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Surviving are a son, Lawrence were several practical reasons for In Search of The Spirit of The Perry Philosopher Says of Elliottsburg RD1: four brothers, Cecil, of Illinois, Har ris, of MifflintowTL Lewis, of 'being paid to handle less mail. Port Royal RD, and Lawrence, of Duncannon; a sister, Mrs Earnest Shirk, of Port Royal RD; and two grandchildren. Services were held Monday at the funeral home on Walnut DKAR MISTER EDITOR: Out here in the country, the mail ain't a bit more important to us than the hoses hooked to thorn fellers that float out in space. Our mailboxes are treasure chests, so natural we are eon-corned about anything having to do with whuther and how we git out mail. So the state of the U.S.

Postal Service natural had a high plane on the aigender at the country store Saturday night. It use to be, delared Ed Doolit- Newport. The Rev. George The volume of mail is dropping, and this is causing $05,000 a year men to hatch up more idees. Lake spending $15 million to ruin ads to encourage folks to mail more letters.

This comes on sideways, cause letters is the mail the past office people say needs the most handling and cost the most. ThatTs where they lose money. Back when iprivate outfits started delivering packages, the post office said they were taking the Warner officiated. Burial was in Eshcol Cemetery. John Buss John iR'uss, 70, of Landisburg RD1, and formerly of Marysville, died Tuesday.

tle, that when a real crazy idee cram and leaving the mails with He was formerly owner and operator of the Russ Roller Rink, moving on April 1st. I. Gardens, upon which every borne relied for a source of vegetables, would not have been planted yet. 2. School, which ran then for only five or six months, would be out and the children would not have to change schools during the term and would be heme to assist with the flitting.

3. The snow would be gone but I do wonder about the condition of the roads ail dirt then! The purpose of THE PERRY HISTORIANS being to look at the history of Perry County through the individuals and families who made it, we here give some examples of Perry County flittings as extracted and quoted from THE NEWPORT NEWS of April 2, 1903: of Residence -Motzer Snyder from Dr. F.A. Gut-shall's farm to G. Washington Gar-ber's tenant farm; Harry Wilt to the farm vacated by Mr.

Snyder; A.J. Wentz from Harry Hall's tenant house to Loy's farm, formerly owned by G.L. Woods; Fred Morrow of Loysville into part of Mrs. Kate Bower's house in this place; Charles Hench from Mrs. Kate Bower's to Mrs.

Robert Juniata: Mrs. Mary Potter has been in Newport several days helping her mother, Mrs. Monroe, prepare to move. James E. Smith moved his family from Harrisburg last week, into one of J.E.

Toom-ey's houses. Pine Grove: The following list ol flittings took place in this community this spring: Wm. Beidle-man moved into his new house; William Sheaffer of Hickory Grove into the house vacated by Mr. Bei-dleman; George Baily will move to Duncannon; A.L. Light will move into Mr.

Baily's house and Benjamin Fetterhoff will move back to the farm of Mrs. Daniel Myers, which place he left last spring etc. Shermansdale: The flitting of John Sheaffer of Fishing Creek passed through this place en route to Kennedy's Valley. Andrew Sheriff moved into the house of G. P.

Shearer, vacated by Frank Brown." One thing we, THE PERRY HISTORIANS, would like to learn is why some people moved from one tenant house to another within the same immediate area almost every year or so. By: Harry A. Focht THE PERRY HISTORIANS P.O. Box 73 Newport, PA 17074 Sterrett's Gap, and a member of Hope Fire Company No. 2.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Kuhn, of Marysville; a LIVING HISTORY The determined patriotism shown by iieorge Washington and his troops at Washington's Crossing Pennsylvania, is dramatized at an annual reeiiactmeni oC that fateful Christmas night. I the high-cost work. Now they want to build up a service they want to out back on because it loses money. Zeke Grubb said one plan the Postal Service come up with made sense, and that was to cut out hundreds of little post offices where services of larger offices overlap.

The postal people said no post office would be closed unless equal or better service could be provided. come up in Congress, there was somebody around to put a stop to it. Now it looks like the crazier the notion, the more determined everbody is to carry it out. Ed was of a mind that when it comes to mail service, Gmgress Is like the lawman that leaped in his saddle and galloped off in all directions. The lawmakers, Ed said, have lost sight of their goal so they have doubled thedr effort.

To make matters-worse, Clem son, William of Landisburg RD1; two sisters, Mrs. Julia Grissinger and Mrs. Marie Pag an, both of Harnsburg; a brother, Ted, of Harrisburg; six grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. Services will be held Friday at 2:00 P.M. at the funeral home at 1334 N.

