Td ES DEES NIE pu EN Ohh DUNE PEs DEE DENS EEN DENS SEES Cs 190 © neh a Ve bpd alg Vary PRE ol ag GIR BE HY RT eg Th yah High School Activities MOST UP - -THE-M The Mount J oy Bull INUTE WwW E Baccalaureate, at 28 EKLY N LANCASTER Class Day, May 29 clin COUNTY \ VOL. XLIX, NO. 52 its mournfu | As the Stars and Stripes dipsin tribute to those who died, and the bugle blows pause to honor once again the brave sacrifice of those who fought so gallantly to preserve the freedom we hold dear. Let us honor them in the only way they would understand . practising the democracy they fought to maintain. | “taps”, we .by Thirty Units To | MemoriaDayinMt.Joy March In Parade Morning Program 10:00 A. M. Memorial Services at Mount Joy Cemetery: America, As- At Salunga Satur. sembly; Invocation, Rev. John Ga- . | ble. Address, Rev. Ezra Ranck; More than thirty musical and Decorating of the Graves; Salute to marching units from ten boroughs the Dead, Firing Squad: Star and the Marietta Depot will march Spangled Banner, Assembly; Taps. in a parade at Salunga on Satur- | 11:00 A. M. Memorial Services cay, May 27 to mark the housing at Eberle Cemetery: America, As- of a newly-acquired unit of fire- sembly; Invocation, Rev. John Ga- fighting apparatus which will take ble; Address, Rev. Ezra Ranck; place after the parade at 4:00 p.m. | Decorating of the Graves. Salute The organizations in the parade to the Dead, Firing Squad; Star lineup will be from Mt. Joy, Col-| Spangled Banner, Assembly; Taps. umbia, Ironville, Silver Spring, E.| Conducted by W. S. Ebersole Petersburg, Rohrerstown, Landis- Post 185 and V. F. W. Post 5752. ville, Manheim, Salunga, and the Afternoon Program Marietta Depot. 3:00 P. M. Memorial Day Parade. Salunga Firemen announced at a| 4:30 P. M. Housing of Fire Engine. special meeting that the marchers Evening Program will move at 3:00 p.m. on E. Main In Borough Park at 7:00 P. M.— St., Salunga. The procession will | Promotion (March) Mt. Joy High move west on Main St, to Broad | School Band; Warming Up (March) St., and stop at Hiestands mill yard | pe. Joy H. S. Band; America, Led where an outdoor program of music bv Mr. Samuel Harnish, Assembly; and speakng will be presented. 1. cation, Rev. C. F. Helwig; Bar- (Turn to Page 2) carolle - by Offenbach, Mt. Joy H. ye S. Band Vive L'amour High School 1950 VFW Buddy) it Poppy Sale To Be Held May 26- 30 jes announced at the reorganiza- The 29th annual nationwide WN tion meeting. Regular indoor class- dy Poppy sale of the Veterans of | es are being discontinued for the Foreign Wars will be conducted | summer but outdoor sketching throughout the country, will be in] classes are to be held. Monday ev- Mount Joy this Friday, Saturday, | ening, the group will leave from Monday and Tuesday, according to | the rear of the Union National Martin Brown, Commander of V.| Bank at 5:45 and proceed to the F. W. Post 5752. | Robert Eshleman farm, between Mt. The sale will be conducted by | Joy and Elizabethtown. Linneaus Post 5752 and its Ladies auxiliary. | Longenecker is instructor for this Funds raised by the sale will be} sketching glass... used to carry on the extensive vet- tran welfare program of the Gold | 34 LOSE THEIR LICENSES Chevron V. F. W. America’s ald- | Last week the State Bureau of erseas fight-| Highways lifted thirty-four driv=- ers cards for various infractions of MT. JOY ART CLASS STARTS OUTDOOR SKETCHING CLASS New members will be accepted into the Mount Joy Art Class it et est organization of ov ing men. “The large majority of the pro- the motor code. ceeds,” announced Commander | Driving privileges were restored Brown, “will remain in Mt. Joy to to a number of drivers including be used locally for needy veterans ! Russell W. Bretz Jr. of Florin and and their dependents.” IN. Harold Kolp, of this place. Other phases of veteran welfare | maintained, partly, by proceeds! IN AN AUTO CRASH ; from the annual Buddy Poppy sale Charles R. Engle, 215 Marietta are national in scope. They include | Ave., this boro, figured in a collis- the nationwide program of veteran | ion at Lancaster with a CTC bus (Twn to Page 6) and another car. No one was hurt. Outdoor Sketching Course Is Planned atDonegal Springs “Sunday amateurs painters”, beginners and wish a foundation sketching will be able at the little red schoolhouse at historic Donegal who in outdoor to obtain instruction Springs beginning this week-end. Classes in landscape painting will be taught at the school building by