Delta Herald-Times (Newspaper) - December 7, 1933, Delta, Pennsylvania DELTA The Only Newspaper Adequately Covering Southern York County Pennsylvania and Northern Harford County Maryland VE 00 CUR PART VOL LV NO 49 DELTA YORK COUNTY PA THURSDAY DECEMBER Marion Macomber j Cardiff Lady Assumes Duties As Postmaster Celebrates Birthday BOROUGH AND TOWNSHIP SCHOOL BOARDS REORGANIZE CARD OF APPRECIATION Mr and Mrs Albert Ruff of diff entertained a number of family friends at a dinner in honor of the mother Mrs i Jacob J Ruff who celebrated her birthday anniversary Those present Mr and Mrs Jacob J Ruff OTHER LOCAL HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST Mr and Mrs J Howard Stubbs have returned after spending time with their children in Mr and Mrs Jacob J Ruff and and Mrs Albert Ruff spent day evening at the home of Mr and Mrs William B Orr of Constitution Mr and Mrs Jacob J Ruff expect to spend some time at the Orr home Mr and Mrs Meridith Evans of Bel Air and Miss Magdalene Evans of Berwin Pa spent Saturday ning with Mr and Mrs Fleming Evans Miss Ann Glidden is recuperating at the home of Mr and Mrs J W New Jr Philadelphia after under- going an operation for the removal of her tonsils Mr and Mrs Clinton Johnson and Mrs Emory Hose Sr Mr and Mrs Marion S- Macomber received his appointment as postmaster at- Delta on Saturday December 2 and im- mediately assumed his new duties He succeeds A- Grant Dunlap who has been postmaster for the past i Mr and Mrs Albert Ruff Mr and eight years Mr Macomber was formerly manager and operator of the Cardiff Roller Mills The new postmaster has named as his assistant Ralph Fulton a former employee of the Peoples National Bank Mr Fulton succeeds Hugh R Evans who has held the position of assistant for the past eleven After a long term of service as a A reorganization meeting of the member and for many years as Delta School Board was held at j President Mr William T Brown High School building on Monday retires from the Board of School evening C C Stiffler was elected Directors president succeeding William T I Brown who has held the office several years The other officers are Edgar Ruff Mr and Mrs G vice-president Rev B W Jones secretary J C Macomber and j treasurer Harvie L Stubbs The Peach Bottom School Board held their reorganization meeting on was president Graham Thompson as vice-president The secretary and treasurer are Abel Morris and Mrs Harry Mackinson Thompson Mr and Mrs Bailey Ruff I afternoon D D Mr and Mrs Merle Stump Mr Mrs Charles McLaughlin Mrs Anna Leamon Mrs John Engle Misses Mary and Ruth Hose garet and Betty Jane Ruff Mahala Geesey Anna Shrieder Lovell Ruff Esther Thompson Doris and Jean Stump Messrs Emory Hose Jr John Weaver Ralph Everett and Richard Ruff Ray Steininger I ton Strayer Preston Gerald Sterling and Vincent Thompson Charles phy Joseph Harnley and Gene Engle By his long and faithful and cient record Mr Brown has rendered an incalculable service to the people of this community His insight into and acquaintance with the problems of public education which these hectic years create have proven of inestimable help The Board wish to take this of expressing their appreciation of Mr Brown's services as school director By order of the Board Christmas Seal Makes Great Start in Community FIRST RETURNS OF DRIVE RECEIVED FROM DELTA Returns from the Mail this effect was part of the Thanks arriving at the Christmas Seal i headquarters of the York County Tuberculosis Society in increasing numbers and show a return of OF ANNIVERSARY proximately 33 cents per letter The ENTERTAINS IN HONOR first contribution came from a farmer Mr and C C- Butler down near Delta While a storekeeper a number of their friends the Susquehanna Trail a a dinner on Thanksgiving day in salesman of farm implements near honor of their wedding Dillsburg vied for second Valley School Notes Mr and Mrs R Lee Newlon of Alexandria Virginia and Mrs A C Mobley spent Sunday afternoon at Officials Work To Get School Ground Improvements the home of Mr and Mrs Byron P is Hughes and family a subject has been discussed of the Delta school board and others Dallastown interested in the beautification of the Edward Burk are For Health Day Programme given the schools last The schools are doing their part through the preparation and j Ramsay casting of plays based on the Seal i spending a few days with their Sale and the work of the Society Houser of Edgewood The play winning first place in the recent radio contest was broadcast on Tuesday by the Fawn Township School On Friday December 8 at Clifton Fantom of York got a deer marly times by the various members on Friday Sidney Stewart of spent the