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‘Mount Joy Bulletin
VOL. XLVII, NO. 40
Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday
Afternoon, March 11, 1948
$2.00 a Year in
2 Railroad
Will Make
Relocation
Crossings
The Road
Expensive
IMAYTOWN LEGION STARTS
WORK ON ITS NEW HOME
| Do
tion
town,
Excavating i
ing was begun this week, it
| _ A nine-year-old county girl, who
reported. The project also i for :
: \ : hit the jackpot of a radio contest
grading an athletic field at the side.
$3 for shut-in wis given a party
Officials also announced = that . . .
: Saturday it her Sportine Hil
street signs will be erected coon at |
» ome,
| Maytoyn as part of an American .
laytoys 2 hicl lud 1] The girl, Joan Brosey, daughter
egio 'oject which also includex
Legion project Th | Of Mis. Henry Hess, is blind, but
ring Maytow uses. The
numbering Maytown hous the party was a huge success and
py i welebrate
group will hold a party to celebrate Joun was very happy with het
» J fy Wa V4 > pM WW -
the 30th anniversary of the Ameri gifts. including an: electric blanket:
rl Te 1; y 3 \ .
can Legion next Monday night. a radio, recording machine and a
At 1 earing at Harrisburg | Columbia branch North of Landis-
Thursday, the Public Utility Com- | Ville. Tt will cost, with approaches
mission W informed that two an estimated SHON,
: The second crossing will be a
hew railroad crossings at cost of | pridge over the Reading Company
nearly $1.000000 will he necessary tricks near Lancaster. Also in-
in connection with the proposed | volved in this project are alter-
change of the Harrisburg pike ! ati ms of crossings on connect-
from a point two miles east of town | ing roads over four tracks of the
to Lancaster | Pennsylvania Railroad's main line.
The PUC must approve any | Engineers estimated the cost of |
changes in grade crossings before | this job at $627,000.
the actual construction of the new | The Highway Department al-
highway link can be started by | ready has announced relocation of
the State Highway Department. | the Harrisburg pike North of the
There has been no estimate on the present route will be undertaken
cost of the entire project. { sometime this year. The project
At an initial hearing on the calls for a new road starting two
crossings Thursday State High- | miles East of Mount Joy and end-
ways Departme engineers ex- | ing 1 and 1-2 miles West of Lan-
plained two major crossing pro- | caster.
jects are planned. | Representatives of the Pennsyl-
The first will ke over the tracks | vania and Reading Railroads at-
of the Reading Company railroads J tended the hearings
Mount Joy Gets $20,170.35
From State For School Support
Auditor General Wagner has
proved payments totalling
42 to
class
ap-
57 school districts of the
in Lancaster County,
Legislative appropriations for
support of public schools,
The local distriets,
each will receive, Conoy
$11,241.16; East Donegal Twp., $2
and the
are:
Hie.
fourth
from
the
amount
Twp.,
321.
Florin "Cyclist
Injured In Spill
[ loyd
rin,
Nentwig,
was
of
St.
thirty-three,
Fl admitted to the
| Joseph's Hospital Tuesday shortly
¥1381; East Hempfield Twp., $18.- | after he was knccked from his
£97.80: Elizabethtown Boro, $30.255- | motoreycle by a trailer truck at
wT; Marietta Boro, $12,868.37: Mount i the intersection of Route 220 and
Joy Boro $20,170.35: Mt. Joy Twp.. | Engle Strects in Florin at 4:15 p.m.
$10,123.26; Rapho Twp., $13,621.56: | State Policeman Sebastian Nagle
Washngton Boro, $1507.84: West reported
Hempfield Twp.. $6029.90. Hospital authorities said Nent-
TT ery wig, who suffered internal injuries
MISS HEISEY RECEIVES in the accident, was in gocd con-
STUDENT NURSE CAP | dition late Tuesday night.
