Be 9c s {Te 23 > 23¢ 8 29 33° 249¢ a23¢ wn! 4° z 20¢ a Lewis Bixler Champ. Corn Husker Shirley Brubaker Is Corn Queen Lee Newcomer Soap Box King Mount Joy's Annual Community Exhibit opened precisely as sched- uled last Thursday what a show. All entries were received in the forenoon and judging of all and the general premium list began promptly at noon and continued throughout the day. Twenty-three head of baby beeves, 12 head of lambs and 14 pigs entered by 4-H youths were judged by James Christian, live- stock specialist of State College and a series of livestock showman- ship contest staged by the 4-H members themselves were all the centers of interest on Thursday Nancy, of Mount Joy R1 who had showed a Hereford and fifth place to Herbert Frey, Lancaster R1 who entered an Angus steer. Curvin Junior Shines In the baby beef showmanship contest, Curvin Martin, Jr, Mount Joy R1 was first; Clair Baum of Flizabethtown R3 was second and Wilbur Erb, Mount Joy RD1 was third. Gold, and bronze medals were awarded by the Mt. Jey Chamber of Commerce for the first, second and third respectively. Lamb Club Winner Maxine Mellott, of Drumore RI1, silver placings, he THE-M NUTE WEEKLY I N ‘Mount J oy LANCASTER Bull 17th to 24th, 1949 — COUNTY etin VOL. XLIX, NO. 21 Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, October 20, 1949 $2.00 a Year in Advance ‘Three Gas And Oil Stations -- Hotel In Town Robbed Burglars, who police said were seeking money but who also were apparently good judges of whisky, broke into two gasoline service and and an oil station and a hotel here Monday night. At the Washington House, ated by Chester O. Armstrong on W. Main St, who is now in the the intruders cut a wire to oper= hospital, screen from a side window gain entrance the Police reported they to bar room. stole twelve afternoon, a veteran prize winner at both | bottles of whisky from behind the Her First Prize loca] exhibits and the Harrisburg | bar and added the robbers were Grand champion baby beef of |Farm Show, entered three South- | discreet in their selection, carrying the show was a Hereford steer ex- [downs which captured the grand | away bottles of Canadian Club and hibited by Arlene Brubaker, seven- | championship ribbon of the 4-H ; Seagram V. O. teen of Lancaster RD1, who in her |Lamb Club exhibit. Doors were forced to enter the first year as a member of the Red Reserve champion pen were | Garber Oil Co, S. Barbara St, Rose 4-H Baby Beef and Lamb [three Southdowns entered by Clair | Van’s Service Station, W. Main St. Club of Lancaster County fas | Hilsher of E-town RI. near the borough limits and at the captured the top prize ribbon at Third ribbon went to Lilly Anne | Sico Gas Co. Station on Mt. Joy our show. Greider, Mt. Joy R1, who showed | Street. Reserve grand champion was an|a pen of three Hampshires. Petty cash amounting to several l-berdeen Angus steer entered by In the lamb showmanship con- | dollars was taken from cash draw- Nancy Ginder of Mount Joy RDI. |test, the gold medal for first | ers at Van’s and the Sico Gas Third ribbon went to Mervin | place went to Lilly Anne Greider; | station, while contents of desk Eshleman, Elizabethtown R3, for [silver medal to Maxine Mellott, | drawers were strewn about the an Angus steer fourth prize tol who placed second and bronze me- | floor at the Garber station but Jetty Jane Ginder the sister of (Turn to Page 6) ! nothing was found missing there. EEE — ——— ee [Wt Van's the cash register tape i recorded the time of the burglary Cash Prizes At Hallowe’n Parade Here Mon. Oct. 31 A Hallowe'en parrade to be spon- sored by the Lions Club of Mount will be held Monday, Oct. at the Grade m. and will be Joy, Parade will form at 6:30 p. followed by a dance in School the school auditorium to the music of Jim Hendricks and his orchestra, where the final decision of the jud- | ges for the prize awards will be | announced. There will be three high school bands, Elizabethtown, Marietta Mount Joy in the line of march and the parade will