erings hy 58 e this chains 33° iriched LK 39° = oD 2 Ae You Have The Connecting Link Between The Wise Merchant And The Judicious Customer—The Mount Joy Bulletin The Village of Maytown “The May Get Water System The Authority There Will Invite Bids |: For Mar. 7 on a $75,000 Proposition |. First Report Meeting St. Joe Building Fund Was Held at Landisville The first Area Number Division of the tal Building nesday meeting of the St. Joseph's Hospi- held Wed- Landisville report Two in County Fund evening at the Firehouse, it was announced by Bernard J. Myers, Jr, chairman of the County William Hoff- man, chairman of Area Two, Division. stat- ed that organization plans for the following districts were discussed: Millersville, Manor Townships, Lancaster Township, East Peters- burg, Landisville, Rohrerstown. Mt. Joy Boro, Mt. Joy Township, West Donegal Township and Elizabeth- town. It was reported that ex- tensive plans for solicitation in the districts of the area are in progress enlistment of workers is (Turn to page 4) ——— | rere Mrs. Burton S. Shupp and that uiven a Shower Tues. Mrs. Burton S. Shupp, the' for- mer Miss Nancy Ellis, of town, was honored at a shower Tuesday even- ing, given by Miss Jacquie Hendrix at her home on East Main Street. A red and white color scheme was used on the buffet luncheon table which featured a white sprinkling can filled with a shower | bouquet of red rose buds, which was presented to Mrs Shupp. Narrow red and white ribbons streamed from the sprinkling can to the opposite end of the table, where they were attached to in- dividual nosegays of shattered red carnations tied with white ribbons. These were given as favors. Min- iature red sprinkling cans served as nut cups, tall red tapers and refreshments in red and white complimented the arrangement. A white tree covered with red edible cherries centered the gift table. Miniature red, opened parasols were clusterd around its | base. Guests included: Mrs. Robert | Shaeffer, Mrs Nicholas Lightner, Mrs. James Roberts, Mrs. James | Tierney, Miss Joyce Ellis, Mrs Eugene Grove, Miss Mary Eliza- beth Hipple, Mrs. George Albert, | Miss Patricia Kepple, Mrs. Lee Ellis | and Mrs. Lee Ellis IL all of town, | and Miss Mary Ellen Shenk, of Elizabethtown ——— en PROSECUTED AT LANCASTER Among thirteen motorists pro- secuted at Lancaster were Samuel L. Maurer, twenty-one, East Pet- ersburg, ignoring stop sign and Irving L. Swarr, Mt. Joy Rl, for failure to yield the right of way to a pedest strian. Plans are ready for a proposed public water system for Maytown. The one year old East Donegal Township Municipal Authority has March 7 for the called for bids by construction of community system which would sevve 175 po- tential users. The estimated cost originally was put at $75,000. Officials said that figure may be changed by increases in building costs during past months, If everything works out, ing operatons will start in the near | future. And the system should be the end of Rev. chairman. finished by to the authority this year, according John Heis~ tand, The project is unique because it the second time in that, a unit smaller than a represents only Lancaster County political borough has attempted to build a public system. been A community system has in operation for several years in the Landisville - Salunga commun- ity. To gain the legal power to| build a water system, Maytown, which is a village in East Donegal Township, organized the authority early in 1948. Its purpose: to plen, direct and eventually finance the water Since started system. then, the the wheels moving. It (Turn to Page 4) I ee. Our Girl Scouts Toured The Lanc. General Hospital Girl Scout Troop No. 108, this Saturday afternoon Lancaster General Hos- authority has boro, spent touring the pital. visited was the doctor’s library where they left The first place they their wraps. They then went to the new part of the ground floor, where they saw the maternity re- ceiving wards. Next they saw other section where the men’s and | | women’s surgical and medical wards are located. Here they met | Mr. John