Miss Dorothy F. Heisey, daugh- According to State Police, Nent-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Z. | w was traveling north on Engle
Heisey, 205 North Barbara Street et in Florin and came to a
received her cap student | comulete ston at the intersection cf
Nurse at South Baltimore General | Route 230. A trailer truck oper-
Hospital March 2. Those who at- | ated by Fdward R. Moffet. thirty.
tended he capping were: Mary | 328 1-2 Market Street, New Cum-
Ann Gaul, Victor Gibble, George | berland, also traveling north
and Harold Heisey Charles and | stopped abreast of Nentwig at the
taymond Jr. Heisey of Mount | intersection As the truck pulled
Joy. ut cnto the highway. witnesses
er said. the side of the trailer struck
» the handle bars of the motoveyele
Doron Mo) 1 ee
Mr and Mrs. N. S. Grimm of wist aginst the side of the truley
Mechanicshiure. were visiting with The injured rider was treated at
Annie A Wittel. the scene Ly D R. M. Thome
Mr. Reuben Shellenberger f Mt. Joy. St. Joseph's Hospital am-
town, spent Sunday Mountville bulance later conveyed Nentwig to
as the zusest of Mr. and Mrs, Amos e hospital where he was admitted
Miller. a
Mrs. Annie A. Wittel and Mrs. ! oT SYN
Amelia Myon pent Monday with | FUNNY THINGS HAPPEN
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wittel, Eliza-| Phares Habecker aged 7i. nea:
bethtown R2 | Quarryville had moto trouble
A nr | which he tried to remedy. While
JOHN MELHORN HONORED | at work, the motor started and so
At the annual business session | did tne car he left it in
of the Lancaster County Poultry | gear. He jumped on the punning
Association John Melhorn, local | } ard, the cer ran into a gutter,
poultryman, was elected a
for a three year term.
director |
now he is ir
fell over on him and
| tad shape in the hospital.
Three Twp. School Boards
Fifteen senior high school stu- FI,
dents participated in a “Talent! Fir C S I
Soy” Rs the school assembly | ire QC. e wg
last Friday afternoon. Prizes were | ial
awarded to Kenneth Barnhart for Bronze Memori
his saxophone solo; to Marion Ney,
The regular March meeting of the
Pliny aa Bane Vie for 1 | Friendship Fire Company was held
wy Brown Miirie to Mrs. M. W. | Thursday night in the Fire House
Mavtown: Rev. Wilbar Al. | President John Hendrix called the
lison, Maytown and Rev. Russell Mean to ides and there were 35
Kron members present.
Mariotta., Chief “a Myers reported one
Holy Week Assemblies Live call during the month, damage
Special Holy Week Assemblies abe t $100.00.
will be held in the high school from | The Finance committee reported
March 22 to March 25. Speakers | the approval of all bills amounting
are scheduled as
March 22 - Fath-
Marietta Catholic
March 23 - Rev.
for the assemblies
follows: Monday,
er Mattern,
Church; Tuesday,
W. M. Allison, Maytown Lutheran |
Church; Wednesday, March 24 -
(Turn to Page 2)
to $98.85.
The Entertainment committee
| turned in $34.21 for the month of
February.
John Hendrix reported that the
| :
|annual Memorial service would be
(Turn to page 2)
negal Post No. 809 oi the
n Legion has started construe-
of a new post home at May
officials announced
tbe
and children
oe
finished
-
Party For Little
Am-
Also in the cast will he Ken Mil- |
new wardrobe,
It all started when a woman
Plan Operetta [ friend of the family wrote a letter
the program about Joan. The
At Landisville | letter was read over the air dur-
ing the program, and won. the
“In Old Vienna”, a musical com- | station's contest for letters about
edy operetta, will be presented by | shut-ins.
the East Hempfield Twp. High | The letter about Jean was an-
School Glee Club at the school in | nounced as the winning letter
Landisville on Friday and Satur- (Turn {0 Page 2)
day at 8 p.m. TT TY. —————
Theresa Mohler will have the | .
leading role and Car] Denlinge: Our Firemen
will play the leading male role
Answered Two
ler, Jeanne Forney, Grant |
James Stauffer, John Good, Frank |
Robertson, Robert Allison, pine Calle On Sunday
Gingrich, George Vernau, Richard
Bachman and Bill Haldeman [rig hdship Fire Company was
Samuel Harnish, music super- | on two fire alarms
visor, will direct. Also assisting in | Sunday, cne of which resulted in
the production will be Dorothy | slicht damage a Pennsylvania
Sensenig, pianist; Miss Mary Lee | Fower and Light Company trans-
Forney, director of dramatices; | forme; and another which caused
Robert Allison and Ken Miller, | damage estimated at $300 to a W.
