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Mt. Joy Students
Festival Date
ChangedtoDec.20
The Annual Christmas Program
of the Mount Joy Borough Schools
will be presented on Tuesday, De-
cember 20, at 1:30 p. m. for the
school pupils and on Wednesday
evening at 7:30 p. m. for the public.
Originally the program was sched-
uled for Wednesday and Thursday
evenings but with school
Thursday at noon,
heen rearranged.
Grades 1 to 12 will participate in
the program. Pupils of the elemern-
tary schools will participate as in-
dividual grades. The Junior High
Chorus and the High School Chorus
will present several numbers, with
Mary Grace Bucher as soloist. The
choruses are under the direction of
Mr. George C. Houck, Music direc-
tor of the borough schools. Barbara
closing
has
the time
Ranck will accompany the musical
numbers.
Members of the Junior High
Chorus are:
8th grade: Nancy Fstock, Anna
Fletcher, Doris Williams, Effie
Boyd, Virginia Brooks, Joann
Brown, Donald Zerphy, Irvin Nau-
man, Bob Fish, Charles Zeller Rob-
crt Griffith, Richard Nissley, Char-
les Mayer, Lois Rutt, Patsy Schroll,
Darlene Schneider
Doris Melhorn, Connie Lane, Ralph
Berrier, Shirley Wade, Mae Zink,
irol Smith and Owen Phillips.
7th grade: Mary Schneider, Helen
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Eighteen Soccer
Lettermen Guests
Of Rotarians
Rotary Club had as their
Tuesday, the eighteen lettermen
of the Mount Joy high school Soc-

guests
on
cer squad, the Lancaster County
champions, with their coach Mr.
John Day.
Speakers were Mr. J. Shober
Parr, Physical Education, and Bob
Smith soccer coach, both of Frank-
lin and Marshall College. Mr. Smith
was All-American player on
Springfield College squad, of which
he is a graduate.
Visiting Rotarians at the luncheon
vere Mack Smith and Charles Dra- |
her of Lancaster, W. DePerrot, of!
Lititz; George Clauss, Elizabeth-
town and George Houck, guest of
Walter Sloan.
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ACCIDENT VICTIM IViPROVED
6, son of Mr. andy
Mrs. Claude Rehrer, 218 Mt. Joy |
St., has been released from the |
General Hospital where he under- |
per- |
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Douglas Rehrer,
went an emergency operation,
formed by Dr. Atlee,
al of a kidney. He
when he fell on a wheel spoke of |
several |
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for the remov-
was injured
his bieycle at his home
weeks ago.
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FLORIN GIRL, FIVE, THINKS
LANCASTER QUITE A CITY
Marian Gerlitski, Florin,
came lost ameng the North Queen
about
was
be-
Street shopping enthusiasts
4:45 p. m. Saturday. She
taken to the police station, where
her mother claimed her about 15 |
minutes later.
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Mrs.
birthday
Russel Kramer celebrated
last Monday, Dec. 5.
1
ner
A. H. Summy Gets
Hearing; GaveBail
For March Court
Summy, Jr., thirty-
this boro, charged with
voluntary manslaughter as the re-
sult of a fatal automobile accident
was held fcr the March term of
Court at a hearing before Alderman
J. Edward Wetzel
He posted $1,000 bail
released.
Summy
which figured in a two-car
on the new Harrisburg
the East Petersburg road
tion on Oct. 30. His
law, Wm. Beamenderfer,
seven, was killed
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RUSSELL BRETZ., FLORIN, NOW
FACES A SERIOUS CHARGE
Monday evening, Elmer Zerphey,
Deputy Sheriff, arrested Russell
Bretz, Florin, on a warrant from
York Co., on a serious charge. Bretz
furnished $500 bail for his appear=-
ance in the York County Court.

