO HOLLAND
Local congregations of the Chruch
of the
cgoperating in the
which have been
“heifers for relief
Brethren
of war-raveged countries” project
now are planning to donate wheat
land flour for shipmen to Holland,
{ B. G. Bushong, Columbia R2, Breth-
ren relief official, announced.
“Preliminary plans call for one or
|
donate a
several congregations to
carload,” Bushong said, “Arrange-
ments still are in their tentative
stages.” 3
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SLOT MACHINES LIFTED;
PROPRIETOR ARRESTED
machines
H. Siegrist,
Two nickel slot
{ confiscated and Clarence
| proprietor of the Overbrook Inn
{on Route 72, scuth of Cornwall, was
arrested Tuesday afternoon during
a raid led by State Policeman A. J.
| Budjako. Seigrist was charged with |
setting up and maintaining gamb-
ling devices and was released in $300
at 9:30 a. m. on
thond for a hearing
Monday before Alderman Nathan
{ Sundell at Lebanon.
CAR FROM TOWN IN A
{| COLLISION ON A HILL
{ No one was injured but damage
| estimated at $100 resulted when cars
{driven by Frank K. Garman, fifty-
| eight, Columbia R1, and Alta K.
| Titus, twenty-six, 122 E. Main St,
collided at Wissler’s Hill
Saturday
| this boro,
|at 12:15 p. m.
etl ee.
» P. C. CUT IN POINTS
Fffective Sunday, beef,
= | anicsburg were
at Tues- |
Roy Sheetz introduced those pres-
248 new |
Chairman
were |
lamb, and |
veal will be reduced an average oi | gitis.
Class of 1925
Mt. Joy High
Held Reunion
The class of 1925 of the Mount Joy
high school held a reunion, in cele-
bration of the twentieth anniversary
of their graduation, at Broad Acres,
Hershey, Pa. the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Strickler.
Letters were read from several of
the members who could mot be
present. These included Lt. Joseph
Moore, Naval reserve Corpus Chris-
| ti, Texas, Earl Shaeffer, Long Island,
N. Y. Olga Hyson Stewart, Lan-
caster, Charles Siller, Palmerton,
| and Jos. Shaeffer, Mount Joy, John
{ Eshleman, Greensburg, Julia Fair
1 Arndt, Albert Booth, somewhere in
Kentucky, and Ralph Byers, Mech-
unable to attend.
| Those present included: Mr. and
| Mrs. Walter Becker, and three chil-
{ dren, Lois, Glenn, and Marian, Mt.
{ Joy, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Diffenderfer,
Leacock, Mr. and Mrs. Alois Heilig
| and son Billy, Wallington, Pa., Mr.
| and Mrs, Paul Forney, and six
| children, John, Dickie, [Marilyn,
|
Gerald, and Barbara Ann,
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Or
| DEDICATION SERVICES FOR
LOCAL RELIEF HEIFERS
| The West Green Tree Church of
| the will hold dedication
| exercises for the heifers which are
lto be shipped to Poland and France
{for relief purposes. register-
ed, blood-tested and choice animals
lare only a small part of the thous-
i heifers which being
milk, and
coun-
James,
Brethren
These
ands of are
shipped for their fcod
breeding purposes to many
| tries scattered over the world.
| Mr. Jacob N. Eshelman,
farmer, and Robert Bowers,
local
Florin,
{will these animals to
their destination.
The services will be held Sunday
July 29, at 7:30 at the home
Harry W. Eshelman, R.D..
the animals
accompany
evening,
of Rev.
Elizabethtown,
had been raised.
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DISTRICT COLLECTIONS
where
| OF THE CANCER SOCIETY
The American Cancer Society,
Field Army, of Lancaster County
has about completed its 1945 cam-
for contributions to combat
Scattered funds continue to
Appended are the dis-
paign
cancer,
be received.
trict collections:
Miss Verna Peck, en-
$60.
Bainbridge,
listment officer,
East Petersburg, Miss Elizabeth
Workman, $209.67.
Elizabethtown, Mrs. Irvin B.
Shoop, $179.
Landisville,
Mrs. Earl Ginder and
Mr. C. E. Charles, $128.53.
| Marietta, Mrs. Robert F. Vander-
slice and Mrs. B. C. Hipple, $172.50.
