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Baccalaureate Service, Sun., May 22; Cus Dey. Tnes, May 24; Commencement Thurs., May 26, High School Auditorium

All Community
Exhibit Officers
Were Reelected
A very meeting of
the directors of Mount Joy's Com-
munity Exhibit held in the
Methodist Church last evening with
President E. W. Garber
In the absence of the Secretary Jos.
Sheaffer, S. A. Horton
did the pinch-hitting.
Minutes of
enthusiastic
was
presiding.
treasurer,
the previous meeting
were read and approved. The re-
port of the treasurer was read and
accepted.
The terms of S. A. Horton, Har-
old Endslow and Paul Hess expired
and all were reelected for a 4-year
term.
The dates of this year’s
13, 14, and 15.
considerable discussion it
unanimously decided to hold
at the same
exhibit
are October
After
was
this year’s show place
conditions as
the
the
and under the same
which was
held
history of the farm show.
All the officers were reelected as
follows: President, E. W. Garber;
vice president, Jno. Roland; secre-
Jos.. Sheaffer: treasurer, S. A.
Superintendent, Ted Weid- |
last year’s exhibit,
most successful ever in
tary,
Horton,
ler.
Messrs. Endslow and Horton were
committee to contact Mr.
Samuel Dock of the Penna. R. R.
Co. in an effort to procure addition-
named a
| 8, Lancaster, Pa.;
| and Mount Joy
Prospects For Big
Demonstration on
May 30 Encour’ng
Benj. F. Groff the chairman of
the parade committee for Memor-
ial Day celebration, these
acceptances from various organiza-
tions to participate in the parade:
Veterans Division: Paul Revere
Leber Post 372, American Legion,
Columbia, Pa.; Voiture No. 42-40
W. S. Ebersole
Post 185 and Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Mount Joy.
Fire Companies and Ladies Aux.:
M.T.C. Depot Fire Dept, Marietta,
Pa.; Shawnee Fire Co, Aux.
Band; also Susquehanna Fire Co.
and band of Columbia, Pa.; Ox-
Fire Co. and Band, Oxford
Fire Co.
Civie Division: Mt.
Council, Boy Scout
Quarryville, Pa.; Troop No.
Ironville, Pa.; Troop No. 5, West
Chester, Pa.; Mt. Joy Girl and
Boy Scouts, and School children.
High Schoo] Bands: Hershey In-
dustrial Band, Hershey, Pa.; East
Donegal Twp., Maytown, Pa.; War-
wick Twp., Rothsville, Pa.; Manor
Twp., Millersville, Pa. and Mount
reports
and
ford
Joy Boro
Troop 40, of
55,
| Joy School Band.
Bicycle riders as well as horse-
tack invited to
cipate in the last division.
mr A Ire.
E-TOWN BUSINESS MAN
IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY
riders are parti-

al exhibit space.
All the features of last year’s |
show will prevail this year i. ol
Corn Husking Contest Pig, Baby
Beef and 4-H Clubs, Parades, etc.
The printing of the premium ca-
was again awarded to The
Bulletin.
There is every
effort will be made for a bigger and
better is Fall.
Annual May Day
Exercises at East
Donegal This Evs.
The annual May Day exercises
will he held at Fast Donegal High
School this Thursdav evening, May
indication that an
Han ever ever Show
A hearing was held at Lancaster
in court Friday morning in an ef-
fort to determine whether an E-
town businessman, who owes more
than $30,000 to a Baltimore firm,
has any available or concealed as-
sets.
M. Shemas, E-town, a
supplier of fabricated
testified that
John re-
steel
cannot
tail
preducts, he
| pay the $31,178.82 he owes the U. S.
Steel Supply Co.
The Baltimore firm has a judg-
ment against Shemas. He was
questioned on ‘his assets Friday
morning.
Most of his assets are listed un-
der the joint ownership of his
wife. Testimony was ordered to be
transcribed for future proceedings.
SECOND ANNUAL SENIOR
BALL AND CARD PARTY

