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The Mount Joy Bulletin
VOL. LL. NO. 11
Council Orders Survey
n Parking Meters & 1-
And Two-Hour Parking
Boro Council met Monday eve-
ning in regular monthly session
with only four members present.
In the absence of president Keller,
Harold Krall presided.
Plans for a survey among local
businessmen on whether or not
they favor restricted parking or
parking meters in the business area
were discussed. Limited parking
was suggested in a letter to Burgess
Fish sent by Lester Mumma.
The survey to be conducted by
Police Chief Park Neiss among
businessmen located on Main St.,
between Barbara St. and New Hav-
en streets.
Present for the session was Sam-
uel Miller, chairman of the Water
Authority, who gave his first report
to council since the authority was
organized last January.
Miller told council the first thing
the authority plans to do is lay new
mains across Main St. in the near
future and before the state begins
repaving the street. He al<o said
completion of the new water pro-
ject in the borouch will lower fire
insurance from 17 per cent to 9 and
10 percent on borough properties.
The fire underwriters have request-
ed a correct map of the town.
Miller told council that
mains will be used to bring
into the borough and the present
reservoir will be abandoned in fa-
vor of a large standpive since oven
reservoirs are no longer allowed by
the state.
Miger gave thé estimated cost of
three
water
these improvements at $100,000.
However bonds amounting to $125,-
000 will be sold, locally if possible,
with interest estimated at 21% to 2%
percent.
Water meters are also under con-
sideration. Previously a $6 charge
was made for a new connection to
the water line. iThis has now been
changed to $12.00.
Announcement was made by
Councilman Stehman that work on
a new street lighting system, which
had been postponed because of the
lack of illuminators may begin next
month.
The PP&L reported they hove to
have the ‘necessary materials by
August 15 and work would start
within fifteen days after the arriv-
al
Numerous complaints have been
received by Chief of Police Neiss
concerning speeding on Donegal
Springs Road and Manheim Sts.
Council authorized Secretary Brian
to contact the State Highwav De-
partment asking to have 35 mile
speed limit signs erected since both
are state roads. After this is done
police officers can set up a speed
trap and prosecute the violators.
Councilman Newcomer reported
that a section of vacant land, locat-
ed at the corner of West Main and
Manheim Sts., has been given the
borough by Trinity Lutheran
Church to enable the borough to
cut off a corner of the land and el-
(Turn to page 3)
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Rotarians Named
Their Committees
For Ensuing Year
Benjamin Funk, president of the
newly formed Home and School
Association Parent’s Club, spoke at |
Rotary Club at | Manheim, when Joseph H. Greiner,
He | Manheim R2 was elected president.
the
at
a meeting of
noon Tuesday Hostetter’s.
discussed the new organization and
its functions.
| Greiner,
President George Keener and the | Greiner,
Joseph Greiner Is
Named President
At Clan’s Reunion
A reunion of the Greiner, Kreiner
and Kriner families was held Sun-
day afternoon at Kauffman’s Park,
Clayton S.
Paul M.
Elias Gal-
officers are:
Manheim R4,
Manheim R3,
Other
board of directors announced the | breath, Manheim R3, Phares Gin-
committees and chairmen for the| der, Mount Joy R2, Leroy Greiner,
1951-52 year. James B. Heilig will | Hummelstown, vice presidents;
be chairman of the club service; | Myrtle Greiner, Pyfer, Willow
John M. Booth, vocational service; | Street, secretary; Mrs. Joseph H.
Curvin Martin, community service; Kreiner, Manheim R2, assistant; M.
Christ Walters, international ser- |S. Greiner, Lebanon, treasurer.
vice; Ted Weidler, attendance; Ray It was announced that sufficient
Wiley, classification; Joseph Sheaf- | funds have been received to pro-
fer, club bulletin; Paul Stehman, | vide headstones for the graves of
fellowship. Martin Greiner and son, Valentine,
Also Simon magazine;
Paris Hostetter,
Heilig, program;
Jr,. public information; Mr. David
Nissley,
Schlosser, music; Paul Stoner, buy- |
er-seller relations; H. G. Carpenter |
competitor relations;
employer - employe; Clar-
muth,
ence Newcomer,
Sam Miller, weather man; Paul
Stehman, auditing; Paris Hostetter,
Finance.
