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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
17
Readable excerpts from J H Troup Music House and neighboring shops offer holiday records, furs, skating boots, men’s pajamas, home portrait services, candles, bracelets, boudoir pillows, and craft supplies with suggested gifts and prices, highlighting local retailers and festive offerings.
Forty guests gathered at 1908 Forster street to celebrate Viola Stouffer age four with a Christmas motif party. Guests included Dorothy Shakespont and Mary Duncan Wirt among many others. Assisting hosts and grandmothers joined the festive occasion with games and stories.
Deshi children of Paxtang hosted a Christmas benefit with a renewed program for Paxtang and Harrisburg fans. The event featured local youths Dorothy Myers Helen Cordry and Mary Esther Deihl with readings songs and piano and included a stereopticon Yellowstone Park talk later in the week. Also noted is a Williamstown Gamma Delta Sorority engagement surprise for Miss Mae Grant Thompson with a post party celebration and a guest list of twenty plus attendees.
The Comrades in Service of Market Square Presbyterian Church announce a regular monthly meeting in the church parlor at 7 30 tomorrow evening. Miss Katherine McFarland will preside with Miss Georgiana Weigle in charge of devotionals. Twenty two Nursery Home children will take part in the program and a short business session will plan a Christmas for the children. Alec Scribner of Carlisle has returned to Dickinson College after a visit here. Mrs. John Oenslager and Mrs. Jack Beck are noted visitors today.
Stauffer's Palm Beach Orchestra and Morgan's Orchestra perform Saturday evenings at Winterdale with continuous dancing Morgan's Orchestra also appears on Tuesday evenings as advertised.
The Y W C A High School club plans a December 16 doll show at the association building to aid the Associated Aid Societies with Christmas gifts. Candy sales accompany the event run by the social service committee. A December 9 moonlight hike and a December 19 Christmas party are also arranged with student volunteers and chaperones. The Argus staff enjoyed a strawride to Grantville with faculty chaperon Eleanor Leonard and numerous students. Debates on military training in high schools are scheduled for the Rho and Upsilon sections, with committees and speakers named.
An advertisement touts Rheuma as a fast acting remedy for rheumatism and sciatica. It claims relief within days, neutralizes poisons in joints and muscles, and guarantees a 50 cent bottle with money back if relief is not achieved. Fr C Kennedy advertises availability.
The Leaders will be Nissley and Kay with each speaker allotted four minutes and the first speaker on each side gets four minutes for rebuttal. The combined Upsilon and Rho sections include about fifty junior students. Albert Zupfel of Lancaster visits the Buchers at 1414 Derry Street. Grand Union Coffees Advertises Good Coffee at 25 30 and 35 cents with a trial request from a Grand Union Tea Store representative at 208 North Second Street.
Mrs. William S. Reed returns home from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dd. Stucker of 206 Reily street and Mrs. Philip T. Meredith hosts a formal dinner at 1605 North Front street in honor of Mrs. W. Walley Davis of Chicago who is visiting Mrs. Frank Payne at 1901 North Front street.
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