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Annual Sunday School Pirie De Sov - Florin - Newtown - Wednesday, July 6, at Hershey

A Town Smaller Robert Wilson, 20/ wo
Than Mt. Joy Has|
A Sewage System
In recent weeks the Sanitary
Water Board, Penna. Dept. of
Health, distributed a leaflet telling
of the communities
sponding to its plea to abate pol-
lution of streams. We
look one small town in particular,
Littlestown, Adams County.
This little town of
ly 2,500 population, dumping
its sewage into nearby Piney
numerous re-
can't over-
approximate-
was
Drowned While
Bathing on Friday
The first fatal drowning accident
at the new dam erected across the
Little Chickies Creek on the site of
the former Snyder Mill property,
occurred there Friday afternoon
when Robert Wilson, colored,
twenty, was drowned. The young
man was an excellent swimmer
which accounts for his companions
ignoring his cries for think-
ing he was joking.
help,

Creek. The authorities objected
aand there was no other prerogative
except the installation of a sewage
system,
A Boro Authority
and as a result the sewage system |
and treatmant works was built and
is operated by the said Authority. |
Littlestown, Adams Co. popula- |
tion approximately 2500, recently |
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was created
placed in operation its new sewage
treatment works, which with the |
sewers, cost about $385,000. “The
treatment works makes an out-
standing contribution to the abate-
ment of pollution of Piney Creek
and to the Clean Streams program |
of the Sanitarv Water Board,” Dr.
Norris W. Vauz. State Health |
Secretarv and Board Chairman, |
stated. “It also presents a telling |
example of what can be accom- |
plished,” Dr. Vaux continued, that
when a community actually accepts
its responsibility to the common
welfare. In spite of high costs |
and the size of the community the
people of Littlestown have gone
ahead to solve their own sanitary |
prcblem and at the same time to
abate pollution of the public |
waterways,” |
The sewerage svstem and treat- |
ment works was built and is op- |
erated by the Littlestown Borough
Authority Payment for <cervice
residents The treatment plant is
desiened for 4 population of 3,200
cr 360.000 eallons a day. There
are 35.000 feet of sewers consisting
of eight 10, 12 and 15 inch pine.
Sewage from one section of the
borough is pumped to the treat-
ment vlant throush 33,000 feet of
siv inch forre main.
The time isn’t too far
distant that
we will have sewage here
may
from
304 Jurors Chosen
and
information |
we
get some helpful
the above.

