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The Mount Joy Bulletin
LANCASTER
COUNTY

VOL. XLV. NO. 49
Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, May
1946
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$1.50 a Year in Advance |

Taking The Traffic
Census F
or a Stop
Light on Main St.
Representatives of the State High-
way Department are and will take |
the traffic census at Main and Mar-
ket streets Monday, Tuesday, Wed- |
nesday and Friday.
This is being done prior to a de-
cision on placing a traffic light at |
this intersection.
If Boro Council places
this intersection, it may well
place similar lights at Main and
Barbara streets. By placing one or
Main thorofare
traffic
a light at!
as
more lights on our
it will slow up and congest
“like its nobody's business.”
Lights are usually placed to pre-
vent accidents but in lieu of the fact
that we have had very few accidents |
due to the stop signs, it seems rath-
even though
there an traffic.
There was one accident at Main and
Market in the past few years and
due to an icy road con-
er folly to do it now,
is increase in
ha one was
Two Men In
Driver Ignored Stop Sign
Two men were admitted to
Joseph's Hospital following
at 8:45 p.
intersection of Mount
an auto
at |
Joy and |
Chickies
accident m. Tuesday
the
Mastersonville
Hi!l Church.
Ray Brandt, twenty-five, son of
Aaron Brandt, Elizabethtown R2,
and John S. Mumma, twenty, son
of Clay Mumma, Marietta R1, suf-
fered back injuries and possible rib |
roads, near
at- |
according to hospital |
fractures,
taches, who said late Tuesday night
their condition was satisfactory.
The injured men riding in
the car operated by Allen Nye,
Bainbridge R1, who escaped
injury when the car overturned and
at the
it was in collision
with an auto operated by Edward
eighteen, Mount Joy R2,!
the
stop |
were
sev-
{
enteen,
landed on its top in a ravine
intersection, after
Sumpman,
who police said, ignored
at the
Sumpman
State Policeman Walter
fore Justice of the
Wisegarver, Manheim
with ignoring a stop sign.
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East Donegal
School News |
For The Week
The East High School
chorus presented several numbers
farewell service of Rev. K. M.
in the Maytown Lutheran
Church Sunday morning, April 28.
The Sacred
Concerts the next three Sundays, in
following churches:
6th—The United
Church, Ironville.
May 13th—The
Church, Lancaster.
May 20th—The Marietta Method-
ist Church.
The chorus is directed Mr.
school music super-
sign intersection.
was prosecuted by

Farra be- |
H.
charge d|
Peace
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\<,
Donegal
at the
Yiengst,
chorus will “present
the
May Brethren
First Methodist
by
Eugene Saylor,
visor. Members are
Soprano—E. Eshleman, D. Singer,
R. Brubaker, S. Rice, M. Siegrist, P.
Waller, L. Kauffman, M. Grider, M.
Kauffman, R. Rensel, B. Barto, J.
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MOTHER'S DAY PROGRAM
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the Mt. Joy Church of God is having
a Mother Day program on May 12
at 6:30 p. m. (In the Sunday School
room).
The speaker will be Miss Martin,
a Bible teacher from Elizabethtown
College, also special music.
Come annd bring your friends. 2t
WON PRIZE FOR SERMON
Rev. Robert W. Etter, Manor
United Brethren in Christ pastor,
won a $50 Cash prize for the best
sermon submitted in a contest.
as follows:
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| slow up traffic and collect
| East
| highway thru Delaware.
The Registration of
dition, not careless driving.
Just one light on Main street will
cars in
“strings half a mile long” while
| waiting on cross street traffic for the
green to flash. We tried lights be-
| fore and tound
inconvenient
that
how
they were, why go back to
same thing again?
If Council thinks we must have
lights, why doesn’t it
light at the entrance to our boro on
and West Main street. Said
lights are always red but as soon as
an approaching vehicle gets within
place a red
|a certain distance, they automatical-
ly turn green. Similar lights are
used at many places, among them
many of the towns on the DuPont
A driver approaching a red light
This Section’s
Numerous
Weddings
Florence Matter
Samuel S. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Miller an-
nounce the marriage of their son,
Samuel S. Miller to Florence Mateer
by Rev. Cope, at Elkton, Maryland.
Sunday January 20, 1946.
Mary Ann Neff
Theodore H. Trone
Mary Ann Neff, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin Neff, Maytown,
and Theodore H. Trone, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey E. Trone, Maytown
were married at 9 p. m. Wednesday
in St. John’s Luthern Church, May-
town, by the pastor, the Rev. Kirby
M. Yingst. The couple was attended
by the bridegroom's Miss
Florence Trone, and Paul R. Besh-
er, both of Maytown. They will re-
side at Twin Pine Farm, Maytown.
sister,
| Erika Martha Pothke
Horace Vernon Hardin

