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Centennial Celebration
Decided Success; Parade
Most Spectacular Ever;
A Record Attendance
Mount Joy's Centennial Celebra-
tion brought hundreds of visitors
to the borough from surrounding
communities and a dozen states.
Centennial Ball
Festivities opened Friday night
with 100 couples attending the
costume Centennial Ball at the
Legion Home.
‘While most dress was in the pre-
Civil War style, there were also
many of the Gay Nineties and
even some flapper dresses of the
Twenties.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walters were
named best-looking couple. Walters
wore a black tailcoat and trousers
with. tall top hat, while his wife
was attired in a white dress with
hoopskirt and black gloves and a
shawl.
Mrs. Edwin Hoffmaster, best-
dressed woman, wore black satin
with a high neckline and full sleev-
es, and a black hat. O. K. Snyder,
Jr., best appearing man, took hon-
ors with his handsome beard,
black cutaway trousers, and un=-
usual tall derby.
A surprise feature of the party
was a hugh wheel of cheese, on
which lighted candles spelled out
the words, “one hundred.” This was
Midnight and the
“Happy Birthday,
carried in at
guests all sang,
Mount Joy.”
Holiday Spirit
At least 200 residents of the bor-
ough greeted the day’s visitors in
clothes reminiscent of the turn of
the century, old-fashioned
nickelodean amplified
throughout the town.
Red, white and blue bunting ‘with
the picture of the good ship Mt.
Joy, which gave the borough its
name, brightened many stores and
homes. Patriotic banners added
more color.
while
music was
Store Windows Unveiled
Factory whistles blew and church
bells rang at 9 a. m. to signal the
start of the full round of events
which will be concluded Memorial
Day.
Unveiling of stores
brought back many a
touch of the borough's
year Women
windows
nostalgic
hundred-
history. shopped in
crinolines and bonnets, and beard-
ed menfolk conducted business in
toppers and elegant jackets and
trousers.
The barbers at Shatto’s were res-
plendent in bright colored shirts
with celluloid collars and bow ties,
spats, elastic sleeve holders, vivid
suspenders and hair styled with
middle parts, forehead dips and
rounded necklines. All customers
hair were combed in the same style
and the only reading material was
a 1918 Mount Joy Bulletin.
Window Displays
Greenawalt’'s Jewelry Store in
the West end featured old clocks
and watches, one clock patented in
1886, old shaving mug, old pictures
and his grandfather's 150 year old
coffee cup.
Newcomers Motors Inc. stepped
back many decades to display a
hack and a wagon in vogue before
the days of the Horseless Carriage.
Tyndalls Store presented Civil
War relics of Capt. Wm. Chandler,
who served with the’ 21st Penna.
Cavalry. Guns, confererate money,
saber and a bullet fired from a
swivel gun by John Brown at Har-
per’s Ferry.
Ways Appliance Store featured
old-fashioned nickelodeon music
amplified by modern loud speakers.
An old phonograph music box was
dated 1895. A sugar mallet 1870. Old
razors and a corn sheller 1850. A
replica of the old Cornwall railroad
with engine and tender made by
Frank Ritter in 1889 and irons
showing their evolution and a
Stradivarius violin of 1716, com
pleted the display.
Bortzfield's Store showed old pic-
tures dating back to 1904.
Two old-fashioned bicycles with
huge front wheels stood in Hostet-
ter’'s Hardware store.
Joe Detwiler’s barber shop had
more old pictures and lanterns.
One old picture showed “Big Liz”
the fire engine with a 1920 license.
And a 1912 picture of the Newtown
School with Miss Spring and Mr.
Alvin Shonk, teachers.
Mt. Joy Tile and Linoleum show=-
ed old and new sinks and cup-
boards.
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Ben Brown Gets
Award For Best
1950-51 Athlete
Following on the heels of his
father, who starred in baseball,
basketball and as end in Franklin
and Marshall football, Ben Brown,
all-around athletic star at Mount
Joy High School was given the Mt.
Joy Oldtimers Association award
Monday night as the school’s best
all-around athlete for the 1950-51
school year.
A guard on the Rams’ basketball
team, catcher on the baseball team,
‘goalie on the soccer team, and
Nc. 1 man on the tennis team, Ben
was a big factor in the school’s
great athletic record during the
past school term. He was presented
with luggage and a piague.
Two other awards were also
made to Mount Joy athletes by the
group, Monday night during their
annual banquet in the Walter S.
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Auto Accidents
During The Week
There was a 4-car collision near
the Farm Diner, on Route 230 at
Rheems Monday. The total damage

