| | ovt, cted AYS med 1b are | rnment | ed; in lin our | elected policy prices J ditions' © 7 it 5¢ AST Ib {5¢ § 1b 28¢ Ib 19g 1b 39¢ 279° Sc Qc Ad IC Qe Oe Ke ar 29¢ rs i 9¢ ft 99¢ Wb 45¢ bs 32¢ “a 33¢ )C 'C C ‘d 350 3S [90 is 9g t 23a n [2¢ z {Be Ss 2s it [3m e {Be ith 69 Lanc. Co’s. 27th Annual Firemen’s Convention, Parade, Carnival At Mt. Joy, Sat., June MOST The - THE - MINUTE W E EKLY I N LANCASTER lount Joy Bulletin couNTY The Affairs At Florin For Past Week VOL. XLVI, NO. 52 Mount Tov, Pa., Wednesday Afrernonn, May 28, 1947 | end with Mr. and Mrs. Lester H. $2.00 a Year in Advance | Breneman at Newville. Memorial Day AT MOUNT JOY On Friday, May 30th, Memorial Day, The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold their Memorial Service at the Mount Joy and Eberle Cemeteries for all their comrades in this Community who died in service. The service will be held at their Memorial Plot in the Mount Joy cemetery at 10.00 a. m. with Rev. W. L. Koder of Trinity Lutheran Church as the speaker. Immediately after this service the Legionnaires, Veterans, etc., will assemble at the Union National Bank and parade west on Main St., to Newt Haven, south on New Haven to the Eberle Cemetery where further services will be held at 11:15. All people of our Community are invited to attend these services. The music for the occasion will be furnished by the Mount Joy High School Band. tian laymen a three weeks evangel- istic campaign will be held in a large storm-proof tent in Mt. Joy, beginning Sunday, June 8 through the 29th. the Evangelist, Merle Fuller of El- A Number of Auto Mishaps For The Week There were a number of auto mishaps thruout this locality dur- ing the past week but fortunately no one was badly injured. Suffered Concussion Ezra B. McGinney. fifty Eliza- bethtown R2, suffered concussion when a car in which he was riding collided head-cn with a coal truck at an intersection in Middletown Friday. He was treated at the Harris- burg Hospital. Hezikiah Via, forty- five, Hummelstown, another pas- senger, suffered a cut lip. Passenger Saved Car According to State Police, James Russell Fowler, twelve, Harris- burg, a passenger in a car operated by Paul J. Hershey, twenty, 225 Mount Joy Street acted quickly tc minimize injuries and damage when Hershey's was involved in a collision with another vehicle on former U. S. Route 230, near Rheems, Sunday morning. Dr. C. C. Douglas, forty-two, Elizabethtown, who was travel- ling east, stopped cn the right side of the road to back into a private drive. As he was backing into the drive, an auto driven "east by Hershey, was forced to swing to the right of Douglas’ vehicle, striking the right front end of the dector’s car, Hershey was thrown out of the opened door following the colli- sion, and young Fowler, a pas- senger in the car, grabbed the (Turn to page 2) KENNETH GAINER HONORED Kenneth A Gainer, son of M-. and Mrs. Cyrus Gainer, 33 Mount | Joy Street, who is a student at Franklin and Marshall College. was elected vice-president of Delia Sigma Phi Fraternity. Gainer is a member of the American Chemical Society. Local Affairs In General Briefly Told There will not be a fire works display at Lititz Park this year. H. B. Lenhart Jr. Marietta, was badly injured kv a circular saw. A Holstein heifer brought $490 at the Garden Spot sale on Thurs- day. Supervisor Henry Smeltzer and his force are busy painting white lines on the streets of the boro this week. A Arms SALUNGA GIRL AMONG HONOR STUDENTS AT STATE COLLEGE Sixty-one seniors, one of whom is from Lancaster County, will be graduated with honors when de- grees are awarded to more than 1000 students at the Pennsylvania State College June 9. The name of Miss Margaret June Martin of Salunga appears on the list of honor students. She will re- ceive the Bachelor of Science de- gree in Psychology. Activities Reported By Our Police Manayunk, Pa, was presecuted by Zerphey on a charge of speeding, | mira, New York, and Messrs. Krue- ger and Dence, musicians. town R2, was prosecuted for turn. Both will be | nation-wide evangelistic movement known as “CHRIST FOR AMERI- CA” and comes to Mount Joy ing an improper summoned for Squire Hendrix. - Henry H. Broscious, will be summoned for before Squire Hockenberry. Charles Davis, souri and William Wilmington, Del., John L. Schroll, improper passing. They both post- ed forfeits or $13.50 each for hear- ings before Justice James Hockenberry. 