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PAGE EIGHT THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1964 News And Advertisements From The York Springs And Dillsburg Vicinity DILLSBURG'S HOSE COMPANY FORMED IN '01 IMllsburg's "Citizens Hose Co. 1," now one of the outstanding fire companies in its area, started, as did most present-day community fire fighting organizations, from the volunteer bucket brigade of many ago. Then, at the shouted, alarm of "fire." everyone able grabbed a bucket or any other type of recep- table they could find, and headed for the fire securing -water from whatever source they could once they ar- I rived. Ihllsburg at one time had many 'varenng troughs for horses, and the citizens generally had buckets stored 'beside the ready if need be in fighting conflagrations. Organized In 1901 When it appeared that organized would "provide better protec- Jtion, a company was formed with -the group meeting at first in the old 'Band Hall and later in the former -Bill Letcher Livery and Exchange stable.

Citizens Hose 1 -was organized as a volunteer, unincorporated in December. 1901. and a to house the Hose Co. was I ught by the borough of Dillsburg Dillsblirff Woman's 8, 1902. Purchase of the building followed dllD hCCS resolution by council on January 2.

1902. granting to the firemen the right to use the to attend and to practice. The resolu- Early Dillsburg Hose Company CHURCHES PLAN EASTER RITES AT DILLSBURG Churches In the Dillsburg area are scheduling numerous special services in connection with the end of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock Holy Communion will be distributed at tne Dillsburg Lutheran Church. Friday at 7:30 o'clock, in that church.

"The Crucifixion" will be the theme. Easter Sunday morning Holy Communion will be distributed at ff o'clock aitt reception of neT members is scheduled. At 4 o'clock that afternoon Holy Com- munion will be distributed for toe i towi1 and JwfrfcS toe second time that day. and baptism ws bunt toe bujder apparently VH A 4 Historic Old Logan House Dates Back Some 200 Years The Logan House In Dillsburg' by Caroline and Kezia, who mar- bis long been a landmark of the of children will be held. An Easter Sunrise service, sponsored by the United Youth Tellow- ship, will be held at 7 o'clock Easter Sunday morning in the Dillsburg Methodist Church.

The program will be as follows: Prelude, Judy Nesbit; invocation, meant it to do just that. tlnctlve porch, and an addition in the back. The daughters, Caroline and Helen Logan, of Ella May Coover Logan purchased the bouse Irom the estate. Fireplace A main attraction ot, the bouse which is constructed of atone, if the original part of the house, or the tavern. About three years ago, the Misses Logan renovated this portion and unearthed a uruqut fireplace for this section of toe country.

Representatives from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. place the architecture of the fireplace in the IflOO's. Although the fireplace is not Pennsylvania Dutch design, it not believed nrobable that ried James Blair. Pour of the (portion of the house have children lived: Frederick Weltyjbeen built then, because there te Coover, who became a doctor and I later dean of Hamsburg The house has stodd majestically Hospital; Sarah Eicnelberger Coov- for more than 200 years on the Northern end of. Baltimore St.

on Route 74. The land on which, it Is er, Ella May Coover. mother of the present owners, who married John Logan who lived at Hur- Daisburg Hose Company members Included: Rear row, left to rfcht. Alex Leiw. Henry Barry Bellinger; hymn; call to worship, Carol Arnsberger; special music; scripture lesson, James Frank Spath; second row, M.

P. Deardorff, John Kapp. Harry Spea'man, Clarence Bushey, George Seibert, William MacWilliams, Daniel Beiges; third row, John better, Charles Peterman. Harry Miller, Grover Fishel, uuaau J.VJLAV a vn, vuu 3 Alex Ensminger. John Warner, Curtis Shank.

John Simpson; front ron, Charles Wiley, John McCreary, Parker Macluskie; prayer, John Zerby; of- feruig Jan Wiley, Ernest Rider, Leon Baker; hymn; speaker. Mark Dick. Harper Mavberry. John Myers. Louis Arnold, Cornelius Lonkrrt.