Abram H.
one, mn-
and was
automobile
crash
pike at
intersec-
father-in-
fifty -
drove the

in charge of the
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The Mount Joy Bulletin
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Lt ANCASTER COUNTY Mortuary Record
Throughout This
Entire Locality

Samuel M. Friday, sixty-six, at
1 5 5 r } Mountville
You, 30 29 Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, December 15, 1949 $2.00 a Year in Advance " : fe of Wm. Grove, at
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Futons Are Drawn
For Coming Courts
The names of 389 jurors were
to serve during the 1950 criminal
and civil sessions of Lancaster Co.
courts.
Beatrice Shuman, of Florin, and
Dorothy W. Kauffman, of Landis-
ville were drawn as Grand Jurors
for March 13.
The following Petit Jurors were
drawn from this district:
March 13
Maud O. Miller, of this boro: E.
Ellsworth Brandt, Maytown; Leroy
T. Geib, Manheim R2; John H.
Kraybill, Rheems.
Common Pleas Jan. 9
Grace Shank, Rheems; Frank H.
Shenck, Landisville.
Common Pleas Jan. 16
Elizabeth Strickler, Mount Joy;
W. H. Myers Jr, Florin; Ruth E.
Newcomer, Maytown; Jesse Mum-
ma, Mt.
Joy.
Common Pleas March 27
Mildred Kreider, Mt.
Ruth N. Felty, Maytown;
Roland, Mount Joy R1.
sm Wien.
NEWTOWN SCHOOL SOLD TO
R. H. ARNDT, FOR $3200.00
Rapho Township School District
cold the Newtown School Building
and lot at public
Rev.
town,
Florin; Effie E. Barnhart,
Joy R1;
John D.
sale on Saturday.
Raymond H. Arndt of New-
was the purchaser at $3,200.
C. S. Frank was auctioneer.
The building is a 1% story brick,
lot 40 ft by 62 ft, with
good hot- furnace,
and acre lot..
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ANNIVERSARIES
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Keene cele-
brated their fifth wedding anni-
versary on Monday, Dec. 12th.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Z. Derr
of Marietta Avenue will celebrate
their Friday, De-
slate roof,
electricity, air
anniversary
cember 22nd.
on

ee
Legion Fetes
Auxiliary At
Turkey Dinner
Tuesday evening the American
Legion Auxiliary held their Decem-
ber meeting at the Post Home with
forty-eight members present.
Mrs. Edw. Brown, president, was
meeting, when
these donations were approved:
| Child Welfare $12.00; Rehabilitation
$12.00; Special Rehabilitation $17.-
60, National Security, $2.00
As a combined Christmas and
birthday gift to their Orphan at the
Scotland Home, a flash camera, with
bulbs and films will be purchased.
Gifts will be given to three vet-
erans and two veteran families.
After the exchange of gifts by the
Auxiliary members, they were serv-
ed a delicious turkey dinner by the
American Legion.
The next meeting will be held on
Tuesday, January 10 at 8 o'clock.
el Or
Justice H. O’Neil
Hears Motorists
For Violations
Henry O'Neil, Justice of the peace
of Mount Joy Township, reported
these hearings at his office for auto

violations:
Russell W. Bretz, Florin, appre-
i hended by Motor patrolman, Joseph
G. Fliss, charged with driving with
license suspended. Bretz waived a
hearing at $500 bail for court.
Charles Graff, Harrisburg, and
Henry F. Merkel Jr., Pittsburgh,
both improper passing by Patrol-
man, Wm. J. Devlin.
Thomas S. Mumma, Marietta R1,
speeding by patrolman Joseph C.
Rogan.
Walter L. Greenawalt, Lancaster,
Pa., speeding charged by Patrolman
T. M. Nagle.
Janet F. Deitrick, Elizabethtown,
R3, speeding, charged by Patrolman
Leo Moran.
Otto Miller, Pittsburgh, improper
passing, charged by Patrolman Wm.
J. Devlin.


SECOND OFFENDER GIVEN
THREE MONTHS AND FINE
Joseph Edward Wells,
Undalk, Md.,
drunken driving charges and as a

thirty-two
pleaded guilty to
second offender, was fined $200 and
costs and jailed for three months
by Judge Wissler in court Friday
morning.
The Court dated back the jail
sentence to Nov. 2, when Wells
was committed.
Chief of police Parke E. Neiss
testified that Wells fell from his
motorcycle in Mt. Joy on Nov. 2.
“1 asked Wells what
was and he replied: ‘I just
a fifth of whisky’ ” Neiss
Wells was arrested in Manheim on
similar charges in 1946 hid
pleaded guilty.
The 15th Annual
Christmas Carol |:
At East Donegal
The fifteenth
Carol Service will be held in the au- |
ditorium of the East Donegal Twp.
High School Wednesday, Dec
21 at eight o'clock. The three
school choirs, totaling one hundred
forty-five voices will participate in
the service.
his trouble
drank |
said
and