Miss Martha Harnish, Mt. Joy R1, for six weeki-ends through June 2. After that Miss Harnish will leave for North Carolina, in charge of the art department at a workshop camp. She will teach in oil, watercolor and pastels at Don- egal Springs. Classes will remain “open”, that students may at- tend at their convenience, and en- roll at any time. Miss Harnish has studied Walter Emerson Baum, well known landscape painter, and at the Eliot O'Hara Watercolor School in Maine. She attended the Ringling School of Art and the Tampa Art Institute. She won first prize for a figure piece in the 1948 Annual, a national art show at Huckleberry, N. C., in 1948. where she is SO under etl Qe VERY WELCOME VISITORS Last Wednesday Miss Anna Mae Hoover and brother Theodore Hoo- ver, of Lancaster, very pleasant call at’ this office to see the editor. We were all schoolmates at Donegal Springs sixty-three years ago and even though we were residents of this community since, Miss Hoover and the editor each other since made a ever have not seen leaving school. A eee EXTINGUISH CHIMNEY FIRE Slight damage was caused by a chimney fire at the home of Amos Longenecker, Elizabethtown R.D. 1. The fire started in a defective fire place and evidently smouldered all night. — etl COMMUNITY EXHIBIT MEETING A meeting of the Directors and Chairmen of the Mount Joy Com- munity Exhibit will be held at the Fire House on Friday evening, May 26th at eight o'clock. Please attend this meeting. 3 East Hempfield Considers Taxing Trailers $2 Month The trailers move to tax “free-riding” in Lancaster spreading, County is A second township school board to levy a $2 a trailer has announced monthly plans tax on dwelling family in the township. The E. Hempfield Twp. school board gave notice that it will con- sider a special meeting to be held the at Landisville. this week at township high school A similar $2 tax will come up for adoption by the East Lampeter Twp. school board at its meeting Friday. The taxes would be levied on each (Turn to page 2) Girl Seon Troop On 6-Day Tour Of New England-Can. Members of Girl Scout Troon No. 108, their leader. a nurse, and the other adult Girl Scout workers will of Canada for more than 29 days a six-dav tour New England states June 10. Scouts are Jean Dar- renkamp, Lorraine Darrenkamp, Peggy Fackler, Shirley Hawthorne, Doris Linton, Sally Ann Nissley, Georganne Shatto, Marian Smith, Mary Ann Spangler, Helen Sprout, Mary Jane Starr, Jean Wittle, and Marlene Zimmerman. The leader is Mrs. George Albert, Mary Stoner will be the nurse, and Mrs. Spangler and Mrs. George Shatto, adult Girl Scout workers will assist and drive. leave on and the 5 to June also. The group is taking the trip a year’s preparation and finane-" (Turn to page 2) ee nl TWO LOCAL CHURCHES WILL BENEFIT THRU BOWMAN WILL One left to two local churches by the late Milton C. Bowman, of town, ac- cording to terms of his will filed for ter eee ee thousand dollars were $22,000 and upwards, ac The remainder, valued at cording to the will. besides the church bequests goes Mary R. Bowman, sister of the deceased, is named executrix. Be Activities of Our Police Officer Police Chief Park Neiss’ for the past week included four ov- collision and to relatives. report erloaded trucks, one a theft. The same two juvenile boys who last week broke into Hostetter's hardware store the News $1.00, from display counter at Kulp’s Agency Monday night. Officer Neiss was called, the boys the gun the pistol, valued at apprehended, and Neiss reported were returned. inci- dent to juvenile officer Barnes, at Lancaster. The names of the youths are be- ing withheld by The Bulletin. Neiss investigated an accident on West Main St., Sunday evening, when Charles Medley, West Ches~ ter, hit the rear of a car driven by (Turn to Page 3) ver eee tt Siem et FESTIVAL BY ST. HILDA'S GUILD, SATURDAY, JUNE 3 Saturday, June 3rd, St. Hilda's Guild of St. Lukes Episcopal Church, plans the annual straw- berry festival on the church lawn. Menu include chicken corn soup, chicken sandwiches, salad, hot dogs, cake, coffee, strawberry sundaes. Festival will be held from 5 to 8 p. m. and will feature a Fish Pond J for the children, will potato ,and for BB's took a toy | trailers used for dwelling purposes ' year, | | probate. markable Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, May 25, 1950 MOUNT JOY HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI PLAN BANQUET Plans are being made for the 54th | annual Mount