2nd Harrisburg. The John G. Allen will officiate. Burial will toe in Perry Heights What the meaning of the Bicentennial? The times may be right for a re-dedication of spirit in America, but what if the occasion passes as only a celebration? A common commitment is needed, similar to that of the first Christmas in this nation's history. If those were not the worst of times, neither were they the best.

The "Spirit of '76" barely survived its first season, when the problems confronting our new nation were perhaps more severe than ever. Nowhere in America is the meaning of that spirit more dramatically present than at the small town of Washington's Crossing, Pennsylvania. State park grounds now preserve the heritage of determination, strength beyond the limits of human endurance, and an allegiance sorely tested. Here, George Washington and a ragged Continental Army crossed the Delaware River to attack the British at Trenton on Christmas night, 1776, the darkest and single most important night of the American Revolution. The Declaration of Independence was not yet six months old when Washington brought his retreating troops to a halt on the west bank of the Delaware.

Liberty, the lofty ideal that had been committed to paper, was now facing hard-earned fact. The months from July to that fateful December night had been nothing short of disastrous. Setbacks were common throughout the autumn of 1776 as poorly trained colonials faced highly skilled Hessian mercenaries. In three months, Washington had lost about 5,000 men and now commanded a force too small to hold its position against the advancing enemy. With no reinforcements and desertions increasing hourly, he continued to retreat across New Jersey from earlier defeats in New York.

On reaching New Brunswick, the General saw his army ranks dwindle. When their enlistments ended on December 1, two regiments demanded release and, almost -to a man, So what Congress does, said Zeke; is sue to make the Postal Service keep all those little post Webster allowed, the post office people ain't doing anything to help theirselfs. Clem said the last he heard the postmaster general had come up with the idee offices open. The same Congress that has give the mails until 1980 to reach breakeven operation Cemetery, Marysville. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M.

blocks a move that would help the mails do what Congress says it must do. wore appointed to run Woods' house; Frank Reisinger to Harry Hall's tenant property etc. Loysville: C.N. Rhoades and family left last Thursday for Carlisle, where they 'intend to make their home; they moved by rail. N.F.

Evans moved yesterday into David M. Rice's house. Miles Bower that the way to improve mail service was to gdve less service, and that daily delivery was a "luxury" the country can't afford and don't need. With this kind of April fool thinking, declared Clem, it's no wonder we pay him $65,000 a year. The mail is expected to spend $1.4 billion more than it takes in this year, and 85 per cent of the Postal Service's $14.2 billion budget is going fer wages.

But Clem pointed out all these people are wrote his brother, John Augustus, "No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties and less means to extricate himself from them. The game is almost up." Washington decided to re-cross the Delaware on Christmas night 1776 and launch a surprise attack on Trenton at' dawn. The daring maneuver and subsequent victory changed the course of history forever. A new nation rose from the depths of December and began to gather a momentum that carried it through the remaining long years of war. At Washington's Crossing, the modern visitor stands in awe before this hallowed birthplace of liberty and the courageous faith that survived those bleak winter days.

Across two centuries, it is still a place that rekindles the spirit of America. Washington's Crossing is one of 16 attractions on the "George Washington Country Heritage Trail," a self-auided tour of the mid-Atlantic states that visits historic sites in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia associated with the life of the First President. Information may be obtained by writing George Washington Country, Box 76, Richmond, Virginia 23201. left for home. Even more desertions followed, as some of the poorly clothed and fed soldiers joined forces with the British.

Facing probable defeat, Washington began his maneuver of desperation. With little money remaining for food or supplies, he ordered that every boat along the Delaware ferry what remained of his army across the river to Pennsylvania. Townsfolk gathered at the scene to watch and laugh at the straggling army, but when the British advance guard arrived with colors flying and bands playing, they found neither the ragged Americans nor boats to carry the Redcoats to the opposite shore. The British settled in at Trenton, apparently waiting for the river to freeze before marching on to Philadelphia and a likely end to a brief war. While the enemy was being elegantly entertained by the Tories, Washington's freezing and starving troops huddled in bushes or under crude shanties.

In England, the war was considered over. In Paris, Benjamin Franklin could not lure French support to an apparently lost cause. And no one was more acutely aware of the hopelessness of it all than Washington himself. He them little post offices, Zeke said, and upsetting them in a election year ain't what Congressmen call a public service. Closing post offices is like closing army bases.

It's a wise economic move Jn somebody else's district. Yours truly, P. P. Ferry County WELFLEY PHARMACY OtN THE SQUARE Newport, Pa. Monday-Friday 9:00 to 9:00 Saturday 9:00 to 5:00 Closed Sunday and wife, and Mr.

Lupfer and wife of Blain attended the flitting. H.V. Palm will begin a term of summer school in town on April 13; the public school term closes to-day. The Cumberland-Perry Drug and Alcohol Council will conduct its annual dinner meeting on Obituaries Wednesday, April 7, at 6:30 P.M., at Amity Hall near Duncannon. Election of 1976-77 officers will take place following the dinner, and the annual report will be presented.