12 at 6:30 p. Mm. In ease of rain
the event will be postooned until
Friday. The theme of the ba.
geant this vear will be “Cinderel- |
1a”. The faculty committee that |
is in charge of the directions of |
the pageant is: Mrs. Joon Savlor, |
Mr. Robert Slaugh. and Mr. John |
G. Hart. Mav Court members, |
elected bv classes are: Seniors- |
Haze] Miller, Betty Pvle, Peoay
Rice, Norma Jean Shank, Mary
Jane Sollenberger: Juniors-Jeanne
Miller, June Waller, Shirlev War-
fel: Sophomores-Peggy Hicks. and |
Jean Shirk; Freshman-Helen Shirk. |
The May Queen's
not be made known until the
identity will
ex-
She is selected stu-
(Turn to nage 3)
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Activities of Qur
Police Officers
ercises. by
Chief ot police, Park Neiss, re- |
ported two traffic violations the |
past week. |
Mrs. Harry Brooks, Florin, was |
prosecuted for failing to yield the
right of way on Saturday. She
will be summened for a hearing |
before Squire James Hockenberry. |
Chambers-
for
Beatty D. Coldsmith,
burg RDS, prosecuted
driving under influence of in- |
was |
|
|
toxicating beverages. At a hear-
|
|
|
|
the
ing before Hockenberry he posted
bail for court.
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JOHN L. TINNY, HARRISBURG
SPOKE AT ROTARY TUESDAY
Mr. John L. Tinney, past presi-
dent of the Harrisburg Rotary |
Club, spoke to the local Rotarians |
Tuesday on “The Rotary Symbol.”
Pres. Joseph Shaeffer announced |
the Senior Rotary Dance and Card |
Party on May 20th, and distributed |
tickets to all members urging them |

to get busy and do a 100 percent |
selling job.
Lee Forney reported on his visit |
to the Boy Scout outdoor meeting |
on Monday night. Paul Stoner will |
the Club week's
represent next
Scout meeting.
Sam Miller gave the weather re-
port —— Cool this week.
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WANT BIDS ON BUILDING
By an advertisement elsewhere
in The Bulletin is a request for
bids for razing and removing the
frame mercantile and apartment

building in rear of the First Nation-
al Bank and Trust Co. here.

| Tyndall's,
| Jewelry
| or any
| Flaine
Marilyn
| Gingrich
| and
Mount Joy Rotary Club will
sponsor their second annual Ball
and Card Party in honor of the
Senior Class of Mt. Joy High
School on Friday evening, May
20th, in the auditorium.
Senior Class members, alumni,
and the adult public are invited
ind urged to attend.
Tickets can be purchased at
Eshleman Bros, Greer’s
Store, Sloan's Pharmacy,
Rotarian. Admission $1.00
tax included. Free refreshments.
Proceeds for the Rotary
Fund.
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HEMPFIELD BAND
Youth
| EAST
| GAVE CONCERT TUESDAY NITE
The
School
High
annual
the
Fast Hempfield Twp.
band presented its
Tuesday
auditorium,
concert evening in
schcol Landisville.
and
trumpet and William Haldeman, on
the clarinet.
A sextet, composed
Housman, Jeannie Robertson,
Gingrich, Sally Zerphey,
Brubaker and Arlene
sang. An art exhibit,
featuring work dgne during the
followed the concert.
DRY CLFANERS WILL MOVE
Forced to vacate because of im-
provements planned at the First
National Bank, Lehman's Dry
Cleaning firm, on N. Market Street
have moved some of their cleaning
equipment to Eliza-
they have joined
Soloists were Phyllis Myers,
of
Lois
year
pressing
bethtown, where
| the firm of Lehman and Book.
However, their shop for receiving
and delivery purposes will be con-
tinued here at 39 East Main St., the
formerly occupied by
Kulp's News Agency.
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storeroom

| POLICE CRUISER CAR HERE
Chief of Police, Park Neiss, re-
| ported Wednesday that the new
Chevrolet police cruiser has arriv-
Moters Inc., and
ed at Newcomer
| is being readied for use. The car is
black with “Mount Joy Borough
Police” to be lettered on the doors.
It is expected to go into service
this Saturday.
A
FELL INTO CISTERN, DROWNED
Robert Lee Longenecker, aged 18
months, slipped through an 18-
inch hole in’ a cistern bed, fell into
4 ft. of water and drowned near to
in

MOST
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WEEKLY
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LANCASTER
COUNTY
Mount Joy Bulletin

VOL. XLVIII, NO. 50
Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon,
May 12
1949
$2.00 a Year in Advance