Dr. William Workman,
children; Charles Ricedorf,
urban: Sam Miller, traffic safety;
Roy Tyndall,
international contacts; Wilbur
Beahm, international forums; Ay
ter Sloan, Rotary Foundation fel- |
lowship, and Clyde Eshleman, -Uni- |
ted Nations.
crippled |
ADP
WAS ONLY A HISSER
Local firemen responded to an
alarm turned in by a person at
the fruit stand, Florin, at 11:45 p.
m. Saturday but the “fire” proved
to be a reflection of burning refuse |
on the Florin dump.
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FIRE CO. AUXILIARY PICNIC
The August meeting of the Fire
Company Auxiliary will be held
at the Cove on Thursday,
16th, for their annual picnic.
All members are invited. There
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HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Mrs. Kitty Harple, Chiques re-
turned home from the Geveril
hospital Saturday morning.
who came to
membership; James |
Charles Bennett; |
rural- |
youth; W. L. Koes}
| Lancaster, Pa.,
August
will be games with prizes. |
| ing the annual State Conveption at
this country from
Germany in 1730. They are buried
on the John S. Greiner farm, Man-
heim R3.
This committee was named to
secure funds to.improve the ceme-
Dan Wolge- | tery on the Greiner farm: Nathan
N. Greiner, Rheems, chairman;
trade associations; | Hiram S. Greiner, Joseph H. Grei-
ner, Harry M. Spangler, Hershey;
and John S. Greiner, Manheim R3.
GC | mr
Activities of Our
Police Officers
Motor violations ‘reported by
{ Chief of Police Park Neiss for the
| past week ‘are: Mary S. Warfel, of
Ignoring red light;
| Hardy Solon Goodson, Harris-
{ burg, P: : Robert Hamilton, Harris-
burg; Prilip A. Gable, Columbia
R1, No inspection stickers. All a-
bove were summoned before Jus-
tice of the Peace Robert K. Brown.
Warren J. Poysher, Lancaster and
| Norman L. Hess, Lancaster R3, No
| inspection sticker. Also Jose Miquel
{ RZ Mt. Joy,
operating without a
license. All were summoned before
Justice of the Peace James Hocken-
berry, Sr.
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ATTENDING CONVENTION
Legionnaires of Post 185 attend-
Pittsburgh are Chas. J. Bennett, Jr,
Harold Bender, Leroy Mateer, Joe
Brunner, Bysshe Heilig and Irvin
Fritz,
Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday
BAWDY HOUSE AT ROWENNA
RAIDED BY STATE POLICE
A bawdy house in
Rowenna for the past four months,
was raided by State Police and lig-
uor agents Saturday night and two
persons were arrested. They were
Gardiner Lee Canon, thirty-one, of
Marietta R1 and Geraldine Mur-
ray, twenty-six, Pittsburgh. Each
posted $500 bail for a hearing. They
face charges of and
prostitution and disorderly conduct.
Five State Policemen and
liquor control board agents
the raid at ten o'clock. They con-
fiscated six cases of beer, two bot-
operation at
assignation
two
made
tles of whiskey and seven gallons
of wine.
The house, leased by Canon, is
across the street from the Purple
Heart Cafe.
Berrier Reunion
Held at the Florin
Hall Last Sunday
The annual Berrier reunion was
held at the Florin Hall on Sunday,
August 5th, with
one hundred fifteen in attendance.
A fine devotional and musical
program was presented as follows:
scripture, Mr. Clark Berrier; pray-
er, Mrs. Norman Mateer;
solo, Jerry Berrier;
Hattie Lou Hawthorne;
duet, Sylvia Lee Mumper and Joyce
Berrier; duet, Mrs. Clyde
Mumper Mrs. Harvey Haw-
thorne and a piono-accordion solo
by Judy Berrier.
played with
fhe
approximately
trombone
piano solo,
clarinet
piano
and
Games were prizes
awarded the winners.
member present was Mr.
Austin Berrier and the
was Charles Michael Roth.
The election of officers
as follows, president, Ralph Ber-
rier; vice-president, George Ber-
oldest
William
youngest
resulted
rier; secretary, Mrs. Clark Ber-
rier; treasurer, Mr. Martin Heisey.