to cars was $1,050. One of the cars |
was owned by Earl E. Bell, Florin.
Three Were Hurt
Miss Anna Breneman, forty-five,
Columbia, suffered body bruises
and possible rib
the ‘car in which she was riding,
driven by her sister, Miss Eveline
Breneman, forty-eight, skidded al-
most head-on into another vehicle
on Route 141, two miles west of
town at 7:10 p. m. Monday.
Milton A. Siegler, seventy-one,
Quarryville R2, driver of the other
vehicle, suffered a lacerated left
leg and a passenger, Elmer Martin,
twenty-three, Marietta R1, head
lacerations. All three victims were
treated by physicians.
Annual Banquet
Of E. Donegal Hi
Saturday Evening

fractures when |
The fifty-second annual alumni
banquet of East Donegal Township
High School, Maytown will be held
June 2, at 6:30 p. m. DST.
The program; includes:
Solo - “The Lord's Prayer”, Ruth
Musser; Invocation, Rhoda Kauff-
man '37; Welcome, Maris Gainor 16
Presentation of Class; Reception of
Class, Benjamin Funk '31; Remarks
Dr. J. W. Bingeman; Announce-
ments and Business Session; Mas-
ter of Ceremonies. Wilbur Bru-
baker; Piano Solo, John Musser;
Recitation, Barbara Doles; Vocal
Solo, Lorraine Barnhart; Recitation
Carol Ginder; Piano and Vocal Du-
et, Patsy and Ronald Hawthorne;
Recitation, Miriam Roland; Girls
| Trio, Ruth Drescher, Alma Smith,
{ Fanny Ruth Musser; Barber Shop
Quartette - Senior Boys, Wilbur
Brubaker, Ammon Smith, James
Shank, Harold Musser; Travelogue,
Ella Martin '43, Florence Martin '44
Greetings, Anniversary Classes,
“Auld Lang Syne”.
Officers of the East Donegal

Township High School Alumni. As-
sociation are. Maris Gainor, '16,
President; Harry McMullen, Jr., "39
| Vice President; Mary E. Shank, '13
Secretary; Dora Linard Rohrbaugh,
26, Treasurer.
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LADY INJURED WHILE
VISITING SON AT HOSPITAL
Mrs. Bessie L. Bomberger, sixty-
two, Manheim, suffered bruises of
both knees when she fell in the
corridor of St. Joseph's Hospital
while visiting a son, Harold P.
Bomberger, forty-two, Manheim R2
a patient. She was treated at the
hospital.
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ADJUDICATIONS FILED
These adjudications were filed
in the following local estates: Liz-
zie N. Engle, East Donegal Twp.,
$12482; John M. Forry, Rapho

