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Show j TOBACCO 8TRIPPER AT 93. Oldest Woman at Yoe a Cheerful Type of Industry. York, l'a. Oldest of nil tho tobacco to-bacco workers In n town with moro tobacco workers to tho squaro foot than nny other In tho state such is ItB boast Mrs. Chrlstlnna Schaeffor of Yoe, this county, celobrnted hor ninoty-third birthday anniversary tho (other day. Sho celebrated it by working, work-ing, as usual. "I've seen so many birthday anniversaries." anni-versaries." sho said, "that I don't pay much nttontlon to them nuy moro; besides, be-sides, tho season Is very' dull, and I cannot nfford n holiday." Mrs. Schaoffcr has boon a tobacco strliiper for IB years. Sho was born in Qormany in 1811 and was brought to America by her parents In 1817. All tho yenis cf her llfo that sho remembers re-members wero spent in tho pretty valloy about eight miles from York, whero sho now resides. Mrs. Schneffcr Is a romarkablo woman in many waj-B. Sho rocelvcd a good education ns a girl. Ago has scarcely dimmed her eyesight, nnd she can road a newspaper without the aid of glasses. Although hor work Is brought to her hi hor homo, sho often ventures out nlono to mako vll-lago vll-lago calls. Her employers consider her 0110 of their most faithful employes. em-ployes. Hor numerous friends romombercd tho aged woman with n shower of birthday post cards and gifts. |