D. Day, Mt. Joy’s famed | coach, sleeping on the sun-porch. | Then they went to the old part of | the ground floor, where they saw | the different clinics, laboratories, | kitchen, laundry and x-ray rooms. | Next came the operating room, where they saw the instruments used for rating. The {rip were: Mary Jane Marion Smith, Mary Ann Sally Ann Nissley, Shirley thorne, Georganne Shatto, Wittle, Peggy Fackler, Darrenkamp, Doris Linton, ope Starr, Sprout, Jean Dar- renkamp, Haw- Jean Marlene Zimmerman, and Mary K. Land- vater, accompanied by Mrs. Vera Albert, Mrs. Fay Leitner and Mrs. Simon Nissley. Neen, TAN EDITORIAL eee) Now that a vacancy exists for the office of Bur-| gess, it may be well for Boro Council NOT to act too hastily. Facing many important problems during the next few years, Thos. J. Brown's successor should be | Purina feed dealers a man of more than ordinary ability, broad- minded | fous and able to cope squarely and justly with the num- yc conference where they were erous propositions which are bound to confront this told of the chief executive of our boro from time to time. It should be a man who would work in harmon- | fous conjunction with Council, our Town Planning| Commission, our schools, the Memorial committee, and last but not least our Boro Authority. We are unconcerned about this man’s politics, so long as he be a free lance in the deliverance of justice and everything which is good for this com- munity, our boro and its people. It may require some persuasion on the part of | some one, but let us choose an executive who will strive for the best interests of Mount Joy and not, to simply further his own political interests. We do hope Council gives this serious consider-| ation before that body acts. build= | water an- | fourteen girls who made the | Helen | Spangler, | Lorraine | # MOST -THE-M I'NUTE WE E KL VY I N L ANCASTER COUNTY Mount Joy Bulletin VOL. XL VII, NO. 39 E. Donegal Native Home On a Visit After 36 Years Mrs. William Adolph, formerly | Katherine Witmer, East Donegal [ Springs, was home to visit her | four sisters after an absence of thirty-six years in the mission | fields of China Mrs. Adolf’s in China where he . husband remained is a professor of bio-chemistry at Yengching Un- iversity near Peiping. Another sister, Miss Minnie Witmer also is in China with the Presbyterian Mission at Poatingfu. Both her husband and sister are in Commun- istic territory and continue their work, uninterrupted. Dr. and Mrs. Adolf parted in De- left China The overseas In cember when she aboard couple had 1915 to do an evacuee ship. first gone medical work for the Presbyterian Mission. Their first furlough was in 1646, but Mrs. Adolf is home to stay Dr. Adolf was acting president of now. the Peiping University for a year and a half. | She said that the last word she | had from her husband was a ca- [ blegram a few days ago saying { that he was well, but that there | will be no in-coming or out-going from now on. As well as be- mail {ing a university professor, her hus- { band alsc works at the Peiping | Medical College. Mrs. Adolf is visiting her brother, David C. Witmer, Mt. Joy Rl, and his wife. Her sisters, Miss Lydia Witmer, Mt. Joy; Mrs. Harry Lump, E-town; Mrs. Samuel Chris- tophel, Florin; and Mrs John Shenk, this boro; have been visit- ing with her since she arrived here last week. She also’ has been traveling from Kansas - New York State visiting her four children and meeting four new grandchil- | dren for the first time i —— | D. L. CORNELL | Field Secretary, who will speak in | Calvary Bible Church here Sat- urday and Sunday, Feb. 26 - 27 | Ralph Hines, Colombia, South Am- | erica and Miss Nellie Stokes, China | will also speak. | ATTENDED CONFERENCE OF | PURINA FEED DEALERS Mr. and Mrs. Clarence New- comer, South Market Street, have { just returned from Atlantic Ctiy | New Jersey, where they attended hundred deal- Jersey, several Feed New present at a conference of ‘om Maryland, | and ennsylvaniag were newest developments feed scientific | and trends in the industry | and new idea in farm management. etl eee | A