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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1955
Page
7
Readers are invited to write letters on Lancaster Farming current events or other topics. Letters should be brief and signed. Names will be withheld if requested by the writer. Editor.
A reader named Joseph Cramer from Pequea says 83 years young and enjoys the paper. Mrs Nelson K Cooper adds appreciation and interest in news and recipes from Lancaster Farming.
A festive note wishes readers a Merry Christmas and recalls the season's spirit. It contrasts commercialism with the birth of Christ and invokes family memories, traditional foods, and holiday warmth.
The editor recalls a recent fire that destroyed a home and farm buildings. He notes the personal loss, the impact on memories, and the response of friends and fire crews, while questioning insurance coverage and risk planning for future protection. He reflects on what could have been done to prevent such a tragedy.
A pithy proverb about appreciating what one has after recognizing another's deeper hardship. It frames gratitude as a measure of perspective and empathy.
A letter from Mrs J A Stumpf in Elizabethtown invites a Minnesota pen pal to receive Lancaster Farming as a Christmas gift. The editor notes the idea as thoughtful and suggests a year subscription.
A subscriber thanks Elizabethtown-Want for its farm news and women’s page and sends a charter subscription check, wishing many successful years ahead.
Mr and Mrs Emmert B Will send $1 for a charter subscription to Lancaster Farming expressing strong approval of the paper.
This week 50 years ago members of the Octoraro Farmers Club met at Benjamin H Pownall’s residence near Smyrna. They discussed better agriculture education, parcel post, home pictures, and pasture milk yield versus stable feeding. Also noted were fires at West End Hotel stables in Elizabethville, Susquehanna drainage findings, used sleighs auction by Wilson Pugh Wilson, a Shaw remark, game scarcity in Berks due to foxes, hunting club pledges, and Delaware’s holly law arrests for twig cutting.
An old woman marks her 100th birthday on the porch as a reporter asks what she witnessed. Her witty reply laments that most events were over before she could find her glasses. The line captures a humorous take on aging and time.
A sermon-like discussion contrasts Jesus critique of Pharisees with modern hypocrisy. It warns against focusing on outward appearances and tithes while neglecting love for God and neighbor, honoring living faith over reverence for the past. It uses biblical examples of tombs and mint leaves to illustrate moral laxity.
Mary Jane Leader writes of the Leaders Christmas at the Governor's Mansion in Harrisburg. She notes the first Mansion Christmas for Governor George M. Leader and family, the annual Leader Family party with Great Grandma and Grandpa Leader, seven children, spouses, and eighteen grandchildren, and the mansion's twenty four rooms and eight baths providing space for all.
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