Next year the reunion will be
held the first Sunday in August at
the Florin Hall, Florin.
LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD
APPROVES JOINT SITE
Two
the
proposed joint school building were
resolutions concerning
passed at a recent meeting of the
School Board.
One favored the site for the new
school at the intersection of the
Mount Joy to Marietta and Florin
to Newtown roads, while the other
the |
set-up
$11,232 of the $30,000
Joint school treasury
toward
to be
so plans and specifications may be
drawn up for the new building.
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Auto Accidents
During The Week
These
curred over the weekend:
Harrisburg Pike Crash
Two motorists escaped injury at
7:15 a. m. Saturday
on the Harrisburg Pike,
west of Elizabethtown.
State Police said a car driven by
William K. Chubb, twenty-three,
Middletown, struck an auto oper-
ated by Harry S. Brandt, seventy-
local auto accidents oc-
in a collision
one mile
contributed the borough’s share of |
-
Afternoon, August 9,
E. Donegal Twp.
Schools to Reopen
Wed. September 5
The East Donegal Twp. Schools
will reopen for the fall term Wed-
nesday, September 5. An
ment of 390 is expected in the jun-
jor-senior high 240 in the
Maytown Grade School and 140 in
the Washington Elementary School
at Florin. Three teacher
exist at the present time—in Voca-
tional Agriculture, in languages
(Latin and Spanish) and in Math-
Four will
duties—Mr. Isaac Mil-
ler, Quarryville in Art Education;
Miss Irene Sloat, Millersville, in
homemaking; Miss Phyllis Morris-
on, Ridley Park in girls health and
physical education and Miss Pearl
Elizabethtown in elemen-
enroll-
school;
vacancies
ematics. “new” teachers
begin their
Dohner,
| tary educaton at the Maytown
| Grade School. An elementary art
|
workshop will be held the after-
noons of September 5, 6 and 7. El-
teachers from East Don-
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sre ome tl me
JOHN H. KREIDER HEADS
GREIDER-KREIDER CLAN
John H. Kreider, Mount Joy R2,
was elected president of the Krei~
der, Greider at the 21st an-
nual reunion held last Wednesday
Lititz Park. 350
attended.
Kreider, Quarryville,
vice-president; J.
Strasburg R1, sec-
Melvin Barge,
Ira K.
secretary;
ementary
family
[in Approximately
persons
Leon P.
elected first
Lloyd Kreider,
ond vice-president;
Ronks, third vice-president;
Kreider, Abington, Pa.,
B. L. Kreider, Landisville,
urer; Amos K. Stauffer, Lancaster,
historian.
BE
Hershey Reunion
Held at Cassel’s
Park, at Marietta
was
treas-
The decendents of Jacob and
Susan Long Hershey, deceased,
held a family reunion, on August
{ 7, 1951, in Cassel’s Park near Mari-
etta. Mhe park is owned by Mrs.
Annie Hershey Furman, a grand-
doughter of Jacob Hershey. The
day was spent getting acquainted,
and children had a merry time
| playing games. Many beautiful
trees are to be seen in the park,
|
B. Cassel,
A spring of cool wa-
planted by the Hon. once
| U. S. Senator.
| ter flows from an old spring house
| across the The big stone
{ house near by once sheltered slaves
road.
in the early days.
The Hersheys trace their ances-
try back to Bible times, and claim
| to have descended from the “chil-
Qu to page 6)
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Farl Ziegler, Myerstown R2 and
Vivian Z. Snyder, of Florin.
Wilbur R. Bankus, 115 Columbia
Ave., this boro and Rose Marie
Lancaster.
Lehman, Shippensburg
Manheim
Watson,
Eldon Jay
R1 and Anna Mary Forry,
R2.
Hiram H. Strickler, Mt. Joy R2,
eight. Elizabethtown R1. Police
said Brandt made a left turn from
the center in front of Chubb’s
auto.
lane
Two Cars Collide
Damage was estimated at $250 in
a two-car crash on a township road
two, miles North of Manheim, at
11:30 a. m. Sunday. No one was in-
and Betty Shue, Lebanon RS.
Jack F. Gable, 3rd & Cedar Sts,
Columbia, and Anna Marie Raffer-
ty, 218 Mount Joy St, Mont Joy.