Joy High School | banquet, to be held June 8, 1950, at | 7:30 in the Mount Joy High School Auditorium. After meeting, dinner Eli Hostetter, a short business will be served by followed by card tra. Officers of the organization are John K. Breneman, Pres, Lester G. Hostetter, Treas., and Christine H. i have not received your invitation, i plan to attend by notifying any member of the committee. ——— reer GRANTED A DIVORCE Daniel William Wentzel, thirty- five, Mt. Joy R1, was granted a divorce from Joan Doreen Wentzel, twenty-nine, London, England, the grounds of desertion. They were married January 14, 1944, while the plaintiff was on duty with the U. S.. Armv in England. suit charges that the war bride de- serted and returned to England on 10, 1945. it HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DRIVING TOO CLOSE Four autos were damaged but no one was reported injured in a traffic mishap on Route 230, two miles west of Elizabethtown, about 5 p. m. Saturday. State Police said the four cars, all traveling west, erashed bumper to bumper when a fifth car suddenly stopped in front December James | of them on the & Highway. ‘Here's A Record That May Never Be Equalled One of the finest records ever es- tablished by a scholastic team has been brought to a fitting climax this year when the Mount Jov High School tennis team de- | Five hundred dollars is left to feated Patton Trade School in al the First Presbyterian Church and double header, Tuesday, 5-2 and] a like amount to the Evangelical 8 Congregational Church. The twin triumphs gives the Bowman. who died May 13 at the school the championship of the In-| age of ninety-two left an estate ter-County Tennis League for the | And it is the only school | 16th time. | to win the trophy. Mt. Joy High started on its re- it was entered High and other Class A teams. (Turn to page 4) em ol NEW WHITE OAK DAM IS OK'd BY STATE BODY Construction of a dam on Chick- Creek at White Oak, Rapho its Township, 3 miles north of Man- heim, was approved Tuesday by the General State Authority. The dam would replace one swept a- way by high water some years ago. The White Oak area is now part of a bird sanctuary fostered by the Lititz Bird Club and Harold C. Maybe, Manheim, who owns the land. The dam at White Qak was one of three approved by the General State Authority Tuesday. A— CONOY CREEK POLLUTION CANE FROM GAS WORKS Agents of the State Sanitary Wa- that the tar ter Board reported wastes, which last week polluted the Conoy Creek and killed more than 5,000 fish, came from the Eliza- bethtown Gas Works, now being SCOUT FOOD SALE JUNE 3rd A food sale will be held June 3, at 10 a. m. in front of the Titus Rutt Insurance Office, East Main Street by Girl Scout Troop No. 108. The sale will include baked prod- ucts, salads and candies. The sale is being held to help finance the troop’s trip through Canada and New England playing and dancing. Music will be | furnished by a well-known orches- | some error in the mailing lists, you | The | tennis | record back in 1932 when | in the league with | TT] | schools the caliber of William Penn | $2.00 a Year in Advance Pre-School Exams; DD. Banquet Saturday Evening | East Donegal Township school Examinations Pre- | for who expect to enter the East Don- | egal Twp. September | | will be given Friday, May 26 at 9 | a. m. in the Washington Elementary | | School at Florin and the Maytown | students Schools in Weidman, Sec'y. | Elementary School at Maytown, | Other committee members are | rears of age | Mrs. Lester Roberts, Miss Catharine! on, or before Jan. 31, 1951 if they | Zeller, Miss Mary Stoner, Mrs. Roy | wish to take the examination. No | Packer, Arthur Sprecher, and Ken- | stude nt will be admitted in Sept- neth Gainer. | ember until these Pre-school ex- | All Alumni members are urged | are successfully com- to attend and make this the larg- pleted. : est banquet ever. If, because of The Alumni Banquet The Fifty-first Annual East Don- egal Alumni Banquet will be held Saturday May 27 at 6:30. (Turn to page 3) ————— Mortuary Record ‘Throughout This Entire Locality Enos B. Martin, at Rohrerstown. Miss Susan Matilda Shelly, ty-seven, at Manheim Sunday. Ralph Hipple, at St. evening, { sixty-four, died Six=- seventv-one, Eliz- | abethtown, Joseph’s Hospital on Sunday. Allen R. Hoffer, sixty-four, Man- | heim R1, on Sunday after a three weeks’ illness. | Nathan S. Kupp, seventy-six, Manheim R3, died two weeks after | his wife, Lizzie Ruhl Kupp. Mrs. Katie