be made up of four divisions with two prizes to each as follows: First and second Division,—Group | 1st to 9th grade; | 1, Children from Group 2, high school students. First! prize $2,00; 2nd, $1.00 in these classes, Fanciest costumes, most original male, The fattest person, original female; (Turn to page 2) nt A School Faculty Entertained The Students’ Parents The Maytown Elementary schooi faculty entertained the students of Maytown Elemen- Thursday evening building most parents of the School] on in the elementary Maytown. Before the meeting parents held with the | tary individual conferences teachers. During the evening the heard remarks by Dr. J. supervising principal of East parents W. Bing- man, Donegal Schools, violin selections l.y Mr. Eugene Saylor, supervisor of music in the East Donegal Schools and a discussion on Mod- ern Trend in Elementary Educa- tion by Professor Elmer Hoover director of Elementary Education at E-town College. It was decided that the (Turn to page 2) eel TWO LOCAL HUNTERS HOME FROM CANADA WITH MOOSE Two nearky hunters, Henry N. Miller and John H. Nissley, return- ed home Friday morning after weeks of hunting in Quebec Provi- dence of Canada. During their trip they bagged 1200 pound moose about 324 miles north of Quebec. ——— tt pet rsa STRUCK BY AUTO, KILLED Mrs. Leah K. Heidler, eighty, of Silver Springs was struck by an auto Saturday and died within twenty minutes. The car was driven by Charles H. Baker from Silver Springs. parents two a high | and | most original | at | Rodger - Roger Reunion Held At Florin on Sunday The Rodger-Roger reunion was held last Sunday at the Florin Hall, Florin. Mrs. Omar Kling had charge of the affair which was attended by { eighty persons. Prizes were given to the oldest woman, Mrs. Samuel | Rogers of Lancaster; oldest man, | Omar Kling of Florin; and youngest | child, Stephan Peifer of Lancaster. | A musical program included piano solos by Ned Rogers and acrobatic | | routines by the twins, Patty and Kenny Roger, children of Mr. Mrs. Russel Rogers of Harrisburg. | Supper was served and children’s | games were in charge of Mrs. Har- old Kling, Mrs. David Risser, and Mrs. James Madera of Florin. Persons attending were: Mr. an Mrs. Alvin Boyce and children Su- | san and Paul, Mr. and Mrs. John I Kusy, and son Johnny, George Rod- ! gers and daughter, Mildred, Sara (Turn to page 2) | ——tl eee RAPHO TOWNSHIP FARM | NEAR SPORTING HILL SOLD David Moseman, Manheim grocer, | | sold his Rapho township farm of | acres of sand and gravel soil, | lecated a mile west of Manheim on | | the road to Sporting Hill, at $192.50 | | per acre, total of" $21,271.25, at | public sale Monday afternoon. of was bid on by Walter L. Bomberger, for an a Manheim real estate broke: undisclesed buyer. Thirty acres are | in permanent pasture. | Improvements include stone | | dwelling, bank barn, tobacco shed {to hang eight acres, two-story | chicken house, and other outbuild- ings. Paul E. Sanger was auctioneer. re ee SLIGHT GAS BLAST SET OFF BY MATCH AT IRONVILLE a Fvangelical United Brethren church set off an explosion in the basement | of their church while looking for a | gas leak with a lighted match. No | | one was injured. The group was clearing the | | church basement after a wedding | when the blast occurred. Glenn Kauffman, one the | group, said an accumulation of gas | in the stove oven became ignited and flames jumped several feet from | the stove. The blast blew off a piece of the stove. PO — of GIRL FRACTURES LEG Joyce Garber, sixteen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Garber, Joy Theatre Apartments, East Main Tuesday morning. She was report- ed in “satisfactory” condition Wed- nesday night. The hospital said she fell on the steps of her home. and | Several members of the Ironville | Sireet, was admitted to St. Joseph's | Hospital with a fractured right leg | as 3:30 a. m. — O_o ‘White Qak Site Is Suggested For A New State Park A movement now on foot to have the State make a State Park may have gotten