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DAILY MAIL, Hagerstown, Md. YOUNG VOTERS; STUDENTS, YOUTH OF THE TRI-STATE AREA. Local, Area Obituaries i If you have something to say. Here's the place to say it. The Herald-Mail Co.

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Elliott Mrs. Celia Elliott, 74, died Thursday at Shawnee Nursing Home in Winchester, Va. Born in Beaver Creek, she was a daughter of Robert and Margaret Fowler, and was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Services will be held at the Watson Funeral Home on Monday at 1 p.m. The Rev.

William Ctaybon will officiate; burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. There will be no viewing. Melvin G. Myers MARION, Pa. Melvin G.

Myers, 44, of Marion, died Friday in Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, after an illness of four weeks. Born in Antrim Township, he was a son of Mrs. Martha A. Cayman Myers of Rt. 4, Grecncastle, and the late Rev.

Charles A. Myers Sr. He was a member of Montgomery Brethren in Christ Church near Upton; and J.O.U.A.M. in Marion. He was manager at Frank Gayman Chevrolet, Inc.

in Chambersburg. Besides his mother, he is survived by his wife, Cora E. Horst Myers; a daughter, Miss Galdys K. Myers, at home; sons, Nelson R. Myers of Chambersburg, and Harold L.

Myers, at home; sisters, Mrs. Robert Hartman of Rt. 1. Mercersburg, Miss Mildred Myers of Bulawayo, Rhodesia, Africa, Mrs. Asa Helfrick of Rt.

6, Chambersburg, Mrs. C1 a i Strite of Cazenovia, Mrs. Norman Kennedy of Rt. 3, Greencastle, Mrs. a Kennedy of Rt.

1, Mercersburg. Mrs. Park Johnson III of Middletown, and Mrs. Dean Gearhart of Rt. 3, Waynesboro; and brothers, Charles A.

Myers Jr. of Rt. 3, Greencastle, and Glenn E. Myers of Rt. 2, Greencastle.

Services will be held on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Montgomery Brethren i Christ Church. The Revs. H. Melvin Boose and Roy Brake will officiate; burial will be in adjoining church cemetery.

Friends may call at the Minnich-Miller Funeral Home in Greencastle on Monday evening from 7 to 9, and at the church one hour prior to the time of the service. Ralph H. Buffer FREDERICK, Md. Ralph H. Buffer, 64.

of 430 W. Patrick died Friday at Vindabona Nursing Home. Born in Middletown, he was the son of the late Howard and Mary Ellen Moser Huffer. He was a member of the Lutheran Church in Middletown. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs.

Nancy Ohler of Frederick; four sisters, Mrs. Mary Stottlemyer of Zittlestown, Mrs. May Jones of Frederick: Mrs. Blanche Schroycr of Middletown, and Mrs. Grace of Bconsboro; three brothers, Ira Huffer of Frederick, Albert Huffer of Boonsboro, and Fred Huffer of Middletown; and two grandchildren.

Services will be held from the Ghdhill Funeral Home in Middletown Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Emmanuel Hoover will officiate. Burial will be in Lutheran Cemetery in Middletown. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. Carl D. Penner DENVER. Colo. Carl D.

Penner. 79. formerly Hagerstown. died Wednesday in a nursing home here. He was a veteran of World War I.

Besides his wife, Louise Penner of Hagerstown, he is survived by one son, George C. Penner of Hagerstown; one sister. Mrs. Florence Hilton of Baltimore; one brother, Paul Penner of Halfway; and four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Military services will be held i Denver a morning at 9.

Burial will be in the Ft. Logan National Ce.meterv. Mrs. Mabel E. Sword Mrs.

Mabel i a Sword, 72, of 114 Cherry Tree Lane. Wiiliamsport, died early Friday morning at. Washington County Hospital. Born in Wiiliamsport, she was the daughter of Harry and Mary Elizabeth Ensminger Pryor. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church in Wiiliamsport.

She was also a member of the AARP of Hagerstown. She is survived by three sons. Charles E. Sword, Rt. 2, Wiiliamsport, Melvin E.

Sword of Gaithersburg, and George P. Sword of Hagerstown; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel M. White of Hagerstown, and Mrs. Evelyn Listen Wiiliamsport; and grandchildren.

Services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Zion Lutheran Church. The Rev. Eugene A. Gardner and the Rev.

William C. Huddle will officiate. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery in Wiiliamsport. The family will receive friends at the 0 Funeral Home, Leaf's, in Wiiliamsport this evening from 7 to 9. Edward F.

Shaffer Edward Franklin Shaffer, 52, of 116 Meadowbrook Drive, died Friday afternoon at his residence. Born in Hagerstown, he was the son of Edward F. and Jessie Sneckenberger Shaffer. He was an employe of Fairchild Republic Company. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of Morris Frock Post No.