annual Christmas
on
The combined choirs will join in
a candlelight precessional and the |

singing of three carcls, Silent
Night by Bruber; Beautiful Savior
arranged by Christiansen and |
|
arrangement |
Christ Was Born an

by Scholin of an old Greek carol i
The traditional telling of the |
Christmas story will be done by the |
Girls’ Choir when they sing a
Christmas cantata entitled, Beth-
lehem. The remainder of the
program will be as follows;
Mixed Chorus, O Rejoice Ye
Christians Loudly.
Girls’ Choir, The Scng the Angel
Sang.
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LEGION MEETING
The December meeting of the
Walter S. Ebersole Post, No. 185
was convened at the Post Home
on Thursday evening.
Three bids were received for an
air conditioning and purifying air
system, to be installed in the Post
Home.
Donations were made to March
of Dimes $10.00;
$10.00; the two families left home-
less by fire, $25.00 each; Bey Scout
Christmas Party, $35.00.
The folding
chairs and tables for the basement
game room and will buy an addres-
sograph machine and have decided
on re-establishing the hlood dcnor
list.
Tuberculosis,
Legion purchased

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LOCAL BUS DRIVER NABBED
IN $400 MONEY THEFT
Earl Styer,
Marion St.,
driver
E’town,
637 E
CTC
Lancaster
thirty-one,
Lancaster a
between
bus |
and
picked mcney bag |
$373 $23. -
95 in checks when he stopped at
up a
containing in cash and
Market and Main Streets The |
money was dropped by Ralph |
Eshleman.
Styer was arrested and velunod s
the money but said he burned
the checks. At a hearing he
gave bail for court.
SUFFERED NOSEBLEED
ENTERED HOSPITAL
Mrs. Anna Mae Longenecker,
ty-eight, 127 East Main St. this
who suffered a severe nose-
bleed Monday, was admitted to the
Lancaster General Hospital when it
became uncontrollable. Her
night was
satisfactory by authorities who said
the bleeding had been stopped.
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MARIETTA SCHOOL
APPROVES THE MERGER
The School Board meeting
day night, approved the
joint school district of
Mount Joy Borough
Donegal Twp.
Arrangement are being made for
a meeting of representatives from
each of the districts with M. W.
Brandt, assistant county school
superintendent. No date was set
for the session but it is expected
to be held within two weeks.
Six=-
boro,
condi-
tion Tuesday termed

Thur-
proposed
Marietta,
and East

{ Farland,
| ABOARD THE
Walter Eshelman
Heads Salunga
Fire Company
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Walter Eshelman was elected |
president of the Salunga Fire Co |
for his third year, at the monthly |
meeting Wednesday night |
Other officers elected are: Ray |
Wiley, vice president; Harold My- |
ers, second vice-president; Em- |
manuel Bomberger, secretary, |
sixth year; Robert Brubaker,
treasurer, third year; Wilbur Hei- |
stand, fire chief, 16th year: Char- ig
| les Myers, assistant fire chief, 7th
year; John Kendig, engineer;
Christ Keller, assistant; Albert
Heistand, trustees for three years.
Named by the president were :
Clarence
Char-
mmittee, |
|
|
Hornberger |
membership ¢
Mowrey, Jr.,, Harry Blessing,
Stouffer,
entertainment,
Charles Myers,
old Rittenhouse,
Welfare, Stanley
Walters;
James
Wilbur
Christ
Harold
Hossler, William
William Mec-
Clarence Mowery
lieutenant, Benjamin Hess, Hunter
Pettit, Ray Wiley, Victor Sterbach;
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JOHN HH. WILLIAMS, OF TOWN
USS DIODON
USS Dio-
departed from her
San Calif .,
cruise to Acapulco,
Howard Williams,
USN, of
les
Heistand, |
Har
Myers;
Keller
fire police,
captain,
the submarine
has
port of
Aboard
don, which
home Diego,
on a two week
Mexico, is John
engineman, third class,
205 North Barbara St., this bcro.
The Diodon, a Guppy-Snorkel
submarine, will be the first of
this type to visit Acapulco, well
known as a tourist resort. On
the trip she will carry 26 West
Coast Reserves, who are aboard
for training duty.
Williams graduated from Mount
Joy High School before enlisting
in the Navy
As an
Williams
in his department while underway
insect Miler
in June 1947
the
instruct the reserves
engineman on sub,
will


