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VOL. XLVII, NO. 19
Mount Toy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, October 9, 1947
$2.00 a Year in Advance | munity Exhibit will be the ¢rown-| After the queen has been crown-
ing of the corn queen. This will i ed she will take part in the activi-
To File An Appeal Against
State For Refusal To Grant
Boro Authority Certificate
Keen Competition In
Lancaster Co. Corn
Husking Contest Here
Lancaster County again will
have a County Corn Husking Con-
test. This event will again be
staged in connection with the Mt.
Joy Community Fair on Friday,
October 17th. The contest will -be
held on the John E. Melhorn farm
which is located on the Mt. Joy-
Marietta Pike about one half mile
from the Mt. Joy Borough Limits.
The preliminaries wil] be held
promptly at 10:00 a.m. The main
husking event will start at 1:30 p.
m. In order to be eligible to husk
in the afternoon, all contestants
except last year’s champion must
prove their right to husk by par-
ticipating in the preliminaries.
Substantial prizes will be award-
ed to the winners in the main con-
test. Any husker living in Lancas-
ter County is invited to be a con-
testant.
An Essay Contest
On Electricity
Walter H. Ferguson, Chairman
of the Rural Committee of the
Pennsylvania Electric Association,
has announced a contest for boys
and girls living in Pennsylvania.
Cash prizes amounting to $1,000
will be given for the best essays
on “The most important uses of
electricity on the farm.”
Duplicate Prizes Will Be Awarded
+ To Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs
A novel feature of the contest is
the provision for prizes to clubs
named by the winners as well as
the winning boys and girls. Con-
testants may designate any club
or society they choose to receive
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Wallace Zerphey Buys
Grissinger Property’
On Friday evening at the Bul-
letin Office, Sue R. Grissinger sold
a lot 50 x 180 feet on the South
side of East Main street, this boro.
It is located in the southwest cor-
ner of the Boro Square. The im-
provements are a 2 and 1-2 story
dwelling and store room with a
two car garage.
The property was purchased by
Mr. Wallace Zerphey, son of Offi-
cer Elmer L. Zerphey, of this boro,
for $8910.00. We understand the
new owner contemplates embark=-
ing in business there.
Mr. Edgar D. Snavely has been
conducting an accessory store and
gas station there for some time.
The sale was called by auct-
ioneer C. S. Frank and Claud Zel-
ler was the clerk.
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TUESDAY'S ROTARY MEETING
The regular weekly meeting of
our local Rotary Club was held
Tuesday and was in charge of the
Vocationa] Service committee.
Visiting Rotarians were: F. S.
Buch, of Lancaster, C. R. Welch
and W. dePerrot of Lititz. Guests
were C. W. Wolfe and R. R. Brak-
man,
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TWO DRIVERS FINED $10
Two métorists, prosecuted before
Justice of the Peace Allen Kauff-
man, Ironville, paid $10 fines and
costs over the week-end. They are:
Sanford H. Hess, Lititz R2, charg-
ed with speeding, and Mrs. Anna
Mae Gable, Columbia Rl, for pass-
ing an auto on a curve.
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GREEN LIGHT HT MOTION LOST 3
"TO 2; MOTION FOR LAW SUIT
PASSED 3 TO 2
The October meeting of Boro
Council had Messrs. Loraw, Keller,
Eicherly, Newcomer and Krall
present. Also Burgess Brown, So-
licitor Arnold, : both secretaries,
Officer Zerphey, Supervisor Smelt-
zer and pumping engineer Schatz.
Justices Hockenberry and Hen-
drix each reported the collection
of $15 for auto violations.
The Chamber of Commerce in-
quired if council will assist in the
erection of Christmas trees on
Main street again this year. The
reply was in the affirmative, The
boro cuts, hauls and erects trees,
the Chamber trims and lights
them.
Solicitor Arnold informed Secre-
tary* Bailey that under the new
law regulating the number of
Councilmen to a ward, Mt. Joy
can continue as heretofore — three
from each ward.
Burgess Brown reported the
collection of $21 license fees and
as Zoning Officer $6.50 for permits.
Mr. Newcomer of the Street
committee, reported streets oiled
and patched,
Mr. Keller, of the Water com-
mittee, reported two leaky valves
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E. DONEGAL LAD BACK HOME;
SERVED 19 MOS. OVERSEAS
Frank Haines Fletcher, aged
twenty, was discharged from the
U. S. Naval Personnel Separation
Center, Naval Training Center, at
San Diego, Cal, last Wednesday,
Oct. 1. He is the son of Frank K.