42 of the American Legion; Degree of Chevalir of Order of De- Molay; and First Hose Fire Company. He is survived by his wife, Eloise Troupe Shaffer; and one brother, William R. Shaffer of Hagerstown. Services will be held at Norment Funeral Home on Monday at 2 p.m. the Rev.

John B. Mills will officiate; burial in Leitersburg Lutheran Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday evening from 7 to 9. Mrs. Ethel M.

Moser Ethel Marie Moser, 68, died at the Waynesboro Hospital Ferry, Edgar T. Stotler Medical Center of Rt. 1, Sharpsburg, nellsburg, Pa. in MeCon- E. Stotler, Richard D.

and Clyde N. Stotler, all of Rt. 1, Boonsboro, George F. Stotler of Rt. 1, Fairplay, Joseph R.

of Wiiliamsport. Howard Stotler and Harold L. Stotler. both of Keedysville; one brother. Bruce M.

Rudisill Sr. of Hagerstown; 37 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. Services will be held from the Bast Funeral Home in Boonsboro Monday at 2 p.m. The Rev. Warren W.

Watts will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday evening from 7 lo 9. Mitchell Eric Welch 1NWOOD, W. Va.

-Mitchell Eric Welch, 11, of Rt. 1, died Friday morning in Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. Born in West Virginia, he was the son of Woodrow Wilson Welch and Clores Ann Files Welch. He was a student at Valley View Elementary School. He attended Bunker Hill United Methodist Church.

Besides his parents he is survived by one Woodrow Wilson (Tray) Welch III at home; a a grandmother, Mrs. Charles Files of Martinsburg; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Welch Sr. of Martinsburg.

Services will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. from the Brown Funeral Home in Martinsburg. The Rev. Hershberger will officiate. I Burial will be in Pleasant View Memory Gardens.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home this evening from 7 to 9.. Clem C. Chilcote HOUSTONTOWN, Pa. -Clem C. Chilcote, 77, died Thursday at the Fulton County Born in Houstontown, was the son of the late Joseph and Laura Keister Chilcote.

He was a member of the Church of God in Houstontown. He is survived by his wife; Blanche Shaw Chilcote; two daughters, Mrs. Edna Ramsey of Houstontown and Mrs. Martha Robinson of Rt. 1 Mercersburg, two sons.

Clement D. Chilcote of Waynesboro Pa. and Lawrence H. i of Houstontown; three daughters by a previous marriage, Mrs. Mildred Corle of Martinsburg, Mrs.

Ruth Harclerode of Ohio and Mrs. Maulsair of Hershey, two brothers, Charles Chilcote and Robert Chileote, both oi Houstontown; two i Mrs. Mary Kleinfelter and Mrs. Lottie Nye, both of Palmyra, and 19 grandchildren and 11 great- grandchildren. Services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m.

at the Church of God in Houstontown. The Rev. Leo Wright, the Rev. Sarah Clayton and the Rev. C.H.

Vance will officiate. Burial will be In Mt. Tabor Nazarine Cemetery in Harrisonville. The family will receive friends at the Sipes Funeral Home in Harrisonville Saturday from 2 to 9 p.m. There will also be a viewing after the service.

Public Sale Firm Charged With Cheating Students PHILADELPHIA (AP) A local firm cheated hundreds of nersons who wanted to become truck drivers out of some Friday afternoon. Born in Westminster, she was the daughter of the late Clinton H. and Sadie Zepp United States Trucking Serv- Bowers ces according to the 86-count She was a member of St indictment returned Thursday, Mark's Lutheran Church in is accused of false newspaper Sabillasville. She was also a advertising in seeking prospec member of the Blue Ridge tive students along the East Ladies Auxiliary in Coast. Ridge Summit.

If convicted of the 58 counts She is survived by her bus- against him, Gilbert I. London band, Marshall Moser; one 41, of Huntingdon Valley, presi- daughter, Mrs. Thomas Coyle dent of USTS, could be sen- of Highiield; one son, Carl tenced to 290 years in jail and Moser of Dallas, Texas; and fined a total of $67,000. one granddaughter. The grand jury alleged Lon- Services be held Monthe St.

don and the firm's salesmen 1 i falsel promised i i students fu Valley, Pa. Rev. Frederick Simmel will 5 a IUUK 5115 OI $20 to officiate 1 200 from each. 7 The indictment charged about Burial will be i 300 stu nts were defrauded of! Cemetery Westminster. abmlt $250,000 during a 1 The family will receive period in Connecticut, Maine, friends from 7 to 9 Sunday Maryland, Massachusetts, New evening at Creager Funeral Jersey, New York, North Caro- Home in Thurmont.

There will lina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode be viewing from noon until Island, Virginia and West Vir- seryices on Monday at the ginia. church. Until recently, USTS operated a tractor-trailer driver training Sirs. Anna M. Stotler Sc 00 at the Triangle Industn Mrs.