62 Districts To Divide A Gift of $21,600.00 county will get a windfall totaling $21,602 on June 1, the result of cashing of war bonds donated in 1942 by the Sico Company. for which County School Superin- tendent Arthur P. Mylin has been trustee, was voted unanimously by the public schoo] directors of the re | county at their March session. Al- ready 40 of the districts have passed the necessary resolutions to receive their shares of the money, Mylin said. Checks will be mailed » also prosecuted for i was prosecuted for i ng by Officer Jacob Corll ; be summoned for a hearing before Squire ‘Hockenberty, --—-- This Section’s Numerous Weddings Jechn E. Pheasant to the other 22 districts as soon after June 1 as copies of the for- mal resolution are received at the superintendent’s office. follows: boro, $108.00; Bart Twp., $150.12; MT. JOY HIGH ALUMNI TO HOLD A DINNER DANCE will hold their annual meeting as a dinner dance on Friday, June 13th, at seven o'clock at the high school auditorium. nest Fheasant, / y in the Elizabethtown and Reformed Church. Philip Saylor performed the double ring ceremony. taining program has been arranged. Mr. Jos. O. Moore, class of 25, now supervising principal at Clem- entcn, N. J, will serve as master of ceremonies, dinner will be ses- ved by Mr. Eli Hostetter, Caterer, and dance music by Perry Scotts orchestra of Lancaster. served as best man A reception was home of the bride. attended Catawba » N..C, and the is a student at WAS GRANTED A DIVORCE Maytown, was granted a divorce from Robert M. Balmer, twenty- four, this boro, on the grounds of adultery. Catherine Gephart, of this place, was named co-zespondent. They were married Dec. 30, 1944, and separated Jan. 12, 1946. a wedding trip to Boston and Cape Cod the couple will re- side in Altoona. ———— MANHEIM WOMAN CHARGED WITH MALICIOUS MISCHIEF Anna Grosh Peifer, Manheim for- 3 was arrested by i Chief Elmer Zerphey on Wednes- day, on a charge of malicious mis- chief preferred by Arlene Yingst, of HONORED AT PENN STATE been chosen by her classmates as one of six most outstanding seniors at the Pennsylvania State College. Cited for her part in college ac- tivities, Miss Martin was honored with the traditicnal title of Class created at her home. Poet. The hearing was held before FISHERMAN FOUND BODY OF DROWNED LEBANON MAN Thursday evening, at which time restitution was made, costs paid and the case dismissed. a MADE A 53 YEAR RECORD We have had move rain out this section during this month of May than during any previous May in the last fifty-three years. J Dr. Hauer, of Lebanon, who was drowned. 12 days ago when his beat went over the Holtwood Dam. It was washed ashore on Mt. John- son Island, four miles below Holt- wood. Community Evangelist Tent Meeting Will Be Held Here Next Month Under the auspices of local Chris- The services will be in charge of EVANGELIST MERLE FULLER Mr. Fuller is associated with the (Turn to Page 5) Sixty-two schoo] districts in the Redeeming of the Series F bonds, Totals for each district are as Adamstown bore, $70.20; Akron (Turn to page 4) ——- Mount Joy High School Alumni A very enjoyable and enter- —— —— Mary Helen Balmer, twenty-two, ——— Eee =. Margaret J. Martin, Salunga, has ems: A fisherman found the body of | THE COUNTY COURT ISSUED THESE SUPPORT ORDERS his wife, Elsie F. Trimble. { on a previous order. support of two children. rr —-— Farmer Routed Four