For Sept. and Oct.
Terms of Court
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The names of 304 jurors to serve |
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during September and October
terms of Court were drawn at the |
Court House last week. Twenty |
four Grand Jurors for Quarter Ses-
siong Court in September were cal-
led, as well as 110 Petit Jurors for |
the same term. No one from the |
immediate vicinity was drawn for
Grand Jury duty.
Sept. Petit Jurors
William Stokes,
kee, Adoies H.
Mohn, all of
Snyder, Maytown;
Mount Joy;
Edward F. Fitz-
Donald |
James |
Nagle and
Bainbridge;
Mildred
Carl B. Drohan, |
Rob- |
erts,
Mount Joy RD2; Eli B Smeltzer,
Mount Joy. |
Common Pleas Jurors |
Monday, Sept. 26 {
John G. Snavely, Manheim R2: |
L. W. Jourdit, Bainbridge.
Common Pleas, Oct. 3rd
Henry B. Harries, Maytown; Si-
meon A Horton, Mount Joy; John
Zink, Mount Joy; O. M.
Mount Joy.
A Ae
Brief News From
Donaven,
The Dailies For
Quick Reading
The Susquehanna fire company
at Columbia, will hold a 4-day cele-
bration over the Fourth. {
At Coatesville a man was arrest- |
ed and fined for sweeping dirt from |
the sidewalk to the street.
Forty-seven truckers have been
prosecuted by State Police to date |
this year for carrying overloads. |
A strike affecting thousands of |
employes of the Hershey Chocolate |
Corp. has been called for Saturday. |
All but one of the 35 passengers |
were injured when a Greyhound |
bus left the highway and ran ne)
to an embankment on Route 40 |
north of Baltimore.
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REV. JONES RESIGNED {
Rev. Carlton E. Jones resigned to |
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the Vestry at St. Lukes Episcopal |
Church here on Saturday. He has
accepted a call to the Trinity Epis-
copal Church at Chambersburg be- |
ginning September first.
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EAST PETERSBURG SS PICNIC
The Union Sunday School picnic
of East Petersburg will be held at
Long's Park Wednesday, July 6
ed for a hearing |
| Groff, Manheim
| Felker
| STATE
| MT.
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| sive piece of
| ported in Lancaster
| ly of Salunga.
Wilson, a son of Levi Wilson, on
Hemp St, this koro and the late
Mary Way Wilson, seeking to beat
the 92 degree heat, went to the
dam to swim with a party of other
youths about 2 p.m. Friday, June
24th. The party had been swim-
ming for about half an hour when
Wilson’s frantic cry for help was
heard.
Firemen were summoned and
other volunteers obtained hooks
| and manned a raft to drag for the
body. Shortly thereafter a boat
was brought to the scene. After
| searching for about a half hour
George Germer, who resides at The
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Activities of Our
Police Officers
Chief of Police Park Neiss in
his weekly report included the
following motor violations. Peter
DeCant, Harrisburg, speeding at
{ fifty miles an hour.
Guy W.
unsafe pass.
Gross, Ambler RDI,
Both were summon-
ofore Justice of
the Peace James Hockenberry.
Francis Brosey, Mt. Joy RD2,
speeding at 40 mile an hour. He
will be summoned for a hearing
before Squire Hockenberry.
Arthur H. Nolt, Lititz,
pass at an intersection
ward E. Harnish, E-town,
Both will be
before Justice of the Peace Thom-
as B. Brown.
Constable
improper
and Ed-
unsafe
pass. summoned
Neiss arrested
RD4,
larceny of tools
Marietta
April. He was committed to jail for
Jay
Tuesday, on
charges of from
an automobile in last
| court.
On Monday, Neiss arrested Benj.
disorderly conduct
Oliver Halde-
Felker
on
brought by
Milton
paid the costs.
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DEPT. APPROVED
JOY'S BOND ISSUE
A United
charges
man, Grove. has
Press
news dispatch
out of Harrisburg says: The State
{ Internal Affairs Department has
approved a $15,000,000 bond issue
Borough to
fire
authcrized
finance
The
by Mt.
purchase
Joy
on a
tonds will bear three per-
| cent interest.
That would be a rather
fire
is a $15,000 bond
and not fifteen million,
expen-
fighting equip-
ment. It issue
| OPEN PROBE OF TOBACCO
PRICE FIXING
Two
Department
IN COUNTY
the U. S,
were re-
investigators for
Justice
Friday starting
a probe of alleged price fixing of
of
practices by local tobacco com-
panies.
It was reported that they inter-
{ viewed several individuals and at
least one organization seeking the
facts on tobacco huying methods
here.
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HENRY EBY PURCHASED
FIFST PROPERTY AT SALUNGA
A two and
and stucco dwelling and a barn at
Salunga were sold for $4,010 at
Saturday to Henry Eby,
by Co |
for the es-
one-half story frame
auction
near Salunga., the Lancaster
National Bank,
tate of the late Mary Feist, former-
C. S. Frank, this boro
was the auctioneer.
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DEEDS RECORDED
Aaron W. and Ada S. Geiss, Sa-
lunga; Warren S. and Anna Aungst,
W. Donegal; J. Wayne and Dora
Aungst, Elizabethtown; to Aaron W.
and Ada Geiss, Salunga, lots
and one house in Salunga.
Jacob S. and Mary Kuhn, Mt. Joy,
to Samue] Z. and Lillian M. Max-
well, Mt. Joy, lot and house at 202
Mount Joy St., Mount Joy.
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MOTORED TO CANADA
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Kreider
and daughter, near Rheems and
Miss Sara Brubaker near Elizabeth-
town and C. N. Hershey motored to
the Brethren in Christ Conference
at Stayner, Ont. Camping grounds.
executor
two

engine. |
VOL. XLIX, NO. 5
Fatally Injured
West of Florin
James Leroy Gill, fifty-five, 3408
Ash St., Progress, Harrisburg, was |
fatally injured when his auto |
and a tractor trailer truck collided |
Harrisburg Pike two miles |
Florin, Friday.
was admitted to
the
west of
He St.
Hospital suffering from a fracture- |
of the back |
injuries,
on
Joseph Ss