Anna Mary Stotler, 75, of 6 S. Main Keedysville, died Friday morning at the Washington County Hospital. Born in Chewsville, she was the daughter of the late Albert Martin and Nettie a Thomas Rudisill. She was preceded in death by her husband Charles L. Stotler.

She was a member of Salem United Methodist Church in Keedysville. She is survived Dy four daughters, Mrs. Lorraine C. Hargett of Frederick, Mrs. Doris M.

Rutherford of Keedysville, Mrs. Audrey D.l Lowrey of Peirpont, Ohio, and! Mrs. Betty J. Flook Hagerstown: nine Charles L. Stoller Jr.

of Har Public Sale PUBLIC SALE Uittrtburg Wed. eve, Jan. 22 Urge "ad" will In Tues. Q.M. Frort PUBLIC SALE OF iDeslreMe rMl estate, located tat tho village of ma.

on Jon. 25,1975 at 1 P.M. Tho blowing described real! will bo ottered on the premises: I Beginning at a stone In the if road Ijgding from Williams-1 per! (3 Dovrcnvllle, ond nlrn Kith cald road South Wesl 165 teot, thoneef degrees, East thsr.co Scirth 43 to r. In the! cl thQ property now orl cv.T:sd b-j RoicherdJ then cald lino 206V, feet to tho pleco c'i beginning; and be-1 ing el! tho csmo tend ond prop-1 2rty which WM conveyed untoi cald Herman M. Charlcito Irono ihia wife, new deceased, by Leol Miller, Executor of Jesso H.f by Dood datodl December 2, 1958 ond 'roccrd nt Liber Folio 1541 tho Washington County! Lend Records, thereto being hereby made.

Thlo property Is Improved by an eight (8) room weather' board houso with a new metal" root, with wash house. There Is ground floor cellar. Water la lurnlshed by a good well, and cistern. There It cold, running wetor In tho property property Is In good physical condition, and there 13 a lot beside the property wou'd make an excellent building site. Further refer- enco to this property may bo lound In Llbor Folio among tho land records Washington County, Md.

TERMS of the purchase price to bo paid In cash 3T negotiable check on tho day of cale. Balanco to bo paid, within 30 days from date of sale All transfer fees, rscord- "ing teas, and documentary; islamps to be paid by purchaser. All taxed, and utility i'Chargea If any, to bo pro-rated 33 of the day cf llnal cettle- ment. Inspection This property may be inspected by phoning 432-6319, or by contact- Ing the Auctioneer. Mr.

Mrs. Charles EJwcrd Monningtr. Auctioneer S. Braden King, 241 Potomcc Street, Boonsboro, Md. Phone (301) 4326002 Personal property-'will be; sold tha same day on the premises starting 10 A Watch this paper for sale ad listing of personal property.

"Supper's Somebody got married REALLY gonna be late tonight, Dad! had an operation, an' somebody else an' somebody else had a baby--!" Cleveland Dec. 23, 1974 Executor Sale of Valuable Real Estate To settfe tha Estate of C.D. Catrow, I will offer for aale the following Real Estate In front of Berkeley County Courthouse. Saturday, January 25th at 10 a.m. Acre Farm mow or IMS with the following Improvements.

Six-room frame home with furnace, electricity, ground barn approximately 40x100, corn crib, machine shed, hog pen and grain shed, well and two detents. Farm has entrance off of Ridge Road (known old Gain Farm). Terms: 10 percent down on day of sale. Balance due in 30 days upon delivery of deed at which time possession will be given. For further description of Real Estate, see D.B.

157, page 330. For inspection of Real Estate, phone 263-1236 Executor. Auctioneer: Edward "Ned" Morrow. David F. Catrow, Executor of the Estate of the late C.D.

Catrow PUBLIC SALE i Discontinuing farming, I will sell the following located at A Eulalla Street extended In Martlnsburg, W. Va. Turn east off High I Street on to Eulalla Street and follow signs. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25th at 1:00 P.M. Cattle: 5 head cartle-5; 1 Holsteln cow milking; 1 Holsteln heifer 2- years-old, open; 1 Holsteln Heifer-open (Kingpin) old enough to breed; 1 Charlols Hoisteln Xbull call.

Farm Machinery: Farmall tractor 3 pt. hook; Famuli tractor 3 pt rear i end blade; blade for front end loader; John 3 pt. hook com planter; McDeerlng 2 row mounted model 20 com picker; case combine with Wisconsin engine; McDeerlng disc com planter 2- slde rakes; cult, for or tractor hay rake horse mower; New Idea manure epreader-14 foot flat bottom rubber tire wagon; woods brush hog; 5-fl. disc harrow; farm traitor, New Idea 7-fl. i tractor mower milker pump and 3 units DeLavel milkers; some chicken equipment; and other Items.

Terms of sale: Cash Nothing to be removed until settled for. Not responsible for accidents. Auctioneer Edward "Ned" Morrow Leonard Knighten.