Comman’ r Bailey |
Of FW Veterans
Made Appointm’ts
Appointments were made by new
Commander Charles Bailey dur-
ing a meeting last week of Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars, No. 5752.
Appointed to office ‘were William
McLaughlin, guard; Harold Wag-
ner, quartermaster sergeant; John
Germer, sergeant major. War-
ren H. Forry named to or-
ganize and manage a softball team.
John Germer to
confer with local officials
regarding an annual
presented by the post to some out-
standing pupil at
June.
was
was named
school
award to be
graduation ex-
ercises William Me-
Laughlin was appointed chairman
of the Memorial Day poppy
mittee to work in conjunction with
the Ladies’ Auxiliary.
A motion was made and passed
that an investigating committee
appointed to
office equipment.
in
com-
be
of
lapel
consider purchase
Also that
badges be purchased for past com-
of services.
manders in recognition
Two new members and one
transfer were approved. These
members were nominated to fill
the unexpired term of Quarter-
master Harold Wagner who re-
signed: Robert Brosius, FEFugene
Eicherly and James Forry. The
next meeting is May 17.
Sportsmen’s Asso.
Now Has a Total
Of 553 Members

Thirty-nine members attended
the May meeting of the Mount Joy
Sportsmen's Association, held on
Monday evening at the Fire Hall.
Two new members were admit-
ted the association making a
total membership of 553.
A truck load of cat
distributicn
chicks
week of
week in June.
to
fish arrived
today. The
expected to
this month
here for
Pheasant are
arrive the last
Trout
or the first
fingerling have been stocked in the
two ponds.
One thousand seedling
800 berry
ed cn the
The club is going to
boy to take the
Course at Penn State College
President Elwood Martin
pointed a committee to arrange a
pines and
bushes have been plant-
John Gantz farm.
sponsor a
Conservation
ap-
program to observe the one hun-
dred-fiftieth meeting December 12.
Winners of the Sporter were:
Myrtle Metzler, H. T. Bair, Marlin
Blough, Christ Miller, Mrs. Frank
Nissley, Schrite, Abe Krady and
Pearl S. Roth.
After the meeting home movies
were shown by Elwood Martin.
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$14,307 POLICE PENSION
FUNDS FOR CITY, COUNTY
The city and nine county muni-
cipalities will get a total of $14,-
307 from the State for police pen-
sion funds.
The payments approved for the
entire state are made under pro-
visions of the Casualty Insurance
Act. The payments:
Lancaster city, $8,218; Columbia,
$1,546; E-town, $578; Ephrata, $830,
Lititz, $648; Manheim, $513; Mar-
ietta, $285; Mt.Joy, $382; New Hol-
land, $288; and Manheim Twp,
$1,019.
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NEWTOWN WOMAN CHARGED
WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Mrs. Martha Kemmerly, New-
town, charged with disorderly con-
duct by Mrs. Sarah Hoffman,
address, arrested Thursday
same
was by
Censtable Albert Cunningham.
She later pleaded guilty and paid
costs before Justice of the Peace
Lloyd Axe, Lancaster Twp.
The two principals live in a
double house and the charges had
grown out of a family squabble,
according to Axe.
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LANDISVILLE SCHOOL
REPAIR BIDS ARE OPE!
The East Hempfield Twp.
Board opened bids Monday
VED
School
night