its start through the Lititz Bird Club who several years ago saw the of this location and in cooperation with the owner, Harold Maybe, | the site into It possibilities | turned a bird sanctuary. was revealed this week that | a movement is now underway to | | have the State acquire the land | around the White Oak Dam and | | turn it into a State Park thus pro- | viding a State maintained beauty | { | spot close to the towns in this |" county. According to the report a rep- visited the | area this week and reports on such resentative of the State a project having thus far been ver: favorable. The lake at White Oak which is | of | covers | | located several miles north | Manheim, Elstonville | between eight and near ten acres is well stocked with fish. aii Brief News From ‘The Dailies For Quick Reading There are 95,592 eligible voters in if to | cast a vote in November. Authcrities claim the | will total one million | before the of William J. Thompson, { Lancaster County they care idle U. strike in the end this week. twenty | seven, of Rohrerstown, was injured when he upset a station wagon he was driving. Willie C. Hair, | ker, stumbled, fel] ed to death under the wheels of a truck near Middletown. { Mrs. Ella A. Harvey, | burned to death a turnpike wor- and was crush- forty-six, at her home to bed to to ward off chills. A ‘Week's Birth Record Mr. and Mrs. Earl Derr, May- town, a daughter Monday the | Columbia Hospital. [| Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reynolds of | Florin, a daughter St. Joseph's Hospital Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Kendig, E. | Main street, a daughter at St. eph’s Hospital yesterday. rel ee SALUNGA MAN CHARGED James H. Way, of Salunga, was | prosecuted by Lancaster City Po- lice, charged with improper regis- tration, | | | | at at Jos- at | and | LEWIS BIXLER Husker ter County Champion Corn of Lancas- Fou Tovndies Wili Get The Old Lancaster Pike abandoned section of the road must be returned to the townships from which it was taken. Before the road is turned back, however, the State Highways Dept. must place the read in a condition (Turn to Page | me — | PUL LETIN ADVERTISING {PROVES ITS EFFICENCY | As our readers will have {during the past two weeks we made {mention of the effectiveness of Bul- letin advertising but here’ We > Ss one lor e books. doubt whether can be equalled A at Elizabethtown patron sent Tuesday forencon. the ad We Thursday’s paper. Jos insurance a classified ad Several hours later, customer told hadn’t even cancelled the | | | | | | i us | 5 called, and results for | it brought set the type The real Gingrich’s If you customer was office that, estate and (ny newspaper can beat stopped — have us | | SPORTSMEN PRIZES AWARDED AT COMMUNITY EXHIBIT and rod, Harold Krall; | old A ten mile stretch of the Harrisburg pike from a point east of Mt. Joy to the Lancaster city | limits is scheduled to be turned back to four townships through which it runs. The stretch has been replaced on the State highway system by the new fcur lane Harristarg Pike which runs from a point east of Mt. Joy to the Manheim pike and north of the old road. Highway Dept. officials said to- day that according to law, the Of Well Known that will be acceptable to super- visors of Rapho, East and West Hempfield and Manheim Twps. Preliminary and informal talks | Mervin Brandt Spoke on Danger Signals in the Night | met | for a joint meeting, Seventy-five Rotarians and Lions Tuesday evening at Hostetter’s with the Rotar- Presi- the Lions. jans acting as the host club. dent W. meeting the by Sloan presided over and welcomed the After luncheon the singing was led Packer, of the Lions club and Ralph Eshleman of the Rotary club, accompanied by Mrs. Roy George Broske at the piano. The musical entertainment of the program was in charge of Ralph who introduced Mr. Geo. music of who sang three num- Eshleman, Houck, high school, bers and an encore, accompanied by Mrs. Broske on President Jim Spangler made sev- one of which