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Senior Class Play, Thursday and Friday, November 8-9, 1951, High School Auditorium
COUNTY
Foreign Laborers In Fire House
Basement Cause An Uproar

Collection of Delinquent Taxes
Struck Snag; Bu
rgess Decides

Annexation of Pleasant View
Will Get a Public Hearing
The regular November meeting
of Mount Joy Boro Council was
held Monday evening with all
members and the Burgess present.
There are so very many com=
munities facing housing trouble and
the “epidemic” finally reached here.
Recently Mr. Miller, of the Boro
Authority, hired about half a dozen
Puerto Rican laborers to assist in
laying a new water main. These
men were pumping
station but were later removed to
the basement of the fire house. The
living at the
fact that they were cooking on a
kerosene stove, plus the unsanitary
condition of their quarters brought
numerous complaints. The matter
was finally settled when Mr. Miller
agreed to procure other living
quarters for the men.
Another lengthy argument
relative to the Zoning Commission's
recent decision that Stephen Estock,
a resident, will have to return his
building
dwelling he is constructing in the
borough becavse it conflicts with
the building commission’s
recoulations.
arose
permit and remove a|
local
Estock and members of the Zon-
ing Commission attended the ses-
sion during which council indicated
it can take no action until Novem-
ber 19, which is 20 days after the |
decision was issued. It was reported
that council can overrule the com-
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Strange
Around Salunga
38 Years Ago
The appended letter was receiv-
ed from one of our many subserib-
ers. If anyone give the writer
any information, please do so.
Lancaster, Pa. Nav, 1. 105]
Mr. no. EF. Schmll, Editor Bulle-
tin. Mount Jov. Pa
As a suheeriber
can
to vour raver I
wondered if IT mav ask vou a aques-
tion regarding something that hap-
rened in the Salunoa area about
28 vears ago. I noticed that the nld
house is gone, alsy the brn and
the little one-room school house
where I first went to school. I
think mv father was a tenant far-
mer af the time but T am not cer-
tain. T do know that he helped nn
the Boer or Bare farm most of the
wear, We lived in an ~ld hanse at
the corner of two roads outside of
Salunga, Fevond the school house
near the Enos Herr farm.
I think the next farm out the side
road was owned bv the Stehmans
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EAR CORN BROUGHT $40.50
PER TON AT PUBLIC SALE
Ear corn brought ‘$40.50 per
or at the rate of $1.458 per bushel
of 72 pounds, at public sale of per-
sonal property held by Richard F.
Garber, West Hempfield township
at Ironville, Monday afternoon. Al-
falfa hay sold for $34 per ton; clo-
ver hay, $30: and straw $22.
Nine head of Holsteins sold by
Garber, who will retire from the
dairy business, brought from $335
to $455 per cow. Edgar F. Funk
was the auctioneer.
and

ton.


22 High School
Students Attended
Millersville Conf.
A group of twenty-two Mt. Joy
High School library assistants at-
tended the Fifth Annual High
School Library Conference held at
Millersville State Teachers College
on November 2nd.
After registration, Miss Helen A.
Ganser, director of library educa-
tion at Millersville, extended greet-
ings,, a roll call of the clubs was
taken, and Miss Esther E. Lenhardt
gave several readings. A social hour
was then held in the laboratory
school library, and time was pro-
vided for the students to tour the
college libraries and other build-
ings.
At the closing meeting, led by
Mrs. Dorothy Bender Nystrum,
president of the Pennsylvania Li=-
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LOCAL BUSINESS MAN
SEES A “SELDOM SEEN"
Dr. E. K. Tingley, of Wolgemuth
Lincoln
Inc, here, who resides on
Highway west, while on
to his place of business here, Tues-
day a. m., witnessed one of the very
unusual things in life.
Most of us have seen the native
quite but
many of you have seen a dove flight
500 birds in
perching on fences, telephone wires,
and
available within a limited area?
That was a sight Mr. Tinglely, or
anyone else who would have wit-
dove frequently how
—at least one flock,
anywhere that a perch was
nessed it, will never forget.
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GIVEN A SURPRISE PARTY
ON THEIR 25th ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Carpen-
ter, East Petersburg, were given a
surprise Saturday in
bration of their 25th wedding an-
niversary. The party was given at
the heme of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
H. Witmer, Mount Joy R1. There
were about thirty guests present.
ee rere
party cele-
Personal Mention
Mr. Reuben Shellenberger, spent
Sunday Earl Haldeman at
Ephrata.
Mr. and Mrs.
their two sons,
with
Elwood
Miss
Brown, spent the weekend
Martin,
Sarah
at the
former's Camp west of New Ger-
and
mantown, in Perry County.
Mr. Henry J. Engle, proprietor of!