Mt. Joy, Mrs. Frank Germer,
£304.50.
| Salunga, Mrs. Mary Kendig Min-
nich, $78.65.
reali Wi
LANCASTER COUNTY'S LOSS
DUE TO 12 DAYS RAIN
| Lancaster county has lost approx-
imately 35 per cent of its wheat
crop, tobacco is damaged and other
being threatened by 12
days of rain, according to Floyd S.
Bucher, County Farm agent.
eee Een
crops are
| THE WATER SITUATION
| Monday Burgess Brown, hand
| bills, asked water consumers to use
water sparingly due .to flood condi-
tions. Thru the
Burgess turned on
signal at midnight last night.
——
by
same channels the
the green “go”
HE'S BUSY REMODELING
Mr. Norman Heisy, who purchas-
ed the Miller
! garage, East Main street, is busy re-
property next to his
modeling and renovating. Already
ltwo large double windows have
been installed in the front.
BE .
MENINGITIS FATAL TO CHILD
| Joyce Ann White, four, daughter
| of Mr. and Mrs. Willie White, Bain-
bridge Rl, was the victim of menin-
She died at her home last
21 percent. in points, a a. 8 A Thursday, after 2 nine-hour illness.
|
= , : |
$1.50 a Year in Advance| A 17-vewr
Congratulations John
inspection is July 31.
locust was found at
| Manhei im by Henry Cassel.
Hostetter’s Play Barn will be con-
verted into a manufacturing plant.
Elizabethtown’s council is
considering
boro
. | seriously parking me-
| ters.
| Three new cases of typhoid fever
+l [were reported in the county this
3 week.
| Mrs. David Shonk, West Donegal
[street, celebrated her seventieth
| birthday on Sunday.
| Lightning struck and killed a
[cow in pasture on the Alvin Wen-
ger farm at Chestnut Level.
The 30th Gibble reunion will be
(held Sunday, August 5, at the Bach-
| manville Brethren Church.
East Peters-
when
Benjamin Baer, 33,
burg, had his hand injured
| caught in a drill press.
Shissler, 54, Paradise, suf-
| Jacob
|fers a fractured pelvis
from being
| pinned between a tractor and his
barn.
| Forty of the personnel depart-
JOHN S. EVANS
The
At Florin For
Past Week
Miss Darlene Gerlitzki
ministered to the St.
pital.
was
with Mrs. Harold Buller.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller
Mr. Mrs. Christy Miller
children of Bossler's Church w
Tuesday guests of Mr.
Norman Ebersole.
and
son, on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kell
ents Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. Jacob Ebersole returned
home at Philadelphia
Mrs. Fr:
his after
days with his daughter,
E. Klugh.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
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OPENED WELDING SHOP
AT DELTA & DONEGAL STS.
Christ Cover, a former resident
fhe pied
property formerly occt
. Wm. Thome, corner of Delta :
Mr. Cover
Br streats. rece
ly purchased this property from
G. Carpenter and moved here fr
Philadelphia.
He is equipped to do electric
DEI.
TO HOLD HARVEST MEETING
The annual Union
near
and evening.
T-Sgt. Adin W. Mumma, of Flo
from Ft. Dix this week,
Joseph's Hos-
Miss Ella Shirk and Mrs. Harry : o
Boamenderfor . spend Wednasd: | Samuel Barnhart, a neighbor Sun-
2d > Spe 2X saa
! Y| | day afternoon. Dr. D. C. Stoner
and
wi
and Mrs. 2 Servicemen
Mrs. Guy Palmer and son, Neal of |
Coatesville visited Randolph Jack- |
daughter, of Carlisle visited Mr. and, |
Mrs. George Mumper Sr., on Thurs- Two local servicemen, one of
day. | whom saw service with the Marines
L741 «or
Mrs. John Zink, of Columbia, 1s|in the South Pacific and returned
spending several days with her par- | home unscathed, were injured when
William Dyer Sr.