township, $30,400
MOST
VOL. LI. NO. 1
John W. Fisher, 73
Found Dead On a
Rocker At Home
John W. Fisher,
Elizabethtown R1, was found dead
at his home Friday morning by
Grant Sweans and Ralph Kaylor,
both of Elizabethtown RD, who
had stopped to take him to work
at the Masonic Homes, Elizabeth=
town, where he temporarily
employed.
seventy-three,
was
When Swears received no ans=-
wer to his knock, he went into the
living room of his house and found
Mr, Fisher in a rocking
chair, He was fully clothed and
apparently had not been to bed.
Dr. J. Hoffman Garber, Eliza:
bethtown, deputy coroner, said hel
had been dead about four or five
hours and issued a verdict of death
resulting from coronary occlusion.
Dn. Garber said the man had been
under the care of a physician for
seated
some time,
Mr. Fisher was a retired Penn-
sylvania Railroad employe and
was working at the Masonic Homes
because they were short of help.
He had worked a full day on
Thursday, neighbors said.
Surviving are two daughters:
Anna, wife of Sheridan Angstadt,
Hollywood, Fla. and Malel, wife
of Clyde Shenk, of Royalton. He
is also survived by four half broth-
es and one ‘half sister. Andrew
Haines,
of Bainbridge; and Robert and
Clayton Haines, both of Elizabeth-
town, and Mrs. Jonas Leinhart, of
Florin.
A
Skit Is Given For
The Farm Women
A home talent program was giv-
en at the meeting of the Farm Wo-
men’s Society No. 4, Saturday at
the home of Miss Alice Marie Nis-
sley, at Landisville. Mrs. Robert
Nolt presided at the business
meeting when $10 was voted to the
General Hospital.
Mrs. John Musser conducted the
devotions. A skit, “How To Save
Mother,” directed by Mrs. Edna
Nolt, was given byJoanne Brubak-
er, Mary, Stephen and Judy Nolt
Mary Ann Musser and’ Sally Nolt.
Mrs. Eva Nolt Swords was accom-
panist.
Mrs. Ellis Weaver
quiz which was won by Mrs. Rob-
ert Brubaker Mrs. Elizabeth
Smith, A musical selection was giv-
en by Mary, Sally Stephen
Nolt and Nancy Musser
baritone horn solo
her mother.
The next meeting will be held on
June 30 at the home of Mrs. Mar-
tin Greider, Millersville R2, instead
of the home of Mrs. Willis Nolt, at
Landisville, as previously planned.
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FOUR LONGEST RESIDENTS
WERE HONORED THIS WEEK
The four local residents who
have lived in the borough the long-
est length of time were honored
in the Centennial Community pa-
rade here on Memorial Day.
They were Miss Mazie Shelley,
eighty-nine, who has lived in Mt.
Joy all her live; Mrs. Annie Shear-
en, eighty-seven, also a life-long
resident; Clarence Schock, eighty-
five, a life-time resident, and Geo.
Siller, ninety-one, who has lived
in the borough eighty-three years.
PR et ER ;
A FORMER RESIDENT HERE
WAS JAILED FOR DISORDER
Eli Randler, of Manheim RI,
charged by Police Chief Herbert
H. Brock, of Manheim, with drunk-
enness and disorderly conduct,
was committed to jail for thirty
days in default: of a $10 fine and
costs. Randler was given a hearing
before Justice of the Peace L. W.
Musser.
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LITITZ MAN ACCEPTED A
POSITION WITH JAMES CO.
Ned Leaman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
B. M. Leaman, North Broad St,
Lititz, has accepted a position with
the James Mfg. Co., here.
Leaman left by car last week for
the company’s headquarters at Ft.
conducted a
and
and
played a
accompanied by

Atkinson, Wis. where he will take
a training course for one month.
of Hershey; Millard Haines
UP-TO-THE-MINUTE
The Mount Joy Bulletin
Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, May 31,
DR. ELMER W. GARBER IS
HONORED BY HIS COLLEGE
At a special luncheon at the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
and Science, on Thursday, May 24
Elmer W. Garber, of this borough,