Men With Shot Gun the fields toward the farmhouse. the shotgun and fired again—this police the four men then ran back to their car, parked some 700 feet away. According to Shenk the men drove away, but as they passed by his farm a second time, one f the men shouted: “Those shots hit.” He said the car then dis- appeared toward Mount Gretna. The license tags on the car, police learned, were issued to a resident of Lebanon R4. Eee By E. U. B. Junior Dept. After sponsering a semi-annual Glad Chest project for four con- secutive weeks, a party was held for the Junior Department of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, last Tuesday in the church basement. The spring project was the study of China and Japan; and the party was in keeping with the theme. The program included a display of Japanese dnd Chinese erticles, a short precgram in which Robert Webb and Clair Wagner gave the scripture. Shirley Eby ana Jean Will presented a play “If You Were Me.” After this the children presented their glad chests from which all the offering will go toward mission work in the Orient. Approximately 35 attended and after the program, played team games. Oriental slides were shown to the group. Each person was presented with a program written in Chinese and given a typical luncheon of tea and rice. The party was sponsored by the superintendant, Miss Anna Mae Eby, and teachers, Misses Vera Eby, Ruth Gainor, Betty McKin- ney, and Mrs. Amos Mumma, Mrs. Arthur Sprecher and Mrs. Earl Zink. ni LOCAL PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT The law firm of Howard and Ryder, 29 West Main St., this boro, announced this week that after June first it will offer a public accounting service to the com- munity. The aceountant will be J. Parke Kready, of Lancaster. During the past week the Lan- caster County Court issued these orders which are af local interest: The court approved the termin- ation of a support order of $5 a week made against Jerome Heis- ey, Mount Joy R1, for his wife, | Muriel EF. Heisey, Lancaster, and the support order of $7 a week made against Lester Trimble for Calvin Kreiser, Rheems, was or- | dered tc pay $10 a week for the support of his wife, Louisa, Eliza- bethtcwn, and one child, and to pay $2 a week on arrearage of $67 James G. Strickler, Elizabeth- town, agreed to pay $10 a week to his wife, Helen, Mount Joy, for the State Pclice are investigating a report received from Elam Shenk, thirty-five, Elizabethtown R3, who said he routed fou; men from his farm with shotgun blasts at 10:30 p.m. the other night and believed he may have wounded cone of them. Shenk said he and his wife, Hilda, were returning from a pray- er meeting held near Milton Grove when they became suspicious of an auto bearing four men which was parked near his farm, along the Colebrook-Mount Gretna Road. Shenk said he jotted down the Ii- cense number of the car. He said he saw the four men get out of the car and start to walk across Driving to the house, Shenk ob- taied a 12-gauge single-barrel shotgun and called out to the men, ordering them to stop and get off his property. He said that when they kept on walking toward the house, he fired into the air. When they continued to ccme toward the house, Shenk said he reloaded caster county. time at a lower range. He told SIXTY YOUNG PEOPLE AT THE BUILDERS CLASS PARTY was held at Hostetter’'s Banquet Hall Monday evening, for the young people of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The party was sponsored by The Builders class taught by Lester John Roth, Mrs. Norman Smith. and Lester Mumma, teachers of the other Intermediate Classes. Following the chicken dinner, The Blad Chest Project group singing was conducted by Mr. Mumma, an address was given by Norman Bowers of Landisville. Rev. E. H. Ranck addressed the group, and Mrs. John Roth gave a few humorous readings. Approx- imately 60 ycung people attended. MAN WITH STOLEN