right leg, chest and
deep laceration of the
severe shock.
Michael Batutis |
said Gill, a saleman manager of the |
Brenner Motor Co,
was driving west on the three-lane
right elbow and
State Policeman
Harrisburg,
broadside
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Les-
Grant |
highway and was struck
by a truck operated east by
ter P. Miller, thirty, 32 S.
St., Manheim, as he swerved to the |
left
the
placed in
the road
to avoid a karricade
westbound lane while
is being repaired.
Gill,
hurled
according to
front to the rear
Dr. C. Stuart
Smith of E-town, administered the
treatment at the scene |
{ before the removed to |
the hospital in the E-town Fire Co
ambulance. He died Saturday. {
A Orn
from the
seat by the impact.
| emergency
man was

| MENNONITES ACCEPT SITE
| FOR THEIR NEW HOSPITAL
{ The Mennonite Hos-
pitals decided to
Lela-
pro- |
Lancaster
Association has
accept the gift of a farm in
non county as the site for a
pcsed mental hospital.
to be
of-
Graybill
Final papers are slated
association
Mrs.
the owners who
between
Mr. and
Lancaster,
the
farm
is located
signed
ficials and
Landis,
weeks ago.
consists of 167
Mt.
decided to
offered land some
The
and
The
build a
funds through a drive.
acres
near Gretna.
association has
and to
But
details have been work-
mental hospital
raise
no further
ed out yet,
officials reported.
Aen
Many Flittings In
This Community
During Past Week
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
moved Wednesday to
Henry Eby on S.
St., recently
Clair Manning.
merly resided in
Mrs.
ven St
| The
Mrs. Charles
now
3eahm have |
the Mrs
Market
by Miss
Beahms for- |
property ot
New Ha-
property
vacated
The
the
Joseph Charles on

sisters, Mrs. Beiber,
and Miss Manning are
Charles home.
three
living at the
Wm.
the
| Wednesday,

Mr. Foerch and family
|e ted
va- |
Funbar apartment on
to take up residence |
| in their recently purchased home
in New Jersey.
Saturday, Joe Funbar will move
his family from York into the a-
partment vacated by the Foerchs.
Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
{ Schroll and family will move trom
| fe Potter Main
St, to the vacated |
by Funbars.
On Monday,
| pheus Rye
| We alter property on Fast Main St.
\ to the house vacated by Schrolls.
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| MARIETTA MAN ARRESTED
IN STRICKLER QUARRY THEFT |
State police of the Columbia sub |
staticn prosecuted Arthur
Jr, 324 East Front Street,
charged with larceny
ing
on East
York
property
home in

Al- |
the |
Mr.
move
and Mus.
will from
Frane,
Marietta,
and receiv-
implicated
be picked
stolen goods and
that an accomplice may
up.
Frane said-he received only $2.15
from the sale of 1400 pounds of
ircn and steel from the Jacob
Strickler Quarry, East Donegal
Twp., and said his accomplice got |
the rest. The loot was sold at a
local scrap yard.
Frane also was
charged with siphoning gas from a
truck at the Strickler quarry.
ei Wilms
THE COOK CLUB WILL MEET
The L and H 4-H Fun to Cook
Club will meet at 9 a. m. Tueday
July 5, in the East Hempfield
School cafeteria.