LODGE FOR CHILDREN AT INDIANTOWN GAP { The House passed a Senate-ap- | proved bill appropriating $600,000 | to care for 2,500 children this sum- | mer and 5,000 in 1950 at Indiantown Gap military tien. Ii | his signature. —- A { | BEGAN REMODELING MONDAY | Work on remodeling the interior of the First National Bank Trust building here he gan Monday. Marked improvements will be made to this well known | banking institution. J the huge reserva- | for | went to the Governor a) iat ' chased by GUN AND RIFLE GONE AFTER BOY SHOT MARK William Dissinger, Manheim R2, theft of Saturday reported the 22 caliber rifle and a .12 gau~e shot=gun from his home sometime during the week. Sgt. V. E. Simpson, of the State Man- who investigated, Brock, Police, and H. H heim police chief, said that both guns were taken by Dissinger’'s eleven year old grandson, who had been doing target shooting The boy told police that after he used the guns, the one last Saturday and the second one on Monday, he left them on a tree along a fence row near his target. No trace of them has been found, police said. rn ———— WP BOY BREAKS HIS LEG IN A FALL FROM A BARN Harold fifteen, ufiered he fell while Mt. Joy, leg when Brandt, a fractured right barn from the rafters of a helping to take down tobacco night He Joseph's Hospital, Tuesday admitted to St was where his condition was repcrted satisfactory Brief News ; From The Dailies For Quick Reading The bus and taxi strike at Philadelphia is over. The bodies of nine dogs were found in a stream near Easton. York had a $195,000 fire when the Parker plant was destroyed. Harry Thomas, Lancaster, was renamed president of the Pa. Fire Association, It cost Enos Kopp, fifty, Bern- ville, $3940 for letting a dog starve to death. Fifty - three families living at Pineford Middletown, will be evicted Feb. 28. a bill which, if today’s acres, There is before the House at Harrisburg, passed, double the size of irowler of beer Mrs. Mary twenty-one, of of triplets, daughter. The budget county commissioners sels timated $647,776.29 for Patterson, Ellen Reading is the and mother two sons the aside prepared by an ¢ roads and bridges Miss L granted a Wilson, York, scholarship loan for the ma was training at the University of Switzerland The body of news ‘ house of a Geneva, a baby wrapped in 1s found in the dog k yard at Lz An arrest followed The State ha purchased the Harrisburg Steel Co. Plant at Har- $515,000 It will be a warenouse papers, wi bac caster riskurg for used as No. 8 out of re-routed to Rural mail route Lancaster was avoid Shreiner’s crossing, where a sub- stitute carrier was killed recently. The city of York has notified the owner of a trailer and also owners of several cars, who park on streets at their homes, to re- move them or else Gee ee Week's Birth Record Mr. and Mrs. Robert daughter at the Hospital on Kenneth Detwiler, Lancaster Sunday. boro, a General Mr. Maytown, Rahm, on Sunday at and Mrs a daughter lumbia Hospital. Edward M Lancaster the Co Mr. and Mrs Salunga, vers, of a son at the General Hospital Tuesday Mr. and Mi Paul Hess, Wednesday at the General Florin, a son Lancaster Hospital. Mr. and Mrs a daughter at the George Bair, this O10, General Wednesday. re <A ree. SUES FOR A DIVORCE Complaint in divorce forty-two, 30's W, Hospital Jacob N. Weidman, High | St., Elizabethtown, vs Hazel Irene Weidman, thirty-eight, 123 David desertion; married April 30, St., Mount Joy; Oct. 5, 1938; 1948. separated nase sett Ue BANNER FOR TOBACCO Ephrata RI, Samuel Hoover, sold his 1948 tobacco crop for 43 1-2 cents and 10 cents. It was pur- Aaron W. Weaver, an independent buyer Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Our Community Ruth B. Mary Koppenhaver John E. Groff | Miss Mary K. KoppenHaver, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Koppenhaver, of Rheems, and John 2 Groff, son of Mr. and Mrs, Elmer F. Groff, Rheems, were mar- ried on Eat afternoon in the First Church of God, Elizabethtown plaid suit with grey a corsage of white rosebuds. Miss Anna Martha the pink suit with was attended by Groff, who black