| ALL MT. JOY HIGH TEAMS
{ WILL. BE CALLED “RAMS
Mount Joy High School's varsity |
athletic teams have acquired a new
nickname
Without a nickname ever since
its crganization, the school’s stu-
dent body voted for one and the
result is the “Rams”
In the future, therefore, all var- |
sity teams representing Mt. Joy |
High will be known as the Mt. |
Joy High Rams
nes
Week's Birth Record |
| heard,
{12; John
Mr. and Mrs. James Landis, Sa-
| lunga, a daughter Monday at the
General Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. George Bender, |
Mount Joy RD2, a daughter at|
Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital on |
Sunday
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| ler 10.
VACATIONED IN NEW YORK
Mr. D. Clyde Oberholtzer, local
superintendent, and Mrs.
Oberholtzer,
New
they
were vacationing in
City
had the
York last week where |
pleasure of seeing an |
hour reproduction
Radio City
Rich
current hit
three
Nativity at
also saw
HIPressiy ee,
of the
They and
“As
Irene
Buddy Clark in the

The Girls Go.”
They joined their son in Trenton, | Ephrata and Lititz will employ
New Jersey, Thursday | outside collectors Jan. 1 to collect
TTT | al outstanding head taxes.
PROGRAM AT MILTON GROVE | The 218 stalls in Lancaster Cen-
A Christmas program will be | tral Market were all re-leased with-
held at the Milton Grove School | cut a sale this year. They brought
on Tuesday evening, Dec. 20 at | $32,735.
730 p. m Dialogues, recitations Edwin Young, sixty-seven, of
and songs will be rendered by the | York, was killed when a tree he
pupils. The Miller Sisters Trio | cut down fell on him.
of Florin will have music Par- | Over 10.000 persons used the rec-
ents and friends are invited. | reation park at Safe Harbor for
The teacher is Ethel Mae Long- | picnicing the past Summer.
enecker, The Drive-ur-Self auto business |
PE Er al Lancaster was sold to a Reading |
AUTO VIOLATIONS man for $158,000. |
These motorists were summoned Ray Y. Baker, Manheim, is ex-
for hearings before Justice of the | hibiting his poultry at a New York
Peace Samuel Harple, Elizabeth- | show this week.
town, for traffic violations: Joseph | NYY ———
W. Wolgemuth, R1 Mt. Joy, | LETTERS GRANTED
R1
Bainbridge following too close
ing stop sign; Robert B. Stoner,
another vehicle
‘Women Societies |
| Spangler,
Quick Reading
Activities of Two |
Community Farm
Women
locality
Farm Societies through- |
active. |
Num- |
and 8. |
Farm Women No. 8 |
of Farm Wo-
installed !
out this are quite
Appended are the doings of
hers 2
Three new
Society
the
cflicers
No. 8
Saturday
men’s were
during afternoon ses-
sion at the Landisville fire
with Mrs. J.
hall |
Clarence Reist as
alled by
der Jr,
Inst Mrs
president,
Grei-
Mrs.
Jay R.
were:
Aaron Longenecker,
secretary; Miss
recording
corresponding |
Anna Mae Eby, |
secretary; and Mrs. |
Charles |
A fea
a reading of |
by Mrs
caster,
of Mrs.
Assisting
Mrs
Felty,
ware of
treasurer.
the program was
The Christmas Story
Charles Workman,
Devctions were
Alvin Reist.
the
Paul Erb,
Lan-
in charge
were |
Hotten- |
|
hostess
|
There
|
Mrs. I. H.
stein and Mrs. Alvin Reist.
were 29 members and a number of
guests present,
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HAROLD HERR, THIS BORO

SHOT ALBINO DEER SAT.
Harold Herr, of town, bagged an
albino deer near Pine Grove in
Schuykill County, reported Sat-
urday night. The white deer
weighed 85 pounds, Mr. Herr
said.
The loca] nimrod said that he
had seen the rare doe on a pre-
vious hunting trip to the same lo-
cality and that he had been seek-
ing it for some time. He was
rewarded with a shot at it on
Saturday.
Other members in the party
were Abner Weaver, William Way
and Walter Gibbons all of town.
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The High Schools
Honor Roll For
Second Period
Mount Joy High School announc-

es its honor roll for the second re-
port period.
First Honor Roll —All A's.