stage managers; Chester Schoen- | Main street home.
enberger, business manager; and| At 1:50 am the company was
Loretta Sweitzer, prompter { called when a short circuit caused
—— a { the insulation on wi es in a trans-
HOSSLER SCHOOL PUPILS | former to smoulder and burn. The
HOLD PARTY FOR TEACHER pele was situated about a half mile
The following pupils of ‘the | North of here along the Manheim
seventh and eighth grades of | Pike, near the residence of Win-
Hossler's school, Rapho Twp.. en- | field Zink, Mount Joy Rl, PPL
tertained their teacher, Mis. H. G | employe were summoned and
Shonk, at a birthday urprise made the necessary repairs to the
party at her home on Wednesday unit
evening, March 3: Mary Jean| At 3:10 p.m. Sunday, the (fire-
Breneman, Beverly Joyd. Mary | men were summoned to the home
Anna Gish Janet Oberholtzer. | ©f Arthur Boyd. West Main Street,
Theda Shenk Shirley Shonk. | Where a five, believed caused by
Harold Leed and Donald Seigrist, | @ overheated stove-pipe, resulted
The evening was spent in plavis In damage estimated at $300
games, Other people attending the Fire Chief Ray Myers said the
party were: Mis Jetty Shenk. | fire had burned through the kitch-
Miss Jean Brosey, Mr Homer | en ceiling destroying a bureau and
Reber, Mr. and Mrs. John Barto | clothes in a wardrobe on the
and son Jerry. Miss Loraine | second floor,
Shonk, Mr. Samuel Shelly Jr., Mi a
John Breneman, Mr. H. C. Shonk
J. R. WAY PLEAD GUILTY: F id M h 12
FINED $200 AND COSTS Il ay, arc
James R. Way, nineteen, Salunga The Girl Scouts will observe
pleaded guilty to hit-run charges | their 36th birthday on Friday,
: pw ns 1 $200 | March 12th. They are celebrating
in court Friday and was fined $200 this anniversary by helping to
and costs on charges cf failing to | provide Clothing Kits for the dess
reveal identity. He was also order- | titute children of Europe and Asia.
ed to yay. coals on chavas The following Mount Joy Troops,
pay oi iad 5 71 with Troop Committee members,
failure to stop after an accident wre participating in this project
State Policeman Robert Plum- Chairman, Mrs. Arthur C. Mayer;
mer arrested Way following a col- | Vice Chairman, Mrs. Edward Lane.
lision with an auto driven by | , No. 8, sponsored by the
. | American Legion Auriliary 11
William A. Martin 839 E. Grange | registered
Street, in Landisville on the night Leader, Mrs. Sheridan Angstadt.
of Jan. 14 | Trecop Committee, Mrs. Joseph
at cs mel Wisin | Germer, Chairman; Mrs. Edward
RE ae Brown, Mrs, Jack Bennett, Mus.
GENERAL STORE, RHEEMS | Ri ha wd Dillinger, Miss Esther
BOUGHT BY THE MASONS Her
Rokert S. and Anna M. Mason Troop No, 96. sponsored by the
cf Rheems, purchased at private dies Bibl Class, Trinity Luth-
1. : ran Church 17 girls registered.
sale the general store equipment Leader Mrs James Roberts.
and stock of, Kaylor Bros. store at | Assistant Leader, Mis. Robert
Rheen and * will continue the | Hawthorne, Troop Committee, Mrs.
oe As a : Lop . | Clyde Fshelman, Chairman; Mrs.
usiness, having taken possession | w' 1. Tndall. Mrs. Fronk Young.
March 1st. [ Mrs. Irvin Smith Jr., Miss Mildred
EL Sn Wo | Zink, Miss Flsie Lefever.
BAINBRIDGE MAN INJURED Ti No. 105. sponsored by he
Gai re<byterian Churcl 16 girls
WHEN ELEVATOR DROPPED a ay hae
George Smith, thirty, Bainbridge, | TI.cader. Mrs. James B. Spangle:
was injured Tuesday morning when (Turn to Page 5)
an elevator on which he was riding
dropped three floors at the Klein | POWER MOWER IS STOLEN
Chocolate Co., Elizabethtown, hos- | AT HERNLEY'S CHURCH
pital records show. David Boll, Manheim R2, re-
A resent ported to State Police Friday the
WAS 100 ON TUESDAY heft of a power lawn mower from
Mrs. Esther Westaler, of Eliza- | Hernley Mennonite Church, locat-
bethtown, quietly celebrated her | ed on Route 72 a mile north of
100th birthday anniversary Tues- | Manheim. Boll, church janitor,
day. She is the widow of the late | suid the theft occurred Wednes-
Jchn W. Westafer, founder of the | day night.