will naturally expect to see others
and passes through town cautiously
and that's exactly what we want
here. |
jured When
Beginners At Grade
School Tues., May 7
Parents of children who expect to |
begin school in September, 1946 are

requested to bring those children to |
the Grade School during the fore-
noons of Tuesday, May 7, 1946 and
Wednesday, May 8, 1946, for the |
Pre-School Examination and Regis- |
tration.
We are cooperating this year with
Pennsyl-
the suggested plans of the |
State
Instruction by having these children
a medical doctor who
vania Department of Public
examined by
will be assisted by a school nurse!
and a dental hygienist. They will
also be tested at the same time by
Dr. June Smith, special adviser from
the office of the County Superinten-
Ident, who will determine by special |
they are |
2)
whether or not
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-H CLUB MEMBERS NEEDED
N MT. JOY-E-TOWN AREA
More farm boys and girls from 10
20 years are needed in the 4-H
Club program this spring in the Mt.
Joy-Elizabethtown area for Capon
feeding, Strawberry, and the Pig
feeding program.
to
The sponsors are: Mt. Joy Rotary,
Mt. Joy Chamber of Com-
merce, Strawberries; Community
Exhibit, Pig feeding.
Anyone and
to enroll will please get in contact |
with the following: Capon—Paul M.
Hess, R3, Elizabethtown; Pig feed-
ing, John D. Roland, R1, Mt. Joy;
Strawberry, Harold Endslow, RI,
Marietta.
Capons;
interested wishing |
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SURPRISE DROP-IN PARTY
FOR 'WILLIAM DILLINGER
A surprise drop-in party was giv-
William Dillin-
ger, who celebrated his sixty-fourth
birthday Tuesday.
A most enjoyable evening was spent
by those present who were: Miss
Grace Henderson of Maytown. Mr.
Chas. Dillinger, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Brill and daughter, Peggy, Mr. Levi
Dillinger, Miss Helen Dillinger, Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Brown, Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Brown, 3rd, Mrs. Arthur
Hendrix, Mr. and Mrs. James Neal,
and Mrs. Cyrus Gainer, Mr. and
and Mrs.
en in honor of Mr.
anniversary on