supenyisor our Bulletin photo SHIRLEY BRUBAKER Hdx the 1s “ the piano. Chosen Corn Queen at Mount Joy's Farm Show Florin UB Church To Celebrate 110th Anniversary The Glossbrenner Evangelical United Brethren church at Florin, will celebrate the 110th anniversary of the beginning with a week of services called Week. This church has the distinc- tion of being the first former United Brethren church built in Lancaster County. In the year 1834 preaching ser- vices were begun in the of Florin, then known as Springville. Services were first conducted if the school house. In 1839 the first class was organized and in 1842 the church was erected on ground do- nated by Philip Breiner. In 1846 the sessions of the Pennsylvania annual eral announcements, was concerning the coming Hallo- parade sponsored by the Lions. He asked for cooperation and help from both the clubs. The meeting was then turned ov- er to Herman Boyer, vice president and program chairman of the Ro- tary club, who introduced Mervin Brandt, who gave the address of the evening. Mr. Brandt spoke on the subject | that made him somewhat famous as a speaker, The International Situa- tion, with the topic of Danger Sig- Night. Oe Engagements we'en church’s Founders nals in the town Local Residents Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Mowrer, Bainbridge Rl, announce the daughter, Ruth, en- | gagement of their | to Charles H. Paules, son of Mrs. | conference were held here. In 1860 | Katie Paules, Landisville. the thirteenth annual session of the | - Fast Penn. Conference was held noticed | this | us | Mr. and Mys. William McGarvey, | here. Through the years the Florin Florin, announce the engagement | congregation has wielded a tremen- of their daughter, Nancy Lou and dous influence in Evangelical Unit- ed Brethren church history. From it there sprang up congregations in David Charles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Charles, of Colebrook. Miss McGarvey is employed at the Manheim, Lancaster, Mountville, Risser Garment factory, Elizabeth- | Columbia, Elizabethtown, Mt! Joy, town and Mr. Charles by the | Newtown and Ironville. From this and mis- The late ministers sent forth. Bachman Checceolate Co. church several sionaries were Mr. and Mrs. David Mumper, 4| Dr. John F. Musselman, formerly Manheim St, announce the en- | Supt. of Mission work in Africa, | sagement of their daughter, Jean | was a son of the Florin Church. Elizabeth to J. Kenneth Ginder, |The Rev. H. K. Geyer of Middle- son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ginder | town, and Rev. H.C. Kottler of Landisville. Williamsport, Md. entered the min- Miss Ginder, a graduate of Mt. | istry from the Florin church. The Joy High Scheol, class of 1949, is| Kev. C. C. Witmer, now a mission- employed in the office of the|ary in the Philippines and Miss Mt. Joy Mills. Mr. Ginder, al Katharine Witmer, a missionary in sraduate of East Hempfield High | China, received much of their early School class of 1946, is employed | religious training in the Florin by his uncle at the Ginder Dry | church. Cleaning Establishment at Eliza- The Florin church though steep- | learned that the fifty or more wild | ducks found dead in the Casting rod | | Prizes awarded by the Mount Joy | Sportsmen's Association at the | Community Exhibit on Saturday wel | Winchester Pump Gun, Frank | Singer, Maytown; 30-30 Rifle, Viola | | Bard, Columbia R2; Woolrich hunt- | ing suit, S. W. Shertzer, Salunga; rivers mixer, Wm. Walters Mt. | Joy: Single barrel gun, Mrs. Nor- | man Heisey, Mt. Joy; Spinning reel Lancaster. She took an electric iron { Elizabethtown; reel, Mount Electric Carpenter, iron, Clair Hunting Boots, Joy R1; Tackle Mount Joy. re ADAG eee EOROUGH SCHOOL HAS BEEN and George Joy; Way, Walter Mount box, Zerphey, Jumper, | No date has been set] ed in glorious history is looking for the wedding. forward to the future. The erection of a new church is anticipated in WILD DUCKS DIED FROM order to accommodate this growing BOTULISM OR LIMBER-NECK