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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1956
Page
7
Local classified items include a six burner Roper stove and gas appliances, a 51 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery Truck for $400, cabbage, oak furniture, a Virgila Sota-like baby coach mattress, and a New Holland forage harvester with corn attachment. Wages and rentals include two women for lingerie demos and a Christian family seeking a poultry and truck farm rental. Read as Quarryville Lancaster area notices and contact numbers.
Community events notice for Chester County dated Sept 14. Submissions requested to Lancaster Farming for listing upcoming activities. Include sender name and contact details.
Friday sale hours set for September 28 at 6 p m for a stone and frame house at E Main and Valley in Atglen and 7 p m for a brick house on E Slokom Ave in Christiana. Auction listed by W Paul Meredith.
The notice lists Saylor’s Cantalope stock raised by George Tarker at Saylor’s Lane Manithem Pa RD2 with 100 Leghorn pullets and 25 Leghorn yearlings all to go, plus Tru-Test space heater six room size in excellent condition for $15. Contact Mrs Lester B Weaver RD2 Elizabethtown or Mullersville 5897.
Advertising rates outline for classifed ads in Lancaster Farming. Includes 25 cent additional charge for keyed ads, copy submission to the Quarryville office, 4 cent per word billing for three or more consecutive insertions with 30 cent minimum, and a Wednesday morning deadline with no ads accepted after 10:10 am.
Farm Women to Embreeville to improve house. Sept 15 23 Eastern States Exposition Springfield Mass Sept 18 Chester County Farm Women Music Circus Sept 19 21 Southern Lancaster County Community Fair Quarryville Sept 19 22 Elizabethtown Kiwanis Farm Fair Sept 26 28 West Lampeter Community Fair Sept 30 deadline to file return of state taxes on farm tractor or machinery July 1 1955 June 30 1956 Sept 238 Oct 6 National Holstein Show Waterloo Iowa Sept 29 Oct 6 Dairy Cattle Congress Waterloo Iowa Oct 2 Fountain display chimes Longwood Gardens Kennett Square Oct 25 South Lebanon Community Fair Iowa Oct 3 6 New Holland Farmers Fair Oct 4 6 Manheim Community Fair Oct 46 Unionville Community Fair Oct 6 13 Fourth International Dairy Show and World Championship Rodeo Chicago Oct 8 International Junior Dairy Show Chicago Oct 9 10 Jersey Guernsey Brown Swiss judging 4th International Dairy Show Chicago Oct 10 13 Mt Joy Community Exhibit Oct 11 12 Holstein Ayr
Readable items list events from Oct 15 to Jan 1957 including the 4th International Dairy Show in Chicago, a two week Penn State farm machinery course Oct 18-20, American Royal FFA convention Oct 20 in Kansas City, Methodist Men chicken barbecue Oct 22, Fountain display November 23-Dec 1, and the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago plus Pennsylvania Farm Show Jan 14-18 in Harrisburg and County Convention Nov 3 with feeder calf sale noted.
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