his way |

|
the Central House, was meandering |
in the vicinity of western Perry
County on Sunday. He visited Buck
Ridge Lodge and Elwood Martin's
camp west of New Germantown,
returning home via East Waterford,
Honey Grove, Ickesburg and Mil-
lerstown. Mr. Engle, like many of
us, enjoys the Great Outdoors.
iin I lin mic
It's a good rule to buy from a
merchant who frankly admits that
he is making a reasonable profit.
Church of the Brethren
At E’town, Oppose a
Truman Appointment
At a council meeting of the
Church of the Brethren at Eliza- |
hethtown, October 31, they went
on record.as opposing President
Truman's recent appointment as |
follows:
Whereas, the Constitution of the
United States of America specific-
ally forbids the Government
|
|
tain either a semi-official or an of-
ficial mission from a democratic
political state to an official church-
state, as violating the |historical
principle of separation of church
and state, therefore be it
Resolved, that the Church of the
Brethren in Elizabethtown, in the
to | State of Pennsylvania, go on record
take any action which favors any | in this 31st day of October 1951, ag
one religious body over
and
Whereas, such action: (1) Threa-
tens to undermine our Constitution
(2) Makes for further divisions |

another; | being definitely opposed to the ap-
pointment
of an ambassador to
and be it further
President Truman,
the Vatican,
by
Resolved that a copy of this res-

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MOST
UP-TO-THE-MINUTE
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EKALY I N
LANCASTER
The Mount Joy Bulletin
VOL. LI, NO. 25
1989 Garments
Are Collected For
Distribution Here
The annual ingathering and lun-
cheon of the Mount Joy branch of
the Needlework Guild of America,
the Methodist church
distribution on
was held in
on Tuesday with
Wednesday. The speaker was Mr.
Howard W. Sayles, executive di=
rector from the Family and Child-
ren’s Service of Lancaster.
One thousand nint hundred
eighty-nine garments were collec
ted for distribution, plus $83.75 for
the purchasing of needed garments.
The immediate needs of the com-
and
munity are taken care of first.
One thousand nine hundred
garments were sent to the Kansas
Flood Relief plus $25.00 in funds.
and
The remaining garments were
distributed to thirty-two needy
families in the vicinity of Mount
Joy who are investigated by the
guild members and teach-
ers; also to the following institu-
tions: Catholic Charities of the Di-
Harrisburg,
Family and Children’s Service of
Lancaster County; Columbia Hos-
pital, Columbia; Lancaster General
school
ocese of Lancaster:
Hospital; Lancaster Osteopathic
Hospital; Lancaster Children’s Bu-
reau, Lancaster; 58th Street Com-
munity Center, Philadelphia; Mes-
sinh Orphanage, Mount Joy: Pres-
Home of Central Penn-
sylvania, Newville; Presbyterian
Mission, Beattyville; Quincy Orph-
anage and Home Royer
School for Blind, Paoli: Rossmere
Sanaterium, Lancaster; St. Joseph's
United
Ken-
byterian
Greaves
and
Roark,
Hospital, Lancaster;
Brethren
tucky.
The local of the Mount
Joy Needlework Guild of America
has five hundred and seventy-four
and
Mission,
directors.
The officers are as Mrs.
Horton, Mus.
Frank Young, vice president; Mrs.
Robert Brown, Mrs.
Howard Garber, secre-
tary; and Mrs. Edward Lane, trea-
members forty-six
follows:
Simeon president;
secretary:
assistant
A Local Minister
Is Wedded At
Washington, Pa.
Rev. Harlan C. Durfee, pastor of
the Presbyterian churches here and