congregation. ee The Local News For The Past Week After an investigation by the State Game Commission it was river in the vicinity of Washingtonboro had died from botulism, the four dollar word for limber-neck. This is a di- . sease contracted from eating rotten Very Briefly Told vegetables or feeding in stagnant -] pools. The county’s 14th case of typhoid This will not interfere with the | fever is a 4-year-old child at New Holland. opening of the duck season on Fri- Marietta is having a water shor- PRESENTED WITH PERSONAL | uy. COLLECTION OF BIRDS : A Mi tage. Last month Columbia sup- Three large cases of mounted | LANDISVILLE MAN GETS plied 5,000,000. birds were presented to the Boro | YORK FLOOD CONTROL JOB While a Neffsville man had his School by Harold J. Harman of | J. Richard Nissley, Landisville, | car parked at Lancaster some one Ventnor N. J. The birds are a received the contract for the Poor | stole his fog lights and aerial part of the ccllection mounted by | House run project for flood con- For the first time this Fall the the late Noah Harman of town. | trol. The contract was awarded | thermometer dropped 1 degree be- er ell GW BANK PRESIDENT CREDITORS Philip N. Glatfelter, the tified in Court of Columbia Trust Company, tes- president Tuesday that he dis- posed of his assets in order to evade creditors. ONE FROM RHEEMS Twelve motorists from this sec- tion lost their driving privileges last week. Among them was B. Frank Eshelman of Rheems, who was charged with speeding. | at City Ccuncil meeting Saturday low freezing at some places in the county Sunday nite. morning. w—— YM Two were killed and a third PROLONG MACHINERY LIFE badly. injured when a car crashed Farm machinery will last longer | into the rear of a tractor trailer if properly stored. Machinery | on the super highway near Car- should be given a good cleaning | lisle. and oiling before being put away Charles H. Baker, sixty-four, of for the winter. Silver Spring, was exonerated in the Tet automobile death of Leah K. Heid- ZONING LAW BLOCKED ler. Elizabethtown boro council pas- I SMe MARRIAGE LICENSES Charles R. Bear, Landisville | Arlene M. Fry, Lancaster R6. sed its zoning law at the final read- ing, now Burgess Olweiler refuses to sign it, and (| ‘Two High School Annexation Is Boys Admit To 11 Blocked By Township's Thefts Hereabouts Request For $4,800 | of the Two seventeen year old youths have confessed, State Police said | Tuesday, that they were responsi- ble for a series cf eleven robber- ies in the Elizabethtown and Mt Joy area since last July The pairs forays were terminat- |ed at 1 a Tuesday when they were routed at the Clarence Herr service station on Route 230 he- tween Mt. Joy and Florin The neighbors saw two persons acting in a suspicicus manner at the sta- tion and notified Clayton Newcom- | er and Chief of Police Park E. | Neiss, both cf town, who surprised the intruders and noted the license number on their fleeing car. State Police Cpl. James J. Hag- gerty, who is investigating, said the car was registered at a Mid- dletown R2 address and that it belonged to an older Lkrother of | one of the boys. The car owner was away at the time of the Mon- day night episcde, Cpl. Haggerty said and apparently knew about the burglaries. Cpl. Haggerty apprehended boys, both high school seniors on | Tuesday evening. After question- | ing, they admitted breaking into eleven business establishment mest of them were service UB me stations. A. C. . Geltmacher Wilt Be 86 Sunday On Sunday, October 23rd, Mi C. Geltmacher, of Newtown will have passed another milestone in the celebration of his eighty-sixth birthday. He is as spry today as he was a year ago. He makes his daily round to the village store and talks with | the fellows about sports, world wide cvents, ete The love he had in his heart a year ago for his God, his family and his friends still abides within him. The credit for his long and happy life, he gives to Him whom he loves and serves, and worships, the only true and living