Weidman Hoffer, | ty-four, Manheim R1, died days after her husband Allen Hof- | of | Six= | two fer. Oliver J. Musser, seventy-two, at Neffsville. Anna K., wife of Henry | G. Sweitzer, Mount Joy R2 is a | daughter. | | Clayton E. Shearer { | Clayton E. Shearer, seventy | | three, Elizabethtown RD, collapsed | | and died Monday on the boulevard | of the Masonic Homes, Elizabeth- | | town, while on his way into Eliza- bethtown. Dr. J. Hoffman Garber, deputy coroner, said death was due to ceronary occlusion. He was a son of the late Michael | | and Barbara Eshelman Shearer and | is survived by a brother, Jacob, of (Turn te Page 5) ee Pee ee SUCH BABY SITTERS Mrs. Geraldine Getz, thirty-one, | | Columbia Rl, was hired as sitter for two boys aged three and | tied them Lake then a baby | two years. She securely to a chair in a trailer at Grubb, locked the trailer went on a shopping trip to Lancas- | ter. She was arrested upon return, | along with Mrs. Catharine Stoy, | who owned the trailer. A — SILVER SPRING U. B. CHURCH | A bequest of $14,506 was distrib- | uted to the United Brethren Church | of Silver Spring from the estate of Leah H. Heidler, West Hempfield | Twp. | Judge John L. Bowman approved | distribution of another $14,506 from | the to the Silver Spring | Cemetery Association. | ete sie ian CAUGHT 32-LB. CARP "A 37 inch carp, weighing 32 Ibs. | was caught by Bill Templin, 136 S.| Fourth St., Lebanon, Sunday after- noon in Big Chickies Creek, near Marietta. Templin who said it took] 15 minutes to land the fish, used : estate | { worm for bait. et AD A eres Week's Birth Record operated by the Harrisburg Gas | | Company. | Mr. and Mrs. Martin N. Heisey, | ye of Rheems, a son on Sunday at St. | Joseph’s Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Snavely, Landisville, a daughter Thursday | at the General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baker, a daughter Tuesday at the Lancas- Florin, ter Osteopathic Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Romig, | Florin, a son Tuesday at St. Jos- eph’s Hospital. | the | Class of the | evening. | ter, According to records we have had | be distributed "be located | looting { Lutheran GETS A $14,506 BEQUEST | | ary Societies will be ‘Champ. Carl Rahn Played District ‘Tournament On Sunday, May 20th, Carl Rahn traveled to Coatesville to compete Veterans of Foreign Wars Ninth District Marble Tournament. | Student Rahn Mount Joy's marble champion as the result of the local V. IF. W. organizations’ tournament that was held last in the was month, Rahn a fifth grader was matched the Adamstown entry who eliminated the ‘best-out-of-three” against local champ in the The went on to cap- Lancaster Caunty crown. The found the Ad- amstown champ matched against city champion, who match. Adamstown victor the final match ture Coatesville captured the ninth district erown. Accompanying Rahn on the trip VFW Commander, Martin (Turn to Page 4) —————— —— CAR DAMAGED BY FIRE were: | ON HIGHWAY NEAR RHEEMS estimated $200 was caused by fire in an automobile owned and driven by Wm. Hodg- Peach Bottom RD, Monday near Rheems. The of the car as Hodgson was driving. The blaze damaged carpet sweepers and accessories in the back of the car to the extent of a- $100. Elizabethtown and Rheems Fire Companies were cal- led. Damage at son, blaze broke out in the rear also [os tl A IRONVILLE JOLLY TEN CLASS WILL ENTERTAIN MOTHERS The Jolly Ten Sunday School Ironville Evangelical United Brethren Church enter- tained their mothers at a meeting in the church social room Tuesday Students of the Ironville grades three thru eight, traveled by bus to visit Little America at Ham- burg. ed ‘The Local News For The Past Week Very Briefly Told Raleigh Hughes, of Palmyra, gave the Hershey zoo a white crow. The General Hospital at Lancas- graduated 44 nurses Tuesday. the wettest May to date in 75 years. buying furniture billion dollars are of three Americans at the rate worth a year, The P. P. & IL. $4000,000 addition substation at Lancaster. One of fifteen air raid centers to thruout Penna. will at Lancaster. Transportation has asked Co. will build a to its Engleside The Company at for to 10 cents. Ernest W. Keiper, Reinholds R1, sixty-three Conestoga Lancaster an increase in bus fares from 8 twenty-seven, this county admitted | automobiles | when arrested. = LUTHERAN SOCIETY PLANS FOOD SALE, JUNE 2nd Ladies Aid Society Church have planned food sale for Friday, June 2 Lester E. Roberts store