By R.A.R.
Mount Joy’s garbage prob-
lem again bobs its head into
the public eye.
Last week another embar-
rassing repair was needed for
the borough’s garbage truck—
another in a long long list of
things which have cost the
community money money.
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Ie was hinted by one of the
borough councilmen last week
that maybe Mount Joy will
be forced to abandon its mu-
nicipal collection program.
The idea expressed was “Let
people who are in the collec-
tion business on a commercial
basis take over the job.”
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One of the most interesting
real estate situations which
has developed in a long long
time concerns the Bowman es-
tate— the “point” at Main &
Marietta Sts. It is one of the
community’s most prominent
spots, so what happens be-
comes news.
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Up for public sale a couple
of weeks ago, it was with-
drawn from ayction.
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However, it is reliably re-
ported this week that it has
been purchased at private sale
by Dr. James Elvin.
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Mt. Joy’s Friendship Fire
company will hold an impor-
tant meeting Thursday night.
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One of the items coming up
concerns the buying of equip-
ment for the new fire pumper
scheduled to be delivered
sometime early next summer.
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If vou haven't written this
date on the wall, and you
have school children in your
home, you’d better do it now.
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Donegal schools open (for
the kids) on Wednesday, Sep-
tember 9th.
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With the storm raging in
Lancaster concerning the
monument, it is hard for any-
one living outside the city to
refrain from having an opin-
ion keep it where it is or
move it!
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Our only public comment
is that if the monument is to
be moved and there is a prob-
lem about where to relocate
it, we have a suggestion.
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Let the city or county buy
the Bowman ‘‘point” in Mt.
Joy and re-erect the monu-
ment on one of the best loca-
tions in the county.
THE
MOUNT
JOY
VOL 7. NO. 10.
BULLETIN
Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy
MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1970
TEN CENTS
“OU Slobberface” Th rills Mount Joy Fans
Hissing steam and belching
smoke, “Ol Slobberface” came
and went through Mount Joy
on Sunday—twice!
And, on both stops — one
shortly after noon and the
second about 5:30 p.m. — the
veteran railroad engine and
an ancient ten-car train at-
tracted hundreds of sightsee-
ers,.some of whom were see-
ing a steam engine for the
first time and some of whom
were recalling days gone by,
when coal-fired locomotives
roared into Mount Joy, some
stopping for passengers and
other express trains rushing
on their way with luxury
coaches loaded with the high
and mighty.
While the train was the at-
traction which drew the peo-
ple, it was the water which
the Mount Joy Friendship
Fire company provided which
caused the train stops.
Steam-driven engines need
water and lots of it, and ar-
rangements were made for
“Ol Slobberface” to _stop .on
its run from Paoli to Harris-
burg to take a drink and then
to do the same on the return
trip.
Firemen, headed by Chief
Frank Good Jr. strung two
lines from a fire plug on the
north side of Memorial park,
where a pumper was station-
ed, across Marietta avenue,
down the side of the railroad
cut and into the waiting eng-
ine tender.
Approximately 4,000 gal-
lons were taken on the out”
run and only 500 gallons less
on the way back.
The only passenger to
board the train at Mount Joy
was 10-year-old Bradley New-
comer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Newcomer, south Mark-
et street,
He was the guest of the
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Library-Selects
New President
A new president was elect-
ed and two new members of
the board were appointed on
Monday night, July 27, by
the Mount Joy Library board.
Albert Newlin, 220 East
Main street, was elected pres-
ident to - succeed Franklin
Eichler, who has resigned
from the board after serving
several years as a member, as
treasurer and as head of the
organization.
Named to fill his place is
Mrs. Richard Kohler, 35 East
Main street.
Also appointed to the board
is Mrs. James Heilig, who will
fill the unexpired term of
Mrs. Leroy Bates, who recent-
ly moved from the area.
The board’ granted a pay
raise, to $2 per hour, to the
librarian’s two assistants,
Mrs. Ann Milanoff and Mrs.
Frank Tyndall.
The board’s annual fund
raising drive has been set to.
open on Sept. 1.