CAR CAUGHT AT ELIZABETHTOWN was doing his usual patrol on the highway just west of Elizabeth- town Friday, the driver of a New Jersey car he was following, got fidgety, ran to the side of the road, jumped from his car and disap- peared in the woods near the Crippled Childrens Home. He had stolen the car. Several hours later the chap walked into’ the officers arms at a diner at Elizabethtown. OBJECTION TO PETITION PRESENTED BY COUNSEL presented by counsel for J. B. Hos- tetter, this boro who explained that a claim of $400 resulting from an auto accident last November involv- ing a truck owned by the company has not been adjusted. MAY HAVE FRACTUREDSKULL bethtown Rl, suffered a possible fractured skull when a car in which he was riding collided with a coal truck at an intersection in Middletown Friday. 30TH ANNIVERSARY Delta Street, wil] celebrate their thirtieth wedding anniversary on Commencement At ium, Landisville, on Tuesday, June 3, at 8 p.n. Lois Ann Baker is valedictorian, and Theda Arlene Kreider, salutatorian. Student speakers will ke Nancy K. Forney, Peggy LouHimelwright, Howard Bailey and Betsy Ann Landis. Other hcnor graduates be- sides the orators and the Misses Baker and Kreider are: Bertha M. Flizabeth Bard, Ezra M. Herman, Carolyn S. Greider, Miriam A. Spahr, C. Pau] Myers and J. Clyde Root. Baccalaureate services will be observed in the school auditorium on Sunday, June 1, at 8 p.m., with the Rev. George R. Johnson, pastor cf the Salem Reformed Church, Rohrerstown as speaker, assisted by the Rev. Harold L. Dietz, of Zion Lutheran church, Landisville Class Night June 2 Class night exercises wil] be held in the high school auditorium (Turn to kage 2) : ee eel) eee tens. Brief News Of The Day From Local Dailies Lebanon Velley Ceoilege gradu- ated a class of fifty-four. Today there are 9,000 active American Legion members in Lan- Walter Johns, 52, was killed, and Carl A. Studer, 33, badly injured when their car was demolished after striking a pole. They ave residents of Columbia. The body of 12-year-old Weston C. Forbes, of Lemoyne, who drowned last Monday at Hairis- burg, was found by two [fisher- men at Pequea Sunday. ED — An Intermediate Spring Rally Hostetter and assisted . by Mrs. While State Policeman Zulick re I Ap i. An objection to the petition was Ezra B. McGinnis, fifty, Eliza- ——— M:. and Mrs. Ellis Leaman on Wednesday June 4th. | femily at Millersburg. East Hempfield Twp. A Former Maytown Youth Is Now Nearin Landisville June 3th Sain In The Films Commencement exercises of Fast | Hempfield Twp. High School will | Maytown are be held in the high schoo] audito:- | give May 24, and Mrs. Morris Weaver of Palin spent Saturday with Mr. | and Mrs. Lester Weaver. the residents of | young Army Air Forces who is now nearing stardom in the movies spent three years of his boy- hood in their town. and son, Sgt. William F. Skeen, of Detroit, Mich., visited with Mr. and Cameron Mitchell. who has an im- |evening. Theatre Thursday and Friday. [family of Neffsville, visited Mr. Cameron was born in Dallastown Dcerr, Vera Jane Shenk, Charles M. Mitchell. a year old, his Maytown, where When 5 was | fer, Mrs. N. E. Hershey were guests lat Sleighton Farm School May Day Rev. Mitchell was 2 : Exercises on Friday. Church from 1919 to 1922. The * Mitchells now reside at 248 N. Main Street, Red Lion, York Co. In a recent letter of the Marietta Theatre, Rev. Mitch- ell said he felt his many friends in Maytown and vicinity would be in- ‘(terested to know of his son’s prom- ising career ag an actor. Johnny Burden, Mighty McGurk,” Cameron Mitch- ell appears as Wallace Berry's clos- est friend in the picture. big role is with Johnson in “High Barbaree,” will play at local theatres s Gy SURPRISE PARTY FOR MR. LEROY SHAEFFER A surprise party was held in hon- r. Leroy Shaeffer : Newcomer's cottage at Mount Gret- na on Sunday, May 25th. Those present were: Mr. @ Oscar Newcomer