William Deardorff, J. S. Kapp. The April meeting of the Dillsburg Woman's Culb was held Tuesday evening in the Presbyterian Church also permitted the company to social room Wlth Dr Martha L. hose, hose carnage ana fire! Baile y.

president, presiding. Topic lydrants for the suppression of fires, i for the evening was "Conservation of First President 1 Natural Resources" with Mrs. Paul My Daze L. Winger. Mechamcsburg; hymn; Optometrist Plans benediction, Rev.

K. Belmont Metz- Dillsburg Office atSid. PUblic tt COTdiaUy mvtted situated is part of the original! ncane Hall nearby, later moving "Penn Grant and the first title was to York. The fourth child, Mor- Issued to Henry Wilson and in- rett Coover. who married Victorlne Rumford, daughter of the mayor of Harrisburg, stayed on at the eluded all the land which is now.

Dillsburg. James Wilson, who lat- no recorded settlement West of the Susquehanna at that time. In this room the walls are whltwashed over rough walls in keeping with the treatment used during the 18th century. Miss Caroline and Helen Logan are the proud owners of this lovely home today and have furnished the interior exclusively with antiques. They operate an antique business in the original er became a signer of the Decla- Logan House.

He added the dis- portion of the dwelling ration of Independence, inherited it, from his father, and in 1745 the! entire tract was deeded to Mathew Dill. No improvements were made whiJe the Wilsons owned the MatheW Dill was of Scotch-Irish' extraction and moved to this area with several brothers. He built the' Dr. Alvin Levin, now associated in Continue iisl structure he is believed the practice of optometry with his The Religion-in-Life Crusade I0 operated it as a tavern THINGS OF LITTLE OR NO i uncle in Carlisle, plans to open an tedjl UIlda5r 11 with thc I with Jiving quarters in the rear. INTEREST TO ANYONE After mce in soon.

Dr. Levin 1 is a Lykens as the i 1757 the property went to native of Pottstown, and SP 63 6 continues throughout the ame Dill, a son, who operated listening to the breakfast cereal ads iesided Carlisle for two ears Holy Week services. Dr. Joseph the radl teadine abOUt ta Upon graduation from Pottstown rra ramem Later. September 10.

1903 the Fullmer, chairman. A sound film in the newspapers, and watching them i igh school, Dr. Levin went into the 1 i.j I onlnr Than Timbpr eo "snan. crackle and DOD" on TV nr CQn ln rr company incorporated and January cote, entitled Than Timber 3, 1904 thc Dillsburg council passed an ordinance establishing a fire department and setting up the regulations for it John S. KappXras named as president of the corporation at ite incorporation and remained as president, with one brief exception, until he was elected honorary president in 1947.

Dillsburg's most disastrous fire Iree Place mats of Independence Hall are in circulation and are being sold by members of the club. Hostesses for the meeting were Mrs. John O. Hoffman, chairman, Mrs. Esther Dahr, Mrs.

Maurice S. Hoffman, Mrs. Theodore Laukemann, Mrs. Alvin Page, Mrs. J.

H. Bearick, Mrs. Charles S. Smith, Mrs. Harley Spoerlein, Mrs.

Alton Zerby and occurred in 1913 when fire starting Miss Adeline Irrgang. in McCreary's Bakery and Kapp and Seibert Store spead to the McCreary residence, the school building, the' 0 11 Lutheran parsonage and SpCaKS Next Monday and the Charles W. Sheffer resi- dence and coach shop. Total damage Robert C. Paxson, Dillsburg, art was 8150,000.

First Fire Truck In '19 In 1919 the firemen obtained an American LaPrance Combination Phemical and Hose car mounted on Ford Model chassis. Cost was 91.850. The truck has a capacity of 1,000 feet of 2's-inch fire hose. In 1927 the company bought Ite second fire truck, a 1917 model Reo speed hose and chemical truck, at a cost of $425 plus the old ladder Vagon. In May, 1934, the company purchased an American LaFrance fire truck capable of pumping 500 gal- ions per minute.