LEISURE CLUB
The Mt. Joy Leisure Club
will hold its next regular
meeting at the Mount Joy
Sports Farm on Monday, Au-
gust 10, at 1 o’clock p.m.
A meeting will be held and
coffee and cake will be serv-
ed. A bus trip is planned to
Longwood Gardens Thursday
evening, Aug. 13. The group
will meet at the United Meth-
odist church at 5:30 p.m.
Doctor Makes
Four Suggestions
Dr. Newton Kendig, bor-
ough of Mount Joy health of-
ficer, speaking, however, as an
individual, raised four ques-
tions’ Monday night at Bor-
ough Council meeting, held in
the borough building — rats,
sewage, health department re-
organization and ~condemna-
tion of certain properties.
Rats, he said, are ‘out of
hand” and getting worse and
he named at least two spots
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Seek to Find
Four possible sources of ad-
ditional water for the munici-
pality have been detailed for
the Mount Joy Borough Auth-
ority.
At its regular meeting on
Tuesday night, Aug. 4, a Har-
risburg geologist presented a
report indicating most likely
areas in which suitable deep
wells could be attempted.
All are located in what was
described as the Donegal
Springs Zone, a newly iden-
tified area which contains
subsurface structure which is
favorable to water production.
A somewhat unusual forma-
tion, Geologist Timothy Say-
lor said, the zone includes
Donegal Sgrings, Charles
Spring and other springs that
are in the same valley stretch-
ing generally northwest —
southeast.
The report was made as a
result of a study made on or-
der of the Authority at its
July meeting.
It now becomes possible
Treasure Is Where You Find It -- Dig!
Treasure is where you find
it!
Even if it is in the base-
ment, behind a five-foot wall
of earth and then deep in an
ancient dye vat!
And, that’s exactly where
the Larry Laughman family,
123 David street, found some
fascinating items last week
as they progressed on a job of
installing a new and larger
furnace in their home they
acquired last spring from Mrs.
Earl Kaylor.
Included in the find were,
‘Of This and That’
“Take my bicycle home,
please, Dad. I'm going with
the steam engine to Harris-
burg!”
With these words, spoken
excitedly, a 10-year-old Mt.
Joy boy, Brad Newcomer,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene
Newcomer, became the only
one from Mount Joy to board
“Ql’ Slobberface” just after
noon on Sunday for a five-
hour journey into the past!
Only for Brad, it wasn't a
nostalgic trip at all—it was
an exciting adventure, one he
will not soon forget.
A father and his young son
“adopted” Bradley as the
train pulled out of Mount Joy
and he stayed with them dur-
ing the entire trip.
“It was hot,” the young ad-
venturer said. “All the win-
dows on the train were open,
and lots of cinders and dust
blew in! But no one seemed
to mind.”
There was the snack bar for
by the editor's wife
refreshments, a constantly-
changing countryside to watch
and always, the “chuff, chuff,
chuff’ of the steam engine,
and the shrill blast of its
whistle at every crossing!
Then there was the little
fire between two cars, which
Brad discovered, and watched
while men put it out with fiz-
zing soda water from soft
drink cans.
“Did you get off the train
at Harrisburg?”
“No!”
“Would you like to ride a
train like that again?’
“Oh, yes!” -
The experience was truly
the stuff of which childhood
memories are made!
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There has been some pub-
licity recently about an ocean-
ography laboratory sponsored
by Millersville State College
at Lewes, Maryland. But not
too many people notice such
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for instance, several ‘‘Bube
Bottles” from the old brew-
ery which has now become a
tourist attraction in Mt. Joy.
As workmen were ready to
install piping into the north
portion of the house it be-
came necessary to break open
a section under the house
which, to all'appearances, was
an unexcavated area.
Laughman and a neighbor
boy did the work, breaking
through a foundation and
then through a thick wall of
earth.
Then, suddenly, they struck
a brick wall. Then it was that
they recalled that the late
Earl Kaylor had told them
that somewhere under the
house was located a huge dry
vat, used by a dye works
which once stood at what is
now the corner of David and
Lumber streets.