Fletcher, Mount Joy R 2
Prior to his enlistment Nov. 30,
1945, at Lancaster, he was employ-
ed as a truck driver. Prior to that |
he attended Mount Joy High
school.
He was stationed at Mt, McKin-
ley, went from there to San Fran- |
cisco, from there to Pearl Harbor, |
to Bikini and the Marshall Islands,
serving nineteen months overseas
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MANHEMM DETOUR ON;
WORK STARTED TUESDAY
The Lancaster Construction |
Company announced that it would
begin work Tuesday on the con-
struction of 7 of a mile of road,
a bridge and a storm sewer on!
Legislative Route 26002 between
Mt. Joy and Manheim.
Traffic to Manheim is now de-
toured via Salunga.
Week's Birth Record
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sigman; Mt.
Joy Rl, a son at St. Joseph's Hos-
pital.
Mr. and Mrs. John Crider, of
town, a son Monday at the Lan-
caster General Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Derr, Mt.
Joy R2, a son Friday at the Lan-
caster General Hospital,
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brubaker,
Mount Joy R1, a daughter Tues-
day at the Lancaster General
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Ormsby,
announce the birth of a son “Keith
David” on Oct. 3, 1947, at the
Chester Hospital, Chester, Pa.
M-Sgt. and Mrs. Walter W.
Woodward, announce the birth of
a daughter, October 1st, at the
Base Hospital, McDill Field, Tam-
pa, Fla.
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TO INSTALL TILE FLOOR
C. D. Bender, Harrisburg, sub-
mitted the low bid and will in-
stall a new asphalt tile floor in
Ward No. 20 at the ‘State Hospital
for Crippled Children at Eliza-
bethtown.
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Aciivities
Reported By
Our Police
Dale Dolby, of town, who was
arrested last Wednesday by Chief
of Police Elmer Zerphey on a
charge of statutory rape and
bastardy, was given a hearing be-
fore Justice of the Peace Arthur
Hendrix and in default of $1,000
bail was recommitted to the Lan-
caster County prison for trial at
court,
Thursday night Officer Zerphey
arrested Earl Wanner, Mt, Joy,
for passing a fraudulent check ai
Newcomer's Service Station here.
Wanner made restitution before
Squire Hockenberry and was re-
leased.
Among the motor violations
were Kenneth Simons, of Lancas-
ter, who was prosecuted by Zer-
phey on a charge of failing to
yield the right of way at the in-
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Farmer Hearing For
‘Dirt Farmer’ Opinion
On Wednesday, October 15th,
fifteen members of the Committee
on Agriculture of the U. S House
of Representatives at Washington
will conduct a farmer hearing in |
the Court House at Lancaster on
agricultural questions on which
“dirt farmer” opinion is sought.
Both court rooms will be used
simultaneously in order to give |
more witnesses an opportunity to
be _heard or to be interrogated. |
The hearings wil] start at 10:00 a
m. and continue until about 4:30 | : iy :
- and tinue 1 : 7 | their driver's licenses suspended
».m. Congressman, Hope of Kan- | : '
pm. C essma Hope | by the State, were these from this
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At a meeting of the Mount Joy |
school: board held Monday evening. |
October 6th, it was reported that |
the Hammond electric’ organ, or-
derer a year ago, has arrived and)
arrangements are being made to :
ror toe > ae > » - .
| permanently place it in the high was selected as the candidate for
3 | the vacancy in the Second Legis-
school auditorium.
with the pastors of the community
and excuse the pupils in grades 4
to 8 at 11 am. to attend
classes in the various Souris.
The treasurer reported a
ance on October 1st of Si.
Tax collector James Hock
berry turned over $36,651.83 on
the new duplicate.
Bills amounting to $7,395.92 wert
read and payment approved.
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LEASED WELFLEY'S GARAGE
Messrs, Charles’ Bailey and
Cletus Kaylor, have leased the
Walter S. Welfley service station |
west of Florin. Having taken
possession last week, they are
ready to service your car and in-
vite a share of your patronage.