DON'T TRUST your once in a lifetime wedding1 to a once and awhile photographer. Call the EUROS 582-2083 where twedding photography is a profession, not a sideline. ciety, Ruth and Naomi Sunday School Class and the Golden Age Club. i Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Lottie G.

Roush, of Blain, and Mrs. Ruth E. Hess, of Harris-burg. Services were held Saturday at the funeral home at 39 S. Enola Drive, Enola, with her pastor, the Rev.

Michael J. Calumbo, officiating. Burial was in Newport Cemetery. ANNALS OF OLD PERRY Lefruis A. Kessler Lenus Allen Kessler, 87, of SVew Germantown, died last Wednesday at his home.

He was a retired farmer and a life-long resident of Toboyne Township. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Floyd Ensminger, of Carlisle; two sons, Roy of Carlisle, and Frank of Blain RD; seven grandchildren, and 10 greatgrandchildren. Services were held Saturday at the funeral home at Loysville, with the Rev. David Hubner officiating.

Burial was In Blain Cemetery. Effective April 5, the Harrisburg Local Office of the Bureau of Employment Security, 1800 N. 2nd will have new telephone numbers as follows: Unemployment Compensation Claims 717-783-3284; State Employment Service 717-783-3270; Work Incentive Program In the course of time many practices of former years have passed from the everyday scene and al port. Sections of Duncannon developed from the tenant houses connected with the iron industry there. Along the Conococheague Mountain north of Blain were many tenant houses of those who worked on the farms and in the tanneries of that section.

With im Reformed Churches of Hummels-town who were required for years to observe November 1st as the day they paid the rent for the ground given them by the founder most from memory and the pages Ferster's Meat Market Center ruare Newport Phone 567-6626 NOW TAKING ORDERS FOR Mrs. David Jehmatt Mrs. Grace H. Lehman, 58, of of recorded history. One such prac tice was "flitting" or moving day.

730 W. Oak Palmyra, died Technically, April 1st was mpv- Friday at Hershey Medical Cen ter. ing day although in the later years of this practice flittings took place She was a native of Bucks Lew Morrow, a junior geology major from New Bloomfield, participated in a scuba marine seminar in the Bahamas sponsored by Susquehanna University. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Wrilliam S. Morrow of New Bloomfield RD1, and a graduate of West Perry High School. Country provements in farming and manufacturing less hands were required and today most tenant houses have disappeared or have been sold and are now privately owned by the occupant. Practicality was the order of the day in years gone by and there County and a member of the First Evangelical Congregational Church. of Hummelstown.

In the years preceding World War II many Perry Countians did hartville and Fleishertown at New-not own their own property. Money and credit were not as available as today and many people had to rent. This applied to farms as well as houses in the towns. In those days before sophisticated machinery most work was done. by haid and therefore many workers were needed.

Most farms of any size Surviving are her husband, David P. Lehman; a sister; and two brothers, one of whom is Daniel Heffieger, of Millers- anytime from about the middle of March up to the middle of April. Observing April 1st as the official day to move dates from the feudal system of the Middle Ages when all property, Including humans, was owned by the Lord of the Manor. As men gained their individual freedom, the land was still owned by the Lords and so the freemen mm town. Services were held Monday at Personals Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Flickinger of Harrisburg spent Sunday afternoon with their parents. Mr. and the funeral home at S. Railroad Stella E.

Shw Stella E. Shearer, 48, of 21 Channel Drive, Carlisle, died last Tuesday at Carlisle Hospital. A lifelong resident of Cumberland County, she was formerly employed at Bedford Shoe Co. and Knouse Food Co. She is survived by seven brothers, J.

David Paulus, of Allen, George B. Paulus, of Carlisle, Edgar W. Paulus, of Elizabeth-town, Victor E. Paulus, Paul N. Paulus, John J.

Paulus and Freddy G. Paulus. all of Shermans-dale; three sisters, Mrs. Martha Turner, of Carlisle RD2, Mrs. Opal A.

Sweger, of Landisburg, and Mrs. Arlene M. Finkenbind-er, of Carlisle. Services were held Friday at the funeral home at 219 N. Hanover Carlisle.

The Rev. Lor-ine Lichty officiated. Burial was Yard and Clothing SALE APRIL 6 i2 Miles from (Averpool cm the Perry Valley Rood 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. HELEN SAGLE and Pine Palmyra.

The Rev. Roger C. Fenstermaker, her pastor officiated. Burial was in Grandview Memorial Park, Ann-ville. i Mrs.

