Oxford Firm Joins Guernsey Club About Stable
Peterborough New Hampshire report notes Delp Brothers of Shady Brook Farm in Oxford joining the American Guernsey Club, a national association of more than 50 000 breeders. The AGCC records purebred Guernsey registrations tracing to the Island of Guernsey and oversees production tests. Through Golden Guernsey Inc it supervises Golden Guernsey Milk marketing.
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Peterborough
American Guernsey Club
Delp Brothers
Shady Brook Farm
Oxford
Guernsey
English Channel
AGCC
Golden Guernsey, Inc
Golden Guernsey
Drafts Call 8 000 The Defense Department Announces January Draft
The Defense Department says selective service will draft 8,000 men in January. Since the Korean War began, a total of 1,994,430 men have been drafted.
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Defense Department
Selective Service
John Young Purchases West Earl Property in Auction
John Young of Lancaster R5 bought the two percent story house with two acres and 128 perches in West Earl Two for 17,500 dollars in a sale led by Mrs Stella Heinaman and Diffenbach Bachman as auctioneers. Items sold included a muzzle loading gun for 7 dollars a plank bottom rocker for 17 dollars an old iron penny bank for 28 dollars an old coin for 7 dollars a dining room suite for 60 dollars and a bureau for 16 dollars.
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John Young
Lancaster
West Earl
Stella Heinaman
Diffenbach & Bachman
Fire damages hog pen on Vernon Frankhouser farm
A midnight fire on the Vernon Frankhouser farm near New Holland damaged a hog pen. An adjoining barn and chicken house were threatened but saved by the family before Liberty Fire Co. arrived.
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Vernon Frankhouser
New Holland
Liberty Fire Co
Purma mill opening marks Harrisburg event with Purina gifts
Dr. William L. Henning Pennsylvania commissioner of agriculture speaks at the Purma mill opening in Harrisburg on October 22 welcomed by Purina. He receives a turkey for Thanksgiving along with a Checkerboard shirt and tie as part of the celebration. The feast lists eight tons of fried chicken, half a ton of potato chips, 450 gallons of baked beans, a ton of coleslaw, and 15 000 cinnamon rolls for about 17 000 attendees.
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William L. Henning
Pennsylvania
Harrisurg
Henning
Purina
Open Day Small Game Opener Draws Mixed Reports
Reports from across the state on the opening day of the 1955 small game season indicate widespread hunter success on farm and forest lands despite rain and foliage reducing bag size in some woods. Varied success by species shows rabbits up over 1954 in most divisions, pheasants and grouse steadier or higher, wild turkeys increasing, squirrels abundant where food holds, and quail up but often not pursued.
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Tess
License Mailing to Harrisburg Drivers Starts Nov 22
The State Revenue Department will mail 4.5 million driver license applications from Harrisburg on November 22. An estimated 250,000 forms may be undeliverable due to failure to notify the Motor Vehicle Bureau. Operator permits remain valid from February 1 to January 31 of the following year.
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Harrisburg
Lcense
State Revenue Department
Motor Vehicle Bureau
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Lancaster Farming
Allis-Chalmers
ALLIS
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L. H. Brubaker
Lancaster R. D
Ricro
John J. Hess II
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