and daughter Jean and Janice Brubaker, A player, unknowingly, used a taped cracked bat, swung at a pitched Simmons and son, 3 r. and Mrs. Harry Buch- mons, of Marietta; rs. Jack Bennett children, Jimmy : Mrs. Leroy Shaeffer of Mt. en etl) Cee n= WILBUR LEHMAN GRADUATES FROM F&M ON JUNE 8 LETTERS GRANTED William Calvin Herr. . | Mrs. Clayton R. Leaman, 210 East Main Street, will receive the degree | of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry e | at Franklin and Marshall College on | June 8. the estate of Grant C. Herr, East Donegal Twp. Personal Mention s. E. M. Bennett {search laboratories of the Socony | Vaccium Oil Co. at Paulsboro, New Jersey. As a student he was named to the Dean's list for scho- | lastic achievement, and was a mem- "|ber of the F&M Student Affiliates | of the American Chemical Society. r. Charles E. Reed time at the former's pr is | ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT Robert Clair Martin, Route 230 a half mile west of Sal- | The suit was filed by Coyle Mar- tin, the boy's fathe:. driving west and the truck owned by the defendants Charles Stauffer was heading oo PACKER INJURED HIS | wedding. The suit is for a car repair bill. GI BOY SCOUT COUNCIL V. i IS ATTENDING ! W. L. Tyndall, East Main Stree, | his own. While playing baseball | the other evening hé severely in-}{ EIGHTEEN STUDENT PILOTS | juréd his ankle as he slid into a | base. Roy is about’ now on |eighteen student pilots at the National Boy Scout - | crutches. Donegal Airport. ing in New York which | BREAKS ELBOW IN FALL Nearly 1,000 men the sessions at the Waldorf-Astor al Manheim RI, broke his right elbow | Friday when he slipped as he was | adjusting some farm machinery on | his brother's farm, Mount Joy Rl.|the Donegal Airport and Mrs. He was treated at St. Joseph’s| Elmer Groff of Rheems, recently flew to Brockton, Mass, where they visited friends. ——— Eee CHILDREN'S DAY SERVICES The Milton Grove Sunday School | observe Children’s 3 Sunday, June 1st, at 9:30 a.m. The | Miller Sisters Trio special music for the occasion. on Hospital. | BIRTHS | Florin, a dzughter at the Columb MARRIAGE LICENSES Szturday. announced Monday that a third Jacob L. Hostetter, town R3, and Jure E. McGarvey, | Joy R2, a daughter Friday at thej for ten pounds, will be validate» Lancaster General Hospital. Mr. Albert Fike spent the week- Mies. C. A. Melhorn spent several days with Rev. Luke Keifer and Miss Lydia Weaver celebrated her seventh birthday, Saturday Mrs. H. B. Witte] spent Friday at Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. B. Franklin Skeen Mrs. Skeen. Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis of Don- egal Springs, called on Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Hershey on Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shetter and George Shetter and family on Sun- ay. Mrs. R. W. Roberts and her moth- Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Sweikert spent the weekend at New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Hershey and son, Robert of Lemoyne and Mrs. Melvin Weaver of Mount Joy were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. E, Hershey. Benny Brown Painfully Injured—Hit By A Bat “Benny” Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Brown II, 301 East Main street, was painfully injured while a spectator at a softball game on the Park diamond on Friday night. Benny was seated on the un- protected benches with other fans. ball and the heavy end of the bat pulled out of the tape and hurtled back into the crowd, striking Benny in the face. He suffered a lacerated forehead above the eye that required fourteen sutures to close. Harry Thomas, small son of Mrs. Ruth Kaylor was struck by the same bat and suffered a bruised head. dtl lft wi Wilbur K. Leaman, son of Mr. and A veteran of U. S. Army duty in Europe, Leaman will join the re- — re @ This Section = Columbia R2. Mortuary Record