Elk Memorial Impressive Service At Majestic Theater
A two thousand strong audience attended a solemn Elk Memorial at the Majestic Theater honoring departed members. The program featured Mendelssohn quartet, municipal orchestra, violinist John D. Whitman, and an address by Hon. James J. Fitzgerald praising charity and character over wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis J. Haas
James L. Carroll
Emma Mausert Reeves
Cb. D. Hammelbaugh
Lee S. Izer
Charles R. Weber
John D. Whitman
James J Fitzgerald
New York
Harry B. King
Tuskegee Singers Grace Wesley Church Program
The Tuskegee Singers from Tuskegee Institute presented a Southern melodic program at Wesley A M E Church, featuring Dunbar readings and songs. Their performance blended lullabies, recitations, and excerpts from masters, praised for beauty of thought and expression. The group, guided by a tradition linked to Booker T. Washington, also performed at Fifth Street Methodist Church last evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuskegee Singers
Wesley A. M. E
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Mr. Dunbar
Fifth Street Methodist Church
Train Crews Propose 40 Percent Wage Increase
Chicago, Dec. 3. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railroad Conductors urged a 40 percent raise on nearly all U S railroads. Details specify per mile rates for conductors, flagmen, and brakemen for passenger and freight duties, with daily and monthly equivalents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Brotherhood of Railroad
United States
James Murdock
The
Brotherhood
Reading Clerk Joins Railroad Battalion in France
William M. Banmiller of 1617 North Third street enlisted in the Philadelphia and Reading Railway battalion. He reported to the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City after passing a physical, to serve in railway construction in France. The unit, 107 men drawn from the Reading Company, includes six Harrisburg natives and others from Reading and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Banmiller
North Third Street
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Philadelphia
69Th Regiment
New York City
United States
France
Banmiller
Reading Company
Harrisburg
Reading
Seventy Three Men Answer Nation's Call at Presbyterian Service
An inspiring Market Square Presbyterian Church service honored 73 members serving in the nation. The program featured an unveiling of the service flag, a noted address by Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes, and special music by an augmented choir. The roll of honor listed many named soldiers, sailors, and Red Cross workers from the congregation, with a supplemental list from other churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Market Square Presbyterian Church
Rolk
George Edward Hawes
Boy Scouts of
Market Square
Grand
Army of the Republic
Wilbur F. Harris
United States
Belle Middaugh
Harris
William 8. Burner
Paul
Harrisburg
Douglas Eugene Dismukes, Jr
Dismukes
Kentucky
Red Cross
Frances Leakway
Olive Marte Simons
Marian Bb. C. Watts
Seph Hogentagler
William Ferguson Hoy
John Price Jackson
Robert Ellsworth Johnston
Marshall Keister
Rudolph Frederick Kelker
George Wesley Looker
L. Lowe
Calvin Ray MacGillivray
Henry Robert Magee
Evan Jones Miller
George Reily Moffitt
Lee Wirt Monyer
Lawrence Ferguson Moyer
Joseph Donald Moyer
Henry J. McDonald
Charles J. Ogden
Hart F
Robert Norman Todd
Clare Ward
Charles Wikel
Merle Wrestling
Robert ©. Williams
Robert P. Williams
William Windsor
Conrad Paul Zimmerman
O. L. Lower
Navy
Harry Walter Colvin
Charles Francis Cummings
Douglas Eugene Dismukes
Alvin Musser Gottschall
William Hilton
John L. L. Kuhn, Jr
Clarence Robert Beck
Harry Peter Burner
Arthur L. Cowdrey
KE. Curzon Fager
Adolphus Washington Greeley, Jr
Henry M. Gross
Howard C. Hitz
Robert Bruce Hoffman
William McCarthy
Harry D. Tubin
Samuel E. Werner
Railroad Notes: Pennsy embargoes not affecting local shipments
Freight embargoes on the Pennsy will not disrupt local business and crews will remain at work in Harrisburg. Walter L. Vanaman sails to New York to join the 14th Battalion. Altoona retirements include S. S. Fickes and William H. Rice. Thompson, a Middle division conductor, dies in Altoona at 57. The Pennsy seeks 17 to 25 year olds for telegraphy study with placement after training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter L. Vanaman
Reading
New York
Christian Cover
Pennsylvania Railroad
Columbia
Illinois Central
Union Pacific
National War Aid Committee plans Harrisburg benefit
The Harrisburg Chapter of the National War Aid Committee will hold an all women meeting at Fanestock hall at 8 pm to discuss plans. A film fundraiser titled For the Freedom of the World will be shown at the Colonial theater over three days with part of proceeds to the chapter. Tickets are sold in advance or at the box office, priced 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children, with several committee members handling sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
National War Aid Committee
War Aid Committee
Colonial Theater
Astrid
C. Ross Boas
John F. Dapp
Meade D. Detweiler
George E. Etter
William Jennings
George Kunkel
Herman P. Miller
Henry Taylor
E. J. Stackpole
Horace Witman
Lyman D. Gilbert
Ethel Barrymore
Metro
Sidney McCall
Red Horse Hill
Maris
Felice
Miss Barrymore
Russell Colt
Metro Pictures
Mother
Victoria
Areas
Local men injured in Petersburg Pennsylvanian wreck
