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VOL. XLIX,
NO. 52
its mournfu
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-"
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. |
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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|
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.
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| 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