Second Honor Roll—At least 2 A's
and nothing lower than a B.
First Barbara Ranck 12, Elinor |
Lane, Nancy Swanson 9; Patsy |
Schroll, Miriam Tyndall, Constance |
| Lane 8; Joyce Metzler, Peter Niss- |
3 y 1.
Second—Sam Dock, Marian Bren-
cman, Fredine Gehman, Shirley Re-
Richard Frank
Bowman, Jerry Shupp,
Richard Tyndall 11; Sally Ann Nis-
sley, Marian Oberholtzer, Mary Ann
Marlene Zimmerman, El-
Loretta Kline, Mir-
ium Oberholtzer, Georgianne Shat- |
to, Barbara Shelley, Claudette Zel-
Jean Wagner,
eanor Hostetter,
Jay Barnhart, Clair Wagner, Mary |
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AED Wee on.
Brief News From
The Dailies For
Fannie Strickler, Elizabethtown,
executrix of the estate of Cathrine
D. Kline, late of Mount Joy,

Columbia aged thirty-four.
WM. BRIAN WILL RECEIVE
> . SEP Bowers, twent -eight, of
CRETIFICATY: up NER Everything That on at the General
William F. Brian, of Newcomer | Hy
| Motors, Inc., here, will be award- | If d A Mi Ella Kahler Brenner, eigh-
ed a certificate of merit at a Busi- | appene t tv-nine, widow of Abram Brenner,
ness Management Council banquet . it the Oreville Mennonite Home.
for Chevrolet dealer accountants Florin Recently William Hengst, eighty-nine, at
at the Penn Harrisburg Hotel, Har- | | Manheim on Sunday. He was a
risburg Wednesday December 14 | The annual Community Christ { member of the East Fairview
The special certificate will be (as Party 0, io Said I he A Church of the Brethren
presented for outstanding perfor- | December 16. All Fire company
mance and meritorious service in [ members attending this party will | Katheyn Heimel
the proficient handling of a busi- [please meet at the Fire Hall and Miss Kathryn “Heimel, seventy-=
ness management program spon- [ proceed to the m 2 hody seven Chickies, died in the Colum=
sored ly Chevrolet Fifty-eight Romy ig | Id fifte on build hia Hospital of a complication of di=-
| other accountants in the Harris- oy Harel roe enses. She had beer taken to the
burg Zone of the Chevrolet Mo- | Groff hospital last Friday evening by Col=
tor Division will be awarded certi- Mr. Calvin Herr has purchased | police after neighbors re-
ficates, according to J Vv White |e Howard Ma pronesiy ported that she wis ill in the cabin
| zone manager. Lane oo ii Hoye info the dwells where she resided alone.
More than 150 guests are ex Mrs. Levin Aukerman of Eliza Jorn in Ironville, a daughter of
pected to attend the hLanquet,|hethtown culled on Mr. and Mrs the late Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
which will include a program of [George Mumper Saturday
Heimel, she resided in Chickies for

Christmas entertainment. Offi- The Ladies Aid Society of the ie i .
cers for the coming vear by each Church of the Brethren met at the | the past 11 years and was a former
{ fi Ah Rheems Church on Tuesday to sew. | member of the Concordia Lutheran
of the live rungs nm Hie zone, Mr. and Mrs. William Beck were | Church. Surviving are a sister, Mrs.
Sunday supper guests of Mr. and | Baker, Lancaster R2; and a
| Mrs. Paul Arndt :
her of ces and nephews.
W ddin Th t Mrs. Sarah Schlegelmilch and My, | "Wer 91 nieces and nel
e gs ruou Edward Henderson returned to!
their home on Sunday after spend- | TRACTOR TRAILER CRASHED
Our Community | ing the week near State College INTO A PARKED TRAILER
Mr. George Mumper spent Wed- Two large tractor trailer trucks
Ww k | nesday = J A Mr. and were damaged ohout 1:20 a. m.
o Page . :
uring ast ee Tho age _ | Thursday four miles northwest of
{ FOURTEEN MOTORISTS HAD E'town but both drivers were un-