Mr.
Mrs. A. G. Bender and Mr.
Oscar Starr.
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STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
St. Mary's Guild of St. Luke’s
Episcopal Chuch will hold the an-
nual strawberry festival on Satur-
day, June 8th on the Church lawn
from five to eight o'clock.
Menu will be announced later.
aha Pothke,
Mus.
(the county
| week prior to leaving for overseas
The wedding of Miss Erika Mar-
daughter of Mr. and
Richard Pothke, Marietta St,
this boro, and Horace Vernon Har-
| din, of Longview. Texas, took place
April 18, in Longview, Texas. Dr.
| ds officiated at a double ring
The bride was given
Woodland, Mea-
| ceremony.
in marriage by Mr.
dows, Texas. Mrs. Woodland was
the bride's only attendant. William
Thompson, of Gatesville, Texas, Was
best man.
Arlene Hilt
Melvin Groff Heisey
The marriage of Miss Arlene Hilt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ray-
mond Hilt, of this place, and Melvin
Groff Heisey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin F. Heisey, Manheim, was
solemnized Saturday at the home of
John Hershey, Lititz, who
ring cere-
(the Rev.
[officiated at the
mony.
Miss Virginia E. Shirk,
was the maid of honor.
F. Richard Heisey served his bro-
double
of town,
{ther as best man.
Following the a recep-
held
for
ceremony,
at Anderson’s, near
the fam-
tion was
Lancaster, immediate
ilies.
Mrs. Heisey, a graduate of Mount
Joy High School, is an employe of
the First National Bank, Mr.
a graduate of Manheim high
at
here.
Heisey,
school, is cashier Moseman’s, in
Manheim,
They will reside in Manheim.
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A GROUP OF MENNONITES
ARE, GOING OVERSEAS
The Mennonite Central Commit-
tee, Akron, announced that eleven
men and women from all parts of
will assemble there this
| rehabilitation work in Europe and
Asia,
The group will include Paul Good
of Elizabethtown R1, who will join
the proposed reconstruction unit in
Europe. Joseph N. Byler, Director
of Relief, that 12
tractor operators will to
China.
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RANDLFRS PICYCLE SHOP
MOVED TO FLORIN
Mr. Elmer S. Randler.
of the Bicycle Shop on North Mar-
ket street, moved his room
equipment to Main Street. Florin,
where he will conduct his business
said eventually
be sent
proprietor
store
in the future.
Additional services now
include,
available
car
bat-
at the new location
washing, greasing,
teries, etc.
servicing,
APPEALS RECENT JUDGEMENT
IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
Due to an automobile accident
which occured in our boro on Oct.
28, there law suit between
Jennie G. Wissler, Lancaster against
Edwin E. Ames, of Leaman Place.
The alderman entered judgement
was a
| for $2750 and an appeal was filed
in court.
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TASTE OF WINTER RETURNS
We had a slight taste of winter
weather again on Saturday night.
The thermometer dropped to freez-
ing and there was quite a frost in
many places.
Water System Contract
For $89,872 Awarded
By Landisville-Salunga
Contracts to build a water supply
the surrounding vicinity were a-
field Twp. Water
is scheduled to start June
Authority. Work
1 and be
completed in six months.
The contract for building the dis-
tribution system was awarded to
the Harman Construction Co., Ine.
of New York, at $89,872.62. The con-
tract to furnish and erect a 100,000
gallon capacity water storage tank
was awarded to the Pittsburgh and
Demoins Steel Co., of New York, at
$12,570.
The source of water for the sys-
tem is a spring located three-quar-
ters of a mile south of the Landis-
ville campmeeting grounds along the
Oyster Point Road.
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Cornell Professor Was
Rotary Club's Speaker
W. H. Adolph, a professor at Cor-
nell University and a former mem-
of University of
spoke on his
Japanese internment
ber of the faculty
Pekin, China,
ences in a
camp at the weekly meeting of the
Club held Tuesday at Hos-
tetter's.
Ww.
club,
L. Shoop, president of the
told the group that Council
had asked the group to send a rep-
to plan
homecoming celebrations for June
14. Arthur Mayer will be the repre-
sentative.
Guests included F. S. Bucher, of
the Lancaster Club; Ira Risser, H. E.
Baugher, H. G. Bucher and the Rev.
William O. Moyer, Elizabethtown:
Graybill Bitzer, Lititz; Guy Killian
and Clyde Nissley, of town.
The club will sponsor a softball
which may enter the local
G. Walter Sloan is
captain of the team.
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resentative to a meeting
team
softball league.
47 TO TAKE TESTS
IN SCHOLARSHIP
system for Landisville, Salunga and |
warded last week by the E. Hemp- |
Committee Decides
deciding upon the
It was decid-
the purpose of
purchase of a plaque.
dividual name plates, and the order
will be placed in the very near fu-
ture.
The committee been ap-
proached by members of the assoc-
iation asking that a plaque be er-
World War I veterans.
However the committee cannot pur-
chase this other plaque until it is
passed upon by the members of ahe
association, This will be brought
up at the coming banquet. The
cemmittee feels sure that the mem-
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HEAVY TRUCK-TRAILER
OVERTURNED NEAR RHEEMS
A heavy truck-trailer, loaded with
miscellaneous merchandise, over-
turned on the Harrisburg pike in
front of the Lancaster County Din-
er, between Elizabethtown and this
boro. No one was hurt.
Earl Dunmyer, Johnstown, driver
of the truck, told police that he
swerved sharply to avoid a collision
with another truck, H. E. Ober, dri-
ver of the second truck, said he was
has
ected for
coming down a sharp incline when
one of the wheels came off the truck
and Ober’s truck hit the rear of the
trailer driven by Dunmyer.
The intersection was the scene of
an accident last winter in which
three persons were killed.
Brief News Of
The Day From
Local Dailies
This is National Baby Week,
An anthracite coal strike is set for
May 31
27,000 workers in Allis-Chalmers
plant went on strike Monday.
The OPA has announced an in-