| BL EAC HE: RS INSTALLED
ON H. ATHLETIC FIELD
All Mh folks
port your
ball
game of baseball.
come out and sup-
High School Base-
everyone enjoys a good |
local
team,
Furthermore did
you know that you do not have to
stand throughout the game?
Through the courtesy and
ness of your local American Legion
Mount Lions Club
the game
and Joy you
can enjoy by being able
to sit down on the new bleachers
that were just recently installed by
the above two organizations.
School’s
playground and we should express
This is an asset to the
our thanks and give our support by
attending the home games and by
showing our interest toward a bet-
ter community spirit and develop-
ment.
Thanks to the above organiza-
tions for this much needed set of
bleachers, may they be used, filled
at all activities, and appreciated.
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A Former Pastor
Met Death When
Horse Ran Away
We are indebted to the Lancaster
Daily New Era for the
tion of an article of local
even though it
years ago cn
reproduc-
interest
fifty
7th
just
May
occurred
Saturday,
Many of our older residents will
remember the incident.
“A tragic runaway accident had
Frought death to the Rev. David
Cenway the Presbyterian minister
of Mount Joy, who also wag pastor
of historic Donegal Church
The Rev. Mr. Conway was given
a warning cf danger when he had
started out for Donegal that morn-
ing. The horse became fractions
and tried to run away. While
fichting for control, the minister
wos jostled and slichtly bruised
when the buggy collided with an-
other rig driven by Dr. Zeigler.
N, great damage resulted, however
ind the pastor continued on to the
church.
Enroute
later with
nageanger,
trouble
time the
ting away fr
fro n
injuries
back to Mount Joy,
Miss Clara Ricker as a
the minister again had
with his horse. This
animal succeeded in pet-
m him Miss Ricker
the buggy, sustainine
when she hit
minister kent his
minutes, and then
the wreckage of
the when the horse twisted
and Ficked lcose the shafts of the
rehicle. The Rev. Mr Conway
wns found by party of searchers.
He died of his injuries two days
later, aged 63.
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TRUCK DRIVERS FORGET THE
LAW WORKS BOTH WAYS
On Route 30 near Pittsburg
truck drivers the
per Their park-down
was in cpposition to the
insisting that
stay within the weight
45,000 pounds.
When the
move the
weighing their
lear ed
internal
the road. The
for several
buried in
seat
was
200
parked on su-
highway.
state’s
authorities truckers
limit of
truckers refused to
State Police
loads and
That
they
began
arrested
made
seventy-six drivers.
them seek cover and drove
off the
sible.
One driver
of butter
70,000 lbs. aboard.
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WILL DIRECT PLAYGROUND
ACTIVITIES DURING SUMMER
Hallgren Jr. Mrs.
will the
playground activities during June
and July at the Boro Park. Mr.
Hallgren will graduate this month
from Franklin & Marshall College
highway as rapidly as pos-
pounds
had
had
three
85,220
while others
Ragner and
James Eshlemen direct
and is teaching at the present
time in our Boro Schools.
Mrs. Eshleman has been re-
elected to fill the position again
this summer. She has been
teaching Domestic Science at Mec-
Caskey High School, in Lancaster,
for the past several years and
graduated from Mount Joy High
School and Penn State College.
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CONCFRT BY ARMSTRONG
CHORUS AT LANDISVILLE
The Bachelor Girls’ Class of the
Landisville Church of God are pre-
senting in concert The Armstrong
Chorus, on Tuesday, May 17, at
eight o'clock in East Hempfield
Township high school.
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for alterations to toilet rooms at |IN CASE YOU DECORATE
the Landisville elementary school.| Any business place wishing to
The bids will not be awarded | decorate for Memorial Day should
unti] the board has a chance to, contact Paris Hostetter, Samuel
study them, it was announced. Dock or Paul Gingrich,
All Sico Employes.
Held a Banquet
|
MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS
MEETING HELD TUESDAY
One hundred and nine ladies and
| girls met for a covered dish supper
On Tuesday Eve's
kind-
was held in the Fire Co.,
The annual banquet and meet-
ing of the Sico Company employes
Hall Tues-
day evening with a very good at-
| tendance. At this time seventeen
service awards were made.
Prof. Arthur P. Mylin, County
Superintendent of Schools was the
toastmaster.
F. F. Bailey,
perintendent of
assistant county su-
schools, spoke on
the benefit of the public schools.
The service awards were present
ed by Clarence Schock president of
the assisted in
company. He was
the ceremonies by W. L. Tyndall,
vice-president; Robert F. Schroll,
treasurer; Lester Mumma, secre-
tary.
A 30-year-pin was presented to
William S. Weldon and 25-year pins
to Fdward F. Hoffmaster and Earl
S. Zink. Receiving 20-year pins
were Raymond G. Balmer, Mrs. Al-
ma Beck, Martin B. Brown, Benja-
min F. Charles and Mrs. Eunice L.
Sober.
Pins for 15 years
given to Albert Harper, John E.
Harris, James J. Kilcoyne, Lester
M. Mumma and Mrs. Mabel Phil-
lips.
Ten-year pins were given to Ver-
non C. Deisinger, Mrs. Katherine
L. Naddy, Lloyd B. Steele and Ed-
gar E. Stokes.
Musical entertainment, group
singing and the showing of several
motion picture films were included
service were
in the program.
Silver candlesticks were present-
ed to Mr. and Mrs. Schock by the
employes.
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ESTATE OF IL SCOTT SMITH,
BAINBRIDGE, EVALUATED
Testamentary letters filed
courthouse Thursday show that the
late I. Scott Smith, Bainbridge,
left personal property
$5000 and upwards and real
$23,000
at the
valued at
es
tate with a value of
upwards.
Smith,
who died
assistant county treasurer,
last Friday, left real es-
farm and
tate including a 100-acre
a 20-acre farm, both in Conoy
Twp., a dwelling and store prop-
erty in Bainbridge, and three other
dwellings in Bainbridge.
The will was not immediately
available but a’ codicil placed cn