DR. E. W. GARBER
a Semi-Centennial
Alumni
Certi-
Associa-
received
ficate from the
tion.
Mr. Garber graduated from the
College in 1901 and is one of the
thirty-seven of that class so hon-
ored upon the 50th anniversary of
their graduation. Seventeen mem-
bers of the class, including Mr.
Garber, were present at the lunch-
eon,
Immediately after his graduation
Dr. Garber conducted a pharmacy
on East Main street here for many
Later he accepted a position
Town Pharmacy at Eliza-
greets his host
years.
at the
bethtown where he
of friends and patrons daily.
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THE GRUBERS CELEBRATED
THEIR 25th WEDDING ANNIV.
Mr. and Mrs. Paris Gruber, near
town celebrated their 25th Wed-
ding Anniversary Sunday, May 27,
and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gruber
celebrated their 14th anniversary
the same date.
Plain white flowers for silver an-
niversary was presented to Mr. and
Mrs. Paris Gube and a mixed bou-
quet was presented to Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Gruber from the fol-
lowing guests:
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Gillums,
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gillums, Mr.
and Mrs. Zeller, daughter
Catherine, Mr. Mrs. Harold
Foster.
Mrs. George Gruber,
Gruber, Mr. Mrs. Paris Gru-
ber entertained at a chicken and
waffle dinner at Kauffman's Tea
Room near East Petersburg.
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MR. & MRS. JOHN SPROUT
WEDDED FORTY-TWO YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. John Sprout, 245

George
and
Kathleen
and
West Main Street, will celebrate
their forty-second wedding anni-
versary on Memorial Day, Wednes-
day, May 30th.
The Sprouts were married at 9
a. m. Sunday; May 30, 1909, by
the Rev. Richard C. Rengier, pas-
time.
There are eleven living children
and ten grandchildren.
We join their many friends in
extending congratulations.
Sunday afternoon Mrs. Sprout
had a surprise visit from her uncle
Mr. Cyrus Felker, of Wernersville,
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THREE CARS COLLIDED
The slippery condition of Main
St., was again responsible for a
triple auto crash on Saturday night.
Three cars, all headed west, collid-
ed in front of Shatto’s barber shop
when the first one stopped sudden-
ly. The first and second cars were
not too badly damaged, but the
third, a new DeSoto had the grill,
radiator and hood damaged and
had to be towed from the scene..
Passengers were shaken up but no
one was injured.

SALUNGA FIRE CO. AUX.
TO HOLD OUTDOOR MEETING
The Auxiliary to Salunga Fire
Company, will hold an outdoor
meeting on the lawn at the home
of Mrs. J. M. Newcomer on June
18th.
Hostesses at a meeting Monday
evening in the Salunga Fire Hall
were Mrs. Robert Schreiber, Mrs.
Earl Walters, Mrs. Richard Wend-
itz and Mrs. Floyd Weazel.
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Middletown is organizing a Ro-
tary Club
ter of the Lutheran church at that’
75 Ninth Grade
Pupils Will Be
Promoted Friday
A class of seventy-five Ninth
grade pupils will be promoted to
Senior High school at exercises on
Friday, June 1, at 8 p. m. at East
Donegal Township High school.
Theme of the exercises will’ be
“The Senior High school program.”
Six pupils who will speak are Eva-
ngeline Yoder, Nancy Hanshue,
Yvonne Brubaker, Donald Wolge-
muth, Jere Henderson, and Fred
Wetzel.
The program also will include:
Invocation, the Rev. W. H. Wagner;
musical selections by Paul Kauff-
man, Ross Eshleman, Sarah Singer,
Shirley von Stetten, Helen Elder,
and Ruth Horning; address by the
class president, Sidney Gibble;
presentation of awards for scholar-
ship, citizenship, activities and ath-
letics, by class advisors, Mrs. Vera
Gingrich, Arthur Hollinger and
Stanley Dotterer; presentation of
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JUDGE FOUND IN FAVOR
OF MR. AND MRS. WELFLY
Judge Wissler found in favor of
a Florin couple who claimed they
reserved the right to some equip-
ment when they sold a garage and
diner in East Donegal township to
¢nother couple.
The Jurist ordered Lestem M and
Vera N. Grove, East Donegal twp.