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‘Harrisburg Man os
| two miles south of
| will
Wednesday,
| bridegroom
| Point,
| Joy RI,
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MEETINGS ON THE
JOSEPH GREINER FARM
The United Zion Church has
planned a tent
the
now
meeting to be
farm of Jcseph oA
Milton
July 17th.
In addition to various groups who
the
on
Grove,
thru
beginnng 3rd
render special music, fol-
listed:
3-Jacob
speakers are
Sunday, July
July 4,
July 5,
lowing
Lehman;
Martin Showalter;
Elmer
July 6, Henry
Robert
Monday,
Tuesday,
Thursday,
July 8, John Ludwig;
July 9, Christ Geib;
afterncon July 10,
Hess:
Sat-
Sunday
July 7,
Friday,
urday,
German Service;
Peter Mon.
Showalter:
Abram Eshelman;
13, Frank
July 14,
Roy
Allen
afternoon
Sunday evening,
July 11, George
July 12,
July
Gress;
dav,
Wed
man;
Gar-
Wesley
Krei-
Ten-
nesday,
Thursday,
Martin; Friday, July 15,
Saturday, July 16,
Sunday July 17,
missionary Sunday
Wolgemuth
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der;
nis;
program;
Grayhill
even-
ing,
Batutis, was Weddings Thruout
Our Community
Fave Elizabeth Gutshall
J. Robert Kettering
Miss Fave Elizabeth Gutshall,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Blaine 204 E. Main St.,
TJ. Robert Kettering.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ketter-
239 E. Bainbridee St. Eliza-
were married at 2 p. m.
this boro. and
ing,
bethtown,
Sunday in the Church of the
Brethren, Elizabethtown. The Rev.
Nevin H. Zuch officiated. After
July 4, the couple will reside on
Park Street, Elizabethtown.
Shirley Louise Snyder
Fairy Alberta Sweitzer
Phares Boyd Neff
Miss Fairy Alberta Sweitzer, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
A. Sweitzer, Maytown and Phares
Bovd Neff, Bainbridee, were mar-
ried at the home of the bride, the
Rev. Wilbur Allison, Maytown offi-
| ciating
Mrs. Maurice Ferree, Kirkwood,
{ was matron of honer, and Maurice
Ferree was best man The ushers
were John Robert Linard and Don-
ald Sweitzer.
Susan Jones
| James Robert Zeller
Miss
and
Susar
daughter of Mr Mrs
Marion Jones, Chatham and
Lynchburg, Va, and Lt. James
Robert Zeller, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George B. Zeller, this place, took
iturday at 4:30 p. m. in the
Episcopal Church at
The Rev. Dr.
v. Edwin P.
The
Jones,
marriage of
James
place S
Emmanuel
Chatham
J Lee
Edmund
and Re Bush, Jr.
officiated
reside
the
with the
He at-
College
United
West
Mrs. Zeller
Bragg, N. C.,
Lt. and will
at Fort where
is stationed
82nd
tended
and was
States
Airborne
Pennsylvania
Division.
State
graduated from the
Military
class of
Academy,
1945.
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Week's Birth Record
and Mrs. Robert G.
Florin, a daughter
Halde-
Friday at
Mr.
man,
the Lancaster General
My. and Mrs.
Rheems, a son Friday at St.
Hospital.
Heisey, of
Jo-
Lester
seph’s Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Kraybil]l Miller, Mt.
a daughter Tuesday at St.
Joseph's Hospital.
Mr. Mrs. Chester
Landisville, a daughter
eral Hospital Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Nolt, Mount
Joy R2, General Hos-
pital Sunday.
teen is eens
ANNUAL SUNDAY SCHOOL
PICNIC WEDNESDAY
This
School picnic is scheduled for next
6th, at
and Breneman,
at the Gen-
a son at the
area's annual union Sunday
Wednesday,
park.
This year’s picnic
July Hershey
promises to be
a big success since this is industrial
vacation week and all families from
Mount Joy, Florin and Newtown
will be able to enjoy the get-to-
gether at Hershey.
New York State leads the nation
as a tourist attraction,
Sensenig; |
Ginder; |
Tues- |
INUTE
WEEKLY |
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LANCASTER
Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, June 30, 1949
US Court Rejects
' Plea To Nullify
Keener’s Sentence
The plea of Abraham E. Keener,
41, Columbia RD, the U. S.
District Court, to have a five
month prison term was
Thursday by a four judge
before
|
nulified,
rejected
court,
Keener was first sentenced to a
three mcntas prison term and a
$50 fine on a manslaughter charge
death of Adam Felsinger, a
1947.
costs
in the
dahlia farmer on January 1,
He also fined $200 and
on a charge of driving while intox-
was
icated, and a suspended sentence
on a third charge of leaving the
scene of an accident. Three days
before the three months sentence
expired, Judge Oliver S. Schaeffer
changed the suspended sentence to
months in prison,
Appealing the Keener
was released on $1,500 bail by or-
der of the State Superior Court.
Keener took his case to the Fed-
eral Courts on a writ of habea-
five
sentence
corpus,
rn nil
112 STEERS ENROLLED FOR A
BABY BEEF CLUB EXHIBIT
twelve