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Week's Birth Record
Mr. and Mrs. George Glattacker,
Maytown, a son at St. Joseph's
jured.
State Policeman Leo Fitzgerald |
said a car driven by Franklin Hos- |
tetter, twenty-seven, Manheim R2, |
struck the left side of an auto op-|
erated by Henry Zellers, twenty-
two, Manheim R4, as it was coming
cut of a side lane onto the road. |
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ARRESTED FOR ADULTRY
GAVE BAIL FOR HEARING
Police Chief Park Neiss, of town,
Tuesday announced the of |
Chester Weimer, Manheim,
Catherine Smoker, Landisville
tel, on charges of adultry.
The charges were preferred by
Mrs. Ruth Weimer, Columbia, be-
fore Justice of the Peace James
Hockenberry, Both defendents
posted $500 bail each for a hearing
arrest
and |
Ho-
Monday before Hockenberry
Hospital Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Fackler, of
Silver Spring, a daughter Saturday, |
at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Millard Hoffman, of
Mount Joy Rl, a daughter Tuesday |
at the Columbia Hospital.
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| BATTLE TRACTOR FIRE
Two Manheim children Monday
morning unsuccessfully battled a
tractor fire on the farm of their
Man- |
father, Clarence H. Moyer, ;
the
heim R2, and then summoned
Manheim Fire Company.
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MEETS AT SEVEN O'CLOCK
The August meeting of the Am-
erican Legion Auxiliary will
start at seven o'clock, instead of the
usual hofir, next Tuesday, August
14th at the Legion Home.
195
| egal Township,
formerly known as Donegal Tavern! r
| 111 East High St.
J o'clock.
1
LIONS' FAMILY PICNIC
AT HOSTETTERS, AUGUST 2
The meeting of the Mt,
Joy Lions Club was held at Hostet-
at six-thirty o'clock,
Morrell Shields, president
|
|
regular
ter’'s Tuesday,
with Mr.
in charge.
Ben Funk,
schedule for the next
Robert Reed, Hallo-
called for a meet-
held at
August
Program chairman,
outlined the
two months.
we'en chairman,
ing of his committee to be
the store on Monday
13th at eight o'clock.
Past
night,
President, James Spangler
presented Charles Hershey with a
Lions Club key and Secretary, Ar-
thur Zerphey presented Past Secre-
Arthur
and certificate,
The family picnic will be held on
Tuesday, August 21st, at Hostetters.
A —
tary Sprecher, with a pin
Playground Season
Ends With a Trip
To Shibe Park
The Mount Joy Playground will
officially close Saturday, August 11
with a trip to Shibe Park, Priladel-
phia to witness a baseball game
between the New York Yankees
and Athletics. The bus will leave
the Park here at 9:30 a. m.
As of Aug. 2 the following boys
and girls have attained, by
activities,
partic-
ipating in various these
number of points following each
name.
Robert Funk 91, Gary Reed 97.
M. Ccker 82, J. Bennett 88. R. Corll
125. D. Ehy 110, D. Engle 91, J.
Funk 107, B. Heisey 88, J. Hocken-
berry 78. R. Hopole 131, Marlin
Kaylor 97, R. Rice 104, T. Lee Stark
119, J. Stettler 81, R. Stover 79, G.
Funk 85, Jon Bender 90, J. Brian
105, J. Collins 102, J. Crawl 95, G.
Darrenkamp 96, R. Divet 111, H.
(Turn %o page 4)
$2.00 a Year in Advance
K.T.Keller Shows
How Things Are
Done Doing Them!
K. T. Keller, Chairman of the
Board of Directors of Chrysler Cor-
poration, and now also Director of
Guided Missiles in the Office of the
of Defense, is
Secretary probably
|
T. KELLER
Chairman of the Board
Chrysler Corporation,
Director of Guided Missiles
U. S. Department of Defense
July 25, 19561
K.
best known for his wide industrial
knowledge and his untiring zest for
getting things done.
His deep understanding of all
the operations of business is the
logical result of a policy he has al-
ways had of learning “how things
are done by doing them.”