In George Vogle, seventy, Colums= bia. - Harry M. Parmer, fifty-six, of Martha Louisa, widow of Horace Dorsey, eighty-one, Columbia. Mary, widow of Isaiah Zook, Elizabethtown, aged eighty-one. Cleveland W. Morzis, sixty-three, Columbia, was found dead in bed. Frances W. Herr, Philadelphia, . formerly of Manheim, at St Joseph's Hospital. Mrs. Cyrus Keefer Elmira L., wife of Cyrus JL. Keefer, Bainbridge R1, died Sun= day. She leaves a husband, ‘one son, a step-son and a step-daugh= ter, Mrs. Mary Kell, of Bainbridge R1. Daniel A. Fackler Daniel A. Fackler, seventy-four, Rowenna, Marietta Rl, died at 7:30 am. Monday at his home after a lengthy illness. He was the son of the late George and Eleanor Holtz- | apple Fackler, and conducted a seed mill at Rowenna for more than 40 years. Besides his wife, Ella Fackler, he is survived by one brother, H. M. Fackler, Des Mo~ ines, Iowa. A number of nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral from his late home Thursday morning with interment in the East Donegal cemetery. Mrs. Laura H. Brandt Mrs. Laura H. Brandt, fifty-one, wife of Walter H. Brandt, Colum- bia R1, died at her home Saturday, after an illness of four months. She was bern in Rapho township, a daughter of the late John and Emma Haines Witmer. She was a member of the Mennonite Church Besides her husband, she is sur- vived by these children: Jay, Marietta R1; Robert, Columbia R1; Henry, Elizabethtown; Miriam, wife of Guy Shultz, Marietta; Helen, wife of Ear] Stetler, Co- lumbia R1; and Richard, at home. Also surviving are 13 grandchil- dren and these brothers and sis- ters: Amos; Mary, wife of Charles Fogie; William; Mae, wife of Harry Weaver; Oliver; Cora, wife of Paul Myers, all of Columbia Rl. Lizzie B. Schwanger Lizzie B. Schwanger, widow of Milton Schwanger, died at the home of her son, Walter, residing at 1829 North Fourth street, Harrisburg. (Turn to Page 5) he B'BRIDGE-M'TOWN ROTARY CLUB GETS ITS CHARTER Dr. Ralph W. S. Schlosser, Eliza bethtown, was toastmaster at the charter presentation meeting of the Bainbridge-Maytown Rotary Club held Monday evening in the Bainbridge High School. The Rev. William H. Bollman, Lancaster, was the speaker and Ear] Godshalk, district governor, presented the charter. William W, Mundozff is president of the club. ANNUAL SERVICE AT EBY'’S The annual home coming Service Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Eck- {at Eby’s E. U. B. Church northeast { man, Holtwood R1, announce the fof Mt. Joy will be held on Sunday Damages totalling $575 are asked | engagement of their daughter. |afternoon, June 15, 1947 at 2:30 P. in a suit filed for eighteen-year-old | Thelma M., Lancaster, to John M.|M. There will be a good speaker | Getz, son of Mrs. Emma Getz, Mt. and good singing. S. Joy R1 Come. Help make this a good old- Miss Fckman is a graduate of }fachion service. Rev. I. N. Seldom-~' ffice of Dr. L. M. Johnson. | the General Hospital School of fridge will be in charge. : Nursing and is employed in the NEARBY REAL ESTATE SOLD Mr. Getz is engaged in farming. | PRIVATELY THE PAST WEEK No date has been set for the Al A Ar A Lancaster realtor sold a large tobacco warehouse in Landisville,: to the General Cigar Co. for Ralph and Edith E. Snavely and ANKLE PLAYING BASEBALL and Edith Snavely; and two single The absence of Mr. Roy Packer | frame properties and acreage near ADA Aen S. | at Newcomer's Gas Station is due | Maytown for the Christian C. to a mishap which was no fault of | Demmy estate to John B. Sheriff. rr tl Qe At present there is a class of Last week James Endslow, Wil- liam Endslow and Paul McMillan Earl Breneman. twenty-seven, | made their first solo flights. A A Ae er THEY FLEW TO BROCKTON Mr. and Mrs. Phares Landis of AA pian Mr. and Mrs. Philip Yourg |3RD SUGAR STAMP VALID The Department of Agriculture Mr. and Mrs. Earl Heisey, Mount | 1947 sugar rationing stamp good Fp not later than Aug. 1. TN