State
will be
examinations |
McCaskey High |
The |
Scholarship
held at the
schools scheduled to comuete,
seniors from city and county high |
schools schedul ed to compete. The |
getting the highest mark
a $100 scholarship for
student
will receive
each of four years in college.
Appended are those from this lo-
cality who will take the examina-
tion.
Mount
Fast
Peiffer.
East
man,
Joy—Ronald P. Carter.
Hempfield Twp.—Nancy N.
Donegal Twp.—Glenn Hoff-
Marvin Hess, Betty Arndt,
Helen Burkholder, James Mayer,
Robert Rowe, Ethel Wolgemuth.
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SETTLED WITH GOVERNMENT
FOR RENT OVERCHARGES
claims -of rent overcharges
in the Lancaster-York
been settled voluntarily,
lark,
Among them was C. E.
baugh of Maytown, who paid $48 to
the U. S. Treasury and refunded $24
to the
Three
area have
Samuel C.
area rent director, announced
Hollen-
tenant.
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COUNTY FARMERS ASK FOR
0c MILK PRICE RAISE
Lancaster County Dairy farmers
have petitioned the State Milk Con-
trol
ninety
commission for an increase of
per hundred weight
which is equivalent to slightly less
cents
than two cents a quart.
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MADE IMPROPER PASS
Harry L. Hoover, Montgomery,
charged with improper passing, was
arrested by Chief of Police Elmer
Zerphey. He will be summoned for
a hearing before Squire Hockenber-
ry.
MAN KILLED, HIT TRUCK
Horace L. Book, East Petersburg,
was killed Friday moming when his
auto crashed into a heavy truck on
the Lincoln Highway a short dis-
tance east of Lancaster.
PROCEEDINGS [DISMISSED
| assassinate
crease of two cents a pound on rye
| bread.
The
authorities bared a plot to
General MacArthur on
May Day.
Prices of cigarets will be increas-
ed half a cent per pack or five cents
per carten.
Five top officials of the Treasury
Department, all New Dealers, have
resigned.
The Highway Department will oil
186 miles of roads in Lancaster
county this Summer.
The State Department has issued
orders to Safe Harbor and Holtwood
to prepare for treatment
plant at each place.
Street car and bus workers of the
Virginia Coach Co. out on a
strike for more wages. They ask
only (?) 30 to 42 cents an hour in-
crease.
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Visited By The Stork
Mr. and Mrs.
Landisville, a
Tuesday, at St.
Mr. and Mrs.
Mount Joy Rl,
p. m. Tuesday,
teopathic Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Reffensper-
er, Rheems, a daughter, at 10:38 p.
at the Lancaster Gen-
a sewage
went
Joe Clayton Bender,
son, at 3:50 p. m
Joseph's Hospital.
Walter Keener, Jr
a daughter, at 12:10
m. Tuesday,
eral Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Suydam, of
Florin, at 1:10 p. m. on
Lancaster Osteo-
a daughter,
Monday, the
pathic Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Wright;
Manheim R2, a son at 1:56 p. m. on
at the Lancaster General
at
Monday
Hospital.
JAILED FOR 30 DAYS
James Conway, no home, charged
with drunkenness and disorderly
conduct by Chief of Police Elmer
Zerphey, was jailed for 30 days in
default of $10 fine and costs follow-
ing a hearing before Justice of the
Peace Hockenberry.
een coe lA Arent ee:
LETTERS GRANTED

