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Newspaper
Delta Herald Times
Location
Delta, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1933
Page
2
The meditation reflects on time as God's creation, year as a human construct, and the rhythm of life through birth and death, joy and sorrow. It cautions that resolutions alone won't change conduct and urges purposeful action to contribute to progress, bidding farewell to 1933 and welcoming 1934.
The governor notes the recent special session shows sweatshops and money lords still control General Martin and the Senate but concedes their grip is weakening. He cites Pennsylvania’s ratification moves toward nationwide child labor abolition and mentions $6,000,000 in aid for the aged poor, urging renewed hope for reform advocates.
A Pennsylvan ia report describes sweatshop workers and women in industry facing a thwarted push for a minimum wage and maximum hours. It notes senators killed the bills behind closed doors and criticizes General Martin for blocking confirmations to the Public Service Commission and for backing an old style Republican approach. The writer argues the New Deal is viewed by Martin as merely a name.
Out of the Past item lists births for Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Morris Fawn Grove a Ga zette Publishing Company York charter issued capital 100000 incorporators J W Gitt 3 A Geiselman and Allen C Wiest Ada Wiley daughter birthday party with 30 friends Mamie Adelyne Lowe and J Walter Martin marriage in Bel Air farm sale 11500 to Will iam Wise Reed Kilgore birth December 9 deaths Henry Barrett Rebecca Keen Alexander Crowl James Ross with ages and locations noted
Fifty years ago a fire damaged the W H Gibson home near Peach Bottom. Harry and Maurice Walker hauled ice for Poff and Laird. N G Wise hosted a seventy fifth birthday at Bryansville on December 19. Marriages noted include Cunningh am Bell and Minnie Bell Steele on Christmas Eve, Bell Lowe on January 1, and White Rouse on December 27. Also Batty Barton wed January 1, Smithson died December 17, and Joshua Scarborough died January 5 near Mill Green.
Jurors drawn for Common Pleas Court on January 20 include Zenas Barnett S F Johnson W J Clark H M Anderson Warner Johns and Valentine Leese from Chanceford Lower Chanceford Fawn township N Hopewell also listed. The Maryland State Food Administration offered 25000 for top yields per acre in vegetables wheat and corn with third prize of 250 to Joan Walter Street Pylesville two bushels per acre Daniel A Bay of Pylesville close behind. A son born to Mr and Mrs Archie Little Flintville on December 19. Hugh J Scotten suffered two fingers severely smashed while shelling corn. Daniel McElwain died December 6 in Fawn Grove after pneumonia following influenza. Sergeant Warren R Rife promoted to Lieutenant after bravery in the field, his unit taking charge when leaders were shot. Christmas Roll Call in Delta raised 22375. Peach Bottom township collected 517 from 500 members. Mrs Laura R Davis wife of Thomas Davis died December 25 from pneumonia at 22.
Eight week agriculture and six week dairy manufacturing courses begin Thursday January 4 1934 at the Pennsylvania State College. Eligibility includes basic agricultural education. Also noted are pruning grape vines fertilizer trials corn yields and seed oats shortages along with indoor pocket book plant cultivation and a Harrisburg Farm Show for dairy cattle January 15 to 19 featuring Ayrshires Brown Swiss Guernseys Holsteins and Jerseys with 4 H members among exhibitors. Thomas Jefferson quote about newspapers and government ends.
Ruth M. McCarthy of the Bel Air office received a gold service emblem for fifteen years with the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City. statewide awards total 1,460 years across Maryland with 127 additional employees receiving gold emblems. Milton Murphy and John Salzman earned diamond emblems for thirty-five years, while others earned awards for twenty-five, twenty, fifteen, ten, and five years of service.
The item lists years of service emblems from gold two to four stars with stones for 25 30 and 35 and mentions a Philadelphia family's engagement of a daughter. A visitor is told by a colored maid that Miss Alice is away at a class in domestic silence as she prepares for an autumn marriage.
A clipped line from a household column contemplates a husband’s view of an ideal wife as one who understands the gap between her true needs and the image she presents. The fragment hints at gender expectations and self awareness within marriage.
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