sister of bridegroom, wore a dusty accessories and a corsage of pink roses. After two weeks in Florida the couple will reside at the home of the bride. The bride is employed Bell E-town, the bridegroom is in the poul- by the Telephone, and business with his father. ni Discharged Employe Took 19 Inspection Stickers; Prosecuted 19 official state garage try The theft of inspection stickers from the Rankin, at Up to last Friday unaware of the of George Landisville hos even theft. Daniel recently been solved. Rankin was Lancaster R1, Rankin, cha irges of | Kauffman, discharged by was prosecuted on five official vehicles without authorization. At a Kauffman, night, the Daniel Kauffman, James S. placing stickers on motor hearing before Squire Ironville, defendants included his brother-in- Lancaster Rl; his sister-in-law, Fay A. Fisher, Lancaster R1: Ralph S. Platt, Springs; Walter H. Clyde D. operator. law, Fisher, vel Mountville, Silver Springs garage and Kreider paid fines and costs to- talling $289.50 on 10 counts of put- including his He was each offense and in ting stickers on cars, without authorization. fined $25 for addition was fined $1.00 for opera- without it having been own, ting his car properly inspected. Salunga and Mount Joy RI, will be Henry Rosenfeld, Elwood N. Earhart, others are among who | prosecuted for failure to have cars properly inspected. Freeman M. Ford, Silver Springs will be prosecuted for putting an inspection sticker on his own > car. PAID $300 FOR A BRED GILT At the Eastern Pennsylvania Hampshire Swine Breeders’ Asso- ciation, held Friday at Willow Street tcp price of that sale was $300, paid by Penn Peaceful Meadow Farm, Mt. Joy, for a bred gilt consigned by the Stauffer Home- teed Farm. EE PLANNED TO BANQUET HERE AT MEETING MARCH 26 Farm Women Group No. 18 held Kenncth Brubaker, at Rohrerstown. The group planned to banquet at Fli Hostetter’s hall here Saturday, March 26 hold a dining Weddings Thruout During Past Week took place Thursday morning. The | couple left immediately [following the ceremony on a trip to Florida. The bride has charge of the Jack Horner Shoe Store here for the past eight years and the groom is employed at the County Farm Bureau's Branch at Florin. by the Reb. J. O. Weigle. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a grey and blue | accessories and | She | auto | Wednesday Sil- | Henne, | Kreider, | their | their regular monthly meeting on | Saturday in the home of Mrs. Afternoon, February 24, 1 BAINBRIDGE ON WAY HOME FOR BURIAL Among 6 Lancaster County diers of World War II on their back home is Pfe. Harry R. Sny- Wm. H. Snyder, Bain- who died on May 24, sustained in BODY OF sol= | way | der, son of bridge RI, 1 1945, from wounds The marriage of Miss combat on May 18, 1945, on Oki- | Shenk, daughter of Mr. and Mus. naw, according to a telegram re- | Hairy K. Shenk, Mt. Joy R2, and | ceived from the War Department | Hacold G. Landis, sen of Mr. and yo pig father Pfc. Snyder, who | Mrs. Elvin W. Landis, Lancaster | .niered the service early in 1944. R4, tock place at 4 p. m. Saturday, | was tormerly employed in Califor- at the home of the bride. Bishop| iy bv a commercial airline | Homer Bomberger officiated at the | een flection Ey | fefemony. | STATE CHARTERS $50,000 vi | LOCAL BUILDING CONCERN Mr. and Mrs. Christian L. Nis- i : | Mari S i I'he state has granted a charter | Marietta St., announce the mar- | : A 3 | tc a new $50,000 Lancaster County | we of their daughter, Dorothy, : 5 11: : cor ra ion. | to Lynn Milligan, Florin, which | orpo | i Inc. Incorpor- {It is Media Heights Builders, oi R.D. No are J. 6 Lancaster, | foto Miller Eshleman, of | Ephrata, MAN | | ei] Monday { expired term of Dr. | passage cf the 949 $2.00 a Year in Advance Thos. J. Brown Resigned As Burgess and Zoning Officer Effective Feb. 21 "Mortuary Record cae vin: Throughout This Entire Locality sident Eicherly called a special meeting of Borough Couns | night for the purpose of the un- Gates fill John dected by Council to Mr. Hostetter was sworn in last| Jacob Bletz, 90, at Columbia. Friday Mathias Flick, seventy =~ five, at Mr Thomas J. B. Brown, who | Columbia has been zoning officer since the | Marian N. Williams, seventy-nine, Columbia. and J. F. Keller recent zoning ordin- | af Bartch, 40, Columbia, sent in hi Burgess. Lancaster, and E. R. Noll, of esignation ; | No. 8, Lancaster. 