Non-support proceedings against

Harry N. Nissly is the adminis-
Joe D. Brown, of this boro, weretrator of the estate of Raymond G.
dismissed by the court last Friday.
Nissly, late of this boro.
|
The plaque committee of the Mt. !
Joy ‘High School met recently for
ed to buy a walnut plague with in- |
i Calif.,
| parents, Mr.
jhas gone to Detroit,
| her

at the Lancaster Os-

Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Hershey |
and son Robert of Lemoyne,
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. |
Hershey.
were
Local Affairs
In General
Briefly Told
Ephrata will
Sept. 25-28.
Omar M. Greiner, 54, Akron,
of
| was found dead in bed.
Mount Joy High School The Affairs
‘At Florin For
On a Walnut Plague Past Week
The hand lawn
mowers has been increased.
retail price on
Tuesday was the
sugar with ration stamp 39.
H. S. Shirk, president of the Blue
Ball National Bank, has resigned.
Denver, this county, will get a new |
hosiery mill in the very near future.
There was a $30,000 fire at the
| Union stock yards at Lancaster on
Friday.
Wm. 16,
Hoenberger, Manheim R3
hold its farm show
last day to buy |
|
Mortuary
Record In
This Section
Arthur L. Bricker, 42, Elizabeth=
| town, died at St. Joseph's Hospital.
| J. Ward Black, 63, of Marietta,
| died at the Columbia Hospital Sat-
| urday.
Marcus H. Dalton, formerly of
| Manheim, died at Philadelphia aged
48 years.
Emma, widow of Allen A. Coble,
of Elizabethtown R3, died Sunday
aged 85 years.
Rev. John A. Mahoney, rector of
| St. Peter's Catholic church at Col=
| umbia, died suddenly, aged 67.
D. Sheirich, fifty-eight,
John
Mrs. P. R. Beilman of Hollywood, | suffered a broken leg when thrown Bani dead Saturday while doing
who has been visiting her!
and Mrs. F. H. Skeen, |
Mich.,
brother, and family
proceed to California by plane.
Mrs. Earl Eyer,
town called on Mr.
Hershey. {
Mr, and Mrs. Norman Ebersole |
and daughter Betty spent Wednes- |
day evening at Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Christ Melhorn |
spent Sunday at Luke Keefers at |
Millersburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strickler
moved to Elizabethtown on Friday.
Mr. Gerard Zielkie and family
moved into the dwelling they re-
cently purchased from Mr. and Mrs. |
Henry Strickler.
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York Chorus- Choi Is
Coming Here May 14
Concert by the
Tuesday evening,
the |
to visit |
and later
and Mrs. N. E. |
Remember the
York Chorus on
May 14th at eight o'clock
High School Auditorium.
tickets now. Among the numbers
the chorus will sing are: “The Ros-
ary,” by Nevin, “The Lost Chord,”
by Sullivan, and “The Battle Hymn
of the Republic” by Wilhousky. The
soloists will be Mrs. Lois Mirtz, con-
tralto and Mr. John Betlyon, bari-
tone. Mrs. Mirtz is soloist at Grace
Reformed Church and Mr. Betlyon
was formerly soloist at Calvary
Church, Pittsburg, Dr,
vey Gaul. He is a recently discharg-
ed War II veteran. It is hoped that |
the people of Mount Joy and vicin-
ity will avail themselves of this op-
to hear this concert. Re-
that the proceeds will be
in
Buy your
under Har-

portunity
member
summer.
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WOMAN'S BODY FOUND
The, body of Mrs. Gretna L. Groff,
thirty-five, of seven chil-
dren, who disappeared from her |
home at Columbia, Monday, April
15, was found floating in the Sus-
quehanna River, midway between |
Columbia and Washington Boro on |
Thursday.
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FIREMEN TO PARADE AT
COLUMBIA SATURDAY JUNE 1
Friendship Fire Company of this
at the County
in Columbia Sat-
mother
place will parade
Convention held
urday, June 1st.
All firemen wishing to parade call
at the fire house any Tuesday even-
ing in May, except the 14th. to be
fitted with a uniform.
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LANC. CO. AMISH FARMERS
URGED TO USE TRACTORS
More than 1,000 Amish farmers
here were urged today to switch |
from horse-drawn to tractor-pulled |