week-end with his grand- parents Mr and Mrs Daniel Stewart Raymond Kennedy and family of Lancaster spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs John Steele and family Arthur received in- juries on Monday by a stone falling out of a truck Edna Willis Goldie and Junior Krick spent Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Jesse Wayne Arthur Maglaughlin butchered Thanksgiving day Miss Audrey Barnett spent day with Thomas L nett and family Mr and Mrs Frank Batly spent Thursday evening with Thomas L Barnett and family sary Those present Mrs Harry other words all sorts of p m a group of pupils from Ashton of Baldwin Mrs interested in the Seal Sale Red Lion will present a play written Sweating and Miss Isabel Sweating j ready to give in order to continue I by Elizabeth McAllister While the of The Rocks Mr and G the fight against tuberculosis which following Tuesday December 12 McComas Mr and Mrs supports dents from West York High School Scarff and Mrs Anna Anderson of i The majority of the returns fare and the Catholic High School will Fallston Mrs Perry Carroll of by mail although a number of give two plays in a joint programme Mr and Harry Chenworth and Miss Elizabeth wortn of Jarrettsville and Mrs H Delta Mr and Mrs Brooke Snodgrass at- g tended the musical representation of The Creation presented at the St Paul Lutheran Church Littlestown Penna on Tuesday night 1 Mrs Harry Morrow daughters j Dorothy and Evelyn and Miss Gladys Thompson were week-end guests of and Mrs Harry Thompson of Whiteford the Delta Methodist Protestant Mr and Mrs Weldon Dodson of met at the home and Home Missionary Society The Home Missionary Society of people bring them in to the Society's at a m- All broadcasts are office while others leave theirs at made over Station the local collection stations in the Personal solicitation of large con- various towns In this section such is being made this week stations are located at Harkins Store local chairmen in the various Delta The R Drug Store in t towns and in York by a local com- and East Prospect I assisted by members of the One letter coming into j Exchange Club Mr Henry Wasbers Jr chairman Every one seems ing and ready to help in securing the funds necessary to continue the year-round fight against realization of the need Reading visited the mother Mrs warren Williams on here Mrs James A- Dodson who is a evening The regular business Thf patient in the Maryland General mg was held followed by a social ters read Am returning the seals as received I must buy from the ren The writer evidently is under the impression that the Christinas I Seals will be sold ren later in as was the Mrs Thomas Burk is very ill Mr and Mrs Arthur Maglaughlin and children Nora Lillian Edna and Randall visited Mr and Mrs Thomas Burk on Sunday Mr and Mrs Leonard Pomraning spent Monday night with Mrs Eva Johnson Mr and Mrs Lewis Scarborough moved Wednesday and Thursday of last week to the Miss Jennie Cluskey property near Slate Hill Miss Elizabeth Cooper spent day with Mr and Mrs Nelson Cooper and family of Slate Hill Those having a perfect attendance during the month of November Edwell Beard Lawrence Burk liam Fantom Willis Krick Randall Maglaughlin Reed Norris Keith Robinson Paul Scarborough James Steele Mildred Ailes Anna Ailes Eula Beard Dorothy Henry garet Hughes Edna school grounds And it is a subject which should not only be talked of by officials but by the whole town The school grounds lic grounds and perhaps the only public grounds our town possesses which should be an inducement to make it outstanding Of course we all know the reason these ments have not been made is the lack of sufficient funds Money is being appropriated most daily by the state and also eral governments for public purposes Just recently a certain sum hag been alloted the county of York under the County Welfare Association for just such work as Delta is greatly in need of But how are we going to get The Delta school board officials are working on this proposition at the present time and any support or I direct information the Delta citizens can give them will be appreciated we feel sure ior j from explains this For the increasing i Kik Lee Lillian j from disease due to the re- or rom e n L Smith of living conditions a rising t stecle Edith Stewart pital suffering with a fractured They also spent several days at the Dodson home in Delta hour which was enjoyed by all Re- were served to the Rev and Mrs B F Ruley Hugh Evans New York spent the i Mr and Mrs Warren Williams Mrs week-end with his parents Mr cantler Mrs Alta Hughes Mrs H J Mrs Charles O Brown Mrs Orville Ellis H- Hughes of Baltimore j Misses Alma Macomber