George Flickinger. Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Doll, daughter Sue of Adelphi, FOR EASTER We Accept USDA Food Coupons had to rent. From that time up until the middle of the present century, April 1st was the date when leases expired and were either re spent over the weekend with their as well as the larger manufacturing concerns such as the iron furnaces of Perry County had their tenant houses which the workers rented from their employers a vestige of the Middle Ages in Perry County! Many of these tenant houses were the nucleus around which several communities developed.

Such was the case of Ever- parents, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Beers. Mrs.

Thelma Smith, son George of Bainbrjidge spent Saturday witih the same and helped cel ebrate the Beers' 59th wedding Scott E. Topper Scott E. Topper, seven weeks, son of Mrs. Constance Topper, of 151 W. North Carlisle, died Sunday at Landisburg.

In addition to his mother, he is survived! by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Rey- anniversary, Mar. 27th. Congratulations and mainy more.

Airs. Mary Wonders, Harrisburg spent Sunday afternoon and evening with her father Rev. T. newed or cancelled. Immigrants to America in the 1700's brought the practice with them as they settled in Pennsylvania and Perry County.

Another date as equally important was November 1st, when accounts were settled. The selection of both dates was for practical reasons. By November 1st, the harvesting would be completed and the tenant could the landlord his share of the crops. An example of observing this date for accounting is the Lutheran and German in youngs unurcn emeiery, Perry County. Another Dollar Paint B.

LANDIS Don't Waste on CALL HARVEY ford Fleshman, of Shermansdale. Services were held Tuesday at V. Miller and wife and Donald Ruseoe, taking them out for dinner in a belalted 27th wedding 0 RADIOS FIRE and POLICE MONITORS HENRY'S VARIETY STORE Fourth St. Newport the Assembly of God Church, Landisburg, with the Rev. Ronald Briggs officiating.

Burial was in the church cemetery. For Free Estimate On MAINTENANCE FREE ALUMINUM SIDING 438-3274 OR 438-3582 Esther Weidner Esther Smith Weidner, 58, of Carlisle, formerly of Mount Holly Springs, died last Wednesday at the Cumberland County Nursing Home. She was a former employe of the Condor Murphy Dress Fac Mrs. William WaVbers Mrs. Marguerite L.

Walters, 79, of Port Trevorton RD1, died Friday at Suntoury Community Hospital. She was a member of Hall's Lutheran Church, its Sunday School and Ladies Aid Society, the Port Trevorton Fire Company Auxiliary and Selinsgrove Chapter 22, Order of Eastern Star. Surviving are her husband, William M. Walters; a daughter; two sons, John H. Suffel, of Mil-lerstown, and Ray E.

Nichols, of Liverpool; two brothers; 11 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and a great-greatgrandchild. Services were held Tuesday at the funeral home at 606 N. Market Liverpool, with the Rev. tory at Mount Holly Springs. She is survived by a daughter, Work Of All Kinds Backhoe, Septic Tank, House Demolishing, Foundation Work, General Hauling', Etc.

G. R. Thebes New Bloomfield Phone 582-4285 My Office is open for Phone Calls 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. Mrs.

Ronald L. Caufman, of New Bloomfield RD1; a brother; four sisters; and six grandchil HELLO WORLD RICE Mr. and Mrs. Robert dren. Services were held Saturday at O.

Rice, RD1, Box 271, Shermansdale, are proud to announce the birth of a son March 13 in the funeral home at 630 S. Han over Carlisle. The Rev. Dr. Gerald D.

Kauffman, pastor of Rice I Polyclinic Hospital. Mrs. was Lavonda Rae Mullen. I the Grace United Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was in Mount Zion Lutheran Church Reide Bingaman, her pastor, officiating.

Burial was in Hall's Church Cemetery, Port Trevorton RD1. Cemetery at Goodyear. Vemar E. Ddahoey Vemer Earl Delancey, 76, Newport Rt3, died Friday Polyclinic Hospital. THIEMANN A daughter was born March 12 in the Harrisburg Hospital to Mr.

and Mrs. Dennis Thiemann, RD1, Shermansdale. Mrs. Thiemann was Amber Lund. BOOKWALTER Mr.

and Mrs. Ronald Bookwalter, Shermansdale announce the birth of a son Mar. 9 in the Holy Spirit Hospital. Mrs. Bookwalter was Barbara Weisy.

CLEGG A daughter was born Mar. 5 to Mr. and Mrs. Don NOTICE ALL GARBAGE STOPS In Oliver Township WILL BE AT $4.00 MONTH Starting March 1, 1976 G. Thebes Malinitu Murphy Malinda M.

Murphy, 85, of 101 Altoona Enola, died last Wednesday at her home. She was a member of Memorial United Methodist Church, Enola, the Ladies Missionary So- He was a member of the Methodist Church and a mer chant at Rosenburg. ald Clegg, RD1, Newport, in the Carlisle Hospital. Mrs. Clegg Your wheat may be hungry for sulfur.

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