Wicken- Tuesday.
this place, opened a welding shop at | Engle,
and |
gas welding. Read his advertisement | who investigated,
on another page of this issue, and |was driving an auto belonging to |
when you have anything in the | hic mother and step-father, Ruth E.
welding line, call the Cover Weld- [4nd Lester E. Kaylor, 62 W. Main
ing Shop. |St., Mt. Joy.
| They were traveling east on the
OUR COMMUNITY CHORUS | Harrisburg pike and crashed into
TO SING AT LANDISVILLL {the rear of a small trailer attached
The Mount Joy Community Chor- an auto operated by Kenneth Ww.
us gave a program at the Donegal | Graves, thirty-six, Paradise Route 1.
Presbyterian Church recently. The Graves, a truck farmer, had taken a
group also appeared at Landisville {1opad of tomatoes to a Harrisburg
Camp Monday evening, and also on market and was returning when the
Sunday evening. July 29 The chor-|;ccident occurred. He escaped in-
us, under the direction of the Rev. |jury. :
John Tate, meets well-merited | Ac cording to police, McLaughlin
praise in all its appearances. lost control following the collision
————————— = i ———— nd the auto turned over several
CAUGHT LARGE TROUT | times landi wgainst a pole. The
IN DONEGAL CREEK car was demol vig d. Police estima-
Paul Farmer, East High street, |ted th damage to Graves’ trailer
Elizabethtown, recently caught a.nd auto at $150
19'2 inch German brown trout in — ll ffs
the Donegal stream. It is believed | two MORE DISCHARGED
to be the largest trout caught in x3
vicinity during the present season. Sow SO ders
elles fron Indiantown
FIRE CHIEF IN HOSPITAL 0 em were
Mr. Ray Myers, on S. Barbara St wi hi ig
local fire chief, was removed to St on : 1
Joseph's Hospital Tuesday for ob- th Gein
servation. He was suffering from
very high temperatures and chills. MARRIAGE LICENSES
Harvest Meet-
ing will be held at Shenk’s chur
Deodate, on July 28, afternoon
FLORIN SOLDIER DISCHARGED
was one of six soldiers discharged |wounded 639,048;
> | ment at the Marietta Depot held a
1 . , 2
[swimming party at Twin Oaks on
Newspaper Advertising Is Good Will Insurance Which Industry Uses Today
Mortuary
Record In
This Section
Amos R. Gram, 84, of Columbia,
died at the County Hospital Sunday.
Mrs. Emma S. Baney, 83, of Eli-
zabethtown, died at the Hershey
| hospital.
Stephen Roma, Columbia, died
shortly after being found uncomn=
scious at his home. ]
Mamie M., wife of Jacob Bender,
Sunday, aged 61 years. Martha, wife
of Isaac Siegrist, Mount Joy R2, is a
sister.
Aavon H. Martin
Aaron H. Martin, sixty, who be=
came so indignant over rationing
rules and regulations that he sold
his Lancaster county farm and took
his family to Mexico, died July 5th
from typhoid fever at Bascom, San
Luis Potosi.
Mrs. Maggie W. Newton
Mrs. Maggie W. Newton, eighty=
one, widow of John W. Newton,
died at her home in Maytown at 8:=
20 p. m. Thursday after an illness of
eight months. She was a member
of the St. John’s Lutheran church
and the missionary society of the
church.
Born in Maytown, the daughter of
the late John L. and Elizabeth Glat-
felter Jacobs, she was the oldest
West Main street celebrated his { Thursday.
91st birthday Saturday, July 21. Mr. | T/5 Gordon Gerstweite, of Bain-
Evans has been a member of the { bridge has refused a 30-day fur-
Friendship Fire Co. No. 1 of this |lough. He refuses to take time out
place for the past seventy-three | Unless it is for good.
years. : | Samuel Ortman, 60, of Washing-
MM feces |tonbor, was arrested and fined $45
| by State Fish Warden Greener. He
| was fined for illegal fishing five
| years ago.
ee
| SHOULDFR DILSOCATED
| WHEN THROWN FROM BED
Mrs. Catherine Shaeffer, thirty-
| thre e, 68 E. Main St., suffered a dis-
| located was
| hurled fren her bolt of
| lightning which hit the home of Mrs.
ad-
shoulder when she
bed by a
who treated the woman said he was
stunned by the bolt.
er — Ue
os
Injured When
Auto Upset
nd
| :
| the auto in which they
to | overturned several times
a collision with an-
and struck
15 | a pole following
nk | pther car on the Harrisburg pike be-
{tween here and Florin at 5:30 a. m.