Laura spent a few days at the home of his Cassandra Jones Doretha son-in-law and daughter Mr and Cantler Messrs Howard Harvey Mrs Gilbert Ruff i Ralph Cantler and Edward Boswell and Mrs S A McKinley Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs j John Clark Bridgeton Pa MKS GEIGER CELEBRATES Miss Bertie Pyle who is employed BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY in Baltimore spent Thanksgiving day with her father E E Pyle this ciety as this method was discontinued j the young people taking the Louise Torbert Olive Torbert Edith when the mail sale Was introduced i culin test found to have tuberculosis John Wiley George Loucks It is possible that some children will i infection create a situation Edwin take the seals sent their parents and ing action And the purchase of j students in the attempt to sell them from door to tuberculosis Christmas Seals is department made an average of I this is not at the request of the Society who discourage this as much as possible A pledge to way in which all can help It means IA in during the past month protection for and family They were as Smith and care for those ill with the disease Betty Whiteford Edith Stewart place Mrs Clarence Kilgore and Miss On Wednesday November 29 Mrs Geiger celebrated her eighty-sixth birthday by serving a Whiteford Mr and Mrs Hugh Hughes and Mrs Will Hughes spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Charles Grancel of Mr and Mrs Harry and children spent Thanksgiving day with Mrs Fisher Hostess To Ladies Club The December meeting of the Social Service Club was held at the home Mrs William Fisher Main St on Keith Robinson Dorothy Henry garet Henry Dorothy Hughes Jane Ailes Anna Ailes Ida May Ayres Mabel Smith Etta Louise Torbert Milton Johnson Garnette Davis belle Ailes Mildred Ailes Esther Smith Harvey Stewart Jr Billy Fantom James Steele LeRoy Wilson James Barnett Percy Carter Leonard Hazel Dunlap spent Thanksgiving day turkey dinner to a few friends at the Mrs Kilgore Havre de Grace Md j Drumore Lancaster county wag Mrg wish to pre daughter Shirley of Baltimore spent Mr and Mrs Percy Gnau of York Mlss Verba and Mrs C P J Mr and Mrs William Kunkle and P for C Friday The Mary Ward Willis Krick were Delta on Thanksgiving papc her dinner day and attended services at the Re- Qwn hands ghe Quite mother Mrs Harry Keese h Thanksgiving day with the hoboth church Hugh Bailey of Md spent with his unusual for one of her remarkable I Mrs Emory Smithson is spending w Jones in Baltimore with her guests Mr and Mrs Heaps who still con- brother-in-law sister Mr and Edward JameSi Mr and Mrs quite ill C Mrs John Bangor Messrs William Mundorff Warren Burkins and Earl Barbour returned on Sunday from a gunning trip to Pa We are sorry to state the above sportsmen met with very poor luck Henry Schraffer has returned home after spending Thanksgiving with relatives in Philadelphia T Griffith is a patient in the Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore undergoing observation under the care of Dr Finney John Hughes of New Haven Conn visited Mrs Mary J Tyson and other relatives in this section on Saturday A little child of Delmer Burkins ill diphtheria The quarantine has been lifted at the home of Guy and Mrs Edward Schraffer and daughter Margaret of phia visited relatives in this place on Sunday Mrs Virginia Hughes of York spent last Friday with Mrs Guy Mrs William Montgomery who has been quite ill is much improved Mrs Olive D Ellis of Wilmington Del spent a few days last week with Mrs Annie Jones and brother Ellis G Williams Mrs Mary E Morris and Miss Elinor Morris spent Thanksgiving day with their aunt Miss Mary H Williams of Baltimore Thc c4 oir of the Rehoboth church have a i every Sunday preparing for the anthems Vury with good wore hold at the 01 Thanksgiving day The MEETS AT 0 rc was for thc ol Bible Society ot New The November meeting of the lt Maeare Margaret in this Thc Thanksgiving Mrs YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY Mrs Richard Rees Fulton Delta Miss Mary Mr Mrs E- of Mr and Mrs O H Heaps spent Mrs clarence Grove spent Monday evening Monday afternoon in and children Jesse Mary Mr and Mis Warren Glasgow Dorgan Mrs Clinton Johnson Mrs Young People's Missionary Society oi Kenneth Jones Mrs William church was hold at the ss Misses Verba home of Samuel Snyder Mrs C C Mildred Snodgrass Kreidler had charge of the j Mrs John Jacobs is quite ill at Three Baltimore boys who said the home of her son-in-law and they were on their way to California daughter Mr and Mrs Clarence spent Monday night in the Delta Wiley lockup Miss Margaret Wheeler is visiting j The boys lett sometime with her