farm implements in order to grow |
more grain for the starving people
of Europe. The appeal came from
the AAA at Harrisburg.
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KILLING MANY FISH
Lancaster county farmers
flush out the tanks of
who |
their farm
| sprayers and dump the residue into ended at Bethlehem Sunday.
small streams were warned to dis- |
continue the practice because it is |
killing many fish. [
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
Albert F. Sardino, Palmyra,
Jean L. Murphy, Florin.
Albert R. Forry, Jr., Florin and
Ruth E. Smith, Elizabethtown R3. 2
eet Wiens on.
VISITED HERE FRIDAY
Republican county chairman and
Commissioner G. Graybill Diehm |
called on the editor at The Springs |
last Friday.
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STOLEN CAR FOUND |
An automobile owned by Arthur |
and
| at
| employes—no
| facturing Co.,
Mount Joy
a tract of land in Mt. Joy Township.
W. Kramer,
Walter J. Kramer
Kramer,
| frame dwelling house in Mt. Joy.
estate of Frank W. Groff,
Elizabethtown, to Mathias Gipe and
{Mary M. Gipe, Mount Joy Town-
ship, a tract of land in Mt. Joy Twp.
Keener,
B. Frank Eshleman,
Township,
in Rheems.
Hipple, Mount Joy,
Cope and Lina R. Cope, West Don-
egal Township, a farm in West Don-
egal Township.
| THE 1946 COMMITTEE FOR
used for our Playgrounds work this | FRESH AIR CHILDREN
| ter,
T:ibune Fresh Air Fund,
FLOATING IN THE RIVER | nounced the 1946 committee for our |
| boro. It is appended:
Members:
Lester
Rev.
Joy
lumberyard fire
ning when fire of undetermined or- |
| shingle s stored in the
| Snavely and Son.
a disastrous fire
ago.
| Schock Lumber Yard.
| Bailey
| Ziegler
Mount Joy.
|LANC.
AFTER AUTO COLLISION
Leroy E. Duke, eighteen, Lancas- |
off his motorcycle.
A Pittsburgh man
at Norfolk, Va. driving a car stolen
was arrested
Elizabethtown.
Lancaster city’s schools have
| cessitated one extra mill tax.
The Water
pany filed a new schedule of rates
with the Public Utility Commission.
The Penn Boiler plant at Lancas- |
laying off 100 |
to
Elizabethtown Com-
ter, closed yesterday,
coal |
|
steel due
strike.
Deeds Recorded
Florin Foundry and Manu- |
Florin, to Eli S.|
Arndt, Jr., and Rosie Arndt, Florin, |
a tract of land in East Donegal Twp.
Irvin G. Ruhl and Orlena W. Ruhl |
to Wiest Green
Joy Township,
The
Twp.,
Tree Cemetery, Mt.
estate of Daniel
late of Mount Joy, to
and Stella M.
two story
Executors of the
Mount Joy, a
of the
late of
Mary A. Groff, executrix
B. Lehman Keener and Luella M. |
West Donegal Township, to
West Donegal
a brick dwelling house
John A.
Martin H.
and
Esther B. Hipple
to
Re
Seaman, Lancas-
the Herald-
Mrs. Valentine
representative for
has an- |
Simeon Horton;
Mrs. Geo. Broske, Mrs.
Roberts, Rev. E. H. Ranck,
John Hinkel, Rev. John Tate,
Mr. Warren Bentzel, Dr. Wm. |
Workman, |
Salunga, Mr. Norman Baer.
Florin, Mrs. Paul Frank and Mr. |
Miller Hess. |
Publicity, Mr. John E. Schroll. {
Children will arrive July 16, 1946
EEE |
Chairman, Mrs.