at Donegal Springs, was married
Oct. 27.
The appended article is reprinted
from the Washington Pa. Reporter:
“The wedding of Dorothy Anne
the Rev. Harland C.
Durfee was an event of Saturday,
October 27, in the United
Fresbyterian Church.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Floyd Phillips Sr., 323
Wilson avenue, and the bridegroom
is a sén of Elbert F. Durfee Sr., of
Bethesda, Md.
The couple
Phillips and
Second
exchanged wedding
vows at 4 o'clock before an altar
that was massed with ferns, cybo-
tium and scheffleria and flanked
with lighted tapers in candelabra
decorated with gold sprayed ivy.
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G. C. MURPHY CO. BUYS
MORRIS CHAIN OF 71 STORES
The G. C. Murphy Company ac-
quired the 7l-store chain of Morris
5 & 10 Cent to $1.00 Stores, Incor-
porated, of Bluffton,
207,500
Murphy common stock, for all out-
standing common and
preference stock of the Morris Co.
a ii oni
MUST PAY $35 WEEKLY
TOWARD FAMILY'S SUPPORT
Ralph A. Moose, of town,
ordered to pay $35 a week to his
Indiana, with
the exchange of shares of
cumulative

was
wife, Florence V. Moose, 218 East
Donegal street, this boro, for her
support and the support of’ four
children, by the Court Friday.
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TRUCKS WERE OVERLOADED
State Police at Lancaster, prose-
Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday
PRODUCERS COOPERATIVE
WILL NAME 3 DIRECTORS
Three directoys will ke
at the 19th annual meeting of the
elected
Producers Cooperative Exchange
in the Guernsey Sales Pavilion,
east of Lancaster, Nov. 13 at 7:45
p. m.
Candidates include: Mark J. Bu-
cher, Lebanon R4; Elmer F. Groff,
Rheems; Jacob Z. Herr, Elizabeth-
town; John E. Melhorn, Mt. Joy;
Elias Z. Musser, Mount Joy; and
Bernard T. Walter, Oxford RI.
Nominations will also be accepted
from the floor.
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LAD PLEAD GUILTY TO
STEALNG A SMALL BANK
Kenneth eighteen,
guilty to
containing
Saul Landis,
Elizabethtown, pleaded
stealing a small bank
etween $6 and $7 belonging to his
the home of
Elizabethtown
step=brother from
Harry A. Stauffer,
R2, given a suspended
sentence,
The court
months’
and was
him , on four
the
placed
probation, terms in-
cluding that he make restitution,
pay the costs and $25 to ihe coun-
ty.
The Continental
Press At E’town
Sure Is Growing
that
for
Comparatively few realized
Mr. Horace E.
a number of years supervising prin-
cipal of the East Donegal Township
Maytown, would
duct one of the largest school book
Rafferrsperger,
Schools at con-
and supply publishing houses in
the country. Well, that is exactly
what he has accomplished in the
brief period since he resigned at
Maytown.
Mr.
Continental
town. By persistent “plugging”, his
business grew very rapidly. He e-
started the
Elizabeth
Raffensperger
Press, at
rected a place of business and has
outgrown its capacity half a dozen
times during these short years. To-
conducts one of the best
offset
day he
letter press and establish-
ments to be found anywhere.
In the
supplies he consumes paper by the
production of his school
car loads and there are compara-
tively few schools that do not use
at least some of his products.
Here's what the Elizabethtown
Chronicle had to say akout his bus-
iness in last week's issue:
“The Continental Press,
printers and publishers of
materials, has completed arrange-
ments for the opening of a Cana-
dian branch at 88 Richmond street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Canadian organization is
Leaded by John C. W. Irwin, a na-
tive of Canada, who has had over
20 years’ experience selling text-
books to Canadian schools. All
local
school