and boys
Lancaster
One hundred
and girls
nearby counties have each enrolled
from and five
a steer for exhibit and sale of the
1949 Garden Spot Baby Beef Club
to be held Aug. 16 and 17.
The steers will be brought to the
Stockyards not later
1:00 p. m. Tuesday, Aug. 16,
and placed on exhibition. All ex-
hikits will be weighed at 6:30 a. m.
Wednesday, then judged and sold
the afternoon.
Lancaster
than
at public auction in
The
bers
Lancaster Exchange mem-
announced each steer must
halter broken, schooled to lead
and ke on a halter when brought
for Each animal must
have sufficient quality and finish
to merit entry into the competition:
be
exhibition.
“Otherwise it will not be accepted
for exhibition,” officials said.
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Drive Carefully
Over the Fourth
care-
Urging motorists to drive
fully over the Fourth of July week
the Pennsylvania Motor Fed-
eration warned that if
drive safely over the
not be around on
end,
motorists
they do not
Fourth, they may
the Fifth.
For a really and
Fourth motorists will drive
fully, within the speed limits and
obey all traffic and
safe sensible
care-
rules regula-
tions.
Citing the prediction of the Am-
erican Automobile that
290 persons will die as a result of
traffic the ‘holiday
week-end, official de-
Association
accidents over
the PMF
clared.
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THE RAFFENSPERGERS ARE
WEDDED TWENTY-FIVE YRS.
and Mrs. Horace E. Raffens-
perger, of Elizabethtown,
ed their twenty-fifth wedding an-
celebrat-
niversary by spending the week-
end at the Waldorf-Astoria, New
York City. When they arrived
home Sunday evening the children
very ap-
to the occasion.
had arranged a party
propriate
The family formerly resided at
Maytown Mr. Raffensperger
was principal of the East Donegal
where
Township schools
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1-H CLOTHING CLUB MET
WITH MISS JEAN WILL
The third meeting of the Mount
Joy 4-H Clothing Club was held
Thursday afternoon in the home of
Miss Jean Will, Mount Joy RI, 12
members present, Leaders of the
group are Miss Geraldine Hinden-
och and Mrs. John Musser.
The next meeting will be Thurs-
day, July 7, at 1:30 p. m. in the
home of Mrs. Musser,
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TWO SLIGHTLY INJURED
Arthur Naugle, twenty, Shilling-
ton, and Jean Stirling, nineteen, of
Manheim R2, suffered minor injur-
ies in an accident two miles west of

| stroyed and a combine

was damaged to the extent of $1500.
STANDING WHEAT AT RHEEMS
WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE
Two acres of standing wheat and
10 bags of threshed wheat were
was
de-
dam- |
aged, at an estimated loss of $1,000,
according to Paul Shiffer, E-town’s |
fire chief, when a spark from the
combine ignited a field on the
Martin Cope farm, one mile South-
west of Rheemg about 3:30 p. m. on
Friday.
Car] Shirk, a farmer on the place,
was harvesting wheat.
the machine for a few minutes, and |
left the engine running. When he
the flames.
returned, field was in
He summoned Elizabethtown and
Rheems firemen but the fire, fan-
ned by the breeze, could not be
controlled.
Shiffer said that the spray on
Elizabethtown's fog fighter en- |
abled fireman to prevent the flam-
es spreading to an adjoining eight-
acre field.
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Fire Destroyed a
Barn - Contents on
Geo. Brown Farm
With all the members of the
famijy away, the time in
years, and the men planting tobac-
co near Mount Joy,
on the George Brown II farm, ten-
anted by Paul Shires, in East Don-
was completely destroyed by
The
first
the large bam
egal,
fire yesterday afternoon. origin
is a mystery.
The
the former
farm is located adjacent to
Nissley’s Mill, near the
intersection of Donegal creek
Charles run, one mile north of Mt.
Joy and Marietta pike.
A neighbor Joseph Hess, working