Flizabethtown Chronicle, | Cpl. J. J. Haggerty is investi-
lee ere gating,
BOUGHT SEVERAL CROPS = Soy ee
AT 38 AND 10 IN COUNTY | NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP MEETS
An Ohio concern, the Nationz!| The Mount Joy Girl Scout
Leaf Tolaceco Co. has purchased | Neighborhood Group will meet cn
several crops of Lancaster C un- | Monday evening, March 15th, at
ty’s 1947 tobacco at 38 and 10} eight o'clock at the home of Mrs.
cents, { James B. Spangler, Jr. Jacob St.
- Girl Who Hit The
and build- « Jackpot On Radio
Girl Scout Birthday
| ag
VIR, AND MRS. CIIAS. M,
CELEBRATE 50th
Mr Mrs
122 Barbara
WEBB
ANNIVERSARY
Churles M. Webb,
Street, Mount
their
and
South
Joy wilt
Wedding
March 15
The counle were
the Rev, C. 1.
Church of
ceremony
Golden
Monday,
celebrate
Anniversary on
married 1898
Brown, Pastor f
God. Mount Joy.
took in Florin
who wus
Good
eleven childre
Mrs.
in
hy
the
The vlace
at the home of the bride.
the fecrmer Mary
Ning their
still living. They
Habecker, Mrs, Edwin 1
Mrs. Charles G. Shank, Mus
Mrs G.
T. Kauffman,
Smith, Charles G.
and Marshall L. Webb, Mr.
Mrs. Webb also have thirtv-six
grandchildren
Ehzabeth
of n are
Addison
Kline
Haro'd
Roth,
Ms,
Webb,
and
are;
Zimmerman,
Mi Morris
Charles E
John
and seven creat-
grandsons
Mr. Wehb
Mount Joy
Members
planning a
has been a tinsmith
in for 47 years.
the
party
Monday
their
March 15
L. Kline
Kline
of family are
the
Also
anni-
Mr.
Landis-
henor
night.
to
occasion on
celebrating wedding
versary
Mrs
ville,
on and
are
of
the
Fdwin
Mrs,
Webb.
et
MR. WALTER FAUST SPOKE
AT ROTARY LUNCHEON
Mr. Walter Faust, Warden
the Lancaster County Prison.
at
Mr.
men
was former
Cora
of
was
guest speaker
meeting
Rotary’s Tues-
day Faust was one
the
in our state who
of the F. B. 1.
regarding Com-
of several representing
American Legion
attended a meeting
in Washington,
munistic Communism,
fronts and plans, were
activities,
its leaders,
his topics.
Visiting Rotarian was J. M. Bar-
Ler Elizabethtown, Ray-
Sulton, Rotarian
Warta,
of with
mond of
Tony
guest
ENTERTAINED SUN.
Mr. and Mrs.
West Donegal
the
and
GUESTS
Walters of
entertained
at a chicken
Sunday:
Clinton
street,
following guests
waffle dinner
Paul Hinkle, Frank Hinkle,
Mrs. Harry Hinkle, Mv.
Frank Haug. Mr. and
Haug and daughter
Smith, Mrs.
and son William, Mr,
Mr. Fred Schneider,
Zink, all ol
Zink and Sheridan
lumkbia; Miss Patricia Hess and
Miss Julia Risser of Elizabethtown.
lM Gm mi
CAR STRUCK A TREE
THEN UPSET IN GUTTER
Last
hit a
on
Mr.
and
Mrs,
Sandra.
Maude
Glenn
Mae
town, Matilda
Buck, of Co-
and
Mrs
ny
Mr.