injured.
| Edith H. Girvin | cARDS WITHDRAWN
Charles F. Humphreys II | Fourteen motorists from this doth et rge vehicles were heads
The marriage of Miss Edith H. | section of the state had their | ed toward E'town on toute 230
Girvin, daughter of Mrs. Paul L. | cards withdrawn last week by the | {rem Middletown.
Musser, Mount Joy RDI, to Char- | Bureau of Highway Safety. Harris- | The truck driven by Salvador P.
les F. Humphreys II, son of Harry | burg for infractions of the State | Penna, twenty-four, of Harrisburg,
S. Humphreys, Lincoln Highway | Motor code was parked. Penna told State
West, tock place Saturday after- | Thirty-four other drivers from Policeman Leo Moran that the
noon at Otterbein Evangelical U. | this area had their privileges re- | Year axle of his truck had snap-
B. Church with Rev. LeRoy Feg- | stored ped, causing the trailer to come to

ley officiating. | Those to lose their licenses in- | @ stop partially out into the road-
The bride was given in mar- | cluded: way.
riage by her step-father, Paul L. Intoxication, failure to stop, dis- | The other truck driven by Law=-
Musser. Miss Gladys E. Hum- | close identity and render assistance | rence E. Omasta, twenty-one,
phreys, sister of the bridegroom | Walter S. Nissley, Florin Ford City, Pa., struck the parked
was maid of honor and Donald M. Intoxication, Quintard Cornman | vehicle at the forward end of the
Good was best man. {Jr., Devon, Chester County. | trailer portion of the rig. Omasta
After a short wedding trip the UB vee. | told State Policeman Moran that
couple will reside at 340 College | MISS DRESCHER, PARTICIPANT | he did not see the parked vehicle
Avenue Lancaster. Miss Gladys Drescher, Landis- | in time to avoid the collision.
— [ ville, took part in a program to | Damage to each vehicle was es~
Anna Mae Swayne | be presented by the Findlay Col- timated at about $200
John Richard Geig | lege, acapella chciy at the annual | TTT
Miss Anng Mae Swayne, col- | AUTOIST HELD FOR COURT
daugh- |C hristmas Convocation of the
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence | lege Sunday afternoon in Findley Raymond C. Findley, Manheim
Swayne, Lancaster and John Ri- | { Ohio. R2. charged with operating an
(Turn to page 2 mt =r] — witomobile after his license was
gl en 1-11 MINSTREL SHOW WILL suspended, was held for Court at
LINTON-HORNBERGER BE GIVEN HERE SATURDAY + hearing before Alderman Wetzel
ACCIDENT TRIAL Fifty members of various 4-H | last night. He posted bail. Findley
Robert A. Linton, Ephrata went | Clubs will have parts in the an- | was arrested by Policeman Peter
on trial Tuesday before Judge | nual 4-H Ministrel Show which I'. Oreszko
Schaeffer on charges of failing to | will be presented at two points in —" A
stop at the scene of an accident. | the county this week The show | FUTURE FARMERS CHAPTER
The charges grew out of a minor | is sponsored by the Boys’ and | PLANS ATHLETIC MEET
iccident October 18 on the road be- | Girls’ 4-H Council of Lancas- | A county-wide athletic meet fp
tween Salunga and Ironville. | ter County The first will be pre- | members of the Lancaster County
H. K. Honberger, Salunga, testi- |sented at the West Lampeter | Chapter, Future Farmers of Am-
fied that the truck he was operat- | Township High School in Lampeter | erica will be held next Spring,
ing was sideswiped by the auto-|on Friday and the second at the | it was announced at the annual
mobile operated by Linton which [High School building in Mt. Joy | meeting of the Chapter in the
failed to stop. | borough, on Saturday, both sched- | East Donegal Twp. High School at
Under cross examination Hon- uled to start at 8 p. m Maytown
failed to per- | TI.
COLLECTED $115 FOR FOREIGN
tl A Ae ce wv
CHRISTMAS PARTY AT RHEEMS