in a field nearby, first noticed the
fire. The fire company here was
summoned and responded. In the
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GARAGE, CHICKEN HOUSE,
BURNED AT IRONVILLE
Damage estimated by the owner
at between $1,800 and $2,000 was
caused Friday afternoon when a
garage, chicken house and a tool
shed the Frederick Helfrich
property, Ironville, wag completely
$500
worth of carpenter's tools, 20 chi-
on
destroyed, plus an automobile,
ckens, lumber, 5 tons of coal and |
garden equipment.
contractor,
miscellaneous
Helfriich, a
a job at Washington Boro
complet-
ed al
brought all his tools home in
1930 sedan he
equipment and supplies.
hauling he
About 4
p. m. he put the car in the garage.
used for
a A
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Personal Mention
Misses Doris Kaylor and Doris
Rice spent the weekend at Rich- |
mond, Va.
Miss Nan Barto spent a week |
with her brother Ross Barto and
family at Rome, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Bender and
children spent several days with
the formers father in Somerset |
County.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Miller, re-
turned Monday evening from Car-
tesville, Ga., where they spent the
past year.
Mrs. Ben Brown left last Thurs-
day for El Paso, Texas, to visit
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr
and Mrs. Albert Mueller.
Cpl. H. E. Bradley, returned
home Sunday to spend 30 days
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. |
F. Bradley, Manheim, RD2.
Jerry Irley of Middletown. grand- |
Harry Hinkle, |
son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. Main Street, is spending a week
at the Lutheran Camp, Nawakwa,
Arndtsville.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Peifer and
daughter Glorianna of town and |
Ar. and Mrs. Robert Siebert and
daughter, Carolann
spent the weekend at Atlantic City.
Mrs. W. R. Heilig returned home
Friday after spending
months with
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. W
Woodward. The Woodward fam-
ily accompanied her
several
her daughter
home and will
spend a short time here.
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BOUGHT MARIETTA PROPERTY
Isaac S. Siegrist, this place, pur-
chased a two story stucco mansion |
house at 324-26 Front Street in
Manheim. Police said Naugle’s car, Marietta, from Minerva V. Mayling,
of Phoenix, Arizona,
He got off |
and |
of Bainbridge, |
and |
The Local News
For ThePast Week
Very Briefly Told
At Penryn a
ducks built a ne
muscovy
hatch-
pair of
st and are
on a man’s chimney.
[
ing
| Robert E. Mundis, Wrightsville,
| has filed a $247 auto damage suit
| against Otto Blechinger, Manheim.
[A truck carrying a hammermill,
| owned by George Geib, caught
fire and was destroyed, loss $3,000.
The annual picnic for the Crip-
pled Children’s Hospital north of
Elizabethtown, held Thursday.
Gifford, 35. Manheim RD,
falling and
broken
was
Leon
| wag struck by a tree
sustained a bone in his
neck
The
its wintery
Lititz School
supply of
{ $10.60 per ton.
| $10.85.
Board
pea
bought
coal at
New Holland pays
Henry J. Williams and Pau] Rapp
Jr, of Marietta,
iury when their car upset on Chick-
ies Hill.
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escaped serious in-
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130 pupils of Bethesda Bible
School raised $50 to buy a milk
| oat which will be shipped to
Okinawa.
| Ralph S. Snyder, thirty,
| arrested for driving under the in-
posted $500 bail
E'town,
fluence of
for Court.
{
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| liquor,
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| Nineteen
[
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{
Eliza-
recently
fishermen from
bethtown and vicinity
caught 1500 porgies, 1840 lbs., at
| Bethany Beach, Del.
The Manheim Fire Co. with six-
| ty men in line won a prize of $175
at the Firemen’s
| parade, Jonestown Saturday.
UNION NATIONAL CAPITAL &
SURPLUS HALF MILLION
The Board of Directors of
Union National Mount Joy
have authorized the
$25,000 undivided
surplus, increasing the latter item
to $375,000. The capital is $125,000.
In addition to the the bank
Lebanon County
the
Bank
transfer of
from profits to
above,
has undivided profits and
amounting to $92,000.
siterip lime os
LOST HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE
reserves

Nine Lancaster county motorists
| lost their driving privileges last
week, Among them was Elwood C.
Hocker, Florin.
| Carl G. Good, FE'town
| A. Young, Main street,
c| had their privileges restored.
RE
Everything That
Happened At
Florin Recently
R3 and
Florin
the
went
| About bhoaracd
forty men
| Johnsen bus on Sunday and
| to Philadelphia for the ball game at
Shibe Park.
purchased
and
has
Arthur Kolp
Luncheonette
| Mr.
privately Slim's
| will take possession July 10th.
Darlene Gerlitski spent the past
week with Mr. and Mrs.
Lancaster.
Youth For Christ
held at the Florin
| Church of Brethren will be Satur-
day, July 9, Rev. Hostetter
will show slides of Africa and India.
Due to the holiday Monday
| the Fire Company Auxiliary will
| held their date.
Mrs. Dale and children of
| Aberdeen, Mrs
Maytown,
John Kis-
singer at
The next
gram to be
|
|
|
|
|
|
| pro-
|
when
on
meeting at a later
Lyons
Md.,
and daughters of
Mr. and Mrs.
Thursday
and Frank
| Singer
called
Mumper Si
Messer's Earl Gerlitski and Ray-
Miller,
on George
mond John Kissinger and