Mr. Keller that
running a big job can be done en-
does not believe
BE
BROKEN AIR HOSE
DELAYED TRAIN HERE
A Pennsylvania Railroad passen- |
ger train, bound for Harrisburg |
from Lancaster, was delayed 45]
minutes Tuesday evening by a |
broken hose here.
The local train stopped at the
station at 6:45 p. m. and it was not |
until a new air hose was installed |
that the train was able to continue |
its journey at 7:30 p. m.
Another passenger train, follow- |
ing the local, was also delayed un- |
til the repairs were made.
etl ere
MAN ATTACKED GIRL; IS
NOW IN COUNTY JAIL
Paul Weller, Middle- |
burg, Co. at|’
R1, arrested |
a sixteen year
R1 After
he threw her into a |
John |
Roger of
Snyder
Elizabethtown
attacking
Flizabethtown
who resides
was
for old |
girl. leav-|
ing a tap room,
ditch. A
passing motorist,
A Lancaster man who lived with
his bride only one week was grant-
ed a divorce by the County Court
Friday on grounds of fraud.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Snavely, of
Manheim R2, entertained 41 guests
at their home at a supper on Sun-
day evening. Those present were
from North Dakota, Harrisburg, |,
Lebanon, Quentin and points in|,
Lancaster County.
nant met AG Aree
DEEDS RECORDED
Willis N. and Valentine L. Steffy,
West Donegal Township, to Lucion
M. and Ada S. Snyder, West Don-
tract with premises
and now an apartment house, 105- |
Maytown. I
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LEGION MEETS NEXT THURS.
Walter S. Ebersole Post No. 185,
American Legion will have their
regular meeting at the Legion
Home, Thursday, August 16th, at 8
tirely
| Betty
seven ounces.
served in water
POSTS BAIL FOR HEARING
{5th ANNUAL MOWRER REUNION
Mowrer
at the home of
July 27, 1952.
SUCH WEATHER
some of the
versed himself
45 degrees.
FOUND STILL AT ROWENNA
Hershey, thirty-five,
and confiscated a 5-gal.
still and a 50-gal.
from a desk. When in De-
| troit, he spends a great deal of his
out in the plants working
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LOCAL PRIZE WINNERS
time
AT
| THE GROCERS’ PICNIC
We
in
are receipt of a complete
list of the 1951 Grocers’ Picnic
prize winners and are listing those
from the borough and community:
Gold Watch, Mrs. Harry
man, 125 New Haven Street, Mount |
Joy.
order winners; Mt. Joy:
20 N. Barbara Street;
46 E. Main Street; |
Grocery
Buller,
S. H. Hawthorne,
Carrie Ney, 112 S. Barbara Street:
Maude Schneider, 220 E. Donegal
Street, and Mrs. I. W. Smith, 262
Marietta Street.
Florin, Myrtle Hess, Square St
Rheems, Edna Heisey, Box 93.
Landisville, Jane Rose.
Maytown, Roberta Foltz, 17 S
King Street.
pv
We id- |
raid test on Tuesday
week a large
$430.
Six persons
car hit
night
Thieves
the farm of Ezra
Lititz RS.
a truck at Holland Tuesday
200 chickens from
G. Brubaker
stole
000 or $1,127 per acre
in menu,
chased at $45
Millersville
its tax from 10 to 15 mills and the
apiece
school board
percapita from $5 to $7.50
J. Vernon
of East Petersburg was sent to jail
Hazel.
Newcomer,
non-support by his wife
Brief News From
The Dailies For
Quick Reading
has
for
Lancaster County a popula-
tion of 248 persons per square mile,
The the Korean to
date has passed the five billion dol-
cost of war
lar mark.
A crowd of
10,000 attended
picnic Saturday
A class of thirty-eight will grad-
from Millersville State Teach-
ers College, Aug. 24.