room at five o'clock. chicken cakes, of Trinity their it the beginning On Soup, corn ete. sale will be baked beans, pies, bring soup container. wens Geet SOCIETIES MEET JUNE 13th June 13th a meeting of Donegal Mission=- the Please Tuesday, the Mt. Joy and held in Sunday Joy Church, at Col. Cooke of Marietta will show pictures of Japan. Anyone interest- ed is welcome to the meeting, on A iB Personal Mention Miss Betsy Bigler and Miss Chris- | Weidman visited New York | City over the weekend. They were guests of Miss Mary E. Gerberich eight o'clock tine School | school rooms of the Mount | bP ¥ ere A sg Wg SES Commencement, June 1 Legion Awards To Outstanding Boy And Girl Representatives of the Walter S. Ebersole Post No. 185, American Legion and Auxiliary presented their annual awards to outstanding boy and girl students in the eighth grades of the Mount Joy and Lan= disville schools, Wednesday morn= ing. The assembly at 830 a. m. was attended by all grade school stu- dents. The program: Organ, Colors- American Legion; Devotions, Flag salute, Glee Club “Roses from South” and Country Style”, Princi- pal Wilbur Beahm introduced the Legion representatives, Charles J. Bennett, Jr, past commander. Speaker, Rev. John Gable, his topic “Three Faiths.” The boys a- ward was presented to Charles Mayer by Charles J. Bennett Jr. The former's mother, Mrs. Arthur Mayer, witnessed the presentation. The girl's award was to be present- ed to Patricia Schroll, who was ab- sent due tip illness. After the pro- gram, Mrs. Edward Brown, Mr, (Turn to page 4) Everything That Happened At Florin Recently The Youne Ladies Bihle Clags of Trinity Lutheran Church, Mt. Joy, held its regular monthly meeting ot the home of Mrs. Harry Revnolds At the conclusion of business, luncheon was served and a wide varietv of oricinal ideas were dis- plaved ot a “Kitchen Hat Sale.” Mrs. Douglas visited Mr. and Mrs. K. Franklin at Newtown on Sunday. Mrs. Frances Frank, of town and Mrs. Beniamin Brown of Mount Joy, left this week for Texas where they will visit Mrs. Brown's daugh- ter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Christ Brandt and sisters, Anna and Elizabeth of May- town called on Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Hershey Sunday evening. Miss Nancy Vogel and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Vogel spent 2 days with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hauer, of Farmingdale Road, Lancaster. (Turn to page 3) el QI ees ee. DEEDS RECORDED William R. Selfon, Lancaster, to | Richard E, Coey F. and Jensen H. | Groff, West Lampeter Township, 3 contiguous lots, Manheim Street, Mount Joy. Amanda P. Witmer, Rapho Twp., to Paul S. and Alma C. Weiser, of Florin, premises, 54 - 56 N. Poplar St., Elizabethtown. rn re cnet eee Weddings Thruout Our Community During Past Week The marriage of Miss Mae L. | Kohler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kohler, Quarryville R1, to Clayton E. Heisey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton B. Heisey, this place, took place Saturday in Quarryville Methodist Church. The Rev. Char- les E. Knopp officiated at the doub=- le ring ceremony. Ruth Corrine Metzler Wilmer Nissley Miss Ruth Corrine Metzler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer B. Metzler, Lititz R2, and Wilmer Nissley, son of Mr. Clayton Nissley, of Landisville, were married Satur- day on the lawn at the home of the [ (Turn to Page 6) | TWO MARIETTA MEN KILLED IN AN AUTO MISHAP | John F. MecKain, thirty-eight, and Walter C. Marley, thirty-three, both of Marietta, were killed in- | stantly last Thursday on the Lin- | coln Highway east of Columbia. | Their car was badly wrecked. ret A AI. | MRS. SCHOCK IN HOSPITAL | Mrs. Evetta Schock, seventy-five, who is attending Katharine Gibbs | wife of Clarence Schock, 37 East Secretarial School in the city. BN ——— WA ee | Main Street, was reported in a sa= | tisfactory condition in St. Joseph's MARRIAGE LICENSES | Hospital Sunday night. She was ad- Paul E. Pickel, Manheim, and |mitted to the hospital Sunday as a Joan Stanley Kline, Landisville. | medical patient. Henry Adams Chubb, 125 East | rr A | Emanus St, Middletown, and] IGNORED RED LIGHT Charlotte Ann Bennett, 45 East| John Harold Aument, 42 East Main St, Mount Joy. Herbert B. Shelly, Manheim, and Ethel M. Longenecker, Mt. Joy R2. Main , street, was prosecuted at Lancaster for driving thru a red traffic light. ana
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