5 ane was accepted collapsed it Han rishurg and died. { The concern will engage in the| Council also received Mr. Brown's Rev. Chas. H. Faust, Reformed {Song and contracting business. | resignation as Burgess and it was | Church minister, died at Butler. | rr @ ee also accepted He was formerly located at Mari- | At present there exists a vacan- etta. ! | ev for both offices. They will in Samuel W. Shearer, ninety-five, i S. Edward Gable | all likelihood be filled in the very | Tuesday at the home of Noah Wen- near future "| ger near Lawn. He was a member Is Nominated For Thomas J. B. Brown was a coun- of Risser's Mennonite Church. | cilman elect from the West Ward. Thirty-First Term | He resigned that office at the regu- Lee Nissley > | {lar meeting of council, Monday, Fmerson Lee Nissley, three yea: | At a regular monthly meeting of May 7, 1945 and Harold H. Krall old son of Emerson W. and Bertha | the Lancaster Automobile Club on | w:s elected to fill Mr. Brown's | Stokes Nissley, died at his home Friday evening, S. Fdward Gable | unexpired term { Manheim R2, Rapho Twp., Thurs- was nominated for his Jlst consec- | Council then elected Mi 09 after a week's illness from a utive year as club President | Burgess, to succeed Wm. E. Hendrix | heart condition. These other cflicers were name, died Wednesday, April 4th. me etl A “Ge sit: all representing renominations: Dr.| From the time of Mi Hendrix's | CARD PARTY FEB. 24 W. Giles Hess, Holtwood, first vice- death until May 7th, President of The American Legion Auxiliary president; Dr. Lyman Hamaker, | Council Walter Loraw was acting | Will hold a card party at the Le- second vice-president; | gion Home on Thursday, Feb. 24th. Samuel L. Snyder. Denver, third vice-president; J. H. Nissley, East | Petersburg, fourth vice-president; | H. C. Kreisle, this city, secretary: | and F. L. Columbia, treas Eleven directors were nominated Ira F. Honaman, Geo. and M. J. McNerney, Fred W. Wagner, Col- | B. Scott Fritz, Marietta: E-town ad Paul Cope Spence, as follows: { M. May, Lancaster, umbia; Dr Elwood S. | John E. Schrell, Mt. Lititz; John Twp.; Edga Lloyd L. Winter, 1, Christiana; Grimm, font Bomberger, { Manheim Quar- Vie Kling, Intercourse; H | Blue Ball and Alger H Schoeneck. | I! | | | He linger; | ryville; H. H. Re [ to D | Shirk, Shien, | | | ll UG Ure WE PAY NO ATTENTION TO UNSIGNED COMMUNICATIONS We signed communications several un- are in receipt of week. that this They were not published for We names, reason must have the contrib- utors’ not for publication | Send but as evidence of good faith us your name and they will ap-| pear next week, otherwise we es- | { cort them to our waste basket meatless | MENNONITES LAUNCH DRIVE | TO HELP MANY REFUGEES | The Menncnite Central tee, with headquarters at Commit- Akron, | horse- | Menno- | has opened an appeal for | drawn farm equipment for | nite refugees in Paraguay and Ur- | aguary. { \ semen li A Beemer | EDWARD E. LANE, OF TOWN { BOUGHT BOMBERGER HOME An important realty transaction | | was made here yesterday, when | { our neighbor, Mr. Edward E. Lane, | who resides across the street from The Bulletin Office, fine and modern brick Mr. Elam M. gal Springs Road the purchased the | dwelling of Done- Bombrger, on The sale were private terms of | The Bombergers expect to build in the future and will locate tem- | porarily elsewhere. The Lane's will occupy the new purchase on or about June 1st a | WORLD DAY OF PRAYER SERVICE, FRI, MARCH 4 The World Day of Prayer Service | | will be held in the Church of God | | on Friday, March 4 at 7:30 p. m | This year’s program will include | | a film called “The March of Mis- | sions. | rr. etl A A a. MARRIAGE LICENSES Frank L. Hess, Mt. Joy R1 and | Anna L. Kreider, Conestoga. — A Arr biggest trouble div | A man says our | comes when | from we rece dollars sense Pinochle and 500 will be Bridee Mr. Brown was immediately Bridge, . . Inved with Ai rly sworn in and in turn administered | Played with two prizes to each ave able the oath of office to his successor | table eet EA Ae sen. SILLY PLACE FOR MONEY Mr. Krall. At the November election, 1945, My; Brown was re-elected for a full While carpenter F. G. Hoener, term of four years. was repairng a window sill at the Mr. Brown tendered his resig- | Revere Tavern, Paradise, he found naticns in order that he can devote | seventeen old coins, pennies and [ all his time to his business half cents, dated 1728 and 1773 The Local News For The Past Week | Everything That Happened At Florin Recently Very Briefly Told Arndt and son of; 9 | Mr. Wilbur -2 h. p. outboard motor was | York, visited Mr. Samuel Shell in at Pequea. on Sunday. | Two crops of tobacco in East Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wicken- | Farl Township were sold for 30 heiser of Harrisburg spent Sun-|and 10 cent day with Mrs. Sarah Schlegelmilch.| Albert Rutt, E-town, was exon- Mrs. H. K. Alwine of Middle-| erated in the death of Harvey town visited her brother and wife | Lehn, also of that boro. Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Hershey on] An Upper Leacock farm of 20%a Sarda | acres was sold at public sale yes- . 1A Mr. Christ Melhorn will have terday for $1,000 an acre. public sale of household goods and! The decapitated body of an un- know man Vac 1 some implements at his home on Known man We found on the Saturday. March 12th PRR low grade at Marticville. Eight dog owners at Manheim Evangelistic meetings will be | conducted in the Florin Church of Fad fina) 0 Sone ior failing Yo the Brethren in March, with Elder Hicenises for their canines. D. I. Depple, Evangelist of Wood Both the Union and the Conesto- epple LVange St QO i P | ga Traction Company at Lancaster. ry, a. | accepted the terms of a new con=- If you are not subscriber of Julle ge me a Slim’ ract { the Bulletin, get or { | "The family of Ralph McCurdy Luncheonette | ; a ) Mic 8. W. Roberts ealled was left homeless when fire des- | : troyed their dwelling at Upper parents 1ast week on ney way 10 y ve Fhiladelphia while on a business | The heaviest baby ever born at trip. a . y . : { Lancaste General Hospital Mr. and Mrs. David Mumper and Samucl Lewis. Lotte TE Samuel Lewis Lots, 2 daughter of Mt. Joy called on Mr.| ; oe | 12-ounce son of a Pequea family. | and Mrs. George Mumper Monday | evening ay TINY ac : : i 3 | FEB. WEEK JOBLESS Rev. and, Mrs. Howard Bem-!pay NEARS TWO MILLIONS hard entertained the following at State Treasurer Ramsey S. Black their home on Sunday Rev. and unemployment compensation Mrs. Ralph Schlosser and grand- in. $1,785,143 was paid during 1 £ 13 othtown ley . H daughter, of Elizabethtown, Rev.) po eek ended Feb. 11th or $914,- and Mrs. Harry and | 705 more than in a similar period family also of Elizabet} { a Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis of Don- | APPS HMI-H,.°- egal Springs, called on Mr. and|yg49 TURKEY CROP Mrs. N. E. Hershey Saturday | Pa. farmers plan to raise 1,441.~ Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ney and | 19,000 short 000 turkeys thi attended | of the 1 year, Mr. George the funeral of Mumper Sr. ecord Albert C 000 in 1945 Sunday | Department of Food Sale The Kings Daughters the Florin E U. B 1,460,- to the State Agriculture. i —— production of hick at| according Carlisle on Class of | vou can't blame some folks for ~ ve | tics Church are | thinking that any peace moves by holding a food sale at the Florin Russia are just veiled threats. Hall on Saturday, Feb. 26th, from 10 a. m. till? Don’t forget the | nut sale at Town Hall on February date, come out and help the good | 28th after 10:30 a. m. Orders will be taken up to Feb, Telephone any one of these 342. along. Doughnut Sale Aid Society of the Florin | cause 25th, Ladies numbers and leave your order: | E. U. B Church wil] have a dough- | R4 , 221J5, 22TR4, 341J3.
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