Conrad
Owen
Shupp,
Lavon
Friday morning automo-
i £
then
an
hile tree and upset in
the south end of the
Little Chickies creek bridge at the
Fortunately
We were un-
of the. car
which was taken to Sheridan’s Gar-
the gutter at
Springs south of town.
no one was injured.
able to learn the owner
» here for repairs. It was report-
ed a resident of Newtown.
ee el Ae
LUTHER SMITH'S QUARRY
OFFICE WAS LOOTED
Smith, Mt. Joy R2,
ator of the Stauffer quarry on the
Manheim road, northeast of Mt. Joy,
reported State Police that his
office was looted and $90 in cash
stolen, Cpl. James J. Haggerty was
assigned to investigate.
sme set oma Alen i
Week's Birth Record
Mr. Mrs. Jacob Brown,
boro, a son Tuesday the
Osteopathic Hospital.
and Mrs. Henry Schneider,
a daughter, at 10:55 p.m.
at General
Luther oper-
to
thie
Lan-
and
at
caster
Mr,
this boro,
Saturday the Lancaster
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs, Wayne Stauffer
Mount Joy R1, a daughter, at 9:45
pm. Saturday, at the Columbia
Hospital.
EE. l- P)!b>®o0kk,f
WILL CARRY THE MAILS
Bruce Greiner, a linotype operat-
or office, has tendered his
resignation effective April 1st. He
recently passed a successful exam-
ination and will be one of Postmast-
Charles J. Bennett's extra mail
carriers.
at this
er
cet) GP
ADOPTS AMUSEMENT TAX
Marietta is the second boro
the county to adopt an amusement
tax — seven and one half per cent
on all commercial amusement ad-
in
missions in the boro.
The Local News
Advance |
For The Past Week
Very Briefly Told
Columbia voted to pay its Coun-
cilmen
$25 per month salary
owners in Lancaster county
have purchased 17000 licenses to
date,
Down in D:umore township two
men were arrested for stealing a
stove,
C. Reed Cox, 57, Ephrata drug-
gist, committed suicide by taking
poison,
Eight large roosters were stolen
from Roland Kuntz, in Salisbury
Township.
The garage of Herbert Mann. at
Bausman, was destroyed by fire,
entailing a loss of $2000.
Farm Women Society No. 10
chartered four large busses to at-
tend the flower show at Philadel-
phia today.
Henry Harrison Banks, Colum-
bia negro, was found guilty of
murdering his landlady and sen-
tenced to life imprisonment.
eee
CARL S. KRALL HONORED
BY THE COUNTY BANKERS
A meeting of the Lancaster
Chapter of the American Institute
of Banking was held at Lancaster
last Thursday. when Walter E
Lucas Jr. cashier of the First
National Bank of Columbia was
elected president.
Mr. Carl S. Krall, cashier of the
Union National bank here, was
elected a member of the board of
governors,
Four hundred bankers and their
guests attended the dinner.
ia Wires
MARINE CORPS ESTABLISHES
LANC. RECRUITING STATION
The United States Marine Corps
anncunce the opening of a Recruit-
ing Sub-Station the Postoffice
Bldg, Room 224, Lancaster, The
two Marines are
T-Sgt.
-Sgt.
ter
in
on duty there
McElroy
Crossley.
James J. and
Alfred R.
wil] be a permanent sub-station
Marine Recruiting
Lancas-
for in Lancas-
ter County. Recruiting will be
done from Monday to Friday, 8
am. to 4:30 p.m., and on Saturday
from 8 a.m. to noon,
Door Prize Winners At
L. Roberts’ Opening
Robert's Electri-
new
The opening of
location at
last week-
successful
the
and
cal Shop in their
47 East Main Street,
end, was most with
filling
Friday
store
Sat-
capacity crowds
at
urday
An
added
by
of
nuts to the patrons.
Of the hundreds
visited the
received door
Table radio,
grill, Mrs.
in; electric
heating
drink
album
various times
evenings.
atmosphere of festivity
the floral
well-wishers,
was
tributes sent
the
and
by
and serving
ice cream, coffee dough-
of pecple who
store, the following
prizes:
Sam Hinkle;
Meminger,
Frank
table
Flor-
Weidman;
Gertrude Brubaker;
mixer, Robert Hawthorne;
of A. Y. Stauffer.