FIRE AT SNAVELY'S LUMBER
YARD MONDAY EVENING
Prompt action on the part of Mt. |
prevented
here Monday eve-
firemen a serious
igin broke out in packs of wood |
yards of J. C.
The damage is estimated at ap- |
proximately $40.
This lumberyard was the scene of
a number
then
of years
It known as the
was
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{ CHANGE IN EVANGELICAL
{| CHURCH PASTOR HERE
East
be
Next
at
session of the
Conference
A six day
Pennsylvania will
year’s conference will be held
Lebanon.
These
made: Rev.
to
changes in pastors were
R. K. Todd from Kin-
Bridgeville. Rev. R. T.
Kinderhook. Rev. L. D.
from Pine Grove Rock to
Rev. C. R. Robson from
Mount Joy to Terre Hill
a —
MAN PROSECUTED
to
ter, was charged with reckless driv-
ing after his car collided with a ma-
| chine driven by Morris G. Spickler, |
| Mt. Joy Rl, at 5 p. m. Thursday.
Spickler told police that Duke
| University
| morning
| Lois Dease
{by
{carpenter work in the rear of his
{home at Columbia.
Hasslet Crawford, 80, county en=
gineer, and the man who really laid
out the trolley lines in the county,
of Elizabeth- | hoosted teachers’ salaries which ne- | died at Lancaster.
Wm. S. Rote, 71, 325 Rockland St.,
Lancaster, died Friday. Mabel M.,
Clyde Fenstemacher and
r, both
| wife of
of wwn, are daughters.
Rev. O. L. Mease :
The Rev. O. L. Mease, D. D., for=
mer pastor of the Mt. Joy, Mount-
ville and Centerville United Breth-
ren Churches, died at his home in
| Shamokin Saturday morning. He
was pastor of the First U. B. Church
in Shamokin.
Rev. Mease served at Centerville
from 1905 to 1910 and at Mountville
from 1916 to 1918. He also served
in Mount Joy from 1921 to 1938.
His widow, Mrs. Gertrude Mease
ic a native of Columbia. Two bro-
thers, Clarence, Harrisburg, and
Ralph, Washington; and three sis-
ters, Mrs. Sadie Evans, Rachael and
Martha Mease, Dearborn, Mich.,
and a granddaughter also survive.
Mrs. Matilda Sillers
Mrs. Matilda Sillers, seventy-eight
died at her home, 154 N. Market St.,
|at 3:45 p. m. Saturday of complica=
tions.
She was the daughter of the late -
Lawrence and Sophie Ritter Kramer
and one of the oldest members of
Trinity Lutheran Church, here. She
was also one of the organizers of
the Ladies’ Aid Society of that
church. :
Besides her husband, George Sil-
lers, she is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Barbara Yeager, Lancaster and
wife of Harry Dyer, Lan-
caster. Several nieces and nephews
also survive.
The funeral
Jennie,
was held from the
| Sheetz funeral home Tuesday after-
noon with interment in the Mount
Joy cemetery.
Leaman Herchelroth
Leaman Herchelroth, sixty-one
formerly of Bainbridge, died at the
of Pennsylvania Hospi-
early Thursday
after an illness of seven
His widow, Mrs. Emma
Herchelroth, resides at
Arlington, Va.
He was born in E. Donegal Twp.,
a son of the late Hriam P. and Annie
| M. Leaman Herchelroth, and was
a retired traveling passenger agent
Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
tal, Philadelphia,
months.
| of the
| with whom he worked for 40 years.
Besides his widow, he is survived
a daughter, Jane, wife of Jame
Wright, Arlington, Va.; a sister,
Emma L., of Bainbridge; two broth-
|ers, John L. Herchelroth, of York;
| and Benjamin F., of Bainbridge; and
three grandchildren.
The funeral was held on Sunday
with interment in the Bainbridge
cemetery.
Frank B. Handwork
Frank B. Handwork, sixty-three,
346 S. Ann St., Lancaster, died at his
Born in Loag’s Corner, in
Chester County, a son of the late
Horace and Annie Shingle Hand-
he was employed by the Pa.
for forty-five years.
He agent here for a
number of years. He was a member
of the Mt. Joy Chamber of Com=-
merce, the Goodville Methodist
Church, Chester county, Lamberton
Lodge, No. 476. F and A. M., and the
Order of Railroad Telegraphers,
| Philadelphia Division of Veterans
Association of the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
Besides his wife, Lusanna B. Bair
| Handwork, he is survived by
| son, Harold M., of New i
[N- J; two grandchildren; a
home
work,
Railroad Co
was freight
K. Greiner, of Elizabethtown, stolen | pulled from a line of cars, attempt- | Cora; wife of Herbert Todd,
Sunday, was recovered parked in a | led to make a left turn and collided | Corner, and a brother, Clarence,
private driveway in Delaware Co. |
{ with his automobile.
| Haverford.