to turn it over to Walter S. and
Alice S. Welfly, Florin, without the
payment of any rental for its use.
The Groves purchased the prop-
erty located on the highway west
of Florin, from the Welflys on last
July. The Welflys claim that such
equipment as the diner’s furniture,
china and silverware was not in-
cluded in the sale.
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Senator Diehm Is
A Candidate For
Re-election
That veteran political leader in
Lancaster County (the late Bill
Greist No. 2) State Senator G.
Craybill Diehm, of Lititz has an-
nounced that he will be a candidate
for re-election as county commis-
has held
chairman
which office he
since 1929
since 1930.
He has served 10 years in the
Lower House of the State Legisla-
ture and has been senator, repre-
senting northern Lancaster and
Lebanon counties since 1948.
Diehm, has been Republican par-
ty chairman for 21 years.
Lane will be the first Lancaster
county sheriff to seek a second 4-
year term. A new law of the State
Legislature allows a county sheriff
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TOBACCO WAREHOUSE AT
FLORIN WAS ON FIRE
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed a quantity of tobacco at
the General Cigar Company ware=
house, a one-story frame structure
located in the west end of Florin,
shortly after six a. m. last Friday.
Florin firemen reported the blaze
was extinguished by an automatic
sprinkler system, They said a de~
fect in the alarm system failed to
summon the Florin Fire Co. The
blaze, which started in the north-
west corner of the building, was
brought quickly under control.
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CAR-CARRIER KILLS DEER
NEAR E'TOWN HOSPITAL
A car-carriery struck and killed
a buck deer on the Harrisburg pike
near the Crippled Children’s Hos-
sioner,
serving as
pital akout 5 a. m. Friday.
Deputy Game Protector Gene
Shope, Marietta, dressed the deer
and gave the meat to the Messiah
Childrens Orphanage at Florin.
deer weighed about 165 pounds.
Last week a large buck deer was
killed by a motorist near Falmouth.
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FOUND DEAD IN CAR
Joseph N. Slick, forty-two, Col-
umbia was found dead in his auto
on Chickies Hill, Saturday at 1:15
a: m. He was a shoe cutter at the

and two children survive,
WEEKLY
either to pay for the equipment or
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1951
COURT HEARS CLAIM OF
MRS. FRANCES M. FRANK
A suit brought by a, local woman |
who claims her late husband's |
tate was worth more than was]
shown on the inventory was heard
in Equity Court on Monday.
The action — a demand for an
accounting — was brought by Mrs.
Frances M. Frank against her
brother-in-law and former partner
of her husband, Charles S. Frank,
of near town, The Frank Brothers
operated several farms in partner-
ship.
Mrs. Frank’s husband, Paul
Frank, died Dec. 13, 1948. In set-
tling the estate Charles Frank paid
Mrs. Frank $10,306. Mrs. Frank®
contends that the payment was
based on an appraisal that failed
to include several head of cattle
and some crops.

Brief News From
The Dailies For
Quick Reading
The fine new American Legion
Home at Middletown was dedicated
Saturday.
The Consolidated Cigar Co. at
Lancaster, laid off 500 employees
last week.
The Sun Oil Co. has reduced the
price of gas one cent per gallon
thruout this area.
There is a move on to construct
and operate an automobile race
track at Maple Grove Park.
James Cain, has resigned his
teaching-coaching job in the Man-
heim schools to accept a Govern-
ment job.
After a one day old suicide
threat, Arthur N. Rodgers, sixty,
of Lancaster, threw himself under
the wheels of a train near the Lan-
caster depot. He was killed.
A. J. Zercher, forty-four, Pequea
Pl. was killed instantly and his
car demolished when he cut in and
out of traffic, caught the bumper
of another south of Willow
Street Saturday evening.
PROFITS OF SCHOOL GAZETTE
GO TO HEART HAVEN
The Sixth Grade pupils who
published the “Grade School Ga-
zette” have donated their profits
to the Heart Haven at Lancaster.
car
Mrs. J. W. Bingeman is the
staff's advisor
The last issue of the paper pub-
lished May 21, featured items on
poems and numerous
answers to the question “What
would you buy if you had $10 to
spend and did not save it?” The
greater number of the children’s
replies all indicated that someone
other than themselves would profit
from the money.
They are to be commended on
native study,