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THAT'S THE COURT'S ORDER
John K. Wagner, Elizabethtown
Rl, paid $19 Friday to Miriam
Wagner, Mt. Joy R2, for the sup-
He also was
port of two children.
granted a reduction from $15 to $12
a week in his support order but
| was ordered to pay an additional
week until he
$ a
| money
pays back the
he owes.
a
GETS CARRIER CONTRACT
Henry B. Heisey of Mount
RD1, has been awarded the
tract to carry the U. S. Mail be-
tween Marietta, Maytown gnd Bain-

Joy,
con=-
COUNTY
ount Joy Bulletin
$2.00 a Year in Advance
Local Merchants
Will Have 3 Sales
Days July 28-30
A gigantic Sales Day will be in=-
augurated here on July 28, 29, 30
by the Merchants Division of the
Chamber of Commerce, giving the
shoppers in this Community buying
opportunities never before offered.
The idea for the event was sug-
gested months ago, and
since that time a zealous committee
has worked untiringly, laying the
foundation, contacting the merch-
ants, planning the publicity, arrang-
ing for prizes and working out the
other details neces-
several
innumerable
sary.
Preceeding this monstrous sales
carnival, an advertising tabloid will
be distributed to all the families in
the surrounding community, both
urban and rural.
Merchants cooperating in the ev-
ent will be represented among the
They are already plan-
ning of all kinds, price
reductions, ete, and are supple=-
menting their present stock with ad-
ditional quality merchandise.
The committee in charge of pub=
licity is now canvassing the town
daily for advertisements for the
Sales Day shoppers guide, and are
meeting with exceptional success.
advertisers.
“specials”
The Sales Day committee includ-
Keener, Ralph Eshle-
Newcomer, Frank
Balsbaugh and John
es: George
Clarence
Sam
man
Tyndall,
Booth.
Plan now for a shopping spree for
real values during Mount Joy's first
monstrous Sales Day event, July 28,
29 and 30th.
Mortuary Record
Throughout This
Entire Locality
81, of Columbia R2,

Max Javana,
Thursday.
John W. Shireman, 81, at Mar-
ietta Friday.
Mrs. Malinda R. Lichty, eighty-
two, at Elizabethtown.
Alvin S. Shelly, forty-five, Man-
heim, at the Genera] Hospital.
Albert R. Smith, 55, of Marietta,
at the General Hospital Friday.
Alfred Carpenter, sixty-two, at
the Masonic Homes, Elizabethtown.
Mrs. Amanda Fishel Shopf, 96,
oldest resident in that vicinity, at
Mountville Sunday.
Mrs. Anna B. Saylor
Mrs. Anna B. Saylor, 84, died on
Saturday at the home of ‘ther
daughter, Mrs. Katie Foreman, of
Flizabethtown RD. She was a
member of Ruhl's Evangelical and
Reformed Church. Besides her
daughter, Mrs. Foreman, she is
survived by a son, William B.
Saylor, Manheim; eight grand-
children, 31 great grandchildren
and four great-great grandchildren.

Gainer
Gainer, forty-five, of
RD1, died Saturday at
Lancaster General Hospital af-
an illness of two months.
Clarence
Clarence
Manheim
the
ter
Besides his mother,
the
these
he is surviv-
former Mary
and children: Mrs.
Haldeman, Manheim; Mrs.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
Robert Auker Hess, Mount Joy
R2 and Anna May Hawthorne, of
Marietta RDI.
Robert A. Hess,
ed by his wife’
Fauby,
Max

Mount Joy R2
and Anna Mae Hawthorne, Mariet-
ta Rl.
Eli L. Miller, Bird-in-Hand, and
Ruth B. Hess, Mount Joy Rl.
re
REUNION POSTPONED
The Newtown School and Com=-
munity reunion has been postpon-
ed from July 2nd to August 27th,
on account of conflicting with the
celebration at Columbia.
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ESTATES ADJUDICATED
These local estates were adjudi-
cated in the Orphans’ Court: Maud
Haldman, East Donegal Twp. $12,-
613.71; Addison S. Martin, West

bridge, beginning July 1.
Donegal, $345.23.