file directed that the two farms
be sold. A daughter, Helen S.
Jourdet, and a son, Edwin S.
Smith, both of Bainbridge were
named executors.
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WINNERS AT CARDS
Prize winners at the card party
sponsored by the American Legion
Auxiliary last Thursday evening |
were:
Jack B. Toppin, Marian
Toppin, Mrs. W. G. Diffenderfer,
Mrs. Jay C. Musser, Mrs. Eugene
I Herr, Mrs. Elwood Cramer,
Mrs. Lee Stetson, Nettie Brown,
Ann Schenck, Mrs. Chas. J. Casale,
Edna K. Brown and Betsy Bigler.
Bridge:
Pinochle: Flossie Dillinger, ILes-
ter Erb, Amos Newcomer, Fran-
ces Frank, Anne Schofield, Mark
L. Berrier, Hazel Zeller, J. L.
Schroll, Catharine Gainer, Norman
James, Ethel Newcomer, June
Wagner, Eva Reigle, John Reigle,
Mabel Hendrix, Miriam Ellis,
Nicholas Leitner, Maude Schnei-
der, Rose Shaw and Betty Berrier.
PRES

25 CHICKENS KILLED BY
STRAY DOGS IN A WEEK
Levi H. Brubaker, Marietta
pike, reported to police that 25
chickens were killed on his pre-
mises by stray dogs during the
past week.
State Dog Agent N. K. McClure,
Christiana, opened an investigation.
samt lifer
WAS DRIVING TOO FAST
Harry J. Farmer, Jv, of Florin |
was one of twenty-one motorists
who lost their driving privileges
lest week. He was charged with
speeding.
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E'TOWN COLLEGE MAY QUEEN
Miss Beulah Barnthouse from
Uniontown, was crowned queen of
the third annual May Day festiv-

ties at Elizabethtown College on
Saturday.
and |
| present,
i the operation of the company for |
| er at Jack's Creek, Kentucky

