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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1956
Page
5
A Lancaster County photo captures Uncle Mike Bender amid a vast display of trinkets and antiques. The scene includes his greast mill behind an expansive home with 12 rooms and two basements packed with items from local sales and the adjacent blacksmith shop.
May events for Farm Women groups listed in Lancaster Farming include gatherings at Ward's Gas Co Ephrata Mrs Sallie West hospital Society 22 guests May 19 and Mrs David B Hess home Lancaster co host Mrs Richard M Hershey May 19. A May 23 Latitz 200th anniversary and a Sunbonnet Day sale, plus a May 31 deadline for corn price support applications.
A detailed roll of Farm Women activities and related agricultural events across Lancaster County and nearby areas. Listings include meetings in Strasburg and Elizabethtown, banquets at Brickerville and Arcadia, Ohio diary shows, 4-H clubs, 1955 wool incentives, Holstein Friesian show entries, and the American Angus Conference at the University of Tennessee. Dates span April through May with DST noted.
A calendar of events lists meetings and activities for Lancaster County Farm Women's Societies and related groups. Included are the June executive committee gathering at Mrs. C. H. Reinhold's home, the Holstein-Friesian Assn convention, poultry events, Egg graders school at Rutgers, an awards banquet in Chicago, and the Extension Homemakers Week at Penn State. Also noted are a June farm society bus trip to New York City and the National Flying Farmers Convention in New Orleans with a November county convention.
A Wisconsin woman reportedly gained twenty pounds during her jail stay. The Bisbee Gazette notes her likely improved conduct after release, framing the odd weight gain as a sign of restraint.
In March the top 305 day lactation, 15 919 pounds milk and 7327 pounds butterfat, was set by a Registered Holstein owned by Robert C Groff of Quarryville. Mary B Stoltzfus Morgantown had the second highest 305 day lactation at 15 932 pounds milk and 6099 pounds butterfat. Job Stoltzfus Elvers on led the herd with the highest monthly butterfat average at 1458 pounds. Second butterfat high went to Harry H Ranck Ri Ranks. Alvin Miller Elizabeth town owned the top butterfat month producer with Valley yielding 2824 pounds milk and 1073 pounds butterfat. Christ Beiler Paradise owned Valdessa registered Holstein second with 2111 pounds milk and 1034 pounds butterfat.
Stanley Szelasiwicz died after falling asleep in a chair that ignited and spread to his apartment in Buffalo. Ten others escaped the flames as the fire spread to the floor above.
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