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MANHEIM SENTINEL SOLD
Walter C. Miller, of Lancaster, |
LETTERS GRANTED
has purchased and will operate the
Manheim Sentinel. The present |
production personnel will be main-
tained.
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OLD DESK BRINGS S124
A piece of checked brown home-
spun linen a yard and a half |
square was sold for $20, and and |
an old desk brought $124 Satur-|
day afternoon at the A. K. Miller |
J Bowles, Marietta.
sale in Manheim.
(its Radio Job To
Boro Solicitor Authorized
Hit The Trail In A
‘Cathedral On Wheels’
The Bulletin herewith reproduces
an article from the Chicago Daily '
News concerning Ray Brubaker,
a native of our boro and a son of
Rev. Harry L. Brubaker, on id
ga] Springs Road.
Ray writes us: “The Mount Joy |
Community Exhibit will see the|
Caravan on exhibition as we be~ |
gin our itinerary South.”
The article follows:
EVANGELIST, 24
STUMPING U. S.
A 24-year-old evangelist quit
his job as a radio news editor to-
day to take “the old-time religion
to the highways and byways”
in a church on wheels.
He is Ray Brubaker of the
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CORN HUSKING CONTEST
AT NEW HOLLAND SHOW
The featured event of the New | 5¢
Holland farm show Saturday eve-
ning was the corn husking contest,
conducted by C. B. Mellinger on
the high school grounds. Thomas
Michener, Marietta, was declared
the champion, his time being one
minute, thirty-five seconds. Second
prize was won by Homer Martin,
New Holland R1, time, one minute,
fifty seconds; third prize, Richard
Hyatt, Ronks, in one minute, fifty-
eight seconds, Each shock contain- }%
ed thirty ears and the contestant
was required to husk it, place. it
in a basket and tie the fodder.
There were 10 entries. Six judges
were selected at random from the
crowd,
tel fetter
FLORIN MAN'S CAR STRUCK
AT LANCASTER SUNDAY
George Forry, twenty-two, Flor-
in, Pa., was the victim of a hit and
run driver at the intersection of
N. Duke and E, Walnut Sts., Lan-
caster, at 12:40 a.m. Sunday city
police said,
Forry told pclice that he was
making a left turn onto Walnut
[Street when a car struck his left
front fender causing damage es-
timated at $20. The hit-and-run
car then continued South on Duke
Street, he said.
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LICENSES ARE SUSPENDED
Among the motorists who had
| locality:
Intoxication, Ralph W. Kauff-
The Hi h School Gets | ran, Manheim R2. Speeding, Pen-
g {jamin E. Zettlemoyer, Marietta.
| Reckless driving, Danie] H. Miller,
Hammond Elec. Organ
| Manheim RI.
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MANHEIM MAN NAMED
At a meeting of the Republican
| County Commitiee at Lancaster
Thursday evening, Walter L. Bom-
berger, Manheim insurance man,
i {lative District caused by the death
The schoo] beard will cooperate | ye caus .
of Harry Trout,
rere rp
‘Some Tall Dein’s at The
| Soap Box Derby Oct. 18
In just a little over a week the
Community Exhibit will be in
full swing, and before wé know
it, the time will be here for the
{ soap box derky. A few so far have
entered, and they all seem very
anxious for the event. It is not too
late to build that racer and enter
the derby.
Its fun and its thrilling, and best
of all there are some good cash
prizes for those who place. This
will be our second one, and if it
goes over like it did last year, we
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Ella W. Hershey, West Donegal
township, executrix of the estate of
| David E. Hershey, Jr., late of West
| Donegal twp
| WIFE WITHDRAWS CHARGES
Charges of assault and battery
and surety of the peace against
Richard Bowles, Bainbridge, were
withdrawn by his wife, Susan
| activities
| | park
ganizations,
of the Cor Wealth
period, October
“Pennsylvania Week.”
Pa nga
NSYLVANIA V/
sylvania Week”
Complete Youth Ceriter
By Social Welle Asso.
Penna. Week
Oct, 3 To 19
PROCLAMATION
Flans are
| corporate
scciation
ganization
tion and
which sponsor
activities,
of | This incorporation
has proclaimed the
gotiating
Stehman
the Boy
! bar, etc.,
volunteer
venture.
greatest possible number
ial
5 and productive capacity of
Commonwealth
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BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR
FOUR YEAR OLD
Peggy Ellen Brill wag given at the
North Barbara
last Wednesday
celebrated her
A fish pond and other games,
individual birthday cakes, were en-
Those present were.:
Phyllis Anne and Kathleen Brown,
g, Mrs. Robert Brown,
daughter Peggy.