The opening was published
a full page advertisement
week's Bulletin,
Fp
ARTIFICIAL BREEDERS
RE-ELECTED EARL GROFF
Far] L. Groff, Strasburg RI,
re-elected president of the South-
Pennsylvania Artificial
Breeders Cooperative at the annual
of the
held Wednes-
day afternoon at Landisville,
George
iron,
pad,
reccrds,
by
in last
was
eastern
reorganization
meeting
of directors
Other officers for 1948, all re-
slections are:
Vice president, James T. Hast-
ings, Kirkwood R1; secretary, Lee
Poorbaugh, York R3; and treas-
urer, Elias Z. Musser, Mount Joy
RI.
rr err
A DETOUR TO HARRISBURG
There is a twenty-cne mile de-
Elizabethtown
and Harrisburg, It is via Hummels-
‘own. It is not expected to be lift-
d until Aug. 1.
tour on between
——— eres
FOOD SALE BY GIRL SCOUTS
Friday, M...a 12th, beginning
at six o'clock, the Girl Scout Troop
‘Award Contracts V. Weaver Wins;
For Improvements Kept The Best Set
'E’town Hospital Of Farm Records
The State Department of Pro Vernon H., Weave eighteen, a
pecty and Supplies Harvisburg, | graduate of the Ea st Donegal Twp
Wednesda awarded eight con High School, class of 1947, won a
tracts totaling $404,694 con- | $25 Savings Bond offered by the
truction work at the Elizabeth. | fa Credit Administration, Balti=
town State Hospital for Crippled | more, tor the best set cf farm rec=
Children ords kept by a boy or girl on his or
The contracts awarded were her fathe: farm in Lancaster,
Davis = Construction Co Now | Lebanon and Dauphin counties, S.
Cumbe: land, $80,855 for construc- | I upervisor of agri=
tion f boil house: Daniel J. |culture announced Thursday. His
Keating Co Philadel phi 184 ecord book ranked. fourth in the
444 for mechanical construction of 1 f Pennsylvania
otlerhous« Charl V Born nd reared on a general
Lebanon, $9.775 for plumbing an farm of 65 acres in East Donegal
piping in | hiv, which has been tenant-
Howard P. Filey. Harvishurg, $14.- | ¢d by his father, Willis H. Weaver,
200 for electrical construction in Mount Joy R1, Vernon was enroll-
Loilerhouse ed in the vocational agriculture
Othe companie receiving cone (Turn tp page 3)
tracts were John Stapf Corp. | TS
Harrisburg, $46.000 for building M R d
laundry: Warren J. Cathcart, Phil- | ecor
adelphia, $2478 for heating and |
No. 108 will hold a food sale at the
Market House.
at 9 o'clock.
and suppers.
Tree Church will speak
Church of
A Music Festival |
ventilating in laundry and nurses’ Th h t Thi
home; and $26855 f plumbing roug ou IS
constyuction and alterations and | * .
additions in the same buildings Entire Locality
Keystone Engineering Corp., Read- John Welmer, fifty-two. at Co
mg. $16,995 for electrical] con- | lumbis Sunday
struction in laundry and trans- | Augustus Altland sixty-three,
former vault. | at Columbia Thursday
The heating and plumbing con- J. Wesley Gillette, seventy-nine,
tracts for the laundry building al- | it Columbia last Friday.
$2 dude work in the nurses Mrs. Laura E. Moffet, seventy=
— nome five, at Columbia Wednesday.
| Mary. wife of Clayton G. Fry, at
E hi Th | Lititz Saturday aged seventy-six.
veryt ng at Paul Fiv. of town, ic a son.
{ Leo Kob, sixty-nine, Elizabeth-
Happened At | town, at the Lancaster General
Hognital Thursday. He was in the
Fl R | plumbing and heating busines for
orin Recently .. ..
Mr. and Mrs. Norman E Hershey | _ tev. Dr. Howard Diller died at
visited Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Roberts Pottsville aged seventy-three, He
in Mechanicshurg on Sunday. was an Foiscopal pastor. His wife,
Mr. Donald Miller has purchased | Yho was Susan Kline, of Manheim
at private sale the equipment and (Tum ls Pose 3)
stock of Groff Luncheonette and is a
continuing the business under the | INDICATION THAT SPRING
name Slim's Luncheonette. Slim | I$ Jusy AROUND CORNER
will serve light breakfasts, lunch | La easier counting, ; are daily
i finding evidences ol Spring more
Read his ad on anoth- |
ting | abundant. Sylvester Poff, Landis-
er page. :
5 A ville mail carrier anc
Saturday, March 13th, Rev. Robert | i t | ii 2
oy . { Janitor, reporteg seemg a ground-
F. Eshleman, minister of West Green | : 8
| hog running about near the Penn-
at the Florin :
| sylvania Railroad tracks in Landis-
Brethren.