{ The Senate Finance
[ killed Governor
Plan by
and
Creek
between 8.000
the Muddy
uate
Committee
Fire's Income Tax
of 10 to 7
a vote
Thomas Charles Shappell, forty-
nine, Lancaster, was = arrested on
his fifteenth morals charge
One of five New Holland men
|
America at Lancas- |
{
Pearings Co. of
ter because one of their workers |
was fired, all went back to work a-
gain,
Mrs. Betty Haldeman Rover, 20,]
a bride of two months, was killed |
her husband |
vhen a car driven by
left the highway and ran down an|
embankment at Landis Valley
|
|
Oe |
|
|
ON SUMMFR'S VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. William Zeamer,
Zeamer’s Ci south of
left Sunday Summer's vi:
cation thru the
fe, Newtown,
on their
mountains of Penn-
New York
Returning
City
thence, thru
to Canada
New York
expect to be home Friday
en em
svlvania,
State,
thev
and
will visit and
MOTORISTS WERE
CAR UPSET |
TWO YOUNG
RACING WHEN ONE
Robert Campbell, twenty, Bain-|
bridge R1 and George Bahajah,|
twenty, of Harrisburg, were racing
iin Conoy township when the Camp- |
i hell car failed to make a turn and
upset. Police are investigating.
re A
Weaver, drove the girl to a nearby |
4 in { — —— een
farm house and notified police. | 00 ur FERTOWN a
Weller is now in jail awaiting a |’ F Rn iy HI ya
breating | LATD “OSTRICH SIZE” EGG
He Nid given a hearing yester- Mr. Harry Stauffer, of Stauffer-
day and recommitted io jail for | tow brought a fine specimen of a
coat trial f chicken egg to this office for our
0 ig ‘lal.
tt 1 Usain inspection. The egg was laid by a
OMAN GETS DIVORCE Barred Rock hen on July 29th,
wo AAN ERS MARRIAGE measures ten inches in circumfer
AFTER WEEK'S | ones and
It is now well
|
|
fd
; i
weighs between six and
Bi
{
glass.
eee
He was Job » Foi ar, _ Francis Roeting, Elizabethtown |
two, 6 E. Vine St. et © R2, charged with assault and bat-!
ary ar yy - e |
piarriad Marion P. ro ey a tery by his wife, Alice in behalf of |
Mount Joy R2 on Sept 2 Se her daughter, Barbara, fifteen, |
they were separated Sept. 30, 1950. posted bail Saturday for a hearing
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before Alderman J. Edward Wetz-
FETE 41 AT SUPPER el.
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The fifth annual reunion of the
family was held recently
Daniel H. Mowrer,
war Bainbridge, with 100 persons
itiending.
The next reunion will be held on
Qe ee
For the past ten days we've had
hottest weather
Weather Man
Sunday
thermometer
on
ecord but the re-
and night
ie sent the down to
Police raided the home of George
Rowenna Rl
family size
barrel of mash.
Personal Mention
Mr. C. E. Reed, of Philadelphia,
| Stella Psilos
i spending several weeks in town.
Dickson of Harrisburg |
Sunday
Miss Susie
returned home after spend
ing a week here with relatives and |
friends.
Mrs. Thomas O'Conner and chil-
dren, Mimmie, Betsy and Tommy
left Saturday for a week's visit
with her mother at Westfield, N. J.
Miss Mary Jane Meckley, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Goldie Meckley, West
Main St. is spending several days |
in Harrisburg, as the guest of Miss
Dickson.
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Susie
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
SUFFER HEAD LACERATION
Claude Dimeler, Elizabeth |
town R1, was admitted to Lancas-
ter Hospital Sunday
laceration of
forty,
suf-
the |
told hospital attend-
a kitch- |
Twenty sutures |
used to close the wound
I —_ A RS.
DFEDS TO BE RECORDED
Edgar B. and Elizabeth F.
man, Mount Joy Twp., to
G. and Ella H. Ober, Mt.
farm with house, barn
General
fering a severe
Dimeler
ants he struck his
head.
head on
en cabinet at home
were
Samuel
other
Joy Twp.
and
weer tt a mt
Pull ah
Terre Hill annexed nineteen |
acres to the boro
Manheim held a successful air
At a public sale in the county last |
iron deer was sold for |
of
The Kepperling clan will hold its |
annual reunion at Safe Harbor park |
August 12
A 55-acre dairy
in Earl township was sold for $62,-
Any old time you want a change | two,
ostrich eggs can be pur-| bethtown,
hiked |
thirty-six, |
own Community Picnic at Hershey Park, Wednesday, Aug. 22nd
'The Local News Mortuary Record
For The Past Week Throughout This
Very Briefly Told Entire Locality
Chester G. Brock, fifty-four, at
Columbia,
Herman Noffz, eighty - one, ab
| Columbia
Mrs. Ida M. Drace, eighty-two, at
Elizabethtown
McKonly, eighty-one,
Jeremiah
were dnjured when a {well known merchant at Columbia.