their generous attitude.
Cont pre tol eset
SILVER SPRING PUPILS
VISIT VALLEY FORGE
Thirty-nine students of the Sil-
ver Spring School made their an-
nual bus trip to Valley Forge.
The group included students in
grade four to eight.
Mrs. Harry E. Ilgenfritz was in
charge, assisted by Mrs. Ralph
Bookman, Mrs. John Butzer, Mrs.
Richard Webb and Mr. Tlgenfritz.
Personal Mention
Cpl. Robert C. Williams spent a
nine day furlough here with his
wife and daughter. He left May 30
for Camp Atterbury, Indiana,
where he is stationed.
Mrs. Daisy Mowrer returned to
‘her home on Sunday after under-
going an operation at St. Joseph
Hospital. She is very much improv-
ed.
Mrs. John E. Matoney, of Wil-
mington, N. Carolina, arrived here
Sunday and will make her home
here for the present. Sgt. Matoney, |
who accompanied her, returned to |
Camp Lejeune immediately.
Mrs. Newpher Smeltzer, of Read-
ing, is spending the week in town
with the James Schneider family
and visiting relatives and friends
throughout the community.
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Donegal Twp.
There’s No Better Way to Reach the People In This Community Than Thru Our Col
LANCASTER
All East Donegal’s
‘School Taxes Will
Remain The Same
At a special meeting of the East
School Board held
last Friday evening, a budget for
1951-52 was adopted. The budget
calls for expenditures of $150,600
an increase of $4,500 over last year.
The tax rate for 1951-52 was set at
18 mills on real estate, a $5 per
capita tax and a $2 per month tax
on trailers located in the township.
This is the same tax rate as in
previous years, no increase being
necessary because increased prop-
erty assessments are expected to
yield an amount equal to the in-
creased expenditures. The budget
summary:
Expenditures Expected
General Control ........ $ 3,000.00
Instruction =. ........... 101,900.00
Auxiliary Agencies ..... 14,275.00
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AMER. LEGION HELD BALL
STATE POLICE BLEW IN
The American Legion agreed to
open festivities for our Centennial
celebration last Friday evening by
giving a ball in their newly remod-
eled and spacious quarters at Chic-
kies, in Rapho township. Every-
thing was going along very nicely
when several uninvited guests
put in an appearance.
the Home about 10:30 a. m., con-
fiscated seven slot machines, one
“fish bowl,” and a punch board. In
addition, they charged Lee Ellis,
fifty-four, steward of the post, with
setting up and maintaining gamb-
ling devices.
Ellis was taken before Justice
of Peace George Shenck, Landis-
ville, and then released on his own
recognizance pending a hearing.
At a hearing before Justice of
the Peace George A. Shenck, at
Landisville Monday, Ellis posted
bail for court. He said he intended
to plead guilty in the County
Court Friday.
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FIRE COMPANY'S AMBULANCE
IS BEING KEPT BUSY
Last week the Friendship Fire
Company ambulance made two
calls to Lancaster hospitals.
Saturday, May 19, Mr. Benj.
Hawthorne was removed to the
General Hospital. Mrs. Bernice
Becker was the nurse and Ray
Myers and Christ Charles drivers.
Wednesday, May 23, Mrs. Frank
Felker was brought home from St.
Joseph's Hospital to which she had
heen taken May 11th. Mrs. Kenneth
Gainor was the attending nurse and
Sam Dock and Arthur Zerphey, Sr.,
drivers.
Maytown Boy, 7,
Injured In a Fall
Martin L. Frye, seven, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Frye, Maytown,
was admitted to St. Joseph's Hos-
pital with a possible skull fracture
Tuesday night, suffered when he
fell two stories to a concrete pave-
ment from an open window at his
home.
He was given emergency treat-
ment by Dr. Michael Gratch and
admitted to the hospital later. His
mother, Mrs. Olive Frye, said the
boy was upstairs about 6:15 p. m.
Tuesday and she was busy down
stairs.
A second floor bedroom window
was open, she said, since she was
housecleaning, and apparently the
boy was looking out the window
and lost his’ balance, falling to the
concrete pavement.
His mother took him to the doc-
tor’s office, where Dr. Gratch clos-
ed a laceration of the forehead with
two sutures and also treated him
for a nosekled. He was admitted
to the hospital for an X-ray exam-
ination.
Week's Birth Record
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sentz, of
this place, a daughter at the Gen-
eral Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Her-