Two Pennsylvania freight trainmen from Altoona were injured Saturday near Petersburg on the Middle Division when an airhose burst aboard a westbound freight. Zeiders and Winters suffered injuries including fractured ribs and lacerations. They were treated in Huntingdon and returned home on later trains. the wreck happened at eight miles per hour, affecting only the caboose area while the rest of the train delayed briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Pennsylvania
Petersburg
John J. Zeiders
Delaware Street
Blake Winters
Elizabeth Street
H. C Frantz
Huntingdon
Harry S. Doede
Harry L. Carl
General Secretary of Phila P R R Y Dies at 67
John H. Keesberry, 67, longtime Pennsy clerk and Philadelphia P R R Y M C A general secretary, died Saturday at his Philadelphia home. Born in Duncan, he started as a Pennsy car records clerk at Altoona at 17, rose to chief clerk of car records, then moved to Philadelphia, serving the company 35 years before leading the Y M C A. He remained chief clerk in charge of blanks and stationery in the car service department. Funeral details for Eugene Delaney follow tomorrow at 9 a.m. in Lykens. he died Friday in Windber Hospital after pneumonia. He was an official of Berwind-White Co. He is survived by his parents and several siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Keesberry
Philadelphia
Pennsy
Philadelphia P. R. R.Y. M. C. A
Mr. Keesberry
Duncannon
Altoona
Car
The
Car Service Department
Eugene Delaney
Lykens
Windber Hospital
Berwind-White Company
J. J. Delaney
John W. Delaney
Harrisburg
J. J. McMckee
East Orange
N. J
P. H. O'Hara
Pottaville
Velma Delaney
Amusements listings marquee showings and stars
Saturday matinee and evening schedule features Orpheum complex acts. Majestic presents Pretty Baby in seven scenes from Long Island to China with Jimmie Hodges as lead. Barrymore stars in The Eternal Mother at Colonial, a mother love drama. Victoria screens The Retreat of the Germans at Arras and The Dormant Power, plus The Last Haul with William Hart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Battle of
Arras
Ethel Clayton
William
Hart
Jimmie Hodges
Jean Tynes
Majestic
Long Island
China
Broadway
Honolulu
Mr. Hodges
Reaching for the Moon at Regent Theater
Douglas Fairbanks stars in Reaching for the Moon a photoplay about an American youth who discovers he is the missing heir to a European throne. The Regent Theater shows today tomorrow and Wednesday with sensational incidents and sharp comedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regent Theater
Douglas Fairbanks
California
Fairbanks
Artcraft
Alexis
America
Europe
Petrova
Woman Suing For Support Claims No Marriage
A woman suing for support denies she is married to the man in court. The man Forsythe acknowledged living with her and using the title wife, even presenting a marriage certificate. The judge ordered the nonsupport case set for further argument before action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas E.vorsythe
Forsythe
Hagerstown
George Kunkel
Robert Stucker
Worsythe
Mexican Bandits Raid Ranch. Soldier Killed at Buena Vista
In a Buena Vista incident near the Rio Grande, 35 Mexican raiders and three Americans including a cavalryman and a foreman were killed after a battle that followed a Friday raid on the cattle ranch of J. P. Tigner. About 200 bandits led by Chico Cano attacked the ranch, drove off cattle, and exchanged fire with American troops who returned to the U.S. side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Texas
Rio Grande
Chico Cano
J. PF. Tigner
Building permits drop in city last November
City Building Inspector’s office reports a sharp decline in building activity in November. Fifteen construction permits were issued for a total cost of 46,430, down from thirty-four permits totaling 122,885 a year earlier.
Extra fare on smoking cars on Pennsylvania Express trains
Philadelphia December 3. Beginning December 4 club smoking car seats on Pennsylvania Express trains between New York and Philadelphia will be reserved for parlor car passengers who pay an extra charge. The policy aims to economize car space. Through trains are unaffected. Double seats at ends of club smoking cars will remain unreserved for dining-table use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
New York
Joyous reunion as Mrs de Saulles sees son again
In Joslyn New York Blanca de Saulles embraces her five year old son Jack de Saulles after his return home. She had just been acquitted of the murder charge against her former husband John Longer de Saulles. She vows the boy will remain in her custody and credits the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Longer de Saulles
Blanca de Saulles
Jack
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Elk Memorial
Majestic Theater
Brotherhood of Elks
Mendelssohn
Wesley Church Members In Beautiful
U. S
Presbyterian
William Moddy Beckwith
Howell M. Becht
William Burner
Richard T. Coover
Robert Scott Cowan
Arthur Bent Critchley
Horace Otto Dahlin
Thomas Duncan
Robert Bruce Dwyer
David Fleming
Samuel Wilson Fleming
Albert Edward Gastrock
Louis Stanley Gibbins
Oliver Benjamin Gipple
Frank Lewis ‘Gipple
Russell Hoover Gleim
Douglas 8. Gordon
James Quick Handshaw, Jr
Edward Rowse Herman
Herbert P. Hepford
W. ©. Hickok IV
Women
Fanestock
Pennsy Wreck
Phila
Regent
Orpheum
Robert Disbrow
Lloyd Sunshine — Society
Majestic Any Baby
Ethel Parrymore
Constance
Talmadge
Mae Marsh
Douglas Vairbanks
Mme. Petrova
Barrymore
Jimmie Hoeater
Itaum Il
Edna Eviston
Real Beauty
Rena
Apes
Hodges
Elmer Coudy
Geo, Graves
Norman Coudstra
Associated Press
Ing At
Buena Vista
McNeil
Pennsylvania Express
John de Saulles
Joslyn, N. Y
Jack de Saulles
Wm. Strouse
Childres
Eouee
Ethel
Bedini’s
Orpheum Theater
Walnut Street
Uncle Sam
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