The company installed a siren in June, 1938. Teen-agers Gave Shove The fire company's plans, of a number of years standing, to con- a new fire hall, were turned Into discussion on the need for a central meeting hall as well a fire house, as the ears went by. Little action was taken however' director of the Northern York County High School Jointure, will address the monthly meeting of the Adams County Arts and Craft Guild, Monday evening, 8 o'clock, at the YWCA, Gettysburg. Mr. Paxson, president of the Pine Arts Society of Northern York County, will demonstrate "The Silk Screen Method and Block Printing." Ernest Krape, president of the Gettysburg arc study group, will preside.

need for a recreation center for jouth. Representatives of the fire company met with other local organiza- and go "snap, crackle and pop" on TV, I serving as an in- I have come up with a tremendous Struct0 in military After Idea. I have been working day and! bemg discharged he entered thei a new cereal that doesn't Virginia Polytechnic Institute in I crackle, pop or snackle. You just Blacksburg, Va, later transferring I put it in a plate and it just lays there, and doesn't do anything! Think of what a boon this would be to tired husbands who get up early and heretofore had to listen to a musical cereal. They can now eat their breakfast calmly, peacefully without the nauseous interruption of the snack, crackle, plop! My new cereal contains no to the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry.

In college he was a member of the Honor Society, vice president of Gamma Omega Phi Optometric Fraternity a member of the Inter-Fraternity Council. After graduation. Dr. Levin served in the clinic of the St. Joseph Hospital, Reading.

His offices in Dillsburg will be on of the close evening. Mr. Lykens, assistant to the Lycoming College, has connections. He is sec- of the Central- Conference of are scheduled for Wdnesday afternoon and evening. D' glasses, or a Chinese puzzle.

When immersed in milk, or cream (depending on your financial status) it becomes a soggy mess--no AdvaHCC PlailS sliding around on the spoon. Chil-j dren, I am sure will not cry for I years he has been associated in the promotion of the Preaching-Teaching Missions within the Central Pennsylvania Conference. Mr. Lykens is also secretary of the Conference Board of Missions and Church Extension. He is on the Executive -Committee of the Youth Emphasis Quadrennial Program in the Conference and is a member of jthe Pennsylvania Churches were he Institutional Chaplaincy Committee.

He is a member of the American Alumni Council serves on of the iti -r 11 i iuuuu Little League Ball Mr. Lykens is a graduate of Ly- dren, and do not like Co see them in tears. My new product will be shapeless--No, "tiny O's" or X's or whatnots I want people to eat the stuff, not learn their ABC's! For my advertising campaign, I will depend on the simplest terms to describe my product--For At a recent meeting of the League Baseball Paul Fullmer, presi- mister Theolc dent, gave a detailed information -Westminster Md pertaining to Little League Baseball. Paul Cook, league player agent, gave application forms to more than 35 new boys who never played Little League baseball. These forms are to be brought or mailed to Paul West- on instance, "Eat Harris' Musho-It Cook Batbmore st-i fills you up to here!" Nobody will be or before 15 fooled They'll know 3 ust what tOj a to attend tne meeti can P.TJL TO MEET The Northern York County P.TA.

will meet Thursday, April 22, at i the Northern High meeting was post- expect when they open the box. the necessary forms from Mr. tions and plans were started to construct the new community hall, Last but not least--The top June. 1947, the hose company cereal boxes will be plain, just! I purchased a property on South plan, le nothin' When you get: WllUam Cromer. secretary of the i Baltimore St.

to construct the new through eating the stuff and the lea Ue showed a movie of the 1953 i hall. By 1948 the grounds were, box is empty--you just throw it lt gu r1 Series with i cleared and by June 1, 1949, work was started on the new building. The structure was used for the 7:30 p.m., at School This poned from April 15. Raymond A. Wert, supervising principal of West Shore Jointure, will be the speaker and election of officers will also be the business under the registered name of "James Dill Tavern." It is rumored that George Wash- 1 ington stopped at at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion, but this cannot be proved.

Son Was Captain In 1800 Leonard Eichelberger i and his wife, Catherine Smyser, who are ancestors of the present owners, into the house with i their 10 children. They were origi-! nally from Hanover and York, but moved to Maryland, from which! place they came to Dillsburg. Their son, Frederick Eichelberger, i raised a company of volunteers, and was elected captain, directly, across the road from the house, during the War of 1812. Henry Logan grandfather of the present 6wners, also was in this company. and advanced to the rank of colo- nel.