Fnglish speaking schools in Cana-
da will be served from Toronto.
The Continental Press Serves |
the schools of the United States |
from its home office here in Eliza-
bethtown and from branches locat-
ed in Atlanta, Ga.; Dallas, Texas;
Elgin, I1l.; and Pasadena, Calif.”
We wish this deserving publisher
unlimited success.
Week's ith R
Birth Record
Mr. and Mrs. George FE. Carriger,
of Rheems, a daughter at the Gen-
eral Hospital.
Mr. Mrs. David M.
126 West Donegal street, a
the General Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fry, Man-
heim R2, a son at Lancaster
Ostecpathic Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Nissley,
and Risser,
son at
the

Mount Joy Rl, a daughter Monday
at the Lancaster General Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sheetz, 415 |
Atkins Ave., Lancaster, formerly
of this boro, a son at St. Joseph's
Hospital Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Abram Witmer,
Manheim R2, a daughter at the
General Hospital.
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UNION NATIONAL BANK
DFCLARES DIVIDENDS
The Board of Directors of The |
Union National Mount Joy Bank at |
their regular meeting “held Thurs- |
day, November 8, declared the |
|
Prize Winners At |
Hallowe’n Parade
By Lions Club
hundred marchers
participated in the Lions Club's’
annual Hallowe'en parade here last
evening.
Residents who acted at
were Mrs. Arthur Mayer, Mr.
Ralph Eshleman, Mr. Simon Nis-
sley and Burgess Charles Fish.
Two hundred dollars in prizes
awarded as
Twenty-two
judges
were follows: $5 first,
$3 second and $2 third.
First Division—Most
Richard and Barbara
Ralph Rice; 3rd, Nancy Pennell:
Most original: 1st, Eugene Funk;
2nd, Darla Kulp; 3rd, Glenn Kay-
Jor and Gene Newcomer: Fanciest:
1st, Sheryl Haines, and Susie Rei-
ner; 2nd, Sue Mumma; 3rd, Sandra
comical: 1st
Becker; 2nd,
Lee Kaylor
Division—Most
Ronnie Schofield; Jane Flory
and Danny Derr; 3rd, Richard Sny-
der: Most original; 1st, Ben Groff,
2nd, James Pennell; 3nd, Thomas
Lane; Fanciest: 1st, Bob Wliliams;
2nd, Thomas Schroll; 3rd, Rachel
Klugh.
Third Division—Most comical:
1st, Charles Pennell; 2nd, Robert
Ziegler; Most original: 1st, $5 each,
(2 first prizes) William Stohler and
Paul Hipple; 2nd, Joyce Baker and
Marcia King: 3rd, William Way:
4th, Harold Zimmerman; Fanciest,
1st, Mrs. James Pennell; 2nd, Bar-
Zim-
Second comical,
2nd,
Thome and Genevieve
3rd, James Ellwine.
bara
merman;
Fourth Division—Fanciest couple
($5.00) Dot Brown and Vera Al-
bert: Most original: ($5.00) Pam
and Johnny Toppin; The Fanciest
or most original group consisting
of three or more people: First
prize, Mrs. Lee Rice and family;
the best appearing float: 1st ($20.00)
Bainbridge ($10.00)
Elizabethtown Boy Scouts: 3rd, $5
Don Dempsey and Hitz in
their Ford; the largest group of
non-paid musical organizations: 1st
($35.00) East Donegal High School
Glee Club.
Claudette Zeller and Earl Shelly
Senior students at Mount Joy High
School, rtigned as King and Queen
of the event.
Legion; 2nd,
Lester
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Observe American
Education Week
Each East
Township will celebrate American
Education Week - 11-17
in a variety of ways. The Wash-
school in Donegal
November
ington Elementary School at Florin
will the
school Friday, November 16 and a
invite parents to visit
musical program will be present-
ed in the afternoon. Grades Five
and Six of the Maytown Element-
ary School will have parents visit
November
Wednesday afternoon,
14th followed by a tea for parents
and teachers. Grade Three and
Four of the same school will pre-
sent a program for parents the
same afternoon.
High school teachers plan dis-
plays of classwork in churches and
May-~
town and Florin. “Open House” will
business houses of Marietta,
also be held in the high school at
Maytown Wednesday evening, No-
vember 14th.
vailable for parent visits from sev-
eight. At
program will be held iW the audi-
Teachers will ‘be a-
en to eight o'clock, a
torium by students and teachers il-
lustrating various phases of school
curricular and
activities, both co~
curricular.
OI es
LOCAL HUNTERS ENCOUNTER
SNOW IN POTTER COUNTY
Last Friday Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Garman and Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Afternoon, November 8, 1
GOV, FINE PROCLAIMS NOV.
12 AS ARMISTICE DAY
Governor John S. Fine proclaim-
ed Monday, Nov. 12, as a legal hol-
iday to muwk the observance of
Armistice Day, Nov. 11.
Armistice Day falls
this year. He called on Pennsylva-
nias to mark the occasion with pa-
on Sunday
triotic ceremonies in churches,
schools, and other public assemb-
lis.
Armistice Day in 1951 is the 33d
anniversary of the end of World
War I,