Mr. Michael Wagenbach will have | Tuesday. Nearby a robin wa
CTur to Page 4) | carolling, Poff said. Poff, who re-
—— A re | ported that he saw the same sight
VISITING NURSES REPORT | last year, declared that Spring is
The report of the local Gu far away.
Nurse, Mrs. Ruth B. Walters for | A Mount Joy resident who was
the months of January and Fobru- | in his back yard, turned
ary, 1948 as submitted to the Visit- | Peart hworms near the surface
ing Nurse Assoc. at then egular | indicating that the frost has left
meeting was as follows: A total of | the ground and that milder weath-
198 visits were made to 35 patients, | ® 1S appr aching,
Vicits were subdivided as 2 1ows Two weeks ago the writer saw a
37 visits made to 12 Metropolitan | Number of blackbirds and on Tues
Ins. Co. policyholde and | saw his first robin at the Springs
161 visits made to 23 community | fc 2
patients. Community visit were | RB S : D
divided as follows 100 full pa otary enor ance
7 p visits and 52 free : 3
Vier 7 ort poy wens ond 32 tee] April 9 af Mit. Joy High
Fees collected amounted $147 | The Rotery Senior Dance, spon-
and mileage covered wa 2102 | sored by the Mount Joy Rotary
hiles Club in honor of the graduating
Local calls for nursing service | class of Mcunt Joy high school.
are received at Sloans Pharmacy. | Will be held in the high school
Mrs. Walters recently m wedi udito Friday night, April
from Elizabethtown R1 to the For- | 9th. from 9 to 12 p.m,
ney Apts. in Florin. Her new phone Music dancing will be fur-
number is Mount Joy 150-J-3 | nished by Andy Kewner's Orches-
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MAYTOWN AUXILIARY
PLANS SPELLING BEE
The Choru and Orchestra| The Ladi Auxiliary, Donegal
sections of the Music Festival will | Unit 809. Maviown will a
give a concert in the Mount Joy spelling bee in the East Danga 1
High School on Satu: day April | High hool auditorium on Friday.
10th, at which time eighteen young | Mar 12. The program will con-
people from our school will he in | ist f readings, musical selections
the Chorus. The students will ar-| as 1 th classes
rive in the morning and has re The classes are as follows: First,
hersals morning and afternoon, in| children six to twe lve vears of age.
( Turn to Page 5) tought | Prof. Wilbur I. Beahm,
i this boro; secend. children twelve
PENNY COVERED DISH SOCIAL and older. also adults. taught
The Auxiliary of Friendship Fir by Dh J. W, Bingeman, principal
Co., will hold Penny Covered | of the Fast Donegal High School:
Dish Social at the Fire House! third encral information open to
next Thursday, March 18, at vet 11. ( ¢ of Mervin Brandt,
o'clock. Members are asked to | county superintendent.
bring their own plate and silver- fA —————
ware, V. F. W, SMOKER
Members are reminded that Mount Jovy Post 5752 of the
dues are now payable and must be Veteran {f Fcreign Wars will
paid hefore the April meetin 1 Smoker n F iday, Mar.
in the fire hous
£9,010 FOR 16-ACRE FARM even for the benefit of
Charles LL. Lefever sold his 18- | (hn building fund
acre farm in East Hempfield, nea: ~ ti men
Mountville, to Willie Barkle Fri- prEps RECORDED
day for $9,010. Edgar Funk was the Adam B., and Helen Steager,
auctioneer Mount Joy Twp, to John R. and
Ye" Rebecca HH. Hallman, Palmyra,
RUMMAGE SALE premises and a lot in Bellaire,
St. Mary's Guild of St. Lukes | Mount Jov Twp.
Fpiscopal Church will hold a ——— Wee
rummage sale at the Market house |
Saturday, March 13th
Many a town’s railroad statien
ke classified as a famous old
landmark
on beginning | may
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