BE de
Carl S. Krall 8 rosa
Nissly As Cashier
elected cashier
assistant cashier.
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TWO CELEBRATED THEIR
BIRTHDAYS SAME
and daughters
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REFUND FIRST
OF FLORIN WATER CO.
been refunded
k | Paul
quired in September
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REV. JOHN H. GABLE NAMED
ni ving ahe ad to in-
This or-
groups
and suc ch other
mill on N. Market St.,
youth activities in the
One floor
Gir] Scouts and the
first floor
activities such as
da
More detailed
appear in next
will
week's Bulletin,
be held on Delta street, just off ties during the farm exhibit.
Main street on Thursday evening, This part of the farm exhibit has
October 16th at eight o'clock. Re-| been made possible by the con-
presentatives from Elizabethtown, | tributions from the seed corn
East Donegal, Manheim, West | representatives and flour and feed
Hempfield and Mt. Joy schools as |mills of this section.
wel] as Elizabethtown and Master-! The committee working for: this
conville 4-H Clubs will be taking | corn queen have been, Mrs. John
art in the program. The name of | Herr, Mrs. Walter Eshleman, Mr.
the queen will not be announced | Herbert Young and Mr. and Mrs.
until the time of crowning. i Dick Lightner. 3
A short concert will be rendered | The dresses for the queen and
by the Mt. Joy High school band | he court have been designed and
before crowning of the queen, by | made by Mrs. Dick Lightner and
last year’s Corn Queen, Miss Ar-! Mrs. Walter
Local Affairs Moriualy
all
In General Record In
> arters for . .
J | Briefly Told [This S
basement and rie )'4 Oo IS ection
youth The cost of ice cream and beer Amos Wm. Froelich, 52, at Co-
» snack |g slightly advanced last week. lumbia Saturday.
youth Carl Huber, seventeen. Manheim, | Susan, widow of John Weller, at
hroke his arm playing foot hall. Columkia, aged seventy-seven.
Ex-Councilman Harry H. Krall Robert E. Sourbier, sixty-five, a
native of Marietta, died in Detroit,
Mich,
ic confined to his home on account
f sickness.
Benjamin E. Yoke, 60, a native
Jacob Garber, 19, near Lititz,
Bria News Of was badly injured when he fell of Manor twp. at Columbia on
There
fever in
There
airplane
ville,
pin ball
in jail,
his crops
himself.
Yankees.
1 to J.
Thursday,
ved, card
ed
dwelling
the Evangelical
ed Brethren Church.
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DRIVING TOO FAST
prosecuted before
Poe, Lancaster RS, for
township,
{ lic sale
1, | Musser
ter Dupes was the auctic
was Albert Klein-| pany here | deciden upon.
her home
- .
after being a patient at St
Hospital.
everyone
fast for conditions.
York now
polio case.
scarlet
an
Coates- the City and County. pneumonia.
A Great
was struck by
at Lancaster.
Lancaster
putting a
The American,
its annual
Scranton next year.
Mrs. Richard Miller, Lancaster | fownship high school, the pupils | 0
R7, sued her hubby for pulling her formed a volunteer fire company | 25 Years S. S.
It Py { S
out of bed by the
When his hearing went
14, farmer
In winning baseball
> made
just | cn three big hills between Eliza-
classic, 17
and three
and
ended between
won | Harrisburg pike. Low bidder onj
The Affairs
At Florin For
Past Week
Mr, and Mrs.
turned from
Tampa, Florida,
trip by plane,
Mr. and
spent Sunday
R. W. Roberts
Mr, and
| Mrs. Katie
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CARD PARTY AT I
BY DONEGAL POST
The Auxiliary
No. 809 will hold
the Maytown
Hershey
Mrs.
Mechanicsburg.
William Reno and
Post
Final arrangements
at the home
Pieffer,
Shenk, Mrs.
Adam Greer
Hicks present.
500, Bridge :
played. Refreshments
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FLORIN DWELLING
A two ar
brought $8,000 at
and
The purchaser
er of near
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| HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Mrs. Clayton » returned to |gion Auxiliary will be held on
off a tractor. Saturday.