Charles Howard, fifty-eight, was
found dead at his home at Colum=
bia.
Mrs
widow of |
Mary C. Garber, eighty-six,
Jacob Garber, of Mount=
Sunday.
Baker, 70,
at the
Baltimore
Katharine Hipple
of John E. Baker,
ville, at
Mrs
widow
and tobacco farm | home of her nephew in New York
State. She was a native of Marietta.
Mrs. Gladys Louise Horner, fifty=
of Galen Horner, Eliza=
died while on a visit to
| friends at Somerset, Pa.
wife
Mrs. Thomas Barton
Mrs. Mary E. Barton, eighty-two,
at the home of her daughter at
Lancaster. She was the widow of
Barton and a native of
Perry County. Deceased was a
{ member of the Church of God here,
| Martha, wife of William Fogie,
| Newtown, is a step-daughter.
Funeral was held from the Heilig
funeral home here Wednesday af-
at Sandy
Thomas
ternoon with interment
Hill cemetery, near Loysville in
Perry County.
Mrs. Annie Ricksecker
|
Mrs. Annie B. Ricksecker, seven=
tv-four, 34 W. Main St., Mount Joy,
| widow of Charles E. Ricksecker,
| died at 11:15 Monday at St.
| Joseph's Hospital.
Born in East Donegal Township,
she a daughter of the late
John and Elizabeth Eicherly
Beatty Ricksecker. A resident of
Mount for the past 51 years,
she was a member of Trinity Lu~
theran Church, the Ladies
Aid Society of the church. She was
a member of the Ladies Aux=
iliary of Friendship Fire Company
No. 1, Mt. Joy.
1. om.
was
G
Joy
here,
also
|
fishing at Ocean City, Md. last
week landed a 52-1b. marlin.
There are seventeen towns in the |
United States named Lancaster but |
the one in Lancaster county is the
largest of them all.
The 500 persons who quit at the |
| from “the
| Friday
| vi ices in
turned
family,
| WELL KNOWN PRINTER - .
was
posed elementary
include three sisters,
| Lizzie, widow of Irvin B. Kraybill,
Florin; Myrtle, wife of Silas K.
Stoner, of town, and Frances, wife
Survivors
| of Robert H. Brubaker, Baltimore,
| Md.
She is also survived by three
nieces and two nephews.
services, will be held
Heilig funeral home here
further ser-
Lutheran Church
in the Mt. Joy
Funeral
afternoon with
Trinity
interment
here and
emetery.
I
News In General
. From Florin For
- The Past Week
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Todd, of
Manheim visited Mr. George Shet-
ter and family on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grosh and
daughter, of Midland, Pa., spent
several days with the former's
mother, Mrs. Emma Boyer.
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hershey
returned to New York on Sunday
after spending two weeks vacation
with their
Mr.
parents.
Mrs. Arthur Olsen
their home afier having
time in New York State
with the latter's parents.
Mrs. Donald Eichler visited Miss
at Lancaster on Sun-
1
and re-
to
spent some
day
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Earhart and
Falfurias, Texas are spend-
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RETIRES AT E-TOWN
Harvey E. Reem, Sr., 69, a printer
for the past fifty-four years, em-
sloyed at the Elizabethtown Chron-
ic Pe retired last week.
pias sesamin li
AWARDED CONTRACT
Mr. Paul Martin, local contractor,
bidder a $158,000 pro-
at Cres-
low on
school
vell, near Millersville.
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SUIT STARTED
Complaint in divorce: Vera IL.
Hower, 18, Florin vs. Harry R.
Hower, 22, Mount Joy, indignities,
married April 8, 1950.
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NEWSPAPERS MUST LIKE IT
The office of Price Stabilization
| at Washington last
Thursday af-
| firmed the legality of a $10 per ton
Leh- | increase in the price of news print.
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AT THE HOSPITAL
Mr. Christ Garman, a former
improvements on 35.5 acres, Mount | resident of Mount Joy, is a medical
Joy Twp
patient in the St. Joseph hospital,