At a public sale at Intercourse
last Saturday, a grandfather's,
clock brought $515.
The Nurses Memorial Home at

was dedicated on Sunday,
shey, Manheim R2, a daughter at
the General Hospital Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Weiser, Jr.,
Elizbethtown Shoe Factory. A wife |the Masonic Homes, Elizabethtown, {100 Columbia Avenue, a son Wed-
Four State Police officers visited
rene
$2.00 a Year in Advance
Throughout This
Entire Locality
Joseph L. Haas,
Marietta,
Claude Martin,
Elizabethtown R2.
Mrs. Susan Kirvinskee, eighty
three, at Bainbridge.
Mrs. Annie H. Lowery, eighty=
nine, of Elizabethtown.
Mrs. Margaret F. Peters, wife of
George Peters, at Columbia. She
was thirty-three.
Esther Grace Ruhl, fifty-six, wife
of Roy N. Ruhl, Manheim R.D., at
the General Hospital after an ill=
ness of one year.
sixty three, of

John M. Wile
John M. Wile, eighty-one, of
Bainbridge, was found dead in bed
at his home by his daughter, Miss
Ethel Wile. Dr. Michael
was called and a certificate of
death due to a heart attack was
issued by Dr. E. C. Koitkamp, Jr.,
deputy coroner.
Mr. Wile was a former employe
of the J. E. Baker Co. at Billmyer,
where he worked for 42 years.Fol-
lowing his retirement he was em=
ployed for several years during
Depot. He was a member of the
Bainbridge Fire Co.

Mrs. Lizzie G. Gibble
Mrs. Lizzie G. Gibble, eighty=
five, widow of Aaron R. Gibble, na=
tive of Mt. Joy Twp., died Monday
in the Welsh Mountain Samaritan
Home, of a complication of diseas=
es.
Born in Mt. Joy Twp. a daugh=
ter of the late Samuel H. and Har=
riet Gantz Hoffman, she was a
member of the Milton Grove Evan-
gelical United Brethren Church.
Her husband died 21 years ago.
Nieces and nephews are her only
survivors.
Funeral services were held in the
E. U. B. Church at Milton Grove
this afternoon with interment in
the Green Tree cemetery.
Union Nat'l Bank
Has Old Records-
Antiques Display
ques Displ
The officers of the Union Na=
tional Mount Joy Bank have an=
nounced the display of its old rec=
ords and antiques loaned to them
by their customers and friends will
be kept open through Saturday,
June 2. The public is invited to
view this display on or before that
date.
The records on display include
the following: the first minute book
and stock certificates, ledgers, sig-
nature book and note register, all
dated 1853, the date of incorpora-
tion of the bank as the Mount Joy
Savings Institution.
One item of interest is the origi
nal outdoor sign of The Mount J¢
Bank, successor to the Mount JY
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E. HEMPFIELD TWP. HIGH |
BACCALAUREATE IS HELD
Baccalaureate services for the
East Hempfield township High
School graduating class were held
Sunday at the school, with Rev.
Phares J. Forney, of East Peters-
burg, delivering the sermon.
The Rev. Ernest P. Leer assisted
in the service. The ‘high school
choir, directed by Russell’ Getz,
sang the anthems and a vocal en-
semble of high school pupils also
gave several numbers,
Commencement exercises will be
held this Thursday evening at 8 p.
m. at the school.
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SOCIAL SECURITY CASES
JUMP FROM 600 TO 3,400
With social security business get=
ting bigger and bigger at Lancas-
ter, the Administration was com-
pelled to procure larger and more
spacious quarters. The business op-
ened with a staff of four in three
rooms. Today there are fourteen
employes who occupy the entire
first floor of a building vacated by
a chain store. :
The first year there were 600 ap-
plicants for relief, now there are

nesday at St. Joseph's Hospital,
3,,600 annually.
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