J. Henry Grosh, 20, a hired man | given him recently by a friend at
on the Heisey farm, Lancaster R8 | Middletown.
paid $20 and costs for pouring tur-{ F. H Stauffer was the editor |
i pentine on a dog and then tieing | and proprieter and the office was |
a tin can to its tail. In the Brady building, on East
- | Moin Street. It i four page|
HOSSLER'S SCHOOL FESTIVAL | paper and very odd looking is a
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 20 | two-inch side margin. Among the
The parent teachers association | NEWS items are the following
of Hosslers School, Rapho Twp, | George Clinton, cf East Donegal |
will hold their second annual | as badly burned by an explosion |
schoo] festival and auction at the | a fluid lamp and died within |
school grounds on Friday, evening ten hou |
May 20, 1949. Music, fun and | Widow Brady, of town, has a
als for everyone. Gate prize | M irtin Luther Bible published at |
will be given in exchange for dona- | | Wirtenburg, in 1704, just 156 yea:
| tions. | ago. :
The following committee is in| Mount Joy had fi Yrains east
charge: Mrs. Threda Becker, Mrs, | four west that stopped here |
Irvin Auker, Mrs. H. G. Shonk, Mr. | 42iLy- :
Irvin Auker ond Mr. HG. Shonk | The United Brethren Conference |
Any person wishing to contribute | held at York recently was the |
| any article for the auction please largest attended. :
contact the committee or any of The Cornwall Ore Mountain, in
the school pupils. Funds from the | Lebanon County, is said to cont in |
| festival will be used to rent films | UPW ards of fifty million tons of |
for the next school term, to be us- | ie pure trol O10, {
ed on their recently purchased | Rite G. Bishop and Martha |
sound projector. Hoffman, of Mount Joy Township, |
Miss Verna Shonk is the teacher. vere married by Rev. J. J. Strine.
A lfc | A general meeting of the Mount |
y | Joy Car Manufacturing Co. will be
Week's Birth Record held Feb. 4th. Five directors and |
|a secretary - treasurer will be
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Good, Mount | elected. pe
Joy R2, a daughter Tuesday at the | Mount Joy markets: Flour,
St. Joseph's Hospital. $5.50 per bbl; Rye flour, $4.25;
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Stroming- | corn, 75¢ bu; wheat, $1.34; Ry
er, Maytown, a daughter Shunt 809 oats, 45c¢. {
at St. Joseph's Hospital. The store stand occupied by |
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Obeiholt-| Joshua Leader as a drug, confec-
zer, Mount Joy R2, a daughter at |tionery and book store and the |
the Lancaster General Hcspital on | Post Office on East Main Street is |
Tuesday. { offered for rent.
Mr. and Mrs. Pau] Iostetter, 365 H. B. Dunlap was the dentist at |
N. Barbara St., a son, at 11:39 a. m, | that time
Thursday at the Lancaster General | Tee Si
Hospital. | BOUGHT LANDISVILLE HOME
a Mr. Paul Risser, who resides on
UNION NATIONAL BANK a farm south of Landisville, has
DECLARES DIVIDEND purchased a new bungalow in
The Bose of Direiors of The Ld fom Artur thine |
Union National Mount Joy Bank | Sots will Na 4 a A
declared yz semi-annual dividend of Roar ature : ! y
5% at their regular meeting Thurs- | : a —————— |
day, May 12, 1949. This payment| A DECIDED INCREASE
represents the 163rd dividend paid The water supply of an
by the Bank since its organization borough has been Increased 1,000, |
in 1853. 000 gallons with the completion of | 8
yy a new reservor in the river hills of |
CONGRATULATIONS Hallam Twp. York County
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hostetter Wi |
celebrated their 52nd wedding an- | A germ is any microsopical form
niversary on May 11th, lof life, plant or animal. J

| a member of St.
on Tuesday evening in St. Mark's
E. U. B. Church, here. After the
meal a very interesting program in
charge of Mrs. Arthur Hostetter and
Mss Ruth Gainor was given. Mo-
ther’s Day theme was carried out
during the devotional period. Mrs.
H. E. Greenawalt,
quet of flowers.
Interesting reports of the
given
and then a challenging message il-
lustrated with pictures of her work
Edith Shelly.
is a home missionary
missionary convention were
was given by
Shelly teach-
Mark's Church
A delightful fellowship was
joyed by all present.
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Brief News From
The Dailies For
Quick Reading
The Harrisburg Bus
increased its fares from seven to
eight cents.
Wm. H. Luden, 90 originator of
the widely known cough drops,
died at Atlantic City, N. J.
Two fire companies extinguish-
ed a bush fire in the South Mts. |
near Brickerville Thursday.
6,500 Philco employees from 21
decided to return to work
a week.
plants,
after being on strike for
A Penna. R. R. train traveling
75 miles an hour, struck and killed
Edward B. short
distance east
Long,
Jacobs, Jr, a
Lester
in-
was |
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con- |
Soon no coal |
will be used as they are switching
to natural gas.
the oldest mother |
was presented with a bou- |
recent |
Miss |
and |
en- |
Company |
of Lancaster. |
| copy of
‘The Local News
For The Past Week
Very Briefly Told
A third $5 bill has
been found at
counterfeit
Lancaster.
caught an 11-
A Lancaster man
~
pound catfish at Conowingo
Manheim’s annual Feast of the
| Roses will be held Sunday, June
12 this year
John H. Enck, Manheim band
| director, has accepted a similar po-
| siti n at Mineola, IL. 1
{ The Ephrata Ensign will soon go
from weekly to a semi-weekly and
| will appear in a new form
Mrs. Wm. Ohmit, Washington-
i boro, fell on the porch at her
home and fractured her hip.
A six year old Mountville girl,
| Dor thy Peters, riding scooter
| was struck by an auto and badly
injured.
While we were wiping perspira-
| tion Thursday and the thermome-
| ter registered 91°, snow blocked the
| U. S. Route 30 at Rock Springs,
| Wyoming,
Mr. Williams Rodgers, of Torring=
| ton, Conn.,, was in town yesterday
calling on old friends and acquain-
tances. He is on a visit to relatives
at East Petersburg.
When it comes to weather Doe
| Newcomer and his area around
| Kane, Pa, can’t keep out of the
| picture. Monday we had a 76
| degree high while Kane had a 27,
| damaging orchards
| EE ———
News From The
Mt. Joy Herald of
43 fell asleep while |
sitting on a chair fishing, fell
to the Schuylkill River and
drowned near Valley Forge.
Last year the city of York
sumed 14,015 tons of anthracite
coal in making gas.
89 Years Ago
The editor of The Bulletin is in-
debted to Dr. Robert D. Walker,
East Main Street, dentist, {for a
the Mount Jov Herald da-
ted January 28, 1860, more than
eighty-nine years ago It was
Mortuary Record
Throughout This
Entire Locality
Elam Shonk
Elam Shonk, forty-nine, Califor-
nia died Thursday evening. He
was a son of the late Edwin and
Sadie Saylor Shonk and was for=-
merly of Mastersonville, where his
father was a sadler. He is sur-
vived by a daughter and a step son.