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MR. & MRS. JACOB H. SENTZ
ARE 'WEDDED 60 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Sentz, of
Mount Joy Rl, celebrated their 60th
wedding anniversary last Fhursday.
The couple was married Novem-
ber 1, 1891, in the parsonage of the
York Evangelical Church, and for-
merly lived in York County.
Mr. Sentz, who is now 82, is still
actively engaged in carpentering.
He was formerly engaged in farm-
ing, and as a miller. His wife, the
former Ellen A. Seachrist, is 84
rr A
News Ii General
From Florin For
The Past Week
Mr. and Mrs.
ex-postmaster

George Mumper
and A. D. Garber
left Sunday for Buck Ridge Lodge,
Perry Co. The men are making life
miserable for small game while
Mrs. Mumper is kept busy prepar-
ing food daily for two ravenous
appetites. They expect to
home the latter part of this week.
We predict their
well supplied.
Mrs. James Garber
Wolf spent ten days at Tampa, Fla.
with the former's daughter and
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Young.
Mrs. Benjamin Zimmerman spent
Tuesday at Manheim with relatives
Mrs. Paul T. Bronson and daugh-
ters arrived home on Friday, after
return
‘larders” will be
spending some time at Florida with
her husband.
Mrs. Mary
Joseph
Mr.
Murs. Jr.,
daughter of Lancaster, Mr. and Mrs.
William Beck, Donegal Springs Rd,
Mr Mrs. Clarence Murphy,
Miss Bernice Gise, of Berwyn spent
Mr. Mrs. Paul
Sabinash, and
Sabinash and
and
Sunday with and
1 Arndt.
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MAYTOWN WOMAN HURT
IN AN AUTO MISHAP
Mrs. Mervin Arnold of
slightly injured
Maytown
was Wednesday
when the auto she was operating
struck another auto at a Maytown
street intersection and then re-
bounded into a nearby dwelling.
She suffered left
ankle and shoulder and was treated
at the office of Dr. Michael Gratch,
Maytown.
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HAD PLENTY OF SNOW
A number of folks
auto
bruises of the

from town,
who enjoyed trips to the
mountains Sunday were surprised
to find all the north sides of all the
mountains 50 to 60 miles north of
here, completely covered with
SNOW.
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2,595 CASUALTIES IN
KOREA IN ONE WEEK
The United Nations may be grad-
ually winning the conflict in Korea
but are paying dearly in lives lost.
Last week 2,595 casualties were re-
ported.