cousin Paul I Amos of Baltimore Miss Olive Norns has accepted a position with the DuPont Co Del Mr and Mrs Barrett and son of Wilmington spent giving with relatives here Wilbur Norris of the State For- r 1 Mrs Maggie Jones loll on Sunday Edward James Jr all Mr and Mrs Dill Amos and Mr Ramsay Bertha The members present were as for Philadelphia where she expects QJ and Mrs and Mrs Orville Allison of Heck Mr and Mrs Charles Bair Mr and to remain for thc winter Geiger Other callers were Mr more Thursday evening in Rev and Mrs Hill and Mr and Harvey sidwell and children Whiteford Mrs Jerry Adams of York were William and Mary Louise Mlss CIara Jones is Thanksgiving guests of Mr and Mrs William T Brown Mrs Joseph Wiley spent Friday with her son and daughter-in-law j Mr and Mrs Clarence E Wiley j Miss Phoebe Hughes of York is visiting in this vicinity C T U With Mrs Galley Pauline Robinson Mary Elizabeth Mrs A N Bair Mrs C C Kreidler 1 Jones Anna Wiley Marian Fisher Mr and Mrs Arthur Bair Misses Mrs J T was hostess to Switzer Mane Ruth and Reba Ruff Margaret the Women's Christian and Master Billy Fisher Baltimore early lone Betty Lee Kahoe Mary and Union on The i Marguerite Sellers Kilburn loader Mrs Erma Myers Viola Wise Messrs presided Those present Mrs FOUll DEER SHOT Samuel McLaughlin William S J Wilson Mrs Henry Poff Mrs BY LOCAL BOYS Laughlm Clifton and Harry Kilburn I W B Davis Mrs O H Mrs Robert Wickes and Samuel Snyder William Mrs M S estry Camp week-end at Deer must be plentiful this year r or maybe our local boys are just j good luck his home Mr and Mrs L L McKinley and Fantom and Fred Ramsay friends in Carlisle Penna this week James Fletcher of Fawn Grove spent Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Albert Ruff Mr and W A Montooth of Harrisburg spent Monday afternoon with Mr and Mrs S A- McKinley Many college students spent the Continued on Page 3 Monday morning walked as far as visited Henry Norris who returned Towson and there jumped a truck Js a patient at the Union Memorial to bring returned with an eight point and Saturday Al Street one Orville Gehr was MISSIONARY SOCIETY The Missionary Society will meet in the Chapel on day December 14 at 10 o'clock The are Mrs Marshall borough Mrs B W Jones Mrs Arthur Harry and Mrs D F Baker Baltimore which the boys understood was going to York but it proceeded to Delta instead Arriving in Delta the boys were taken into custody by Officer Sam Irwin While being by Officer Irwin the boys re- that they were running away from home Immediately they were committed to the Delta lockup for the night and Maryland State police notified who came here on Tuesday morning and took them home The runaways were Albert Fine Program Hospital on Thursday evening Mr and Mrs Charles Harman of Wilmington spent Thanksgiving day with relatives here Miss Phoebe McKinley spent the week-end with her parents Mr and Mrs L L McKinley Mrs Dollie Glasgow and grand- 1 home SUNDAY POLICE COURT FOUR GIVEN HEARINGS Peach Bottom Grange No 1711 met the grange hall on Monday night December 4 1933 with worthy ter B P Stubbs presiding The minutes were read and approved Mrs Hugh Scotten was appointed pianist for the ensuing year Plans were Benjamin Blackburn Wilson Benjamin Founds and Albert Mrs John Hammond Mrs W W Sellers Mrs Warren Mrs J T and Misses Alice and Guy McCurdy GUILD CHAPTER MEETS AT CARDIFF HOME Miss Beryl Wyman was hostess to thc Westminster Guild Chapter of the Slate Ridge church on Saturday The devotional exercises made to distribute Christmas were conducted by Miss Alice kets to needy families in the com- Wheeler followed by prayer by Miss daughter Mildred Glasgow spent the Romanough were arrested by Con- munity The following literary Pauline Ramsay Miss Beryl Wyman week-end with the daughter i stable C O Holden for disorderly Mrs Elsie Evans Joseph Heaps has been confined to the house suffering with quinsy ham 13 and Martin Graham 16 Miss Ethel Hughes has returned 1400 E St Baltimore after visiting her uncle and conduct in Bangor on Saturday gram was Reading Philip Kilgore recitation Joy of ning A hearing was held before Helen Origin of Squire Crawford on Sunday morning j Betty Griffith Recent Im- and the boys being unable to pay in Agriculture for which their fines were committed to the we are B P Stubbs William Holden 13 416 Pitman Place aunt Mr and Mrs Charles Grancel York county jail for from eight to reading Ruth Ailes of sixteen days Grange closed in the usual form had charge of the business meeting Those present Mrs Amos S borough Mrs Raymond Mrs Luther Heaps Mrs M F ter Mrs F W Wyman Mrs Graham Thompson Pauline Ramsay Alice Wheeler Anita Heaps and Beryl Wyman