Mrs. Robert Lightner
Mrs. Anna M. Lightner, forty-
of Robert E. Lightner,
seven, wife
E-town RD, collapsed and died in
E-town about 8:30 p. m. Saturday
while shopping. Dr. J. Hoffman
Garber, E-town, deputy coroner,
pronounced her dead and reported
death was due to coronary throm=-
bosis.
Baer
Mamie M. Baer, sixty-
18220 Lincoln Highway west,
died at the Lancaster General Hos-
pital at 7:15 Friday. She was
born in Lore raster, a daughter of
the John W. and Mary Schnei-
She resided here
father . con-
ducting a hotel on the lot now oc-
cupied Newcomer's Gas Station
later conducting Hotel Mec-
(More on page 3.)
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Everything That
Happened At
Florin Recently
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Hershey and
son, Robert of Lemoyne, Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Weaver of Mount Joy
and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Roberts of
Mechanicsburg were Sunday guests
of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Hershey.
Mrs. Peifer returned
her home on Saturday, after spend-
several weeks at Reading.
Mr. Mrs. John Bender Jr.,

Mrs. John F.
Mrs.
three,
late
Me(
many
der rinnis.
for years, her
by
and
Emma to
ng
and

moved their family to Rowenna on
Saturday.

1 Car
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rutherford
and daughter, Joan, of Marietta,
called on Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lig-
gins on Sunday.
Mr. Samuel Shelly spent Sunday
nt Lancaster, the guest of Mr. and
| Mrs. Jesse Heisey.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mumper and
daughter, and Mrs. Funk of White
Horse, called on Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Mumper.
The dwelling and personal prop-
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3-CAR CRASH IN SALUNGA °*
BUT NO ONE INJURED
No one was injured in a three=-
car crash on the Harrisburg pike in
end of Salunga at 8:15 a.
the west
m. yesterday.
State Policeman Stafford report-
ed that John R. Fitz, twenty-six,
| Elizabehtown R3, was driving to=-
ward Lancaster when an auto op-
erated by John F. Schreiber, sixty-
ix, Lititz R2, pulled out from a
side road. Schreiber swerved to the
richt but was unable to avoid a col-
lision. Fitz's car later hit a parked
uto belonging to the Schriber Used
Exchange. Total damage was
estimated at $585, according to Staf-
| ford.

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| FIRE DAMAGES HOME
| NEAR ELIZABETHTOWN
Fire destroyed the bathroom at
the home of Howard Landis, E=
| town R2, at 12:30 p. m. Friday.
Mr. Landis, who estimated the
| damage at $700, said the fire or=-
when a hot water oil bur-
| ner heater exploded The house-
keeper, Myrtle Deshong and a fire-
[man, Roy Clark were slightly
burned.
The Friendship Fire Co. E-town,
mmswered the alarm
Ee —
STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
St. Hilda's Guild of St. Luke's
Episcopal Church will hold their
mmnual strawberry festival on
Saturday, June 4th from 5:00 to
8:00 p. m. at the Church.

MARRIAGE LICENSES
John P. Reuter, 453 Market St.,
Marietta, and Carel L. Foerch, 389
N. Barbara St,
this boro,