Working hard at full speed
despite the hot and dirty work
they finally broke through in-
to what truly is a huge vat
which measured about 10 feet
in circumference and about 20
feet in depth.
Appearing much like a huge
cistern, the upper part is
brick but a few feet below the
floor of the ground floor of
the house the bricks are ce-
mented or plastered.
The floor, Laughman be-
lieves after digging through
several layers of trash of all
kinds, is made of slate.
But it was the digging
through the ‘rubbish’ which
produced the treasures of oth-
er years.
Yor instance, there were all
kinds and manner of extract
and medicine bottles — of all
kinds and designs much
sought after in this day and
age. One beautiful blue ink
bottle Mrs. Laughman (Con-
nie) grabbed and immediately
claimed, personally. She
washed it, saved the label,
and has it sitting in her china
closet— "Just because it is
such a pretty blue,” she twin-
kled.
“Someone who lived here
must have read this old (1903)
almanac,” she ventured. “See
this list of medicines? We've
found bottles for almost ev-
ery one of them.”
Then, too; there were early
1900 copies o f a Pittsburgh
newspaper. Several pairs of
old shoes—button shoes, no
less — provided interesting
speculation. :
But, there were no dates
earlier than a couple of years
later than the turn of the cen-
tury, indicating that about
that time the dumping of
trash into the huge vat ceased,
Which is interesting, in
light of the fact that Earl
Kaylor told Laughman’s fath
er, Wm. B. Laughman that
he had lived in that house 60
years.
The Laughman’s are not
sure how old the house really
is but must assume from the
dates they found in the legal
papers when they bought the
house last year that it is more
than 70 years.
They are inclined to believe
that the house itself, perhaps
a part of it, may have been
part of the old dye plant.
Because of its size and be-
cause it is useless as it stands,
the Laughmans, at present,
think that they will fill the
vat to the level of their base-
ment floor & make what will
then be a circular brick-wal-
led room into a root cellar.
Well Sites
that the Authority may take
an option on a tract of land
and make a test drilling to a
depth of between 300 & 500
feet. However, no action was
taken Tuesday night.
The areas identified as like-
ly sites for drilling actually
are four but are identified in
the report asl, II, III with
the third broken into two
small sections. The identifica-
tions refer somewhat to the
order of favorability.
No. I area includes .37 sq.
miles immediately west of
Donegal high school and is
circular in area, lying practic-
ally astride the road running
west from the school.
No. II area is .6 square
miles, somewhat farther west
pear shaped with the large
end turned east. Generally
the west end tips the Donegal
Springs church to Marietta
road, the north near Kraybill
church and south in the area
of the Florin Anglers” prop
erty.
No. III includes one small
spot north of No. II and an-
other small area south of No.
2
Such factors as accesibility
to present water installations,
probability of water, contam-
ination possibilities ete.
weighted the ranking of the
areas.
Donegal Band
Plans Practice
The Donegal high school
band will hold a rehearsal on
Thursday evening, Aug. 13,
at D.H.S., beginning at 7 p.m.
and continuing until 9 p.m.
Because of the summer va-
cations and the lack of notifi-
cation facilities, band mem-
bers are being asked by Dir-
ector Glenn Leib to notify
friends and to ‘pass the word’.
Majorettes and color guard
will attend.
Anyone wishing to help
cut and separate new music
may report to the high school
main office.
Hockey Hopefuls
To Take Exams
All girls who plan io try
out for the Donegal high
school hockey team will be
taking physical examinations
next week.
Practice will begin the next
week on Monday, Aug. 17 at
6 p.m.
Physicals will be given on
Thursday, Aug. 13, at 8 a.m.
Make-urs physicals will be
given on Friday, Aug. 14, be-
ginning at 4 p.m. in the office
of the Donegal high school
nurse.
Girls have been reminded
that there will be a bake
sale in front of Greer's Jew-
elery store on Friday, the_14,
beginning at 11 a.m.
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