After the war, Frederick Eichel-! berger returned to Maryland and, turned the property over Sarah Eichelberger Welty and her husband, Fred Welty. By this time i numerous outbuildings had been erected on the site and the Weltys incorporated several of them into 1 the main house, which has remained i this tune. They added the, entrance hall and present I large 'day living room where the yard had previously been. Lydia Weds Mill Owner The Weltys had four children, Levi, Caroline', Kezia Lydia. held.

A bake sale will also be held The marriage of Lydia was by the association April 24 at Shillito's. June 25 1945. when two teenagers appeared at a fire company meeung and presented a petition, signed by 150 young people of the community urging that the firemen assist in the contraction of a community building and stressing the i first tune in October. 1949, while still under construction, in connection with the Farmers Day activities. away! No cluttering up the U.

mails with coupons, and box tops. If anyone is interested in joining me Red Barber, famed sportscaster, announcing. hi my new enterprise I suggest these parts is the Hamsburg Com- VISIT IN BEADING The Thomas Kistlers are guests of their daughter and son-in-law, the Wayne Clemens, in Reading and will you see your doctor immediatelj, if not sooner. In the United States, only about one-tenth of men under 65 years of age who work are self-employed, but about a fourth of those over 75 years old who work are self-employed. munity Theater Any of you return home after Easter.

folks who are so minded, and of social significance, when one she and Jacob Coover, owner of a large mill in Granthazn, were united in marriage in the house. They lived in Grantham until Lydia's death, at which time she left six small children who were brought back to the house and were raised HERE AND THERE Dillsburg a yen to be seen on the stage, or trash, cans are actually being put I would like to learn something about to use I check them back-stage operation, or anything! Never can tell; might find some- about the Theatre and its various I thing good! Sent my sec down to the phases--are more than welcome to attend any of the rehearsals a Speed up chick growth -and profits! You BUY good chicks and put many hours of care into them to make money as soon as possible But without good feed. Josses and culls may kill your profits. Uok into our "St.rt.r" -A chick's requirements for nutrients are highest during the first 6-8 weeks. That's we take special care to provide ihe proper balance of vitamins, protein amino acids, minerals and other factors in our starting feed.

That's why we MILK, FISH and other superior natural sources as a base for our mashes. Our other poultry feeds are builc on the same high performance lines. So whether want to raise chicks with less trouble and more nro6t, or get more eggs at lower tost, we can help Let's talk it 01 er. PRODUCTS Authorized Dillsburg WILEY BROS. Showing 1954 G.E.

REFRIGERATOR G.E. DEEP FREEZE GX. RANGE GJLDISHWASHER G.E. WASHER G.E. DRYER See Us Before Buying Phone 24-R-4 banfe to cash a check, and Sixth and Hurlock Sts.

in Harris- i comes back with a bogus penny burg Not only that--You are all amongst the change Finally! welcome to join and take part in 1 tracked the culprit down--Mrs. this wonderful hobby You don't Kirkland! Wayne Myers tried to need bring along your shush up the whole deal by tell- enthusiasm! Theatre itself is Com- ing me that this Canadian penny. mumty-owned and operated, and they gave me was actually uorth boasts of a full time director more than our own but didja Seymour Drop in and "say try spending a Canadian penny "Hello" to Bob anjtime See Tough, isn't it? If they foreclose my mortgage the time this gets in print, you'll know thej couldn't take a joke. If you want to hear an odd tale about a wayward dance band that got tangled up in double see Dave Constantine or Vern Nesbit Not this week, though. Better wait till they cool off! 1 Speaking of the Nesbits What- happened to Judy N.

Never see her anymore Ditto Joan Creavv' Feud is on again between the local Postmaster and yours truh. It all started a quarter, too! See Roy for further particulars My nomination for Best Natured Fella In Town- 1 Shammy--the guy's always got a smile--at least for us customers! 1 Running a close second is Doc Krall' THE THEATRE Only really on-the-ball Community Theatre in vou next week--and Bless you all. HJH. I fill "DINNER AT DITHER'S EVERT BITE A DELIGHT! EASTER SUNDAY April 18th CHICKEN PLATTER AND HAM, $1.00 DITHER'S RESTAURANT DILLSBURG PENNA PII 6. FEEDS' by KINTER GROVE INC.

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