ED
BOND ISSUE PASSED
At Tuesday's election a $160,000
bond issue, for the construction and
equipment of school buildings in
West Hempfield township, was ap-
proved by a vote of 360 to 254. The


Showalter, Donegal Springs Road,
left on a brief hunting trip to Pot-
ter Co. They left here in the rain
but when they arrived at Galeton
the snow plows were busy opening
the highways. They returned home
Saturday.
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VIOLATED PARKING LAW
George H. Owens, 116 Delta St,
same issue was defeated a year ago.
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ART CLUB AFFILIATIONS
Mount Joy Art Club members
now belong to the Federated Art
About half of the Mt.
Joy group are members to the Vil-
lage Art Association of Lititz.
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PAPFR BOOSTS ITS RATES
Association.

and Mrs. Ej
951
D, For
battle of
over and with one single exception,
the Councilmanic the
West Ward, it was about the quiet
held in
Tuesday's the ballots is
contest in
est, uninteresting election
Mount Joy in many a moon
When the polls opened Tuesday
there no
the
now
it was discovered was
Judge of Elections to serve in
Ward. Jno. W
deceased was elected ago
Shortly after John L
Schroll, by a petition to the Coun-
the
At the same time he
No
was taken on either of the
Kast Hendrix,
a year
his death
ty Commissioners, applied for
appointment
resigned as Inspector action
above
and the election board organized by
naming John L. Schroll, judge and
Christ Shirk Jr. as inspector.
There was quite a surprise when
the Councilmanic ballots were
counted in the West Ward. Mr.
Maurice Bailey, Republican, for
many years clerk of Boro Council,
defeated Mr. Harold Krall, Demo-
crat, 192 to 144, a margin of 48
votes.
Thruout the county it was the
usual one-sided GOP victory.
The vote in the boro follows:
MT. JOY BORO
Council
FW Ww
Lester (3. Hostetter R 269
James B. Snangler Jr. R 256
Maurice Bailev R 102
Harold Krall D 144
School Directors
Albert D. Seiler R 249 211
Frank F. Walter R 219 185
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
RAZES AN OLD LANDMARK
Tree
removing the
Workmen of the Asprundh
Expert Company are
large southern locuse tree in front
of the Reuben Fellenbaum
dence at 3 W. Main St
The tree was one of three brought
from Florida by Dr. Andy
and has always been there as long
resi-
Garber
| as former residents of the house
I can remember.
The house was built about 1882
by George DeLong and was later
the Manning home.
The Loca) News
For The Past Week
Very Briefly Told
A deer that dressed 90 Ibs. was
killed when it ran into a fence near
Reamstown
Homer E. Witmer, 29, East Pet-
ershurg, was shot in both legs hy
his father while hunting
Ten persons were injured in six-
teen auto crashes thruout this lo-
cality over the weekend.
Thirty-one banks thruout the
county will soon pay out $3,745,500
in Christmas Savings funds
Charles W. Gipe shot himself in
the leg when he tripped over a
stone while walking along the road.
S. Claude Baker, Manheim,
fined $150 and costs on two motor
code violations and posted bail for
was
court on a third.
Since Old Man Winter crept up-
or: us several days ago there were
136 deaths thruout the nation due
to cold weather.
The Masonic Eliza~
bethtown, will receive a bequest of
$60,000 thru the death of Calvin B.
Heller, an antique dealer.
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ANTIQUE HIGHBOY SOLD
AT PUBLIC SALE FOR S184
An antique highboy sold for $184
Homes, at
at a public sale held Saturday by
Villiam H. Gingrich, in Mount Joy
Union Square
Also sold were
for $50, dishes
kitchen
tewnship, between
and Elizabethtown
a chest of drawers
from $6 to $10 each
chairs for $6 each.
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COUNTY HAS NEARLY HALF
PENNSYLVANIA'S
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
There are 1800 men in Pennsyl-
vania between the ages of 19 and
and
$2.00 a Year in Advance
Ex-Boro Sec’y M. Bailey
R, Defeats Harold Krall
Borough Council