McLaughlin, twenty-one,
[William
62 W. Main St, Mt. Joy, a Marine
| on furlough from the Pacific, suf-
| fered abrasions of the forehead and
of | elbow, and his companion, Chester
112 W. Donegal
his left ear
twenty-five;
|
by | st , a soldier, had sev-
and | ered and received lacerations of the
nt- | head and abrasions of both hands.
H.|They were treated by Dr. R. M.
om | Thome, and later removed to the
hospital at Indiantown Gap.
Policeman F. A. Minchoc,
McLaughlin
[ Army
State
said
Howard Ray Shank,
and Beatrice Eby, E
Aaron G. Lor
town RL, and Rhod:
Joy R1
———
{OUR WAR TOLL TO DATE
| Combat since Pearl
{ Harbor killed 244810;
missing 47,734;
|
gen
ch,
casualties
rin to date are:
prisoners 121,509,
{the last of her
were riding |g
living native of the town. She was"
family. She is sur-
vived by the following children:
{ Mrs. Marguerite Culp, at home; Ber-
nice, wife of Thomas H. Irwin, Brad-
ley Beach, N. J.; John J., of Spar=-
tansburg, S. C.; Elizabeth, wife of
Rowland Hensley, Audubon, N. J.
Six grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were held from
late home Sunday afternoon
with Rev. Kirby’ Yiengst officiating.
Interment was made in the Union
cemetery at Maytown.
her
Dr. Jno. S. Simons
John Shirk Simons, M. D., of Lan-
caster, died at 4 a. m. Friday at his
home, Mount Pleasant Road, Mari-
etta. He had been ill since May 17.
He was in his 64th year and was
born in East Donegal Township, son
of the late John D. and Elizabeth
Shirk-Simons. He graduated from
the Maytown High School, Millers-
ville State Teachers’ College,
Franklin and Marshall College,
Columbia University and Jefferson
Medical College.
He was a practicing physician of
Lancaster, a member of the Staff of
t. Joseph's Hospital, Lancaster, and
the Jefferson Medical College Hos-
pital of Philadelphia. The Lancas~
ter City and County Medical Soecie-
ty, Pennsylvania State Medical So-
ciety, a Fellow of The American
Medical Association, Pennsylvania
Heart Association, the American
Heart Association, the Fraternity of
Medical-Lawyers, and the Lancas-
ter Bar Association.
He is survived by his wife, Mary
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ENTERTAINED AT
DOGGIE ROAST
Ralph Hassinger, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roscoe Hassinger, on North
Market St., was the guest of hones
at a doggie roast held at the Florin
Hall park on Monday evening.
Dancing, games and refreshments
were enjoyed by the following: Mr.
and Mrs. Roscoe Hassinger and son
Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Myers
and daughters, Anita and Lucina;
Harold Eby, Bob Hess, Wilbur
Brandt, Carol Foerch, Patty Kepple,
Betty Leonard, Dorothy Young, Ju-
dy Myers, Jacquie Hendrix, Charles
Fshleman, Shirley Shirk, Adelaide
Workman and Ralph Hassinger.
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RETIRES AFTER MANY YEARS
IN THE DRUG BUSINESS
Howard G. Smoker, who has con-
lucted Five Point Drug Store
in Columbia for 25 years has sold
he business to Ralph Harmon, eir-
manager of the Philadel-
ing Bulletin.
noker is well known here,
conducted a local drug
Now he will
the
culation
many
years.
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MAYTOWN WOMAN IS A
TYPHOID FEVER PATIENT
Mrs. Lillian Engle, thirty-nine,
wife of Harold Engle, Maytown, is
ed to her home, suffering from
vphoid fever. Her condition is re=-
garded by attending physicians as
She was the seventh person
taken ill with typhoid fever this
year, and the third reported in the
past three days, in Lancaster Coun-
ty.
good.
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DEEDS RECORDED
Lillian E. Miller, Mt. Joy, to Nor-
man E. Heisey, Mt. Joy, lot in Mgt.
Joy, $4,500
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died at her home in Central Manor
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