Solanco youths named essay winners at county school event
Robert Bucher son of Mr and Mrs Paul Bucher won first place in the essay contest at Southern Lancaster County Joint Community High School. Marion Finchley and William Gross Jr. took second and third, receiving cash awards and project stipends. The program also featured Safety Magic Show by Lt Carl S Pike and a citation to Amos Marty Boyd for safety patrol cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Bucher
Paul ‘Bucher
Peach Bottorm
Jack Owens
Vong
David “Stony” Eschbach, Jr
William Gross, Jr
William Gross. Kirkwand
Amos
Marty” Boyd
Carl S
Sarge”) Pike
George Wolf
Farm Division
Pennsylvania Motor Truckers Association
Herr’s Motor Express
New Holland Plant Hosts Open House for Thous ands
More than 1,000 employees toured the new baler assembly plant at New Holland Machine Co Saturday morning. The event included an informal talk by company president George Delp and a performance by the New Holland Machine Co Chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Holland Machine C
New Baler
George Delp
New Holland Machine Co
Church Goers Ride Sleigh Through Snow to Memorial Methodist
Harold L. Groff and wife of Quarryville braved a Sunday snowstorm in a one horse sleigh. They traveled from their farm to town to sing with the choir at Memorial Methodist before returning home, sleigh bells ringing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold L. ( (Hack) Groff
Quarryville
Memorial Methodist
Lancaster
Winter Storm Hits Lancaster County Snowbound Roads
Winter storm delivers several inches of snow across Lancaster County causing road closures and school shutdowns. Highways frozen into ice, drifting and gusty winds hamper travel as crews clear routes with snow plows and fences, while residents seek sleds and skids amid a pending thaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Stibestrol Feeding Tests At Beltsville Confirm Fatness Effect
The Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville Maryland reports that feeding tests with stilbestrol confirm earlier indications that the hormone like chemical used in approved amounts in finishing rations for beef cattle can save feed but does not shorten the time needed to reach the desired fatness in steers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Research Center
Beltsville
U. S. Department of Agriculture
What Shall We Grow Topic at Beef Lamb Meet
J Collins McSparren Pennsylvania Grange secretary will address What Shall We Grow TM before the Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb Club on February 3. The banquet starts at 6 30 pm in the Armstrong Cork Co Auditorium Lancaster with Walter Augsburger Jane Greiner Marian Graybill and James Hegs on the banquet committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J Collins McSparren
Pennsylvania
Grange
Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb Club
Armstrong Cork Co
Lancaster
Walter Augsburger
Reinholds
Jane Greiner
Manheim
Marian Graybill
James Hegs
Strasburg
Three Lancaster agriculturists named judges for 1955 OYF
Three prominent Lancaster County agriculturalists have been named judges to select Lancaster County's Outstanding Young Farmer of 1955. They are F. S. "Dutch" Bucher former County agricultural agent A. G. Bucher farm relations manager of the Lancaster County National Bank and Levi H. Brubaker president of the Lancaster County Poultry Exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Lancaster Junior Chamber of Commerce
F. S
Dutch” Bucher
A. G. Bucher
Lancaster County National Bank
Levi H. Brubaker
Lancaster County Poultry Exchange
Groundhogs Day Event At Quarryville Observance
The Slumbering Groundhog of Quarryville selects Michael DeBer dine Harry K Gerlach and Herbert B Valen tine for first time festival participation on February 2. Honorary members include J Edgar Hoover and misdated names for Nikita Kruschchev and Nicola Bulganin. TV cameras will cover the 48th observance at Hensel and Trout Hardware with St Pauls Church Ladies Aid serving the banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quarryville
Michael DeBerdine
Harry K. Gerlach
Herbert B. Valentine
Justice of the Peace
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Geneva
Nikita Kruschchev
Nicola Bulganin
Wiliam
Uhier Hensel II
Robert B. Hess
Calvin Herr Mowrer
Albert Hess Fritz
Carl Reynolds
Chas
Frederick Hess
Hensel and Trout Hardware
Ladies Aid Society of
St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
Lorillard Cigar Co Sells Consolidated Assets
Consolidated Cigar Corp announced in New York that it has purchased cigar assets of the P. Lorillard Co. The sale includes Lorillard's Richmond Virginia factory and brand names Muriel Muriel Babies Headline and Van Bibbler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorillard Cigar CO
Consolidated Cigar Corp
New York
P. Lorillard Co
Lorillard
Richmond
Muriel
Babies
Headline
van Bibbler
County Four-H Members Landed On Achievements
Lancaster County four H members honored for outstanding achievements at a Hotel Brunswick banquet by the Lancaster County Bankers Assn. Fourteen boys and fifteen girls named for the annual honor, with club leaders presenting the participants from communities like Denver, Ephrata, Columbia, Lancaster, Lititz, Manheim, Mount Joy, New Holland, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Hotel Brunswick
Lancaster
Lancaster County Bankers Assn
Blaimsport
Norman Lausch
Denver
Troy Schantz
Ephrata
Josephine Lausch
Clay-Ephrata
Harold Stuber
Lincoln
Carl Bollinger
Bil Lititz
Phyllis Rutt
Quarryville
Nancy Aument
Elizabethtown
Ben Shank
George Webb Jr
Elizazabethtown
Carol Ann Seider
Elzabethtown
Stoners Buy Guernsey Sire Oaklyn Royal for Quarryville Farm
Charles C. Stoner and Son of Quarryville Pennsylvania purchased the Guernsey sire Oaklyn Royal from Noris J. Kirk of Lancaster. The bull is out of Oaklyn Patsy and sired by Lian Fair Royal Valor, per the American Guernsey Cattle Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Stoner
Also Mentioned on This Page
Solanco
Lancaster County Church
Stibestrol
Jaycee
Kirkwood
Fred Frey
Ril Quarryville
Isaac Hershey Jr
Marie Groff
Christiana
Lampeter
Ellis Landis
Greenfield Road
James Hess
Joanne Denlinger
Edgar Porter
Washington Boro
Linda Mumma
Landisville
Trevena Stehman
Marietta Ave
Lititz
Arthur Reist
Eden Road
Paradise
Mrs
Willis Hershey
Kinzers
Sally Hershey
Stoners
Guernsey
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