Rev. Jonas Martin
A Retired Pastor;
Died In York Co.
The Rev. Jonas Martin, seventy-
four, a former pastor at Landis=
ville and Maytown, died Sunday
at the home of his son and daugh-
ter-in=law, Mr. and Mrs. William
H. Martin, New Freedom. York
county.
The Rev. Mr. Martin served for
10 years in the ministry, having
been ordained in the Eastern Pen-
nsylvania Churches of God in 1912,
His first pastorate was the Mouni
Laurel Shopes circuit after
which he served churches at Lan-~
disville, the West Poplar St. church
at York; Middletown, Six Mile
Rur in Bedford County, Martins-
burg, Pa.. and the Maytown church
where he retired in 1945.
He was a member of Columbia
Commandery, 132 Knights of Mal-
ta; and Triune Lodge 307, Indeper-
dent Order of Odd Fellows.
In addition to his wife, Mrs. Cora
Null Martin, he by two
Mrs. Claude F. Brene-
man, of York; Willis Martin,
with whom he resided. Four grand-
children and these sisters alsd sur=
vive: Mrs. Daniel Martin, Dayton,
Ohio; Mrs. Samuel Rohrer, North
Lima, Ohio; and Mrs. Ira Eberly,
Orrville,
and
is survived
children:
and
Mount Joy - Florin
Girl Scouts Elect;
Other Activities
Miss Anna Mae Eby was re-el-
ected chairman of the Mount Joy
and Florin Girl Scout Neighborhood
at the bi-monthly meeting of the
group on Monday evening in the
Scout den.
Mrs. Edward Lane was elected
first vice-president; Mrs. James
Spangler, second vice-president;
Mrs. Clyde Mumper, secretary and
Mrs. Hostetter, treasurer.
The nominating committee consist-
ed of Mrs. Joseph Mrs.
Edward Lane
Lester
Germer,
The group decided to have a fat
collection in Florin and Mount Joy
Saturday, Dec. 1. The last collec-
brought in 350 lbs.
from Florin and 495 pounds in Mt.
Joy
tion in October
a dinner will be held
by the group in the parish house of
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Mortuary Record
Throughout This
Entire Locality
Mrs. Emaline Hake died at Felton
near York, aged 103 years.
Dr. William W. Hurlinger, 83, at
the Masonic Homes, Elizakethtown.
Miss Clara L. Miller, 80, a native
the Lancaster Co.
January 7,
of Columbia, at
hospital.

Mrs. Elizabeth K. Fry, seventy-
three, wife of Elmer E. Fry, Eliza-
bethtown, at her home. Besides her
husband she Jeaves one son and a
brother.

Mrs. Frederick L. Heinley
Mrs. Catharine Heinley, eighty-
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EXCITEMENT CAUSED DEATH
Minnie Nissley Stehman, 68, wife
of John N. Stehman, Manheim R1,
died from excitement at the Metzler
barn fire last evening,
BE
FIREMEN CALLED OUT
Friendship Fire Company an-

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swered a call Friday at 1:50 a. m.
on West Main street, where a short
circuit in a parked automobile be-
longing to Leroy R. Albright, Co-
lumbia, caused slight damage, .
cuted four truck drivers for being |regular semi-annual dividend of 5
and Protestant Christians, and papers, to Senators Edward Martin | overloaded. Among them was Mr. | percent. ($2.50 per share) and a
Christian E. Flory, 220 East Main | special dividend of 2 percent ($1.00
Whereas, the majority of church | and James Duff, and to the Presi-
street, this boro. Fach paid $50 i per share) both payable November
between Roman Catholic Christians | olution be sent to the local news-
The Ephrata Review boosted its
subscription to $3 in the county and
$3.50 outside the county and 7 cents
a copy for single copies.
26 who are listed as conscientious
objectors. They will not do military
duty. Of that number, 896 are list-
ed with Lancaster Co. draft hoard.
this boro, was one of a number of
motorists apprehended at Lancas-
ter for violating the city’s parking
laws









groups in this country have repeat- | dent of the United States, Harry S.
edly challenged the right to main-/ Truman. and costs. 15, 1951.
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