berger denied that he
mit Linton to pass his light truck. |
The trial was resumed Wednes- MISSIONS AT IRONVILLE | A Christmas party, consisting of
day. ———— | The Evangelical United Brethren | hvmns and anthems, will be pre-
bith | Sund: School collected $ for | sented | y fr i
en pr | Sunday School collects $115 fo sented by the C.B.Y.S. of Chiques
PROMINENT MAYTOWN MAN foreign missions at the Thanksof- | and West Greentree Church of the
FRACTURED SHOULDER tering service Sunday. Mrs. Iona | Brethren, on Sunday. December 18
ig eighty-nine a | Metzger, president of the Irvonville | at 7:30 p. m. in the Rheems Church
prominent armer of Maytown, { Women's Society for World Service, | of the Brethren, Rheems
fell down three steps at his home | yw. in charge of the service rm —— ee
on the Square on Wednesday and | — =
fractured his left shoulder E t
He was treated at St. Joseph's Or an Delication «ngagemen S
Hospital and returned to his home g =
Hoffman was carrying a large box | Of Well Known
of Christmas cards, when he had | At Landisville
slipped and fell Hoffman, who | I, | Rr id
will celebrate his 90th birthday | Sund 2 oca €sl ents
cn April 23 spends considerable | ay p. m. The engagement of Miss Anna
time on his farm every day | A new two-manual Mohler Pipe Metzler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
y { Organ has recently been installed Harvey E. Metzler, Manheim R2, to
NOW JOHN IS 91 . : Luke J. Shank, s f Ham
: “ « . |in the Church of God at Landis Re Wl. JON © arvey
John H. Mellinger, Silver Spring | Shank. Chambersburg R1
y a . : ville, of which Rev. Raymond H.| hank, Chambersburg Rl, was an-
Wednesday quietly celebrated his : : recently. Miss M is
> ' rie Diahl is pastor, and will be dedi nounced recently. Miss Metzler is a
91st birthday by receiving a num- | hwdant hy the 1
I F pelati 3 cated on Sunday afternoon, Decem- | Student nurse at the -ancaster
ver of relatives and friends at his yeneral H f 195
home ber 18, 1949 at 2 p. m General ospital, class of 1950. My.
: . E | The of i hs | : Shank is pastor of Pond Bank Men-
Mr. Mellinger is the founder of Be church has been nite Church, Chambersburg, and
a . no > "Ch, namoers
cne of the first Mennonite Sunday | €d throughout, and several new :
also 1s engaged in school teaching.
doors and stairways made to meet : =
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the State Department of Labor and Mr Mrs
Industry The floor of
Schools in this area at Paradise in
1887.
and Peter Bitsoli, cf
eet ee requirements.
Hempstead, L. 1 announce the
TOBACCO BRINGS 25-10¢ both the main Sunday School room ;
: ig i" : engagement of their daughter Eli-
rowers are re v y 308 ay an 1e Sanctuar ave we OV = - .
i i reporting scattered | anc : A ctuary Je Jon co abeth to C. Robert Nissly, son of
sales ot artly stri > aC at { ered will, new carpet, the an o :
partly strippe d tobacco at : I e hardwood | ny. ung Mrs. H Roy Nissly of
25 and 10 cents. It is reported more | floors of the basement classrooms Flcrin
. ’ | 3 >
than 2000 acres o > '49 or ave | have been sanded : shed, anc ii 4
2 acres of the 49 crop have n sanded and finished, and Miss Bitsoli is a graduate of
been sold. {| @ new steam heat plant and oil
{ Port Washington High School |
EE | burner have been installed | Mr. Nissly of Mt. Joy =
LETTERS GRANTED ga
| The morning service on Sund iy | Schocl and Ursinu
Stella D. Oberholtzer, West Don- will be in the nature of a prepara- | is associated with 3 ol yi
egal Twp, administratrix of the | tion for dedication, with the ser-|the tolacco manufacturing busi-
estate of Harry D. Oberholtzer, Tote / mon by the pastor, whose subject | ness in Florin.
of West Donegal Twp { (Turn to Page 6) l (Turn to Page 4) x 1