God. In behalf of the community we | wish him many more happy birth- days and the blessings of God upon him. ell RETURNED TO MILLERSVILLE Miss Ramayne Skipper, daughter cf the Rev. and Mrs. James W Skipper, 104 Manheim St, has re- sumed her studies at Millersvill: State Teachers College after year's absence to work Miss Skipper is enrolled in the elementary curriculum. Her ex- tra activities includ membership in Page Literary Society, Primary Club and Teachers of America —— ——— Ce “MANNY” HENDRIX PROVES AN EXPERT ON TIME Mr. S Donegal Emanuel Hendrix, East St., 1S winner town, Ww the 17-Jewel Rensie wrist H watch was walic Warren Greenawalt’s The the at guessing ed in the Mr. Hen- 5 and the watch won by time a watch display store window vould stop drix guessed 2 stopped at 2: i —— re MAYTOWN CLOCK SOLD, A mahogany grandfathers clock made Samuel Quest May- town $450 at a public of the $450 by In sale Ar- antiques at Lancaster mory nothing | the and | A. | A monkey wrench has fallen into the machinery used in grinding out the relative to the annexa= a plot of about thirty acres, Mount Joy Township, to Joy Boro. Even though the seemed a certainty up now it is very much in details tion of now in | Mount annexation to Monday, | doubt A ors of the property own= appeared before ago and asked to be Council gave it number interested Council weeks boro. | taken into the careful consideration and at a re=- | cent meeting complied with the re- | quest a fly falls into the ointment. Joy Township solicitor has { Now The Mt notified the boro’s solicitor that the township wants to be paid $4,800 for the in said plot, only recently constructed. It extends from Fairview street to Or- { chard Road There will he a special meeting of Joy Boro Council this eve=- | ning to discuss the Township's re= new road Mount ue te FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS BOYD'S CORN neighbors of Mr. Howard Boyd, who suffered a back injury, gathered at his farm Tues- { day, Route 4, Manheim, husked his | corn and placed it in the corn barn. Tractors and wagons were Ssup= f plied by Harvey Becker, Dan Bren= and Dave Miller. Assisting were: Harvey Becker, Arthur Becker, Aaron Becker, Dan | Breneman, Jacob Breneman, Paul Stauffer, Raymond Hostetter, Nor- man Becker, Jay Ober, Amos For- ry, Paul Oberholizer, Clyde Wivel, | Tvan Kreiner, Christ Risser, Oliver | Ober, Ed Henery, Clarence Douple; Hostetter, Jay Hostetter, Ru- { fus Shelly, Leroy Shelly, Benj. | Hambright, Harry Zerphey, Wm. Miller, Ray Miller, Ed Sweigart and Elam Sherer. | H. Friends and | eman [ ED re en Everything That Happened At Florin Recently Mr. Witmer Shank, of St. Louis, Missouri, spent several days with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr, nd Mrs. Lester Weaver. While ere Mr. Shank, who has a private iilots license took his sister on a 1 heurs plane cruise over Lancaster County Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Hershey and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Roberts, at- tended a concert given by the Bar- ber Shop Quartette in the Harris- burg Forum on Sunday. Several ladies of Florin are at=- tending the six weeks Millinery { Course at the Y.W.C.A. in Lan=- caster, Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Roberts called on the latter's parents | Mrs. Emma Peifer spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Fair. r. Wm. Dorsey and family of York and Mr. and Mrs. Al Yeager Bel Air, New Jersey, were Sun, (Turn to page 3) rr lll er ee Mortuary Record Throughout This Entire Locality Aller Miss Porriet Word was received here shortly hefore noon today that Miss Harriet Aller, sister of Mrs. Ida Leib, died at Bushkill, Pike County, this morning, after a brief illness. Une {il about a vear ago, both Mrs, Leib and Miss Aller resided on West Donegal street, this boro. The re= mains will be brought here for in- terment r A. Hook, Mi 5S eighty-five, at Colun Harry Hinaman, sixty-nine, { at Columbia Mrs. Emma O’Birkenbine, eighty 1 (Turn to page 3) 1