Samuel G. Pleger, {forty-two
Th D - arv Conklin, sixty-nine, Mari- : : ,
: e ay rom Mary Conlin, Pn: on Manheim R1, Friday af St. Joseph’s
Local Dailies
sixty-fourth
etta, fell down four steps and
Froke her wrist on Sunday.
An auto used by a special officer| George Cover, eighty-eight, of
on duty at the New Holland faid | Washington Boro, died at the Co-
lumbia Hospital.
Hospital.
was stolen Saturday night.
Upper Leacock has gone on re-| Janice Elaine Hertzog, aged
cord as opposing the proposed two | three months, of Fast Petersburg,
million dollar war memorial for|died at the Genera] Hospital from
James Martin, 14, near New Hol- Harvey H. Overdeer, thirty-four,
at $1,000, | land, won the grand championship |at Columbia from injuries sustain-
an auto and killed [with a 259-1b. Chester White hog at| ed when his auto was struck by a ,
New Holland's farm show.
freight train a month previous.
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Ephrata has installed and ir 4
+ boxes and | operation, parking meters with | Miss Mary Meckley
these rates: 12 minutes lc, one Miss Mary = Meckley, sixty-six,
hold {hour 5c, two hours 10 cents. Flizabethtown, died * at 7:30 am.
at When a blaze was discovered in
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the boiler room of the Manheim |
and soon extinguished the flames.
ed
tuna swarm commer von | SUPE. Garber Resigns
Abbott, | THIRD L/
, shot The Highways Department an-
NE ON HILLS
nounced the low bidder on the
project effecting this section,
It was the adding of a third lane |
bethtown and Middletown, on the |
this project was J. D. Eckman, of |
Atglen, with a figure of $150,210.35.
“We have assurance from Eck- |
man that this work will start |
early next week,” the Department |
nounced. The addition of the
third lzne is part of the program |
announced scme time ago by Gov |
James H. Duff to relieve crowding
on the road caused by inability of
utos to pass slow moving trucks
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on the present narrow highway. |
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WILL INSTALL OFFICERS BR
Tenth District Commander Am- DR. E. W. GARBER
brose Plummer will install new Dr. E. W. Garber resigned, * on
officers for 1947-48 at the regular| Sunday, as superintendent of the
meeting of the Mt. Joy American | Methodist Sunday School here,
Legion Post No. 185 to be held at| after filling that position the past
8 p.m. Thursday in the Legion | twenty-five years.
Home He will be succeeded by Joseph
A Sheaffer.
STATE POLICEMAN DISMISSED
Detective Harry E. Fitzgerald
who resides at 11th nd chestnut | Fre Co. Admits
streets, Cclumbia, has been dis~
missed from the Peansylvania 7 N M
State Police for “improper con ew em ers
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|
Friendship Fire Company met in
regular monthly session last Thurs-
b I | M ti {day with the president J.. Roy
g Sona en ion | Eshleman in charge and twenty-five
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Morlock and |niemberg present
| Patricia, Miss Margaret Ketron,| Fire Chief John J. Schroll report-
|
eat 4 A see
rd-{ Mr. and Mrs. : Paul Duncan and |ed five fire calls for the month of
cn, Jimmy f Kingsport, Tenn. |September.
isited Mrs. Cleo Fberle of town. | James Schneider, delegate to the
A ——— Fire Association meeting held at
y CLOSED MONDAY | Neffsville, gave a report of the ac-
nbus Day, Oct. 12, will be |tivities there and stated that Fire
observed on Monday, Oct. 13th, as Prevention Week would be obsérv-
holid by the Union National jed October 5th to 11th.
Mt. Joy Bank and the First | The Company decided to hold a
National Bank and Trust Com-|smoker, but a definite date was not
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LEGION AUXILIARY MEETING
A meeting of the American Le-
The company will buy carbon tet=-
rachloride extinguishers for on the
fire trucks.
| ‘Seven new members were admit-
Tuesday, October 14th, at the Le-|ted: Social member, Clarence Greid-
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Joseph's | gion Home at eight o'clock. er; Active members, Elmer H.
Members needing transportation | Young, Robert G. Stoner, Norman
and | will please meet at the Mount Joy |H. Kolp, Reuben Miller Jr., James
flowers during her hospitalization, Department Store.
Ww. Dolby and Eli Schemick cain